Carbondale Arts presents “The Flash Card Project”, a group show curated by local artist, Wewer Keohane. The exhibition will be open to the public beginning First Friday, July 3, and will be on display through July 31st.
All artwork will be up for auction online through July 29 (link will be activated on July 3). Proceeds from the auction will benefit the artists and Carbondale Arts. Viewers will be able to see an image of the original flash cards that inspired the artists’ works and are invited to enjoy the creativity that evolved from the process.
Keohane sent invitations to 75 artists, mostly living within the Roaring Fork Valley, to accept a randomly chosen flash card from her as inspiration to create artwork, and as a prompt to examine their time of isolation during the pandemic. Over 50 artists accepted the challenge.
The flash cards, originally printed by the American Guidance Service as a tool for language learning, had been in Keohane’s studio waiting for a collage project. Initially proposed as an exhibition for 2021, Keohane approached Carbondale Arts to see if an earlier date would be available. As the pandemic has postponed some spring exhibitions into 2021, a space opened up in July 2020.
Participating artists include Chris Bergstrom, Teresa Booth Brown, Pama Collé, Brian Colley, Dominique Colver, Phil Colver, Joice Davis, Lynne DeNio, Tania Dibbs, Staci Dickerson, Linda Drake, Gayle Embrey, Chris Erickson, Charles Doug Evans, Sheri Gaynor, Bill Gruenberg, Annaday Hiser, Kathy Honea, Deborah Jones, Reina Katzenberger, Scott Keating, Steve Keohane, Wewer Keohane (curator), Nicole Levesque, Nancy Lovendahl, Carol Loewenstern, Ingrid Magidson, Charles Morris, Jocelyn Murray, Alyson Muse, Lynette O'Kane, Suzan Obermeyer, Margaret Pearson, Vanessa Porras, Michael Raaum, Sondie Reiff, Kat Rich, Shannon Richardson, Erin Rigney, Andrew Roberts-Gray, Annette Roberts-Gray, Lisa Singer, Stefanie Soychak, Leslie Stoupas, Laura Stover, Lea Tawd, Lumen Tawd, Mellie Test, Felicia Trevor, Sarah Vincent-Hoag, Nannette Weinhold, Lara Whitley, and Ellen Woods.
“The Flash Card Project” is generously sponsored by Forum Phi, an award-winning Architecture & Interior Design Firm with offices in Carbondale and Aspen, Colorado. Forum Phi thoughtfully provides a collaborative architecture and interior design environment, with client-centric and sustainability-driven processes. The team specializes in design-led renovations and highly crafted new builds, with an expanding portfolio of work across the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.