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To The Heavens"  it is 24 X69 oil, rice, pastel, gesso on wood

Greetings Friends, and art family members. Sorry about the wait for the latest installment of my blog I have of course been busy. This piece that you are looking at now is titled "To The Heavens" it is 24 X69 oil, rice, pastel, gesso on wood. This is one of the Praise series that I recently completed. Since I last addressed you I have started this process of creating wood panels for painting, I am finding that I really enjoy painting on these.

Also I am continuing the tradition of inserting rice in my gesso as foundation. Yes, It is actually rice; representing all nations and all demographics.

Recently, I also signed up for the Black Art in America page to help promote my work along with applying for the Jerome Emerging artist grant (this did not work for me, there were others selected).. Persistence and perfection, persistence and perfection. I’m going to get there. Here are a few more pieces I created this summer/fall.

Postured Glare 16 X 16 oil, gesso, pastels, rice on wood

Raise The Praise,  Oil, Gold Leaf, Pastels, Gesso, Rice on wood

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Man's Thoughts

This sculpture is titled "Mans Thoughts" it is 57 X 72 X 45. Pastel, acrylic, water and flour believe it or not!

Narrative Reflections

"Narrative Reflections"

16 X 24

Oils, Pastels, Gesso and Rice

One of the peices that was sold during the the Ubiquious Show in November 2010. This peice was done on wood panel as most of my most recent works. Oil pastels, rice and gesso a combination of sorts.

The Artist Within Us...the stories within us!

