January Newsletter
Feature:?Art for Shared Spaces
When planning art for businesses and organizations, include amenity spaces like break rooms and wellness rooms. The way spaces feel impacts the way we feel. When our environments create positive energy, we as people absorb and radiate positive energy.
Highlight:?The Wings Program
“Art is the highest form of hope” is a quote attributed to painter Gerhard Richter. Art Force’s Wings program has provided hope in the past decade for hundreds of artists who experience health challenges."A disability can take over. It gets in your mind and becomes who you are. Even though it shouldn’t. A title, a label, a hurtle, a wall. Who am I really? A diagnosis? No, I am an artist. That’s what I choose. Each time I paint or assemble I am taking back my name. I would do this in isolation all by myself but to share with another is profoundly gratifying. It isn’t the money. It isn’t even the compliment. It’s that you join me in celebration. You see who I am - not a label - something to manage - but rather a garden growing and changing. Thank you for enjoying my artwork. I am now heard. An equal. No compromise to be made. Label be gone. Community sustained."??- A WINGS Participating Artist
Artist of the Month:?Kat Corrigan
The work of our January artist of the month, Kat Corrigan, is featured in the current exhibit Canines and Felines in the NordHaus Apartments’ Tiny Gallery. All work is for sale through Art Force.
Kat relays?“Committing to a daily painting has caused a great maturation in my technique; my decision-making process has become intuitive and automatic, to the point where my efficiency has reached epic proportions. A piece is successful for me when I want to keep looking at it. When I have truly captured the essence of the animal in a portrait or the deep purple tones of the shadows in a street scene, I am in awe of myself. That is when I feel I am being an instrument of the art itself. The work exists somewhere - I am simply translating the vision.”
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Art Events:?January 2023
Jerome Fellowship Exhibition
Minneapolis College of Art and Design,?January 17th - March 4th.
MCAD and the Jerome Foundation are pleased to present an exhibition of new projects by the four recipients of the 2021/22 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists: KOBI, Sarah Sampedro, Brooks Turner, and Shun Yong.
2023 Art Shanty Projects
Lake Harriet, January 21st - February 12th.
Since 2004 Art Shanty Projects has created whimsical, weird and joyful winter art experiences for grown ass adults and kids of all ages. Inspired by pop-up ice fishing villages, artists use the frozen lake as a public platform to create a temporary, interactive community. With few regulations and no building codes – and against intense and unpredictable winter weather conditions – artists have the freedom and challenge to create wild and wonderful work that can’t be experienced anywhere else.
Dinner and Discussion | Maggie Thompson
Franconia Sculpture Park, 6PM January 24th.
Join Franconia Sculpture Park and Maggie Thompson at 6pm on Tuesday, January 24 for a “Dinner & Discussion” lecture on Facebook Live. Click here to access the Facebook Live.Thompson's upcoming show Loves Me, Loves Me Not opens on January 28, 2023 in the Mardag Gallery in the Franconia Commons. Loves Me, Loves Me Not is an exploration of the personal and universal experience of loss, grief, and love. Through Thompson’s multidisciplinary practice, she expands various textile traditions’ inherited ways of being and becoming.
Fluidity: Identity in Swedish Glass
American Swedish Institute, February 1st - May 28th.
Fluidity celebrates the achievements of undertold and unheard voices from within the Swedish and American glass art communities.The exhibition includes a sensory-stirring installation of glass, light, liquid and sound by contemporary Swedish -American glass artist Jo Andersson, Being. The show will also feature a curated selection of glass art by unsung artists from the American Swedish Institute’s impressive glass collection—representing nearly 1000 objects and over 100 years of glass artistry—considered one of the finest collections of Swedish art glass outside the Nordic region.
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2 年Love those pups Kat!