There are unique play structures and play equipment with colorful and textured pathways to create a wheelchair and sensory-enriched accessible playground.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sacramento's Southside Parkgot a makeover today that is out of this world.

It is National Painting Week and Jonnie and Friends Reach for the Stars partnered with Sherwin-Williams and the City of Sacramento to give Southside Park's playground a much-needed fresh coat of paint.

The theme of Southside Park's playground is "Universal Universe," and many rides, swings and structures revolve around the solar system theme. There are unique play structures and play equipment with colorful and textured pathways to create a wheelchair and sensory-enriched accessible playground.

Since 2011, Sherwin-Williams has partnered with community organizations around the country through its National Painting Week Program. Also, since 2019, Jonnie and Friends Reach for the Stars has worked rain or shine to restore the playground at Southside Park.

Now today, employees from Sherwin-Williams and volunteers from Jonnie and Friends repainted an interior part of the playground and touched up walkway graphics, adding bright colors to a once dull sidewalk.

"Today was a symbolic day," said Marc Laver, founder of Jonnie and Friends Reach for the Stars. "This is the collaboration to bring in more special kids and all kids to unite."

Laver was inspired to "reach for the stars" when his son, Jonnie, who struggled with meningitis complications, could not play in the park in his wheelchair when he was younger. Once he and his son came to that realization, the Laver family became advocates for adding accessible play features to the playground.

"Every child regardless of their abilities deserves to have fun and deserves a safe place to play," Laver said. "'Universal Universe' gave my son and his friends exactly that."

After his son passed away, Laver dedicated his time and energy into the community, not only making the playground accessible in memory of his own son but for other kids who deal with the same accessibility struggles.

Since it started, National Painting Week has completed more than 15,000 projects using more than 35,000 gallons of donated paint.

The future plans of Jonnie and Friends include raising private donations for more sensory-enhanced features that kids of all abilities can benefit from, partnering with the community, and developing trainings and workshops to support integrated play.

The rest is here:

Southside Park gets fresh coat of paint for National Painting Week - ABC10.com KXTV

FARMINGTON Nearly every evening, Carlton Rollins can be found selling paintings, sitting next to his car in downtown Farmington.

Rollins, 73, is a big numbers guy: he estimates that since the 1970s hes sold over 5,000, perhaps 6,000 paintings and over 2,000 rock paintings; he can clock in at up to 24 paintings and 50 rock paintings a day, he said.

Rollins hails from Harpswell, where he taught himself how to paint when he was around 10 years old. He quickly discovered art was a wonderful way to form connections and cope with the hardships of life.

In 1974, he moved to Franklin County to study art and English at the University of Maine at Farmington.

In the nearly five decades that have followed, Rollins has spent his time writing poetry and painting canvases, rocks and murals across the county in particular at his home in New Sharon and out of his car in downtown Farmington.

Rollins said his artwork has reached all 50 states, 30 countries and five continents. Hes sold to locals, Mainers, travelers and exchange students. His artwork has also sat on the walls of galleries in New York City and Farmington.

From my dooryard in New Sharon, Ive reached the world,' Rollins said he likes to say.

Hes especially proud of those figures because his favorite part of being an artist is sharing things with other people.

I love that they get uplifted, find some happiness in the poetry and art that I make, he said. I love being out in public, meeting people.

Thats one of the reasons why Rollins moved his gallery to downtown Farmington, where he can reach more people, he said.

From 5-7 p.m. most weekdays, Rollins sets up shop along the sidewalk downtown. He lays out many of his paintings atop the windshields and roof of his car, with more placed on the ground certainly a refined system.

Rollins backseat is filled with boxes of paint, other art supplies and countless more paintings many of which are works in progress.

One woman said to me, you got a whole art studio in your car!' Rollins exclaimed.

His artwork focuses on a variety of subjects whatever comes in my head, he said. He describes his artistic style as surreal impressionism.

Sometimes, he paints abstracts and landscapes, sometimes flowers, sometimes figures.

Back again to the numbers, Rollins said hes painted over 400 paintings of Clearwater Lake in Industry, 30 of Smalls Falls near Rangeley and 24 of Mt. Blue all in high demand from his clientele.

