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And we spoke with Dennis Layton a few minutes ago
during the first hour about the big event tonight, night
two of no Masters Fest happening in Connecticut and it's
for a really great cause, so we appreciate Dennis calling in.
We are into the second hour of Matt Connorton Unleashed.
We are live from the studios of w m n
H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New
Hampshire and joining us now in the studio. So we
have Liz from the Mosaic Art Collective and Liz, this
is your third time on the show.
Speaker 7: Second third, I think this is my second time.
Speaker 3: Second, okay, all right, and you've got Hannah and Atlas
with you, and they are first timer is on the show. Yes,
I did meet Hannah at the at the last event
right last Oh that was last weekend. Actually it all
becomes a blur. And I'm meeting Atlas for the first
time and you are the uh I'm pretty sure you're
the first individual named Atlas I've ever met, so so
welcome to the show. So, uh, Hannah, what what is
your involvement with Mosaic Art Collective.
Speaker 8: I am one of the resident artists. Mosaic is, for
those that don't know, is a gallery with a gallery
hosted inside and for artists studios. So I'm lucky enough
to be one of the four, and I'm also the
secretary of the Mosaic Art Collective Board.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, and Atlas how about you?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Pull up, pull up, mic over Rett, Yeah, you gotta
be right on it.
Speaker 9: I'm the head of pr for I've been with June.
Speaker 3: Lean lean over a little bit. So you're like you
got to talk right good. Yeah, that's that's the worst
micu Okay in the room. Unfortunately, Yeah, so I was.
Speaker 10: I'm now pead of pr for most Okay, I've been
with the Mosaic since tune and I've just kin to
be a part of it every way I can.
Speaker 9: It's been an awesome ride so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent. All congratulations, very good, very good.
Speaker 9: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: So, Liz, how how's it been for you? I mean,
this has really grown, right. I was commenting to Hannah
that earlier off air that that was quite the turnout, Yeah,
last Saturday.
Speaker 11: Unfortunately I wasn't atop oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, but
I have heard it was a fabulous turnout. We've had
a couple of slower months. I think in general, there
was a lot going on in the art world, so
probably less people were available, and I think luckily this
time around, there were a number of people that were available.
But also it's a larger show because it's I don't
remember exactly how many artists we have, it's over sixty
artists in the show.
Speaker 7: And when that happens, you end up with a pretty
good turnout. All the pieces that.
Speaker 11: Are up on the wall right now or are small work,
so they're all more affordable, really great gift giving sizes
and prices, and so we're really lucky.
Speaker 3: When you do something like where the theme is smaller,
I mean, did you put us like a size limit
on that, like they couldn't be ye larger than a
certain than certain dimensions.
Speaker 11: Yep, so the dimensions are smaller than twelve by twelve inches, okay,
and that's in any direction.
Speaker 7: So because we do have some sculptural pieces as well.
Speaker 3: When you do something like that, do you find that
you get a different submissions from people who may not
have submitted before.
Speaker 7: Do you see a lot of new names sometimes?
Speaker 11: I think in the last several months we've seen an
uptick in new artists, which is really cool because I
think around June I started feeling like maybe we've tapped
into all the artists in the area and this is
this is the amount of artists that we have. And
then really in the last three months or so, we've
seen a huge, a huge number of new artists showing
up for open calls. So I don't know that it's
changed necessarily because of the sizes or if it's just
that more people are finding out about us.
Speaker 10: And I would argue artists love a good challenge. Yeah,
anything more restrictive in terms of theme or anything like that.
It really as me personally as an artist, like, I
find that very helpful because I can put more into
it knowing exactly what I'm looking for.
Speaker 9: So I think the twelve x twelve sort of I
don't want.
Speaker 10: It's like more of like a challenge to try to
make something beautiful out of something within that space. I
think people responded really well to that.
Speaker 11: And at Lissa actually took the challenge in a totally
different direction and he has a really cool piece in
the show where he painted on a knife. Oh really,
So that's definitely worth checking out if if you want
to stop into the gallery or go online and look
at our online gallery.
Speaker 3: Okay, yea, was.
