CHIT CHAT: December 2024 with Pheobe H. Boynton and Nikki Pike

Описание: The Galleries of Contemporary Art and TheaterWorks are pleased to present the final CHIT CHAT of the year! CHIT CHAT is a mash-up speaker series that brings together two speakers on different topics, generating possible connections through conversation. In its new iteration, CHIT CHAT is a collaborative program between GOCA and TheaterWorks. Join us on Thursday, December 12th from 6-7pm in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery for the last session of the year, featuring Pheobe H. Boynton and Nikki Pike!

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:52 Pheobe H. Boynton
00:25:17 Nikki Pike
00:47:11 Discussion

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND THEIR PRESENTATIONS:

"Art in Nature and the Nature of Art"
By Nikki Pike, UCCS Fine Arts Faculty
Coloradan artist Nikki Pike will share her wide-ranging arts practice from building large scale forest sculptures to printmaking in the studio.

Nikki grew up in Black Forest Colorado where she learned to ride bikes and climb trees in between flashlight tag, midnight soccer, and competitive sledding. The adopted daughter of a nurse and an engineer, and one of six siblings, Nikki learned to work in groups and negotiate early on-- fighting over the measuring cups in the bathtub and wooden spoons in the garden, The Pike family children grew wild imaginations.

Nikki Pike is an Artist and Activist. She uses universally positive human experiences such as curiosity, music, surprise, and gifting to spread values of empowerment, vulnerability and connection in the form of experience as opposed to product. Nikki sees herself as a Culture Agent working together with local communities promoting activity and creativity. Nikki's expansive practice straddles Public Arts, Social Sculpture, and Service Art. Her has been featured at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Art Basel Miami to name a few. Most recently, Nikki’s work has been collected by The Museum of Art of Wyoming; The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and CSU SPUR Campus. Currently Nikki studio and home are in Denver, Colorado. She holds a principal professorship at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

"Costume Silhouette and Storytelling"
By Pheobe H. Boynton, TheaterWorks Costume Shop Program Manager
We tell stories to connect as humans. The audience is an inherently vital part of the storytelling experience. The cultural lexicon that we use to communicate and move through the world now is in a constant state of change. As a former art history major and a lifelong costume enthusiast, there has been no subject in my life more vexing than the rabid adherence to the need for historical accuracy in costumes, especially in storytelling media such as theater, film, and television. This is not to say that you shouldn’t do your research. Having a good historical foundation is an important tool to connect to and understand the story being told. It’s not the only tool. The joy of looking at period through the lens of another period or Long Live the Mashup!

Pheobe H. Boynton is a costume designer originally from Ithaca, NY and currently based out of the Theatreworks costume shop in Colorado Springs, CO. She has her bachelors in art history from Cornell University, and an MFA in theater design and technology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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