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(piano plays in bright rhythm) My name's Chris Atkins, I'm the
coordinator of the MAAP program. I've been here at the museum for
a little bit less than a year,
and this is my first time
experiencing Foot in the Door.
We had a feeling
that there was going to be a lot of interest,
that people were going to be waiting and people were
going to be ready to go. I think a lot of people
want to be in first, so that their work
gets hung up first. Where that will be on the wall
and how it grids out, not quite sure yet, but the line
that we see out there,
wasn't sure it would get that long. Hi sir, how are you?
(woman) This is the wings of a monarch butterfly.
It's called
the Sound of Laughter. Clear glass marbles
in a pool of rainbow light.
We moved it 'cause it was right in our walkway. (Chris)
Foot In the Door, well it's going to be the biggest exhibition
in the state. It happens once every 10 years. There's quite
a line. I just heard about it
a couple days ago. This is
a picture of the Resplendent Quetzal of Costa Rica.
(Chris) Anyone
who calls himself an artist, living and working
in the State of Minnesota. The only qualification is
that it has to fit in a 12-by-12-by-12 box.
Tried to get the right dimensions.
(Chris) Anything bigger,
unfortunately, doesn't fit. The 80-pound piece made out of soapstone.
I'm trying to give them as much of a challenge as they're giving us
putting it in one cubic foot. (man)
I'm calling this
The Third Dimension.
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I heard about the Foot in the Door
from friends and my wife too. Every 10 years, I think
I didn't want to miss that.
The MIA is a place where everyone wants to show,
so by having a piece there, Foot in the Door was
a really big deal.
My name is Rabi Sanfo,
I'm a metal worker.
I've been working with steel for 11 years
before I start making sculpture.
I love working with metal, I mean,
I've been working with it for so long that it kind of
became like clay to me.
I think everything is possible with steel now that I've found,
and I'm still finding new possibilities and new tricks.
This is a bird that I'm making and it's going to go
on the wall. So the piece
I'm going to be working on today
is going to be a wall piece on this style.
I grew up in Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
which is the capitol of Burkina Faso. Burkina is a landlocked country
in West Africa, north of Ghana.
Being a kid, our parents didn't
really have the financial means
to give us toys at Christmas,
so they taught us how to make our own toys
by using scissors and hammers
at an early age and I think this was
already a beginning, although I didn't know I was
going to be doing this.
I need to start welding it.
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of the torch)
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And that's it. (piano plays in bright rhythm)
¶¶ ¶¶ I'm kind of
holding my breath right now to get my
frame measured because it's 10-by-8,
but with the extra wood on here,
it kind of measures to 12.02 inches. This is a public service piece
to assist the public in discerning what is necessary.
A friend of mine,
Jenn Steinbrink, she's up
in Crookston, Minnesota. She has a studio up there
and she got Entrepreneur
of the Year up there. (man)
This is a watercolor
called Country Princess. I got this.
Lovely, thank you. A lot more people than I expected at 10 AM.
Awesome, okay great, thank you so much. They didn't even check!
I am Kathy Littfin. Hello! Come on in. (laughs)
I just graduated the Art Institutes International Minnesota with a Bachelor's
of Science in Graphic Design.
Here we have my living room. Now what I have hanging up are
some of my first art pieces ever
that bring me inspiration and make me feel
pretty comfortable
about what I do. This type of drawing, this line
art, is something that I do
when I want to release all the design tension in my head,
all the rules and regulations that graphic design
and the industry force upon you.
(guitar plays, women sing) ¶¶ If I had a rainbow ¶¶
¶¶ follow me where I go ¶¶ ¶¶ everyone would like me ¶¶
¶¶ 'cause I'd be so comfortable ¶¶
¶¶ and if I had an apple ¶¶ (Kathy)
One of the worst things that you could do as an artist
is actually decide
that you like your picture before it's finished, because then it's not
an exploration anymore for what you can do with your
mind and with your talent.
It's more of a preservation
at that point to retain that beauty
that you found in it already. Now, when I work
on these Photoshop pieces,
they're very similar to how I do my line drawings.
I don't really go in
with 100% of a game plan. I kind of just let things happen
and kind of go
with what feels right. This picture here is
made up of only one color, so all the darker and the
lighter oranges in there are just the tints and the tones
of the one color. So I thought that was
pretty cool to be able to hit that many ranges
in one picture with one color.
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It weighs 80 pounds. It weighs 80 pounds? Okay, well let's make sure
it measures first. We're not going to
get it in there. I came from Northern Minnesota,
and two of the people couldn't come,
so I brought down their artwork also.
Oh I think you've got it. I don't know what's up;
this is up.
Wow! Perfect!
My name is Geoff Bush and I am
a sculptor primarily, but I also do pieces
for the wall.
The Chinese Book of Changes is a text of over 3,000 years ago.
I did this on Valentine's Day for Marie.
It compromises
what are called hexagrams, and these are 6 lines,
and the lines
are either broken or they're unbroken. Now each of the 64 hexagrams
has a very specific meaning.
This is a piece about a very gifted composer and musician
who came home and found his apartment burned to the ground,
and all that was left was a ukulele. This was a beautiful ukulele at
one time and he gave it to me,
and I came up with this piece which is based on
an old shipping pallet. This hexagram is called "Work on What Has Been Spoiled,"
and the little hidden
hexagram in it is the 6 frets painted red
that indicate the creative.
I submitted a piece to the Foot in the Door,
so one side of the 4-sided piece
made out of soapstone, it has hexagram for creativity,
and then the opposite is biting through and then there's one called,
"Kung Fu," which means inner strength,
or inner truth actually, and then the opposite of that
is one called "Grace."
(Chris) I think you probably have the largest,
heaviest work that we've come across so far. (Geoff) I like the idea of being
there with all of these other people.
It turned out to be over 5,000, 5,000 Minnesotans wanted a piece
in the Institute.
(Chris) We've got everything
from 2-D, 3-D, iron sculptures,
wooden birdhouses,
photographs, kind of the range
of things, animals covered with fur.
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