New Exhibition coming to Morton arboretum MAy 2025-2027
Vivid Creatures
bY heather begaetz & fez begaetz
We’ve been invited to create 5 new works for a two year exhibit at one of my favorite curators of large scale art, the Morton Arboretum. This arborial haven “uses art to bring people to the trees.”
Some of my favorite sculptors have shown their in recent history, and I’m honored to be one of their next featured artists in collaboration with my sweetheart for life, Fez BeGaetz.
Why Big Art?
Giant sculptures gather people together. They become places of altered possibility where dream intelligence might restore ordinary interactions with natural magic. I make art to open passageways within us and between us. A playful space, a sculptural stage, an altered context might remind us that we are participants in an ongoing co-creative process where our vivid imaginings, longing hearts and unanswerable questions are welcomed and needed.
We are made and remade by everything around us–by beings as tiny as micro-organisms and forces as vast as the elemental hands that sculpted the mountains. We, ourselves, are organic artwork. I’m devoted to art-making as a process which reflects our artistic nature back to us and dares us to recognize, again, our natural role as co-creators.
We are made and remade by everything around us–by beings as tiny as micro-organisms and forces as vast as the elemental hands that sculpted the mountains. We, ourselves, are organic artwork. I’m devoted to art-making as a process which reflects our artistic nature back to us and dares us to recognize, again, our natural role as co-creators.
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