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Cassia Kite gives students a taste of a life in the arts

• Meka Wright A&E Reporter @itstheredhair_                                 Mar 29, 2018 Updated Mar 29, 2018

August 7, 2017

KINETIC at KANEKO

SARTQ: RED

February 10 – March 9, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, February 10 6-9pm
Regular Gallery Hours | Monday, Tuesday and Thursday Noon - 2PM

SARTQ: RED exhibition, will fill the beautiful Palmetto Art Center with glowing color. Whether scarlet, crimson, maroon, vermilion, berry, ruby, rose, burgundy, carmine, brick, or cerise - red is both satisfying and exciting. The strong feelings suggested by the color red - passionate love, blood and anger - are always stimulating!

Artists understand color and use it to great advantage - as Matisse famously said: "A thimble full of red is redder than a bucketful." The 10 artists in the exhibition celebrate the many ways to see the color red. “Red can boost your energy, it exudes confidence and is life-affirming. In addition, this exhibition gives all art lovers something different to do with their sweethearts for their Valentine’s celebration,” says SARTQ co-founder Tim Jaeger.

The artwork in this group show includes printmaking, collage, drawing, video installation, sculpture and painting. In addition, FREE red silk screened prints will be made for the public right before their eyes while meeting the members of SARTQ. Attendees may bring their own clothing items such as t-shirts, pants, scarfs etc., though any item that can lie flat under the screen and will accept ink can be printed on.

SARTQ: RED exhibition is open to the public with no admission fee. Cash bar and live music by Hunter Brown will be provided. Following the opening reception, the Palmetto Art Center gallery will be open Saturday, February 11th from 11AM - 1PM. Also, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Noon - 2PM, and by appointment. 

The 10 participating SARTQ artists include Jeffery Cornwell, Elena De La Ville, Zachary Gilliland, Tim Jaeger, Cassia Kite, Jenny Medved, Laine Nixon, Javier Rodriguez, Steven Strenk, and Jill Taffet

For more information:
941.518.2109
www.sartq.org
info@sartq.org

The Palmetto Art Center is located at: 
907 5th Street West, Palmetto, Florida, 34221. 
Right next door to Grower's Hardware Store

Brave New Art: SRQ Magazine

BY ELIZABETH STEINER   |   SRQ DAILY FRESHLY SQUEEZED CONTENT EVERY MORNING   |   WEDNESDAY MAY 25, 2016

"Art Center Sarasota embarks on new digital frontier with the show #postdigital. A three-room exhibition, the intersection between technology and art comes to a head with interactive multimedia work from 28 local artists, designers from the Faulhaber Fab Lab and students and faculty members from Ringling College of Art and Design, New College of Florida, Pine View School and IMG Academy.

Art Center Sarasota Director Lisa Berger and Exhibition Curator Dustin Juengel wanted to showcase how high-tech innovations like 3D printers and laser cutters impact the art world. A visual artist in his own right, Juengel used his connections to the local art scene to track down artists working in non-traditional digital mediums. He also enlisted the Faulhaber Fab Lab, which contributed pieces to the exhibition that blur the line between science and art. Lending a hand, Best Buy, Microsoft and Apple provided the devices necessary to display the art. Thus #postdigital became a reality.

Venturing into the digital realm is a first for Art Center Sarasota. “We’re used to hanging up paintings, and now we’re hanging up iPads and [using] drones,” said Berger. Though most of the works in the exhibition are purely digital, a few pieces integrate technology to transcend their more traditional form. For example, Cassia Kite, a local visual artist and educator at IMG Academy, turns her paintings into readable QR codes using the Aurasma app. Hold a mobile device in front of the painting—the app “targets” the piece and plays a video.

“You can’t draw a distinct line,” says Juengel of the division between art and technology. “Every piece in the exhibition here seems to share something: a certain passion for making. A certain playfulness. The different technologies are just materials.”

#postdigital at Art Center Sarasota, May 19–June 25

Photo: Cassia Kite demonstrates how her painting interacts with a tablet device using the Aurasma app.

