Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-16-24 hour 2
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Speaker 3: And we spoke with Dennis Layton a few minutes ago
Speaker 3: during the first hour about the big event tonight, night
Speaker 3: two of no Masters Fest happening in Connecticut and it's
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Speaker 3: We are into the second hour of Matt Connorton Unleashed.
Speaker 3: We are live from the studios of w m n
Speaker 3: H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New
Speaker 3: Hampshire and joining us now in the studio. So we
Speaker 3: have Liz from the Mosaic Art Collective and Liz, this
Speaker 3: is your third time on the show.
Speaker 7: Second third, I think this is my second time.
Speaker 3: Second, okay, all right, and you've got Hannah and Atlas
Speaker 3: with you, and they are first timer is on the show. Yes,
Speaker 3: I did meet Hannah at the at the last event
Speaker 3: right last Oh that was last weekend. Actually it all
Speaker 3: becomes a blur. And I'm meeting Atlas for the first
Speaker 3: time and you are the uh I'm pretty sure you're
Speaker 3: the first individual named Atlas I've ever met, so so
Speaker 3: welcome to the show. So, uh, Hannah, what what is
Speaker 3: your involvement with Mosaic Art Collective.
Speaker 8: I am one of the resident artists. Mosaic is, for
Speaker 8: those that don't know, is a gallery with a gallery
Speaker 8: hosted inside and for artists studios. So I'm lucky enough
Speaker 8: to be one of the four, and I'm also the
Speaker 8: secretary of the Mosaic Art Collective Board.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, and Atlas how about you?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm.
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Speaker 3: be right on it.
Speaker 9: I'm the head of pr for I've been with June.
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Speaker 3: got to talk right good. Yeah, that's that's the worst
Speaker 3: micu Okay in the room. Unfortunately, Yeah, so I was.
Speaker 10: I'm now pead of pr for most Okay, I've been
Speaker 10: with the Mosaic since tune and I've just kin to
Speaker 10: be a part of it every way I can.
Speaker 9: It's been an awesome ride so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent. All congratulations, very good, very good.
Speaker 9: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: So, Liz, how how's it been for you? I mean,
Speaker 3: this has really grown, right. I was commenting to Hannah
Speaker 3: that earlier off air that that was quite the turnout, Yeah,
Speaker 3: last Saturday.
Speaker 11: Unfortunately I wasn't atop oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 11: I have heard it was a fabulous turnout. We've had
Speaker 11: a couple of slower months. I think in general, there
Speaker 11: was a lot going on in the art world, so
Speaker 11: probably less people were available, and I think luckily this
Speaker 11: time around, there were a number of people that were available.
Speaker 11: But also it's a larger show because it's I don't
Speaker 11: remember exactly how many artists we have, it's over sixty
Speaker 11: artists in the show.
Speaker 7: And when that happens, you end up with a pretty
Speaker 7: good turnout. All the pieces that.
Speaker 11: Are up on the wall right now or are small work,
Speaker 11: so they're all more affordable, really great gift giving sizes
Speaker 11: and prices, and so we're really lucky.
Speaker 3: When you do something like where the theme is smaller,
Speaker 3: I mean, did you put us like a size limit
Speaker 3: on that, like they couldn't be ye larger than a
Speaker 3: certain than certain dimensions.
Speaker 11: Yep, so the dimensions are smaller than twelve by twelve inches, okay,
Speaker 11: and that's in any direction.
Speaker 7: So because we do have some sculptural pieces as well.
Speaker 3: When you do something like that, do you find that
Speaker 3: you get a different submissions from people who may not
Speaker 3: have submitted before.
Speaker 7: Do you see a lot of new names sometimes?
Speaker 11: I think in the last several months we've seen an
Speaker 11: uptick in new artists, which is really cool because I
Speaker 11: think around June I started feeling like maybe we've tapped
Speaker 11: into all the artists in the area and this is
Speaker 11: this is the amount of artists that we have. And
Speaker 11: then really in the last three months or so, we've
Speaker 11: seen a huge, a huge number of new artists showing
Speaker 11: up for open calls. So I don't know that it's
Speaker 11: changed necessarily because of the sizes or if it's just
Speaker 11: that more people are finding out about us.
Speaker 10: And I would argue artists love a good challenge. Yeah,
Speaker 10: anything more restrictive in terms of theme or anything like that.
Speaker 10: It really as me personally as an artist, like, I
Speaker 10: find that very helpful because I can put more into
Speaker 10: it knowing exactly what I'm looking for.
Speaker 9: So I think the twelve x twelve sort of I
Speaker 9: don't want.
