Friday, November 13, 2009

2009 Jolika Fellowship Wrap-up

Martin Morububuna and Purago Marabe completed their one-month-long residency in the Kimball Artist Studio on November 1, 2009.

Martin created a vibrant mural showing Papua New Guinea as a panoramic collective of plants, animals, houses, boats, people and their bilas. Bilas is a word in Melanesian Tok Pisin that refers to the array of headdresses, necklaces, belts, armbands, and aprons that people use to adorn themselves for dance and ceremony. The mural expresses Martin’s wish for all people to honor the past and keep traditional values strong.



Simultaneously, Martin worked on some partly finished canvases that he brought with him from Port Moresby. These canvases might make another appearance in Victoria, British Columbia at the Alcheringa Gallery where Martin’s work will be included in Hailans to Ailans.







Meanwhile, Purago offered our visitors pairings of his poetry and his paintings such as Hanuabada... [more]

Posted by: Christina Hellmich | November 13 at 2:44:13 PM
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Cultural Encounters Artist Commission Updates

Todd and Meklit at home in the Kimball Gallery



Todd and Meklit describing their process with visitors and sharing work created during their time with us.



Todd working on yet another layer of his piece, "Resilience"

Cultural Encounters Commissions

The Fine Arts Museums solicit California artists and art groups to create site specific works and installations in response to the de Young's permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, or the building and its environment

Todd and Meklit, Artistic Director and resident artist, respectively, of the Red Poppy Art House joined us as June Artists-in-Residence as well as commissioned artists for the de Young Museum with their project entitled Meklit Hadero and Todd Brown: Light, Shadow, and the Space of in Between.

Every month the de Young invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the museum. This interactive program is meant to encourage dialogue between the museum visitor and local working artists within the community.

In the case of Hadero and Brown, the artists integrated their artistic processes with the physical environment of the Kimball Gallery in an interactive installation enhanced by musical compositions and two-dimensional art. The ultimate goal of Todd and Meklit was to inspire visitors to integrate art into their own home, work, and life environments.

In an effort to document their their uniquely intensive process, Todd has included several images and further explanations of his and Meklit's various works on his website: www.artist-toddbrown.com

Please visit his site and see what beautiful inspir.. [more]

Posted by: Nicole Schach | August 12 at 5:45:52 PM
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

More On-the-Wall Poetry from the Artist Studio

From Friday, April 4. Visitor-created poetry, part of the residency of April artist-in-residence Rosanna Raymond.

THE
AWESOME
INTEGRATION
WAS
REAL


FANCY INVERVENTION STATIC COCONUTS

BEAUTIFUL


A GENTLE GAWK
TO GRASP THE
   CROWD


SEPIA TIME INTERWOVEN MASSES CLAMOUR
          FOR
            HONORABLE
          SKIES


A
BREEZE
EATING
ME DRUMMING ON
      MY
      BODY

FIERCE
FASHIONABLE
VOYER
YOU
LIGHT
SOCIETY


CANOE
   ZIG ZAG
PADDLING
   FRIENDSHIP
VIOLET
   FEASTING


  ZINGY
ZING IS ANGRY I
COME ZING IS HAPPY


WET
MEMORY
WOOD


NUTURE
BARK CLOTH
POLITELY

BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY HUH?

SAVAGE MUSTACHE LOST JEWELER

Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 17 at 2:41:37 PM
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Rosanna Raymond at the de Young Artist Studio

Rosanna Raymond. Photograph courtesy of Kerry Brown

This month in the de Young Artist Studio features artist-in-residence Rosanna Raymond, a New Zealand born Pacific Islander of Samoan decent now based in London. As part of Raymond's work, visitors to the Kimball Education Gallery can participate in the art studio by, among other things, create poetry by arranging words from Raymond's "word bank" on the gallery walls. We'll be posting some of the poetry here on the blog, and, making up for lost time, here are the poems from April 2, the first day of Rosanna Raymond's residency:

FASHIONABLE DRESS PRESERVE THE LOST
WARRIOR
MAKES
PROUD LIGHT


FANCY VOYEUR FOUND
OTHER TO DISCOVER


AUTHENTIC
HALE
SHOW
TELL
REAL


EATING
SOCIETY
CLAMOUR
POLITELY


    HUDDLE
      PATTERN
              TO
                PASIFIKA
                SHELTER

CROWDED
SEE
REPETITION


A INTERWOVEN INTERROGATION HANGING OPEN


YOUR
RHYTHM
IS
GATHERING
THE
CROWD


A FRAGRENCE FOOTED FLOWER AND SOFT EYE SUMMER SAVAGE MANUFACTURED BREEZE
   Y.. [more]

Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 15 at 4:39:26 PM
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