These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
Now you can experience some of Riley Tenove's Forgotten Places through the magic of video!
Of course, you'll want to see it all in person, taking your time. Paying attention. Here's how you can do that on Thursdays and Saturdays.
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I first heard about Found Wanting over a year ago. I've been wanting to visit the exhibit ever since.
Thanks to a connection with Kings University, I get to see the exhibit tomorrow night. You, of course, can join me to experience this unique and painstaking exploration of 'Grief and Gratitude'. This massive undertaking from Betty Spackman also addresses our relationships to the animals we consume and share our planet with.
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From a vast seashore of memory, let me pluck this one moment. Let me pick it up and hold it in the sunshine. Let the golden light reveal its many coloured faces. Let me hold it to your ear so you can listen for the ocean.
This is what I hear.
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I mull this over in the wake of five shootings. Four of them just blocks from our Space. The fifth not much further. Alberta Avenue drags along a history of injustice. Prostitution. Drugs. Vandalism. At times, violence. I do not feel unsafe. But I do feel compelled to respond.
I wonder, sometimes, if art is the right response. There is poverty of the body and the spirit. There is hunger of every sort. I believe in a God who satisfies hunger and need. Is art, then, a waste of my energy? Is there not some more important business to be about?
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In a fast and full world, Riley Tenove is offering us space and breath. This is why we want to share Riley Tenove’s Forgotten Places with you in The Bleeding Heart Art Space.
I want us to ask what happens when we enchant the quotidian vacancies of life with wonder. What happens when we stop looking for moments and spaces that demand our attention, and begin to offer it freely to all moments and spaces? Especially those places that will not beg our attention.
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Two kids in tow, I started with a promise. For every artist I stopped to talk to, I would give the kids $1 in treats at the end of our trek. At the start this applied only to artists I already knew. We modded the rules quickly to include conversations of 5 mintues or longer with new connections.
By 5 PM, I was buying the kids supper. It was well worth it. I collected many conversations, and formiddable stack of business cards too.
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The snow can do what it wants, but spring is indeed here. We’ve got Mother’s Day, markets and some brand new galleries to check out, so let’s get artin’.
Here are 13 bits and bites to keep you arty this fine weekend. It’s another #ArtScene13!
"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."
So much to do, so little time. Have fun, get arty, and don’t forget yo’ mamma.
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Grace and I are working with Mark to hang Life2, the new exhibit at The Bleeding Heart Art Space. The task is common–deciding what to hang where, and what to leave out. Our space is not large and we want each image to have the impact it deserves. The variables of this decision are a lot more complicated this time around.
Life2 is a show full of stories. True stories. Stories still being written. Stories with twists. Uncertain stories. Each photo represents a life being lived. A person who was in prison, but is now experiencing their second chance. All of the fear and doubt and judgement and shame that come with that. All of the hope for the past to stay the past.
But some pasts are just so strong.
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When I decided to start a podcast this year I didn’t know much. I’d never recorded interviews with people. That’s the part that scared me. Still does. Having the right questions. Knowing how to steer a conversation and when to take my hands off the wheel.
I had no idea how much I was about to learn, sitting across the table from other creatives.
I’m just 4 artists in, but here, in no particular order, are some of the best lessons so far.
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