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Art in the Communities Panel Discussion podcast 

10/26/2014

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Panel Discussion Recap by Shelby Oates of SAO Speaks Volumes. Original Article.

Art is King weekly updates have cumulatively progressed to inform we artists to mentor each other, to network & collaborate, to share and to promote, promote, promote. Every panel has someone sitting in reflection, if not all, that directly shines to my aspirations such as:

  • the photographer who did not study to do so, but has established a reputation top notch to those in her field, 
  • such as the introvert not necessarily coming across as such, lacking confidence, but finding her audience all the same,
  • the individual awakening to the program society expects finding art the exodus & expression to overcome, to rise up for change, 
  • the strong woman facing still so many obstacles on the way to equality & empowerment, &
  • the advocate needing the entire community to feel the warmth of messages relayed, creativity collecting, growth for all.
The last panel added even more value and knowledge to this resume of self-recognition and collective importance by showcasing Art in the Communities and how the struggle to ensure the movement is activism, that truth in art and artist find spotlight and that Atlanta, actually all of GA offer exposure, connection and support for art and artists. Finding myself in the mirrored reflection behind the panel’s expertise, I heard my own voice yet again echo the efforts to educate and inform.


PANELISTS:
Gregory Burbidge - Atlanta Regional Commission 
Alex Acosta - Soul Food Cipher [email protected]
Kyle Kessler - Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association
Alex Davis - The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

MODERATOR:
Jessyca Holland www.c4atlanta.org 

Gregory Burbidge made a strong case early event about ensuring that artists take art where the people are because the limitations of having almost all events take place in Atlanta where more than the majority of the venues can be found is proving to be more inhibiting than most might realize. There is a gap in the art community stemming all the way back to the tanked economy when art was removed from schools and our curator, Ms. Holland reminds us to follow through, to bring art to the community, to find funding through art foundations and to apply for public funding so that we can reclaim the position within art as “stewards of the public”.

As Executive Director of Soul Food Cypher, Alex Acosta refreshes our knowledge on what constitutes a cypher. This audience initiation provided the seed that cyphers create a cycle, a path for artists to release in a shared space often in response to each other, but in main efforts to be heard. Cyphers do not solely consist of rappers and spoken word artists, there are breakin’ cyphers, activist cyphers and he represents ATL’s own Soul Food Cypher. He strives to eliminate the barriers that are purposefully placed around art and artists, such as limited access & intended segregation even within the genre. He helps to create a “dynamic dialogue” a “spiritual” experience as he supports all cultures through the Hip Hop culture. He knows that Atlanta needs to allow more access to jobs for artists like the creatives in his cypher and he knows that education and connecting art to societal skill is the key to opening so many doors for working artists.

Ms. Alex Davis knows that often there is a balance needed between the financial aspects of artists and projects to create and share, but that battles strongly with the mission and message of their art. She emulates a common thread question amongst varied subgroups of the ATL art community in asking, Is the platform available, are the artists filling the stage in the mindset of ‘country club’ or ‘civic organization’? The community needs attention on civic issues and Ms. Holland supports the notion in recognizing that artists must view as if via bifocal by shifting their focus of artist and patron and finding a way to create art, to contribute creative skill that also solves a market problem.

Kyle Kessler's movement to fill empty spaces for lease with ATLs finest art did just that w/ a sole mission to showcase both artist & venue. His efforts were planted in the idea of simply filling the space w/ something worth looking at, if they were going to be empty through the real estate crisis anyway. However, the positive consequence that followed of all spaces used as canvas being leased by businesses on a progressive model to success while building an audience for the artist and art displayed solved a market problem never imagined.

Art is King crowned Panel 6 with champions for the art community offering support, guidance for funding and goals for the future to increase the access of Atlanta’s art and to support artists publicly. All panelists know there is still much work to be done, but a consensus that artists and activism are on the rise left a positive outlook & an impactful future.