Speaker 10: That difficult Alice to Yeah, it was a totally different
canvas to paint on. It's not something that you would
expect to have trouble with, but it was quite quite difficult.
But I had so much fun doing something within that
brand new medium. Yeah, it was obviously inspired by the
Mosaic Small Wonders show like this, this seems like the
perfect opportunity to try something new, put something new into it.
And yeah, it was great and it came out with
an awesome result. And I'm so happy that I was
able to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Now when when people submit, you know,
you call it a juried a juried u what's what's
the right term? A jury show, jurid show? Like who chooses?
Like obviously, Liz, you're you're part of that process, but
are you also both Hannah and Atlas are you both
involved in that well in terms of choosing who gets in?
Speaker 8: And it's a collaborative effort. It's usually about three to
four people that are selecting the work, and then we
get together as a group several days after the work
comes in and we collaborate once again and make decisions
on how to arrange the show so that it's harmonious
and each piece that is situated in a way where
it really shines next to the other work. So it's
it's a really interesting process not only choosing the work
that is selected, but also how do you arrange such
a diverse arrangement of such selected works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as the as a number of selections, or
I should say, I'm sorry, the number of submissions. Has
that really kind of increased over time, because I would imagine,
like the first show that you did there, I would
imagine that was a significantly last number because it was
the first show, or maybe not. Maybe there's such a
need and demand for what you're doing. Maybe you had
a lot right out of the gate. I don't know.
Speaker 11: I mean the first show was interesting because I had
never done anything like this before, and really it was
just a complete guess, yeah, to see what would happen.
I did end up reaching out to another one of
the residents at Mosaic, who has a strong connection with
a number of local artists, and told her that we
hadn't gotten the numbers that I had hoped, yeah, and
I had to extend the deadline, and I said, can
you share this with your audience? And she did, and
that that brought in some more people. So we did
end up at the very first show, I think we
had forty or so artists.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 11: The work was a really interesting range of emerging to
professional artists, and I think from month to month it
kind of ebbs and flows. Like I truly get freaked
out about a week before the deadline because most artists
wait till the very last minute to submit their work,
and I usually, like the week before will start like
if I really noticed that we haven't had any submissions,
I'll start like tapping people and being like, hey, are
you planning on submitting your work? And you know, chances
are some of them are, or some of them are
just too busy that month, but yeah, it kind of
it changes.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, now that makes sense the small Wonders
that's actually running for two months? Is that correct?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 11: Okay, So this we have historically done a small work
show in November December. Part of that is self preservation
because we're getting into like the busy holiday season and
I at the beginning just couldn't take setting up another
show in December. But also I think it offers more
time for people to shop and see the show. We'll
have another opening the second Saturday, of December for Amy
who runs the Seesaw Gallery, she'll have a a name
of her show presently, I think is what her show
is called. That's another open call and she'll have an
opening that night as well, and we're hoping that there'll
be another good turnout. And then I think we're also
planning on doing a closing on December twenty second, so
we try to like keep you know, movement.
Speaker 7: In the gallery, get people in and.
Speaker 11: Of right now, we had been doing almost month to
month shows, and I think going forward after November and December,
we're planning on doing bi monthly shows instead. Okay, we
needed a little more time. I think all of us
just from an organizational standpoint, needed.
Speaker 7: More time to.
Speaker 11: Rest and then also be able to bring in some
workshops and stuff like that. We'd really like to do
more community outreach, and it's hard when you're either setting
up or taking down.
Speaker 7: A show with like a week or two of the
show there.
Speaker 11: So we're hoping with the extended shows that we'll have
some more time to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that makes sense, and it also gives artists the
opportunity to bring in more of their friends and family
a month is a really tight turnaround.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the.
Speaker 9: Great opportunities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I remember, uh, Jenny
and I attended an event that you had had about
I don't remember the gentleman's name, forgive me, but about
AI in art that was really interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He that's Carl.
