reunion iv submissions to include:
-Matt Clark
-Peter Kelly
-Meredith Williams
-Allison Sykes
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
camp's inception
Five years ago I worked with a small nonprofit called the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a division of Scholastic, Inc. The Alliance identified creative potential in kids across the nation and set up exhibits and publications featuring their work with the aim of encouraging artistic continuation through college. The works of art and writing that came through the office absolutely blew my mind and prompted me to get moving on my own artistic pursuits, having done very little since earning my degree in the visual arts 2 years prior.
So began a quest to seek out friends and family that might help to ignite a new "creative movement". As I made contact, I came to realize that we were all very sporadically working on our art; many of the best artists I knew simply stopped creating new projects and were now focused on what any 20-something was: job stability, making rent and developing a new and improved sense of self in their post-collegiate lives.
Determined to convey the newfound inspiration I obtained with the Alliance, I continued pooling these resources to create a physical space upon which to accentuate the talents of these people. I felt that by displacing individual works into a new environment, they would take on a renewed presence, impinging on both producer and observer and inspiring further creation. Thus began a series of amateur publications entitled reunion.
My original (extended) intent with the project was to create a continuance from classroom feedback and constructive criticism to the present work of a community of artists, be it academic, journalistic, visual, et cetera. I also wanted to see where everyone was in their work and to emphasize the importance of personal production in relation to where we are immediately: in school, on the job or in transition. I wanted to take this basic idea and dually use it as a means of coming together. My hope, alternately, was to create a space or situation where this group could continue to reflect upon their own work in relation to their fellow collaborators, either as inspiration or simply experience. The intended result: artistic engagement, connection, inspiration and productivity.
With three publications underway and a fourth around the corner, more and more requests for submission media alternatives have been coming my way; friends in the performing and multi-dimensional arts have exhibited interest in becoming part of the project- posing a logistical challenge. After much thought and research I developed a more inclusive model and invited some of reunion's key players to help strategize about transforming reunion into a physical concept, thus named the Community Arts Movement Project (c.a.m.p.).
This blog will serve as a tool to track the progress of the project. It will be part of a larger and further developed space, Community AMP, which should be launched later this week. Community AMP is made possible only by the participants of its contents- most especially, my close friend Meredith Williams, whose generosity and support outweigh any form of thanks I can present her with.
CAMP’s goal will be a series of live events directly resulting from these and other spaces. Participation is warmly welcomed to reunion contributors, each of their communities, friends, family and those that happen upon the work and want in. If you’re the latter, please contact me with your work and it will be posted to the site, pronto!
In the meantime, please feel free to chat me up, offer your two cents and gather up your pictures, words, music and actions- because the hounding has only just begun. In order to make this blog work, I'll need community happenings, inspiring events, gigs, creation and ideas. Bombs away!
-Kelly
So began a quest to seek out friends and family that might help to ignite a new "creative movement". As I made contact, I came to realize that we were all very sporadically working on our art; many of the best artists I knew simply stopped creating new projects and were now focused on what any 20-something was: job stability, making rent and developing a new and improved sense of self in their post-collegiate lives.
Determined to convey the newfound inspiration I obtained with the Alliance, I continued pooling these resources to create a physical space upon which to accentuate the talents of these people. I felt that by displacing individual works into a new environment, they would take on a renewed presence, impinging on both producer and observer and inspiring further creation. Thus began a series of amateur publications entitled reunion.
My original (extended) intent with the project was to create a continuance from classroom feedback and constructive criticism to the present work of a community of artists, be it academic, journalistic, visual, et cetera. I also wanted to see where everyone was in their work and to emphasize the importance of personal production in relation to where we are immediately: in school, on the job or in transition. I wanted to take this basic idea and dually use it as a means of coming together. My hope, alternately, was to create a space or situation where this group could continue to reflect upon their own work in relation to their fellow collaborators, either as inspiration or simply experience. The intended result: artistic engagement, connection, inspiration and productivity.
With three publications underway and a fourth around the corner, more and more requests for submission media alternatives have been coming my way; friends in the performing and multi-dimensional arts have exhibited interest in becoming part of the project- posing a logistical challenge. After much thought and research I developed a more inclusive model and invited some of reunion's key players to help strategize about transforming reunion into a physical concept, thus named the Community Arts Movement Project (c.a.m.p.).
This blog will serve as a tool to track the progress of the project. It will be part of a larger and further developed space, Community AMP, which should be launched later this week. Community AMP is made possible only by the participants of its contents- most especially, my close friend Meredith Williams, whose generosity and support outweigh any form of thanks I can present her with.
CAMP’s goal will be a series of live events directly resulting from these and other spaces. Participation is warmly welcomed to reunion contributors, each of their communities, friends, family and those that happen upon the work and want in. If you’re the latter, please contact me with your work and it will be posted to the site, pronto!
In the meantime, please feel free to chat me up, offer your two cents and gather up your pictures, words, music and actions- because the hounding has only just begun. In order to make this blog work, I'll need community happenings, inspiring events, gigs, creation and ideas. Bombs away!
-Kelly
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
