Blog Posts - sarinda jones

Studio Open House......

4/21/2019

2nd Annual Studio Open House.

You are invited and bring your friends and family.
I am honored to invite you to the Second Annual Open House.
Last years event was a great way to bring in Spring and see everyone out and about mingling. Woo Hoo Two YEARS-!

May 5th, Sunday 1:00pm to 4:00pm

This event is an opportunity for people to see how I create my art and to purchase unique one of a kind pieces at sale prices.

There will be chalk for the kids & adult kids to draw with on the sidewalk. As well Small libations for your enjoyment.

What you will find for the Moms and Women of your life.
-Jewelry
-Plates and platters
-Gift certificates for workshops
-Art for the walls

Google Map Link
422 West 900 South #105
Salt Lake City, UT, 84101

Parking is best on 900 South. Look for the balloons and festivitie.

Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Sarinda

Salt Lake City Public Art Installation at Firestation #3 Sugarhouse.

4/13/2019

"Parley's Undercurrent"

Overview
Parley's Undercurrent is located in Salt Lake City, Utah at Fire Station #3 on of the first net-zero fire stations in Utah. “Parley’s Undercurrent” is the predominant art sculpture for Fire Station #3. Focusing on the interior with the North facing 2-story windows bringing the outside in and connecting the lobby to the meeting spaces. There are 300, transparent 9” glass disks that will be domed in shape. These disks mount to the wall with industry standard standoffs.

Goals
A work of public art succeeds when it draws people in, causing them to feel more connected to their surroundings. Each of us responds deeply to color, light, and pattern. Whatever else a work of public art may encompass, these elements ensure that the work is accessible to a broad audience. These elements are central to my work and I believe they are important to the fire station #3 project. A successful public art project reflects the dignity, culture, and values of a society. It may be an expression of an individual artist or it may be collaboration among many, but in the end, it becomes part of a larger body of work that contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople leave to future generations. The ultimate goal is to bring additional illumination and a calming environment to the overall experience for the firefighters and public visitors of Fire Station #3.
Process
Including the community in some way to provide a teaching opportunity to the community giving insights to how the project is fabricated was important for me. Including the science behind the making of glass art. I proposed a community outreach to the firefighters and other stakeholders in the project to participate in making some of the disks to be included in the body of sculpture. The experience with the firefighters was truly amazing, engaging for myself and them. They seemed to take an authentic interest in the process and visiting my studio. Everything went as expected, no major injuries and they completely jumped in ready to create. I wanted to provide a nonjudgemental environment for them to truly express themselves. I hope they enjoyed the time spent together.

Additional Info
There are 300, 9' glass disks individually mounted onto the span of the lobby wall, stairwell wall, and around the corner to the community meeting room. This meandering work bridges the upstairs meeting room and lobby into one cohesive space. 40' x 150' x 4"

Artistic Process And Science
My process is about abstraction. Taking a feeling, environment or a moment in time. Then it is all about the investigation of the subject. I have a worksheet that helps me to abstract the essential attributes of creative thought or idea. This worksheet helps boil down the process for me. For example after talking to the firefighters, Sugarhouse Arts Council and Salt Lake City Public Art Design Board about the overall scope of this work. I extracted keywords from the dialoge, such as calming, serine, the ideology of the community and history of Sugarhouse. Then I walked around Sugarhouse looking for these statements in the community.
I found myself at Sugarhouse Park. I have always been attracted to water and decided to walk up Parley's Creek. Here is where the idea came for Parley's Undercurrent. This Creek connects the whole community and physically runs right through Sugarhouse. I took out my sketch notebook and started a color study with my watercolors and color pencils just getting the colors right was important to me.
At my glass studio, I pulled out my glass Bullseye Glass sample set and tried to match the colors to the color study. Then the fun really begins for me, Thinking about Parley's Creek and how I can make this project look and feel like the creek its self. Playing with the idea of the meandering creek was interesting to me. As I walked along the creek it felt like I was investigating the area, exploring if you will.
Parley's Undercurrent meanders down the wall in the lobby of Firestation #3 and turns the corner and continues up the two-story wall to connect the community room.
I abstracted the color, the feeling of meandering, calming effects of the water translated nicely with the illumination of glass and the undulating shapes of the circular disks in Parley's Undercurrent.

Glass House Gallery Opening

2/25/2019

My Show at Glass House Glass House opens March 15th, 6-9pm.
If you are in The Salty City come see my recent work.!! Both glass and mixed media paintings will be hosted.