Speaker 11: So he was fast this it's interesting because like AI
has just exploded now, so but at the time it
was like this fairly new thing that was sort of
like freaking all the artists out. And I think because
of his background, he comes from a tech background. He
calls calls his or called his job an ethical hacker
for IBM, so he would look for the weak points
in the system and try to try to break it
so that he could learn how to fix it. So
he did a ton of research on AI and brought
that workshop to us, which was super awesome, and we
would like to offer more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 11: We were in talks with Karen Jerzyk, who's an installation artist.
She is not an AI artist at all, and she
gets called that a lot. She's a photographer.
Speaker 3: Why why does she get called an AI artist?
Speaker 7: Her artwork is pretty surreal.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's okay, her artwork.
Speaker 11: Is surreal, so it has a vibe that kind of
lends itself to looking like it's computer generated.
Speaker 3: That's interesting to me.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but her she does She actually doesn't even use
like photoshop all that much, which most photographers these days,
I would say at least use a little bit of
touch up at points in their process. Yeah, but she
does not, and she's actually had a lot of success
with what they called NFTs and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So we're.
Speaker 7: Hoping to get her in and have her do an
artist talk and sort of, yeah, talk a bit more
about that.
Speaker 3: That's that's interesting to me.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: The subject of AI comes up a lot on the show,
and it's interesting, you know, because we talk about people
looking at art and not knowing or other or any
kind of image and not knowing whether it's real or
AI generated, and we worry about people looking at things
and assuming that they're not AI generated when actually they are.
But her art work, you say, like people accuse her
of using AI and she's actually not. That's interesting. So
the impest can also be a pitfall. Yeah, I wouldn't
have expected that. Wow, that's fascinating.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely somebody to check out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: What was her name again, Karen Jersik. She's right in
Manchester too.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, wow you do Do you do any kind
of classes there or do you have plans to do
in the future for people who think they might have
ability but want to kind of expand on it.
Speaker 7: I don't know that we're looking to do. I mean
maybe maybe.
Speaker 8: At some point I think once we get our heads
wrapped around the scheduling and have a little bit more
time to think about what kinds of programs we're looking for,
what kinds of classes would really benefit the community the most,
and just seeing what people are interested in.
Speaker 11: Right. We have done some like workshop style classes. Jackie
Hansen did an erase or printmaking workshop a couple times.
We had somebody do a terrarium building workshop. I think
there was actually a word press workshop at some point.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, on how to build a website. Okay, I it.
Speaker 11: Was interesting because it was it was attended by artists
and then who don't use word Press, and myself who
uses nothing, and my husband who is a web developer
and uses web WordPress all the time. Yeah, so it
you know, WordPress is really hard to use. That's what
I what I've come to learn, so it's not the
most like artist friendly, still helpful, development helpful.
Speaker 9: Yeah, anythink we can offer really yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. When
did When did Mosaic first open? It's been at least
what has it been two years? Has it been longer?
Speaker 11: It's been so two and a half fish, I mean yeah,
I think we opened in uh September of twenty twenty two, okay,
and after a year of being an LLC, we transition
to a nonprofit model, okay, and then we've been a
nonprofit for just over a year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what was that always the goal to become
a nonprofit?
Speaker 11: Or I think for me, when I was originally dreaming
up Mosaic, I mean I was really young. Mosaic was
something I wanted to do when I was like fresh
out of college. I graduated and was just lacking art
community and couldn't figure out where I belonged. So in
some ways, I think I didn't really know what it
would totally look like, and once I started doing it,
it just became like a larger thing than I could
do by myself, and the community aspect of it was
so important that I felt like I was already reaching
out to people and asking their advice or asking how
to do something. So the nonprofit just sort of like
naturally made sense, right.
Speaker 7: So I don't know that it was like.
Speaker 11: Necessarily like the thing I thought would happen, but it
made sense when we went.
Speaker 7: In that direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course, of course you're not from Manchester originally, correct.
Speaker 7: I actually am from hooks It.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 7: I went to Central Oh okay. Yeah, so I grew
up here.
Speaker 4: Oh you did?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay. Did you move away at one point and
move back? I did? Maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I lived So I went to art school
down in Baltimore, Maryland, Okay, And then after Baltimore moved
back here for a very brief time, and then up
to Vermont. And then I lived in Burlington, Vermont for
fifteenish years. Oh okay, and then moved back during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, Burlington's got a not a bad little
music scene there.
