Art Brunch

An edited archived video of Art Brunch ep25 with Jasmine, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on Twitch

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About Jasmine: 

Jasmine is a self taught artist with a background in science. Her art explores the emergent patterns found in natural growth, form, and collective systems. With elements of archetypal myth and a dash of futurism, her work seeks to create a language that crosses all barriers of time, space, and culture. 

Out of the studio, she works as an Art Facilitator at Artists First studio and as a professional coach working with groups and individuals to use the power of art and imagination for personal growth. 

Short Statement 

Art is my quest for knowledge. The sciences and humanities each look at the world through their own lens but don’t offer a way to synthesize a broader view of existence. I use painting as a tool to organize and collect patterns. 

Social Media 

Website https://unusmundusart.com

Blog https://unusmundusart.wordpress.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unus_mundus_art/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/unusmundusart

About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

An edited archived video of Art Brunch ep24 with Kelly and Alejandro, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on Twitch

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About Kelly and Alejandro:

Kelly Jimenez and Alejandro Franco are both Colombian artists whose primary discipline is the use of discarded materials to create highly crafted works of art.

Alejandro  is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in the arrangement of found objects assemblages as well as painting, Alejandro was born on October 3rd of 1982 in Medellin (Colombia), at the age of eighteen he moved to Florida where he started his artistic exploration

“Living in the industrialized world, surrounded by an excessive amount of objects together with the media, I find fulfillment in the creation of characters built from various objects that were previously resting without purpose. Looking out for similarities between objects is one of my greatest passions, striving to interpret thoughts. I feel the need to intervene within these forgotten elements, to work with their poetic potential to create convergence that engages people with a message. A never-ending search for beauty, making use of the detritus of everyday life”

Currently lives and works in St Louis  (US)

Kelly is an experienced  Art Director born on September 5th of 1991 in Bogota, Colombia with a demonstrated history of working in the textile industry as an Art director.

She moved to Florida at a young age where she pursued her artistic career with an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) focused on Fashion/Apparel production Design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

Focused mainly on space intervention for film sets, editorial publications, and visual concepts for set design, uses everyday objects as tools for inspiration and exploration.

Currently lives and works in St Louis  (US)

Due to their affinity when working together and their urgency to preserve species and our land, they have been collaborating for the past three years creating a variety of works,  often in the form of stop-motion animation,  photography, sculptures, and lately, they have been fully focused in the creation of stained glass windows made out of single-use plastic.  “We are making use of the translucency and variety of colors of this material to present the audience with meticulously crafted pieces that turn a material so transient and detrimental into something of great beauty, worth preserving.  We are lovers of nature, we are always finding ways to celebrate it and preserve it.”  By spending all this time and effort to recover an undervalued material through labor, we hope to make an allegory of the efforts we need to make to preserve a healthy ecosystem, one where we can feel hopeful and proud, an essential desire has so often taken for granted.

An edited archived video of Art Brunch ep23 with Aaron Owens, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About Aaron:

Aaron Owens’ work focuses on marginal landscapes and the intersection of human and natural forms. Themes within his artistic practice often touch on questions of surveillance, the splintering of man from nature in popular imagination and what a holistic approach to modern ecology looks like on the ground and from above. After graduating from Sacramento State with a BS in Geography Aaron began to translate the observational and technical skills essential to the discipline into an artistic practice. His work has been shown at Washington University in St. Louis, The Granite City Arts and Design District, and Oui Galleries - Hong Kong. His work has appeared in VIEW magazine, Tube Magazine, The Moon Zine and been featured in collaboration with music labels Distant Bloom and Dinzu Artefacts. He currently lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E10 with Justin Beachler, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

About Justin:

Justin Beachler makes paintings and sculptures interested in the subcultural aesthetic developments of counter-culture movements specific to psychedelics, conspiracy and contemporary art. He takes a jokester approach to creating and is super curious how these subcultures have evolved and influenced each other online. He has recently shown at the

Nerman Museum of Contemporary art in Kansas, LVL3 in Chicago, Granite City Art and Design and numerous galleries in Kansas City where he spent most of his adult life. He currently resides in Chicago.

My instagram handle is:  @justinbeachler  , website: justinbeachler.com

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An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E9 with Drew Nikonowicz, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

About Drew:

Drew Nikonowicz (born in St. Louis Missouri, 1993) earned a BFA degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2016. His work employs analog photographic processes as well as computer simulations to deal with exploration and experience in contemporary culture. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he received the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Lenscratch Student Prize. In 2017 Nikonowicz completed a one-year residency at Fabrica Research Centre. His first photobook, This World and Others Like It, was co-published by Yoffy Press and FW:Books in 2019. It was awarded Jurors' Special Mention at the 2019 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards.

He now lives in the United States in Saint Louis, Missouri. He works there as an artist and is the Photography Technician at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University.

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An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E9 with Tiffany Sutton, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

About Tiff:

She/Her

Photographer Tiff J. Sutton was born in 1981 in Rochester, NY, and was raised in suburban St. Louis, MO. She began documenting family and friends after receiving a Kodak camera as a Christmas gift in the early 1990s. While primarily a self-taught photographer, she also attended classes at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Community College. Sutton is a 2020 Harvard #InTheCity Visual Artist Fellow and was awarded the Regional Arts Commission St. Louis Artist Support Grant in 2019, the Regional Arts Commission Artist Relief grant, the Luminary Futures Fund: Emergency Relief for Artists, and A Sustaining Arts Practice Fund (ASAP Fund). Sutton has decided to work with black women exclusively, as a way to reconnect with herself and discuss social movements. Sutton works with digital, film and instant cameras.

