Under a Clear Blue Sky with Lucy Holtsnider
Art Moves
Under a Clear Blue Sky is a collection of collages and prints answering the question “What could Suncor be?”. The Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City has been a known source of pollution and severe adverse health effects for decades. These works explore how the site could be transformed into something new that serves the interests of the surrounding neighborhoods while contributing to Colorado’s ambitious goal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The theme is inspired by activists like printmaker Favianna Rodriguez and marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson...
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Episode 17: On the Table with Eileen Roscina
Art Moves
Eileen Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist from Denver, Colorado. She holds an MFA in Art Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and also trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world. Roscina works in 16mm film and animation,...
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Episode 16: How Strange it is to be Anything at All with Lexy Ho-Tai
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Lexy Ho-Tai is an artist, educator and goopey human. Her practice is expansive and ever-changing, but often rooted in exploring human connection, otherness, our inner-child and world-building through craft, play, DIY, monsters and collaboration. Recent projects include: creating a collaborative giant textile cuddle monster with 500+ elementary students, building and burning a wearable heartbreak monster, and making her first stop motion animation featuring tiny puppets of her family. She’s currently dreaming of a surrealist All-Ages Kids TV show with puppetry, masking and more (stay tuned!)....
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Episode 15: What Makes it Home with Heather Schulte
Art Moves
Heather Schulte is an interdisciplinary artist in Boulder, CO. Her work combines hand-made textile materials and techniques with digital fabrication and design processes, analyzing the intersection of personal and public forms of language and communication. In 2020 she founded ‘Stitching the Situation,’ a collaborative tapestry documenting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. She has exhibited throughout Colorado at numerous galleries and contemporary art spaces, including RedLine Contemporary and the Denver Art Museum, as well as various galleries and museums nationally and...
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Episode 14: The Moon in Her Mouth with Tricia Waddell
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Tricia Waddell is the textile artist behind Studio Blkbird, based in Denver, Colorado at Tank Studios. Inspired by her degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a variety of surface design workshops, her work combines painting and screen-printing with reactive dyes and resists to create visual textures inspired by abstract art, ceramics, and graphic design. Often incorporating mixed media and fiber elements, her current work focuses on soft sculptures that are interior self-portraits exploring mental health issues from processing raw internalized emotions to...
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Episode 13: The Oracle of AI with Paulus van Horne
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Paulus van Horne, a multimedia artist and technology researcher from Lafayette, Colorado, specializes in AI, machine learning, game design, and large-scale audiovisual installations, often incorporating supposedly autonomous digital technology. Their next exhibition, The Oracle of AI, explores the spiritual intimacy between humans and technology, Paulus prompts viewers to contemplate the implications of AI's role in replacing human emotional care.
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Episode 12: Once Lost Now Found: One Drop of Blood Between Us
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Hailing from Albion, MI, Michael Dixon is an oil painter and full professor of art at Albion College. Dixon was born in 1976 to a white mother and black father in San Diego, CA. After participating in genetic testing Dixon found a sister, and subsequently learned he was one of eleven children. This discovery also provided his biological father’s name and identity. Having never met his biological father, Once Lost Now Found: One-Drop of Blood Between Us is a new body of work about his missing biological father and his new-found family members. After 47-years of wondering, Dixon is at the...
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Episode 11: To Dusk with Kenzie Sitterud
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In this episode, Kenzie Sitterud shares their process and approach for generating new work in an upcoming exhibition, To Dusk. To Dusk replicates the landscape of the Utah desert through material metaphor and is inspired by Sitterud’s Mormon cultural heritage and place of origin. Kenzie shares detail about growing up with quilting and how the desert landscape has inspired sound art and a gradient of colors that can be experienced in To Dusk. To learn more about Kenzie:
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Episode 10: Indigo with Jahna Rae Church
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Jahna Rae Church shares her inspiration for creating art and the meaning behind her striking portrait paintings. She discusses her journey of facing and overcoming mental health challenges and how it has made her a stronger person. Jahna also talks about the new Community Mentee Residency Program at PlatteForum and invites listeners to attend her debut solo exhibition on January 13th at PlatteForum's Annex Gallery. Tune in for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation with Jahna Rae about her journey toward strength and resilience. Jahna Rae Church is a Multidisciplinary Artist and...
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Episode 9: Collected Perspectives with Jennifer Maravillas-Bell
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Jennifer Maravillas-Bell is a multimedia artist focusing on cartography and land. She utilizes collage, acrylic paint, and found objects to create portraits of cities and places that tell stories of our collective pasts. In her upcoming exhibition, the Artlab interns and Maravillas-Bell will create a series of maps that give voice to their lived experiences and identities as together they explore their immediate surroundings in Denver. She hopes to inspire empowerment for the youth and the viewers involved in this examination and creation while also inspiring connection and investment in the...
info_outlineArtist and activist Laura Soto joins us in this episode to discuss and celebrate recent immigration bills that have passed favoring immigrant rights in the state of Colorado. Laura eloquently shares her personal story and experience through poetry both in Spanish and English. This episode ends in multiple mini interviews with PlatteForum community members who offer what they think Americans should know about the immigrant experience from their perspective.
Laura Soto is a DACA recipient, Mexican ARTivist who currently resides in Longmont, CO and works at Philanthropiece Foundation as Operations Manager. Through her position, Laura serves in many local initiatives in a Bilingual and Bicultural capacity under the themes of Latinx leadership, immigrant rights, indigenous advocacy, climate justice, economic justice and youth engagement. She is an active member of the SVVSD Parents Involved in Education (PIE) Taskforce, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) and the Latinx Advisory Committee to Congressman Joe Neguse. She has co-founded local grassroots organizations Voces Unidas of Boulder County and Colectivo Cultura. Laura shares her activism via performance, spoken-word and written poetry. She has performed for Motus Theater, Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, City of Longmont, City of Lafayette, Migrant Youth Leadership Institute, Noche de Peña in Boulder, Tonos Latinos, Latino Advocacy Day, the Hispanic Access Foundation among others. Laura says: " Through my work as an artivist I say that “I was born a warrior.” In part because I want to honor all the struggles and adversities my family, my ancestors, my people, and I have lived through, but also because I wish to inspire this “fighter spirit” onto my community; to show that resilience is not something we do only through hard times, but that it is a way of life."
Art Moves is a new podcast by PlatteForum where resident artists and community members talk about what means the most to them within their practice, in a space where art meets social change.
Special thanks to: Kevin, Brice, Eriko, Tsogo and Edna
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