Sister Kinney Art Show-Opening April 16, 2009

Ari Phillips
Singing
Flower
acrylic, plaster
and flocking
on canvas








Tim Traver
Pyramid House
mixed media

International Art Show by Artists with Disabilities

April 16 to May 22, 2009

The 46th Annual International Art Show by Artists with Disabilities will be held April 16 to May 22 on the second floor of the Sister Kenny Building of Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

MORE INFORMATION:

Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
800 East 28th Street, Mail Route 12101
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-863-4463
e-mail sisterkenny@allina.com

Opportunity Partners Workshops

Highland Friendship Club Workshop

The Highland Friendship Club students involved in this four week sculpture workshop showed their work at the St. Paul Gallery of Art. They were introduced to copper embossing and fabricating, found object assemblage, instrument making and basic sculptural methods.

The participants were given choices of materials, techniques and results. Drawing on individuals strengths and interests, each went into a their own direction (in some instances with a PCA) with the supplied materials and tools.

One individual hammered out his drum while one painted and embellished his. Another incorporated her interest in a baseball player, horses and portraits into her work. She created a metal frame to hold her photos of her horse and a light-box of her favorite baseball player. The students worked hard during this workshop and had an amazing and bountiful body of work to show.

Thanks to the HFC folks that participated in the workshop, HFC for support, Dustin Thune for instruction and inspiration, Mad Hatter for good food and drink and St. Paul Gallery of Art for showcase plus.

http://www.highlandfriendshipclub.org
Mad Hatter Coffee Cafe and Tea House and St. Paul Art Gallery on West 7th Street

Sculpture Workshop at U of MN LabSchool

Delilah and I taught a copper sculpture workshop to her preschool class at the U of MN LabSchool. Our first mother-daughter class went well and was a blast.

Each child was given a copper foil 12" triangle to create their own designs and imagery. They were taught 3 techniques of embossing, stamping and rollering. They drew images, pounded objects or letters with a hammer and used a print-making roller to roll over textures.

I assembled the 20 triangles together to form a large sphere of an 2.5' icosahedron shape. The children were so excited to see their own work next to their classmates and all together culminating a beautiful sculpture!

The children were able to peek into the big ball before I sealed up the last triangle to hang it in their classroom.

F.A.M.E.-Fine Art Mentorship Experience

Four artists are chosen from the studio at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts annually for F.A.M.E. The artists work with a mentor and a studio instructor for 9 months.

I mentored Bill Crane. The artists and mentors exhibited their work at the Inside Out Gallery at the Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts.

Some words about Bill and our mentorship work:

Bill likes people and interaction, discovery and experience, having a physical impact and expressing his strong visual sense. Working with these ideas we worked creatively together to build upon his visions. Bill likes sharing his artistic process and collaborating.

Bill experimented with many mediums and techniques. He manipulated and joined metal, broke tile and furthered his skills with hand and power tools. We created appropriate adaptive devices, techniques and tools for Bill to build and fabricate his ideas.

He translated some drawings and interest in sewing into wire sculpture. We explored volume, dimension and space while taking the 2-D lines off of the paper and expanding into a 3-D form. We furthered the experience with light projection through the wire figure onto the wall resulting in drawings of negative space and shadow.

The space is intended to invite interaction and reveal Bill's visual world; an artistic metaphor for his creative interaction with the world and artistic process.

Mentorship Program

Mentorship Program for People with Waivered Services
All Ages - All Skill Levels

Hello, my name is Sara Hanson- visual artist, art instructor, and mentor for people with mixed abilities. I am offering a one-on-one mentorship program for children, youth and adults at all skill levels and at any stage in artistic process. I have 6 years of experience in art instruction, advocacy, client care and working with the (dis)abled community.

My mentorship program includes one-on-one facilitation, instruction and promotion while working with the individuals’ goals and needs. The process of creating art promotes daily living skills, problem solving skills, community integration, self-empowerment and self-esteem. In addition to discovering and exploring individual self-expression, the artistic process also helps to develop fine motor skills and increases attention span.

My goal is to integrate individual strengths, skills and aesthetic with various mediums and techniques-actualizing original expression. I work individually with instructional methods to illuminate and excite each artists’ own sense of discovery, creation and success. Through new media and experience artists are able to elaborate and expand on their ideas and process. As artists we experiment, challenge ourselves and have fun.


Fee-Schedule-Location

We work together to create an individualized program, establish goals and a contract.
1 session a week for 2-6 hours
Hourly rate varies.
Artist supplies included.
Projects requiring additional materials/expenses are subject to prior agreement.
Promotional materials are not included.
I am an employee for PICS and Mains'l CDCS Services.
Sessions may take place at my studio, a community church in NE Minneapolis, or the individuals’ residence.


Materials and Techniques

drawing painting sculpture
found object assemblage paper mache’
collage clay/plasticene plaster
printmaking mosaic wire
textile mold-making jewelry
kinetic light/lamps wood
cast metal (aluminum or bronze) copper/metal embossing and fabrication