Arts-in-Service
Humans Matter, that means, we MUST make things to survive.
Think of dinner, your way, appointments, deals and trouble, just to name a few. Mattering is a primal, collective experience, not exclusive to just individuals self-identifying as "artists".
Art-Making is a collective activity:
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.” Marcel DuChamp:
Art-making can include collective unconscious activity:
an example of mattering
For the last five years, pieces of bark from the Hudson River have been mattering their ways through me and my studio. I forage for them, carve them and arrange them. There are now hundreds...WHY?
What I seem to now about them is that they have something to say about the many aspects of our s'elves: some preferred, some hidden away, all with influence. At the moment, Anima, is the word associated with them.
Case Studies:
Teaching in the Public Schools
Collective Art-Making encounters .... try one!
August, 2009 in Warwick, NY
Since 2000, many of us with Wayward interests meet each year at one of the two Woodlander Gatherings. This year will be our 18th Gathering.
Monthly in Stone Ridge, NY
I am scheduling short workshops.
Block Island
my backyard