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Death Valley National Park, California

Along Artist Ridge Trail

Artist Point is located in northwest Washington State, at the end of the Mount Baker Scenic Highway. At an elevation of 5,000 feet, Artist Point is an area of exceptional beauty.

Artist Point, Yellowstone by Liz Hall

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BCHS Resident Artists by Brooklyn Community Housing and Services BCHS

Left to right: BCHS Resident Artist Ezekial Cohen, and Jeff Nemetsky (Executive Director of BCHS)

Photo by Robert Braunfeld (www.cameraeye.smugmug.com)

WORKING ARTIST by Frontispiece

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Artist: N4T4 by Andy Woodford

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The Insignificant is Significant (The Quiet and Ugly Artist), Month of Arts Practice Residency and Workshop, Heritage Space, Dolphin Plaza, Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 2016 by Daniel Kerkhoff

“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.

Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.

Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.

Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.

www.danielkerkhoff.com.

“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.

Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.

During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.

In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.

I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.

I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com

“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”

You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.

Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).

Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.

It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.

--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com

“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”

“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”

You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.

It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,

a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,

deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.

You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,

your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,

humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.

The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.

They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,

fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.

I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from

February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.

Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.

--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com

Eddie Colla - Interview with the Street Artist & Photos from His Studio - Warholian by Warholian

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www.Warholian.com

Eddie Colla is a hard man to track down, but seems to be everywhere at the same time. The infamous San Francisco based street artist has been busy over the past few months on numerous gallery exhibitions, not to mention street pieces that pop up from time to time. We caught up with Eddie as he was finishing the final touches on a mural project that is his largest to date.

read the full interview here:

www.warholian.com/?p=1038

To keep tabs of the art of Eddie Colla "like" his facebook page @

www.facebook.com/#!/MrEddie510

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