Please join us for a new show coming to the UROC Gallery. Beginning Friday, January 21st the UROC Gallery will be featuring: "TAWU: The Stories Within Us," a new exhibit featuring artists of color from Obsidian Arts' TAWU Collective.
Opening ReceptionFriday, January 21, 20115:30 - 8:00 p.m. Artist Talk 6:30 - 7:30 _____Urban Research & Outreach/Engagement Center Gallery 2001 Plymouth Avenue NorthMinneapolis MN 55411(612) 626-8762
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Overview
The University’s Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center (UROC) is entering a new phase of growth and development in its permanent new building at 2001 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis.
Senior Vice President Robert Jones and an interim leadership team are working to expand UROC's community-university partnerships, building on an earlier strategic planning process that involved many residents and organizations of North Minneapolis. The goal is to advance the University's commitment to North Minneapolis and urban communities by building sustainable programs that are responsive to community needs and that maximize the resources and assets of the University and all of its community partners.
A formal search for a permanent UROC director is planned by the end of the year. In the interim, Jones and the leadership team are working to identify gaps in UROC programming; broaden engagement of University faculty in UROC-based teaching, research, and outreach; and pursue opportunities for innovative partnerships that address critical challenges in North Minneapolis and create models for other challenged urban communities.
The team will continue to promote ongoing engagement with the people, organizations, and communities of North Minneapolis. This includes regular monthly meetings of the University Northside Partnership Community Affairs Committee as a forum for hearing ideas and concerns.
UROC History
The development of the University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center began in 2005 as a result of informal conversations between Mayor R.T. Rybak and University President Bob Bruininks about how the University might join with the city to tackle the complex problems that faced North Minneapolis, one of the most underserved communities in the metro area.
This coincided with the University’s recruitment of Dante Cicchetti, a world-renowned expert who conducts groundbreaking work on family mental health aimed at reversing the negative effects of poverty, neglect, and other problems facing impoverished communities (including helping families avoid out-of-home placement of children into foster care). Cicchetti went on to to hold an endowed chair in the College of Education and Community Development but without direct connection to UROC. For a time, however, community interest in—and debate about—his work (see related FAQ for the University Northside Partnership, PDF format) spurred a vigorous process of community engagement that would prove important to UROC's development. In focus groups and community meetings, varied constituents in North Minneapolis participated in wide-ranging dialogues as well as formal votes. Representatives from the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County joined these discussions.
In 2006, Senior Vice President Jones oversaw the creation of the University Northside Partnership as the convening mechanism to bring together community organizations based in North Minneapolis, city and county representatives, faith-based leaders, and University faculty and staff. The goal was a broad-based partnership to build stronger and healthier neighborhoods—a partnership that would build on existing community assets, tie together community and university expertise and resources, and leverage these efforts with city and county services and resources to realize a strong urban vision of community revitalization.
Towards the end of 2006, building on the foundation of the University Northside Partnership, Senior Vice President Robert Jones led the University's development of the Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) as the interface between the University and community to achieve community-identified goals.
UROC increases the University’s ability to respond to repeated requests from North Minneapolis that the University facilitate collaborative projects, make its research and services more accessible, and allow for a more productive sharing of expertise and resources among community residents and organizations and University faculty, staff, and students. This direction is consistent with the suggestions and recommendations that emerged from the University’s Urban Agenda Taskforce Report.
Since 2006, the University has invested almost $200,000 in the Northside Seed Grant Program, administered by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), to support proposals from community organizations that operate programs that serve residents of the Northside community. The grants provide student research assistants and faculty researchers to carry out neighborhood-initiated and neighborhood-guided projects.
In November 2007, UROC’s first executive director, Irma McClaurin, was hired. The final transactions to secure the former shopping center at 2001 Plymouth Avenue N. as UROC’s home were completed in February 2008. The building opened its doors in October 2009, with a grand opening in May 2010. UROC continues to be led by Senior Vice President Jones as well as the interim leadership team he appointed in spring 2010.
UROC's mission is to link the University of Minnesota in vital public partnership with urban communities to advance learning, improve quality of life, and discover breakthrough solutions to critical problems.The UROC building provides University faculty and staff with office space in North Minneapolis for collaborative outreach and research programs reflecting community-identified priorities in the areas of education and training, family and community health, and economic development. Programs work toward specific goals in areas such as early childhood education, health disparities, health career development, youth development through the arts, youth development, nutrition, and other areas.
The Business and Technology Center (B-Tech), which received a $300,000 Empowerment Zone grant from the city to support programs for youth entrepreneurs, serves as a business incubator, provides technical assistance and support for Northside business and nonprofits, and helps to coordinate the UROC-based Broadband Access Project, a $3.6-million University of Minnesota initiative to close the digital divide.
UROC's initial development reflects a substantial financial commitment from the University. It also reflects funding from the federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) over three years to document the process of community engagement around the themes of out-of-school time, healthy foods, and youth entrepreneurship. A $750,000 FIPSE grant served as the jumpstart to make UROC a reality.
Multipurpose space in the UROC collaborative research facility provides opportunities for other University services and community organizations to work and carry out programming on the Northside. As UROC’s building and programs take shape, a variety of initiatives and projects at the University and in neighborhoods are coalescing among community participants and University faculty and staff.
The Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center now anchors the University’s commitment to working in close partnership with the community to discover solutions to complex urban issues. Over the long term, the University of Minnesota envisions UROC as an anchor for thriving, innovative, and respectful collaborations that create a healthy and vibrant North Minneapolis, build new models of urban community development, and strengthen the University of Minnesota as a vitally engaged 21st-century university serving the public good.
Hawona Sullivan Janzen
Gallery Curator and Special Projects Coordinator
Urban Research & Outreach/Engagement Center
2001 Plymouth Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55411
private phone & fax: 612-626-1526
mobile phone: (612) 386-5268
email: janze005@umn.edu

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Ta-coumba Tyrone Aiken a MN Artist that excells beyond MN

RADIANCE By Ta-Coumba Aiken

So I have been blessed to be friends and mentored by artist Ta-Coumba Aiken. This guy is a former student and graduate of The Minneapolis College of Art and Design from a while ago as myself. he has done work Nationally and Globally. Check out this video that was done by PBS on him in his own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n62Ws_B5WLU

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"Ya Feel Me"

Lori Greene

Minneapolis, MN – Four women artists collaborate to create an exhibition with images and forms that are visually and/or physically addictive; testing the relevance of examination not only by sight and touch, but also through the perceived state of mind, to evoke a feeling, a particular sympathy, impression or conviction. Opening Reception January 15, 2011 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Artists Lori Greene, Stephanie Morris, Dorothy Johnson and Dee Henry Williams utilizing photography, ceramic and textiles, lead viewers on an artistic journey that encourages an understanding of their perspectives. Highly creative and flexible in their use of materials
and approach and deliberately producing images that deliver memory and illusion alternatively, the artists seek to provide contemplation and surprise.

