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2022
Come Find me from Feb 23rd through Baronial 12th in the hallways on the Norick Art Center at Oklahoma City University. I volition be displaying my serial, Domestic Inquiries and doing a little artist conversation on March 3rd at 6pm!
2021
Evolving in Solitude: a solo show
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SAM CHARBONEAU
Evolving in Confinement in Gallery One past PACC Artist in Residence Sam Charboneau is a narrative photographic series that explores the life, death and a rebirth or telephone call to action sounded past the dumpster burn down known as 2020. Charboneau'south exhibit will feature an interactive installation in the back gallery of handmade human-sized flowers and shells for visitors to take photos with. The series consists of 5 triptychs, each with an elemental theme sharing an intimate glimpse into a metamorphic modify undergone from the quiet comforts of home. Starting time each triptych with the innocent and curious pupa stage, quickly moves into the growing wrinkle of the chrysalis. Ending each trio is the welcomed expanse, the spreading of the wings, the realization and acceptance to what is.
OVAC's 12×12
Traditionally, the 12×12 Art Fundraiser fuses 175 of Oklahoma's finest artists with local restaurants and alive music to create a memorable one-nighttime-only effect.
For 12×12, each artist must create a work that conforms to the dimensions of twelve-by-twelve inches. Bids for each piece begin at $200. Collectors who fear losing a piece of fine art in the auction may "Purchase It Now" to trump the sale. Attendees may also bid on silent sale packages to win prizes from local businesses!
Dna Galleries Stocking evidence and Paseo's four×4
For a flake of holiday cheer, I participated in two separate local shows. Deoxyribonucleic acid's stocking show allows customers to buy a stocking from the gallery wall and take it dwelling aforementioned solar day! Paseo's iv×4 is always a fun effect being a silent sale. Needing a break from editing software, I painted my signature bee friend upon some blank canvas.
2020
Artist in Resident for Paseo Arts & Creativity Heart
The Paseo Arts Association (PAA) is pleased to announce Sam Charboneau as its offset artist in residence in the organization's new Paseo Arts and Creativity Middle (PACC). Charboneau, a photographer, will create a new body of work in her PACC studio for one year.
In May, the PAA made the move from their previous home at 3022 Paseo adjacent door to 3024 Paseo. With quadruple the square footage, they now accept the space to provide the resources and programs to artists that in that location was great need for in the historic arts district. Two galleries and a curated gift shop make upward the front of the building, simply the real magic will happen in the back half of the building that is defended to ten low cost artist studios and a photography studio. The new PACC Creative person in Residence program offers an artist a free studio space for one year. Details almost the awarding procedure for 2021 will be released in the fall.
Sweet Oklahoman Interview
Cheque out this interview by Brandy McDonnell with the Oklahoman. She asked me all sorts of keen questions about my piece of work during my artist residency at the Paseo.
A Surrealism Photography Show
Th July 9th – Sunday August second at Dna Galleries located at 1709 NW 16th OKC. With Amy Truman, Geovanny De Leon and Lauren Midgley.
Oklahoma Contemporary #ArtistSpotlight
Bank check out this extremely flattering article written past the talented Jezy Grayness. Somehow he manage to turn my incoherent ramblings into something wonderful. Give thanks you lot Jezy. Much appreciated.
Oklahoma Contemporary
Shadow on the Glare, a reference from Plainview: I, a poem by Oklahoma Centennial State Poet Laureate N. Scott Momaday. Shadow on the Glare will characteristic photograph and video works that critically respond to Bright Golden Brume's themes of light and identify — in this case, focusing particularly on the landscapes of Oklahoma. In conjunction with the inaugural exhibition in the main gallery, Shadow on the Glare showcases the resonance between our local artists and their globally recognized peers.
Don't Wait backside you, 2016, Franz: An False, 2017, and The Momma, 2016 are displayed in the, Shadow on the Glare show from March through September.
Luminosity
To be strong does not hateful to sprout muscles and flex. It ways meeting one'due south own luminosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own manner. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand up what we know. It means to stand up and live.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
PAA Members Show
Through this exhibition, the PAA strives to highlight the diversity and talent in the piece of work of our supportive member artists. Exit it to juror George Oswalt to curate such an eccentric showroom out of the more than 275 pieces entered into the juried PAA Members' Show. The works created by 60 of our members volition spark marvel and conversation. Join united states of america during Kickoff Friday at 7pm for a special announcement from the PAA and award presentation past George Oswalt.
