C4 (Constructive, Creative Critique Club)
Join C4 and help other ACW members move their art practice forward and get a chance to have your work critiqued by the group. We meet every other month to critique two member’s work. You must attend two critiques before your work can be critiqued.
Contact layl@claysquared.com to join.
Our mission:
Art to Change the World’s (ACW) Constructive Creative Critique Club (C4) holds space for artists by giving them autonomy in guiding their critique and feedback using a specially ACW developed menu of options which allows them to lean into their vulnerability to be curious and grow as artists.
Here is our checklist artists use for each critique:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whBmepozdO2LcDl1ZtFiwQq6U9KAhnct36yg6mUVHsY/edit?usp=sharing
Which areas do you want feedback on?
Elements and Principles:
Color
Composition
Rhythm
Scale
Texture
Proportions
Perspective
Contrast
Technique
Craftsmanship
Materials
Concepts
What does the viewer feel when they see the piece?
What content do they see?
What does the work remind them of?
Impact of piece on the viewer
Do you have any questions for the viewers?
Future plans
I want viewers to share technical ideas.
I want viewers to share conceptional ideas.
I have specific questions about which direction to go next.
How to show my work
I would like suggestions on how to hang and display my work.
I would like suggestions on price points for my work.
I would like suggestions on where I might show and sell my work.
Photo is Leo Fortune Critique
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Past Critique Events
Debra Ripp is a mixed media collage and three dimensional assemblage artist. She works and lives in the Twin Cities. She is a former member of WARM and has been an ACW member for approximately three years. She has a BFA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has a variety of experience in teaching and has experimented with many mediums. Currently she is busy building a three dimensional folktale using upcycled materials.
“I am a Mixed Media artists which means I am willing and love to explore all possible media, anything that will make the image emerge stronger and obtain the voice it is meant to have. My favorite thing is to vacillate between media and observe how the image can transform and mature as it is manifested in different clothes, so to speak “
Her Critique with the CritClub will take place on August 16th,2023 at 6:30pm.
Her studio is at the Dow Building at 2242 University Ave W. St. Paul #201.
There will be signs at the side door and back door with a phone number to call to be let in. Email her: tobersonstudios@gmail.com
Parking is available on the street.
Kelly Frankenberg is an illustrator, writer, painter, photographer. She holds a MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans, and a BFA in Illustration from MCAD. She’s taught Art and Writing through Community Ed, Herzing University, and the former Minneapolis Media Institute and other teaching programs. She’s done work for the Minnesota Governor’s residence Council, Minneapolis’s Children’s Theater, Fox National News, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and various other clients. She’s performed live painting at the National Architecture Convention, , Macy’s, Mall of America, and has murals around Minnesota including commissions by the Islamic Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis Pianos on Parade, and her work is on doors, windows, mailboxes, and electrical boxes.
She has a story in an anthology commissioned by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, “Queer Voices,” an excerpt in Jane Seymour’s book, “The Road Ahead: Inspirational Stories of Open Hearts and Open Minds,” and self-published a memoir, “Diary of a Gay, Pregnant Bride.”
Kelly wrote a screenplay and filmed the feature film with things inside her house.
Traveling to 50 states and over 50 countries, she uses her travel photography to paint realistic and abstract landscapes.
Currently serving as assistant director of ACW, she exhibits her work in galleries and festivals and looks for more ways to collaborate and change the world with art.
Join Club Critique , June 21st, 6pm Read More:
Kelly’s Home, 684 McFaddens Trl, Eagan, MN 55123 (Dodd and cliff road may still be closed, if so, take Diffley to hwy 3 to red pine lane).
See you Wednesday, May 10, at 6 PM at Layl McDill’s Studio on 2505 NE Howard St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418 for her Club Critique session. Bring a friend who might be interested in joining! Interns welcome.
Barbara Bridges
2323 Monroe St NE , Minneapolis 6:00 PM
Maine Seafood Chowdah will be served.
Elements and Principles, Meaning and the Message and Cultural Appropriation will be discussed.
You can Still Join Club Critique: Details and Members: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/gritique-minutes
Barbara Rogers Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, Miami, the Virgin Islands, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada, and throughout Minnesota. Bridges taught K-12 art in Minnesota, Maine and the Virgin Islands and trained teachers in higher education at the University of Minnesota and Bemidji State University.
Barbara creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects.” She manipulates the objects to create meaning and provoke discussions and reflection on a wide variety of social topics.
She is an intervenor. Cambridge educated philosopher, Tim Ingold, holds a unique theory on art making. Dr. Ingold suggests that artists are simply interveners on any particular materials and/or objects the artist manipulates. Any object already has a story, the artist simply recombines these objects to create a new narrative.
Barbara is founder and director of Art to Change the World. Read More Please contact Barbara if you would like to buy any of her art drb@bridgescreate.com
Greg Volker is a sculptor, potter, musician and builder. Born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in St Louis Park, Mn. Attended the University of Minnesota for his BFA and left Minneapolis for San Francisco in 1990 to attend graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. He spent 28 years in SF, Oakland and Sonoma Valley and in 2018 he moved back to Minneapolis.
As well as his own work he has assisted and installed public works for other artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Dawn Freyling, Chuck Splady and John Roloff.
Website: gregvolkerarts.com IG,FB @ Greg Volker Arts
Artist, Minneapolis, MN