Speaker 7: It's just a fabulous music so good.
Speaker 3: There's some good bands up there that kind of, you know,
that a lot of people around here might not know
about because Burlington it seems like it's so far, but
it's really not. I mean, how far what is it?
Speaker 7: Two and a half hours?
Speaker 3: Two and a half That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's some cool place. Is higher Ground still there?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, that's a cool venue.
Speaker 3: Yep. I haven't been there in a very, very long time.
Speaker 7: We should take a field trip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a cool place. Not in the
winter though, No, we'll do that.
Speaker 7: Well, I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. If you are just joining us, we have Liz,
Hannah and Atlas from the Mosaic Art Collective here with
us live in studio on this Saturday morning. Do you
do you work with other studios as well, Like do
you have these relationships where you kind of I don't
know because you did.
Speaker 11: Refer to is it seesaw Seesaw on Hanover. Yes, So
Seesaw is sort of similar to Hannah. You want to explain,
like they also rent space in the gallery or in
the studio and rent rather than use it utilizing it
as a studio, they.
Speaker 7: They use it as a gallery.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: Amy Reagan, who runs Seesaw, is also one of the
founders from the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, and she
runs sort of like a boutique Style Gallery, So it's
usually like two to three artists from the region. Okay, Yeah,
But we also have worked with an h a A.
We've worked with Queer Elective, We've worked with the Women's Caucus,
the Women's Caucus for the Arts. This year we kind
of took a slower role on partnering, just to see,
like get our feet wet and see what it was
like to be a nonprofit. Right, But I'd like to
do some more partnerships going for Yeah.
Speaker 8: And speaking of partnerships, many months at the gallery we
choose a cause to support, Okay, And this month we
are gathering art supplies for the Webster Webster House Okay
Webster No, well we're okay.
Speaker 7: So we did Webster House last year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 7: This year we're hoping to donate to Waypoint, but we
don't have we haven't heard.
Speaker 3: That, oh okay, Okay, so that's kind.
Speaker 8: Of And we're also having a weekly raffle of all
sorts of community restaurants, artists and other other prizes and
things like that to benefit.
Speaker 11: It's, yeah, the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire. Okay, Yeah,
We're just wanting to do whatever we can to help
out our community right now.
Speaker 7: And I think that's a good way to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's great. Yeah, yeah,
I seem to remember. I think I think maybe the
last time you were on you might have talked about
Webster House and are you are you trying to do
something different each time, like to help a different organization.
Speaker 11: Or Yeah, I think I just wanted. I think we
were hoping to like spread the love around as much
as possible.
Speaker 9: It's kind of nice.
Speaker 8: It's a way where we can say, hey, we're seeing
you do some great work and we'd like to we'd
like to benefit you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And I think, you know, as far as like the donation,
like the art donation, the supply donations. For a lot
of us growing up, art was incredibly important in our
lives that we recognize, like the need for kids to
have access to art supplies, and there are a lot
of art are a lot of kids who don't, right,
and it doesn't seem like the immediate need, but I
think to express your yourself definitely helps make situations feel
less overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, yeah. Well, you know something that we talk
about a lot on the show, and it's we talk
to a lot of musicians, so it tends to be
more in that modality. But we talk about and I
was talking about it with Dennis actually from the Gray
Curtain during the first hour a little bit too, the
event that he's doing tonight in Connecticut. We were talking about,
you know, taking taking traumatic events, or taking problems that
you have or you know, mental illness or whatever it
may be, and any time that you can create something
from that, you know, take it, but create something, create art,
create whether it's visual art or music or whatever it is,
or write a book or you know. That to me,
that's the best therapy, right when you can take something
negative and do something creative and productive with it. And
and I assume, now I have no you know, I'm
a music but I have no ability whatsoever for visual art.
I can't paint or anything like that, so so I'm
kind of a no trust me it is. But but
I assume a lot of visual artists, you know, they
they put that into their uh into their their paintings.
