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  • 1.  Stay Home, Make Art— Sharing a Simple Virtual Exhibit Idea

    Posted 04-15-2020 09:00 AM

    Hi Colleagues,

     

    Like many of you, we at the Dorsky Museum of Art have been working these past weeks to continue to serve our audiences and further our mission whilst the museum remains closed. We've also wanted to do something that contributes positively to this difficult moment.

     

    We have created a very simple virtual exhibit by sharing artwork that local artists are making during quarantine. The goals of Stay Home, Make Art are to support our local artist communities and help artists remain visible during the pandemic, share original content to our online audiences, while also modeling safe social distancing practices. This is very much a "project-in-process" right now, we are just beginning, but I wanted to share it in the hope that it might inspire other institutions to organize their own Stay Home, Make Art virtual exhibitions.   

     

    Below is the call that we sent out last week and we have been overwhelmed by the volume of positive responses we have had. Many artists have expressed how grateful they are to have this platform right now and local media has been interested too. We are beginning to share their work on our museum Instagram and Facebook pages and later hope to have them on our website too.

     

    We have titled our exhibit Stay Home, Make Art: Hudson Valley, NY, Edition, but other editions of the exhibition could be Stay Home, Make Art: Your Area, Edition. We will be using the #stayhomemakeart hashtag and have @stayhome.makeart Instagram account where we can share artwork from other institutions' exhibits as well. 

     

    Please feel free to use this model and text as a template to create your own Stay Home, Make Art exhibit for artists in your community. I can also share the logo graphics we've designed for social media. If you do, please email me or use the #stayhomemakeart hashtag and tag @stayhome.makeart and we will signal boost your show.

     

    I'm really happy to talk about our process or answer any questions you have about this.

     

    Very best wishes, Anna

     

    Anna Conlan

    Curator and Exhibitions Manager

    The Dorsky Museum of Art

    SUNY New Paltz

    1 Hawk Drive

    New Paltz, NY 12561

    Tel: 845.257.3847

    www.newpaltz.edu/museum/

     

    Stay Home, Make Art: Hudson Valley, NY, Edition–Sharing local art during the COVID 19 pandemic.

     

    How are you being creative during quarantine? Maybe you don't feel like making anything. Maybe it's all you can do. Perhaps your art has taken a different direction or because of limitations of space or child-care, you're using new mediums or scales. Big or small, completed or work-in-progress, we want to see what you have been making while staying at home during the COVID 19 pandemic.

     

    Although museums and galleries are closed during this time of social-distancing, art remains vital to makers and to audiences online. The Dorsky Museum invites Hudson Valley artists and makers to submit images of their recent artwork to Stay Home, Make Art: Hudson Valley, NY, Edition, a virtual exhibition that looks at how quarantine and the wider COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our lives and creative practice.  

     

    Artwork will be featured on The Dorsky Museum's Instagram and Facebook pages, and we're hoping to host the exhibit on the museum website too. The goal of Stay Home, Make Art is to help artists remain visible during the pandemic and share their new work with the wider community. It also aims to promote staying at home as an urgent action right now and we encourage other institutions to organize their own Stay Home, Make Art virtual exhibitions.   

     

    To submit your work please e-mail the following to Anna Conlan at conlana@newpaltz.edu

    • 1 - 4 images of your work/s (phone photos are fine as long as they are high-res, bright, and clear). Videos or text pieces also welcomed.
    • Title, medium, dimensions of the work/s shared
    • A short statement of one or two sentences about the work or your current experience with quarantine and COVID 19
    • Your website address if you have one
    • Your social media handles if you have them

    Depending on the number of submissions, we plan to showcase several artworks a week and can't guarantee all art submitted will be able to be displayed.

    The deadline will be rolling until further notice and we may send out occasional reminders over the next weeks.

     

    Please feel free to share this call with friends and colleagues. Or if you have any questions please get in touch. 

     

    We look forward to seeing what you've been working on!

     

     

     

     




     


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  • 2.  RE: Stay Home, Make Art- Sharing a Simple Virtual Exhibit Idea

    Posted 04-16-2020 09:39 AM
    Bravo to Anna Conlan and the Dorsky!
    Ward Mintz

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    Ward Mintz
    New York NY
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  • 3.  RE: Stay Home, Make Art- Sharing a Simple Virtual Exhibit Idea

    Posted 04-16-2020 11:26 AM
    Edited by Rachel Veramay 04-16-2020 11:28 AM
    That's great!

    The Ella Sharp Museum has organized a similar project. Ours is themed "adapt", and artists are encouraged to create work that explores their interpretation of what adaption looks like in the COVID-19 era. We're encouraging artists to create works using materials they have at home, and to create during the Stay Home, Stay Safe Executive Order time period (Michigan, currently through April 30.) 

    To start, works will be shared in a virtual exhibit on our website and social media pages, and we plan to host a physical exhibit later this year.

    We've also heard a lot of great response from artists, and the works submitted so far have been beautiful/powerful.

    https://ellasharpmuseum.org/call-for-artists/ 


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    Rachel Veramay
    Curator of Exhibits
    Ella Sharp Museum
    Jackson, MI
    ellasharp.org
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  • 4.  RE: Stay Home, Make Art- Sharing a Simple Virtual Exhibit Idea

    Posted 04-17-2020 04:43 PM
    Edited by Robert Checchi 04-17-2020 04:44 PM
    This is a wonderful idea! What about taking it one step further and creating a virtual gallery on your website where the artists could actually hang their work? Artists could curate their own exhibition and visitors could virtually explore the artworks as if they were standing in front of the art in a 3D space. This would also allow artists a say on how the works are present and relate to one another (just like a physical exhibition). Furthermore, once enough artists have submitted their work there might be an opportunity for others in the community to create their own gallery by curating their own personalized exhibition with the submitted art works.

    I was Senior Designer at the Getty for twelve years before moving from physical experience design to digital experience design. Now I work with creative programmers, web developers and 3D modeler/animators to create unique interactive experiences for museums and non-profits. Below is a web interactive we created for the Getty Research Institute.

    https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/bauhaus/new_artist/body_spirit/interactive/

    I would love to talk to you about how we could take this idea and expand it to create an activity for the entire community.

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    Robert Checchi
    Experience Design Consultant
    Los Angeles CA
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