Charis J Carmichael Braun

I will be presenting on “Professional Practices” at this special Visual Artists Weekend Workshop.

I was commissioned by Martin Luther College (New Ulm, MN) to create illustrations/artwork for an Advent devotional in 2023.

Moderated by Lauren Amalia Redding and hosted on H&R Studio’s YouTube Channel, Diana Corvelle, Miguel Carter-Fisher and I discuss just how well we know—or decline knowing—our models, and how those relationships (or lack thereof) influence our portrayals.

I am happy to share that three of my works have been selected by Max Ginsburg and will be shown in Mills Pond Gallery’s “Contemporary Realism” exhibition, September 12 - October 17, 2020, in Smithtown, NY.

"Decadent? Definitely. Pleasurable? Indeed. Guilty? But of course." 

To create art is also an act in self-sufficiency, intelligence, and courage ... and the eleven women artists in No Net Ensnares Me assert their own independent wills to make. Fastidious technical knowledge, exploration of materials, and emphasis on craft and skill demonstrate that these artists, and their artworks, speak in a voice as clear as Jane’s.

I'm pleased to participate in the 1st Annual Portrait Show at the Jo Hay Open Studio gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Jo Hay Open Studio is donating 25% of all sales to the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies.

I am pleased to have been the "guest editor" for selected articles in the STUDIO PROJECT series in LINEA: The Artist's Voice. 

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.

(I was featured in the bottom photo of the printed issue - click "read more" to see.)

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

This extraordinary mosaic is a celebration of faith in Christ within the diversity of their community. The process for the creation of the artwork was designed to offer an opportunity for everyone to participate. 

There are two thousand lucky New York City MetroCards upcycled as zoetropes, impressionist cityscapes, shunga-stylized erotica panels and nail-polished pug portraits at the Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again exhibit, and we stopped by the Sloan Fine Artgallery opening last week to see them. 

Charis Carmichael Braun, another repeat Single Fare rider, gives a glimpse of an amazing project she was involved in with her Church. She also is mid production on a trio of beautiful metrocards to include in this year's show, pictured below.

“Study for ‘Creation' is a color study [or a series of images interpreting Christian doctrines as seen through a Lutheran perspective,” says artist Charis Carmichael Braun, the People’s Choice Winner. 

A New Ulm native and photographer for The Journal, Braun volunteered to lead the effort to compile and design a 130-page book, an "active pursuit of one’s local history.”

"When you place a marker somewhere, it solidifies and almost immortalizes what happened at that point," said Carmichael Braun. "What's in the book is just the gateway to the more exciting and the colorful stories that are sometimes forgotten and not mentioned." 

An Illustrated Guide to Brown County's Sites of Historical Interest.