Lately, though, his favorite thing to paint is puffins and lighthouses.

However Rollins is happy to paint whatever people like which is why Clearwater Lake can be found in the many paintings for sale around his car.

Painting is in some ways a means to an end for Rollins particularly with recent rising costs of living. But Rollins said that the connection with others might sometimes come first.

He recalled a day when a group of elderly women were admiring his paintings but expressed they couldnt afford them. Rollins said it was a simple decision to give some of his paintings away to the group.

Generosity is important in all aspects of my life, he said.

A downpour begins but Rollins not leaving anytime soon; his paintings are all waterproof.

Invalid username/password.

Please check your email to confirm and complete your registration.

Use the form below to reset your password. When you've submitted your account email, we will send an email with a reset code.

Previous

Next

Link:

Meet the Farmington man who sells his paintings next to his car downtown - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

The GAF Cool Community Project recently finished a task that saw it paint 1 million square feet (92,903 square meters) of roads, playgrounds, and parking lots in the Los Angeles, California, neighborhood of Pacoima.

Although the group invited artists to paint some murals on the ground, the need for roads not being distracting means that, for the most part, drivers might not notice a change in color. They may well feel the effects of the paint, though, according to Fast Company.

Thats because the paint used is made by Streetbond, a subsidiary of GAF, and is called Invisible Shade. It promises to reflect sunlight off the streets and, hopefully, cool the community down.

Read Also: There Are 8 Parking Spots For Every Car In America, So Cities Reconsider Their Rules

The paint is being used to combat something called the urban heat island effect, in which cities become hotter than nearby rural areas. The phenomenon happens as a result of a number of factors, including the lack of trees to provide shade, the heat of human activity, and more.

One of the culprits behind the effect, though, is the vast quantities of concrete and asphalt in cities, which absorb and trap the heat, making cities feel hotter. Its a widely felt phenomenon and has led to cities like New York painting the roofs of their buildings a reflective white in order to help push out some of the heat.

The Invisible Shade paint being used for this project, though, is even cleverer. The manufacturer says that it not only reflects light in the visible spectrum, but light in the infrared spectrum, too, which is where the majority of the suns heat comes from.

Reflective paint, no matter how clever, wont solve global warming, but it can make cities feel more livable. The results of this project are just anecdotal, but so far, the paint appears to have contributed to cooling the surface of painted areas in Pacoima by 10 to 12 degrees. The company will now spend the next two years studying the effects of the paint more closely to see how successful it is.

The ultimate goal is not just to lower the ambient temperature of the community but to see how it impacts the livelihoods of people in the community, says Jeff Terry, vice president of corporate social responsibility and sustainability at GAF.

Read more:

LA Covers 1 Million Square Feet Of Roads Will Special Paint To Cool The City Down - CarScoops

Richard Schloss has been painting in Santa Barbara for 50 years.

Now hes completed another creative endeavor one 20 years in the making.

Mr. Schloss has released his first book, Painting in the Light. Mr. Schlosss book is a treatise on the way people perceive light and atmosphere and how he has painted it.

The unique thing about his book is that it is a scientific analysis from an artists perspective. It is more aesthetic than technical. His book is 160 pages long and contains more than 150 paintings.

I have been painting for 50 years in Santa Barbara. Ive never written anything except college papers, Mr. Schloss told the News-Press.

In the 1990s, one of his counselors challenged him to try something different. Youve been painting for a long time, said his counselor. So Mr. Schloss tried different styles of painting.

Mr. Schloss then had the idea of writing a book. For Mr. Schloss, his book was an idea of self-expression, a sort of a completion for me, a synopsis of what I have done.

I have taken an interest in light and the way light works and how we paint it, he said. The book is about how I approach painting the light, and how artists paint light.

During COVID-19, I started writing, and then it sort of came together. Initially it was about expressing myself and how I paint and what interests me in painting. It turned into a book so I started putting it together as a book with about 150 paintings, said Mr. Schloss.

