Posts Tagged ‘Ben Roth’
Craighead Beringia South has a Pottery Sale goin’ on–and all proceeds from this holiday gift fundraiser go to support the organization’s wildlife research and education programs. I believe some darn decent wholesale deals are available–a big, cheery pile of platters, bowls, cookie jars and mugs are in stock.
The sale is out in Kelly, Wyoming. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm. Â Address is 6955 E. Third, in Kelly. Goods are available through Wednesday, November 23rd. Even with the aforementioned operational hours, please call 307.734.0581 if you’re planning a trip to the Beringia “store.” Remember our wildlife this holiday! Â http://beringiasouth.org/
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Got an email from a representative of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Calling all artists, designers, and other creatives! We want YOU to be the designer behind one of the 2012 Democratic National Convention’s Official posters. Here’s what you have to do — create an original 18 x 24″ poster using the 2012 Democratic National Convention official logo and incorporating and interpreting one (or more) of the following themes:  1). Americans coming together;  2). Building a better future;  3). Opportunity and Empowerment
To register, download the logo, get more details, and to read the official rules, check out our website at www.charlottein2012.com/postercontest
Deadline for submissions is December 31st, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). The winning poster will be sold in our online store, and the winner will receive a framed print of their poster (guess the Party thinks the artist won’t have one of those already…) and $1 of each poster sold.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with. (Nor can I!)~~~~Sincerely, Dr. Dan Murrey, Executive Director
Have fun with that, Jackson artists! I know many of you are worthy of the challenge.
Sweater, that glittering Charlie Brown-inspired Artspot sculpture, will visit California’s Charles Schulz Museum, as part of its June show, Pop’d from the Panel. Pop’d takes a look at the many ways fine art has interpreted themes related to Schulz’s beloved comic strip “Peanuts.”  Sweater creator Suzanne Morlock has been invited to the museum in order to be filmed working on and installing her giant metallic Charlie Brown sweater sculpture. Film footage will be incorporated into a continuous loop that is part of the exhibit.
“The Sweater is slated to be mounted on the front of the museum building, and I get to go to northern California in the spring,” says Morlock. The Carl Shulz Museum says this show”…examines the intersection between fine art and cartoon art in the works of such artists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Co-curated by the Sonoma State University Gallery Director and Professor of Art History, Michael Schwager, Pop’d From the Panel will feature two and three-dimensional works of art.”
The show runs June 25-December 11, 2011. Â www.schulzmuseum.org
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Art installation “Council of Pronghorn,” a collaboration between Jackson Hole sculptor Ben Roth and writer/activist Terry Tempest Williams, is slated to travel to New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine in late August. Currently displayed in Jackson’s Center for the Arts courtyard, the work will join others in “The Value of Water: Sustaining a Green Planet,” on exhibit at St. John the Divine September 2011-March 2012. The exhibit explores water’s pervasive,
but often unseen importance in the Cathedral’s very existence, and its crucial place in our ecosystem. Â Thirty painters, sculptors and media artists will have work installed in and around cathedral grounds.
“As interpreters of the unseen, artists will help us to see what has been there all along; to strengthen our awareness of water, and to prompt our imaginations in the contemplation of water, from wells and underground springs to surging seas and mighty rivers. With this collection of powerful presentations, there really will be water, water everywhere,” writes The Reverend Canon Tom Miller.
Learn more about this spiritually based, powerful show by logging on to St. John the Divine’s website here. Â Congratulations to Ben and Terry!
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Noted landscape painter Scott Christensen leads an “Advanced Concepts” workshop February 19-23, 2011. Limited to five students, the class is offered first-come-first-serve. One must commit, and at this posting the class–inspired by Christensen’s recent trip to Russia–is very likely filled. But you can keep in contact with Christensen Studios by phoning or emailing Kristin. Phone:  2o8.787.5851 email: kristinm@christensenstudio.com  website: www.christensenstudio.com
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Lines Gallery continues to accept submissions for their March, 2011 “Salon Style Exhibition.” Â All mediums and subject matter are eligible. Work by local artists Camille Davis and Mark Morgan Dunstan are currently on display. Â For more information, visit www.linesgallery.wordpress.com.
As many Jackson Holers know, local artist Ben Roth recently collaborated with friend and fellow artist Brad Watsabaugh, creating an extraordinary public art project for the ski town of Vail, Colorado. The project, “Singing Trees,” captured the Inter Mountain West’s creative community’s attention — the artists received quite a bit of press and media coverage.
A few days ago, Roth and Watsabaugh were interviewed for Vail’s morning television show, “Good Morning Vail.” The artists got a chance to discuss the project, one that made use of dead lodgepole pines killed by mountain pine beetles. Â Roth explained that the art form is a temporary one—although the placed trees can remain standing for quite some time. Â Trees are “manipulated” by the artist, so that their beauty and embedded messages about their living time on earth are more accessible to people who wish to view the work.
The trees are split top to bottom, so that one half of the tree remains vertical, while its other side rests horizontally, like a bench, above the ground. Â All the work was done by hand—no lasers, etc. Â Watsabaugh and Roth’s individual creative spirits fed one another, making it a pulse-pounding, thrilling experience.
Take a look at the “Good Morning Vail” interview here.
Roth says he’s planning on collaborating with writer/environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams and Jackson artist Felicia Resor.  The environmentally inspired work will involve installing a ring of 23 Pronghorn and Deer skulls on old metal fence posts.  They skulls are “….witnesses to the environmental degradation occurring in Wyoming,” says Roth.   Installation locations have yet to be determined.
Want to talk to Ben? Â Call him with questions and kudos at this number: Â 970.754.8888