Artspace's 2022 Open Source - Open Studios (formerly known as City Wide Open Studios)

I'm pleased to be exhibiting, for the second year in a row, at Erector Square for Open Source 2022 Art Festival!  This year, my focus will be on my work supported through my CT Sea Grant award. 

You can see my information on the official website for this event HERE.

 My studio will be open on Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23, 2022.

The title of my exhibit for this event is OPEN SOURCE @ ERECTOR SQUARE – BLOOM.

For those of you who are not familiar with Artspace’s Open Source Festival (formerly City-Wide Open Studios), it is an annual virtual and in-person visual arts showcase, this year happening on October 21 through October 30, 2022.  The festival features contemporary artists, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, and photographers from New Haven and across the State of Connecticut.  

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2022 Connecticut Sea Grant - I WON!!!!

 

Two months ago, I applied for the Connecticut Sea Grant for the funding year 2022 - 2023.  I've had my eye on this program for a long time and I have followed grant winners over the years.  I always hoped to apply, and this year I decided to go for it!  

And..........THIS, in my inbox....

Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) has now concluded the review of submissions to its Arts Support Awards Program for this year.   The review was conducted by an independent Arts Award Review Panel.  I am very pleased to inform you that your project proposal, “Bloom: A Flourish in Long Island Sound” was selected for funding.  

What?!  Oh my gosh!!!!!!

I am thrilled to now be a part of this amazing program.  

You can read more about Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) here.  

And you can read the Press Release HERE.

I'll be posting more about my project soon. Stay tuned!

 

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Thank you for visiting my blog!  I hope you enjoyed reading about what's been going on for me artistically.  

 

I look forward to hearing from you on my website at 

https://marshaborden.com 

 

or right here on my blog 

(you're reading it!) at www.marshamakes.blogspot.com.

 

 

Decoys and Mimics at The Institute Library - Summer Show

This is a wonderful show that's been on display since mid-July.  I had a chance to see it at the end of the summer, and oh, what fun!!!

I've been working on my entry for this show for a few years, on and off, and I am so glad that it has finally found a home in this exhibit.

Here is my Artist's Statement for this work:

Humans are the only animals with permanent breasts.

[Breast. (2022, June 21). Wikipedia. Retrieved July 6, 2022 from https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast]

 

There is an endless fascination with the human breast.  We police them, sexualize them, protect them, remove them, add them, enlarge them, reduce them, maximize them, minimize them, decorate them, flaunt them, fetishize them.    

In this work, which is ongoing, I create and embellish the individual breast as facsimile.  The pigmented areola of each breast is seed-stitched, mimicking an inverted nipple that is evolving in function and form.  Each breast, as artifice, can be added to or subtracted from, welcomed or unwelcomed, wanted or unwanted, permanent or impermanent.

The totality is an homage to the human breast and the power it wields over our sense of self in all its various forms, through the personal process of becoming.

Marsha Borden

July 6, 2022

Here are some photos from my summer visit:

 

AND you can read a wonderful review of the show (Thank you, Lucy Gellman!) in The Arts Paper HERE.

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Thank you for visiting my blog!  I hope you enjoyed reading about what's been going on for me artistically.  

 

I look forward to hearing from you on my website at 

https://marshaborden.com 

 

or right here on my blog 

(you're reading it!) at www.marshamakes.blogspot.com.