Erin Cairns Cella, Sarah Lehman, Valerie Miller, Alyssa Caliendo and Celie Erickson.
Be sure to read about these amazing ladies as soon as I am able to post their bios to the Meet the Artists page.
As I move forward in my project, I still find myself stuck in how I really want to investigate my ideas. In a moment of quick decision making, I decided that I wanted to focus on the environment that my text described to me, which was the ruins of a battlefield. I thought I could make a work inspired by the women of the Black Hawk War of 1832. Being that my family delineates from the Sac Nation, I felt excited to research and create a work about my ancestors. However, I feel that maybe that is for another project. I want to stick to my ideas about abstract story telling and I was reinvigorated after receiving an email from an old high school friend who responded to my call for thoughts from others about my using real or fictional characters.
I'm not quite sure how it will all sum up, but what my next move will be is to develop a short set of instructions and put out a call for writings. Please keep a look out as I will surely be wanting to read your story about loss and how you've navigated your way through.
Until then, check out this throw back from 2010 that is basically the reason why this entire project is going down. Damn, the limits of ACDF time constraints... watching this piece now after a few years, there is just too much packed into 12 minutes but nonetheless I was breathless watching these six woman work their magic with Sam L. Richard's score every time. However, now I have the time and opportunities to work it out the way it should be done. Enjoy.
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