In hearing wonderful comments about the Kohler Arts Center’s support for the Arts, is why I choose this place to visit for my field investigation. The history of the Kohler Arts center starts with the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, which was created in 1959 with Mrs. Walter J Kohler as its first board member. In 1966, the Kohler family homestead was gifted to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation. With this homestead as a starting point and a large expansion, the center was established in 1967. This non-profit art museum/gallery consists of ten galleries, a theater, meeting/performance spaces, studio-classrooms, retail shop and a small café. One aspect of the Kohler Foundation I founded uplifting, is the dedication to preserve artwork of the self-taught
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The bathrooms were everything and more. In reading the write up about the bathrooms, Kohler Art Center decided to work with six artists that had not had an opportunity to create a major public works. With six washrooms and six artists (including many helpers), they created in uncreatable bathrooms. Unfortunately, I only was able to see the main women’s bathroom. The artist that created the women’s bathroom was Cynthia Consentino from Massachusetts. I love the idea of using the exquisite corpse (cadaver exquis) for the body segments on separated titles. A little surrealism, mixed with a playful reality is what I felt gazing at the artwork. Every element that was placed seemed to have a caring and fun feel to it. The artwork reminded me of playing with paper dolls when I was little. As you look at the wall, starting from the top border are of different hats, then a floral pattern, then some pink relief titles of women dressed (exquisite corpse style), then below this was more of the same but in color, according to the outfit. The boarder by the floor was of different shoes. Each bathroom stall had its own accessories, such as undergarments. The artist Cynthia Consentino, has the perfect words for her creation, “As little girls, we play the game of dress up and paper dolls, imagining our future roles in society and the possibilities of how we can live in the …show more content…
According to the plate next to the artwork, Susie Ganch had collected used coffee cup lids for nine months at a Starbucks. Using this most unlikable material, she created an 8’ x 7’ tapestry. I had found this piece of artwork intriguing, thinking of the many days of sipping coffee and relaxing with a friend or reading a good book. On the other side, I thought, wow! This is just one person, how many lids do you think is throwaway everyday by millions of people. The yin/yang, the bad/good, and the ugly/beautiful. Susie Ganch took a wasted product and made a beautiful piece of artwork. Susie Ganch folded and arranged the lids to form and floral like pattern. With the different arrangement gives the piece a sense of different textures. In addition, the arrangement has a movement of water (swirls). She used (I think) sheared plastic bags to give it ground. These were used lids, with coffee and lips stick stains on them. I felt this gave the piece an even deeper meaning. My personal intake, with the flow of water feeling and the personal lips stick marks: That we all have a personal relationship with how our environment is becoming.The other piece of artwork, named “Drifter” was interesting, by the artist Jim Drain. This artist made a freestanding abstract sculpture from a wide range of fiber material, wood and steel. This piece was interesting with not all about the material, shape and
The bathrooms were everything and more. In reading the write up about the bathrooms, Kohler Art Center decided to work with six artists that had not had an opportunity to create a major public works. With six washrooms and six artists (including many helpers), they created in uncreatable bathrooms. Unfortunately, I only was able to see the main women’s bathroom. The artist that created the women’s bathroom was Cynthia Consentino from Massachusetts. I love the idea of using the exquisite corpse (cadaver exquis) for the body segments on separated titles. A little surrealism, mixed with a playful reality is what I felt gazing at the artwork. Every element that was placed seemed to have a caring and fun feel to it. The artwork reminded me of playing with paper dolls when I was little. As you look at the wall, starting from the top border are of different hats, then a floral pattern, then some pink relief titles of women dressed (exquisite corpse style), then below this was more of the same but in color, according to the outfit. The boarder by the floor was of different shoes. Each bathroom stall had its own accessories, such as undergarments. The artist Cynthia Consentino, has the perfect words for her creation, “As little girls, we play the game of dress up and paper dolls, imagining our future roles in society and the possibilities of how we can live in the …show more content…
According to the plate next to the artwork, Susie Ganch had collected used coffee cup lids for nine months at a Starbucks. Using this most unlikable material, she created an 8’ x 7’ tapestry. I had found this piece of artwork intriguing, thinking of the many days of sipping coffee and relaxing with a friend or reading a good book. On the other side, I thought, wow! This is just one person, how many lids do you think is throwaway everyday by millions of people. The yin/yang, the bad/good, and the ugly/beautiful. Susie Ganch took a wasted product and made a beautiful piece of artwork. Susie Ganch folded and arranged the lids to form and floral like pattern. With the different arrangement gives the piece a sense of different textures. In addition, the arrangement has a movement of water (swirls). She used (I think) sheared plastic bags to give it ground. These were used lids, with coffee and lips stick stains on them. I felt this gave the piece an even deeper meaning. My personal intake, with the flow of water feeling and the personal lips stick marks: That we all have a personal relationship with how our environment is becoming.The other piece of artwork, named “Drifter” was interesting, by the artist Jim Drain. This artist made a freestanding abstract sculpture from a wide range of fiber material, wood and steel. This piece was interesting with not all about the material, shape and