Concrescence: Artistry of SPARKS Community Cohort with Kaeti MacNeil and SPARKS Artists
Event Type:
- Discussion, Presentation
- (Online)
Program:
- Process Explorations
Theme:
- Compassion, Creativity, and Global Citizenship
Featuring:
- Kaeti MacNeil and Elvi Bjorkquist
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies
In this special session of Process Explorations, members of the SPARKS Community Cohort share work from Concrescence, the first online gallery of the Center for Process Studies’ arts collective. Alfred North Whitehead described concrescence as the process by which “the many become one, and are increased by one,” as influences from the past gather into a new unity of experience.
The exhibition brings together nine artists working in a wide range of mediums, from ink drawing on paper to video with layered sound and spoken poetry. Each was invited to explore moments of gathering and emergence in their work, and to ask how their own creative process brings many influences together into a new whole.
The session includes a live digital tour of the virtual gallery, led by Kaeti MacNeil. As the tour stops at each piece, featured artists will speak about their work and the influences it draws together. A conversation with attendees will follow. Everyone is welcome to visit the gallery before the session: https://ctr4process.org/sparks-gallery-concresence
Featuring
Kaeti MacNeil is an American artist and experimental animator working at the intersection of painting, animation, and process philosophy. Her practice renders the immaterial dimensions of consciousness as visible form, exploring the relationship between the material and the spiritual through moving image. She serves as Animation Director for the John Templeton Foundation-funded initiative Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World and as an Advisor to the SPARKS Community Cohort. Her animated short Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions (2022) won Best Animated Short at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image in New York City. She presented and exhibited at the Ammerman Center’s 18th Triennial Symposium at Connecticut College and was commissioned by the Aga Khan Museum for its Light Up the Dark exhibition. She holds a BFA in Experimental Animation from OCAD University and is a Luminary with Science New Wave. Learn more at https://kaetimacneil.com
Elvi Bjorkquist attended college in Michigan and then University of California and finished her degree at Metropolitan State University with a Bachelor of Art and Art History Degree upon moving to Denver. She received a Master of Divinity and a Master of Philosophy from Iliff School of Theology. In addition, Elvi taught Advanced Graphic Design and Advanced Drawing at the University level. Elvi recently retired from managing her own graphic design company where she served clients on a national and international basis. She creates her abstract art from her home studio in the Denver metropolitan area. Her goal is to represent the world not in a discursive manner but rather a non-discursive mode that is “unsayable”. She is interested in furthering and developing her technique, imagination and “ways of feeling” to continue to develop her artwork.
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Free Online Event
Disclaimer: This event is open to the public and will be recorded. If you choose to enable your camera or participate in any discussions, your voice and likeness will be recorded, and may be posted on the Center for Process Studies websites and social media, or included in CPS materials and/or publications for noncommercial purposes. If you do not want your voice or likeness to be shared in any public venues, please send an email to optout@ctr4process.org.
