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By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1982 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
Dear Friends of Vision Quilt, I imagine your hearts are heavy with the tragedies of the last two weeks. My nephew taught and coached one of the Boulder young women and my son’s friend lost her sister in the same shooting. Vision Quilt is determined to honor these blessed loved ones and to continue to do our part to amplify the Call For Change. Let us know if you want to be involved in any way.
Thanks to a new wonderful volunteer in Oakland, Janine Grossman, I am sharing the blog Janine has written about Nancy Bardos’ commitment to honor these lives.
Feel free to share these images on social media.
Ever onward, Cathy DeForest, Vision Quilt
Nancy Bardos is a dear friend and a long-time supporter of Vision Quilt. Ever since the Charleston shootings, Nancy felt a strong inner calling to express her grief and pain in a creative way, much like many of our young people who make the quilts. She uses her iPad and the image of hands to memorialize and honor the names of the victims. The number of hands corresponds with the names.
Before COVID, we printed Nancy’s images on canvas and now we show them digitally. In 2019, we were invited by Moms Demand Action to showcase these panels in Sacramento, at California’s State Capitol. When the pandemic is over, we look forward to showing these panels live. In the meantime, check them out at https://www.visionquilt.org/view-quilt.html
Thank you Nancy, and together with you, we reach out our hands and hearts to those who are left with the pain of the aftermath.
You may recall when Cathy DeForest operated her lovely gallery in the Railroad District years ago. She has stepped aside from all that and for the past 6 years or so has devoted herself to the cause of gun violence and gun safety measures through the 501C3 she started, Vision Quilt. I was part of one of the first teams formed but eventually stepped away because of the time commitment. However, I could not step away from the cause itself…and when the shooting occurred at the church in Charleston I knew what I wanted to do. I have made 24 of these banners since then…way too many for a civilized nation…and I am sure I have missed some. I recall the banners I made for Orlando and Las Vegas had so many victims I didn’t have room to add the names…though, as in all the others, there is a hand for every single victim filling those banners.
I guess the point of my writing is to let you know that this is an instance of an artist’s artmaking for the sake of acknowledging and documenting important and shattering events as well as a recognition and honoring of the innocent people who became the victims. Perhaps there is a healing of sorts, too.
I did NOT create the original art of the hand silhouettes. I saw it in a blog post years ago and ended up emailing the author (a woman Episcopal priest as I recall) on the East Coast. She had used it and I knew I wanted to use it so she gave me the name of the artist……who happened to live in England. The artist had offered it upon one of those sites artists and photographers use to post things that people can use without attribution and can “buy them a cup of coffee” as payment if one wants to. Which I did. I also emailed her and told her how they were going to be used and she was quite touched I think.
I can’t recall how many hands were in the original piece I downloaded from the site but I adapted it over and over and over again as every massacre consisted of a different number of victims. It has been a sad task to do. And a small task to do…..but I still feel this is a quiet and meaningful and powerful way for VISION QUILT, as people as well as an organization fighting for change, to honor them.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1982 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
Call to Artists – National Art Project
A group of citizens in the Rogue Valley are so concerned about the gun violence in this country they are proposing a VISION QUILT project to cultivate compassionate change and help create a country that embraces gun sense not gun violence. We call to artists for entries to our national art project.
We need diversity. We need art. We need you!
Create a cloth panel with a message that resonates with you on this issue. You can do this solo at home or join us at Art Presence on November 4th from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Space is limited that day to the first 15 people who sign up. Please RSVP to the email address below to 1) sign up or 2) let us know you plan to make a panel on your own.
Canvas panel blanks (gessoed or plain) will be available for purchase for $5 on November 4th or bring your own fabric. However, artists need to provide their own materials to create their designs. Panels will be collected, juried and displayed locally and nationally as the project unfolds.
A FEW DETAILS:
Final dimensions: 18″ X 24″ with finished edges.
Media: oil or acrylic painting, sewing, quilting, embroidery, silkscreen, stencils, digital printing. Please, no glues, however.
Final Deadline: By November 29 to Art Presence from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1982 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
The Southern Oregon Artists Resource welcomes Jacksonville, Oregon photographer and iPhoneographer Nancy Bardos to the Visual Artist Directory! Nancy is an enthusiastic and engaging artist who describes herself as an “explorer of possibilities,” and her work is a wonderful expression of her personality. Please visit Nancy’s new listing for contact information and a link to her website to see her photography and iPhone art…social links will be coming soon.
Nancy will be showing her work, printed on fine art paper and on metal, in a private salon style exhibition in early May, beginning a new phase in promoting her work. Please keep an eye open for future public opportunities to meet this fun and personable woman and see the images she has created using her keen eye for design and a skillful touch on her iPhone.
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
It’s true…..we have no time to waste. Small prints 3 x 5 inches with white mat to fit 8 x […]
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
These boots are just the best. Ok, I do love my cowboy boots, too. Small prints 3 x 5 inches […]
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
I would like to live in this library. UW campus. Small prints 3 x 5 inches with white mat to […]
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
This wonderful typewriter circa 1898 just got a much needed facial…..now she looks quite grand and makes me happy to […]
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
I love this inkwell and feather dip pen! Small prints 3 x 5 inches with white mat to fit 8 […]
By Nancy Bardos, 17 contributed posts
View all Nancy Bardos's posts. About the author: I have been toting a camera ever since I took a cross-country road trip in 1971. Just a few years ago, however, I gave up my Big Girl camera for an iPhone and iPad....and then started to carry a sketchbook, too. It is a thrill to play with them all in today's dazzling, digital darkroom.....possibilities abound! I offer works printed on fine art paper as well as metal. Find more contact information and social inks in her listing at SOAR
The Duomo in Florence captured me in many ways. Reading “Brunelleschi’s Dome” while staying there made it even more remarkable. […]