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"Art from the Ashes" is an exhibit currently running on the first floor of the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN. I have three pieces of artwork--millinery as sculpture, really--on display as part of it. The exhibit isn't mentioned on the KMA website, nor have i seen any press on it whatsoever, beyond an announcement at the RoaneViews blog aggregate. I don't know why this is so, this lack of exposure or information about it, and every reason i can think of either makes me sad or angry. I won't speculate.
It's a small exhibit, "Art from the Ashes" is, with maybe 50 pieces of work clustered in a single hallway-style gallery, all of which are being auctioned to support the Cumberland Plateau-based grassroots advocacy and relief organization United Mountain Defense and their support of the victims of the TVA Kingston coal-ash spill that happened December 22, 2008. (You may recall that, shortly after the spill, i posted an MSDS analysis of coal ash in this blog.)
If you didn't hear about the spill--which some have called the worst environmental disaster in the history of the US--it's not a surprise. It wasn't in the news much. GQ Magazine, of all places, has a really well-researched and extensive in-depth 17-page article on it, entitled "Black Tide," here in their most recent issue. If you prefer photojournalism and first-hand soundbites, photographer Carlan Tapp has assembled a striking and succinct seven-minute audio slideshow here.
A couple of my recent posts actually pertained to my work for this exhibit: the block spinners from bun feet constitute the bases of each piece, and the research into cornhusk milliners of the 1930s and experimentation with the medium was also a component of my process. My original proposal was for three pieces, collectively entitled "La Bricoleuse Couture Millinery: Roane County Collection."
At the exhibit opening, i met several of the people whose lives and work in Roane County and in various Appalachian relief and preservation organizations I've known of online for quite some time now--among them![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lifeonswanpond and her grandson Evyn, Matt Landon of UMD, and artist Francesco di Santis. I guess i'm still a child of the pre-Internet world, because i never fail to marvel at how it feels to meet people in real-time whom i've previously known of or about only as pixels and text.
The exhibit itself is quite diverse in its range--sculpture, paintings, photography, seriography, jewelry, glassware, collages, mixed-media stuff, you name it. The museum doesn't allow photographs so i don't have any in situ images, but thankfully i did take photographs of my pieces before dropping them off.
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It's a small exhibit, "Art from the Ashes" is, with maybe 50 pieces of work clustered in a single hallway-style gallery, all of which are being auctioned to support the Cumberland Plateau-based grassroots advocacy and relief organization United Mountain Defense and their support of the victims of the TVA Kingston coal-ash spill that happened December 22, 2008. (You may recall that, shortly after the spill, i posted an MSDS analysis of coal ash in this blog.)
If you didn't hear about the spill--which some have called the worst environmental disaster in the history of the US--it's not a surprise. It wasn't in the news much. GQ Magazine, of all places, has a really well-researched and extensive in-depth 17-page article on it, entitled "Black Tide," here in their most recent issue. If you prefer photojournalism and first-hand soundbites, photographer Carlan Tapp has assembled a striking and succinct seven-minute audio slideshow here.
A couple of my recent posts actually pertained to my work for this exhibit: the block spinners from bun feet constitute the bases of each piece, and the research into cornhusk milliners of the 1930s and experimentation with the medium was also a component of my process. My original proposal was for three pieces, collectively entitled "La Bricoleuse Couture Millinery: Roane County Collection."
At the exhibit opening, i met several of the people whose lives and work in Roane County and in various Appalachian relief and preservation organizations I've known of online for quite some time now--among them
lifeonswanpond and her grandson Evyn, Matt Landon of UMD, and artist Francesco di Santis. I guess i'm still a child of the pre-Internet world, because i never fail to marvel at how it feels to meet people in real-time whom i've previously known of or about only as pixels and text.The exhibit itself is quite diverse in its range--sculpture, paintings, photography, seriography, jewelry, glassware, collages, mixed-media stuff, you name it. The museum doesn't allow photographs so i don't have any in situ images, but thankfully i did take photographs of my pieces before dropping them off.
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