Art Brunch

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S1E4 with artist Drew Nikonowicz. Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch/

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The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

Drews's Bio:

Drew Nikonowicz (born in St. Louis Missouri, 1993) earned a BFA degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2016. His work employs analog photographic processes as well as computer simulations to deal with exploration and experience in contemporary culture. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he received the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Lenscratch Student Prize. In 2017 Nikonowicz completed a one-year residency at Fabrica Research Centre. His first photobook, This World and Others Like It, was co-published by Yoffy Press and FW:Books in 2019. It was awarded Jurors' Special Mention at the 2019 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards.

He now lives in the United States in Saint Louis, Missouri. He works there as an artist and is the Photography Technician at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University.

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An edited archived video of Art Brunch S1E4 with artist Moira Smith.

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About The Travel Agency: The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

Moira's Bio: Moira Smith is a multi media artist and exhibition preparator based in St. Louis. Moira helps with install at various local galleries and museums, including Granite City Arts and Design District, the Kemper Museum At Washu, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. In between art handling, Moira can *potentially be seen* searching around for objects to be evidence. Moira collects information from a variety of sources such as children’s fairytales and folklore, anonymous public surveys, appropriated textbooks or encyclopedias, city alleys, and (especially) eavesdropping on conversations in public places.

Moira takes lots of notes but likes to call them field notes or data, for scientific purposes. She has a collection of rocks — though some art secretly not, but rather, chunks of asphalt.

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An edited archived video of Art Brunch S1E3 with artist Ashley Delgado.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Meet Ashley

16:00 - Art Talk

55:00 - 10 questions!

About The Travel Agency: The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

Ashley's Bio: Ashley is a St. Louis based artist and barista at local coffee bar, Blueprint Coffee, located on Delmar. Over the course of her life Ashley has put great intent in trying to come to understanding and acceptance with every dimension of our journey in becoming ourselves. In this day and age of identity, decolonizing our hearts and institutions, and quest for self love, breaking down barriers is not only an external necessity but an internal one.

Ashley is of Mexican, Indigenous and Hungarian descent, and as a woman of color and one who has lived a life with mental illness these barriers are ones that have hung on every waking thought as she has grown. To not only learn to love ourselves for our growth and beauty but see and accept the other side of that, she desires the courage to delve deeper into taking ownership for our wickedness or shortcomings and creating beauty in the peace that brings.

“To make mistakes, to find out that you are the villain and hero in your story is to know all of you. Making mistakes and having that opportunity to rise above them, the ability to make a choice, is the great gift we have as humans as well as our curse. We never want to entertain the idea that we can become what we hate the most in others. Or that we can be everything we have ever wanted, if we could only see past the lies we tell ourselves.” Animals and the natural world have been the conduit and inspiration for her method of communicating these ideas and questions. Through illustration she takes these characters and creatures to create a narrative on coming back to ourselves, to the earth and to the question of how to find the truth sometimes hidden in our lives. To make sense of our own stories and the growth needed for how we write them.

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An edited archived video of Art Brunch S1E2 with visual artist Ben Bradshaw. Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch

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About The Travel Agency:

The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.

Ben's Bio: Ben Bradshaw is an MFA Candidate with a focus in Textiles at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. He has a BFA degree (2014) in sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute. His studio is located in downtown St. Louis, MO.

Bradshaw is an emerging visionary artist working in a variety of mediums with intuitive drawing as the common denominator. His landscapes are topographies of shared psychic space - documentation of collective unconscious divined by the human hand. Through self-directed study of a variety of crafts and techniques, he has found ways to draw with materials well beyond paper and pen. Plasma cut steel nets, ceramic dream creatures and animated cosmic serpents are the products of Bradshaw’s multimedia practice. Seen all together, his world comes into view as dreamtime becomes reality via the long song of design

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