Criss Cross, 2019 was selected for display at this evidence.
OVAC'Southward 12×12
Traditionally, the 12×12 Art Fundraiser fuses 175 of Oklahoma's finest artists with local restaurants and live music to create a memorable one-night-only issue.
For 12×12, each artist must create a work that conforms to the dimensions of twelve-past-twelve inches. Bids for each piece begin at $200. Collectors who fear losing a slice of art in the auction may "Buy Information technology At present" to trump the auction. Attendees may also bid on silent auction packages to win prizes from local businesses!
Photofest
"PhotoFest on Paseo is a juried photography exhibition that takes place each September and is open up to all types of photography-based artwork, including traditional and digital processes and mixed media work that features photography.
Through this exhibition, the Paseo Arts Association strives to stand for and spotlight the depth and diversity of contemporary Oklahoma photography. The exhibit will be featured in the Paseo Art Space during the month of September."
This year'south Photofest juror is Doug Hoke, who has been a photojournalist for The Oklahoman and other editorial publications for over 40 years.
Bee Dream quarantine edition won an honorable mention.
Paseo 4×4 Sale & Fine art Show
The iv×four Art Show & Auction is an annual fundraising event benefiting the Paseo Arts Association that encourages new fine art collectors to begin collecting local art! Gain from art sales volition back up the PAA'due south year-circular mission of enriching, educating and inspiring the public through the arts.
Bids volition begin at $25 or tin can be purchased for a "Buy Information technology Now" price of $75. The sale volition brainstorm at 6pm and will end at 8pm
2019
OVAC 12×12
Do some good on September 20th at the annual 12×12 fundraiser hosted past the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition at 50 Penn place, 1900 NW Express Way, okc.
The 12×12 fuses 175 of Oklahoma's finest artists with local restaurants and live music to create a memorable one-night-simply issue.
For 12×12, each creative person must create a work that conforms to the dimensions of twelve-by-twelve inches. The artwork is sold in a surprising silent and blind auction, meaning bidders volition not know what others have bid. Bids for each piece begin at $175. Collectors who fright losing a piece of fine art in the auction may "Buy It Now" to trump the auction. Attendees may also buy $five chances to win prize packages!
Loftier Art 2019
High Fine art was created past Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Visitor in 2014 equally a crowdsourcing solution to packaging blueprint. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 84+ countries all over the earth.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $l,000 in prize money and to meet their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.
My images, Franz: A Continuation made top forty out of over four m entries!
Juxtapoz Magazine sneak in
One weird thing I have feel is never knowing where you will appear on the cyberspace. I detect information technology a useful practice to occasionally Google your ain name from time to time. For example, I constitute my prototype on the Juxtapoz website informing viewers virtually the High Art contest. Now, I sympathize this might not be news worthy to some, only to me it defiantly is! I love this magazine and am honored to be office of her in any way shape and form.
2018
Etsy
I finally did it! I created an Etsy site. Still a scrap in the works merely I at present have a reputable place for some cyberspace transactions. If goose egg is listed that yous are interested in, delight drop me a line and we will work it out.
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Paseo Small Evidence
Delight join the states for the Paseo Arts Association's Annual SmallArt Show opening reception during the December First Friday Gallery Walk!
All artwork is priced under $199.
Juror Barbara Weidell will announce awards at 7pm and be available for creative person discussion and feedback afterward.
Got an honorable mention. Always the brides maid, never the bride.
Deck the Walls 4×4
Deck the Walls 4×iv Fine art Show & Saleis a fundraising event benefiting the Paseo Arts Clan that encourages new art collectors to brainstorm collecting local art!
Bids volition begin at $25 and customers will likewise have a "Buy It Now" option for $75. Silent Auction will end around 8pm.
Check out the detail on their Facebook page hither.
DNA Galleries
Hurray! I now have a sweet selection of prints available at Dna Galleries located in the Plaza District.
"Dna Galleries is an artist fabricated retail store and contemporary art gallery focusing on Oklahoma artists and artisans. Our doors opened a decade ago in the now revitalized Plaza District near downtown Oklahoma City. From the outset our goal has been to celebrate, support, and foster the creative minds of our community.⠀
Nosotros are open 7 days a week and we feature a new art exhibition each month. Bring together us on the 2nd Friday of each month from 6-10pm for our neighborhood's Live on the Plaza."
