00:22:31 Rachel Storm (she/her): Sounds Like Community is a great space for the arts! 00:23:03 Karthik Kakarala: WRFU is here! 00:24:04 104.5 FM WRFU: we are live 00:28:01 UC-IMC person: Thanks DJ BJ! 00:28:18 Karthik Kakarala: DJ BJ Clark, the BEST! 00:28:26 Shaya She/Her: Happy Wednesday everyone 00:29:13 Karthik Kakarala: Always a Happy Wednesday when Shaya wishes it! 💖 00:30:06 Rachel Storm (she/her): Use the chat to share your reactions, comments, and any feedback the artists! We will be asking you "what stayed with you, what was strong?" in the Q and A. 00:30:18 Rachel Storm (she/her): I love pour painting! Gorgeous work. 00:30:29 Rachel Storm (she/her): Beautiful work, Lidia! 00:30:30 Karthik Kakarala: Loving the painting experimentation people have been doing 00:30:32 Lidia Turner: Thank you! I had fun creating this piece. 00:30:55 Lidia Turner: Thank you so much for the support! 00:31:07 Karthik Kakarala: Speaking of! precision and happy accidents/blending 00:31:09 Rachel Storm (she/her): Shannon's work is so awesome. The mantra of "take up space" was our campaign for building the Women's Center on campus way back when! 00:31:44 Karthik Kakarala: Not just any hope, renewal! 00:31:48 Rachel Storm (she/her): Ahhhh! Ja Nelle! 00:32:32 Karthik Kakarala: A lot of good utilization of color on text tonight! 00:32:35 Shaya She/Her: Kaaaaayyyy 00:32:41 Rachel Storm (she/her): Kay is my former intern at UAC! I'm so glad Kay is still building amazing skills in graphic art! 00:32:44 UC-IMC person: Yeah Kay! 00:32:45 Rachel Storm (she/her): <3!!!! 00:32:58 Rachel Storm (she/her): Mel, I am such a sucker for painting eyes also! 00:33:31 Shaya She/Her: These are beautiful 00:33:33 Karthik Kakarala: Photography that can look so painterly! 00:33:37 Rachel Storm (she/her): Gorgeous. 00:33:59 Karthik Kakarala: My heart, at this anatomical heart! 00:34:01 Rachel Storm (she/her): OOOF, I feel this in my heart! 00:34:23 Rachel Storm (she/her): And the question becomes, how do we work to make a world where all are okay? <3 00:34:31 Karthik Kakarala: Front line! 00:34:39 Rachel Storm (she/her): Bingyu! I love this design! 00:34:51 Rachel Storm (she/her): Thank you to all the medical workers! 00:35:01 Rachel Storm (she/her): Ruth, this one is so compelling. 00:35:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): Just beautifully layered. 00:35:11 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Gorgeous and interesting 00:35:20 Karthik Kakarala: What a good combo for depicting something so vivid 00:35:26 Hadi Meidani: Amazing! 00:35:29 Rachel Storm (she/her): I remember the fires and feeling so helpless. 00:35:56 Kinsey Fitzgerald: nice collage and memorial! 00:35:59 Lidia Turner: It’s so interesting to see how this pandemic affected everyone in different and similar ways…but the way to express it is totally unique. 00:36:04 Karthik Kakarala: Some day indeed 00:36:41 Karthik Kakarala: This chaos tree, though 00:37:06 UC-IMC person: Love this one! 00:37:21 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Aww! Puppies, and kids! they keep you smiling. 00:37:28 Rachel Storm (she/her): This one is so beautiful Jihee. 00:37:33 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Yes, Jihee! 00:37:41 Rachel Storm (she/her): Kim, I love these so much! 00:37:42 Karthik Kakarala: Love the use of materials, here 00:38:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): Yes, love some of the local ties to those featured! 00:38:10 Rachel Storm (she/her): Kinsey! 00:38:19 Rachel Storm (she/her): This one speaks to my experience of the pandemic. 