Artist Statement:

Working within the discourse of abstract and figurative portraiture, I create photographs regarding selfhood and social movements. My work explores the unnerving possibility of multiple meanings, dual perceptions and limitlessness in the seemingly binary. Drawing repeatedly on Black feminism thought, I capture Black women with poise and naturalness that exudes a sense of ease. Photographed in classical studios, on - location domestic backdrops and neighborhoods, I am determined to catch every moment in the subjects’ life. Often beginning as a narrative portrait and ultimately becoming an abstract portrait, the image becomes an imprint of their visibility, their alterity gone.

www.tiffjtiffsutton.com

www.instagram.com/tiffanyjoy1955

The full audio of Art Brunch S2E8 with Liz Deichmann, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1cst on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

About Liz:

For the past 10 years, Liz Deichmann has worked in various roles in the commercial and nonprofit arts sector: film producer, music talent buyer, college radio promoter, administrator, and researcher. Currently, she is the Data and Research Manager at the Regional Data Alliance where she works with nonprofits and government to conduct applied research, build capacity, and ensure data is a public good. Her work as a nonprofit arts practitioner inspires her research interests—cultural policy, research methodology, and policy process—as a Political Science PhD student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She holds a Master of Public Policy Administration and BA in Art History. She is a 2012 Community Arts Training alumna and co-founder of Midwest Artist Projects, St. Louis Secret Sound Society, and St. Louis Arts Project.

Connect with Liz:

http://midwestarts.org/

instagram.com/ladeichmann

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E7 with cool WIP hosts Marina and Nick, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

Our mission is to nurture a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and provides digital residencies with multimedia exhibition opportunities for emerging artists. We present contemporary art in an approachable manner and provide tools and expertise to artists to share their practice in new ways. Our live media programming cultivates unconventional audiences, promotes understanding through interaction, and provides alternative avenues for public interest and support for the arts.

About cool WIP:

In the fall of 2019, Silver Space was awarded a generous gift from The Luminary’s Future Fund, which helped jump-start the podcast, cool WIP, hosted by cofounder and editor, Marina May, and artist, Nick Schleicher. cool WIP is available on, Spotify and Apple Podcasts

cool WIP brings you in-depth, theoretical, witty, serious, and absurd conversations with artists, curators, and leaders who are continuously active in our community.

As of  Oct 1, we have wrapped up our first season - 16 episodes of fresh content with incredible artists, such as Yowhshien Kuo , WORK/PLAY , and fellow Futures Fund recipient, PSA STL  (Marina Peng & Shannon Levin). Since January, we hit 2,000+ unique downloads from listeners and have reached over 105,000 accounts on Instagram.

Connect with cool WIP:

Instagram: @silverspace_stl and @coolwip_official

Website: www.silverspacestl.com

Twitter: @SilverSpaceSTL

Spotify: Show Name - cool WIP

Account: silver space stl https://open.spotify.com/show/1uVdthJjNOrSxGk2jDDHVs?si=V6Dt0JQNQ3ORfXsecsagdw

ApplePodcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cool-wip/id1491116422

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E6 with artist and fine art photographer Chloe Simmons, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

About Chloe:

I was born in 1996 in St. Louis MO. BFA in Printmaking from Webster University and I am currently working on my MFA in 4D at UW Madison.

Artist Statement:

There’s something about all of this constant chaos; everything happening

simultaneously all the time that feels so mundane. Like it has always been there. Like it

is supposed to be there. Another everyday spectacle. Truth is as liquid as the past, and

with a little heat facts and moments seem to quickly evaporate; forever lost to time.

The work is not occupied with truth. The work maintains the grey area - cozy in the

warm comfort of contradiction and chaos; you can always count on those guys. You

know them when you see them. They have always been there. Concrete in their

negation of the ideologies and infrastructures we idealize as the backbone of our

civilization.

The artwork is often uncomfortable but reaches for the familiar. My lipgloss is too tacky

and my tennis shoes slightly pinch my baby toe. Humor is crucial in uncomfortable

situations. Fetish is everywhere. The work is a product of the internet; often constructed

using various systems of production and bits of digital debris, information, media, and

material leaving their impression to be inspected, questioned, interpreted and

synthesized.

The resulting artwork is often in the form of an object, consumer product, fashion, video

or some combination of these; moving from one idea to the other tethered by thin

conceptual strands. It’s all right there. If it were a snake it woulda bit ya.

Connect with Chloe:

https://chloesimmons.art/

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E5 with artist and fine art photographer Emily Stremming, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

About Emily:

Emily G Stremming is an artist and fine art photographer residing in St. Louis Missouri.

Her work emphasizes medium specificity and pushes the boundaries of what makes a photograph “Art”. Her work goes beyond the whole idea of a photograph being a reproducible print by creating actual art objects. Emily physically slices into archival prints while at the same time covering the entire print with her fingerprints as she weaves together inkjet images.

Every piece is unique and therefore unreproducible. Her images from far away appear to be pixelated, playing with the idea of a digital image becoming a tangible work of art created not only by a machine but with her own two hands. She uses a variety of techniques including both digital and analog distortion and conceptually touches on the psyche of victims of domestic violence and intimidation. Her work often revolves around imagery of women integrated with imagery of weapons

of destruction.

Emily got her BFA at SIUE and worked as an assistent director at DUET gallery in St. Louis from 2014-2018. Her work has been shown at local galleries, and downtown spaces such as the MX and Angad Arts Hotel. She had work in the satellite fair at the Miami Basel in 2017 and will be featured in a group show in the UK in December 2020.

Connect with Emily:

http://www.egracestremming.com/

instagram.com/stremdogmillionaire