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Dennis
Dalelio:
I was born in Staten Island, NY and grew up in New Jersey, where I am
currently a Fine Arts teacher at Paramus High School. I teach Photography
and TV/video with the sights to begin teaching a course called Documentary
for Social Change next year. I am also currently working with the Elizabeth
Coalition to House the Homeless to create a photo documentary project
created and printed by the kids who attend their summer program. I graduated
from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1998. The
work I began there continued into a photo documentary based project
ranging from my thesis project, a large scale multimedia project with
residents of the now demolished New Brunswick Homes (the projects) about
the gentrification of their town, to the more recent project with heroine
addicts who created a project about health care in the "Health Care
City." I also create large acrylic paintings based in the abstract,
illustrative, and surrealist styles. I've also orchestrated two large
murals, one for Source's Redemption rave party and one for a musical
performance during the 2001 IAM conference in NYC.
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Kristin
Harden:
Kristin Harden grew up in West Milford, NJ and is a well trained artist
who has been painting and drawing all of her life. She has done several
shows of her work at Felician College in Rutherford, NJ. Her most recent
included several realistic human form sculptures. She has done an extensive
aprenticeship with sculptor Kimberly Ewald and has received several
scholarships and a grant to increase her skills in stained glass, sculpture,
and watercolor. Kristin has also helped create a mural for "The Land
of the Misfit Toys" musical performance held during the 2001 IAM conference
in NYC and hand sewn a full size patchwork quilt. Beyond that she has
done several community outreach projects using art.
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Heather
Young (Iron Maiden):
I started out in welding and working with metal when I was 19. I had
a job at a Metal Fabricating Company working part-time in the office,
and eventually I learned how to grind welds off steel and spotweld.
I also learned how to oxydize steel, and some of the most common welding
techniques in production shops today. Later I took some welding classes
where I learned how to gas weld, braze, and stick weld (arc). This became
the beginning of a whole new life in metal working and gave me the desire
to pursue the art of blacksmithing. (Not to be confused with farrying,
I do not make horseshoes!) I joined the Guild Of Metalsmiths in 1998
and began to take the Basic Blacksmithing classes, there were even two
other women in a class of 10! Blacksmithing is my way of expressing
myself and being creative. I love demonstrating at different festivals
because of the excitement and the draw that other people have to an
art that is almost extinct, and hear the mothers tell their daughters
that "women can even have jobs like Blacksmithing". A lot people have
asked me if I do this because of a boyfriend or if my dad got me into
this or something like that, I just tell them that I enjoy doing this
for myself and not for anyone else.
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Jessica
Walz, artist/photographer:
Jessica is currently finishing her final year at the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design (MCAD) studying interactive multimedia. She retains
a deep love for photography and capturing beautiful moments in the everyday.
Jessica has
spend the last few months interning with Source Ministries and aiding
the Fallout in design work and setting up the art festival. Her work
displayed in the gallery is a black and white series of photos. This
is a portraiture series done in Spring of 2001 at the Hard Times Cafe,
and it depicts the characters who like to dwell in this unique setting.
Jessica has a few peices up on her portfolio
site if you'd like more information about her life as an artist.
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Sally
Grayson, painter:
Sally Grayson graduated from Bethel College in 1998 with a Bachelor's
degree in studio art. Her paintings were created in reaction to seeing
the suffering and oppression in Delhi, India.
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Jacky
Ke Jiang:
Jacky Ke Jiang is an art student at the Minneapolis College of Art and
Design who specializes in animation and comic art. Originally from China,
Jacky has developed a form of non-traditional origami he calls "Xtreme
Origami."
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QuetzalCoatlicue:
QuetzalCoatlicue Danza Mexica Azteca ("Quetzal Aztec Dance Group") is
a collective of Mexican-American (Chicano/as) & Mexican Natives brought
together by the desire to learn and share the traditional culture of
ancient Mexico. We are a grassroots effort engaged in leadership development
through the learning and teaching of history, music and dance. Our dances
display the history of the Indigenous people known as the Chichimeca
(or Aztec) and the relationship between the human race and the universe.
Each dance tells a story of balance between dual forces seeking the
harmony needed to sustain life. At events we provide commentary on the
historical and contemporary struggles depicted through ceremonial dances.
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Jim
Alworth:
Jim Alworth is a potter in the Twin Cities area with a studio currently
in Northeast Minneapolis. He graduated from Bethel College in 2002 with
a BA in Philosophy. His work is high-fired stoneware fired in a soda
atmosphere. The whole process from a ball of clay to finished glaze-ware
is an exploration of surface, form and texture. By entering soda ash
and sodium bicarbonate into the kiln at the right temperatures he can
trace the paths of the flames through the kiln via the way the soda
adheres to various parts of each pot. Each pot that comes out of the
kiln has a distinct identity determined by the placement in the kiln,
form, and texture. These different factors create exciting variation
and endless possibilities making Jim's work an endless form of exploration.
