Art-Plant

03/14/2017

Our friends at the artist-run school BHQFU do some amazing things, like fundraising to open a print studio in a grade school in Zambia.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-bruce-high-quality-foundation-facilitating-free-art-education-rural-africa

With a printing press, BHQFU is building a meaningful relationship between New York artists and the Chipakata Children’s Academy in Zambia.

01/13/2017

Video from the lively Q & A section of the panel last night on artist-run school at RedLine Denver with Andrew Berardini (The Mountain School), Carla HerreSoma Mexicooma Mexico), Sean J Patrick Carney and SetBHQFUeron (BHQFU) Moderators Cube Nomadic Museumdic Museum) and Gildar (ArtPlant)

01/10/2017

We're excited to welcome Andrew Berardini a faculty member of the artist-run Mountain School in Los Angeles to Denver as a panelist for the DIY MFA symposium. Andrew is a writer and curator who regularly contributes to Artforum, Spike Art, ArtReview and is an editor at Mousse, Art-Agenda, Momus, and the Art Book Review. He has organized shows at LA MOCA and Palais de Tokyo among others. Join us and him at the panel discussion and public dialog this Wednesday at RedLine 6:30p.m - 8:30p.m.

http://www.artplnt.org/diymfa/

January 11 - 14, 2017 Black Cube and ArtPlant are collaborating to host a four-day symposium, "DIY MFA" focused on the topic of higher educational models generated by artists. Representatives from artist-founded and operated schools including SOMA (Mexico City), The Mountain School (Los Angeles) and...

12/08/2015

Great article about the state of painting in Mexico featuring the work of Cristóbal Gracia that he made during his Biennial Ambassadors residency this year in Denver. http://terremoto.mx/article/painting-is-not-an-autistic-activity/

“Painting is no longer an autistic activity,” writes Cuauhtémoc Medina in the museum catalogue that accompanies the Francis Alÿs show entitled Relato de una negociación, presented at Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo from 26 March to 16 August 2015. The show was not a retrospective of the artist’s work but…

11/03/2015

Great article in the New York Times about different approaches to artist residencies.

http://nyti.ms/1O7UMxh

Residency programs have expanded their mission to encompass activities that benefit the public, from studio visits to art classes to performances.

08/31/2015

It's been a busy summer for us at ArtPlant with the Biennial Ambassadors program. We'd love to hear what you think about the program in this 5 minute survey.

https://docs.google.com/a/artplnt.org/forms/d/1-l_CYp4g1sR_kOQ5mtx_Bzlkio1w9HAXZunH5hGrB2k/viewform

08/27/2015

ArtPlant Summer 2015 in Review

08/02/2015

Wow, what an honor to have the Biennial Ambassadors program receive such a fantastic review on Flash Art by Leslie Moody Castro!

Speaking about the Americas in the context of contemporary art is complex and problematic when geography does not necessitate a shared identity, but rather the diversity within this identity; asking ...

07/29/2015

Check it out, pictures from the "Back to the Future" residency exhibition at Casa Maauad in Mexico City!

http://www.artplnt.org/backtothefuture/

ArtPlant is an organization dedicated to empowering emerging creativity through a unique artist residency program. The residency program is one of cultural exchange that invites artists from outside of Colorado to live and work in Denver on a project of their choosing.

07/25/2015

Just two days left to view Cristobal Gracia's impressive installation "AMISTAD/FRIENDSHIP - implications of (The Articulated Wall) cloning sculptures" in the Biennial Ambassadors exhibition "Vis-à-Vis" at McNichols Building. Hours are 9am-6pm through Sunday. Biennial of the Americas