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SUMMARY:Natasha Vidger:Common Ground
DESCRIPTION:Life-sized\, sprawling canvases house images of animals that learned to live in new worlds\, in habitats created by humans. Vidger’s painted canvases are aged with natural elements to move away from traditional\, romanticized landscapes. She removes the animals from their environments\, from their homes so we see them in this state of limbo\, wondering where they go next. “By utilizing natural pigments to age my canvases\, I present an alternative landscape that expresses the duality of desolation and splendor.” \nVidger explores common themes of survival and struggle that life confronts us all with. Her work offers the viewer opportunities to question human-focused hierarchy. “I want to confront the viewers with the power\, mystery\, fear\, and beauty that is encapsulated within the animal gaze and the animal form to bridge the perceived line between animals and humans.” \nVidger’s work also examines society’s perceived superiority over animals. “I seek to reforge a broken relationship between people and animals by creating a physical space that viewers can reflect on the niches animals inhabit in a human-dominated landscape. My paintings balance refined and unrefined areas to represent the fracturing of animal populations and the surreal and isolated environments that animals are increasingly forced to navigate.” \nBorn and raised in Colorado\, Vidger experienced nature growing up with day trips in the Rocky Mountains. “Subconsciously\, there was a division in my mind between myself and animals. They were among the trees and rocks. And I was between ranch style homes and manicured lawns. Despite this division\, I developed a kinship with animals. They felt familiar and relatable. Eventually\, I developed a deep love and insatiable curiosity for wildlife. Art has long served as a way for me to satisfy and explore this passion.” \nVidger received a BFA from Adams State University and an MFA from Herron School of Art and Design with emphasis in painting and drawing. After the typical structured study of art in form\, shape\, and light\, Vidger progressed into a focus of animal art. In her early years\, surreal platforms gave way to animal form\, composing voices for her subjects and their plights.  \nMasks are required. Made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/natasha-vidger/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Conversation Series- Cal Cullen\, Allen Woods\, Dr. Jarrod Dortch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Executive Director of Wavepool Cal Cullen\, Executive Director of Mortar Allen Woods\, and APLR artist Dr. Jarrod Dortch\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required to receive the Zoom link.\n\nAbout Cal Cullen\nCalcagno Cullen is a social practice artist\, arts educator\, and curator. She is founder and Executive Director of Wave Pool Arts Center\, a gallery\, studio space\, and socially-engaged arts activator in Cincinnati\, and the co-founder of The Welcome Project\, a social-enterprise and makerspace for and by Cincinnati’s refugees and immigrants. She has previously worked in the education department of SFMOMA\, the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View\, California and was the Director of Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco\,. She is a member of the women’s art collective The FemFour\, and collaboratively organizes the traveling exhibition and catalog of Women’s March posters entitled ‘Still They Persist.’ She has also curated and organized a multitude of exhibitions including ‘Dial Collect’ in 2013 at SOMArts in San Francisco\, ‘Social Medium’ at Wave Pool\, a segment of ‘Bay Area NOW 7’ at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and Survival Adaptations at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. She has been artist in residence at The Center for Great Neighborhoods in Covington\, KY\, Lo Studio dei Nipoti in Calabria\, Italy\, Teple Misto in Ivano Frankivsk\, Ukraine\, and in Sardegna\, Italy. Her work has been shown in solo shows at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery\, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati\, and elsewhere. Her personal mission is to “create empathy and social change through contemporary art.”\n\nAbout Allen Woods\nManaging Partner & Creative Director of Mortar\n\n\nWoods is a devoted husband\, father and entrepreneur – in that order. A lifelong Midwesterner\, he’s never allowed the size of a city to place a limit on the size of his dreams. Allen is the creative force behind the MORTAR brand\, as well as a business consultant and training facilitator for incoming students. \nHis determination (or stubbornness – as his mom would call it) has allowed him to develop a resiliency that has grown with him on his entrepreneurial journey. Recognized as a 2016 Cincinnati Business Courier 40 under 40 Business Leader\, 2017 John F. Barrett Entrepreneur Vision Award and 2017 Echoing Green BMA Fellow\, Woods is also a sought-after public speaker who recently shined on the TEDx stage. As a brand strategist and designer\, Allen assisted directly in the growth of hundreds of small businesses and personal brands across the globe. \nWhen Allen isn’t at MORTAR\, he’s probably somewhere with his wife\, Kyla\, planning or recording the next episode of their brand new marriage podcast\, Permanent Plus One. \n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Jarrod Dortch\nDr. Jarrod Nicholas Dortch is a Professor of Communication at Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie\, Indiana. He also serves as the owner and operator of Solful Gardens\, a local urban agriculture startup specializing in bringing Fresh.Urban.Natural produce to clients’ properties and working with community gardens. He has been affiliated with Big Car as a Community Artist and as Community Gardener at the Tube Factory artspace. He is currently working with Listen Hear and WQRT 99.1 FM. He enjoys bringing together art\, education\, and gardening to help to enrich the experiences of communities and their denizens.
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