Liberty Bank Building: Shovel-ready for art
First, the groundbreaking...
All images courtesy of LibertyBankBuilding.org
... and then we really get serious about making the art for the new Liberty Bank Building.
This location used to be the site of the first black-owned bank west of the Mississippi.
Now the land's being redeveloped into affordable apartments -- with art and design elements created by artists of African descent. I'm honored to contribute ten collage portraits for the future residents' permanent art collection.
As construction begins there, I'll be starting on the collages in my studio. It's a big project that will take a while, but I have A Plan, you'll see.
Closing time
Today our family begins to say our last goodbyes to the home we've lived in for more than a decade.
As The Husband said, in order to make our house look like somewhere you'd want to live, we had to make it unliveable.
We're all looking forward to the new house, of course. More elbow room for the kids as they get bigger, new views...
But it's bittersweet leaving the home I brought my babies home to, the home in which I became an artist. I'll have a home studio soon (!), but it'll be... different.
"Medicine Ball": throwdown of the arts
Ladies! Gentlemen! No need to fight over me: there's plenty of my art to go around! [secretly hopes her art inspires the duelers to throw down harder]
"It's Already Happened Here" by Lisa Myers Bulmash. ©2017
I'm one of seven visual artists whose work kicks off Seattle's literary Cage Match of the Millennium. We've created work especially for "Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets."
A team of playwrights and a team of poets are now creating works inspired by the visual art, which speaks to the theme of "unity." Then on the weekend of June 22nd, the teams face off in front of an audience -- that's where you come in -- and the audience decides which poem or play they like best. Mainly, this battle is for (a little bit of) honor and glory: Winners take home a bottle of cheap wine; losers get a can of warm, cheap beer.
Should be interesting to see where they take my collage, which addresses a harsher kind of unity.
I'm sure the Confederate flag and the illustration of human trafficking are going to be a challenge. But you're up to it, right, poets? How about you, playwrights?