Steven L. Bridges is a curator, art historian, and writer based in Lansing, Michigan. Currently he holds the position of Associate Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU Broad). His present research and curatorial interests focus on the intersection of social, racial, and environmental justice, as well as the relationship between art, geopolitics, and scientific inquiry. Most recently at the MSU Broad, Bridges curated the major exhibitions Katrín Sigurðardóttir (2019–20) and Oscar Tuazon: Water School (2019), and co-curated the first two-person exhibition of the work of Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, titled Michigan Stories (2017–18). Other notable projects include Spirit Molecule (2019), a highly experimental project initiated by artists Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Phillip Andrew Lewis to develop a moss garden of genetic memorials; and Beyond Streaming: A Sound Mural for Flint, a residency project for which artist Jan Tichy worked with Lansing and Flint-area community members in response to the Flint water crisis. His essays and articles have been published in numerous journals and magazines, including Seismopolite, Art & the Public Sphere, Dispatch, Live Arts Almanac, and Art & Education Papers, as well as exhibition catalogues and other online and print media. In 2017 he was named a curatorial fellow at the FACE Foundation.
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Kat Larson
Kat Larson defines herself as a healer, seer, seeker, and human and is devoted to exploring universal energy and awareness through her healing art practice.
Kat is a reiki master, qigong student, intuitive guide, and creative.
She is committed to providing healing to her community via her practice, which also includes her art that spans across plastic and digital surfaces. All relationships and artifacts of her practice are examples of communication between Conduit and Source.
Roger Wing
Roger Wing was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1968, the middle child of two educators. He studied at UC Santa Cruz, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Montana.
As well as carving wood, his primary medium, Wing has travelled the world carving ice, snow and sand. Among the most influential experiences of Wing’s life were five weeks spent in Japan studying Buddhist and traditional wood carvings and two summers learning to carve marble in the studio of Manuel Neri, in Carrara, Italy. Wing’s family, home and studio are in West Philadelphia where he is part of a vibrant arts community.
Dick Nelson
Maui has been Dick Nelson’s home since 1975, when he arrived as the Director of the Wailea Arts Center. Hawaii was not new to him, for his family had moved to Hawaii from Sodus, N.Y. when he was five years old. He graduated from Punahoe School, received his bachelor’s degree in art from the California College of Arts and Crafts, served as a Marine lieutenant in Korea, and returned to accept the position of Art Department Chairman at Punahoe. During his twenty-two years with the school, he spent his summers painting watercolors.
A sabbatical leave at Yale provided Dick with a once-in-a-lifetime experience to take the Josef Albers’ color course. There has been no greater influence on his educational career., and the residual benefits are very much in evidence today. He earned his master’s degree during his second sabbatical at Ohio State University.
He now pursues his own career in painting and teaching. His days are currently divided between these two loves. He has brought a color process to watercolor painting which he discovered while working with printers. By incorporating the same three primary colors used in printing, he was able to paint the full range of colors in what he calls his Tri-hue pallette. As a result of this approach, Dick developed a Tri-hue teaching and painting device. Although his teaching is primarily done in his studio today, he has participated in numerous workshops nationally and in Canada.
To order his CD on color, with critique, email him here – trihue@hawaii.rr.com.
Learn more through his video tutorials here.