Jono Wright Artist Meet and Greet and Photo Project Tutorial

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Saturday, Jun 11, 2022  3pm - 5pm

Location

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Details

In the Meet and Greet, our summer artist in residence, Jono Wright will talk about his process and relationship to the subject matter for his three month residency at the Firehouse. You do not have to stay for the whole time range as the format is a casual meet and greet as opposed to a structured artist talk.

Wright wants to ask you a question, “In the event of a fire or natural disaster, what would you bring with you if you had to flee your house?” In the wake of the Marshall Fire and the global refugee crisis we are becoming aware of what’s most important to us, the activities and objects that sustain our souls and remind us to live.

We invite you to join Jono and your community members to collaborate on a series of oil paintings that will function as collective altars to that which we hold dear. The paintings will be memento vivere, reminders to live.

Come to the Firehouse Art Center and bring 1, 2, or 10 objects that hold powerful personal meaning that you would like to have memorialized in a painting. You will collaborate on the project by photographing your objects in the gallery and Jono will incorporate your images into a series of oil paintings. Prints of the paintings will be available for purchase through his website with all profits donated to Marshall Fire relief.

Jono Wright Bio

Jono Wright, (USA, 1978) makes paintings that explore ideas about spirituality and the creative process. He believes in discovering the meaning in his work during the creative process rather than illustrating a preconceived idea. His work can be associated with Buddhist philosophy, Western psychology and ritual theory. Subject matter such as plant life, people and objects populate his paintings which fuse the traditional genres of landscape, figure, still life and abstraction into unique contemporary forms.