Kalamazoo Lively Arts
The Art of Anna Barnhart
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We catch up with Anna Barnhart at Art on the Mall!
We catch up with Anna Barnhart at Art on the Mall!
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The Art of Anna Barnhart
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) - Hi everyone, I'm Kylie Ambu, and we're here at Art on the Mall in Kalamazoo where they have everything from macrame to music to jewelry, you name it, these talented artists have brought it.
and we're talking with a few of them about what makes their craft so unique, let's go.
- Well, we're here in a tent with the art of Anna Barnhart.
So talk with me a bit, I love that it rhymes, but about this amazing painting that you have going on.
Sure, and thanks for coming in today, it's toasty.
I love painting and goop.
I actually have a two year degree in animation, but I found out that I need texture on my hands.
I need to do something with my hands, and so traditional artwork is you can make all sorts of adventures, whether you go out in the country and paint or take pictures and invent different paths for yourself.
So I need texture, and as you can see, I like really strong texture, which the fancy art word is in pasto or in pasto.
Think about pasta and the texture, and I paint mostly in acrylics, so I have a lot of versatility when it comes to that and layering and even embedding things, which I don't do too much of yet.
- Wonderful, well, even looking at the artwork that you have, it's clear that some, you know, tell really powerful stories.
Look at behind you here.
What was going through your mind when you painted this piece, for instance?
- This one, so I did not take this picture myself.
This is from the Michigan Livestock Conservancy, their Facebook page, and I got their permission to paint this one.
They highlight either endangered or dying out breeds of livestock.
And I loved the composition the photographer had, but also highlighting a winter farm chore that we normally do not think about as being pretty.
And I've done other ones with a tractor in the really bright blue winter, but that one, just the distance of it, yellow skies that aren't blue, and then farm chores in the winter with this little boy with these Devon milking cows.
So I got the permission to paint that one, and I hope that brings awareness both to their cause as well, but also just farms.
And it's science, honestly, the science behind the stories of particular Michigan nature, although that one might've been Kentucky, I'm not sure.
- That's all right, for right now we'll say Michigan.
- It's a Michigan farm.
There's plenty of other farms and cows, and lots of livestock in Michigan needs just same amount of awareness.
- Absolutely, and when you talk about, you know raising awareness, art can do so much, it can, you know talk about really difficult issues, it can bring out emotions.
What do you hope people experience when they come into this booth?
- Ooh, I love it when people have a gut reaction to like one painting, like something catches their eye, whether it's the color combination or usually the texture draws them first, but something they'll fall in love with they just have to go home with, which of course helps me out.
- [Katie] Absolutely.
- [Anna] So that particularly, this art right here is so abstract.
Some of it may not have a story to tell but they connect with it in a heart way or there's a subject that sticks out to them as a gift for somebody else that they usually have a story in mind themselves at that point.
- Absolutely, well it definitely connected with me today.
Thank you so much for chatting with me, Anna.
- Nice to meet you.
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