Flags of Hope

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Installation on Glenwood at Simpson, in Jackson, WY

“Flags of Hope: for a greener future”, a community public artwork that seeks to bring us together and to imagine a greener future! The “Flags of Hope” will be flying this summer to inspire us to sign up for the 100% Green Power Program through our local electricity provider, Lower Valley Energy (LVE).

Suzanne Morlock is a local artist and the inventor of this project inspired by Vista 360°. She has been working with students this spring and now with local community groups to complete the over 140 flags! This fun and magical printing process is an amazing way to make prints using the sun!

This project started this past January through a collaboration between Vista 360° and Jackson Hole Public Art to engage youth through a thought provoking and community facing piece of artwork to “cause folks to wonder what it is and why.”

“Our idea is that those who make solar printed flags are investing in the idea of a greener future through the power of art in public. We hope this artwork will catalyze engagement and sign ups for Lower Valley Energy’s 100% Green Power Program.”
-Suzanne Morlock 

The printing technique uses an alternative photographic process called cyanotype, invented in the 1850s and used to make blueprints before more modern techni    ques. Each one of the local print is mounted on recycled sheets from hotels in town. The sewing has been donated by the Jackson Hole Quilt Guild.

This project is supported by the NEA, an Arts for All grant, the Wyoming Legislature and the Wyoming Arts Council, Vista 360°, and Jackson Hole Public Art.

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Use this QR code to sign up for green power with Lower Valley Energy!

https://www.lvenergy.com/energy-efficiency/sign-up-for-green-power/

uncontained: the dance of the chronically ill

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Immersive Installations
Art321 – January 11-February 26, 2022

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uncontained: the dance of the chronically ill
12’x14’x15’, medical detritus, audio, video, invented elements and found objects, 2022.

This immersive installation assembles symbols of persistence and unrelenting navigation through the healthcare terrain. My creative method often pierces a realm particularly resistant to language, a somatic response where the doing, the making of the work, holds the language which most directly articulates my intent.

Repurposed detritus from years of unresolved illness, uncontained reveals a snapshot of the human fiber and the limits of medicine. A healthcare system weak and expensive for those whose maladies are outside the narrow path of typical diagnoses. Wyoming residents are further disadvantaged by the government’s refusal to expand Medicaid to protect vulnerable members of our communities.

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Flight of Fancy Flies Again

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Sadly, a while back, Suzanne’s collaborative installation Flight of Fancy in Rauma, Finland was heavily vandalized. Happily, her Finnish collaborator Tarmo Thorström stepped forward to create a new replacement “lace” element. He coordinated with Suzanne and Glenn (the third collaborator) to ensure his new work was compatible with Suzanne and Glenn’s original vision. In fact, the end result is closer to their initial vision than the first installed version was! Suzanne and Glenn are very pleased with the end result. Beautiful work Tarmo!

contagion

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At the intersection of climate change and health care policy, this performative installation kinesthetically draws a visceral snapshot of lived experience. Vector-borne diseases such as Lyme disease are on the rise as the climate warms. Coupled with increasingly divided health care access and increased burden of care, this poorly understood disease contributes to the rapidly rising contagion.
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shelter from the storm

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Visual artist Suzanne Morlock and invited collaborators Anitra Freeman, Margaret Johnson, Katmondu, Glenn Messersmith and Teresa Reeves undertook a process of experimental exchange for this one month residency. Bound by a common conceptual concern – homelessness, it formed the them for this exploration and is culminating in an evening of visual and performance response.

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Great Balls of Yarn!

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GBY2webIn the spirit of this year’s Office of Arts and Culture Sculpture Walk theme – spectacle, Glenn Messersmith and Suzanne Morlock, have created a twist on our interests in celebrating craft technique in new and inventive ways at a big scale. We looked at the bollards around Key Arena, and found them ripe to be playfully transformed into enormous balls of yarn! So this week 21 bollards on the east side of Key Arena have been transformed into Great Balls of Yarn!  …and there's more »

Internal Politics: Great Expectations

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Through an invitation to participate in a group exhibition in NYC entitled Internal Politics: Great Expectations, Suzanne submitted Like You, Like Me, an audio collage which features the brave stories of people in Seattle who are currently experiencing homelessness or have experienced homelessness in the recent past. These compelling stories resonate with humanness, strength and struggle. Eleven voices in this collage are those of Real Change News vendors in Seattle, Washington.

The Arts Inhabit an Old Furniture Factory

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With the recent release of the 2016 One Night Count (which increased with 733 more people sleeping out unsheltered), in conjunction with exhibitions 35 Live and UN[contained] presented by the Center on Contemporary Art, Morlock will participate in a pop-up exhibition on Saturday, March 12, from 6-10pm in Georgetown, as part of the monthly Georgetown Art Attack. Conceived of as an extra special evening of creativity by CoCA in conjunction with the Equinox open studios at 6555 5th Ave S., Seattle WA.