In the movie, Field of Dreams, farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice, “If you build it, he will come”. Ray built his baseball field and they did indeed come.
Art Intersection has built its Photographic Arts Lab and we opened our doors this past weekend to a record crowd. It was a grand celebration that coincided with the opening of our current exhibition, “Exploring the Roots of Photography”.
We, at Art Intersection, thank everyone who came out to support us. We hope you will continue to come to our exciting programming including lectures, seminars, workshops, classes and exhibitions.
If you couldn’t make the opening, we would love to give you a tour of both the facilities and the exhibition.
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Come one, come all, to Art Intersection on Saturday for the open house of our new Photographic Arts Lab! Visit the information desk to talk with a staff member and pick up fliers about our upcoming classes and workshops, a membership brochure and much more!
The original idea was a space for artists of all levels to come Learn, Create, and Exhibit.
The opening of this space completes the original vision.
Now, after eight months, it’s finally complete.
Once you have taken a tour of the darkrooms, walk across the courtyard and visit the new historical exhibition.
Photographic Arts Lab Open House
10am-2pm
“Exploring the Roots of Photography”
Opening Reception
7-10pm
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House on Fire, a series of photographs by Robert Ellis, has been on exhibit in one of Art Intersection’s galleries during the months of July and August. The series includes portraits of a cross section of people, both young and old, mostly subjects that Ellis knows. He asks them if he can take their portrait but when he arrives he asks them to participate in an experiment. He gives them three minutes to collect objects (excluding children & pets) that they would carry out of their home in the event of a fire. He then asks them to bring the objects to the sitting while they write about their experience. The actual written response is framed along side the image of the person, giving the written word equality with the photograph.
On Saturday, August 27th, Bob gave a lecture on his work. He opened the talk with slides of his most recent exhibition in Ireland but after only a brief description of his House on Fire project, the talk became more of a discourse about how the project has changed as a result of feedback from his audience and most importantly a reflection on human nature when faced with a life or death situation. It was a lively hour of conversation that left us all thinking about what we would take with us if we were faced with the dilemma:
Your house is on fire and you have three minutes to take what is most meaningful to you. What would you take?
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As we wind down to the dog days of summer, we wanted to share some of the magical moments during the Art & Youth programs.
It was so great to hear the sounds of children and young adult voices coming from the galleries but the best part of the experience is witnessing young people in the process of discovering their creative side.
Thank you to all our talented students!
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Homespun Crafts for kids was a huge success. The kids made a frame using metal repair tape, a bunch of jewelry and a wide assortment of cards, notes and envelopes.
Next week is Art For the Heart and after that we have photography classes and silkscreen classes for kids.
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With full hearts, minds reactivated and stomachs that are molto contento, we returned to USA after a beautiful sojourn in the remote village of Vitiana, Italy where we conducted a 9-day workshop.
Fourteen students and three instructors, we laughed, cried, created, experienced and connected as a community to learn from each other about living more artfully, simply and fully.
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Today, at the award ceremony for Gilbert High School’s juried exhibition, Re-visioning the American Dream,a proud parent of one of the award recipients asked if he could purchase his daughter’s photograph. He said he couldn’t bear to think of it being bought by someone else. We had an interesting conversation about how selling ones art is like letting your children go into the world with the hope that they will somehow make a difference.
We also talked about talent. TALENT, the “T” word.
He mentioned to me that he had no talent when I asked him if he participated in any form of art making.
Sadly, too many people believe the myth that some people (i.e. artists) just possess this nebulous and elusive gift that they were mysteriously born with.
So, okay, yes, there is Mozart and Picasso and Di Vinci and a handful of geniuses throughout history that seemed to come out of the womb gifted but what about the rest of us?
Hard work. Yes. That’s right. Oh, and passion…
Anyone of you can be great at art with that magic combination.
Art Intersection = a magical place.
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A kin to the pub crawl (minus the booze), an ephemera crawl is an opportunity to explore specific areas dense with STUFF. You know, the kind of stuff you just have to have but don’t really know exactly what the end use will be. This past Saturday, ten enthusiastic participants fueled with caffeine and sugar hit Main Street in downtown Mesa to search for ephemera. The group, lead expertly by Josie Circincione, did well with everyone bringing home many treasures. There are so many interesting places on Main street to get authentic vintage goods. Included in the trip were the following:
“Art is a wound turned into light.” — Georges Braque
We are very excited about the new block of programming at Art Intersection, Art & Healing. We begin the 2 month series with three very special exhibitions:
Self: An Intimate Look at Personal Narrative is a group invitational of artists who are exploring an aspect of their life through visual language.
Ballerina: Bob Carey’s whimsical and poignant self portraits where he goes out into the world dressed only in a pink tutu.
My life in Art: Sam Irving, a 21 year old artist with autism, is exhibiting his current paintings along with a selection of drawings he did when he was only 8-11 years old.
Our opening reception on March 5th was attended by over 200 people from every city in the valley.
If you haven’t seen the exhibitions yet, you won’t want to miss them. Stop replica Watch by Art Intersection Tuesday through Saturday from 10am-6pm.
All three exhibitions run through April 23rd.
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