Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Berg will produce an iconographic, abstract depiction of a wilderness landscape made of sixteen two size panels visually connected by collage images, color, shape, and texture and displayed as large abstract mural landscape.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre.
Teresa Audet: Artist and furniture maker; Loretta Day: Art director, ROHO Collective; freelance artist and curator; Emily Donovan Carney: Multimedia artist; Lois Peterson: Visual artist; retired art professor at Gustavus Adolphus College; Nathaniel Wunrow: Proposal writer, bibliotheca; Leah Yellowbird: Artist; Arts Board grantee; Cameron Zebrun: Sculptor and photographer
ACHF Arts Access
Produce sixteen panels in two sizes visually connected by collage images, color, shape and texture to be displayed as single abstract mural landscape. I will evaluate the project at collage workshops and by visiting with guests at a reception. I will provide a guestbook for comments and create a questionnaire to gather viewers reflections about collage, each painting and the series as a landscape. 2: I will expand my collage artistry using images, with bolder abstract shapes and color to create panels set alongside to also become a vivid landscape. Evaluating my success using abstract elements of color, shape and intricate images to create a landscape with a powerful sensory impact will be accomplished by visiting with guests, reviewing their comments and responses to discover their sentiments.
I produced eight unique 24'x24'collage panels unified by images and color. The panels hung side by side to form a single sixteen foot abstract mural landscape. I evaluated the project by gathering viewers reflections about collage, each painting and the series as a landscape at two solo exhibition receptions, at a gallery gathering, at a Zoom interactive discussion and reading comments left in my guestbook. 2: I was able to expand my collage artistry using images, abstract shapes and bold color to create eight panels that became a single sixteen foot vivid landscape. I evaluated my success using color, shape and images in the eight paintings joined to become a sixteen foot landscape. I sought visitors views about collage, each painting and the complete landscape at two receptions, a Zoom discussion and reading my gues