VisionMakers 2010
Opening Reception: September 11th, 6-9 PM
Juror Critique and Awards: September 11th, 4-6 PM
Created more than 20 years ago to recognize and reward excellence among Oklahoma Artists,VisionMakers 2010 will make a September return to Tulsa under the organization of the Brady Craft Alliance. Following nearly two decades of Oklahoma City exhibitions, the prominent event returns to the city where it was founded.
The VisionMakers 2010 exhibition will be held at Living Arts of Tulsa, September 3 – 30 featuring a retrospective honoring early VisionMakers’ Tulsa participants. The month-long event officially kicks off at an opening reception on September 11, from 6-9PM. The Juror’s critique and awards for artists 4-6PM
“We are excited to have such a talented group of Oklahoma Artists participating in VisionMakers 2010 especially in this first year the program has been entrusted to us by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition,” said Myra Block Kaiser, Chair. “The return to Tulsa is monumental for us and the month of September should prove to be historic in so many ways. We are thrilled with our juror, Jeannine Falino, and the retrospective of early Tulsa entrants still living and working in Tulsa illustrates the important role VisionMakers has played in our City’s culture over the last two decades.”
A total of $5,000 will be awarded by guest juror, Jeannine Falino, a curator at the Museum of Arts and
Design in New York where she is preparing a touring exhibition on mid-twentieth-century craft in all media, entitled Making it Real: American Studio Movement 1945-1945. She was the lead author and editor for Silver of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vol. 3 (2008); a co-curator for Artistic Luxury: Fabergé – Tiffany –Lalique (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008), and curator for Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett, (Fuller Craft Museum, 2008). She has lectured and written extensively on 20th century studio crafts and on silver and jewelry from the colonial era to the present.
The VisionMakers retrospective is a new addition this year and is intended to honor previous Tulsa participants in the 1988 and 1989 shows who are still living and working in Tulsa, and to recognize the significance and endurance of the state arts program. Among those participating in the retrospective will be internationally acclaimed Tulsan Kreg Kallenberger .
The Brady Craft Alliance is a newly-formed non-profit organization created to support Oklahoma’s
contemporary craft artists by connecting them to audiences and opportunities through education, recognition and exhibition programs. During its 2010 inaugural season, BCA hosted a Modern Materials exhibition and planned, organized and produced VisionMakers 2010 with support from OVAC, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa and Living Arts of Tulsa. For more information visit www.bradycraftalliance.org or call 918-859-6342.
HEARTBEAT – CORNER INSTALLATION – Geoffrey Hicks “Extended thru the end of September”Heartbeat is an interactive light sculpture made from 151 incandescent light bulbs, each hanging individually from the ceiling. The installation reacts to the heartbeat of individuals who are connected to the system and pulses with their energy. Dancers will perform underneath the sculpture with their heart rate controlling the speed, intensity, and size of the pulsing bulbs above. The audience is also able to control the installation with their own heart rate through the use of a finger clip monitor on an adjacent wall. See an example of what will happen: http://vimeo.com/11286684