Speaker 10: It's like more of like a challenge to try to
Speaker 10: make something beautiful out of something within that space. I
Speaker 10: think people responded really well to that.
Speaker 11: And at Lissa actually took the challenge in a totally
Speaker 11: different direction and he has a really cool piece in
Speaker 11: the show where he painted on a knife. Oh really,
Speaker 11: So that's definitely worth checking out if if you want
Speaker 11: to stop into the gallery or go online and look
Speaker 11: at our online gallery.
Speaker 3: Okay, yea, was.
Speaker 10: That difficult Alice to Yeah, it was a totally different
Speaker 10: canvas to paint on. It's not something that you would
Speaker 10: expect to have trouble with, but it was quite quite difficult.
Speaker 10: But I had so much fun doing something within that
Speaker 10: brand new medium. Yeah, it was obviously inspired by the
Speaker 10: Mosaic Small Wonders show like this, this seems like the
Speaker 10: perfect opportunity to try something new, put something new into it.
Speaker 10: And yeah, it was great and it came out with
Speaker 10: an awesome result. And I'm so happy that I was
Speaker 10: able to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Now when when people submit, you know,
Speaker 3: you call it a juried a juried u what's what's
Speaker 3: the right term? A jury show, jurid show? Like who chooses?
Speaker 3: Like obviously, Liz, you're you're part of that process, but
Speaker 3: are you also both Hannah and Atlas are you both
Speaker 3: involved in that well in terms of choosing who gets in?
Speaker 8: And it's a collaborative effort. It's usually about three to
Speaker 8: four people that are selecting the work, and then we
Speaker 8: get together as a group several days after the work
Speaker 8: comes in and we collaborate once again and make decisions
Speaker 8: on how to arrange the show so that it's harmonious
Speaker 8: and each piece that is situated in a way where
Speaker 8: it really shines next to the other work. So it's
Speaker 8: it's a really interesting process not only choosing the work
Speaker 8: that is selected, but also how do you arrange such
Speaker 8: a diverse arrangement of such selected works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as the as a number of selections, or
Speaker 3: I should say, I'm sorry, the number of submissions. Has
Speaker 3: that really kind of increased over time, because I would imagine,
Speaker 3: like the first show that you did there, I would
Speaker 3: imagine that was a significantly last number because it was
Speaker 3: the first show, or maybe not. Maybe there's such a
Speaker 3: need and demand for what you're doing. Maybe you had
Speaker 3: a lot right out of the gate. I don't know.
Speaker 11: I mean the first show was interesting because I had
Speaker 11: never done anything like this before, and really it was
Speaker 11: just a complete guess, yeah, to see what would happen.
Speaker 11: I did end up reaching out to another one of
Speaker 11: the residents at Mosaic, who has a strong connection with
Speaker 11: a number of local artists, and told her that we
Speaker 11: hadn't gotten the numbers that I had hoped, yeah, and
Speaker 11: I had to extend the deadline, and I said, can
Speaker 11: you share this with your audience? And she did, and
Speaker 11: that that brought in some more people. So we did
Speaker 11: end up at the very first show, I think we
Speaker 11: had forty or so artists.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 11: The work was a really interesting range of emerging to
Speaker 11: professional artists, and I think from month to month it
Speaker 11: kind of ebbs and flows. Like I truly get freaked
Speaker 11: out about a week before the deadline because most artists
Speaker 11: wait till the very last minute to submit their work,
Speaker 11: and I usually, like the week before will start like
Speaker 11: if I really noticed that we haven't had any submissions,
Speaker 11: I'll start like tapping people and being like, hey, are
Speaker 11: you planning on submitting your work? And you know, chances
Speaker 11: are some of them are, or some of them are
Speaker 11: just too busy that month, but yeah, it kind of
Speaker 11: it changes.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, now that makes sense the small Wonders
Speaker 3: that's actually running for two months? Is that correct?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 11: Okay, So this we have historically done a small work
Speaker 11: show in November December. Part of that is self preservation
Speaker 11: because we're getting into like the busy holiday season and
Speaker 11: I at the beginning just couldn't take setting up another
Speaker 11: show in December. But also I think it offers more
Speaker 11: time for people to shop and see the show. We'll
Speaker 11: have another opening the second Saturday, of December for Amy
Speaker 11: who runs the Seesaw Gallery, she'll have a a name
Speaker 11: of her show presently, I think is what her show
Speaker 11: is called. That's another open call and she'll have an
Speaker 11: opening that night as well, and we're hoping that there'll
Speaker 11: be another good turnout. And then I think we're also
Speaker 11: planning on doing a closing on December twenty second, so
Speaker 11: we try to like keep you know, movement.