When Mr. Schloss finished his book, he sent it to a publisher in Wisconsin. His book is based on a series of nine teaching workshops in the early 2000s. I did nine little studies representing different lighting situations as an illustration. When I wrote the book I used those nine paintings as the basis of the book, said Mr. Schloss.

The News-Press asked Mr. Schloss what he wanted readers to take from the book, and he cited a comment by local author and art critic, Richard Payatt: It is fascinating. The text is marvelous. I have learned Richard Schlosss views on light and color, and probably wont ever look at landscapes the same again. I am about halfway through the book, and the images are lovely.

The News-Press asked Mr. Schloss how he hoped his book would influence other artists: I didnt intend for it to be for artists. Artists develop on their own and have their own unique way of expressing themselves.

I dont want to tell people how to paint because it ruins their uniqueness. I wouldnt want to formulate an artist and tell them how to work, but I like the idea of an artist looking at it and seeing something different, he said. I look at the light and the space of the view. Where is the light coming from and how does the atmosphere affect it? Instead of drawing where you paint, you start with an abstract creation of light and dark, defining the space and then finding the objects in the space.

Mr. Schloss was born in 1953 in Fort Worth Texas, but worked and showed in Santa Barbara since 1972. He completed a master of fine arts in painting in 1979 and a bachelors in Italian in 1981. He initially explored many different styles and mediums, but focused on painting outside in the landscape in 1976, which he continued to do exclusively until the mid 80s. Today, he continues to paint en plein air on small paintings, but does most of his work in the studio on large paintings.

In 1980, he spent a year painting in Europe on an award-winning scholarship. In 1992, he was chosen to paint the diorama backgrounds for the Cartwright Interactions Hall of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. He has done numerous commissions for public spaces, including Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara Historical Museum and The Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

In 2015, he was offered a large, one-man show at the Museum of Ventura County. His work is included in four museums in the central California area: the Santa Barbara Historical Society, Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Ventura County.

Mr. Schloss is the only known living artist in Santa Barbara whose paintings are found in four museums, and he has been a member of Santa Barbaras Oak Group since its inception in 1986.

Mr. Schloss explained how his career influenced the writing of his book.

I think everyone should write a book because everyone knows something, he said. When you write, you crystallize in your mind what you are good at and what you know. When you write a book, actually having to write it down in a concrete way that makes sense crystalizes what you know.

Mr. Schloss explained that his book was never meant to be a financial endeavor.

It was something I wanted to do.

email: kzhender@newspress.com

FYIRichard Schloss will sign his book, Painting in the Light, at these Santa Barbara locations: 6-8 p.m. Aug. 26 at the Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery 1321 State St. (next to the Arlington Theatre). 4-6 p.m. Aug. 28: Book Den, 15 East Anapamu St.6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at Chaucers Books, 3321 State St.His book is available for sale at the Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery, Book Den, Chaucers Books and santabarbarafineart.com/product-page/painting-the-light-by-richard-schloss-book.

Read more:

Painting in the Light - Santa Barbara News-Press

When he came into the NHL, Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid was already a household name and potentially even the second Wayne Gretzky. And since then, hes taken the NHL by storm. He is not only the top center in the league, but arguably the best in the world. And, its possible that a 1645 painting could have predicted that McDavid would exist right?

Either way, Twitter user @marria19 pointed out that at El Museo del Prado in Madrid, theres a painting that is a spitting image of McDavid. And looking at it, it flat out is.

This is the Portrait of Francisco Lezcano, or the Nio de Vallecas, painted by artist Diego Velquez. Lezcano was a jester in the court of Spains Philip IV. Since 1819, the portrait has been in the museum.

Last season, McDavid led the NHL with 123 points through 80 games, marking his fifth 100-point campaign over the last six seasons. The 25-year-old also led Edmonton to the Western Conference Final.

In his monumental career, McDavid has accumulated 697 points (239 goals, 458 assists) in 487 career games in orange and white.

