![]() they’re just open hearted and giving and it kinda works really nice, and watching people engage with the elements in this room makes me really happy. There’s always an element of giving when working for Catholics which is interesting, but there’s this element of giving that they had, but they didn’t have ingrained in their mission, this idea of radical hospitality and Communio, which is one of the reasons I love working here so much. I went to a Catholic school for undergrad, went to a Catholic school for grad school, I worked in another Catholic school when I first started teaching, and now here. Norbert College community that has been quite apparent ever since I got here, that idea of radical hospitality, that you don’t necessarily see in other. KH: Do you think that the location of your exhibition here at the SNC Galleries helps with that “giving” aspect of your mission?ĪB: I think so. But we can’t not make, so what about just giving it away? So that’s kind of where it sprung from, like what if I just gave stuff away? ![]() Because we get all these skills that we’re not necessarily gonna use, you know, like beading and knitting and crocheting and all of this stuff that it becomes like an impassioned hobby and not necessarily lucrative. What am I gonna do with the stuff I make? Well, I’m gonna give it away. And so, it happened at my gallery show last year, whenever I was in the gallery and I was working on that topographical map-gluing the beads down to that-people would come by and talk to me about it, so it sort of sprung from that idea of I’m gonna make things and people are gonna watch me make things. As we become artists we learn the “making,” but sometimes we miss the “giving” part. Katie Hopkins: Tell us a little bit about how the Making and Giving Project originated.Īpril Beiswenger: The idea behind the Making and Giving Project is that there is an art to making, and that’s what we learn as students and as adults. Just do it, move on, and then do it again. The overarching message she wants you to get? Don’t be scared of making. The following interview explores the philosophy and mission behind Beiswenger’s interactive exhibition, an exhibition that allows viewers-or rather makers -to revel in the simple and inherent satisfaction of creation and the joy that comes from giving a creation away. The exhibition offers many opportunities for visitors to create and engage including: bracelet making, typing letters on a typewriter, coloring postcards, asking the sage advice of the Bird Oracle, and much more. On sabbatical from her regular position as a professor of Theatre Studies here at SNC, Beiswenger spends much of her time in the gallery doing just what she asks visitors to do: making and giving. This week I had the opportunity to sit down with artist April Beiswenger and talk to her about her exhibition currently featured in the Godschalx Gallery, April Beiswenger: The Making and Giving Project.
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