Speaker 7: In the gallery, get people in and.
Speaker 11: Of right now, we had been doing almost month to
Speaker 11: month shows, and I think going forward after November and December,
Speaker 11: we're planning on doing bi monthly shows instead. Okay, we
Speaker 11: needed a little more time. I think all of us
Speaker 11: just from an organizational standpoint, needed.
Speaker 7: More time to.
Speaker 11: Rest and then also be able to bring in some
Speaker 11: workshops and stuff like that. We'd really like to do
Speaker 11: more community outreach, and it's hard when you're either setting
Speaker 11: up or taking down.
Speaker 7: A show with like a week or two of the
Speaker 7: show there.
Speaker 11: So we're hoping with the extended shows that we'll have
Speaker 11: some more time to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that makes sense, and it also gives artists the
Speaker 8: opportunity to bring in more of their friends and family
Speaker 8: a month is a really tight turnaround.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the.
Speaker 9: Great opportunities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I remember, uh, Jenny
Speaker 3: and I attended an event that you had had about
Speaker 3: I don't remember the gentleman's name, forgive me, but about
Speaker 3: AI in art that was really interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He that's Carl.
Speaker 11: So he was fast this it's interesting because like AI
Speaker 11: has just exploded now, so but at the time it
Speaker 11: was like this fairly new thing that was sort of
Speaker 11: like freaking all the artists out. And I think because
Speaker 11: of his background, he comes from a tech background. He
Speaker 11: calls calls his or called his job an ethical hacker
Speaker 11: for IBM, so he would look for the weak points
Speaker 11: in the system and try to try to break it
Speaker 11: so that he could learn how to fix it. So
Speaker 11: he did a ton of research on AI and brought
Speaker 11: that workshop to us, which was super awesome, and we
Speaker 11: would like to offer more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 11: We were in talks with Karen Jerzyk, who's an installation artist.
Speaker 11: She is not an AI artist at all, and she
Speaker 11: gets called that a lot. She's a photographer.
Speaker 3: Why why does she get called an AI artist?
Speaker 7: Her artwork is pretty surreal.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's okay, her artwork.
Speaker 11: Is surreal, so it has a vibe that kind of
Speaker 11: lends itself to looking like it's computer generated.
Speaker 3: That's interesting to me.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but her she does She actually doesn't even use
Speaker 11: like photoshop all that much, which most photographers these days,
Speaker 11: I would say at least use a little bit of
Speaker 11: touch up at points in their process. Yeah, but she
Speaker 11: does not, and she's actually had a lot of success
Speaker 11: with what they called NFTs and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So we're.
Speaker 7: Hoping to get her in and have her do an
Speaker 7: artist talk and sort of, yeah, talk a bit more
Speaker 7: about that.
Speaker 3: That's that's interesting to me.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: The subject of AI comes up a lot on the show,
Speaker 3: and it's interesting, you know, because we talk about people
Speaker 3: looking at art and not knowing or other or any
Speaker 3: kind of image and not knowing whether it's real or
Speaker 3: AI generated, and we worry about people looking at things
Speaker 3: and assuming that they're not AI generated when actually they are.
Speaker 3: But her art work, you say, like people accuse her
Speaker 3: of using AI and she's actually not. That's interesting. So
Speaker 3: the impest can also be a pitfall. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have expected that. Wow, that's fascinating.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely somebody to check out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: What was her name again, Karen Jersik. She's right in
Speaker 7: Manchester too.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, wow you do Do you do any kind
Speaker 3: of classes there or do you have plans to do
Speaker 3: in the future for people who think they might have
Speaker 3: ability but want to kind of expand on it.
Speaker 7: I don't know that we're looking to do. I mean
Speaker 7: maybe maybe.
Speaker 8: At some point I think once we get our heads
Speaker 8: wrapped around the scheduling and have a little bit more
Speaker 8: time to think about what kinds of programs we're looking for,
Speaker 8: what kinds of classes would really benefit the community the most,
Speaker 8: and just seeing what people are interested in.
Speaker 11: Right. We have done some like workshop style classes. Jackie
Speaker 11: Hansen did an erase or printmaking workshop a couple times.
Speaker 11: We had somebody do a terrarium building workshop. I think
Speaker 11: there was actually a word press workshop at some point.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, on how to build a website. Okay, I it.