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Where are the Women Artists? podcast 021 

10/19/2014

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This week we share the Art Is King panel discussion from Tuesday October 7 at Emory University

Art Is King 2014: Art Business Discussion Panel pt 5
WOMEN IN THE ARTS - where are the women artists? 

Some stats to consider:
National Museum of Women in the Arts 

http://nmwa.org/
· 51% of visual artists today are women.

· Only 28% of museum solo exhibitions spotlighted women in eight selected museums throughout the 2000s. 

· Only 27 women are represented in current edition of H.W. Janson’s survey, History of Art—up from zero in the 1980s.

· From 16–19th centuries, women were barred from studying the nude model, which formed the basis for academic training and representation. 

· Though women earn half of the MFAs granted in the US, only a quarter of solo exhibitions in New York galleries feature women. 

· Women lag behind men in directorships held at museums with budgets over $15 million, holding 24% of art museum director positions and earning 71¢ for every dollar earned by male directors.

Who Are the Top 10 Most Expensive Living Women Artists?
http://news.artnet.com/market/who-are-the-top-10-most-expensive-living-women-artists-12590

Women Artists Begin to Narrow the Gender Gap
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/emin-sherman-among-women-artists-reducing-the-sales-gender-gap

Art Is King by Shelby A Oates

Recap by Shelby A Oates of SAO Speaks Volumes
original article: 
http://saospeaksvolumes.tumblr.com/post/100545557065/art-is-king-2014-panel-series-where-are-the 

Art is King 2014 Panel Series:  Where are the Women Artists?

A week has passed without my Art is King panel inspiration and I find myself fienin’ for more. DTM in true entrepreneurial style kept the time allowing women’s empowerment to construct the cadence of the 5th panel in the series of 8 that after a week off to refresh and recoup will resume tomorrow with more crowning creativity. 

Two weeks ago, the all-women’s panel consisting of…

Ann Rowles  Founder of the Woman’s Caucus for Art of Georgia

Yun Bai Visual Artist & Painter

Allyssa RocketPower Lewis Animator

Temika Grooms  Fine Art Painter, Children’s Book Author & Illustrator

Liz Sanquiche aka Blazon’ Brikhaus

And Curated by:  Tracy Murrell

…provided more than enough inspiration and fR.E.A.D.om to hold me down.

The facts stand as Ms. Murrell listed and knowing that according to certain statistics 51% of all artists are women while only 28% of artists represented in museums are women and that on average women in art make $0.71 to the male $1.00—the top bringing in only $0.07 to the male $1.00— is to know that keeping art as king requires an immovable community of women to reign equally as queen. 

Holding the most audience and panel discussion during and the loudest buzzzzz of networking to follow this event was the most interactive yet in this series.  Ms. Murrell was brilliant in her line of questioning sparking the honest truth about the industry and how the male-dominated scene has thrown its fair share of sexism to these bright and beautiful creatives. Some are fortunate such as Allyssa Lewis, who while animating for series such as (THE UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME!!!) Archer and working in a predominately male environment has found that her coworkers maintain the awareness of their outnumbering effects and work hard to weigh the balance. Others like Yun Bai realize that while some behaviors must be worked around in the knowledge that sexism is apparent in many situations, when she puts dignity and artistic integrity on the forefront she develops a manageable barometer to recognize abuse of that and is not afraid to walk because of it.

Issues due to the gender bender were most definitely not sole focus, however; women’s empowerment and female fortitude were exhibited through inspiration as well. While bittersweet and tough to tow, Liz Sanquiche found a personal situation like her divorce to be the defining moment in her awakening.  She trusted us enough to share that while the sadness was heavy, her liberation from the stigmas of needing to worry about others before herself was excavated and her talent set in stone, if you will. The healing followed while her confidence in finding her for the sake of her alone resounded in success.

