Thanks to the State Arts Board, I have been awarded the opportunity to put together a new project with dance choreographer Jennifer Ilse, visual artist Vicky Radel, and poet Athena Kildegaard to develop a process to create public art for and in rural Minnesota communities. The project will address emotional themes that feel particularly potent to us at this time, and that we see expressed in our communities of older women in our own urban and rural areas. I am eager to use our four genres in conversation with one another to explore emotional themes in a way that connects us and our increasingly polarized communities.
During our one-week intensive, each of us will choose one of four emotional themes (yearning, worry, anger, and tumult), and create a piece of art in our own genre. Over the course of the week, we will pass our art to others in our quartet and create a new work in response to what is handed to us. In this way we will end with four four-part cycles of work in four mediums. At the end of the week we will have a public presentation in a venue in Morris, MN.
I can’t wait to work with Jennifer, Athena, and Vicky on such a meaningful and rewarding project!