Speaker 11: Was interesting because it was it was attended by artists
Speaker 11: and then who don't use word Press, and myself who
Speaker 11: uses nothing, and my husband who is a web developer
Speaker 11: and uses web WordPress all the time. Yeah, so it
Speaker 11: you know, WordPress is really hard to use. That's what
Speaker 11: I what I've come to learn, so it's not the
Speaker 11: most like artist friendly, still helpful, development helpful.
Speaker 9: Yeah, anythink we can offer really yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. When
Speaker 3: did When did Mosaic first open? It's been at least
Speaker 3: what has it been two years? Has it been longer?
Speaker 11: It's been so two and a half fish, I mean yeah,
Speaker 11: I think we opened in uh September of twenty twenty two, okay,
Speaker 11: and after a year of being an LLC, we transition
Speaker 11: to a nonprofit model, okay, and then we've been a
Speaker 11: nonprofit for just over a year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what was that always the goal to become
Speaker 3: a nonprofit?
Speaker 11: Or I think for me, when I was originally dreaming
Speaker 11: up Mosaic, I mean I was really young. Mosaic was
Speaker 11: something I wanted to do when I was like fresh
Speaker 11: out of college. I graduated and was just lacking art
Speaker 11: community and couldn't figure out where I belonged. So in
Speaker 11: some ways, I think I didn't really know what it
Speaker 11: would totally look like, and once I started doing it,
Speaker 11: it just became like a larger thing than I could
Speaker 11: do by myself, and the community aspect of it was
Speaker 11: so important that I felt like I was already reaching
Speaker 11: out to people and asking their advice or asking how
Speaker 11: to do something. So the nonprofit just sort of like
Speaker 11: naturally made sense, right.
Speaker 7: So I don't know that it was like.
Speaker 11: Necessarily like the thing I thought would happen, but it
Speaker 11: made sense when we went.
Speaker 7: In that direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course, of course you're not from Manchester originally, correct.
Speaker 7: I actually am from hooks It.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 7: I went to Central Oh okay. Yeah, so I grew
Speaker 7: up here.
Speaker 4: Oh you did?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay. Did you move away at one point and
Speaker 3: move back? I did? Maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I lived So I went to art school
Speaker 11: down in Baltimore, Maryland, Okay, And then after Baltimore moved
Speaker 11: back here for a very brief time, and then up
Speaker 11: to Vermont. And then I lived in Burlington, Vermont for
Speaker 11: fifteenish years. Oh okay, and then moved back during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, Burlington's got a not a bad little
Speaker 3: music scene there.
Speaker 7: It's just a fabulous music so good.
Speaker 3: There's some good bands up there that kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: that a lot of people around here might not know
Speaker 3: about because Burlington it seems like it's so far, but
Speaker 3: it's really not. I mean, how far what is it?
Speaker 7: Two and a half hours?
Speaker 3: Two and a half That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's some cool place. Is higher Ground still there?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, that's a cool venue.
Speaker 3: Yep. I haven't been there in a very, very long time.
Speaker 7: We should take a field trip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a cool place. Not in the
Speaker 3: winter though, No, we'll do that.
Speaker 7: Well, I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. If you are just joining us, we have Liz,
Speaker 3: Hannah and Atlas from the Mosaic Art Collective here with
Speaker 3: us live in studio on this Saturday morning. Do you
Speaker 3: do you work with other studios as well, Like do
Speaker 3: you have these relationships where you kind of I don't
Speaker 3: know because you did.
Speaker 11: Refer to is it seesaw Seesaw on Hanover. Yes, So
Speaker 11: Seesaw is sort of similar to Hannah. You want to explain,
Speaker 11: like they also rent space in the gallery or in
Speaker 11: the studio and rent rather than use it utilizing it
Speaker 11: as a studio, they.
Speaker 7: They use it as a gallery.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: Amy Reagan, who runs Seesaw, is also one of the
Speaker 11: founders from the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, and she
Speaker 11: runs sort of like a boutique Style Gallery, So it's
Speaker 11: usually like two to three artists from the region. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 11: But we also have worked with an h a A.
Speaker 11: We've worked with Queer Elective, We've worked with the Women's Caucus,
Speaker 11: the Women's Caucus for the Arts. This year we kind
Speaker 11: of took a slower role on partnering, just to see,
Speaker 11: like get our feet wet and see what it was
Speaker 11: like to be a nonprofit. Right, But I'd like to
Speaker 11: do some more partnerships going for Yeah.
Speaker 8: And speaking of partnerships, many months at the gallery we
Speaker 8: choose a cause to support, Okay, And this month we
Speaker 8: are gathering art supplies for the Webster Webster House Okay
Speaker 8: Webster No, well we're okay.
