Art to Change the World

Come to the ACW Friends Fundraiser on Oct 5 to buy these and other ACW artist’s silent auction art and precious objects. See art to change the world / Events

Rebecca Ratzlaff Title Wool Coat: Media Wool Artist Description of Work This Fits All Unisized wool coat from Issey Miyake’s pattern 1476, for Vogue was created by ACW Artist Rebecca Ratzlaff, creator of the “Look for the Union Label” work (the giant flag). Rebecca is a gifted textile artist and this cozy, warm wrap for autumn will make you warm and stylish in a one-of-a-kind art work to wear. In the spirit of the ACW collaborative – the fabric was donated by ACW artist Candy Kuehn.

Art to Change the World T- Shirt

Help us pay the artists who prepared this experience for you.
Art to Change the World (ACW) is a non-profit, diverse coalition of artists, educators,scientists, topic experts, and other change makers who join forces in service of positive social change. We employ the arts, education, audience engagement, and organizational partnerships to provoke discussion, reflection, and action. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission

Modeled by ACW member Skyler McBurnie

Barb Kobe
The Healing Doll Way
A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for
Self-Discover, Awareness and Transformation

Artist, Teacher, Mentor, Coach
Guiding, modeling, mentoring and supporting women toward reconnecting with their intuition, bodies, emotions and wisdom using creative processes.

Come Home to Your Self
I teach how to make figurative, symbolic, meaningful sculptures and art that allow a woman to embrace, nurture, and connect with her feminine wholeness, wisdom and power.

Shira Richter IRON MAIDEN by Feminist artivist Shira Richter (Baby Bottle nipples, or Madonna’s breast plates, whichever you fancy)-

Female gaze photography

Part of large scale installation project INVISIBLE INVALUABLES (link) about the real value of invisible care work.

129X87 Centimeters. Color print

This photograph is part of Richter’s large scale, exquisite installation project; INVISIBLE INVALUABLES about the value of unpaid care work performed by mothers, parents, grandparents & other care-takers.

It is also featured on the front cover of the book COUNTING ON MARILYN WARING-NEW ADVANCES IN FEMINIST ECONOMICS (link)- published by Demeter press. The book features several chapters about the various ways the groundbreaking book “Counting for Nothing” by Feminist Economist Marilyn Waring (88′), affected research, policies and activism in the world.

Nikki McComb

Choices 1 and 2 18″ X 24″
The photo stories are made to raise awareness in these areas:
Remembering forgotten victims taken by gun violence in Minnesota

Prompting people with information being compelled to come forward in unsolved cases

Reaching policy makers and elected officials to support the campaigns efforts
Ensuring community is aware of unsafe gun laws being authorized within legislation

Reaching those who need help in removing themselves from dangerous living situations or barriers that may have them feeling the need to possess and use illegal weapons in crimes against others
Sharing stories of mental health and other underlying issues that lead to violence
Giving those who suffer from any of the topics of focus a voice to use through art

Local Minneapolis Bartender Austin Brown created “The Second Street Spirits Company” in 2015.

Making only premium, 4 grain straight Bourbon right here in the Midwest!

Bar & Tender is a Grain to Glass, Wheated Bourbon aged for a minimum of 3 years in 53 gallon barrels.

Hand Made Book Madelynne Engle is a philosopher and storyteller whose chosen medium is visual arts in its many manifestations. With a lifetime of awards and commissions, she is known best for her conceptual sculpture and allegorical life portraits. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections from France to New Zealand, from New York to Italy. One of her Art Dealers in San Diego told a group of Patrons, “I just want to spend a day in Madelynne’s mind!” Seize this opportunity to go home with a little piece of Madelynne’s gathered thoughts. “Under Wraps” is a collection of many of the insights that contributed to her “Satin of Knowingness” interactive installation for ACW.

Barbara Bridges Today, I’m Alright #1

RECOVERY. If you are reading this word, “RECOVERY” it would be unusual if you do NOT know anyone who WAS, IS, or you wish WERE, in RECOVERY. We are looking at recovery from all trauma: PTSD, Divorce, Addiction, Death, Abuse, Cancer. This work includes several removable talismans to use in your meditations and recovery strategies. www.bridgescreate.com
Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken. You can create your own life rafts of hope and resilience with practical strategies.

