Bill Murray Choice Award 2024

Entry #1 – Marrie Bottelson & Candice Simpson

Hands and Hearts

$350.00

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Wings On Wheels

$350.00

“On their first day of Colab Marrie Bottelson and Candice Simpson began their collaboration by exploring the Bakken Museum exhibits and discovered a fascinating Interactive exhibit where one can use the movements of their body to “paint” on 3 large digital displays. The 3 ways they created using their bodies were: 1-Marrie and Candice sat next to each other and created a painting using the movement of their feet. 2-Marrie sat in front of the largest display while Candice stood behind her, both using their arm and hand movements to create a painting. 3-The third way was by Marrie sitting in front of the display using her whole body movement while Candice ran back-and-forth behind her. “The Experience was so playful, freeing and mind opening to all the ways we can make art! Collaborating in this way led to our choice of what we painted about: hands, feet, wheelchairs… no barriers!”

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Watercolor, Tempura on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #2 – Debra Ripp & Anna Karena

Lost In The Deep

$350.00

Found in the Shadows

$350.00

This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only a few short weeks to design and make the art. This is the first time these artists worked with each other on this CoLab art piece. Together they were able to learn from each other and seemed to ‘hit it off” at their first meeting, a new friendship may be in the works!

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Watercolor, Acrylic Paint and Inks, Colored Pencil, College on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #3 – Catherine Palmer & Juliet Parisi

Deadly

$350.00

Heavenly

$350.00


Working with the word synergy, the interaction or cooperation of two or more agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate parts, but using it as “SIN”ergy. With the word sin to work with, that moved to the Seven Deadly Sins, and while doing research found they are mirrored with the Seven Heavenly Virtues. The research also showed that the Sins & Virtues had specific colors assigned to them. The sins, virtues, colors guided our creation process. 

How did the word synergy, turn into “sin”ergy, and get transformed into art? Well, Parisi was curious about Palmer’s figurative “body process” style of art…and so, the journey began. 

Palmer has been creating the abstract figurative work for just under 10 years, and they are a result of “the dance and how would one capture it in a single moment. Trying to take posed people and make them look like they are moving”. After working at an art store, Palmer took classes at the California Building in Figurative Drawing for a year. As the classes went on, Palmer found herself making the body drawing more abstract and drew more intuitively and was heavily influenced by her love of music – from Techno, to Disco, to House, & beyond. 

Parisi has been drawing since she was a child and these “doodles” have now been affectionately named Zibble Zabbles during this project. These Zibble Zabbles have been worked into Parisi’s creations since she was 10-years old and have even been a form of a memory recall tool in certain situations. Recently Parisi has been exploring 3D aspects of broken glass, metal, resin relief, and wire in her art. Adding both the Zibble Zabble designs and the 3D wire to the figures, the synergy is powerful.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Acrylic and wire on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #4 – SAM Green & Mitchel Hatten

Social Injustice in The Qing Dynasty

$350.00

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The Birth of Cool

$350.00

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This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only a few short weeks to design and make the art. These artists had never met each other or not worked together before. They were able to learn from each other and seemed to ‘hit’ it off at their first meeting.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Collage on Watercolor paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #5 – Deborah (Sunny) Steinmetz & Cassa Castillo

Nancy Runs with the Wolves

$350.00

Princess Rieka

$350.00

This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only a few short weeks to design and make the art. These artists had never met each other or not worked together before. They were able to learn from each other and seemed to ‘hit’ it off at their first meeting.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #6 – Josh Swadner & Claire Johnson

Energy

$350.00

Serenity

$350.00

This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only a few short weeks to design and make the art. These artists had known each other but had not worked together before. They were able to learn from each other and have seemed to have formed a new friendship.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Acrylic on fabric canvas
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #7 – Kurt Nobbs & Alkemy Frost

Time to go to St. Paul

$350.00

Time to go to St. Paul

$350.00

This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only few short weeks to design and make the art. These artists had not worked together before, developed a close relationship, learned from each other and have seemed to have formed a new friendship.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #8 – Susan Costello & Madeline Boemer

Having A Whale of a Good Time

$350.00

Catch me if you Can

$350.00

This piece of art was created for the CoLab Exhibit. The artists worked collaboratively over only few short weeks to design and make the art. These artists had not worked together before, developed a close relationship, learned from each other and have seemed to have formed a new friendship.

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show

Entry #9 – MD Olson & Jodi Janz

Northern Lights

$350.00

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Butterflies

$350.00

This art was created collaboratively for this fundraiser and the Bill Murray Choice Award submission. The artists met regularly to design and create the work. “Oh a new friendship was for sure made! We kept laughing while wondering why we picked to do water color, its so difficult for each of us, but the result has been a pleasant surprise!”

  • Approximate Artwork Size: 18 X 24 inches
  • Artwork Medium: Water color and college on paper
  • Artwork Price: Buy now $350.00 Buy at event on 10/15/24 $250.00 * Fundraiser for The Show