Speaker 7: So we did Webster House last year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 7: This year we're hoping to donate to Waypoint, but we
Speaker 7: don't have we haven't heard.
Speaker 3: That, oh okay, Okay, so that's kind.
Speaker 8: Of And we're also having a weekly raffle of all
Speaker 8: sorts of community restaurants, artists and other other prizes and
Speaker 8: things like that to benefit.
Speaker 11: It's, yeah, the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 11: We're just wanting to do whatever we can to help
Speaker 11: out our community right now.
Speaker 7: And I think that's a good way to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's great. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I seem to remember. I think I think maybe the
Speaker 3: last time you were on you might have talked about
Speaker 3: Webster House and are you are you trying to do
Speaker 3: something different each time, like to help a different organization.
Speaker 11: Or Yeah, I think I just wanted. I think we
Speaker 11: were hoping to like spread the love around as much
Speaker 11: as possible.
Speaker 9: It's kind of nice.
Speaker 8: It's a way where we can say, hey, we're seeing
Speaker 8: you do some great work and we'd like to we'd
Speaker 8: like to benefit you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And I think, you know, as far as like the donation,
Speaker 11: like the art donation, the supply donations. For a lot
Speaker 11: of us growing up, art was incredibly important in our
Speaker 11: lives that we recognize, like the need for kids to
Speaker 11: have access to art supplies, and there are a lot
Speaker 11: of art are a lot of kids who don't, right,
Speaker 11: and it doesn't seem like the immediate need, but I
Speaker 11: think to express your yourself definitely helps make situations feel
Speaker 11: less overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, yeah. Well, you know something that we talk
Speaker 3: about a lot on the show, and it's we talk
Speaker 3: to a lot of musicians, so it tends to be
Speaker 3: more in that modality. But we talk about and I
Speaker 3: was talking about it with Dennis actually from the Gray
Speaker 3: Curtain during the first hour a little bit too, the
Speaker 3: event that he's doing tonight in Connecticut. We were talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, taking taking traumatic events, or taking problems that
Speaker 3: you have or you know, mental illness or whatever it
Speaker 3: may be, and any time that you can create something
Speaker 3: from that, you know, take it, but create something, create art,
Speaker 3: create whether it's visual art or music or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: or write a book or you know. That to me,
Speaker 3: that's the best therapy, right when you can take something
Speaker 3: negative and do something creative and productive with it. And
Speaker 3: and I assume, now I have no you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a music but I have no ability whatsoever for visual art.
Speaker 3: I can't paint or anything like that, so so I'm
Speaker 3: kind of a no trust me it is. But but
Speaker 3: I assume a lot of visual artists, you know, they
Speaker 3: they put that into their uh into their their paintings.
Speaker 3: I would imagine, you know, as an expression of of
Speaker 3: that that pain and that trauma. And stand up comedians
Speaker 3: are really kind of famous for that. Like any stand
Speaker 3: up comedian you talk to. It's like they've they've had
Speaker 3: like major trauma and the way that they deal with
Speaker 3: it is learning how to make people laugh, whether whether
Speaker 3: they're actually making jokes based on what they've been through
Speaker 3: or not. But that's like that's their therapy.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: Stand up comedians are almost always you know, like just
Speaker 3: messed up people in some way, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But no, but I think that's I think that's so important.
Speaker 3: And you know you mentioned too developing that in kids.
Speaker 13: Is that.
Speaker 3: Is that something that is lacking in our rules?
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 3: I mean? I remember, you know, I went to a
Speaker 3: private school from grade two to grade eight and we
Speaker 3: had art class and that was that was where I
Speaker 3: learned that actually, no, I have no visual uh visual
Speaker 3: ability art wise, I have no art artistic ability in
Speaker 3: that sense. But do you think that's something that's lacking?
Speaker 3: Is that something that where parents need to really kind
Speaker 3: of encourage that and foster that because I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if our schools are doing that at
Speaker 3: all or not.
Speaker 8: I'm a public school teacher, an art teacher.
Speaker 3: Oh so you okay, great.
