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Update #8: Melissa's Kickstarter
Many of you asked me to share other Chasing the Light artist's kickstarter campaigns. Here is Melissa's! Help her out if you can!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melissafclarke/after-the-ice
- Melissa Clarke is a Brooklyn, NY interdisciplinary artist, who has exhibited widely in New York City and internationally, including: Issue Project Room, NY; the Electronic Music Foundation, NY; the Queens Museum, NY; and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art ULA-2010, Venezuela. Her audio-visual works have been published and commissioned by labels such as Contour Editions, Barge Recordings and Textura. Clarke received her masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, with a two year Tisch School of the Arts Fellowship. With her recent installation project, Untitled Antartica, Clarke endeavors to reconnect seismic data collected from beneath Antarctic glaciers with its organic source. Using sound, video projection, wood, and glass sculpture, she creates immersive neolandscapes giving physical form to the information collected about the giant landmass and the terrain beneath the seas surrounding it.
Many thanks, and see you on June 4th!
Zaria
Update #7: Come Celebrate with the Team!
Come Celebrate Chasing the Light!
Please join us at our Fundraiser
Monday, June 4, 7-9pm
Live Auction
Original art from Chasing the Light artists, NYC Ballet and NY Philharmonic tickets, and much more!
Live Performances
Music: The Chapin Sisters: a folk duo with chilling harmonies
Video and Sound: Shimpei Takeda: live improvised video using melting drifting ice and shifting light. With his macro lenses and lighting techniques Takeda will reveal a world and inner landscape otherwise unseen. Melissa Clarke: layers of rhythmic and ambient sound using seismic data taken from the glacier affected terrain beneath the seas around Antarctica.
Join Founder of SPiN Franck Raharinosy, and...
Meet the explorers
Zaria Forman: Visual Artist
Milbry Polk: Writer, Photographer, Founder of Wings World Quest
Dan Bennet: Former Explorer's Club president
Lisa Lebofsky: Visual Artist
Melissa Clarke: Installation and Multimedia Artist
Lene Holm: Inuit Story Collector
Adrian Danchig-Waring: Soloist, New York City Ballet
Lisa Forman: Visual Artist, Photographer
Marissa Bennet: Educator
Michael Lapides: Curator of Photography, NBWM
Monday, June 4th, 7-9pm
The private back room at SPiN, 48 East 23rd street, New York, NY 10010
Bring friends! The more the merrier. $20 suggested donation at the door.
OPEN BAR!!!for the entire event.
Update #6: ArtStar Prints Have Arrived!
Your Prints are Here!
Yes, they finally are. Yes yes yes. I will need a week or 2 to stuff them with the appropriate additions, add return labels, and wait in line at USPS, which is always quite a feat in Brooklyn!
Fundraiser at SPiN NY!
Save the date: May 31st. Come meet the team and celebrate with us! More info very soon.
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Leona Freeman on April 28
TO: Whomever is in charge../ Zaria
FR: Leona Freeman
RE: Mailing Prints...I will be leaving my FL address by end of May,So I will need my print before
then as there will be noo ne to forward them...tthanks...please reply;;eona Freeman
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Update #5: Welcome Aboard Lisa and Melissa!
Dear generous and patient backers,
I want to welcome two very talented artists to the team!
Lisa Lebofsky is a painter residing in Bronx, NY. Her work furthers the landscape as a metaphor for the transcendent psyche. She has an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art and BFA in metals from SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally. She teaches fine art classes at private and public institutions in the New York Metro area. Among several awards and residencies, she is a recent Platte Clove Artist in Residence in upstate New York.
http://www.lisalebofsky.com
Lisa has a kickstarter campaign well on it's way to raise funds for her portion of the trip! Please help her out if you can! We still have roughly $20,000 to go to complete the boat payments, so helping Lisa helps everyone on the team! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1328136648/plein-air-painting-excursion-in-greenland?ref=live
Melissa Clarke is a Brooklyn, NY based interdisciplinary artist, who has
exhibited widely in New York City and internationally, including: Issue
Project Room, NY; the Electronic Music Foundation, NY; the Queens
Museum, NY; and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art ULA-
2010, Venezuela. Her audio-visual works have been published and
commissioned by labels such as Contour Editions, Barge Recordings and
Textura. Clarke received her masters from New York University’s Interactive
Telecommunications Program, with a two year Tisch School of the Arts
Fellowship. With her recent installation project, Untitled Antartica, Clarke
endeavors to reconnect seismic data collected from beneath Antarctic
glaciers with its organic source. Using sound, video projection, wood, and
glass sculpture, she creates immersive neolandscapes giving physical
form to the information collected about the giant landmass and the terrain
beneath the seas surrounding it.
http://www.melissafclarke.com
Melissa's kickstarter will be up and running in late April/early May, and I will share it with you then.
