Two girls making somethings out of nothings with their hands.
This summer we hope to embark on an epic cross country road trip, interviewing all kinds of artist along the way in order to make a documentary about art and culture in America today. OUR KICKSTARTER IS UP AND RUNNING! follow us and stay informed!
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We have four hours to raise $809 and reach our goal of $5,000!!!!
We have an amazing support base and we are so extremely thankful to each and everyone of you! We will spoil you all with wonderful little presents later.
But for now, keep sharing, and posting about our Kickstarter, PLEASE!
Help us make a documentary about art and culture across America. The money goes towards our travel costs, equipment, and post production on our book and full length documentary film!
We have great rewards and incentives for those who help us out in some way. Any little bit helps!
Conner Calhoun is a 20 year old artist of many mediums such as printmaking, drawing, painting, fiber arts and many more. He is from North Carolina and currently lives in Brooklyn. In this Artist Perspective, we talk about ideology and Conner's illustrative prints being inspired by culture and how people relate to the metaphors in his compositions.
To see more of Conner's work visit: www.connercalhoun.com
SoapSkeptics is an art group made up of Rosie McNeill and Andrea Garcia. We are traveling across the country in August 2014 to meet with more local artists [of all mediums] and discuss how culture and society shape the ways in which they make/view art.
Help us make this project possible- visit our Kickstarter Campaign to help us reach our goal of $5,000 kickstarter.com/projects/1793708100/soapskeptics-traveling-across-usa-to-film-art-and
Arlene Thayer is a fiber artist, yarn spinner, and writer from Glenville, PA. In this week's SoapSkeptics interview, Arlene talks to us about how the world of fiber art is growing in today's culture, her views on the business side of being an artist, and how she came to become so involved in the blogosphere for her knowledge and practice in fiber art. Thank you Arlene for inviting us to your studio and being so hospitable and kind!
To see more of her works and writing and keep up with her whereabouts visit:
www.spinartiste.com
www.fiberygoodness.com
SoapSkeptics is an art group made up of Rosie McNeill and Andrea Garcia. We are traveling across the country in August 2014 to meet with more local artists [of all mediums] and discuss how culture and society shape the ways in which they make/view art.
Keep up with what SoapSkeptics is doing:
Blog: soapskeptics.blogspot.com
Instagram: @soapskeptics
Facebook: facebook.com/soapskeptics.1
Youtube: youtube.com/soapskeptics
Vimeo: vime.com/soapskeptics
Email: soapskeptics@gmail.com
Help us make this project possible- visit our Kickstarter Campaign to help us reach our goal of $5,000
Boat Shoes is an experimental musician who is more commonly known as Jon Johnson. SoapSkeptics visits his home in Metuchen, NJ and he talks with us about the cultural music of hip hop he grew up with, it's transition into more electronic psychedelic sounds, and how he sees the music game transforming in the future. Boat Shoes also talks about how he makes music, what inspires him, and how he imagines America to be coming into a state of openness with society and new "weird" things are to come!
Check out more sounds from Boat Shoes at: www.boatshoesz.bandcamp.com
SoapSkeptics is an art group made up of Rosie McNeill and Andrea Garcia. We are traveling across the country in August 2014 to meet with more local artists [of all mediums] and discuss how culture and society shape the ways in which they make/view art.
Help us make this project possible- visit our Kickstarter Campaign to help us reach our goal of $5,000
kickstarter.com/projects/1793708100/soapskeptics-traveling-across-usa-to-film-art-and
The Art Work & Installations Exhibited by Andrea Garcia of SoapSkeptics at the Destination Moon Summer Festival 2014!
Andrea collaborated with Mac Milsark to create this fun interactive aquatic trash themed installation for the festival. The installation consists of a large weaving made of scrap materials, packaging materials, and assorted fabrics, plastic bag sculpture, and chicken wire sculptures, along with some crochet bed sheets by Andrea.
To view more of Andrea Garcia's professional work visit: www.andreagarciavasquez.com
To view more information on Destination Moon visit: www.destinationmoon.us
Oh Hey, Rosie!
Between Bands
End of the evening, enjoying some Irish Improv
Irish Singing Circle
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Peace
Special THANK YOU to everyone who has been supporting our project! We have 28 days to go and $3,459 left to reach our goal. Please share this with fellow art supporters and appreciators:
For those of you who are new to follow SoapSkeptics, we are two artists from New Jersey. We recently began filming short interviews with local artists about how today's culture influences their art practice and the way they view art.
We are doing this because in the present moment, SO MUCH is happening-- not just in the art scene, but in our society as well. Culture and art go hand in hand. We want to capture a little chunk of today's history and society so that one day we can look back on this time of information overload and maybe try to make some sense of it... or just a little part of it.
Traveling across America to interviews local artists of all mediums will help us collect a wide variety of perspectives and influences. These interviews and our experiences will be filmed by us, produced by us, edited by us, and exhibited by us as a full length documentary film.
We will also be making our own art while on the road. We plan to make a weaving to represent every state we stop in; each weaving will be soley made our of raw natural materials found in that location. Along with our weavings, we will have our own personal sketch book which we will draw/write in throughout our journey and we hope to even collaborate with some of the artists we meet with. All of these art works will be published into a book that will serve as OUR OWN visual interpretations of our trip.
So please, check out our kickstarter and help us reach our goal of $5,000 by the end of June.