Speaker 8: And I know that or at least I believe that
Speaker 8: New Hampshire public schools are required to offer art and music. Okay,
Speaker 8: kindergarten through high school.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Okay, I didn't know that. So they're required
Speaker 3: a lot to do that. Yeah, oh that's excellent. Okay,
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 8: However, with different towns receiving different funding, some programs don't
Speaker 8: have don't have as much to offer as other towns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because uh, I know that. You know, these school
Speaker 3: budgets tend to be tight, and it seems like when
Speaker 3: you hear about budget cuts in public school it's usually
Speaker 3: you know, the the sports are protected and everything else
Speaker 3: kind of is on that second tier where they think, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe we can get rid of this, we can get
Speaker 3: rid of that. But but you so, you're you work
Speaker 3: in public schools and you're an art teacher, so your
Speaker 3: a proof of concept that this is this is still
Speaker 3: happening in New Hampshire where we have the arts being hot.
Speaker 7: So very much so.
Speaker 8: New Hampshire has one of the strongest art programs, i'd
Speaker 8: say in the country, Elastic Art Awards, which is the
Speaker 8: largest and most prestigious high school art show in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8: We're number two in terms of the size and scale
Speaker 8: of net right behind New Jersey NOKID and it's all volunteer.
Speaker 3: That's great. So that's great. Yeah, it makes me proud
Speaker 3: to be a New Hampshire Rite. Oh that's really good.
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 11: I mean, I think in general from I have three
Speaker 11: kids in the school system, I think in general they
Speaker 11: have had a phenomenal arts education.
Speaker 7: But also, I mean art school is what you put
Speaker 7: into it, and if the parents aren't willing to.
Speaker 11: Foster a love of art or culture, they're only going
Speaker 11: to get what they get at school, right. So I
Speaker 11: feel like, you know, especially looking at my kids now,
Speaker 11: go to the schools that I went to as a kid,
Speaker 11: and one of the teachers is one of my teachers.
Speaker 11: It's just been there forever. And I think like in
Speaker 11: terms of I think think, you know, she's doing a
Speaker 11: good job. I think the younger teachers that are coming
Speaker 11: through you not that young, but you've been teaching a
Speaker 11: long time. But I like Hannah does a great job.
Speaker 11: But I think, you know, the younger teachers that are
Speaker 11: coming through have a different concept of how to teach art,
Speaker 11: and I think that that can be kind of interesting
Speaker 11: to watch. I think they are not too long ago
Speaker 11: when I was teaching. There was this method called teaching
Speaker 11: for Artistic Behavior, which is more of a choice based learning,
Speaker 11: and I think that what not?
Speaker 3: But what does that mean? Choice based learning?
Speaker 7: So it's not like.
Speaker 11: Here's a picture of a snowman, and this is how
Speaker 11: you make this picture of a snowman. It's more like,
Speaker 11: here are the materials that you might need.
Speaker 7: This is what I did do?
Speaker 3: What how you do it?
Speaker 11: That everyone sees differently and everyone's going to create a
Speaker 11: little bit differently.
Speaker 3: And intuitively that makes more sense to me.
Speaker 7: It does, and it gave it.
Speaker 11: I feel like it offers students a chance to delve
Speaker 11: into the arts where they are most interested, because some
Speaker 11: kids aren't really interested in getting their hands dirty, right right,
Speaker 11: but they are really interested in puzzles and building and
Speaker 11: that kind of thing. And so I think, you know,
Speaker 11: offering as much as we can do our kids is
Speaker 11: really what it's all about. And I think in New
Speaker 11: Hampshire they are doing a pretty bang up job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it sounds like it sounds like it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: do you do you have do you have students submit?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 3: Do you have like high school students and younger submitting.
Speaker 13: To we do?
Speaker 8: One of my favorite submissions for this last show is
Speaker 8: was mother and son. Her son builds these lego worlds
Speaker 8: and she photographs them, and so she's new to the
Speaker 8: area and found out about this call and submitted one
Speaker 8: of the photographs of her son's lego build and was
Speaker 8: just so excited to bring him to the gallery and
Speaker 8: share that with him and you know, to be embraced.
Speaker 3: So that was really really cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 8: And we also at Mosaic we have an art intern
Speaker 8: who comes in and he submits quite a few pieces
Speaker 8: to the different shows as well.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 8: In addition, last year there was a show to Manchester
Speaker 8: with Love, which featured works from all of the Manchester
Speaker 8: Public High School. So it was an opening dedicated just
Speaker 8: to the students and their teachers and that was really
Speaker 8: really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh wow, oh very good, very good. Are there more?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like you knows as you're as you're
Speaker 3: talking about these different these different places that are involved
Speaker 3: in art, Are there more? Is there more of an
Speaker 3: art scene than people realize? I guess is what I'm
Speaker 3: asking Because I feel like you know, as you're mentioning,
Speaker 3: you know different like you mentioned Seesaw and these other
Speaker 3: places like them, like I wonder if and I guess Atlas,
Speaker 3: this is part of where you come in, right, making
Speaker 3: sure that people know that there is all this, you know,
Speaker 3: like because I didn't even realize sitting here, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm asking you about you know, do they even teach
Speaker 3: art in schools anymore?