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Richard
Amos:
Richard Amos has sent us a atatement about his art- I guess that would
be an "artist statement" then- so here that is:
The Art within me has a desire to come out to be seen by all; I paint
as I feel, to share a piece of myself.
In the art that I do I like, for it to reflect life in symbolicness.
Many of my paintings have bluejeans gessoed to the canvas which makes
it protrude from the canvas. Looking at the picture it appears to be
flat, yet upon close inspection and feeling the observer can see what's
really going on. I hope that you enjoy my work as much as I did/do painting
them!
Peace be with you
Richard Amos
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Daniel
Pass, poet:
I am a recent graduate of Bethel College and a long time member of Park
Avenue Methodist Church. My writing primarily stems from several things.
First, I grew up in the intensely urban neighborhood of East Phillips
in South Minneapolis, where green spaces are longed for and even the
smallest signs of natural beauty are cherished. Second, my family has
its roots in Scotland, a land with an ancient tradition of bards and
songsters using their faith in their art. To me, a part of spirituality
means being a faithful steward of creation. "Do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit." (1 Corinthians 6:19) This has
inspired much of my poetry. I try to think of it as applying not only
to our human bodies, but that the Earth is also a temple of the Spirit,
it is God's artwork.
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John Quant, juggler:
John Quant has been juggling for 6 years. He has performed freelance
with his brothers Jacob and Josiah in their trio "The Juggling J's,"
doing corporate shows, block parties, church events, and talent competitions.
John has been the president of the Juggling Club at the University of
Minnesota for the last two years, and has performed with them at the
University, at the State Fair, and on an episode of Almanac on Channel
2. John is currently a Senior at the University of Minnesota. He hopes
to graduate in December with his B.A. in English, and pursue a Masters
in Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem next summer.
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Nate
Nelson, artist/designer:
Nate Nelson
is an Artist/Designer with a background in printmaking of all types.
While primarily a furniture designer, his interests and pursuits include
process, materials, environmentally sustainability, and natural form.
He will be leading a workshop on screen printing. Imagery is provided,
you layer and compose a design on shirts provided, or print on the shirt
off your back!
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Rob
Larson, painter/muralist:
Being an artist is a way of life, a volunteering to get dirty with myth
and story. A way that seeks to see the familiar as strange; a way of
seeing that is aware of the trickery amidst the flickering light and
shadows that surround us day in and day out, night in and night out.
Our eyes are always on the pursuit to capture what is fleeting, and
what advances toward us is our realization that the physical and the
spiritual are one and the same, indistinguishable. Arriving at the place
where everything waits, it is here and only here, the realm of ghosts
and the holy ghosts where we are met by those irreversible indifferent
patterns of nature astonishing us with their ancient now. Our eyes blink,
amazed by the transient form held forth holy through time. We watch
and dance alongside forms that play in depths, rising in chaotic storms
of memory, burning epiphanies from within. Quiet still voices whisper
during our moments of danger, guiding our little compact mysteries,
our bodies, through the traps and blessings of fate. Those ambiguous
qualities of nature, alive in our dreams, a realm that is beyond our
knowing, saturates the mundane experiences of our daily life with the
strangeness and sexuality of that holy realm. This is the way to live.
The artist seeks to live the dream.
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Justin
Carrier, painter/muralist:
I was born
the son of a poor cajun girl in southwest Louisiana and raised by a
poor cajun family in a wonderfully hard environment that breeds a love
of the simple, the ugly, the broke, and everything else rejected by
those too good for our kind. As a child I learned to struggle with the
knowledge that all these concepts were very much alive in me and in
fact I embodied them. From having an illegitimate Mexican father which
always served as a constant reminder that I was different, to the time
spent growing up in project housing and white ghettos. These environments
and the circumstances of my life taught me to appreciate the beauty
that comes from the grimy, dirty, and raw realities of the calloused
hand, disillusioned, broken hearted, simple man who is struggling to
keep some since of hope in a world that reminds him everyday how much
it detests him. Consequently the art I create reflects these ideas,
drawing influences from urban wall art, tattoo parlors, gritty concrete,
my cajun heritage, the bible, and all the beautifully broken individuals
I have known and loved. The mediums consist of whatever I have access
to, what properly fits the statement of each piece, and conveys the
thought most effectively. My art is my voice, a means to communicate
with a world that otherwise would not listen to a damn thing I had to
say. My hope is that somewhere in the midst of all my rambling, you
might catch a whisper from God as well.
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