The Creative-Native Project

The Creative-Native Project: The Interaction Between Art, Environment and Creativity

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Installation at Brevard Art Museum for Navel Gazing exhibition

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My installation entitled Preconceived Notions consists of five paintings and a documentary that talks about what people think of as the na...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Update

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All the segments below were all part of our Florida program, The Artist's Process-Going Native in Florida. You can also see our fundrais...

Corkscrew Swamp Segment # 1

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Our first stop on our trip through Florida shooting the documentary "The Artist's Process, Going Native" was Corkscrew Swam...

Segment # 2 Interviewing Kari Ruder at her native plant nursery

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We met Kari Ruder at her native plant nursery called Naturewise in Cocoa. She was great on camera and inspiring in terms of what can be do...

Florida native yards Segment #3

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We went to see two yards that have been converted to native plants and talk with Gary Cowie, the owner of one of the yards about why he ...

Repairing paintings at the Brevard Art Museum segment #4

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Most people don't realize all the demands and stresses of being an exhibiting artist. This segment gives a brief glimpse into my life ...

Shell Creek Segment #5

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We drove over to Punta Gorda to spend a few days with our friends Rick and Jane who live on Shell Creek. The documentary shows how they ...
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Fran Hardy received a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and has had six solo museum exhibitions one of which was a 15 Year Retrospective. "Fran Hardy, In a Brilliant Light" a documentary about her work aired on Orlando PBS, WMFE-TV in conjunction with her traveling show of the same name across the state of Florida in 2001. A recent traveling show entitled "Pentimento" traveled to museums across the country. Select PBS stations and FEC/PAEC-TV, continue to air new documentaries on her work as well as The Creative-Native Project series. Ancient trees and primordial plants provide symbolism and fertile material for her works. Her drawings and paintings of trees, are part of a lifelong preoccupation that centers around very elaborate, otherworldly large scale drawings and their interpretation into paintings. Madelon Sheedy, Curator at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art has said of her work "It is obvious that Fran Hardy paints what interests and inspires her, emphasizing the interplay between light and dark and forcing us to look at, rather than into or through the commonplace. The elegance in her work heightens the importance of the ephemeral and makes it timeless."
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