Attached are the remaining pictures I took at Foot in the Door 4, my previous entry has the overview photos and the photos of my work. These are the pictures I took because I was impressed with the idea, the technique, the colors — or simply because they amused me. Handheld pictures taken with slow speed equals some blur, for that I apologize.
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So this is the view upon reaching the entrance of Minneapolis Institute of the Arts Foot in the Door 4, a show of art by Minnesota residents, all works accepted! This year totaled about 5,000 piece of art, all smaller than 12″x12″x12″.
Inside this first gallery:
Turning to the right, to see into the next gallery:
Which is where my Painted Vessel is displayed:
And here are its neighbors:
The following entry is of other pictures that I took, but there are many other ways to enjoy this exhibit. First, here’s Jean Campbell’s blog post of her visit, including a picture of my vessel. Multimedia works, limited to 80 seconds, are on Vimeo. And the crowning place to visit, MIA has put images of all 5,000 pieces on their website! And for the jewels to top the crown, install Silverlight, and you can see the whole exhibit via Photosynth: Gallery 265 and Gallery 281. This is like running your own webcam through the galleries.
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The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts hosts a show every 10 years called Foot in the Door, an open exhibition for all Minnesota artists. It is unjuried, the only requirement is that the finished work be less than 12″x12″x12″. Today, I dropped off the vessel I display on the front page of my website and as the header in this blog, Painted Vessel.
This is 5″x3.5″x3.5″, a self-supporting vessel in brick stitch. I completed it in 2007. This and perhaps 3,000-4,000 other works will be on display at MIA from February 19th-June 13th. All pieces will be displayed in the three MAEP galleries.
I am very glad I was able to be in line shortly after it opened, as I had to wait only 45 minutes. The line was perhaps 2.5 hours long when I left.
This is a large circular rotunda. At the upper left, you see people bent over the receiving tables; there were perhaps 8 staff accepting works. The line wrapped 2.5 times around this rotunda when I started waiting in line — at this point, I am on the last leg of that wait. You see the line continuing downstairs through the railing, so it was around the rotunda 2.5 times on the 2nd floor, down the steps (these are tall ceilings, so a good number of steps), twice around the lower rotunda, and out the door into the exterior courtyard!
I received a mailing from Teresa Sullivan notifying me of her upcoming exhibition at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona from January 22nd to March 14th. Entitled Station Identification, it is a solo exhibit narrating “the stories of people discovering their own special powers and abilities. From the super heroines found in comic books and science fiction novels to the real mentors in her life, the tiny, delicate beads that are used to create her pieces become transformed into bold, self supporting artworks.”
Teresa and I met at a Split Rock Arts session with Joyce Scott. I love how she’s incorporated what we learned in that week into her work.
Closing at MIA is a traveling exhibit from the Louvre — photography wasn’t permitted there, but I did take pictures of other exhibits to share. The first two images are from iAfrica, an interactive exhibit of African culture. You can also download an iPhone app with images from this exhibit, including a playable thumb piano! The remaining images are Native American. Check out the quillwork on the eagle bag and the fur-rimmed moccasins.
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- Borana or Guji (Ethiopia or Kenya) milk container, third quarter 20th century, plant fiber and silver
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- Borana or Guji milk container, detail
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- A’aninin (Gros Ventre) pouch, about 1885, buffalo hide and glass beads and metal and porcupine quills
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- Orvilla Longfox pipe bag (Nakota), 1993, buckskin and porcupine quills and tin cones and horsehair
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- Orvilla Longfox pipe bag, detail
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- Anishinabe (Ojibwe) pouch, c1890-1910, beads and animal hide
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- Sarah Hardisty (Dene), 20th century, moose hide and porcupine quills and beaver hide
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