While the panel could have spanned hours beyond the provided time frame, the essential messages of female empowerment and artistry as a business embody the activism of:

  • Exceeding expectations to combat any preconceived notions of your feminine persuasion.
  • Being aware that it is not myth that what women do, in general, is perceived as less than, so your brand must represent strongly with the fortitude to surpass the misconceptions.
  • Be you within your art and not what others want from you.
  • Find your audience, create your own ops and be the organizer so that personal investment propels gain regardless of genre or gender.
  • Learn the business and be ready to negotiate as if your life depended  on it.
As with the first half of this series, as artists we were reminded to find mentorship, to put yourself out there & as a woman artist to be sure you simply know more about your craft. PERIOD.


Ms. Murrell closed by asking us to get out of our own heads and commit to the path while our fearless leader showed his advocacy by ensuring that women had a panel reflective of their struggle, their strength, their journeys. Where are the Women Artists? 

Well, they can also be found where 
Art is King.



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Art & Activism RECAP

10/5/2014

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words and photos by Shelby A Oates for SAO Writes 
additional photos by Jahannes 



DTM empowered another week where personal tracks were laid leading to several various stations of writing, photography, pedagogy and that art life thriving within deserving community. Taking pause to absorb the message, the concept of Panel 4, I arrived again at WonderRoot open to understanding Art and Activism.

Host & Curator:  DTM, Delta Tango Mike, DandacreativeGenius Flores

Panel: 

Host

DTM & Art is King

DTM: 
Illustrator Graphic Design Painter Tattooist Deltatangomike.com

Art is King:
Non-Profit Artists’ Education, Community, Coaching Connections
artisking.org

Panel

Jennifer Lobsenz
WonderRoot Program Manager Photographer
Previously with Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY & Newspace Center for Photography, Portland
“Art is the most important tool used to unite the community.”
http://www.wonderroot.org/about/staff/

C Flux Sing
Visual Artist, painter, illustrator, Fine Art Graphic Design Print Media Branding
http://cfluxsing.com/

Kevin mistersoul216 Harp
Graphic Artist Print Design Illustrator
Heavily inspired by music and is one of the architects of The Dungeon Family with projects including ,but not limited to creating The Dungeon Family logo.
www.mistersoul216.com

Amond Jackson
Originally from Massachusetts. Organizer, Distributor & Connector Studio Designer, Salem Psalms
14-year dancer turned producer & engineer.
Foundation included building a functional musicians guild in HS


WHY INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY?

Kevin mistersoul216 Harp

I was born black & realized at 13 or 14 that the society didn’t want black men, so I awakened to the fraud resulting from the miseducation with school doctrine.

Graffiti was important as a youth and became the medium to “voice the voiceless” inspired by political graffiti pieces of the 70’s and 80’s.

Art is a tool to break down barriers, the barriers present when the global fraud on humanity are realized, a tool to combat what feeds us via propaganda.

Simply put, use art to understand why.

Amond Jackson

Artists are very emotional and can relate to withdrawing because we don’t take the easy road. This is a difficult life, but we remain so in touch that we “fix what is wrong” as creatives.

C Flux Sing

I grew up and still find myself struggling with, “Why can’t life be fair?”

Injustice & unfairness cause misunderstandings that can lead to violent results and growing up as a black man, injustice was prevalent.

Art is my way to express, to share perspective, to open communication and exhibit possibilities.

Art has helped me to build tolerance to misunderstanding.

Jennifer Lobsenz

With my personal experience as an Asian female and the child of an interracial couple, I felt ignored; I felt race.

I identified with the oppressed and felt as if I didn’t see myself. I began fighting angrily against the silencing of people.

Community needs art to effect social change and artists can tilt the lens in essence of intimate love.

I feel a need to bring artists to promote more equality.

DOES ART HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE? IE?

C Flux Sing

Art is easier because it’s not so aggressive, it helps present without offensive tone or argument. It’s up to you how you receive it—especially with music in dealing with vibrations or colors with visual art.

