Chinati Weekend 2020
Hello!
We are currently in the middle of our 5th annual Marfa Open Art Festival, a 3-4 week ongoing art ‘happening’, featuring work from over a dozen artists across a variety of mediums, backgrounds and stages of their careers. Our festival is unique in that it is approached almost like a giant collaborative art project - a continuously evolving, ever-becoming art organism (in the gallery space alone, we introduce new work almost daily). From live events and performances, to site-specific installations, film screenings, and poetry readings - nothing is out of the realm of possibility. Though we welcome a range of artists to participate locally, nationally, and internationally, this year we have restructured our festival to first and foremost focus on artists and makers who call Marfa home.
Chinati Weekend and Made in Marfa come during a time where we already have a full schedule of events planned and like everyone else, we’ve had to find ways to adapt to life in the midst of a pandemic. Check out what we have planned for this year’s 2020 Chinati “Made in Marfa” below.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, October 9, 2020
Marfa Open Gallery Tour with Emily Esperanza (2PM - 3PM)
Take a tour of our main gallery space and grounds with filmmaker and artist Emily Esperanza. Em is also co-manager of the space as well as one of the curators for our festival this year. They’ll show you around the gallery and talk about the current work on display while answering any questions viewers may have. This streamed via Instagram Live and the video from this tour has been posted over to the right in case you missed it.
Live Drawing session with Artist Britland Tracy (5PM - 6PM)
Join artist Britland Tracy as she introduces her ongoing project, ‘Bagley Family Coloring Book’, and watch as she creates a new piece from start to finish. The process usually takes an hour or two and we’ll be live-streaming the event. The videos from this demonstration will also be posted here after the live event is finished.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Live Cyanotype printmaking with Sara S’Jegers (2PM - 3PM)
Join us virtually this Saturday (10/10) and Sunday (10/11) at 2PM and watch artist Sara S’Jegers as she walks you through the process of making cyanotype prints and action paintings outside on the Marfa Open grounds.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Live Cyanotype printmaking with Sara S’Jegers (2PM - 3PM)
Join us virtually this Saturday (10/10) at 2pm and watch artist Sara S’Jegers make cyanotype prints and action paintings outside on the Marfa Open grounds. Videos will also be posted here after demonstration is concluded.
Check back here throughout the weekend for newly added events.
Streaming Options
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Marfa Open Gallery Tour
Take a tour of our main gallery space and grounds with filmmaker and artist Emily Esperanza. Em is also co-manager of the space as well as one of the curators for our festival this year. They’ll show you around the gallery and talk about the current work on display while answering any questions viewers may have.
This will be streamed via Instagram Live and the video from this tour will also be posted here after the live event is finished.
Friday 10/09: 2pm - 3pm
Saturday 10/10: 12 - 1pm
Detail of finished drawing from Britland Tracy’s ongoing series Bagley Family Coloring Book
Britland Tracy - ‘Bagley Family Coloring Book’ Live Drawing Session
Britland’s installation is centered around a collection of vintage photographic slides that were found in an antique mall in Colorado. This large collection of slides document life in the Bagley family and include typical images of the family opening Christmas presents, enjoying vacations and other candid family photos that serve to document special occasions in their past. Britland projects images of these slides onto paper mounted to a wall and she carefully traces the places and figures in the photos in ink. Once that particular slide has been documented in this way she advances to another slide where she repeats the process. After adding a third or fourth layer the resulting image is a striking work in ink that allows indication of these past images; hints of a Christmas tree, for example, are seen underneath a smiling face after blowing out the candles on a birthday cake. The final works are, like the slides themselves, a collection of hints and reminders of events that existed in the past and now exist in our memory.
We’re pleased to have you join Britland as she completes one of these pieces from start to finish. The process usually takes an hour or two and we’ll be live-streaming the event and/or recording the entire process.
Live Cyanotype printmaking with Sara S’Jegers
Join us virtually this Saturday (10/10) and Sunday (10/11) at 2pm and watch artist Sara S’Jegers as she makes cyanotype prints and action paintings outside on the Marfa Open grounds.
Invented in 1842, cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as “blueprints”. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate (an iron-based, non-toxic compound) and potassium ferricyanide. A typical
cyanotype is made by applying the chemicals to paper, creating a composition (photogram) on the page, exposing it to sunlight, and lastly, rinsing it out in water.
In this installation, the artist will use cyanotype chemicals in a more painterly fashion, applying cyanotype solution to watercolor paper, mixed
with earth, sand, and rock. Left outside for a few days, the cyanotypes are exposed to sunlight and
to the elements, recording the passing of time.