Category: Elsewhere Residency

Sewing Seeds

2/22/2015

Yesterday, Adriana and I installed 25 Cocoons upstairs at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado. It's been nearly two months of home visits, wet felting and personalizing these little hovels and finally, it's all come together in a whimsical installation. I'm only going to give you some teaser shots in hopes that if you are local you'll come out to see this interactive installation in person. If you're not local, have no fear we will post a weekly about how the opening went, next week, so stay tuned and subscribe.

Come out and see, feel, smell, and hear the art of the evening at Elsewhere Studios next to the Flying Fork Cafe on Thursday Feb. 26th from 6-8pm.
Read more about the show, and all the projects and artists involved here.

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January Opening at Elsewhere

1/30/2015

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Yesterday, Elsewhere hosted its January opening showcasing the work of our fellow resident Nazish Chunara. During her one-month stay she completed a large-scale paper installation and a series of printed textiles. Nazish delved head-first into her first-ever installation and took her geometric paintings to the next level. (Claps all around!)

Installation by Nazish Chunara

The show also highlighted the past work and in-progress experimentations by gouache and watercolor extraordinaire, Aralia Diana Rose.

Left, works by Aralia Rose, Right fabric prints by Nazish Chunara

Amber and I showed our in-progress collaborative installation in the upstairs studio as well as a few samples of our solo work

It was a lovely night of white wine spritzers, home-made samosas (Thanks, Nazish!), interactive fiber art, lushly illustrative gouache experimentations, suggestive clay sculptures, and good company. Thanks to all who came out to support the Elsewhere residents and celebrate Nazish's time here! Come back this February 26th to see our finished Paonia Cocoons installation and various solo projects. Also, it's not too late to have your home or business represented in the Paonia installation. Email us at venisonmagazine@gmail.com for more info on how you can get involved.

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First Week at Elsewhere

1/14/2015

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You can officially make fun of us, Paonia, we both suffered from altitude sickness for the first few days while we stayed at Elsewhere. Dizziness, nausea, and disorientation hit us and crippled our motivations to construct work. We spent the first four days thinking and talking things through. By Friday, we had come up with a concept and ordered materials for our collaborative work, which was good since we needed to talk about it at the meet and greet that evening.

Adriana sketched this wonderful image to help illustrate our collaborative plans at Elsewhere. We will be making cocoons representing the homes and businesses of Paonia using wet felting techniques, stitching, home-visits, and object collecting. These cocoons will be installed in the upstairs studio and hung from canopy of woven sticks and twigs collected from around Paonia. The result will be an installation-map in which each cocoon will represent the identity of a place in Paonia and explore what is quintessential about each location.

Paonia Cocoons Sketch by Adriana Villagran

While we waited for our wool for wet felting to arrive, we played and experimented with fiberous materials. Tomato was a big help, he really knew just what to do and when to do it.

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Elsewhere Studio Blog: Our Arrival

1/6/2015

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Too nervous to jinx our arrival to Paonia after our car frustrations the first day, we spent the 5-hour car drive from Richfield avoiding any celebratory statements about finally getting there until we actually pulled up to the green house with “Elsewhere Studios” emblazoned across the facade. The house is quite possibly the most beautiful and imaginative house we’ve had the privilege to inhabit. It has a giant drift wood banister on the stairs, a basement live-work space with a hobbit door (which Amber and I warmly refer to as Bag End), radiant wood floors to warm your feet, and a cat named Tomato who loves everyone and shows it by climbing up into your lap and giving you a hug. Amber and I will be living and working in the upstairs portion of the house which includes a small bedroom and living nook, free-standing bath tub, a concrete shower, and lots of storage space. It is a charming and unassuming space perfect for facilitating our artistic practice.

Our live-work space in the upstairs portion of the house.

The back of the house, complete with hobbit hole.

Tomato, lord and master of Elsewhere Studios.

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