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SUMMARY:Place and Memory CINDY LESPERANCE\, CAROLYN ALBRACHT\, & JEANINE COUPE RYDING
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery \nExhibit Reception: Join us at our exhibit reception on June 9\, 6-8pm at the Octagon! Come meet some of the artists\, see the show\, listen to our crowdsourced exhibit playlist\, and if weather permits\, hang out on the patio and enjoy some light refreshments! Masks are required for events. \nArtist Panel: Register here to join a virtual panel event featuring the artists of Place and Memory! Carolyn Albracht\, Jeanine Coupe Ryding\, and Cindy Lesperance will discuss their artistic process\, their artwork that is currently exhibiting at the Octagon Center for the Arts\, and how their work reflects on place and memory. Tuesday\, June 14th\, 6:00-7:00 p.m. CT\, Zoom. \nGallery Show Statement: Place and Memory \nSometimes a place is experienced from the ground. Sitting in the window of a rural coffee shop\, imagining the lives of passersby. Or walking through the prairie as birds flit from one tall stem of grass to another as the sun beats down overhead. Place is made from the detailed goings on\, the minutia\, of everyday life within local communities and ecosystems.  \nSometimes a place is viewed from above\, distilled down into forms\, colors\, and textures. As the scale expands\, the intricacies of place become less important. The composition of the geographies and tone of the topographies as the sun casts shadows across the landscape take precedence over the experiences of the people who live there or the ecosystems those people exist within.  \nSometimes a place is built from the experiences had\, the relationships created\, and the opportunities taken by those who lived there or perhaps those who passed through. Humans bestow emotional meaning. Meaning creates place. Over time\, the place is remembered and re-remembered. The remembering is reflective and performative. As memories are made and re-made\, the place changes.  \nThe concept of place\, or the historical progression of place as an idea\, traces back to Aristotle and Plato in Ancient Greece. Plato wrote of place as simply a location\, and Aristotle defined place as a container 1. Place can be a physical environment such as a city\, town\, or neighborhood; a complicated interplay between people and the environment; or\, more obscurely\, a way of knowing 2. Place is as much a way of knowing as it is a thing in the world 3. With the addition of meaningfulness through experience and memories\, a geographical place has a sense of place\, or essence\, formed by the subjective and emotional attachment that people have to place as profound centers of human existence. 4 \nPlace and Memory is a compilation of three artists. Who come from different backgrounds. Who have different lived experiences. Who\, using different media\, share their conception of place\, and the importance of memory\, through their artwork.  \n\n[1] Tim Cresswell\, Place: An Introduction (Chichester\, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons Ltd\, 2015)\, p. 25. \n[2] Ibid.\, p. 18. \n[3] Ibid.\, p. 18. \n[4] John A. Agnew\, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (Boston\, MA: Allen & Unwin\, 1987). Also Edward Relph\, Place and Placelessness (London\, United Kingdom: Pion\, 1976)\, p. 43. \n\nBiography: Carolyn Albracht \nCarolyn Albracht is Associate Professor of Art Education in the department of Art and Design at Wayne State College. She is also owner and director of Blue Cat Gallery & Studio in downtown Wayne\, NE. She formerly owned and operated L’eglise Art Center & Gallery in Aurora\, NE and taught K-12 art at Hampton Public School in Hampton\, NE. Carolyn served as the Visual Arts Coordinator for the Fall Arts & Music Festival in Aurora from 2004-2007\, and served on the Fine Arts Board of the Hamilton Community Foundation for ten years. She has been a member of the Nebraska Art Teachers Association since 2008\, has served as the organization’s secretary since 2016\, and served as the organization’s 2014 Fall Conference Chair in Aurora. Carolyn studied Studio Art and Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney where she earned a BA in 1999. She continued her studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln\, earning an MA in Museum Studies in 2003. She completed a K-12 Art Education teaching endorsement in 2009. And finally\, she earned a PhD in Education Studies at UNL in August 2016. Carolyn’s personal artistic and teaching philosophy includes the idea that the arts are a necessity and not a luxury\, and so she strives to make the visual arts as accessible as possible to people in her corner of the world. \nFind Carolyn at https://bluecatgalle \nBiography: Jeanine Coupe Ryding \nJeanine Coupe Ryding’s prints\, collages