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Artist's Insights: Cassia Kite

by Marty Fugate, May 24, 2016, Sarasota Hearld Tribune, Ticket Sarasota Arts

http://ticket.heraldtribune.com/2016/05/24/artists-insights-cassia-kite/

“You can take a girl off of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the girl.” The art of Cassia Kite offers proof of that statement. She was born and raised on a family farm in Auburn, Nebraska. Her upbringing continues to inform her creations.

"My work  communicates the nostalgia, appreciation, love and admiration that I have for my farm life," she says. "You can see that heritage throughout my work, whether it be the imagery of farmscapes, portraits of family members or abstract constructions of memories involving symbolism. Everything I create has historical and sentimental relevance to my past and present. Every piece stands in relation to my own personal narrative."

This perspective doesn't mean she's living in the past. Kite's latest work is a multimedia journey in augmented reality.  Three of these paintings are part of the #postdigital exhibition at Art Center Sarasota. Kite's subject matter is down on the farm. But there's more to the paintings than meets the eye.

With the aid of the Aurasmaapp, viewers with smart phones and tablets can access videos associated with her two-dimensional paintings.

"Black Angus Baldy Steer" is part of Kite's Chores series of cattle paintings which take inspiration from documentary photography. It's a simple image of a solitary head of cattle in a realistic field, blurred, painterly demarcations suggesting the layers of memory. A window on a smart device reveals deeper layers of memory -- a montage of video on her family farm. You see a wind-blown Kite in the back of her father's tractor; grain pouring into a feed trough; a line of patient cattle heading out to the fields. The physical reality behind the painter's vision unfolds. And also the emotional connection.

"Cassia in Overalls" is a portrait of the artist as a farm girl -- a simple study in graphite and acrylic. The artist confronts the viewer with a direct gaze, neither confrontational nor shy. The Aurasma app takes you to spoken word excerpts from M.J. Howard's "A Farm Built on a Handshake" -- a collection of short fiction Kite illustrated with her landscapes and crisp studies of humans, animals and other characters.

"Nebraska Winter Cornfield" is a miniature painting of a landscape on Kite's family farm. Thanks to augmented reality, the image becomes a portal to photographs of the place itself.  Opening doors is what her art is all about.

Kite notes that, "I still create my art in traditional two-dimensional media. A program like Aurasma literally adds another dimension. But it's not meant to be a substitute. I still use my eyes, hand, pencil, paint and canvas to create. I'm not interested in a digital alternative at the moment. But digital technology can be a doorway to something more. And I'm extremely interested in that!"

rail, Sarasota. 365-2032.

Triple Play

Inside the minds of artists Javo, Cassia Kite and Richie Brasil.

BY PHIL LEDERER   |   SRQ MAGAZINE   |   DECEMBER 2015

Cassia Kite

"For artist Cassia Kite, the past is very much alive, sentimentally intertwined into the present, informing her work and driving her from project to project. “It’s imagery from my life, my past, trying to get into the realm of the present,” she says, unveiling Soundstitches, a mixed-media project years in the making, combining painting, stitching, music and memory. “When you have a child, it changes everything,” Kite intones, and in her case it meant easing back on the paint and picking up the needle and thread, making a quilt from her father’s old work shirts and falling in love with the process. “You spend so much time with the medium when you’re stitching that you build this relationship,” Kite says. Seeing a painterly potential within the spools of colored thread, Kite recreated line drawings with dark filament, quickly graduating to full-color paintings, abstracting her images just enough to accommodate the needle and uniting traditions of fine art and folk art into one. While plein air painting at the old family home in Nebraska, the memories return – her grandmother playing and teaching piano, the sound echoing in the house and beyond into the farm. It’s part of the house, something Kite needs to capture, “but how in the world would I do that?”  Kite’s answer, and the conceit behind Soundstitches, envisions color as musical code, with each hue corresponding to a note on the musical scale. Creating her own code in the key of C, whereby green is ‘C,’ yellow is ‘D,’ orange is ‘E’ and so on, Kite can read her stitched images, from left to right and top to bottom, as a piece of music. From painting to stitching to musical interpretation, Kite’s Soundstitches presents a multi-faceted exploration of a single image, embracing and perhaps even approximating the rich but amorphous sensation of memory. "- SRQ Magazine, Phil Lederer

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts proudly presents Bemis Benefit Art Auction 2015 on Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 6:00pm. We’re pleased to again unite local and national artists and galleries along with our art supporters for Omaha’s premier celebration of contemporary art.