Organized and curated by Minneapolis-based artists Christopher-Aaron Deanes and Shirley Robertson, “Ya Feel Me” is an attempt to explore ideas about “allure.” The exhibition will answer the questions: What images scream to be touched? Can a visual item compel someone to seek to touch it against their will or better judgment? The goal is to evoke sensations to the challenge “Ya Feel Me?”

Artist Dialogue: February 18, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. Free.

An organization of ideas . . . Obsidian Arts works to support artists, curators, and art historians in the examination of black visual culture. Founded in 2003 Obsidian Arts operates a gallery, black art history library, and artists’ development network (TAWU). Learn more about Obsidian Arts at www.obsidianartscenter.org. For additional information on this exhibition, please contact curators Christopher-Aaron Deanes and Shirley Robertson at obsidianarts@gmail.com.
Obsidian Arts is located in South Minneapolis at Pill House, 3501 Chicago Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55407.

The gallery is open: Mon–Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Sat-Sun, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. No admission fee. Gallery Phone: 612-824-0708.

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u·biq·ui·tous (y-bkw-ts) having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent

egoist or egotist

5 X 7

Oil, Gesso, Rice, Pastels

$65

"Final Draw"
9 X 12
oil, rice and gesso on wood panel- $125

Up comming Art showing
Titled:UBIQUITOUS
Featured art by
(CEEI FASTINGARTIST) BOBBY BOOKER
AND
CHRISTOPHER AARON DEANES

This Friday at 6:30
Food, Music, and Art- Downtown.
Featuring Christopher-Aaron Deanes 12 most recent works in oils
ELSWORTH MENSWEAR
811 LaSalle Ave Suite 205A
Minneapolis, MN, 55402
jordin@elsworthmens.com
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612.339.0763
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This work has been taxing to my studio time, family, ministry, and school. It embodies the whole of some of the things that I have recently trialed (such as relationships) and other things that are always in question of ponderance. As I proceed to grow my studio awareness and painting provisions I am developing what I consider one of the final and most steady stylized expression that I have ever created through the posture of using rice in my gesso as a stable. Oil Pastels expressionistic through the aggressive impressions that are developed through that thought and the images that fills the sketches and photos that Iv'e taken or found through my journey. I hope that you are able to enjoy this exhibition and expressly are able to gleam something positive or challenging from it.

This show is now posted at Elworh blog site located : http://http://www.elsworthmens.com/2010/11/13/until-art-do-us-part/

This work is dear to me as it has evaluated and become descriptive of my most recent body and expression. This exploration mves forward the continued use of rice in my work, oil pastels, and gesso. These mediums are displayed on wood panels. Enjoy

This a painting I completed last week titled "Conscentization" it is 36" X 52" gesso, rice and oil pastels. This work builds around the socializing of education. The ideas that are consistently coming from Washington concerning education. So if you were a politician and had a grip on monies that would improve the schools which side would you take?

The Social Efficiency Ideology advocates believe that the purpose of schooling is to effectively meet the needs of society by training youth to function as future mature contributing members of our society.

Learner Centered Ideology proponents focus not on the need of society or the academic disciplines, but on the need and concerns of individuals.

Social Reconstruction Ideologies are conscious of the problems of our society and the injustices done to its members, such as those originating from racial, gender, and social and economical inequalities.

Historical Perspective of the curriculum ideologies has a historical recognition of the history of the traditions out of which each grew gives an important sense of perspective.

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here is another piece i recently finished 4 days ago. This one is of course titled

"EDucation REFORM" and it is 48" X 38" oil pastels, rice, and gesso

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This show was incredible show. This retrospective on class, race, gender, politics, anthropology, sex, spirits, history, culture, figures, and discovery. Mindblowing, really I'm sorry you all missed it! This show has recieved grand attention and accolades from great creative minds. My TAWU is working on several things at this point. If you enjoyed this show you will surely like the group show we are currently at work on.

Visit MN MPR for one of the articles http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2010/08/the-big-blaq-show.shtml

there was another article done on this show by Minnesota Spokesman Recoreded at http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/article/Article.asp?NewsID=104787&sID=4&Search=YES

There was also an article posted in the fwix http://fwix.com/twincities/article/458834cf1e/big_blaq_-_the_end_of_acquiesence_art_exhibition

MN Artist page http://www.mnartists.org/event.do?rid=268853



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