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Ripe, installed at Layton Gallery, Milwaukee WI 2011 from sonja thomsen on Vimeo.

New work and updated website...

ripe installed in the Layton Gallery at MIAD, Milwaukee WI

I am pleased to announce a new project ripe

New Website...

I have been working on my new website for the past 3 weeks and am pleased to see go live. My dear friend Cristina Sitjia Rubio designed and has been managing my previous website for the past four years. Thank you Cristina!
I switched to using livebooks.edu in order to keep my site more up to date. As an educator I was able to take advantage of the affordable hosting cost from livebooks.edu!

Please let me know what you think about the new site.

new video piece...burning water

I was asked by the art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to participate in a new project that would showcase artists in the region.

What would happen if some of Milwaukee's best artists had five minutes to spend with you, the readers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?

Mary Louise Schumacher asked four artists to create a 5min video about why and how they make their work. I was interested in using this opportunity to work with video footage I had collected of a lake in northern wisconsin and used motor oil in my backyard. I was pleased to collaborate with a talented sound and video artist, Jason Nanna.

It was a great experience and challenge to create a 5min piece in one month - in a medium I am not as familiar with. Jason taught me a lot about basic video and sound editing and I am really pleased with what we came up with. We approached the project as an opportunity to create a new piece of artwork that references my photographs and speaks to some of my influences.

The project - In the Making - was launched last week on the Journal Sentinel's website. Let me know what you think...

jason yi





katie e. martin






jill sebastian






sonja

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