I would imagine, you know, as an expression of of
that that pain and that trauma. And stand up comedians
are really kind of famous for that. Like any stand
up comedian you talk to. It's like they've they've had
like major trauma and the way that they deal with
it is learning how to make people laugh, whether whether
they're actually making jokes based on what they've been through
or not. But that's like that's their therapy.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: Stand up comedians are almost always you know, like just
messed up people in some way, you know what I mean?
But no, but I think that's I think that's so important.
And you know you mentioned too developing that in kids.
Speaker 13: Is that.
Speaker 3: Is that something that is lacking in our rules?
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 3: I mean? I remember, you know, I went to a
private school from grade two to grade eight and we
had art class and that was that was where I
learned that actually, no, I have no visual uh visual
ability art wise, I have no art artistic ability in
that sense. But do you think that's something that's lacking?
Is that something that where parents need to really kind
of encourage that and foster that because I don't know,
I don't know if our schools are doing that at
all or not.
Speaker 8: I'm a public school teacher, an art teacher.
Speaker 3: Oh so you okay, great.
Speaker 8: And I know that or at least I believe that
New Hampshire public schools are required to offer art and music. Okay,
kindergarten through high school.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Okay, I didn't know that. So they're required
a lot to do that. Yeah, oh that's excellent. Okay,
I didn't know.
Speaker 8: However, with different towns receiving different funding, some programs don't
have don't have as much to offer as other towns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because uh, I know that. You know, these school
budgets tend to be tight, and it seems like when
you hear about budget cuts in public school it's usually
you know, the the sports are protected and everything else
kind of is on that second tier where they think, oh,
maybe we can get rid of this, we can get
rid of that. But but you so, you're you work
in public schools and you're an art teacher, so your
a proof of concept that this is this is still
happening in New Hampshire where we have the arts being hot.
Speaker 7: So very much so.
Speaker 8: New Hampshire has one of the strongest art programs, i'd
say in the country, Elastic Art Awards, which is the
largest and most prestigious high school art show in New Hampshire.
We're number two in terms of the size and scale
of net right behind New Jersey NOKID and it's all volunteer.
Speaker 3: That's great. So that's great. Yeah, it makes me proud
to be a New Hampshire Rite. Oh that's really good.
I had no idea.
Speaker 11: I mean, I think in general from I have three
kids in the school system, I think in general they
have had a phenomenal arts education.
Speaker 7: But also, I mean art school is what you put
into it, and if the parents aren't willing to.
Speaker 11: Foster a love of art or culture, they're only going
to get what they get at school, right. So I
feel like, you know, especially looking at my kids now,
go to the schools that I went to as a kid,
and one of the teachers is one of my teachers.
It's just been there forever. And I think like in
terms of I think think, you know, she's doing a
good job. I think the younger teachers that are coming
through you not that young, but you've been teaching a
long time. But I like Hannah does a great job.
But I think, you know, the younger teachers that are
coming through have a different concept of how to teach art,
and I think that that can be kind of interesting
to watch. I think they are not too long ago
when I was teaching. There was this method called teaching
for Artistic Behavior, which is more of a choice based learning,
and I think that what not?
Speaker 3: But what does that mean? Choice based learning?
Speaker 7: So it's not like.
Speaker 11: Here's a picture of a snowman, and this is how
you make this picture of a snowman. It's more like,
here are the materials that you might need.
Speaker 7: This is what I did do?
Speaker 3: What how you do it?
Speaker 11: That everyone sees differently and everyone's going to create a
little bit differently.
Speaker 3: And intuitively that makes more sense to me.
Speaker 7: It does, and it gave it.
Speaker 11: I feel like it offers students a chance to delve
into the arts where they are most interested, because some
kids aren't really interested in getting their hands dirty, right right,
but they are really interested in puzzles and building and
that kind of thing. And so I think, you know,
offering as much as we can do our kids is
really what it's all about. And I think in New
Hampshire they are doing a pretty bang up job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it sounds like it sounds like it. Yeah,
do you do you have do you have students submit?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 3: Do you have like high school students and younger submitting.
