Spring Newsletter 2022
an invitation to participate in
the next video/performance in the series on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is the screwdriver we use to pry open our hearts.
For nearly twenty years I have used knitting as a metaphor to create complex forms to discuss complex issues. My work transforms knitting, a traditional woman’s craft, into a metaphor that expands the feminist tenants of liberation, diversity & justice." - Sharon Kagan
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Maquette for Release Me, durational performance.
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Fall 2020 Compassion in Action opens at Alfred University |
“Compassion in Action” is a journey of discovery and understanding. I believe that each of us can choose to initiate a profound healing process to alleviate generational trauma experienced by the American Indigenous peoples and the American settlers that committed genocide, Holocaust survivors and the Nazis who murdered millions, or the descendants of Black slaves and White slave owners. It only takes one person to begin the process of freeing themselves from a painful legacy to begin the process of change for all generations.
Included in the exhibition will be the video/performance The Undoing: Forgiveness; the interactive sculpture/performance The Red Lotus; and the durational performance/installation Release Me.
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Scholars are talking...
The Undoing: Forgiveness
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Beautiful reflections and powerful creative research into the ways we knit and are knitted by the threads of our ancestral stories. There is a transformative quality that occurs in combining this sticky struggle, the perseverance and rawness of working with the hemp thread and the narratives of shared and personal wounds through the holocaust inheretance paired with loving kindness or Metta meditation.
--Dr. Larisa Barsley, creative researcher, depth psychologist. Australia
For next project on "self-forgiveness"...recommend you include the perspective of Buddhism which is very different from the Western one....I hope you don’t fall into the trap of making the Self very important like the trap of self-image, self-compassion - which only reinforce the Western belief of an autonomously existing solid entity called I/me.
--Ravi Pradhan, Asian Mindfulness Dojo, Bangkok, Thailand
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It was incredibly rewarding to have this in-depth conversation with Sara Schulting-Kranz on her podcast, Live Boldly. This is just a short clip from that rich conversation. The full episode can be heard at Live Boldly, The Art of Forgiveness. |
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by Morgan Laurens, arts writer March 4, 2022 |
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UP NEXT
a call for stories of self-forgiveness
Freedom from Entanglement
a video/performance
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The next video/performance in the series on forgiveness
Freedom From Entanglement
What have you done personally that needs your forgiveness?
Have you been able to forgive yourself?
I would love to hear your story
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Exhibitions, Publications & Special Projects
2018 - 2022
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2022
Exhibitions
Compassion in Action, Performance Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY October - December 2022
April 2-4, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness selected for the SoCal Film Awards, January 16, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness selected for the New York Independent Cinema Awards,
February 27, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Tokyo Shorts,
February 28, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Roma Shorts,
March 19, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Official Selection for best experimental film at Toronto Indie Shorts,
March 31, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Official Selection for best experimental film at Berlin International Art Film Festival, April 1, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Official Selection for best experimental film at Toronto Film and Script Awards, April 1, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Official Selection for best experimental film at LA Indies,
April 2, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Paris Women Festival,
April 5, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Finalist for best experimental film at San Diego Shorts,
April 15, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Kansas Arthouse Festival,
April 20, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Phoenix Shorts,
April 26, 2022
The Undoing: Forgiveness Semi-Finalist for best experimental film at Sydney Indie Short Festival, May 3, 2022
2020-2021
Exhibitions
The Street & The Shop, NeueHouse in the Bradbury Building. Curated by Michael Slenske
Special Projects
Maiden LA, SOS.Siren, in collaboration with Snezana Petrovic. Online studio visits, panel discussions.
Kipaipai Fellow, artist professional development program founded by Andi Campognone
Publications
5 New Exhibitions to Check Out, Angeleno Magazine, by Claire Harper
Grants
Word is a program of American Jewish University’s Institute for Jewish Creativity.
2019
Exhibitions
String Theory (solo exhibition), Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL
String Theory (solo exhibition), Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2018
Exhibitions
Ping Pong 2018 Miami, exhibit in conjunction with Art Basel: Miami, Miami, FL
String Theory (solo exhibition), Charles MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA
Ping Pong 2018 Basel, exhibit in conjunction with Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
String Theory (solo exhibition), Northern Gallery, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
It continues to be an honor to receive people's intimate stories of forgiveness. I've been brought to tears and laughed so hard. The stories that are showing up now are ones of self-forgiveness. So I am following that lead.
There are 4 invitations to participate. Each asking its own question. Have you ever been forgiven/Have you ever forgiven someone or something? Do you need to forgive yourself/Have you forgiven yourself? What/Who will you never forgive? Are you a Palestinian or Arab or Jewish Israeli who has been able to forgive the other?
If you have a story you'd like to share you can find each of the invitations on the contact page of my website.
Best,
Sharon
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