2 . 19 . 16 | End of Winter Update

A typical winter beach day. Sometimes when the wind is out of the north the water becomes incredibly flat.

Shark Karma. But when the wind comes from the south it can get really choppy and wash creatures up on the beach. We sent this shark back into the water and it swam away fine. With all the surfing we’ve been doing around here lately a little shark karma could be useful.

Sadly it’s time for Vicki’s show to come down. but not before it was visited by a ghost from Dicken’s past…

Time for our show at the CAMH to come down too, but not before we do a little meditating on the Island Time…

Thanks to Brandon Bell, Danielle Chan, Craig Hauschildt, Jamey Kollar, Matthew McClung, and Neil Sisauyhoat for coming to GAR and performing Michael Gordon’s “Timber”. It was intense and cathartic!

Thanks to Shrimp Boat Projects for helping us bring Dave Dove, Jason Jackson, and Ryan Edwards to GAR to perform “Music for Dolphins”. This was a really unique piece that brought the concert from the Bay to the people!

A field trip to the Oil Rig Museum in honor of current resident Diana Puntar’s birthday with Michael Waugh and Vicki Sambunaris resulted in multiple assaults by frisky mannequins.

Thanks to Josh Bernstein and Natasha Bowdoin for bringing us Christmas Rune Wood. We’ve been burning it in the proper order and hope to unleash the Nordic Fire God before the Vernal Equinox! Bring on spring!

10.25.15 |Fall Gratitude

A big thank you to Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu for sharing their poetry with us. This was in conjunction with our Fall show by Joshua Edwards: “Photographs Taken At One-Hour Intervals During A Walk From Galveston Island To The West Texas Town of Marfa”.

A big thank you to Eric Taylor for coming to GAR and kicking our asses into the real world.

A big thank you to everyone who came to our hands-on workshop, helping us bind the emotional world to the physical world.

A big thank you to Robb Walsh for coming to GAR and cooking amazing gumbo for our Residency Artist Meet & Greet party.

Look at that roux!! (Cajun napalm)

6 . 27 . 15 | Summer Isn’t Always a Bummer

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Residency Show, even though it was a rain soaked night!

Gartist in Residence, Grace Ndiritu, looking fabulous next to the Eatsie Boys food truck.

Wild Moccasins were able to finish their set right before the storm set in! Thanks for a great show guys!

Cat Koozies! Cat Koozies! Cat Koozies! If you could correctly answer a Greek mythology trivia question posed by Lucy Sparrow you may have walked away with one of these GAR commemorative beauties!

After the Residency Show opening we headed out for our annual West Texas field trip. On the way out there we stopped at the Sonora caves. It’s a strange, crystal world down there!

A Mountain GARfrog eagerly watches breakfast being made.

Back at GAR proper we see that under Sallie’s eternal optimism our Plant People invite has blossomed into this! Anyone else get any gardens from their invites?

The swallowtail larvas have been shape-shifting.

But if anyone out there knows what kind of butterfly this guy will become, please let us know! Because it sure is pretty!

5 . 5. 15 | Kite Weekend

A big thank you to kite experts Glenn Davison and Kathy Nixie for coming to GAR and doing three fun kite building workshops with us. We made Miniature Kites, Fighting Kites, and Kites from recycled materials. If you weren’t able to come, here are some pictures from the weekend.

Building and flying miniature kites in the GAR gallery.

Building and flying fighting kites.

Building and flying kites from recycled materials.

Thank you to everyone who came out to participate! Seeing all the kites up in the air flying together at the end of the weekend was really magical.

4 . 18 . 15 | April is the Cruelest Month

Our spring got off to a great start when Maria Molteni gifted us with this net for our basketball hoop.

Along with working on our basketball game, we’ve been dream machine-ing. Thanks Dan!

 

 

Building and burying Adam Putnam’s obelisk for the “Plant People” exhibition.

 

 

 

 

Also part of the “Plant People” exhibition was current artist in residence Grace Ndiritu’s shamanic plant performance.

 

More fun with fungi! Top: Shitake Mushrooms, bottom: Turkey Tail Fungus. Also part of the “Plant People” exhibition.

Our carnivorous Pitcher Plant is now large enough to eat full grown flies! Thank you Diana for turning us on to this fascinating plant and insect eating machine.

 

Battle Royale in the garden!

 

 

We’ve had good luck with some new crops this winter: artichokes, broccoli, and sugar snap peas!

The palimpsest of “New New Berlin”. The structures may be gone, but their mark remains.

1 . 29 . 15 | The Ghost and The Darkness

Introducing the GAR kitties! We found them at the shelter, they’re brothers and their mother was a stray. They are cute as shit.

The Ghost.

The Darkness.

The back courtyard is a kitty playground.

These little dudes have been a great addition to GAR. Everyone has been having such a good time getting to know them!

12 . 12 . 14 | Un-Music

 

This past Tuesday, we were honored to host DaCamera’s Young Artists for “Un-Music: A Concert Celebrating Anti-Establishment Music”. Works by John Cage, Erik Satie, Morton Feldman, John Luther Adams, and pieces from the FLUXUS Movement were performed. Here is Yvonne Chen on piano, and Boson Mo on violin performing Erik Satie’s “Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes)”.

Sallie Barbee, Yvonne Chen, Teresa Procter, Brandon Bell and Luke Hubley performing various FLUXUS works.

John Luther Adams’ “Dark Wind” with Rebecca Tobin on bass clarinet.

Craig Hauschildt put together the program for the evening, and it was truly astounding! Awesome job, Craig! Here is the man himself playing percussion for “Dark Wind”.

Perhaps our favorite piece was John Cage’s “Inlets” which is performed with water in seashells and the sound of fire (from GAR’s own courtyard fire pit!)

Thank you to Teresa Proctor, Boson Mo, Brandon Bell, Yvonne Chen, Rebecca Tobin, Craig Hauschildt and Luke Hubley for your amazing performances. And thank you to everyone who came out to enjoy the night with us!

The next morning, December 10th 2014, in the gar back courtyard, this little guy was meditating on becoming a chrysalis.