View original post here:

This 1645 Painting Is A Spitting Image Of Connor McDavid -- And It's Almost Scary - Washington Hockey Now

Tucked away in a discrete warehouse off Oleander Drive, a husband-and-wife duo makes and packages a product sought after by DIYers around the world.Saltwash is a powdered trademarked formula that can be added to paint to create a weathered look on furniture and other items. The secret recipe which includes sea salt, the only ingredient disclosed is crafted and poured into cans for distribution in the Wilmington warehouse by Jamie and Carol Hunter.Jamie and I do everything, said co-owner Carol Hunter. We have an auger that we mix all the ingredients in with specific ratios. We fill each can by hand. We package everything, and we ship it out all over the world.In 2010, the couple was spending time at art markets selling products from their joint home decor line, Saltwater Salvage Designs. Before creating Saltwash, they would scope out historic homes set for demolition to salvage pieces to be incorporated into new designs, seeking out a particular weathered, rustic look. Eventually, interest in purchasing this type of wood piqued, and finding it became more expensive and difficult, Carol Hunter said. Plus, continued exposure to lead-based paint had the couple thinking twice.Once we kind of got a little weary of that, we thought, Weve got to figure this out or weve got to do something else, she said.Sanding down painted wood wasnt creating the same effect the couple had previously hunted for. What we were missing was all those layers of paint and all that texture that really authentic look, she said. We needed to replicate and figure out how to get that look.The Hunters toyed with formulas in their garage and began using a version of what later became Saltwash to recreate an antique feel. Pieces for their dcor line crafted using this formula attracted attention at markets, Carol Hunter said. People were blown away, she said. So we thought, Lets package this.Using taped-on labels drawn by Jamies cousin, the couple filled cans with their Saltwash recipe and placed them on a small corner booth at a market. A Rosie the Riveter-esque pinup logo with a signature turquoise blue caught plenty of eyes.The next market, our art was in the back corner and all the Saltwash was in the front, she said. We realized thats where we needed to put our focus into because it was getting a lot of interest and gaining traction fairly quickly.With their priorities shifted, the Hunters quickly moved to submit applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. They were eligible for a patent, but because doing so required disclosing the full recipe, they opted to seek only a trademark, granted in 2016.Early on, competitors even reached out under false pretenses, acting as a customer asking about the formulation to check for allergy concerns, Carol Hunter said. People were on our heels We knew to stay ahead. To try to keep up with these big companies, we needed to move fast.During their first year, Jamie Hunter said they hand-filled 400 cans. After purchasing a machine to help fill the cans, the couple sold 10,000 by their third year.We experienced our highest growth rates during those first three years, he said.Growth continues at an organic pace; online arts and crafts creators with large followings regularly share videos using the product. One of the original sharks from Shark Tank partnered with the team in 2017, and HSN featured the product in a segment in 2020.With support from the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, Saltwash landed a distributor in Ireland, which helped spur its growth in Europe. That first year we grew from selling to nobody to being in 50 stores, Carol Hunter said. Today, she said Saltwash is sold in about 200 stores in the U.S. and roughly 200 internationally. About half of all sales come from retailers and half are direct-to-consumer from the brands online shop.One of her favorite qualities about the product is how easy it is for beginning crafters to use, Carol Hunter said. It doesnt take somebody whos really experienced to use the product, and you dont have to be somebody whos always painting and always crafting and DIYing, she said. It can be very satisfying.SALTWASH

2605 1/2 Oleander Drive,28403

Number of employees:

Year founded: 2013

Top local officials: Carol and Jamie Hunter, co-owners and founders

Company description: Saltwash is a manufacturer of a paint additive that creates an authentic aged effect. The paint additive explores various faux effects weathered, rusty, vintage applied to furniture and various surfaces.

Products made locally: The original product, Saltwashs powdered paint additive, is made and packaged in the Oleander Drive warehouse. Saltwash offers various sizes, kits and accessories.

Product distribution: Carol Hunter: We have distributors set up in Europe, in Australia, Dominican Republic, New Zealand we have a lot of distribution.

What made the company decide to make its goods locally? Hunter: When youre starting out small and youre a small family business, it was cheapest for us to work right out of our garage ... Eventually we grew out of the garage and we expanded, we started doing sales worldwide basically, and so we looked for bigger workshops. Its so nice to be able to work in Wilmington Were fortunate to be able to make it work here.