The annual auction and exhibition highlights the generosity and diversity that characterize contemporary art. By celebrating these values, the auction is an ideal opportunity for the public to support creativity in a tangible way. Sales and donations are reinvested back into the Bemis Center, to provide financial and practical support to artists year round.

This year's festivities will include a silent and live auction with 250 works of art from top artists, juried by Ellina Kevorkian, artistic director for residency programs, Alex Priest, exhibitions manager, and Larry Roots, Modern Arts Midtown gallery director.

SCHEDULE
November 11: BE FIRST - Preview Night
November 13: BE TOGETHER - Family Preview Night
November 18: BE HONORED - Special Guests Preview Night
November 21: Bemis Benefit Art Auction 2015
November 23: 2016 Juried Group Exhibition Award announcement

ADMISSION INFORMATION
Register HERE for Benefit admission.

On Saturday evening, December 6th, from 6 - 9PM, PAC invites the public to come see Tim Jaeger, 10 Big Portraits | Cassia Kite, Sentimental(s) Opening Reception Exhibition.

This combined event, showcasing new works of Sarasota-based artists Tim Jaeger and Cassia Kite, offers art lovers and curious critics an evening of family-friendly indulgence and wonder. Jaeger's portraits are simple, quiet and introspective; presented in a straightforward and unadorned fashion. Portraits are inherently a celebration of a life. These works are a memorialization of the inner essence of the subject, not just a literal likeness. Kite's series consists of intimate hand stitches and miniature works representative of landscapes and objects. These works exhibit as objects and places but embody the concept of portraiture. The opening reception is one of several evening happenings worth exploring in historic downtown Palmetto on Saturday, December 6th, including Palmetto’s Christmas in the Park. 

 More about the artists: 

Tim Jaeger was raised in Paducah, KY before moving to Sarasota, FL in 1998 to earn a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Since graduating in 2002, in addition to exhibiting his work, Jaeger has expanded into the business and politics of Sarasota's visual arts. As Interim Assistant Director of the Ringling College of Art and Design Galleries and Exhibitions, board member of Sarasota's Public Art Committee, CEO of sarasotavisualart.com, and president of the newly reformed SARTQ artist collective, Jaeger works toward engaging the community and fostering new artistic partnerships. Currently, Jaeger's works can be seen in numerous public and private collections. Additional information and artworks can be found at www.regeaj.com

Cassia Kite was born and raised in Auburn, Nebraska and attended Northwest Missouri State University earning a B.F.A in painting and sculpture, along with a B.S in Art Education. In the summer of 2006, Kite moved to St. Petersburg, Florida from Atlanta, Georgia to work with both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Salvador Dali Museum. She earned her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida in 2010 and is currently working as a Studio Art Instructor at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL. As part of the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota’s Creators and Collectors Tour, Kite will be opening her studio space to the general public in March 2015. Additional information and artworks can be found at www.cassiakite.com

Jaeger and Kite were married in the summer of 2012, on Kite’s family farm in Auburn, Nebraska. Both artists are currently represented by State of the Arts Gallery located in downtown Sarasota.

Tim Jaeger’s 10 Big Portraits along with Cassia Kite’s Sentimental(s), will be on exhibit at the Palmetto Art Center’s Opening Reception, December 6th from 6 - 9PM. 10 Big Portraits | Sentimental(s)

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Images of available works from this show can be seen under the printmaking tab 

The informal event is intended to showcase and introduce a diverse group of leaders and creative minds from our community.   10 speakers will present 10 images of their work, interest, or inspiration.  Slides will advance automatically every 30 seconds with brief introductions between speakers.  The speakers include a publisher, the recipient of SAF’s 2013 Paul Rudolph Award, a restaurateur, a painter, Selby Garden’s director of education, an expert in prehispanic Maya from New College, a manufacturing entrepreneur, a senior scientist at Mote Marine’s laboratory, and the director of the upcoming Sarasota Film Festival.  

The presentations will start at 6:00pm.  No RSVP required.