Rewards
If you are waiting for a postcard, you are in luck! I am headed to the post office as soon as I finish this post, so you should expect it in the next few days.
If you are waiting for a print, it will just be a little while longer... they are scheduled to arrive at my home on April 23/24, and I will let you know as soon as I get them into envelopes and on their way to you!
Thank you
My dear backers, I leave you with a "sneak preview" of one of the Geneva ballet drawings that your generous patience allowed me to create! Thank you!!!
Update #4: News on your rewards, the team, and more!
A few items to update you on...
Rewards
Thank you so much for your patience. I am still working day and night to complete the set design drawings, and thankfully they are coming along. I am producing more than I ever knew I could in such a short period of time! My hope is to have the rewards on their way to you by May 15th (unless of course you are getting a drawing inspired by the trip!). I will let you know as soon as the shipment goes out. If your address will have changed by then, please let me know asap.
Ayaka Nishina will be with us in spirit
I am very sad to say that the talented Japanese composer Ayaka Nishina will no longer be joining us in Greenland due to her family's increasingly dangerous situation, near Fukushima, Japan. Instead she will stay home and focus her efforts on raising money for her family, and her non-profit organization: http://savejapanbenefits.org/
On a more uplifting note, I am very excited to...
Welcome Aboard Michael Lapides!
Michael is Curator of Photography and Director of Digital Initiatives at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. He is currently spearheading a group of projects related to the Arctic. These include the modern republication of William Bradford’s book The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition, and the development of the exhibit opening spring of 2013, which will relate to the 1869 “voyage for art” which this book depicts. The exhibit (which will include work created from Chasing the Light) will use the extensive Arctic and ethnographic collections of the Museum to explore intersections between art, commerce, science, and human impact on, and understanding of the environment. Chasing the Light will help to provide a contemporary framework for developing these ideas.
Fundraiser at SPiN NYC, May 31st
Stay tuned for more details on this exciting event that the team is putting together. Even though my portion is covered thanks to all of YOU, we still have a long way to go before the entire boat is paid for.
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a 5"x7" post card of my work with a personal note from me on the back!
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an 8"x10" limited addition ArtStar print of my work (inkjet on 100% cotton rag paper, your choice of image from the ArtStar.com website, direct link is under my bio below)
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a signed 8"x10" limited addition ArtStar print of my work, and a beautiful 10 page catalogue of my mother's photographs
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an 11"x14" limited addition ArtStar print of my work, and a 5"x5" silver gelatin Rena Bass Forman print of Greenland
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TWO 11"x14" limited addition ArtStar prints of my work, and a mounted 5"x5" silver gelatin Rena Bass Forman print of Greenland
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a signed 5"x7" original charcoal drawing of Greenland, inspired by the trip
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a signed 5"x7" original charcoal drawing of Greenland inspired by the trip, 3 mounted 5"x5" silver gelatin Rena Bass Forman prints of Greenland, AND a postcard from Greenland updating you on the journey, signed by all the expedition members!
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a signed 8"x10" original charcoal drawing of Greenland inspired by the trip, 3 mounted 5"x5" silver gelatin Rena Bass Forman prints of Greenland, AND a postcard from Greenland updating you on the journey, signed by all the expedition members!
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a visit to my studio to pick out a signed original 25"x36" pastel drawing of Greenland inspired by the trip (or anything of similar size in my existing inventory). The first person to pledge $4,000 gets the handmade map and boat from the kickstarter video!
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Zaria Forman is an internationally exhibited artist. Her work is in private and museum collections. She is currently represented by DFN Gallery in NYC, the David Floria Gallery in Aspen, CO and the Winston Wachter Gallery in Seattle, WA. She traveled widely with her mother who inspired her passion for artistic creation. Her work explores moments of transition, turbulence, and tranquility in the landscape expressed in the vastness of the ever changing sea and sky.
