First-time artists-in-residence may unconsciously load all their eggs into one basket, expecting their experience will be The Solution needed Right Now (also assuming it to be Once-In-A-Lifetime). However, that kind of thinking strangles the creativity anticipated to blossom. Give yourself the tools—resilience, commitment, honesty—to be aware of your environment, inside and out, and to adjust when things develop in a way you haven’t expected.
Read MoreThe concept artist residency is synonymous with “space and time.” Residencies are founded on the belief that at some point during an artist’s career she or he may have neither the desired space nor required time to create. While every artist might agree that there are not enough hours in the day to do his or her work, whether full-time or stealing moments, there are more reasons to take advantage of a residency besides simply seizing time and space.
Read MoreI want to share with you some of my best tips—and some ideas that might surprise you—to help you pull it all together for your upcoming residency.
Read MoreHer painting “Where Do We Go From Here?” is a powerful, disturbing work by one of the few artists in the show who has focussed on the murder victims.
Read MoreBringing together local and international artists based in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Manhattan these selected works speak to the endless possible deviations from reality as envisioned by an unfettered mind.
Read MoreIn the age of instantaneous messaging, constant updates on news feeds, disposable anything and everything, lives broken down into shorter and shorter segments, catering to our waning attention spans – the works in Human Brevity question whether the soul or the internet is the path to immortality.
Read MoreBE INTERESTED. Be passionate. Be curious - absorb more than you think you can. You'll carry it all with you your whole life.
Read MoreThis extraordinary mosaic is a celebration of faith in Christ within the diversity of their community. The process for the creation of the artwork was designed to offer an opportunity for everyone to participate.
Read MoreThere are two thousand lucky New York City MetroCards upcycled as zoetropes, impressionist cityscapes, shunga-stylized erotica panels and nail-polished pug portraits at the Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again exhibit, and we stopped by the Sloan Fine Artgallery opening last week to see them.
Read MoreCharis Carmichael Braun, another repeat Single Fare rider, gives a glimpse of an amazing project she was involved in with her Church. She also is mid production on a trio of beautiful metrocards to include in this year's show, pictured below.
Read MoreAs an institution of higher learning with a long tradition of upholding the art world’s “traditional values and skills,” we, the Graduate School of Figurative Art, find it difficult to allow facebook to be the final arbiter – and online curator – of the artwork we share with the world.
Read MoreThe mosaic tells a visual story with favorite Bible passages, Christian symbols and Bible stories. Like traditional stained-glass windows found in many churches, our artwork shares the hope, joy, faith, trust, peace, love and grace we have in our Savior. (These words are even hidden in the mosaic.)
Read More“Study for ‘Creation' is a color study [or a series of images interpreting Christian doctrines as seen through a Lutheran perspective,” says artist Charis Carmichael Braun, the People’s Choice Winner.
Read MoreA New Ulm native and photographer for The Journal, Braun volunteered to lead the effort to compile and design a 130-page book, an "active pursuit of one’s local history.”
Read More"When you place a marker somewhere, it solidifies and almost immortalizes what happened at that point," said Carmichael Braun. "What's in the book is just the gateway to the more exciting and the colorful stories that are sometimes forgotten and not mentioned."
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