LAW - 2nd Friday Exhibit Reception- VIP/Public- Makenzie Davis/Hannah Painter/Firehouse Gigantes

Date and Time for this Past Event

Friday, Sep 8, 2023 6pm - 9pm

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6pm-7pm- VIP Reception for Longmont Art Week
7pm-9pm- Public Reception
Enjoy music and refreshments available for donation. All receptions are free and open to the public.
MAIN GALLERY:
Artist in Residence- Makenzie Davis
The Firehouse Art Center hosts two residencies each year, working in the South Gallery before a culminating solo exhibition in the Main Gallery. The Artist Occupied program at the Firehouse Art Center is intended as a professional development opportunity for emerging and experienced visual artists.Bring you work to a new creative level as you connect visitors to working artist environments and processes.
Previous resident artists include Heather Kegel, Sean Faling, Jessica Forrestal, Chris Blume, Kaitlyn Tucek, Roberta Restaino, Chelsea Gilmore, Barbara Rudlaff, Amy Hoagland, Janelle Anderson, Jono Wright, and Nancy Eastman.
MAKENZIE DAVIS
Makenzie Davis is a multimedia artist who creates two and three dimensional work from a reciprocal painting and papermaking process that directly engages the landscape in which it is made. Her practice includes painting large scale abstracted components of the landscape in which she resides, layering her recycled handmade paper with organic elements over the compositions as a way to draw attention to aspects of the land and culture that have been built upon, layered over, forgotten, or rediscovered. Makenzie also constructs paper-based column sculptures that reflect on important landmarks of connection between earth and society, exploring the Axis Mudi of meaning for herself, the cultures she admires, and the communities she engages with.
Makenzie grew up in Lyons, CO and received her BFA from Colorado State University in 2017. While teaching and earning her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2022, Makenzie was inspired first by the overlapping histories of the volcanic landscape. After spending three years in Hawaii connecting with the location through the overlaps in its geology and its local and indigenous knowledge, she came back to the Front Range with a similar intention; Honoring the many layers of land and culture of the Front Range, and becoming an active component of how Longmont’s vibrant community continues to build upon them, is how she hopes to make contact with the place she calls home.
SOUTH: GIGANTES
Join the Firehouse in creating new Gigantes for the 2023 Gigantes Procession during the Dia de los Muertos Family Fiesta.
STUDIO 64: MICHAEL THOMAS CAMPBELL
I am a pencil artist focused on drawing the flora of the world in graphite and color. What inspires me? In a word, nature. All the elements and principles of design are at work in the natural world. Line, shape, color, texture, and value—it’s all there if you look close enough. My work with botanical and scientific art and illustration helps inform and inspire my teaching and design work in a significant way. I’m a better artist, teacher, and human because of the time I spend in the natural world.
artbotanica.me
MUSIC: Tim Merkel