Google Map To Glass House

US Bank Article

2/25/2019

US Bank added Artspace Utah and myself in the most recent blog, investments in renewable energy. To read more on this go to the link below. “U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (CDC) is committed to renewable evergy investments.” Photo credit: Austen Diamond Photography #artspace_utah #usbank #renewableenergy #artistslivinginnetzero #netzero #sarindajones @ Artspace Commons, Solar Gardens & Greenery Community
::Blog link::
https://www.usbank.com/communi…/environment/initiatives.aspx

Powder Glass + Enamels Workshop in San Antonio

2/3/2019

::Powder+Enamel Workshop::
A warm thank you to Stouffer Studios for inviting me to teach in their beautiful studio in San Antonio, TX. My heart was full of love to be able to teach this amazing group of people. I am looking forward to scheduling another workshop there soon. Stay tuned.......

I will be teaching this same workshop in Salt Lake City on March 4th & March 11th. This is the same class I taught last week at Stouffer Studios just a two day version. You can create ridiculous amount of depth with only two 3mil sheet glass, powder glass and enamels.

Registration is at this link.
www.SarindaJones.com/teaching

Making art may reduce stress and anxiety.

12/20/2018

“In one recent study in the journal Art Therapy, researchers found that after just 45 minutes of art-making, levels of the hormone cortisol — which is associated with stress — were reduced in participants' saliva, regardless of their prior art skills.”

Read more at the link below.

Business Insider

Support Each Other

12/12/2018

Yes Yes Yes..... Thank you, A friend shared this with me and I had to share it with you.

I Love it!! I have a Belief that creating is not an act of scarcity. The more you do it the more you have. Encourage artists around you to create more.

This idea applies to love. The more love you give the more love you have. So on and so forth. Send it out to the world.

#art=art #Love=love #supporteachother

December 10th, 2018

12/10/2018

Red Butte Garden and Glass Show will be ending on December 18th. This is not a show to be missed. The guild has restocked this show 3 times and it is a beautiful Holiday venue.

Thank you to my patrons and students this year for creating one of the most memorable years to date.
Blessings to you.

Sincerely-
Sarinda Jones

Festivities at Red Butte Garden

12/10/2018

Salt Lake City Public Art Sugarhouse Fire Station #3

12/9/2018

Salt Lake City Public Art Fire Station #3

I am pleased to announce that I am the selected artist for this amazing project. A warm thank you to Salt Lake City, Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake Public Arts Program, and all Stakeholders in this project.

PROJECT BACKGROUND
In the summer of 2017, Salt Lake City Corporation conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for construction at the new site of Fire Station 3, the city’s second net-zero energy fire station and only the third net-zero energy fire station in the country. This station will replace the current Station 3, located at 1085 East Simpson Avenue.
The new Fire Station 3 is located in Sugar House, occupying a vacant parking lot directly west of Forest Dale Golf Course. Fire Station 3 will be a Net Zero Energy, LEED Gold Certified facility. The construction incorporates a geo-thermal heating & cooling system, radiant floor heating, LED lighting, a high-performance building envelope and robust photo-voltaic array. A Net Zero Energy building will create as much energy on site as it consumes annually, which is paramount in achieving Salt Lake City’s 100 percent renewable-energy initiative
SCOPE OF WORK
My vision is to bring additional illumination and a calming environment to the over all experience for the fire fighters and visitors of Fire Station #3. There are several spaces that I will be addressing for art. I would like to create three separate collections for fire station #3.
After meeting with the stakeholders and fire fighters, I came to the understanding that the fire fighters all deal with extreme circumstances regularly and each person deals with this in a different way. In the design of the fire station building I noticed that the architect was careful in creating spaces for the fire fighters to seek out refuge. My intent is to extract more of that feeling through out the building and living spaces.
Meeting with the Sugarhouse Council was helpful to be able to incorporate themes that serve and speak to the Sugarhouse iconic past by using visuals to encompass Sugarhouses’ rich past and history.
Also, involving the community by inviting the fire fighters and others members of the community to visit my studio in groups assist with creating a small potion "Parley’s Undercurrent". Provide a teaching opportunity to the community giving insights to how the project is fabricated. Including the science behind the making of the glass art.
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These two 9" glass disks are the prototypes for the art installation "Parley's Undercurrent", comprised of 300 glass disks.