Each artwork in this exhibition is a vehicle for a personal interpretation of some of the emotions - joy, conflict, struggle, hope, anxiety, passion, challenge - that I have experienced through my time as a full-time Caretaker of the residency program at Vytlacil.
Read MoreEarth Impermanence
Seen through a feminine lens, climate and culture change, cohabitation, dominance, sacredness of place and perception are re-examined. The ensuing dialogue between these artists works encompasses the tension perched between permanent and impermanent.
Read MoreExhibit Honors New Ulm Interior Designer
NEW ULM — Christine Carmichael was an interior designer with a zeal for enlivening run-down structures. She served as lead interior designer and project coordinator for The Grand Center for Arts and Culture in New Ulm. Charis Carmichael Braun will unveil her oil portrait of Christine during a reception honoring the late interior designer in the 4 Pillars Gallery, "Christine Carmichael: A Life by Design."
Read MoreSing For Hope Piano Artist
This "console" piano I painted is in honor of my sister, whose work as an interior designer increased people's quality of life through the environments in which they lived.
Read MoreNonprofit partners with NYC schools to donate artist-created pianos to students
(I was featured in the bottom photo of the printed issue - click "read more" to see.)
Read MoreArtful pianos getting second life after two-weeks on public display in five boroughs
And although the pianos — which are designed by an array of volunteer artists, community members of all ages, and celebrities — are only out in the public for two weeks, the plan is to allow the instruments to continue to have a life influencing others.
Read MoreSing For Hope Piano Artist
Each year, Sing for Hope selects local and international artists to create individual piano artworks as a part of the largest public arts project in NYC. I've been wanting to be a part of this public art project since its beginning, and I was thrilled to be have been chosen for it! The design of my piano was in honor of my sister who died in June 2015.
Read MoreA Conversation With Nature
Exhibited at the "A Conversation With Nature" exhibition in support of environmental education in the Blue Rock School in West Nyack, NY, I'm so pleased to say that this work sold!
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Artists Salons at Piermont Straus
I will be exhibiting and presenting on the theme, "Nude in Nature" at Piermont Straus' Artists Salon
on Friday, August 26, 2016, 5-7p.
36 Ebony, 52 Ivory, 28 Liberty: Lower Manhattan Office Tower Hosts Artists Seeking to Render the Audible Visual
But before the pianos can be publicly unveiled or given away, they must be brought to life through paint. That was the order of the day at 28 Liberty. Although the project is publicly visible for ten days, Sing for Hope and the artists work on the pianos for many weeks before they are displayed. Last month, artists from Canada came arrived to paint their piano, while others (they are recruited from around the world) will finish up their projects in early May.
Read MoreTen Memorable Paintings from 2015
This year over 400 artists responded to my call for work, making the process of choosing ten paintings especially challenging and exciting. I would like to publicly thank all of the artists who sent work for me to look at: it was humbling to see how much great painting is happening out there.
Read More50 Memorable Painters in 2015
I am honored to have been included in PoetsArtists’ “50 Memorable Painters” in 2015. Below is a screen capture from the PDF of the issue.
Menendez, Didi, and John Seed. "50 Memorable Painters (2015)." GOSS183 Publishing House, Bloomington, Illinois. Special Issue of PoetsArtists, Vol #70. (2015): pgs. 22-23. Print.
50 MEMORABLE PAINTERS
published by GOSS183 in 2015
Special PA (PoetsArtists) issue curated by John Seed and Didi Menendez
Featuring art from:
Alexsander Betko ▪ Jeffrey Bess ▪ Charis Carmichael Braun ▪ Ali Cavanaugh ▪ Matthew Ivan Cherry ▪ Erica Elan Ciganek ▪ Ben Cressy ▪ Gabriela G. Dellosso ▪ Emanuela De Musis ▪ Shawn Fields ▪ Ron Francis ▪ Zoey Frank ▪ Patrick Earl Hammie ▪ Graham Harwood ▪ Mark Heine ▪ Erika B. Hess ▪ Jen Hitchings ▪ Milan Hrnjazovic ▪ Karen Kaapcke ▪ Michael Kozlowski ▪ Valeri Larko ▪ Brianna Lee ▪ Kim Leutwyler ▪ Shana Levenson ▪ Zachari Logan ▪ Susannah Martin ▪ Renee McGinnis ▪ Darian Rodriguez Mederos ▪ Sylvia Maier ▪ Shie Moreno ▪ Rachel Moseley ▪ Judith Peck ▪ John Philbin Dolan ▪ Serena Potter ▪ Nadine Robbins ▪ Beverly Rippel ▪ Cesar Santos ▪ Victoria Selbach ▪ Ed Smiley ▪ Kyle Staver ▪ Barry Smith ▪ Albert Leon Sultan ▪ Emily Thompson ▪ Alexandra Tyng ▪ Conor Walton ▪ Nick Ward ▪ Thomas Wharton ▪ Margaret Withers ▪ Meg Wolensky ▪ Stephen Wright
How to Make the Most Out of an Artist Residency
First-time artists-in-residence may unconsciously load all their eggs into one basket, expecting their experience will be The Solution needed Right Now (also assuming it to be Once-In-A-Lifetime). However, that kind of thinking strangles the creativity anticipated to blossom. Give yourself the tools—resilience, commitment, honesty—to be aware of your environment, inside and out, and to adjust when things develop in a way you haven’t expected.
Read MoreWhy Should an Artist Seek Out a Residency?
The concept artist residency is synonymous with “space and time.” Residencies are founded on the belief that at some point during an artist’s career she or he may have neither the desired space nor required time to create. While every artist might agree that there are not enough hours in the day to do his or her work, whether full-time or stealing moments, there are more reasons to take advantage of a residency besides simply seizing time and space.
Read MoreReady for Your Artist Residency?
I want to share with you some of my best tips—and some ideas that might surprise you—to help you pull it all together for your upcoming residency.
Read MoreCharis J. Carmichael Braun #HungryGhostsArtExhibition
Her painting “Where Do We Go From Here?” is a powerful, disturbing work by one of the few artists in the show who has focussed on the murder victims.
Read MoreJuror Award - Representational Art in the 21st Century
I am so pleased to announce that my work, "Andrew in the Woodpile (Daemmerung)" has been selected as a Juror Award by the curator James Lancel McElhinney in the Representational Art in the 21st Century exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
McElhinney selected "artists charting new territories, expanding the representational canon through the process of observation" and I am honored that my painting was recognized as such among the outstanding artists selected for the exhibition which included colleagues Diana Corvelle and Noah Buchanan. See the entire exhibition.
Charis J. Carmichael Braun
Originally published: http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/CharisJCarmichaelBraunJan18_2015.html
Lucid Visions at Panepinto Galleries
Bringing together local and international artists based in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Manhattan these selected works speak to the endless possible deviations from reality as envisioned by an unfettered mind.
Read MoreHuman Brevity
In the age of instantaneous messaging, constant updates on news feeds, disposable anything and everything, lives broken down into shorter and shorter segments, catering to our waning attention spans – the works in Human Brevity question whether the soul or the internet is the path to immortality.
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