2008 Woodie Awards
Open your heart to art
Jesse Hockersmith
Issue date: 3/12/08 Section: Community
The Open Heart Art Show will be on display at The Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka through the month of April. This show focuses on cultivating love, forgiveness, and on heroes of social justice.
Open Heart officially opens Saturday, April 5, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., coinciding with Arts Alive. The opening night will feature multi-media performances including live music, sketches and skits, a short film, and spoken-word poetry.
The show will feature artists from all around Humboldt County, from amateur to professional.
Megan Workman is the curator of Open Heart, as well as the gallery coordinator of The Ink People Center for the Arts. "Our goal is to create a diverse dialogue of what love and forgiveness are and what they mean to people," she said.
"We want people to use their experience with love and forgiveness, and to express that through whatever medium they're comfortable with," Workman said.
The love and forgiveness themes came from a campaign put on by the Humboldt Area Foundation and KEET-TV. "They did a campaign about love and forgiveness, and we jumped on the idea. We felt everyone has something to say [about love and forgiveness] and everyone says it differently. We want people to do it through artwork," Workman said.
"The social justice element of the show evolved out of love and forgiveness. Social justice just speaks to those themes, for example, many great heroes of social justice promote love and forgiveness in their lives and their work," Workman said.
There are already a wide variety of submissions for the show. "We have several collaborative projects doing installations and performance pieces. There is an interactive piece by groups of students focused on the color of love. It's interactive because the audience can add on to the piece," Workman said.
All of the performance pieces will take place on opening night. "The performances lined up are all really creative. For example, there's a group doing a piece in a talk-show type of format. This type of performance is very engaging with the audience," Workman said.
Open Heart officially opens Saturday, April 5, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., coinciding with Arts Alive. The opening night will feature multi-media performances including live music, sketches and skits, a short film, and spoken-word poetry.
The show will feature artists from all around Humboldt County, from amateur to professional.
Megan Workman is the curator of Open Heart, as well as the gallery coordinator of The Ink People Center for the Arts. "Our goal is to create a diverse dialogue of what love and forgiveness are and what they mean to people," she said.
"We want people to use their experience with love and forgiveness, and to express that through whatever medium they're comfortable with," Workman said.
The love and forgiveness themes came from a campaign put on by the Humboldt Area Foundation and KEET-TV. "They did a campaign about love and forgiveness, and we jumped on the idea. We felt everyone has something to say [about love and forgiveness] and everyone says it differently. We want people to do it through artwork," Workman said.
"The social justice element of the show evolved out of love and forgiveness. Social justice just speaks to those themes, for example, many great heroes of social justice promote love and forgiveness in their lives and their work," Workman said.
There are already a wide variety of submissions for the show. "We have several collaborative projects doing installations and performance pieces. There is an interactive piece by groups of students focused on the color of love. It's interactive because the audience can add on to the piece," Workman said.
All of the performance pieces will take place on opening night. "The performances lined up are all really creative. For example, there's a group doing a piece in a talk-show type of format. This type of performance is very engaging with the audience," Workman said.
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