Kevin mistersoul216 Harp

Flux’s example of our collective installation is the perfect example of how art can spread the message for more than one person, more than one artist at a time as the piece mentioned above was personally completed related to Chicago’s statistics holding such incredibly high numbers of kids being killed and I see it our responsibility to protect them. So “Heaven Can Wait” was my way to inform that it most definitely can wait for all of these innocents being killed while Flux saw it as a collective of all beliefs and perspectives that could accept our vision of “Heaven” so that any person could relate. 


Jennifer Lobsenz

I concur that art is less aggressive as “it’s the putting of something on the table and you can figure out how and if to pick it up”.

Amond Jackson

Art spreads the message so effectively that the art without the message is knowing that “music without the art is empty”.

The message of art became apparent personally when realizing the impact of losing artists. “When the center of a community disappears, you can tell” like when we lost Dilla and when we lost Jax.

So, it leaves me asking how can we create something to leave the children?

HOW DO YOU PICK THE MESSAGE OR DOES IT PICK YOU? HOW DO YOU PICK YOUR COLLABORATORS?

Jennifer Lobsenz

Mostly, the message picks you and then you choose where to take the message.

Amond Jackson

I don’t typically choose a “thing”, it just happens. It will “needle you” until you begin to express and create.

In reference to collaboration, “If you’re living in the energy you’re supposed to be living in, it will just happen”. 

Kevin mistersoul216 Harp

I believe that both occur per inspiration or specific political or belief statements.

C Flux Sing

Collaboration must rest on a genuine perspective.

In reflection of helping my husband to believe in his journey, in support of learning to manage his visual arts career and my artistic goals and community cadence, Art is King has lined up every hand I could ever want to take to help guide me to myself in the best reflection of concept so that society is changed, so that community is collected and so that seeds are planted to grow youth within the light of expression and creation. As a thoughtful creative, much more introverted than most understand, the last four weeks of panels have helped my hustle to find fortitude, my focus to sharpen while at the same time becoming all-inclusive of everything I know I can accomplish. The last four weeks have shown me that art is a weapon used to combat blockades that would otherwise keep us uninformed, out of tune, malnourished, segregated and silent. We are here to combat the gray scale and just like COREYOgraffi’s Doodlebug, we WILL ‘paint the world’!

Closing thought until we can meet again—moral, lesson, empowerment, proverb, call it what you will, but I will quote it as a ‘Salem Psalm’ provided by Amond Jackson because I couldn’t have said it better myself,

"Whether or not we carry guns to the front of the revolution,

                                            artists fight.”

I’m not here just to listen. I’m enlisting for the front lines of this art life and I will activate the cadence to effect change and respect that 

Art is King.

LET’S FIGHT! ART. ACTIVISM.

Photos by Shelby A Oates
Photos by Jahannes 
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VENUE ADJUSTMENT - Art Is King 2014 pt 5

10/5/2014

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VENUE ADJUSTMENT

Art Is King 2014: Art Business Discussion Panel pt 5
WOMEN IN THE ARTS - where are the women artists? 
Tuesday October 7, FREE


MODERATOR:
Tracy Murrell www.tracymurrell.com 

PANELISTS:
TeMika Grooms www.temikatheartist.com 
Yun Bai www.yunbai.com 
Allyssa RocketPower Lewis http://www.asifa-atlanta.com
Liz Sanquiche aka Blazon Brikhaus www.blazonbrikhaus.com 
Ann Rowles Founder of the Woman's Caucus for Art of Georgia http://www.wcaga.org 

6:30pm      Doors open 
7 pm          Panel Discussion Starts
8:30 pm     Networking 

Emory University - RSPH 
1518 Clifton Rd 6th Floor 
Atlanta GA 30322 

FREE PARKING AT THE DECK BEHIND THE BUILDING, ACCESS THRU Houston Mill Rd

Map link: 
http://bit.ly/RSPHEmory

facebook page: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/575963509182254/

#artlife @artisking_atl #artisking2014 #atl #artists 


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