{"id":11859,"date":"2014-12-17T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2014-12-17T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:00:24","slug":"robert-rauschenberg-foundation-residency-artists-visit-the-sanibel-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2014\/12\/17\/robert-rauschenberg-foundation-residency-artists-visit-the-sanibel-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency artists visit The Sanibel School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Cherry & Colin Gilmore<\/p>\n

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 17, 2014) \u2013 Two years ago, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation<\/a>\u00a0transformed the artist\u2019s former home and studio on Captiva Island, Florida, into a dynamic artists residency. Since the Rauschenberg Residency was launched, the foundation has offered seven five-week residencies each year. The Residency alumni boast dancers, writers, curators, filmmakers, fine artists and photographers alike. Typically, 10 artists are hosted at one time.<\/p>\n

Two artists in residence recently spent time with the fifth through eighth-grade classes at The Sanibel School. Musician David Ornette Cherry introduced his \u201cOrganic Nation Listening Club\u201d to the students with fellow artist, songwriter Colin Gilmore.<\/p>\n

The duo discussed with students the origins of creating music, rhythms and tempos, and shared musical examples using various instruments including the piano, guitar, Melodica and a spirit flute from the Lakota Indian tribe, as well as showing how to use everyday elements including bubble wrap and Poinciana seed pods found on the island to create unique sounds.<\/p>\n

Cherry, an award-winning Portland-based pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, improviser and solo musician, has played with some of the great jazz artists of our time. He told the students how a wood-chopping accident one summer in Sweden led to his musical career. In addition to performing, he also trains young musicians in world music, theory and piano.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my world, the piano, the keyboard, sounds of nature and numerous instruments of traditional peoples and those who reside in urban society, touch and affect one another with a calming and symbiotic fervor,\u201d said Cherry.<\/p>\n

Austin-based Gilmore\u2019s latest album,\u00a0The Wild and Hollow, won critical acclaim and fans across the world. The\u00a0Huffington Post\u2019s music writer Mike Ragogna called it the \u201cBest Americana\/singer-songwriter album of 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really excited to have these artists join us at the school,\u201d said The Sanibel School Principal Barbara Von Harten. \u201cOur students pass by one of Rauschenberg\u2019s pieces hanging in our front office each day. To have the residency artists share their experiences with them is a symbol of continuing his work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Residency program is inspired by Rauschenberg\u2019s early years at Black Mountain College where an artistic community taught him the importance of learning from and working with others to break new ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe residency advances new work, extends practices into new mediums, and serves as a research and development lab for performance-based projects,\u201d said Ann Brady, director of the Rauschenberg Residency. \u201cIt fosters the ideal that artistic practice advances mutual understanding, and it engenders a focus on the conservation of a sensitive and pristine environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about the Rauschenberg Residency program and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation overall,\u00a0visit\u00a0www.rauschenbergfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jake Mann<\/p>\n

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Daniel Hayes asks a question<\/p>\n

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Bella Myers plays bubble wrap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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