SNEAK PEAK OF ARTISTS WE'LL BE MEETING ON THE ROAD!

Hello Friends!

TEN MORE DAYS and SoapSkeptics will be on the road! We have been planning, sending thank you rewards to our Kickstarter backers, making appointments with artists, and saving our pennies!

We are so excited and share some of the artists we will be meeting with on our trip:

Jeanne Brady From The Craft Center in Tennessee

Lynn Sisler from Georgia

Ally Clements and her morbidly beautiful road kill jewelry in Alabama

Charles Benfield in New Orleans

Doerte Weber from Texas

Miles H. Lewis Printmaker and Painter from California

And Many More!!

WE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET THESE AWESOME TALENTED ARTISTS AND HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THEIR PRACTICE!

Stay tuned and don't forget to follow us on all of our social networks:

instagram: soapskeptics

vimeo.com/soapskeptics

facebook.com/soapskeptics.1

PEACE~

Artist Perspective: Amy Wilson

This week we are featuring Amy Wilson, an artist based in Jersey City, NJ. In this video, she discusses her views on art making culture, physical space influencing her work, and her perspective on how today's society embraces the do-it-yourself process of creation from beginning to end. Check out more of Amy Wilson's art work at amy-wilson.com

Apologies about the wind, we are working on getting better sound equipment ASAP!

SoapSkeptics has been creating these Artist Perspective short videos as practice and examples as to what our full length documentary film will consist of after we meet with artists across America and film them during our road trip this August. Stay tuned with what SoapSkeptics is doing:
soapskeptics.blogspot.com
facebook.com/soapskeptics.1
instagram: @soapskeptics
soapskeptics@gmail.com

Peace~

Artist Perspective: Tegan James

Artist Perspective: Tegan James

This week's featured artist is Tegan James, an artist based out of Metuchen NJ. Tegan James takes inspiration from the rainbow after the storm, listen as the journey of transgender and LGBT issues influence they ways in which Tegan James creates lively abstract paintings and how spirituality and acceptance has brought the artists to all of the right places at the right times. Creator of GALA Magazine, featuring LGBT artists online, and exhibiting in the local book store which we also filmed the interview in, To Be Continued... Tegan James has a very open mind about what art is and CAN be.

Keep up with what Tegan James is up to:
Teganjamesart.com
facebook.com/jerseytaurus143
twitter.com/teganjamesart
twitter.com/gala_magazine
instagram: tegan.james77

SoapSkeptics is made up of Andrea Garcia and Rosie McNeill, we are embarking on a road trip August 8- Sept 15 to continue to create interviews and documentaries such as this one with other local artists across America. Stay tuned with what we are doing and have done in the past:

www.soapskeptics.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/soapskeptics.1
www.vimeo.com/soapskeptics
instagram: soapskeptics
soapskeptocs@gmail.com

Peace~

OUR KICKSTARTER PROJECT WAS SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED!!

We want to dedicate this blog post to all of the wonderful people who have pledged towards our project and made it so successful with us raising OVER our goal by $90. We could not be more excited and eager to get this road trip happening to we can experience all of the wonderful things ahead. This whole process is about humans being humans and helping one another, from the Kickstarter, to on the road, to collaborating with the artists we'll meet, this is a moment of sincere gratitude and happiness which we will soon share with all whom cross our path! Thank you again, and please let's all take a moment to thank the wonderful folks who made this possible:

Claudia Vasquez

Ernie Garcia

Kate Crowly McNeill

Susie Stephenson

Julie Lausterer

Enriqueta Garcia Oakley

Daniel Garcia

Balbina Leeming

David Leeming

Charles Simmons

Joanie Schneiber

Bob Thompson

Lisa Donnan

Kim Holmes Calhoun

Valentina Gordon

David and Cathy Katz

Eli Garcia

Safi Ali-Khan

Eugenia Vasquez

Stephanie Read

Jeanne Brady

Issa Sabah

Jennifer Daro

Tegan James

Stephanie Katz

Jennifer Reis

Josef Pinlac

Diana Garcia Benito

Fr. Alejandra Lopez Cardinale

MaryKathryn McNeill

Agatha Salvatierra

Doerte Weber

Janet Sousa

Bob Holman

George Rue

Jesse Steir

Emma O'Mara

Emily Evans

Josh Barocas

Jude Fox

Brianna Zukarfein

Chaerin Ahn

Danny Garcia

Berny Tan

Mark Harris

Linda Bradbury

Annette Wehrhahn

Arlene Thayer

Priscilla Beer

Robert Sanchez

Francine Steadman

Wilfredo Benitez

Monica Lowe

Cara Young

Janet Swindler

Miles H. Lewis

Jack West

Emma Stern

Robin Dunn

~And special thanks go to~

Our families, our parents, our siblings, our cousins, our grandparents, uncles, aunts who have supported our crazy ideas since the very beginning. 

Our grandfathers whom continue to provide for their family generation after generation. We would not be the women we are today without such strong family men in our lives.

Professors and professional support received from the School of Visual Arts, special thanks to Jeff Edwards for posting about SoapSkeptics on the Visual And Critical Studies Blog, Annette Wehrhahn for giving us some helpful tips.

Our friends and local communnity for sharing on facebook and social networking to help spread the word along with those who visited us at June Bug and helped us out in some ways: 

Tegan James, Bryn Krenner, Olivia Beer, Brianna Zukarfein, Valentina Gordon, Jennifer Reis, SEEMORIAH, Alex Manikas, Julia Garcia, Kerri McNeill, Tyler Coy, Tara Ali-Khan,  Wilfredo Benitez, Rebecca Grossman, Anda Simmons, Dulce Isler, Melissa Carolyn Maloney, Metuchen Yarn Bombers, Jennifer Daro, Pete Drago, Conner Calhoun,  Destination Moon, Josh Barocas, Walker Evans, Edison Reeves, Susie Stevenson, Mark Harris, The Sentinel Newspaper, Geoff Papas, WRSU FM, The Dream Catcher Girls Molly Weidmaier, Eric Silverman, Jon Johnson, the whole June Bug Committee, and so many more wonderful people.