Whats your target market? Hunter: Furniture flippers, a lot of DIYers, crafters, furniture painters using it to create different faux effects. Anything along that creative market outlet for anybody. Its easy to use so it takes some of the guesswork out of it.

See more here:

MADE: Paint additive becomes salty success - Greater Wilmington Business Journal

This week at Crooked Tree Arts Center in Traverse City, weve been putting on Paint Grand Traverse, our plein air (outdoor) painting festival and competition. Now in our fifth year, Paint Grand Traverse features outstanding artists from across the country. They come to Traverse City to paint, sell artwork, and compete for major awards. The week also features events for spectators, students, art collectors, and kids and families. The mission of Paint Grand Traverse is to celebrate the beauty of our region, and to make fine art fun and accessible to all.

The term plein air is French, and translates to in open air. Plein air artists work outside in natural light to capture the mood and atmosphere of a scene. While the practice of making art from life goes back millenia, the plein air movement really took off in the early 1800s. Developments in pre-mixed oil paints and portable easels collided with the French Impressionists interest in depicting light and natural, candid scenes. Today, plein air painting enjoys enduring popularity with artists and art lovers around the world. Paint Grand Traverse is a relatively new entrant among national plein air events, but it is quickly becoming a bucket list festival for professional plein air painters and art collectors alike.

Over the course of this week, our 36 featured artists have created well over 200 paintings depicting scenes from Leelanau County, Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City, and Elk Rapids.

Paint Grand Traverse includes several featured painting locations, which are great places for spectators to catch artists at work. Featured locations this week included The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, Black Star Farms, Dougherty Mission House, Suttons Bay Ciders, Twisted Fish Gallery, Delamar Resort, and more. When the artists werent at one of these locations, they were free to follow their bliss, and seek out their own inspiring views and vistas.

The marquee event of the week is this evenings Collectors Gala. Tonight, we will unveil the juried collection of artwork, and announce our major award winners. Guests will also enjoy creative tasting tables, wine, live music, and have the first opportunity to shop the collection. As of press time, Gala tickets are still available and can be ordered through our website at paintgrandtraverse.com/GALA.

Tomorrow, Saturday, were debuting a new Paint Grand Traverse event, an art-themed Community Block Party.

Its a full day of free, family-friendly art activities at Crooked Tree Arts Center and Hannah Park on Sixth Street.

The day includes a Pint-Sized Paint Out for Kids in the morning, Quick Paint Competition in the afternoon, live music, food, and a street fair. Its also the public premier of the Paint Grand Traverse week artwork in our galleries. We couldnt think of a more perfect way to wrap up our fifth annual event than to throw a party for the friends, neighbors, and visitors who have helped make Paint Grand Traverse a great addition to summer in Traverse City!

We are making critical coverage of the coronavirus available for free. Please consider subscribing so we can continue to bring you the latest news and information on this developing story.

Read the original here:

Creatively Centered: Paint Grand Traverse wraps week with gala, block party - Traverse City Record Eagle

The Marketplace at Pirna

A decades-long battle over ownership of a painting once sold to Adolf Hitler's art collector was recently resolved in favor of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

"The Marketplace at Pirna" by Bernardo Bellotto has been a part of the museum's collection since 1961. However, the grandchildren of Max Emden, a German Jewish art collector, claim that he was coerced into selling the piece to Hitler's art collector Karl Haberstock in the 1930s.

The family argued they should have ownership of the painting as his heirs, but a ruling by a federal judge earlier this month will keep the painting at MFAH.

The Monuments Men and Women, who work to return "cultural treasures" to their rightful owners, recovered the painting along with two others by Bellotto following World War II. Emden had sold all three to Haberstock in June of 1938 for 60,000 Swiss francs.

Monuments Men Foundation Chairman Robert Edsel, a guest on Tuesday's Houston Matters, said the group sent the painting to the Netherlands after the Dutch government claimed in 1946 that they were searching for it.

However, there are "multiple versions" of a Bellotto painting under the same name, Edsel said.

"(The Monuments Men and Women) erroneously thought that one of these three paintings of Emden's was the painting that the Netherlands was looking for," Edsel told Houston Matters.