00:38:21 Rachel Storm (she/her): :P 00:38:42 Karthik Kakarala: Often bars are painted or drawn, but rarely does the canvas itself evoke the feeling 00:38:54 Rachel Storm (she/her): I love the playfulness of this one, Nick. That moustache! 00:39:17 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Thanks, Karthik and Rachel! 00:39:18 Rachel Storm (she/her): This is a slice of peace. 00:39:31 Karthik Kakarala: It sure does, Ann 00:39:42 Karthik Kakarala: As real and surreal as it gets, in a single image 00:39:44 Rachel Storm (she/her): Has anyone else felt a renewed connection with nature through this pandemic? 00:39:51 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Yes! 00:40:00 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Gorgeous, Jess! 00:40:01 Karthik Kakarala: Oil paintings! a medium of patience 00:40:12 Rachel Storm (she/her): These are so compelling, Jess! Birth, renewal, etc. 00:40:13 Melia kh she/her: where can i find the recording once it is out? 00:40:54 UC-IMC person: The video is on facebook now on Urbana Arts and Culture page 00:41:06 Lidia Turner: Love this poem!!! 00:41:36 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Wow… so relatable literally, girl, same. 00:41:42 Mark Enslin (he/him): Overpopulated loneliness! 00:41:48 Rachel Storm (she/her): Yes, please share the video from any of the sponsors pages! It's uploaded to @UrbanaArtsandCulture on Facebook. 00:43:22 Rachel Storm (she/her): Drips from the dreams of my ancestors. <3 00:43:24 Karthik Kakarala: Thank you so much DoMonique 00:43:29 Rachel Storm (she/her): Beautiful lines. 00:43:31 UC-IMC person: I love that reading 00:43:44 Karthik Kakarala: Speaking of the importance of nature 00:44:33 Rachel Storm (she/her): Return of color actually is quite a theme in some of these works! 00:44:38 Karthik Kakarala: This acrylic painting practically looks like a watercolor though! 00:44:58 Rachel Storm (she/her): And really aligns with my experience of spring and the hope that I think perhaps we're feeling more and more. 00:45:00 Lidia Turner: Amazing 00:45:03 Karthik Kakarala: love the use of physical items here 00:45:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): This is STUNNING. 00:45:30 Rachel Storm (she/her): Forced to quarantine with violence is a topic not enough discussed! 00:45:51 Karthik Kakarala: What inventive ways to discuss unmentioned concerns! 00:46:05 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Ah the cover itself! such a great rendering 00:46:09 Kinsey Fitzgerald: covid* 00:46:28 Rachel Storm (she/her): Submissions came from middle schoolers through older adults for PAAPTC! 00:46:49 Rachel Storm (she/her): Sierra, this work is stunning. 00:46:56 Rachel Storm (she/her): I would love to see you continue it! 00:47:00 Rachel Storm (she/her): What important work! 00:47:01 Karthik Kakarala: charcoal has its own vibrancy 00:47:08 Karthik Kakarala: Another wonderful oil painting!! 00:47:15 Rachel Storm (she/her): Sara Jahn! This is so beautiful. 00:47:20 Rachel Storm (she/her): POWERFUL WORK. <3 00:48:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): i love the sisterhood series, Cindy! 00:48:19 Karthik Kakarala: Awh, Kayla 00:48:23 Rachel Storm (she/her): KAYLA!!! 00:48:28 Lidia Turner: So true 00:49:03 Rachel Storm (she/her): Camille! That is so good. 00:49:13 Karthik Kakarala: These observations will be crucial for a future that may try to forget the last year 00:49:34 Rachel Storm (she/her): Dan, this song breaks me. I cried when I first heard it. 00:49:48 Rachel Storm (she/her): And that's a compliment! ;) 00:50:36 Lidia Turner: Sad, beautiful song and voice… 00:51:02 Rachel Storm (she/her): So many of us experienced unimaginable loss this year. 00:51:23 Kinsey Fitzgerald: It has been a tough tough year… 00:52:09 Karthik Kakarala: Wonderful, Dan 00:52:14 Rachel Storm (she/her): "Wiped the counters, swept the floor. Took her name down off the door. […] Oof! 00:53:18 Rachel Storm (she/her): I love that hope steps in! 00:53:37 Rachel Storm (she/her): Cassandra--heck yes! Whole poetry book! Can't wait to do a reading! 