Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to present

ART OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RESIDENCY

AN ARTIST TALK BY DEANNA DIKEMAN

Monday, November 7, 6pm

La Esquina 1000 W. 25th Street Kansas City, MO

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

(Kansas City, MO)- On Monday, November 7, 6pm, Kansas City based photographer Deanna Dikeman will present an artist talk at la Esquina, 1000 W. 25 St. KCMO, about her experience at Art Omi International Artists Residency program in Upstate New York, which she attended this summer through a partnership between Art Omi and Charlotte Street Foundation. Dikeman will speak about her work and experience at Art Omi and the impact of the residency on her art, career, and creative process.

Each year, Charlotte Street sponsors one past Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipient at Art Omi. The International Artists Residency is a three week residency program for visual artists from around the world, which provides artists with a studio, living quarters and meals.  The Residency combines uninterrupted time to create with a stimulating atmosphere of exchange, where experimentation, discourse and collaboration are encouraged. Each year, a different critic-in-residence lives on campus with the artists, leading discussions and making one-on-one studio visits. Because of the proximity to New York City, residents are also visited by many prominent critics, gallerists, curators, and artists who travel to Art Omi. The residency culminates with an Open Studios day open to the general public.

Of her time at Art Omi, Dikeman says:  “Art Omi was an intense experience of productive art making, friend making, and exposure to new ideas about art that still have me thinking.”  While at Art Omi, Dikeman created a series of photographs of clothes at a thrift store in Hudson, New York.  An exhibition of these images will be on view at Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO, October 17-November 16, 2011.

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