The Dutch government restituted that painting to art dealer Hugo Moser, who claimed the painting was his, MFAH wrote in a July 2021 statement. But Edsel said Moser was mistaken, and when he realized the mix up, "fraudulently" removed labels from the back of the painting and sold it to a collector who later donated it to MFAH.

"They acquired it as a consequence of a clerical error, compounded by a fraud," Edsel told Houston Matters.

But Thaddeus Stauber, MFAH legal counsel, told Houston Matters that the museum is justified in its possession of the painting, and that the sale was not made under duress.

Stauber said that when the claim by Emden's heirs was brought to the museum's attention in 2007, he and Laurie Stein a specialist in World War II-era provenance research found evidence that their ancestor had left Germany in the 1920s and moved to an island in Switzerland where he housed his art collection. Emden initiated and conducted the sale of "The Marketplace at Pirna" to Haberstock through Jewish Gallerist Anni Caspari, museum officials said.

While Stauber acknowledged Emden may have felt some level of stress in Germany during Hitler's rule, he claims that Emden did not face the same level of pressure while in Switzerland and that it was his decision to sell.

"After the war, we discovered that Mr. Emdens son had submitted for claims of property that was lost in Germany, but had made no claims to these particular artworks," Stauber said.

U.S. District Court Judge Keith P. Ellison dismissed the suit on May 2 on the basis that the court could not interfere with the choices of other sovereign governments under the "Act of State" doctrine, referring to the role of the Dutch government in "mistakenly" returning it to Moser.

MFAH has maintained that Haberstock met Emden's asking price of 60,000 Swiss francs, which was received in Emden's Swiss bank account, and that no evidence of coercion has been confirmed.

Emden's heirs are permitted to appeal the U.S. federal court's decision or file another lawsuit in the future.

Fill out the form below to subscribe our new daily editorial newsletter from the HPM Newsroom.

See more here:

Court sides with MFAH in dispute over painting once sold to Hitlers art collector - Houston Public Media

Photo Taken In Milwaukee, United States

Ever since he was a young boy growing up in Milwaukee on the shores of Lake Michigan, Khari Turner (b. 1991) has been drawn to water. Turner has found a unique way of continuing that connection by incorporating water sourced from lakes, rivers and oceans with personal associations or connections to Black history into his contemporary figurative paintings.

To reflect the composition of the human body, he mixes paints composed of almost 60% water. He also uses his found water as a primer applied to canvases before painting.

Now through July 10, 2022, the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, WI presents Turners first solo museum show in his home state, Mirroring Reflection, showcasing his work in a gallery overlooking the Milwaukee River, a source the artist has drawn water from for use in paintings on view in the show.

Khari Turner, Flower of the Lake, 2022. Acrylic, oil, ink, charcoal, sand, African mahogany, water ... [+] from: Coast of Senegal, lower Manhattan docks, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee River, Pacific Ocean.

Water was always prevalent in terms of spaces to think and spaces for me to really start questioning what do I want to do with my life, how do I want to move forward; or if I was having a tough time I'd just sit next to water, Turner told Forbes.com.

The show features 26 of his water-infused works.

It was always so calming, he remembers about coming of age around water, adding with a chuckle, and then I used to skip rocks all time.

Turners paintings are highly symbolic, combining abstract and realistic renderings of Black figures to underscore the spiritual and physical relationship of his ancestors to water. Any discussion of Black life and history in America where it connects to water must trace its roots back to the Transatlantic slave trade. Turner approaches that reality from a different perspective.

I used to try making art about that trauma, but (I thought) it's not helpful to people who are already looking at this work and know about it, Turner said.

Instead of belaboring the point, reproducing the anguish being expressed by countless other artists, he found a different way of putting the water to use.

It helps me to be able to create work with this material because I can handle having all of that information, all of the atrocities of slavery and also all of the ideas around migration and travel, but I don't have to make imagery that displays that because the material does it already, you know where these materials came from, Turner explains.

The bodies of Black ancestors thrown overboard between Africa and the Americas decomposed in the water. They became one with it. A part of them returns through Turners paintings when he sources water from the ocean.