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that New Hampshire is doing such
Speaker 3: a great job with that. Is there more of an
Speaker 3: art scene than people know about?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I'd say that, like in the past two years,
Speaker 10: it's really blossomed.
Speaker 9: Quite a bit and just receiving.
Speaker 10: The inter network of knowing about the art has gotten
Speaker 10: a lot more prominent, I would say as somebody who's
Speaker 10: fairly new to the art scene in Manchester. Yeah, definitely
Speaker 10: feels like it's blossomed in the past two years.
Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely. Oh that's great.
Speaker 10: Yeah, awesome to see the festivals that are out there,
Speaker 10: all the events that are going on, and Mosaic being
Speaker 10: part of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, that's that's great. That's great. That's really good
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 11: Ultimately, I think the art scene has been here all along.
Speaker 11: I think that it's just sort of more out in
Speaker 11: the open, I would agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 8: Morphed a lot. I feel with the closing of traditional
Speaker 8: galleries there's more room for alternative spaces and people are
Speaker 8: getting really creative and open minded. Places that come to
Speaker 8: mind are like Pillar Art Project, where they have a
Speaker 8: small gallery front up and conquered with a ghost kitchen
Speaker 8: in back, and Outer Space Gallery, which is hosted on
Speaker 8: the second floor of a Victorian office building.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 8: So I mean there's these these pockets that are opening
Speaker 8: up and people are getting much more creative and it's
Speaker 8: less about profit and more about community and getting the
Speaker 8: art work out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that makes sense. Why have you reference traditional
Speaker 3: art student or art galleries rather? I want to make
Speaker 3: sure he's the right term closing? What why is that?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 3: Why is this? It sounds like there's been a shift
Speaker 3: in that sense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there has been a shift. Some of the shift
Speaker 8: is a lot of art has gone online, rents have
Speaker 8: gone up. It is difficult to sustain a gallery model
Speaker 8: where you know you're relying on foot traffic and you
Speaker 8: know whether or not your audience is going to be
Speaker 8: receptive to the work, whether or not they have the
Speaker 8: means to purchase the work. So so yeah, a lot
Speaker 8: of places, especially when COVID hit had to close their doors.
Speaker 3: Yep, Yeah, that makes sense. So it sounds like so
Speaker 3: the traditional gallery model is more just you have it's
Speaker 3: almost you know, like a like a retail store in
Speaker 3: a sense. Right, You've got art just hanging and people
Speaker 3: walk in. You hope somebody walks in and buys something.
Speaker 3: So it sounds like there's been a need, especially after
Speaker 3: the pandemic, to be more creative with how you do things.
Speaker 3: And like you're you know, you're very creative with how
Speaker 3: you're doing things at Mosaic, and you know, you've got
Speaker 3: all these things going on. So so that makes sense.
Speaker 10: Say, like in the wake of tragedy, like in terms
Speaker 10: of the COVID pandemic, a lot of people who are
Speaker 10: around community organization tend to be like, Okay, this is
Speaker 10: the time to dig it in, roll up our sleeves. Yeah,
Speaker 10: this is what we need to do for the people
Speaker 10: in our community because they really really need it. Yeah,
Speaker 10: And I would say that it's definitely evident in the
Speaker 10: wake of a pandemic that really rocked everybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah, especially people in places I need.
Speaker 10: Seeing that come from that, right, it was so apparent
Speaker 10: and it's very lifting, and it's very enlightening.
Speaker 9: It's a wonderful. It's wonderful to be a part of it. Yeah, sure, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, something I always say too about the pandemic is
Speaker 3: as awful as it was for for so many reasons,
Speaker 3: we also have to try to find those silver linings
Speaker 3: where we can, you know, speaking of dealing with trauma, right,
Speaker 3: And something that this also comes up a lot on
Speaker 3: the show is that it kind of forced people to
Speaker 3: be more creative in ways that maybe they hadn't considered before.
