Education & Community

Artist Talks

Nori Pao

“We’ve got the personal family history and the memories that go along with that and then we have the memory of what happened in the kiln. These are visual representations of what the lithium did to these cups in the kiln when these were fired” - Nori Pao

WALLY GRAHAM

“As a trash hauler, I had rolloffs full of material but as you know, work got in the way and so I never had time to work on the artwork itself. Now I’m a true scravenger. I went from trash man to scavenger trying to find the right pieces for my narrative ” - Wally Graham

Hannah Rothstein

“I know the WPA posters that these are inspired by to be very iconic and symbolic of a time when America was at it’s greatest. My idea was to take that feeling and juxtapose it with the America that we could be creating if we don’t work on the climate crisis” - Hannah Rothstein

TRAVIS FULTON

“We used technology that wasn’t even on the market yet. It takes AC current, changes it into DC current, and back into the AC current again at whatever frequency you want. Which means the computer can tell pump number 3 to do 3 cycles a second, the jet is two inches high, or 75 cycles a second and it’s 25ft high and thats how the dance happens” - Travis Fulton

DAVID FLORIA

“I had a frame shop in my gallery, so I would archivally attach the posters to archival matte board and then bring them to Hunter’s house. He’d prop it up in his backyard against an old keg. The way he made these things, he’d take an airline Jack Daniels bottle and fill it up with red paint, tie a string around it, then attach that string to the top of the plywood that the piece was attached to, and he could adjust where it was. Then he would set it out there, back off a few paces, and shoot it” - David Floria

YURI ZUPANCIC

“The first time I ripped open electronics, pulled it out, and looked at it, I was maybe not even 10 years old. When we threw out our first personal computer, and my dad’s like ‘take this out to the dumpster’. I’m like ‘okay’. Got to the alley and start breaking it apart, like ‘what’s in this thing’, ‘how could this machine, I’ve gotta see what makes this possible, what’s the magic?’”
- Yuri Zupancic

WHIT BOUCHER

“A lot of flowers were just photographs that I had taken while mountain biking all around the Elks and Hunter Creek Valley, a lot in Lenado, by my house over a few years, documenting flowers I found beautiful” - Whit Boucher

CHRIS ERICKSON

“I thought of myself more as a sculpture than a painter. The paintings are mimicking sculptural techniques.”
- Chris Erickson

SAM PRUDDEN

“Saudage is a a feeling of strong nostalgia, of missing things that happen, that you can never repeat, or things that might have been” - Sam Prudden

ROUND TABLE TALK

DJ Watkins, Tim Sack, Sam Prudden, and Sarah McLellan

“A lot of times people think of anxiety as a negative feeling, something that they don’t want, but if you’re an artist anxiety is part of the package. Will people like my art, will they judge me, and if you love creating art, that’s what’s going to happen” - Sam Prudden

LEAH AEGERTER

“At it’s core, these pieces are about translating these moments of the human visual experience back into the language of the rock”