The material tells that terrible story sufficiently.

Then I am allowed to create images of happiness and joy, but never anything that has to deal with the trauma from that water, Turner said. The water does all the heavy lifting. That frees me up as an artist to be able to create images saying I know that there's this history, but I choose to live along with it in a way that I can still talk about joy.

Khari Turner, River Steps, 2022, Acrylic, oil, ink, charcoal, African mahogany, water from: Coast of ... [+] Senegal, lower Manhattan docks, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee River, Pacific Ocean.

Doing so reveals a more authentic self.

It felt like it was a lot more personal and it was a better message if I (could take that water) and apply it to (joy)we will still ride bikes, we're still going to the park, we still are having a good time, Turner said, referencing imagery from his paintings. (Trauma from water) is a part of history, and you should know this is a part of history, but I'm not going to stop being an artist. I'm going to be here doing what I want to do and I want to be able to create joy even though I know this history.

Mirroring Reflection follows Turners solo international debut at the 2022 Venice Biennale this past spring where a presentation of his paintings remains on view through November at Palazzo Bembo to coincide with the ongoing Super Bowl of contemporary art.

He spent the month of May in Stockholm, Sweden preparing a show of entirely new work for exhibition there this summer.

Coming off a residency during the pandemic in Venice, CA with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University to his credit, the increasingly global artist who now lives in Brooklyn is undoubtedly on the verge of a major career breakthrough.

Despite that international success, Turner considers the MOWA show an early career highpoint.

The people who really influenced my work or who grew up seeing me got to see that show, he said. My high school art teacher came to that show and people who I used to work with, so it's really an amazing moment. Venice is great and hopefully one day I get my own pavilion to represent the United States, but it was definitely different being able to give back to (my) community, making artwork and showing it, (hoping) this might remind (visitors) of home because a lot of these images are based on me growing up (in Milwaukee)kids on bikes, going to the pool, sitting in class.

Museum of Wisconsin Art; West Bend, WI; HGA Architects and Engineers.

For additional insight into Turners evolution as a man and artist, he recommends a visit to Klode Park in Whitefish Bay, a community just north of downtown Milwaukee and less than an hours drive from MOWA.

It's the best park I've ever been to and is really where I got a lot of my motivation and where I grab water from when I use Lake Michigan water for work that I make, Turner said. That park is set up where you see Lake Michigan, but the land around it curves on each side so you don't see any of the city and it's mostly all trees and when you look out into it, it feels like you're looking at the ocean.

Looking into a Khari Turner painting.

Follow this link:

Water Inspires And Imbues Milwaukee Native Khari Turners Joyful Paintings - Forbes

As part of our ongoing "Getting to Know Your Local Businesses" series,we sat down this week with Dave Cole, owner of Coastal Painting Associates.

How did you decide to get involved in this line of work? How did the business get started?After over 20 years as a Corporate Recruiter and Manager I decided to return to my roots. I began painting in high school and later worked part-time in a hardware store mixing and selling paint. So, I was familiar with the products and processes.

Tell us a couple things you are proud of about your business. What are you known for? What separates you from the competition?We pride ourselves on our flexibility to meet our customers needs, our attention to detail, and our fluid processes. We recognize the hardship a paint project adds to our clients lives and view our role as making this as painless as possible. We operate under the camping motto: leave it cleaner than you found it!

What is your favorite part of running this business?Seeing the finished project and the satisfaction on the faces of our clients! Thats really what its all about.

Who is your ideal customer/client? Who do you serve best?Those who appreciate quality work and view their home as an investment they want to protect and be proud of.

Are there any special promotions, annual sales, or special events that you'd like to mention?Currently we are offering 15% Off any painting project.

Is there any other information you'd like your potential customers/clients to know about your business?We are A+ BBB Rated (we are accredited), insured and our references are amazing! The thing I hear most often from my clients is that we respond. We have old school integrity, and it shows!

How do you see your business growing and improving over the next couple of years?We have incorporated new systems internally this year and will continue to look for technology to help run the business. Houston is growing and so are we!

Read more here:

Interview With Dave Cole of Coastal Painting Associates - Kingwood