Speaker 3: You know, you see it a lot with me. You know,
Speaker 3: like during you know, when everybody was staying home. For example,
Speaker 3: with music, you saw a lot of these bands, you know,
Speaker 3: doing live performances where they're all you know, they're all
Speaker 3: connected on zoom and they're they're doing these live performances
Speaker 3: online things like that. But uh, you know, but it
Speaker 3: affected everyone and obviously you know, it affected visual art
Speaker 3: and I think it it sounds like it it did
Speaker 3: kind of force people to to be more creative with
Speaker 3: that as well. And and and how they how they
Speaker 3: show the art to the world and uh and all
Speaker 3: of that. Uh, what's what's kind of the what's kind
Speaker 3: of the future trajectory for for Mosaic. I mean, you
Speaker 3: talked about some of it, but is there anything you
Speaker 3: have planned that we didn't mention that we should know about.
Speaker 11: Or we do have a new show going up in January.
Speaker 11: It will be one of our two months another two
Speaker 11: month shows, Okay, and I can't recall what the name
Speaker 11: of it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But the show itself
Speaker 11: is op art, so optical illusions and black light art.
Speaker 11: Oh cool, sort of like I think, kind of like
Speaker 11: Creatures of the Night sort of a thing we figure
Speaker 11: with the darkness happening at like four o'clock, we're going
Speaker 11: to take advantage of the darkness outside and bring it
Speaker 11: inside and and let the gallery the artwork kind of
Speaker 11: illuminate the space.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool. Yeah yeah, I like that concept. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 3: I talk about taking something negative and creating something that
Speaker 3: I I hate it when it's dark at four in
Speaker 3: the afternoon. Oh I dread it. I dread it. Does
Speaker 3: anyone like it? Really?
Speaker 7: I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think even people. I don't think even people,
Speaker 3: because some people are weird and they actually enjoy winter.
Speaker 3: No offense if any of you are like that personally,
Speaker 3: I think enjoying winter is very strange. But uh, but
Speaker 3: I've never heard anyone say, yeah, I like it when
Speaker 3: it's dark at four in the afternoon that I've never heard. No,
Speaker 3: it's yeah.
Speaker 9: I feel like every single day it's like, is it
Speaker 9: really dark this suit?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't really get used to it. It's you're right, yeah,
Speaker 3: Like every every day it's like, oh, it's it's dark
Speaker 3: again at four in the afternoon. Yeah, it's it's not great.
Speaker 3: It's not great. Well, listen, thank you all for coming in.
Speaker 3: This has been wonderful. And what should people know about?
Speaker 3: You know, you should probably mention the website and anything
Speaker 3: else people should know about what's happening at Mosaic right
Speaker 3: now and of course how they can submit for a
Speaker 3: future Oh so, visit.
Speaker 11: Our website that usually has up to date information Mosaic
Speaker 11: Arcollective dot com. We're also on Instagram under Mosaic Art Collected,
Speaker 11: and any of the open calls are always listed on
Speaker 11: our website and on Instagram. And then we also have
Speaker 11: a mailing list that you can sign up for on
Speaker 11: our website and that will also send out the calls
Speaker 11: for art.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right, perfect, perfect and congratulations again. On
Speaker 3: last weekend, it looked like a really good I know
Speaker 3: you weren't able to be their list, but it looks
Speaker 3: but it looked like it was very successful. And you know,
Speaker 3: Jenny is so proud to have you know, multiple pieces
Speaker 3: hanging there, and it's just, you know, she hasn't I
Speaker 3: don't think she'll mind me saying that she hasn't been
Speaker 3: an artist for that long in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's been maybe five years, yeah, since she
Speaker 3: first picked up a brush and said, I think I
Speaker 3: want to try this. And I'm just, like I said,
Speaker 3: as someone who doesn't have that ability, I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just amazed at how much she creates and how amazing
Speaker 3: it is. And you know, I'm just I'm just in awe.
Speaker 3: You know, she's got she's got her artwork hanging at
Speaker 3: home of course too, and so I see it every day.
Speaker 3: But I'm just you know, every new piece she creates,
Speaker 3: it's like wow, Like how to even do that? You know,
Speaker 3: It's just amazing to me. And to see how farther
Speaker 3: she's come with it, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and a lot of the artists at Mosaic, I mean, well,
Speaker 7: i'd say some.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of artists that we are the first
Speaker 8: venue where they show, and you know, I remember the
Speaker 8: first show that I was in and what an exciting
Speaker 8: event it was and how cool it was to be
Speaker 8: up on the wall with all these other artists. And
Speaker 8: at the same time we have artists that show nationally,
Speaker 8: so it's a really really great range of different artists,
Speaker 8: art styles and everyone is welcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh that's fantastic. All right. Well, Liz Hannah Atlas,
Speaker 3: thank you all so much. Thank you, and we'll do
Speaker 3: this again soon, I'm sure. And if you are listening
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