Although it looks like things have been relatively quiet over here while we are building out the new space, we’ve been meeting non-stop with community partners, business owners, and legislators - sharing our story, advocating for the arts all across the city, and fundraising so that we can bring CPCA into full public life. We eventually made our way to the Columbus City Council and worked with Council Member Bankston’s office to secure a $197,000 grant to help get CPCA across the finish line to opening. Our Co-Director, Elisa, had the opportunity to speak in front of City Council on Monday and shared how the impact of this investment would be felt not only within the arts community in Columbus but throughout our new neighborhood, the city, and the region. We are stunned and just overwhelmed by the generosity of Council Member Nicholas Bankston and Legislative Aid JP Dorval who took the time to listen to our story and find space in the capital budget for our project. We will not forget the feeling of having a city council member proudly declare to the public that the arts are an integral and valued part of our city.
We are also indebted to Senator Hearcel Craig and Kylie Harper, and to City Council President Shannon Hardin and Jessica Clinger for listening and providing guidance, support, and enthusiasm. And an enormous thanks to CPCA print client, artist, and Legislative Aid, Amber Glendell-McClendon, who took time out of her busy schedule to connect us with legislative offices who could potentially support us.
We just want folks to know that there are people who are really willing to roll their sleeves up and work to make Columbus a sustainable place for artists. The impact of arts infrastructure goes beyond artists finding space and an audience for their self expression. It infiltrates every area of our social and civic lives in the form of community connection and support, cultural diversity, access to resources, community health and well-being, education, and the list goes on. We’re so excited to continue this work that feels like it’s actually just beginning. Thank you to everyone who we have come across this past year. You’ve made this vision real.
Tomorrow is the last day of CPCA’s Print Sale Fundraiser. Go ahead and grab one of these beauties to support your local arts non profit building an ambitious community space for all!
Thank you to everyone who has bought prints, shared posts, spread the word, and donated. Our hearts are full and we are energized to get through the home stretch. Seeing this network of support come to life through this fundraiser has left us stunned and extremely grateful 🤍 What amazing work we can do together.
@edpanar
Calista Lyon
@susanmeiselas@jeremy_liebman
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
@alluvial.fan
Less than one week left to purchase prints from these amazing artists for your collection! If you’ve been admiring one of these images, now’s the time to go for it.
The fundraiser sale ends May 11 ⏳
We’re moving along and with your help we’ll be able to get through this last month of construction on a stronger footing.
@rodrigovalenzuela_studio@m477h3wb007h@laura_larson_studio@photo.johnson@maggiehshannon
For two years we walked through buildings that almost worked - too small, too expensive, too far gone.
Ann St was the first one that felt like it could actually hold what we’ve been trying to build -
seventeen studios, built from scratch inside this old shell with amazing neighbors.
We’re getting close now.
Doors open in June.
Five of the studios are still open if you’re looking for a place to land and work.
We’re artists building this for other artists.
Come be a part of it.
More Labornotation drawings. Students were tasked with documenting past and speculating on upcoming work at the @cpca.studio garden, using Labanotation in novel ways and particular to landscape labor -
1 - Jackson and Christopher's documentation drawing notates the movements of five workers on the site -- jack-hammering, moving asphalt, planting, and moving through the space. Notably, they've broken up the Labanotation "staff" into shorter chunks, spread and spatialized across the drawing
2 - Jackson's final speculative drawing evolves the conventions of Labanotation symbols into his own use -- here for scripting how variously a worker, an artist, and a visitor might move through the space
3 - Christopher again tweaks the staff and puts it underground -- making the staff part of a landscape section, above which the activities of spraying, drilling, sawing, jack-hammering, planting, and seeding occur. Each symbol on the staff describes the bodily movement of those actions in time!
4 - Zachary keenly observed that each worker was wearing different colored gloves and keyed their labor movements with this palette. Fun! The icons help to understand the movement symbols' relation to the objects interacted with - a standard convention in Labanotation to add what is necessary, when necessary
Thanks to @cpca.studio garden for letting us study the space and draw the work, and of course to @marapfr for guiding us along the way ❤️
@christopherwillauer@jackson.pastore@ztcurry_
One way to value labor is to study it... by figuring out how to draw it in deeper, more methodical ways. My new course "Labornotation" uses the language of dance documentation (called Labanotation) to observe, document, and script landscape labor. A lot of thought-provoking conversations, and beautiful drawings, came out of this challenging new territory!
Here is @aubree.laureen 's final drawing - speculating on the labor to come at the @cpca.studio garden this spring and summer. On the right is the Labanotation score for moving plants out of storage, placing, and planting. The graphite drawings trace her physical puzzling over how to write the Laban score for these movements--echoing both her intellectual labor and the embodied thinking this kind of drawing requires.
A big thank you to @marapfr of the OSU Special Collections of Dance Notation for collaborating on this course!
More incredible artists who have generously shared their work with us for this fundraiser.
@donnaferrato@cassidybrauner@christian.patterson@antheabehm@erinjanenelson
Buying prints funds CPCA’s mission to strengthen the region’s arts ecosystem by providing equal access to the facilities, networks, and programs that sustain creative, community-centered ways of living.
Link in bio to browse these artworks and more.
Prints can be shipped anywhere in the world.
WOW thank you for all of the print purchases and support so far 💪🎉🔨🔌🚪!! Our team is reinvigorated and things are moving full speed ahead thanks to YOU!
We are busy finishing framing, hanging drywall, roughing in plumbing, and finishing electrical work with outlets and emergency lighting. It’s been a thrill to have the building full of activity again and we can’t wait to open the doors.
Our print fundraiser runs through May 11th so there’s still time to purchase some of this beautiful work at the link in our bio. Funds raised help cover the costs of finishing the work to get CPCA open to the public. Thanks again to the incredible artists contributing work.
@ginaosterloh@jonrubinstudio@jaymuhlin@jamescwelling
More incredible artists who have generously shared their work with us for this fundraiser.
@jaredthornephoto@jakemichaelholler
Dionne Lee
@dylpckle
Buying prints funds CPCA’s mission to strengthen the region’s arts ecosystem by providing equal access to the facilities, networks, and programs that sustain creative, community-centered ways of living.
Link in bio to browse these artworks and more.
More incredible artists who have generously shared their work with us for this fundraiser.
@suzannesilvernoapostrophe@flatfix.biz@lahubbs@sandra.erbacher
Buying prints funds CPCA’s mission to strengthen the region’s arts ecosystem by providing equal access to the facilities, networks, and programs that sustain creative, community-centered ways of living.
Link in bio to browse these artworks and more.
We wanted to share some more about what we’re working towards with this fundraiser. It’s Luke’s Instagram debut!
You can browse and purchase prints at the link in our bio :) Your support means so much as we finish the last bit of build-out!
@mpex_photo_video@fotospeed
Our @cpca.studio print fundraiser is now live, through May 11. The Center for Print and Collaborative Arts is a very important, grassroots, artist-run community space for us here in Columbus. This sale will help CPCA to complete the final phase of construction in our new building, allowing us to reopen on June 1. I’m sharing my contribution here along with a handful of others I love. Thank you to everyone who contributed from near and far…Find many more at the link in my bio or columbusprintedarts.com 🌱