Sister Patricia Theresa Gray OPB (Walking Woman) associated with Aguanga, CA – East Temecula – spent time as a solitude (female reclusive). She is of English/Yaqui heritage and is very connected to nature. Her paintings we auctioned at Audubon and American Botanical Society fundraisers for over $700.00 each. We will start them at $100. She currently has work for sale at Hemet Gallery at Cameron Books. Contact her directly at triciasinbox@hotmail.com

Donated by Jim Randall

Art to Change the World Steel Water Bottle
Help us pay the artists who prepared this experience for you.
Art to Change the World (ACW) is a non-profit, diverse coalition of artists, educators,scientists, topic experts, and other change makers who join forces in service of positive social change. We employ the arts, education, audience engagement, and organizational partnerships to provoke discussion, reflection, and action. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission

Anne Kleinhenz Title of the Work: “Guardian Angel of the East” from my “Heart Listening” installation concept, is a framed original print from a series made to honor angels of the North, South, East and West. It is a hand made print done in the old school method in a darkroom, printed from a black & white negative. This image was taken along Washington Avenue North in the North Loop of Minneapolis, long before this historic area was given that name. The ladder evokes the proverbial “ladder to heaven” often depicted as angels ascending and descending on their way back and forth, over and over again, from the other side of the veil often known as heaven. The vintage amulet adornment symbolizes a guardian angel in holy action. Doing what angels do. Angels unaware are all around us. Listen to your heart. Be aware of tapping on your shoulders. Angels can show up silently or strongly when we least expect it. Often angels are protectors or guides to help us take steps on the ladder of life adventures that we are constantly climbing in pursuit of the highest good of all living things on our beloved planet. If you live or work in the North Loop, this image will look great in your home or office.It will bring heart-centered protection to any space.

Candy Kuehn creates wearable art, costumes, wall pieces, and sculptures in numerous media. She makes art pieces that are functional, reversible and have multiple uses that sometimes change with the passage of time. Many works live as well on the wall as they do on the body, on the ceiling, on the floor and on the stage. The hats are formed from floral supplies and dyed grasscloth wall covering, decorated with dyed feathersand netting, fake flowers and fabric scraps, and sometimes ribbons .

Art to Change the World Hot Beverage Cup

Barbara Bridges Artist Description of Work
Recovery Project “Today, I’m Alright”.

Most 12 step programs assure non-believers that you can name anything as your “Higher Power” – even a door knob. Here is your personal Higher Power.

Art to Change the World Waterbottle

Darrell Wirkkula is an artist from Hibbing , MN . He studied at an atelier in Minneapolis, MN . This is a hand numbered and signed print of an original scratch board art work. 1989

Donated by Jim Randall

Borealis Dance Co Backstage Tour with ACW member Danielle Ricci

For $200 level and above donors:

November 11 – 11:00-1:00

Minnesota Opera Center, 620 North First St. , Minneapolis

Join Borealis Dance in the studio as they devise a new work combining literature, spoken word, and dance. Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” is one of his most famous writings- see how the company of dancers create an original ballet inspired by this dark tale. Refreshments Included. Top two bids will win the workshop.

Barbara Bridges T-Shirt Workshop and Home and Studio Tour
Join me to create your own unique t-shirt with style, ventilation and individuality. Includes T-Shirt, Tour and beverage/snacks. Limit 6

TODAY, I’m Alright is the name of Barbara’s art work Wesley May focused on Recovery from Trauma. Read more

Top six bids will win the workshop.

Wesley May Where Truth Lyes” 16″x20″x2″ acrylic 2018

As an artist I have grown through many trials and tribulations and thank the Creator for helping me become a stronger American Indian Individual. My experiences have led me to where I am today, allowing me to honestly share my story through art.

I am a Native American from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota and a First Peoples Fund artist. I believe that an artist’s role in the community is to bring awareness of the voices that are rarely heard, not to lead the charge of any cause, but to unleash the potential of others through art. I travel around to art shows, powwows, and other community events and empower others through Live Exhibition paintings. Expressing truths as the paintings are created. I encourage children, youth, adults, and elders to share with me, their knowledge of art, to become part of a kindred energy in the creation of each piece. Bringing awareness of art in our lives from the first brushstroke, to building confidence in those that choose to include their voice.

Donated by Jerry Cangemi

Studio Visit with Craig Harris Harris is a composer and theater artist who creates multimedia dramatic work and interactive installations. His performance work SenseAbility is being performed at Art to Change the World’s See. Say. DO! event on October 11 & 12, 2018. His work integrates old and new technologies, relentlessly focused like a laser on the story being told. He inhabits several rooms in his home where he creates work on his newly rebuilt 7-foot 1898 Steinway grand piano, on one of his digital keyboards, and on his three computers with several large display spaces and projectors. Visit with Craig for 2 hours in his studio spaces and gain an inside view into how he created SenseAbility. Experience includes a CD.

