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AUDIBLE ACTIVISM
TMP is dedicated to inspiring positive social change through their music and through a positive example. These values extend to environmentally conscious living, community mobilization through collaboration, as well as personal and artistic responsibility. TMP has played a wide variety of venues & festivals. From The Eagles Ballroom, UIC, and the Beat Kitchen to the EstroJam Music Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art! They are gearing up to perform on the largest mobile exhibition in the USA, August 30th, 2008 on the CTA (Potential to reach 200,000+ people). RESIDENT ARTISTS
Laura Pawson is an interdisciplinary artist originally from New York. She recently graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA with a primary focus in photography and fibers. Her work deals with representations of stereotypes and issues of race & prejudice. The body of work that Pawson will create as one of LP’s resident artists should motivate a dialog that cannot escape conversations of race without class, class without money, money without education, and so on. She will draw upon language and stories from daily conversations, movies, media, and a series of video interview she will conduct in order to build the content in her work. Come see Pawson’s work and more at the next Night of Sight & Sound or other Lethal Poetry events! Also, find pawson's website in out sponsors & links section.
Mary Patton, originally from a small town in Iowa, is currently studying to receive a BFA in interdisciplinary studio practices at SAIC, in Chicago, IL. She began her studies with the hopes to become a conservationist at the Art Institute museum, but quickly became enthralled by the ideas in Art Therapy. It was through her studies in Art Therapy that she began building a body of work that was heavily autobiographical. At times her work can be considered expressions of her past, but often her pieces are explorations into her own experiences being a human. She has utilized the aesthetics of scientific graphs to document and explore periods of anxiety and fear through bookbinding and printmaking processes. Patton has recently been a recipient of the Roger Brown Travel Grant for artists. So, right now she is driving the open roads of the Wisconsin and Iowa investigating some of the Midwest’s most significant artists’ environments that have been built by many noteworthy outsider artists. When she returns she will continue her residency with Lethal Poetry. Come see Patton’s work and more at the next Night of Sight & Sound or other Lethal Poetry events. BECOME A RESIDENT ARTIST LP is now accepting submissions for an eco-oriented or humanitarian resident artist! At this time LP cannot provide an artist with materials or a workspace, however the resident artist would be welcome to exhibit in all LP events for the contracted period. SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE: a full bio about you, examples of your work and short write ups about each piece (ideas, materials, dimentions, etc) |
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