Depth with Zachary Trebellas
• – • The Rick House
About the speaker
Zachary Trebellas is a conceptual artist who takes inspiration from the culture and history around him. He is inspired by older forms of creativity like folk art or depression-era public art, both of which insert art into people's everyday lives and reflect the culture in which it is made. In his hometown he's created a street art series asking locals to share their thoughts on the shut down of the town's particle accelerator, in Japan he has recorded stories of the past told by residents of a depopulating fishing village, and currently he is making work around the concept of pride among West Michigan’s Dutch-American community.
Originally from Chicagoland, he studied Art History and Visual Art Management at Columbia College Chicago, graduating magna cum laude in 2010. His personal love of art deeply motivates him to bring opportunities to enjoy and create art to diverse audiences. Since graduating, he followed this passion by working and volunteering for non-profit art organizations in Chicago, namely Marwen and Sixty Inches From Center. Following this, he spent two years organizing community art projects in rural Japan during his time as an English teacher with the JET Program.
Enthralled by Grand Rapids' momentum as an art city, he moved there from Chicago in 2015 ready to dive into its art community. Since then he has become director of Avenue for the Arts, and organized art projects with UICA, Art Prize, GVSU, Garfield Park Neighborhoods Association, and other local organizations. He is a founding member of the art collective Good Manufacturing.
Local partners
Leigh Ann Cobb is a Grand Rapids resident, Pure Michigan enthusiast. Documenting intimate moments has always been an interest of hers; starting with an undergrad thesis as a printmaking and drawing major in 2011. Since then, she has grown a strong liking to the more portable means of capturing a moment, and have been strengthening her photographic skills ever since.
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Additional details
SEPTEMBER’S THEME IS DEPTH📣
Depth is a space that denies easy ways of seeing or comprehending — when we shine a light into the deep blue of the ocean, we cannot see much further than the surface. In our age of instant answers, we bristle at this resistance. It’s often easier to reduce people, places, and ideas into flattened renderings, rather than grapple with the nuanced and contradictory truths found in their depths.
Our Columbus chapter chose this month’s exploration of Depth and Bryan Christopher Moss illustrated the theme.
About Our Events
If this is your first CreativeMornings event, welcome! We are glad to have you. CreativeMornings is a relaxed breakfast lecture series that brings together creatives from all backgrounds to mix, mingle, and learn one Friday a month. All our events start with 30 minutes of networking. Please grab a cup of coffee from our coffee sponsor and connect with friends, old and new. Then, head into the event space around 9 am, sit back, and enjoy our talk from a speaker within your community. We wrap things up around 9:45 with a Q&A, more mingling, and then it’s off to work or your weekend!
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