Info stolen from the official Deoxyribonucleic acid Galleries web pages, found hither.
20th Annual Plaza District Festival
In celebration of the revitalized District, the Plaza District Clan holds the Plaza Commune Festival each fall. The festival highlights a wide array of Oklahoma's ain performing artists, visual artists, live musicians and children'south activities. The festival is open to the public and draws audiences from across Oklahoma Metropolis and the surrounding areas, and offers the surrounding neighborhoods an arts festival right in the eye of their customs. Artist booths line NW 16th Street in a festive brandish of Oklahoma inventiveness.
Choices
Join usa on Friday, September 28 for our annual fundraiser, CHOICES, at the 21c Museum Hotel to benefit Planned Parenthood Cracking Plains' (PPGP) three health centers and sex education program in the Oklahoma Urban center metro area.
This twelvemonth, CHOICES will feature a keynote accost by journalist and author Irin Carmon, who recently co-wrote the biography Notorious R.B.Grand.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Carmon is a national reporter for MSNBC as well as a Harvard grad and visiting swain in the Program for the Written report of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.
MY two images, Pleiades and Fog Witch will exist hanging on the walls of legendary 21C hotels in support of Planned Parenthood. Come up evidence your back up for women, education, options and art.
Tickets available here.
OVAC 12×12
The 12×12 fuses 175 of Oklahoma's finest artists with local restaurants and live music to create a memorable one-night-only upshot.
For 12×12, each artist must create a piece of work that conforms to the dimensions of twelve-by-twelve inches. The artwork is sold in a surprising silent and blind auction, meaning bidders will non know what others have bid. Bids for each piece begin at $175. Collectors who fear losing a piece of art in the auction may "Buy It Now" to trump the auction. Attendees may also buy $5 chances to win prize packages!
For this event I decided to try my hand at watercolors. Pulling inspiration from a dream I one time had as a child. You can place a bid on this beauty at the event on September 28th 2018
"Bee Dream 2018" was used in the article in 405 Mag to cover this upshot. Encounter the online article here!
Photofest
"PhotoFest on Paseo is a juried photography exhibition that takes identify each September and is open to all types of photography-based artwork, including traditional and digital processes and mixed media piece of work that features photography.
Through this exhibition, the Paseo Arts Clan strives to represent and spotlight the depth and diverseness of contemporary Oklahoma photography. The exhibit volition exist featured in the Paseo Fine art Space during the month of September."
This years Juror, MJ Alexander, chose Pleiades every bit an entry for this competition. Come down to the Art space on the beginning Friday walk to meet if anything else comes from this bear witness!
House of Pleiades
"In this space you volition detect a collective of women infinite holders and male person voices, who are sharing their innate gifts, healing modalities, raw humanness, 3rd eye visions and purpose for healing. Through the cosmos and earth elements, nosotros can learn to navigate and residual ourselves into a college awareness. And by the exploration of ourShadow Cocky, we can transcend beyond cultural workout and patterns." – Pulled from business firm of pleiades info page.
A fantastic woman asked me if I would create an image for a new website she was building for women. Her bulletin speaking correct to my heart, I accepted right away and created with the inspiration pulled from the star constellation, Pleiades. Currently this image is used on the domicile folio of the website and again in the Q&A section.
Check out this magical space at, world wide web.houseofpleiades.com/
The PAA Members' Evidence
This was a submission for Paseo Arts Association members merely. There was a submission procedure and but a select number were accepted. My entry, The Exposed, got the take a chance to hang on the gallery wall during this event. I was besides selected to be the fellow member showcase of the calendar week and got my face on Facebook and earned myself a spot on their webpage you can view here.
2017
International Lensman of the Year
FINE Art: PHOTOMANIPULATION (AMATEUR) – HONORABLE Mention
I entered the series, Irrational Reality in International Photographer of the year's yearly photo competition and I made honorable mention for the art, photomanipulation category. Not bad for a global competition if I do say and then myself.
Detect my little blurb here.
OVAC 12×12
The 12×12 fuses 175 of Oklahoma's finest artists with local restaurants and live music to create a memorable i-nighttime-only event.