Speaker 13: To we do?
Speaker 8: One of my favorite submissions for this last show is
was mother and son. Her son builds these lego worlds
and she photographs them, and so she's new to the
area and found out about this call and submitted one
of the photographs of her son's lego build and was
just so excited to bring him to the gallery and
share that with him and you know, to be embraced.
Speaker 3: So that was really really cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 8: And we also at Mosaic we have an art intern
who comes in and he submits quite a few pieces
to the different shows as well.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 8: In addition, last year there was a show to Manchester
with Love, which featured works from all of the Manchester
Public High School. So it was an opening dedicated just
to the students and their teachers and that was really
really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh wow, oh very good, very good. Are there more?
Because I feel like you knows as you're as you're
talking about these different these different places that are involved
in art, Are there more? Is there more of an
art scene than people realize? I guess is what I'm
asking Because I feel like you know, as you're mentioning,
you know different like you mentioned Seesaw and these other
places like them, like I wonder if and I guess Atlas,
this is part of where you come in, right, making
sure that people know that there is all this, you know,
like because I didn't even realize sitting here, you know,
I'm asking you about you know, do they even teach
art in schools anymore?
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that New Hampshire is doing such
a great job with that. Is there more of an
art scene than people know about?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I'd say that, like in the past two years,
it's really blossomed.
Speaker 9: Quite a bit and just receiving.
Speaker 10: The inter network of knowing about the art has gotten
a lot more prominent, I would say as somebody who's
fairly new to the art scene in Manchester. Yeah, definitely
feels like it's blossomed in the past two years.
Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely. Oh that's great.
Speaker 10: Yeah, awesome to see the festivals that are out there,
all the events that are going on, and Mosaic being
part of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, that's that's great. That's great. That's really good
to hear.
Speaker 11: Ultimately, I think the art scene has been here all along.
I think that it's just sort of more out in
the open, I would agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 8: Morphed a lot. I feel with the closing of traditional
galleries there's more room for alternative spaces and people are
getting really creative and open minded. Places that come to
mind are like Pillar Art Project, where they have a
small gallery front up and conquered with a ghost kitchen
in back, and Outer Space Gallery, which is hosted on
the second floor of a Victorian office building.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 8: So I mean there's these these pockets that are opening
up and people are getting much more creative and it's
less about profit and more about community and getting the
art work out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that makes sense. Why have you reference traditional
art student or art galleries rather? I want to make
sure he's the right term closing? What why is that?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 3: Why is this? It sounds like there's been a shift
in that sense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there has been a shift. Some of the shift
is a lot of art has gone online, rents have
gone up. It is difficult to sustain a gallery model
where you know you're relying on foot traffic and you
know whether or not your audience is going to be
receptive to the work, whether or not they have the
means to purchase the work. So so yeah, a lot
of places, especially when COVID hit had to close their doors.
Speaker 3: Yep, Yeah, that makes sense. So it sounds like so
the traditional gallery model is more just you have it's
almost you know, like a like a retail store in
a sense. Right, You've got art just hanging and people
walk in. You hope somebody walks in and buys something.
So it sounds like there's been a need, especially after
the pandemic, to be more creative with how you do things.
And like you're you know, you're very creative with how
you're doing things at Mosaic, and you know, you've got
all these things going on. So so that makes sense.
Speaker 10: Say, like in the wake of tragedy, like in terms
of the COVID pandemic, a lot of people who are
around community organization tend to be like, Okay, this is
the time to dig it in, roll up our sleeves. Yeah,
this is what we need to do for the people
in our community because they really really need it. Yeah,
And I would say that it's definitely evident in the
wake of a pandemic that really rocked everybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah, especially people in places I need.
Speaker 10: Seeing that come from that, right, it was so apparent
and it's very lifting, and it's very enlightening.
Speaker 9: It's a wonderful. It's wonderful to be a part of it. Yeah, sure, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, something I always say too about the pandemic is
as awful as it was for for so many reasons,
we also have to try to find those silver linings
where we can, you know, speaking of dealing with trauma, right,
And something that this also comes up a lot on
the show is that it kind of forced people to
be more creative in ways that maybe they hadn't considered before.