00:53:53 Lidia Turner: I applaud you Cassandra! 00:53:56 Rachel Storm (she/her): Love Nathan's work. Sustainability and art! 00:56:51 Lidia Turner: Fantastic… 00:57:10 Karthik Kakarala: The power with when the concept of Hope gets evoked, there 00:57:12 Rachel Storm (she/her): Thank you, Ashanti! 00:57:28 Karthik Kakarala: I love the edge of the water in that last painting 00:57:50 Rachel Storm (she/her): Such important evocations of the change we need in these artworks from everyone. 00:57:54 Lidia Turner: Powerful 00:58:07 Rachel Storm (she/her): Sasha, I love the play with color in your work. Wowza! 00:58:10 Karthik Kakarala: “Pinned in the moment” such weight, such expanse 00:58:41 Rachel Storm (she/her): Also, can I be this lady? ;) I resemble the one staring at the ceiling from bed! :P 00:58:51 Karthik Kakarala: Ralph!!!! 00:59:36 Karthik Kakarala: I loooooove this piece 00:59:39 Kinsey Fitzgerald: I love seeing this character living through what we have, Sasha! She (lady in red ) always seemed so unbothered in a nice life but, she is apart of our world. 01:00:30 Karthik Kakarala: Every time I experience this piece though, I also have to avoid YouTube for a full day!! 01:01:17 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Everyday of lockdown.... 01:02:24 Rachel Storm (she/her): Is that a bassoon that has come to the party? 01:02:55 Rachel Storm (she/her): Clarinets are all: "Get out! This is our place!" ;) 01:04:07 Rachel Storm (she/her): This does seem like my lockdown experience. 01:04:44 Karthik Kakarala: Yes, Sheila! 01:04:50 Rachel Storm (she/her): Sheila and Ashanti and WHO ELSE are healthcare workers! 01:04:51 Lidia Turner: So beautiful… 01:04:58 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Sheila! Amazing! 01:05:03 Rachel Storm (she/her): I'm so glad art provides respite and care for you! 01:05:11 Rachel Storm (she/her): (And it's stunning!) 01:05:15 Rachel Storm (she/her): Yay, Anna! 01:05:18 Karthik Kakarala: speaking of powerful photography 01:05:22 Rachel Storm (she/her): These are stunning photos. 01:05:23 Sheila Parinas: thanks Kinsey :) 01:05:53 Lidia Turner: What a year we went through.. 01:06:02 Rachel Storm (she/her): So very much has happened. 01:06:19 Rachel Storm (she/her): Time has felt like a bit of a fiction to me! Somehow the shortest and the longest year. 01:06:41 Lidia Turner: And it seemed surreal 01:06:42 Sheila Parinas: I am loving this! I am working on stuff for finals week right now, and am so glad that a recording is up for things I will have to miss 01:06:53 Karthik Kakarala: I know that feel, Sheila! 01:07:06 Karthik Kakarala: elizaBeeeeth!! 01:08:28 UC-IMC person: I can't abide! 01:09:06 Karthik Kakarala: A new favorite use of raven imagery 01:11:01 Rachel Storm (she/her): Beth's voice is always so calming! And yet such a poignant message. Love that duality! 01:11:29 Rachel Storm (she/her): STUNNING WORK Kim! 01:11:35 Kinsey Fitzgerald: wow 01:11:41 Rachel Storm (she/her): Also, can we all come hang in your studio!? ;) 01:11:42 Karthik Kakarala: I like that 01:11:47 Karthik Kakarala: “Afforestation” 01:12:09 Karthik Kakarala: Some strong collage work going on in different approaches tonight! 