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INTRODUCING 
GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITY: An initiative of the Southern Oregon Guild

HERE’S WHAT WE SEE 

Our communities are bursting with folks we call Creatives – people doing unique things, thinking unusual ways, and doing things that generate beauty, ideas, and other kinds of contributions to the local worlds we live in. Many of these folks don’t think of themselves as “artists” or “craftspeople”. They just do what they love. 

  • A woman who is tatting, having learned that almost lost fine thread craft from her grandmother… A man who is saving the seeds of his great grandparents’ cabbages or wheat…
  • A person who learned the oldest fine points of working with metals from an older family member or neighbor and now recovers old cars or machines, or one who learned the finer points and risks of beekeeping, or…  All are Creatives, people who honor mastery of a way to make something or to make something happen.
  • There are also those who use words or music or their bodies to point to what we need to care about or just to help us live in a moment of deep reflection or joy. These are also Creatives, but sometimes living their creative lives off on a quiet street or in some kind of doldrum, rather than sharing that special part of who they are with the rest of us, with community.  
  • How can we come together? How can we come out of our small private worlds into a larger world where we can learn and grow and where we can become part of a gossamer web of connections that both support our personal world and offer strength and cohesion to the larger world around us? 

At the Southern Oregon Guild, this is the picture of our everyday reality that we see, as well as the questions that we have been asking about how best to live in our local worlds. All kinds of Creatives are caring and reflective people who could be a potent positive force for cohesion, health, and strength for our communities. It is with this belief that we at the Southern Oregon Guild offer our GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

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Deadline to apply: February 26th at 11:59pm PST
Event Dates: May 15th through July 18th, 2021

Being described as an outdoor art adventure, Art Beyond will be an outdoor art exhibition focusing on sculptural and installation based artworks. Taking place in and around Ashland, OR, it will be the first of its kind for our region. We have lined up site partners for locating the artworks and space is limited. Artists interested in applying will have until Friday, February 26th by 11:59pm to apply. You will be notified soon after.

Rules and Regulations
All artists are responsible for installation and de-installation of their artworks. Dates for this will be coordinated with your site host. All artworks must be intended for outdoor use, sustaining the elements 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Schneider Museum of Art and site hosts are not responsible for any incidents that may occur to the artworks. By applying to this event, all participants acknowledge the risk involved.

Artists selected will be highlighted on the forthcoming Art Beyond website. Signage located at the sites will have QR codes that will bring audiences to your page on the website explaining the artwork as well as providing your contact information for possible inquiries.

Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To apply https://forms.gle/bmmVuqeFpBedWndL6

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February 16: Hahrie Han

Our 2020–21 Consider This conversation series is all about democracy and civic engagement—how it works, who gets to participate, and the threats it faces. Next Tuesday at 5:00 p.m, we invite you to join us for a conversation with Hahrie Han, director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Han studies organizing, movements, civic engagement, and democracy, and we'll talk about how groups who have historically faced systemic barriers to democratic participation become engaged in activism and build political power.

The conversation will take place starting at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Tuesday, February 16, via Zoom and YouTube, and will be streamed live at oregonhumanities.org. To join us and other viewers in our virtual lobby for post-talk conversation, please RSVP here.

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