For 12×12, each creative person must create a work that conforms to the dimensions of twelve-by-twelve inches. The artwork is sold in a surprising silent and bullheaded sale, meaning bidders volition not know what others have bid. Bids for each slice begin at $175. Collectors who fear losing a piece of art in the auction may "Buy Information technology Now" to trump the auction. Attendees may also buy $five chances to win prize packages!
For this event I submitted OKCreature. I wanted to create a ane of a kind edition for this special event. So I crafted a 3D element for the frame, bringing the surreal essence out of the picture and into the existent earth. OKCreature is now living comfortably in his new dwelling house somewhere in the Oklahoma City surface area.
Stubborn Mag
One Year Outcome #18
Event 18
Celebrating the one yr anniversary of this wonderfully obscure magazine, each published artist was invited back to submit an image for this print. They humbly accepted my image, 39, also titled, Coffee for this publication to add some extra flair. I was delighted to surprised my less than excited model, Mrs Olivia, with the news of her new establish fame. Thanks for being my weird friend. I love yous.
High Art Contest
"Welcome artists, to High Art 2017, the start and only global cannabis inspired art competition presented by The Natural Cannabis Company and Juxtapoz Magazine. This is our fourth year of request artists from around the world to have to their favorite creation space, accept a puff to invoke the ganja muse and lay downward the inspiration she evokes.Our theme this year is psychedelia and its sis, surrealism; two fine art movements that share much in common." –Entry page of High Art 2017
Franz, an Imitation fabricated it in the top forty out of 3001 entries.
Check out an interview I did with themhere!
Workshop teacher and Adjudicator for ISAS Arts Festival
ISAS 50th Anniversary page
Equally a workshop leader I custom build and presented ii programs specifically for the wants and needs of the aspiring artist. The ii workshops included, Step Up your Selfie Game; The Fine art of Self Portraiture and The Fine art of Storytelling: & Real Life Communication on Being a Artistic in the Existent Life World.
I also atomic number 82 a critic for 2 schools photography programs. Recognizing the raw talent in these photos was only the start step. I analyzed each prototype and gave them advice on how they tin can push button them selves fifty-fifty further in their art.
You tin at present buy my prints in a store!
You lot read that right. Comingdeer Studios is the virtually adorable little shop. She is located in Bethany, Oklahoma. I am so very excited to have some of my work hanging in their brand new space. Bank check out theirInstagram @comingdeerstudios to come across for you self how perfect it is.
2016
Raw Fine art Bear witness Case: Holiday Special OKC
Now this was a big i! In December I participated in a large art show at the farmers market downtown OKC. It was hosted by a grouping that goes by the proper noun, Raw Creative person. Their main purpose is to show case the hush-hush artists. Bring a vocalisation to the little people. I am non sure if I worked harder for an event, ever. The hard work did indeed pay off. I got to meet so many new people and reconnect with lost friends. I am overwhelmed with gratitude that many of my images are now in these peoples homes.
Photofest
"PhotoFest on Paseo is a juried photography exhibition that takes place each September and is open to all types of photography-based artwork, including traditional and digital processes and mixed media work that features photography.
Through this exhibition, the Paseo Arts Association strives to stand for and spotlight the depth and diversity of contemporary Oklahoma photography. The showroom volition be featured in the Paseo Art Space during the month of September." –2016 Call for entries folio
Ruby made the cut for the judging process and won the merit award.
Red was likewise used equally the face up of thePaseo Commencement Friday walk commodity withThe City Sentinel
Stubborn Magazine
The Lost Issue Upshot 1 – March 2016
My three part series, Fearfulness, made the cut for the very start effect.
Stubborn Magazine
Art of the Body of water Issue 2 – April 2016
Iv of my images made information technology into the 2d effect. The theme beingness Art of the sea.
Astropad
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PhotoFest
"PhotoFest on Paseo is a juried photography exhibition that takes place each September and is open to all types of photography-based artwork, including traditional and digital processes and mixed media work that features photography." –Photofest 2015 Phone call for entries page
Defined Helmet and Birdskull made the cutting for the judging procedure.
Birdskull received an honorable mention and was used every bit the face of the whole start Friday walk news article onNews OK andOK Magazine.
My ii pieces also gain mention on the after thought commodity provided by News OK.
2014
Obscure Magazine
Volume ix, Issue 1: A Very Big Event
Robin Williams Tribute sereis
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