01:12:23 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Sooooo dope 01:12:25 Rachel Storm (she/her): I love the work of BLACKMAU (Black Kirby AKA Stacey Robinson and MAU AKA Kamau Grantham)! 01:12:39 Rachel Storm (she/her): Beautiful work, Anne! 01:13:03 Rachel Storm (she/her): "The living and the dead" - yes! How do we keep connected? Great questions. 01:13:13 Rachel Storm (she/her): Urbana Amble was so fun! 01:13:35 Rachel Storm (she/her): (BTW Urbana Amble WILL be happening again this July 17th and 18th!) 01:14:05 Karthik Kakarala: Crystal I LOVE this. 01:14:38 Crystal Hartman (she/her): Thank you Karthik!! 01:15:02 Crystal Hartman (she/her): So honored and grateful to be a part of this… xx 01:15:28 Rachel Storm (she/her): I want to experience this in Immersion's sound dome! Or in a empty museum room. Just surrounding me! 01:15:32 Rachel Storm (she/her): It is so layered! 01:15:40 Karthik Kakarala: Yes! @ the immersion dome! 01:15:58 Karthik Kakarala: But we should all want to be surrounded and supported by Crystal’s voice, also 01:16:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): Ive listened to it a few times and keep catching new moments! 01:16:44 UC-IMC person: I love it!! 01:16:51 UC-IMC person: Maybe it could be a hat? 01:16:58 UC-IMC person: hehe . . . that would be silly! 01:18:17 Karthik Kakarala: A more overt and longform compassionate take on the plants so many folks have adopted, this last year 01:18:31 Rachel Storm (she/her): "...when we come back out." I love that. 01:18:47 Rachel Storm (she/her): I fell into the quarantine plant trap, too! 01:18:56 Lidia Turner: Love your positive attitude! 01:19:24 Rachel Storm (she/her): McQueen family, I love how you are creative together. #familygoals 01:20:34 Kinsey Fitzgerald: This is exquisite!!!! 01:20:56 Rachel Storm (she/her): Awesome! 01:25:05 Rachel Storm (she/her): debradomal.com - share your COVID number story. 01:25:55 Karthik Kakarala: A lot of different media takes on meditations and meditative states, today 01:26:08 Karthik Kakarala: Another dose of elizaBeth! 01:26:38 Rachel Storm (she/her): I love EZB's voice so much. 01:27:00 Rachel Storm (she/her): So many layered works in this show--of all kinds visual, poetric, musical... 01:27:32 Karthik Kakarala: There’s so many terrific ways to use looping, I love it! 01:28:11 Lidia Turner: Loved the way this show was put together! 01:28:14 Kinsey Fitzgerald: I really enjoyed the closing the show with that piece by elizaBeth.. good job curator!!! 01:28:20 Karthik Kakarala: A lot of great results from filtering/carving in those layers 01:28:35 Carol Inskeep: What a phenomenal experience, watching this. Big thank us to every contributor. 01:29:10 Lidia Turner: Thank you for this opportunity! 01:30:49 Crystal Hartman (she/her): Submitted and so happy I did… it was wonderful to join this opening reception and see all the work!! 01:31:24 Dan Gilbert: Dan Gilbert had to tuck in children. But we all loved the work before bedtime. 01:32:14 Dan Gilbert: Sorry he’s not here 01:34:43 Karthik Kakarala: the mark seemed to not be there, so I toggled it again and it’s OPEN SEASON on unmuting! 01:36:38 Crystal Hartman (she/her): Thank you thank you! 01:38:14 Mark Enslin (he/him): onyx - afforestations - Ashanti’s rhymes - Anne’s brush strokes interacting - masked collage beings crossing the police line 01:39:22 Kinsey Fitzgerald: Love your mask and meaning! 01:39:32 Mark Enslin (he/him): Ja Nelle’s puzzle 01:44:41 Lidia Turner: Thank you so much!!! 01:45:04 Sharon Irish (she, her): thank you everyone! 01:45:05 Mark Enslin (he/him): Thanks for multilayered art and inspiring meessages 01:45:22 Rachel Storm (she/her): Wonderful work, everyone!