The artist Daniel Arsham posted a handwritten list of answers to this question on Instagram today: What is the job of the artist? Arsham’s answers: Reframe the present Interdimensional narrative Reveal the unseen Interpret the era Make joy and sadness Time travel Re-present the familiar as strange and unusual Provoke Read more…
I feel scattered in my creative interests and actions. I create this and that, pull on this creative thread and then pull that one, and follow where they go. I am drawn to a lot of ideas and ways of visually expressing them. So my interests spread, and my skills Read more…
DETAILS: Adam Williams will be giving an artist talk on his photographic series, Reverence: Portraits of Natures Mortes, at 5:30 p.m. on July 15, at Kreuser Gallery in Colorado Springs. It will be a small group (max. 15), given the pandemic circumstances. Attendees will wear masks and maintain distances for Read more…
I have written little about myself, as the creator of Humanitou, on this site. After I interviewed Yves Sturdevant for Humanitou in June 2019, she said she was curious to know something of my story. She proposed getting together again so she could interview me. I said yes. When Yves Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
Several faces and stories of Humanitou will be featured next month when Kreuser Gallery exhibits “Community.” The show is a collaboration of several local artists, including Abigail Kreuser, Julie Kirkland, Chris Alvarex, Muriah Allen, Lori Sprague, Brian Tryon and me, Adam Williams. The opening of “Community” is 5 – 9 Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
There’s an energetic shift underway in David Gonzales’ art studio. In a small work space with David’s name on the exterior, the artist taps into a dynamic flow of one kind or another. The obvious: painting, nearly an aerobic workout in its rhythms. Most often vibrant in its colors. Always Read more…
Brian Tryon is developing rolls of 35-millimeter film in a darkroom. He unfurls a roll he’s already processed and holds it to the light to get an early look at what’s there. Whatever he sees there, it’s a success. “Even if it’s not ideally what I wanted, it’s still, ‘I Read more…
Stephanie Yu carries a story of risk and empowerment, creativity and curiosity. It’s one that extends through multiple generations, continents and cultural divides. When we sat down to talk at Wilder Bag Co., Stephanie’s curated second-hand clothing and handmade jewelry shop in Eclectic CO, we dived into what makes her Read more…
Larry Kledzik has worked as an artist for going on 60 years. His art deeply intertwines with his philosophical perspectives. Sometimes viewers don’t know how to take in his work. Sometimes that touches some nerves. Larry, 73, sat down with Humanitou and shined light on the processes and subliminal messages Read more…
In “The Last American Indian on Earth,” Gregg Deal has a lot to say — even when he’s not actually speaking. Maybe he is existing silently in a public space, walking through a shopping mall or standing on a city sidewalk. Maybe he’s ripping through the scene on one of Read more…
As a young man, Harry Bernstein dreamed of being a novelist. He failed. Until he published three memoirs between ages 96 and 98. Carmen Herrera was a contemporary of such art stars as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the mid-20th century. It wasn’t until she turned 94 years of Read more…
A prose poem from a hike with my sons in Bear Creek Canyon in Colorado. Caretaker’s House They call it creepy and want to leave. But first they ask me to knock on the front door of the cottage painted in government tanyellow, capped with a roof of corrugated brown. Read more…
I spend a lot of time in self-inquiry. Always have, but now it’s in much more frequent, even formalized, ways with yoga and poetry and creativity. Even in Humanitou conversations, when I’m asking questions of others, it’s honest probe into myself by way of our common humanness. Immersion in one’s Read more…
A chance encounter in May 2017 has played an integral role in the existence of Humanitou. It started with my playing hooky from work on a Friday to go soak in the mineral waters at SunWater Spa in Manitou Springs, Colo. I was looking to clear space in my mind. Read more…
I lived a summer in a backpack in Europe. In hostels and trains. In two alternating sets of T-shirts and shorts, and a pair of sandals. I roamed the continent alone shooting 35 mm film and writing things that I sure hope will reemerge from boxes or journals I’ve yet Read more…