ELECTRIFY MAG x IMAGINE Featuring: Yarrow Mazzetti Peter Ruprecht Shannon Shiang Bob Moses
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A Look Inside The Do Art Foundation Better Out Than In—the name of the graffiti artist known as Banksy’s month-long residency in New York City. If Banksy taught us anything, it was that:
“outside is where art should live - amongst us.” I digress. But I think the Do Art Foundation would agree.
create important humanitarian cultural conversations through collaboration and public access.
Founded in 2010 by creative event company The Do Lab, The Do Art Foundation is a non-profit that works to improve art access and education by promoting and creating work visible in the public landscape.
Carmen Zella, co-founder and Executive Director at Do Art, stresses why the organization is so important: “Art is what creates awareness of ourselves, our environment and permeates our subconscious mind. That is powerful, and should not be marginalized or disregarded as superfluous and unnecessary.” She adds, “Creativity is the birth of all great inventions and
And it’s not just any work. Do Art was created out of the idea that art should help bridge communities and
needs to be developed and honored in our society more then it currently is.” Simply put, Do Art wants the public to “do art.” This is accomplished by facilitating events, programs, and exhibitions that inspire creative expression within society. In addition, through interaction and education, Do Art helps develop the careers of visual artists and foster artist-audience relationships in these local and international communities. Let’s take the example of My Friends
Place, a community center that works to assist and inspire homeless youth. Do Art brought mural artists to revamp the exteriors of the Hollywood shelter. “The pieces we have now give us a place of conversation with the young people […] and for the community as well. My hope is for people to explore what My Friends Place is [and] also think about the issue of youth homelessness in a different light,” says Heather Carmichael, Executive Director of My Friends Place.
One of the five artists invited to work on the project for My Friends Place, Aly Kourouma, adds: “I’m very excited every time I work with Do Art because they’re always concerned about the impact of the work of the artist on the community.” That’s just one example of the communities and artists that Do Art has impacted.
There are a handful of ways you can support Do Art’s work Become a member and get discounts to Community Partner businesses, Do Lab shows, and other perks. Memberships range from $25 for students to $200 annually. Make a donation. Funds will support the creation of publicly visible pieces by contemporary artists. Volunteer. Do Art is looking for help with photography, social media, research and projects. You can also go on a meaningful trip to Haiti for Do Art’s latest Community Outreach Project ($4,000-6,000 per person). Buy art. Prints in the online gallery store start from $100, while original paintings start from $500. Follow Do Art on social media or email them at volunteer@ doartfoundation.org.
Electrify Mag is proud to be a supporter of Do Art’s work. At our event at the IMAGINE gallery on January 31st, 2014, we will be raffling a print of “BELIEVE” by Peter Ruprecht. Proceeds will benefit The Do Art Foundation.
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You both grew up in Vancouver… how have your roots and present
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music today? Well when we were in high school in Vancouver there was this big rock pop/punk pop scene, and lots of heavy metal, and we guess that will have had a big influence on the way we write, although it's hard to say. Definitely the weather being kind of gray and eerie at times, like it is in New York to a degree, probably influenced us to like darker and moody music, but who can really say. Probably our surroundings and roots influence us in more ways than we can really fathom though, that's a tough one… How did you both meet and start producing music together? The formation of Bob Moses just kind of happened naturally, born out of a real respect for each other's musicality and having a ton of fun doing writing and producing of any kind together really. What was the inspiration behind your 'Far From The Tree' EP? We just worked on a whole bunch of tunes and once we had 5 that we thought went well together and made a nice little package so we called it an EP. But overall we were just exploring what we are still exploring, how to merge the sounds and textures we love about underground dance music with cool vocal and song ideas. It's equal parts deliberate and stumbling around in the dark really... How did you make the transition to performing live? What are some challenges
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Rising stars in the underground realm, Bob Moses (composed of Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie) have found their home base in Brooklyn, New York with the Scissor & Thread record label, which is highly recognized for their distinctive A&R. These Vancouver transplants have seen a whirlwind year, with the launch of their live show and the release of their latest EP “Far From the Tree.” Read on as the pair speaks to Electrify Mag about their upbringing, the inspiration behind the EP, and some of the challenges they faced in the early stages of their live show. By Jessie Halsey
We started DJ'ing and Tom would sing the vocals live on our tracks. Francis and Jordan, both from Scissor and Thread, really helped us with the technical side of getting the Ableton live set together. Since then we've just kind of been experimenting and tinkering with the way we do it. Challenges were just the technical side of getting it all figured out really, learning how to make a set go well with only our own material. But that has also influenced our material, which is nice. If we play out and think, "man it'd be nice to have a really banging track here," or a slow track or whatever, we can go back into the studio and work on one that we think will create the moments we want live. It's a cool process and really fun. Photo credit: David Terranova
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