Opportunity limited to 6 people. Refreshments will be served. Top six bids will win the workshop.

Barbara Bridges Artist Description of Work Recovery Project “Today, I’m Alright”. WRANKLET with healing talisman to be worn on ankle, wrist or arm.

RECOVERY. If you are reading this word, “RECOVERY” it would be unusual if you do NOT know anyone who WAS, IS, or you wish WERE, in RECOVERY. What does that word actually mean when connected to trauma? I chose to use the word RECOVERY for my series because my series is a message of hope.
This is a Recovery Wranklet (can be worn on wrist, ankle or arm). It is embellished with power amulets and when you are wearing it… it will remind you that you can recover from your trauma. Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken. You can create your own life rafts of hope and resilience with practical strategies

Barry Scanlan Blue Woman. I have always admired the paintings of impressionist artists such as Matisse, Sibley, Modigliani, and others. The impressionists invariably inspire me so decided I wanted to paint my own impressionist portrait. Using only three acrylic colors, and water, I worked quickly and with some spontaneity. Oftentimes, I do not know if my painting process will create a painting that I am happy with. But I feel Blue Woman turned out nicely.

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Dodging Bullets October 13 7:00-10:00 PM The film was voted Minnesota’s Best Documentary at the 2018 Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF). The film speaks to our mission of moving people to ACTION using art. Filmmaker and director, Sarah Edstrom will join us. (The film was co-directed by Kathy Broere, Bob Trench and Jonathan Thunder). This award winning, powerful documentary is the first to chronicle the impact of historical trauma on the lives of Native peoples today, giving voice to their stories of survival and resilience in the face of multigenerational trauma. The film is a collection of experiences that includes a majority of Native voices, along with activists, legislators, and researchers, to illustrate the effects of intergenerational trauma and to help forge a path towards the future. What is clear throughout the film – and these stories – is a defining message: If a true healing of the wounds done to Native communities is to be achieved, the trauma cannot be ignored. http://dodgingbullets.org/in-the-news/

About Dodging Bullets

Montage . This one woman wonder is Croatian. The cards are scenes from the countryside and are prints of original works. They are set off with agates and framed with spalted maple.

Donated by Jim Randall

Jill Waterhouse Silk Textiles to Dye For…

These five fabulous silk shawls/scarves were donated to me by my dear friend, Linn Veltema, as a fundraising tool for the projects I believe in. Art to Change the World, WARM and WCA are 3 of the many non-profit recipients of Linn’s generous donation to me.

Linn is an engineer for 3M and has worked abroad for the company in exotic locals including Dubai, India, and Mexico, among other countries. In her travels abroad, she committed to purchasing women’s textiles and other art from organizations that guaranteed the women artisans a living wage. She paid higher prices for these textiles and art pieces, but a good conscience is worth every penny.

The shawls/scarves – all in warm, luscious earth tones – include:

Pashmina silk w/handmade tassles –

2-3) Exquisite, large hand dyed silk shawls w/handmade fringe that could double as a dress –

4-5) Handmade block print silks – one w/fringe – one w/a finished edge,

Please bid high and bid often for these one-of-a-kind gorgeous silk textiles!

Donated by ACW artist, Jill Waterhouse and Linn Veltema

Maris Gilbert Project Description – Topic: Water Quality. Title: Water: the beauty and peril of our waters (working title) My work is exploring connections of our waters from the northern parts of our state (Itasca) downstream along the Mississippi river through the Twin cities to our beautiful Lake Pepin, in peril due to sediment rise, agricultural runoff, and invasive species, . Then moving all the way down to the southern part of our country to the coast of Florida which is affected by all the water which empties into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi river. There are problems such as red tides, sea rise, plastics, mangrove and marsh changes, and control of water flow all along the Gulf Coast, to the Everglades and Key West.

I create paintings, collage and treasure boxes to address the beauty and peril of two ecosystems along this pathway from the north to the south: Lake Pepin’s sediment issues and the Mangroves of the Everglades and Gulf Coast. I have chosen these two locations because of a love I have for both areas. Lake Pepin is my favorite Minnesota Lake, and South Florida which is my home of my childhood and my home in my heart.

Barbara Bridges Recovery Project “Today, I’m Alright”.

Pencil Drawing

Hearts can be stitched back together. 10 cards. Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken. You can create your own life rafts of hope and resilience with practical strategies.

