City of Boulder, CO Creative Neighborhoods Projects, 23 Jun 2021

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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Theresa Haberkorn

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Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/

A

So, uh first off I'm going to have you introduce yourself in your creative career.

B

And my creative career, ah okay um hi, my name is theresa haberkorn, I'm a printmaker in boulder colorado. um I grew up in florida and went to an arts high school. I was a magnet high school for the arts and um I've been doing art my whole life and came to boulder in 2002 um just out of college. I got my own printmaking press so that helped me continue in printmaking and have been working ever since.

A

Wonderful and how has covered 19 affected your life and livelihood.

B

uh Everything's been canceled, I had two big art shows this summer that have been cancelled in boulder. There's open studios is a big, fall studio, tour and that has been cancelled. So those have been my major sources of income. So um it's slowed down to a trickle yeah.

A

I'm very sorry to hear that.

B

A

um Are those prints your prints behind you, yeah.

B

I'm in my studio, those are beautiful.

A

Thanks your your studying is well chosen.

A

It's actually been a struggle, um so you've obviously been awarded a kova 19 work project. Stipend. Would you mind just briefly telling me about the project you're working on and how it can promote connectivity in your neighborhood yeah.

B

I have examples, so I did um a linoleum print of a sunflower. So this is a piece of linoleum that I hand carve with tools a carving tool like this um to carve out the design. So it's like a stamp and then I inked it and printed it onto a sturdy watercolor paper that I um colored with acrylic paint and then I glued them on sticks and gave them to my neighbors and friends that they.

A

Could put outside.

B

Or put wherever they would like, so I went around and gave them to my neighbors, which was really fun. My neighbors, and um it was very touching, like uh one neighbor, uh that I had only seen and waved hello when I I was sneaking around putting them in flower pots, and um she saw me she said. Are you giving me something?

B

Wonderful, and I said yes, I'm giving you a flower and she got really teary, because her brother had just passed away and possibly from covid, not entirely sure, but I think that's what another neighborhood had said. So it's been very touching to to hand them out.

A

Well, that is beautiful. What a lovely story yeah! um Is there anything else you'd like to share.

B

um Well, it's been fun, I've also been um posting them or distributing the flowers around town, and I would post um where I left them like next to mcguckin's.

A

B

Garden at growing gardens- and I left several there and people have been.

A

Going out and to.

B

Find them so that's been fun too to to put them out there. So it's been fun to connect with different people with them.

A

That's so fun. I love that project.