Come join us for a festive conclusion of the Art/capitol Residencies in collaboration with Lightforms - Art+Spirit
Saturday, November 3
11 Maple Ave, Philmont, NY
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Open Studio from 3:30-4:30pm
4:30pm Presentations from Zoltan Dobrantei, Jason Healy and Martina Muller on what their residencies involved.
Free Culture
The residencies are structured as free cultural events. The artists are supported to create, and part of the residency included making the art available to the community at large. As with all activities at Free Columbia, donations are continually invited and accepted and will go toward supporting future projects. The intention is that creativity is placed in community context as a goal, as the new concept of capital referred to by German artist Joseph Beuys “Money and capital cannot be an economic value, capital is human dignity and creativity. And so, in keeping with this, we need to develop a concept of money that allows creativity, or art, so to speak, to be capital. Art is capital.
This should clearly sever the events from considerations of production, money as wealth creation, and the convention of viewing art as an investment for storing other values.
Our artists in 2018 are:
Zoltán Döbröntei created three paintings in dialogue with specific local sites. Zoltán said once, “The eternal task of art is to make visible how the destiny of the individual relates to the destiny of others, and the destiny of the community...” Zoltán Döbröntei is a Hungarian artist and founder and leader of the Napút Academy in Hungary. The name “Napút” can be translated as “Sunway.” It is the first and only of its kind in Hungary, an artistic and research-based community with arts education as the main activity, though also weaving in the study of natural sciences.
Zoltan's work will be installed at Community Hospice, Catskill NY, The Rudolf Steiner Library, Hudson NY and in the new theater project in Philmont NY.
Martina Angela Müller's residency is ongoing and the project Towards a Star will be installed once Lightforms has a permanent site in Hudson, NY. Martina has been working with the imagery of wings of the soul and stars for the light of consciousness, incorporating the script of nature as we find it in clouds, water, and sand. Viewers will find themselves immersed in a multi-sensory landscape of suspended, moving wing, wind and meditation-inspired sculptures, as projected light images in “star stations” play over the floor
Martina is on the faculty of the Alkion Center and Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School. She works as freelance artist and teacher in Ghent NY where she maintains her studio. For more visit her website www.martinaangelamuller.com
Jason Healy
Community Sharing Residency
Jason Healy spent three months this summer painting in a residency with Free Columbia. This residency will have a community sharing aspect.
Jason studied classical painting with Numael Pulido in New Hampshire , anthroposophically oriented art therapy at the Tobias School for Art and Art Therapy in the UK, and completed a degree in Social Work, practicing as a psychotherapist and art therapist in Boston at Lesley University and with private clients.
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Jason Healy
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Martina Müller
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Zoltán Döbröntei painting
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Martina Müller
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Jason Healy
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