Layl McDill “Fairy in the Flowers”

I first met this fairy in the form of a bronze sculpture in a museum in France. She was quite large for a fairy but perfectly poised for me to sketch her so I did. Later she emerged from my sketchbook and was transferred to clay. My millefiori slices became her new garden- each slice of colorful flower added all around her. Now she is looking for a wall to hang on and bring a bit of magic to someone’s life.

Brian Jarvi 1995 Hand signed Limited Edition print of the Black Bear Casino installation.

Donated by Jim Randall

Name Barbara Bridges

Title: Authentic Maine Chowdah Feed

ACW Director, Barbara Bridges, is a Maine native. She makes a famous seafood chowder with seafood she flies in from Maine. It is her Grammy LeBlanc’s recipe. Cheesy biscuits accompany and the traditional blueberry pie with ice cream finishes. There will be a Seafood Chowdah feed in early November for all ACW Patrons who have contributed more than $500. Maximum attendance is 25 lucky people. Here is your chance to attend for a silent auction price! Top two bids will be enjoying chowda!

Barbara Bridges Almost Private Studio Session . Three hours. Make your own sculpture with Barbara’s expansive inventory of power objects or bring your own memory objects. Maximum 4 people. Top four bids will win the workshop.

Barbara Bridges Recovery Project “Today, I’m Alright”.

T- Shirt

Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken. You can create your own life rafts of hope and resilience with

Remo Campopiano

Title: Frieseke Dragon
Size: 18’ diameter
Material: Wood, 3d printed PLA plastic, acrylic paint Date: May 2018

This work is part of a series of experimental paintings dealing with beauty, truth and lies. In these paintings I explore how great minds in history understand the difference between what is real and what is fake. In a political climate where not-so-great minds can make claims like “the truth is not the truth,” it’s helps to fortify our belief systems in the light of minds like Lao Tzu, Epictetus, Emerson and Buddha.

This quote is from Frederick Carl Frieseke, an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. You can argue it’s naivete but does ring true at it’s foundation. Frieseke counterpart might be seen in the words Oscar Wilde, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” And hope found in the words of the Buddha “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

Remo is at his studio most afternoons from 12-4 pm in the California Building, 2205 California St, NE, Suite #99, directly across from Mojo’s Café. His door is always open…

ABOUT THE PAINTING METHOD

Campopiano’s background as a sculptor and experimentalist is evident in his unconventional approach to painting. He begins by allowing acrylic colors to interact over large wooden disks. This process allows color to blend naturally, much like nature forms marble.

The next layer of paint is applied to 3D printed animal imagery, based on the ancient Chinese and Inuit art of paper cutting. Once the imagery is matched with the appropriate painted disk, another layer of 3D printed text is painted and applied.

This melding of layers creates an iconic foreground over an ephemeral background, all tied together with a lacing of majestic words.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Remo Campopiano is a Cranbrook-trained artist and a community organizer.

In the 80s and 90s Campopiano created museum installations incorporating live animals (usually ants, fish and mice); for which he won every fellowship Minnesota had to offer, plus a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Also in the 80s, Campopiano co-founded ARTPAPER, and his efforts had a lot to do with the Arts Renaissance of the period.

In the 90’s he lead the digital-arts movement called ARTNETWEB from a little storefront on Broome Street in Soho, NYC. It culminated in the historic exhibition called PORT at the List Center at MIT. PORT was a ground-breaking, 3 months of performance art over the Internet from artists worldwide.

Returning to the Twin Cities in 2012, Campopiano founded the XYZ club, where artists explore new digital technologies and apply them to art making. In 2016 the club won a grant from Springboard for the Arts to create and perform ArtBots: 5, 5’ tall, 2-wheel, self-balancing robots that kids operate from smartphones. The robots will be running periodically during this exhibition.

Contact Information: Remo Campopiano

remocampopiano@gmail.com 614-353-8290 http://remocampopiano.com

One of a kind name tags designed by ACW Artists for all attendees of the Friends of ACW Fundraiser.

Barry Scanlan (acrylic painting), Susan Huhn-Bowles (beading), Barbara Bridges (watercolor), Remo Campopiano (3-D printing), Jill Waterhouse (collage) Layl McDill (polymer clay), Ratzlaff Quilted Star

Silent Action ACW Art, Precious Objects and Artist Made Nametags

Come to the ACW Friends Fundraiser on Oct 5 to buy these and other ACW artist’s silent auction art and precious objects. See art to change the world / Events