You know, you see it a lot with me. You know,
like during you know, when everybody was staying home. For example,
with music, you saw a lot of these bands, you know,
doing live performances where they're all you know, they're all
connected on zoom and they're they're doing these live performances
online things like that. But uh, you know, but it
affected everyone and obviously you know, it affected visual art
and I think it it sounds like it it did
kind of force people to to be more creative with
that as well. And and and how they how they
show the art to the world and uh and all
of that. Uh, what's what's kind of the what's kind
of the future trajectory for for Mosaic. I mean, you
talked about some of it, but is there anything you
have planned that we didn't mention that we should know about.
Speaker 11: Or we do have a new show going up in January.
It will be one of our two months another two
month shows, Okay, and I can't recall what the name
of it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But the show itself
is op art, so optical illusions and black light art.
Oh cool, sort of like I think, kind of like
Creatures of the Night sort of a thing we figure
with the darkness happening at like four o'clock, we're going
to take advantage of the darkness outside and bring it
inside and and let the gallery the artwork kind of
illuminate the space.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool. Yeah yeah, I like that concept. Yeah. Well,
I talk about taking something negative and creating something that
I I hate it when it's dark at four in
the afternoon. Oh I dread it. I dread it. Does
anyone like it? Really?
Speaker 7: I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think even people. I don't think even people,
because some people are weird and they actually enjoy winter.
No offense if any of you are like that personally,
I think enjoying winter is very strange. But uh, but
I've never heard anyone say, yeah, I like it when
it's dark at four in the afternoon that I've never heard. No,
it's yeah.
Speaker 9: I feel like every single day it's like, is it
really dark this suit?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't really get used to it. It's you're right, yeah,
Like every every day it's like, oh, it's it's dark
again at four in the afternoon. Yeah, it's it's not great.
It's not great. Well, listen, thank you all for coming in.
This has been wonderful. And what should people know about?
You know, you should probably mention the website and anything
else people should know about what's happening at Mosaic right
now and of course how they can submit for a
future Oh so, visit.
Speaker 11: Our website that usually has up to date information Mosaic
Arcollective dot com. We're also on Instagram under Mosaic Art Collected,
and any of the open calls are always listed on
our website and on Instagram. And then we also have
a mailing list that you can sign up for on
our website and that will also send out the calls
for art.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right, perfect, perfect and congratulations again. On
last weekend, it looked like a really good I know
you weren't able to be their list, but it looks
but it looked like it was very successful. And you know,
Jenny is so proud to have you know, multiple pieces
hanging there, and it's just, you know, she hasn't I
don't think she'll mind me saying that she hasn't been
an artist for that long in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, it's been maybe five years, yeah, since she
first picked up a brush and said, I think I
want to try this. And I'm just, like I said,
as someone who doesn't have that ability, I'm just I'm
just amazed at how much she creates and how amazing
it is. And you know, I'm just I'm just in awe.
You know, she's got she's got her artwork hanging at
home of course too, and so I see it every day.
But I'm just you know, every new piece she creates,
it's like wow, Like how to even do that? You know,
It's just amazing to me. And to see how farther
she's come with it, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and a lot of the artists at Mosaic, I mean, well,
i'd say some.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of artists that we are the first
venue where they show, and you know, I remember the
first show that I was in and what an exciting
event it was and how cool it was to be
up on the wall with all these other artists. And
at the same time we have artists that show nationally,
so it's a really really great range of different artists,
art styles and everyone is welcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh that's fantastic. All right. Well, Liz Hannah Atlas,
thank you all so much. Thank you, and we'll do
this again soon, I'm sure. And if you are listening
live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, we're
going to be remembering our departed friend Brooks Young and
so stick around for that. And I'm also gonna play
another track in the meantime from the Gray Curtain to
close out the segment because Dennis has that fantastic event
going on in Connecticut tonight a night too of the
No Masters Fest. So if you're if you are in
the area, if you're in that part of the of
New England, I should definitely check that out. It's for
a great cause. But here's a little more from the
Gray Curtain.
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