and artists books are in museum and private collections in the U.S\, Europe and Japan. Her work focuses primarily on woodcut prints\, etchings\, artist’s books\, collage and most recently\, painting. She founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston\, Illinois for fine art printing and publishing. She received her BA degree from The University of Iowa and her MFA from the Universitat der Kunste\, in Berlin\, Germany. Jeanine has received various awards and residencies including Illinois Arts Council Award\, Arts Midwest Grant\, Frans Masereel Center residencies in Belgium and Anchor Graphics residency in Chicago. She taught in the PrintMedia Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991 to 2019. \nFind Jeanine at www.jeaninecouperyding.com  \n  \nBiography: Cindy Lesperance \nCindy Lesperance is an award-winning Chicago based artist who works out of her private studio in the NW suburbs.   \nHer art has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including:  Zhou B Art Center–Chicago\, IL\, Bridgeport Art Center\, 4th Floor Gallery–Chicago\, IL\, RMU-State Street Gallery–Chicago\, IL \, Atlantic Gallery–New York\, NY\,  Niza Knoll Gallery–Denver CO\, Rockford Art Museum\, Quad Cities International Airport Gallery\, Freeport Art Museum and has been chosen by prominent jurors such as: Joanne Materra\, Kaveh Mojtabai\, Fred Camper\, James Yood\, Aron Packer\, Dan Addington\, Sarah Krepp\, Jerry McLaughlin\, Lisa Pressman and Sergio Gomez to participate and earn awards in many juried shows.  She has been featured in publications including: EA Magazine\, ACS Magazine\, Cover or the Journal of Financial Service Professionals and Featured Artist of the Red Dot Blog.  Her work is displayed in private and public collections throughout the nation and is on view as part of the permanent collection of the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.  \nShe is member and Past President of FUSEDChicago (2018-2021)\, a Chicago Based group of Midwest artists who work in Encaustic and a member of the Northwest Area Arts Council.   \nCindy has evolved a personal style that is highly sophisticated and meticulous in attention to craftsmanship. Her process incorporates a technique she developed of applying small droplets of encaustic\, a combination of beeswax\, resin and pigment\, one-by-one to the surface of the painting and exploring the relationship of these drips to the spaces in between them.  The overall effect produces a tactile quality that when viewed in person\, engages those who encounter it.   \nFind Cindy at www.CindyLesperance.com
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/place-and-memory-cindy-lesperance-carolyn-albracht-jeanine-coupe-ryding/
LOCATION:Octagon Center for the Arts\, 427 Douglas Avenue\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Second Annual Member Show
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery \nThis unjuried show celebrates the skills\, creativity\, and lived experiences of the Octagon community! Let’s fill the gallery and surround ourselves with our own amazing work — established artists next to emerging artists\, all media. \n \nThe Octagon’s Member Show 2022: Participating Artists \n\n\n\n\nCarolyn \n\n\nAbbott \n\n\ncarolyntabbott.smugmug.com \n\n\n\n\nPenny \n\n\nAdam \n\n\n\n\n\nRobert \n\n\nAnders \n\n\nInstagram: @bobsretirementhut  \n\n\n\n\nDeb \n\n\nAnders-Bond \n\n\n\n\n\nTiffany \n\n\nAntone \n\n\nInstagram: @My_Lil_Weirdlings  \n\n\n\n\nCarol \n\n\nBarrick \n\n\n\n\n\nLayna \n\n\nBentley \n\n\n\n\n\nTerry \n\n\nBrigman \n\n\n\n\n\nRuthellen \n\n\nCunnally \n\n\nInstagram: @CutandPasteMosaics  \n\n\n\n\nSusan \n\n\nCunningham \n\n\nInstagram: @susanacunninghamart  \n\n\n\n\nLinda \n\n\nEmmerson \n\n\nGoogle Sites: Linda Emmerson papercutting \n\n\n\n\nKristy \n\n\nEvans \n\n\nInstagram: @kristys_abstract_art  \n\n\n\n\nNaomi \n\n\nFriend \n\n\nwww.naomifriend.com \n\n\n\n\nCathie \n\n\nGebhart \n\n\ndanthefishpublishing.weebly.com/ \n\n\n\n\nLydia \n\n\nGebhart \n\n\n\n\n\nJIll \n\n\nGuffy \n\n\nFacebook: Jill Guffy \n\n\n\n\nRex \n\n\nHeer \n\n\nrexheer.com \n\n\n\n\nJim \n\n\nHellemn \n\n\njimhellemn.com \n\n\n\n\nKatharine \n\n\nHensley \n\n\n\n\n\nLaurie \n\n\nHoifeldt \n\n\nwww.etsy.com/shop/LaurieJaneArt Facebook: Laurie Hoifeldt \n\n\n\n\nJulie \n\n\nHughes \n\n\nInstagram: @juliehughesart \n\n\n\n\nLinda Cather \n\n\nJohnson \n\n\nCatherjohnson.myportfolio.com \n\n\n\n\nConnie \n\n\nJohnson \n\n\n\n\n\nLetitia \n\n\nKenemer \n\n\n\n\n\nSvetlana \n\n\nLubota \n\n\n\n\n\nEmily \n\n\nLupita \n\n\nemilylupita.com/ \n\n\n\n\nJoshua \n\n\nMcCunn \n\n\nthumbsphotography.squarespace.com/ \n\n\n\n\nSara \n\n\nMerritt \n\n\nInstagram: @papercranesara \n\n\n\n\nJon \n\n\nMuller \n\n\n\n\n\nNicole \n\n\nNevels \n\n\nFacebook.com/Nicole.Tolson.7 \n\n\n\n\nChristopher \n\n\nNorris \n\n\nInstagram: @hedrawsgood \n\n\n\n\nSusan \n\n\nNorris \n\n\nInstagram: @eccentricoldwoman \n\n\n\n\nHailey \n\n\nNyman \n\n\nEtsy: CourageXConfidence Instagram: CourageXconfidence23 \n\n\n\n\nSasha \n\n\nPhillips \n\n\nInstagram: @SashaBlu_Art  \n\n\n\n\nJoseph \n\n\nPlum \n\n\nemilylupita.com/joeplum  \n\n\n\n\nTimothy \n\n\nPross \n\n\nwww.ProssWildlifeArt.com \n\n\n\n\nKyle \n\n\nRenell \n\n\nwww.kylerenell.com \n\n\n\n\nKimberlee \n\n\nRocca \n\n\nwww.kimberleerocca.com/ \n\n\n\n\nSam \n\n\nSenti \n\n\nSkunkriverburls@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\nRichard \n\n\nShook \n\n\nwww.dickshook.com \n\n\n\n\nJill \n\n\nSneed \n\n\n\n\n\njosh \n\n\nsorrell \n\n\nwww.joshsorrell.com \n\n\n\n\nKevin \n\n\nStow \n\n\n\n\n\nRobert \n\n\nSunderman \n\n\nwww.facebook.com/RobSundermanArt \n\n\n\n\nKathy \n\n\nSvec \n\n\n\n\n\nBarb \n\n\nThompson \n\n\nwww.bthompson.studio Facebook/Instagram: @bthompson.artwork \n\n\n\n\nSean  \n\n\nThornton \n\n\n\n\n\nTheresa \n\n\nWarren \n\n\n\n\n\nAlicia \n\n\nWilkinson \n\n\naliciawilkinson.com \n\n\n\n\nKelsey \n\n\nWilson \n\n\nwww.kelseywilsonstudio.com \n\n\n\n\nNorma \n\n\nWolff \n\n\n\n\n\nIrina \n\n\nYavorskaya \n\n\nArtPal.com/impressionsByIsy \n\n\n\n\nTom \n\n\nZimmerman \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nMember Show artists respond to the question\,  \n“What does Octagon membership mean to you?” \n“The Octagon thanks each of its members and patrons when we all should be thanking them for being here!  In my opinion\, The Octagon has become the cornerstone of the art world in Ames\, Iowa.  Through their hard work they have moved the arts forward in such a way that the lives of the community members has become enriched in many ways.” – Penny Adam \n  \n“Art is important\, it feeds our souls and helps us find our place in the world. The Octagon\, by nurturing artists all ages\, enriches the fabric of life in Ames.” – Ruthellen Cunnally \n  \n“Octagon membership is an intentional way to participate in our local creative community\, which is invaluable.” – Naomi Friend \n  \n“The Octagon has been my safe space to think and create\, teach and be taught.” – Cathie Gebhart \n  \n“Octagon membership is mutually beneficial: It is gratifying to support the arts in Ames\, thereby enriching the broader community. And it is rewarding that the Octagon encourages and supports individual artists and engages those who appreciate art.” – Rex Heer \n  \n“My membership means that I have a place to belong in the community. Where I can experience art and create art.” – Katharine Hensley  \n  \n“The arts are essential to the human experience\, and membership is just a tiny way to show support for local art and artists.  The Octagon has made dramatic\, intentional changes over the past few years and is now I think the most relevant and necessary it has ever been – it is often art that builds empathy within a community\, creates space for dialogue\, and elevates expression so we can connect to each other in meaningful and transformative ways. I am proud to be a member\, and hope to see the arts in Ames expand even more with the Octagon leading the way.” – Sara Merritt \n  \n“Octagon membership means that I can partner with and learn from the greater art community here in Ames and beyond in an accessible and accepting space.” – Sasha Phillips \n  \n“I get to be a part of a great art organization that I can help support\, while it also supports me.” – Josh Sorrell \n \n  \nThe Details \n\n\n\n\n\nEach current member may submit one of their own original works\, any media. This is work created by the member.\nA simple form must be completed (form coming soon!). Let us know if you need a little help signing up.\nThis is an unjuried\, all media show; all submissions will be accepted (one per member) as long as the instructions\, including hanging requirements\, are followed. \nTraditional hanging requirements must be followed; full instructions for accepted works are here. Let us know if you need to talk about this.\nPlease label your work carefully with your name\, e.g.\, the back bottom right corner for a 2D piece.\nDrop off June 11 – July 2\, 2022\nThe Octagon will not take a commission on any work sold in the Member Show\, as a benefit to members. Work may also be submitted as “not for sale.” Work must be picked up August 16 – 20\, 2022.\nKeep in mind \, any artwork that is shown in the Octagon galleries will not be eligible for future Octagonal or other Octagon juried exhibits.\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				If you want to join next year’s show by signing up for a membership\, visit https://octagonarts.org/home/membership/ \nFor further information\, please contact us at exhibits@octagonarts.org
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/second-annual-member-show/
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