Visions in Motion 20/20
Support Collaborative Creativity! Foster Artistic Risk Taking and Freedom of Speech! Donations pay for Production costs!
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Artist Andrea K. Lawson and her team of teens and adults, have been selected to create an experimental art event for Key City Public Theatre's new Colab program in Port Townsend, Washington. The Colab is an invitational collaboration between theatre and visual arts.
In February, 2020, the doors to Key City Public Theatre will open on a vibrant multimedia art experience, Visions in Motion 2020! Lively music, original art, and intriguing explorations of history and freedom will greet the audience when they enter. The evening will unfold with a provocative performance in which theatre, poetry, and dance draw the viewer into a colorful and challenging world where the cycles of oppression, decay, and renewal are made visible.
Will you join us on this exciting journey? Whether you are near or far, you can participate in this amazing project by contributing to our campaign. Your donations will fund production and outreach costs, including: a pay as you wish performance making theatre accessible to all; an open to the public art and media exhibition; inspiring sets; dance costumes; and a professional video bringing this art experience to the world. We have gifts for our donors! See below for your choice of gifts!
All donations receive our endless gratitude and bragging rights!
Donation Thank You Gifts (scroll way down for images)
$12: a personal signed, Visions in Motion Souvenir thank you postcard in the real mail
$20: a free drink at the show!
$25: Signed Art Print mailed to you-8.5 x 11”
$35: Souvenir signed Event Poster (8.5 x 11")
$40: Rite of Spring, Verdure limited edition etching. Image 4x4, on "7 x 11" acid/free paper. Contains unique collage. Signed by artist, Andrea K. Lawson
$50. Original art pin. Each one is a unique miniature piece of wearable art-Mixed media on wood.
$75: Framable, signed page from Roger Bloomer script, Act 3, signed by five descendants of the Hollywood Ten (8.5 x 11")
$100: Rite of Spring new Seed Series Painting, 4 x4", mixed media on wood. Each painting contains collage created from Stravinsnky's Rite of Spring Score, ready to hang on your wall. Check out Andrea's website for more art images
www.andreaklawson.com
$140: Original etching from Andrea's new Into the Light series, copperplate intaglio etching, signed limited edition print ( images below). ( Choose your favorite, or we'll choose for you).
The Visionary Experience:
Hollywood Producer: $150 fund our video by award winning videographer, Jessica Plumb, and receive a preview copy of the DVD and a free drink at the performance!
$250: Seed Song Supporter: Two original mixed media Rite of Spring Seed Song Paintings. Each is 4 x 4" on wood, ready to hang on your wall. These paintings need a friend and like to be hung in pairs! A free drink will be reserved for you at the show.
$500: Be in the Roger Bloomer Fan Club: and receive Andrea's new Into the Light portfolio of three different original limited edition, signed intaglio prints, Signed script page, vip ticket to the performance includes a complimentary drink and autographed event poster.
Choreographer's Circle: an original Visions Art Jewelry Pin, vip ticket to the performance includes complimentary drink, and autographed event poster. -And you will receive an invitation to attend a private January dance rehearsal at Key City Public Theatre, with 2 choices of dates TBA, (we’ll work with you to schedule). $1,000 and up.
Creative Rites: Be a super donor art collector and choose an original oil painting from Andrea's website (andreaklawson.com) or in person at the Visions in Motion 2020 exhibit at KCPT, size limit 40", Champagne Studio visit in Port Hadlock (if you are out of town, I'll send you a personal video from my studio) and vip ticket to the event, includes complimentary drink and signed event poster. For $2,000 and up.
Please note: Feel free to remain anonymous, but to receive gifts, I'll need your contact information for shipping/mailing purposes. Free drink does not require address-you're name will be at the bar.
We appreciate you, if you have any questions, please ask! You can send me a message. Art and paintings can be viewed on Andrea’s website: www.andreaklawson.com
Gifts will be sent asap. Thanks for your patience while we ship. Larger items (paintings etc.) and shipping outside the U.S. may require a shipping charge. I'll let you know via email if is is required.
More about the project:
Visions in Motion 2020 pulls together threads of art and history from 1920-2020 to celebrate the power of expression over oppression; renewal over decay; and light over darkness. In this multimedia installation, painting collides with theater, dance, and music to defy the bounds of conformity and seek a sustaining rhythm of renewal. The installation will include an artistic interpretation of the expressionist play Roger Bloomer by John Howard Lawson, member of the Hollywood Ten; a new dance choreographed by Heather Hamilton investigating cycles of change and renewal; original poetry; and costumes, sets, and an exhibit of new artwork Andrea K. Lawson. Through the common theme of the Rite of Spring ballet, we will draw a line between a play written in 1920 and artwork being created in 2020, exploring the cycles of decay and renewal that permeate the world while considering freedom of speech and how our voices participate in or change those cycles. As a whole, our project explores creativity, freedom of speech and social and environmental justice and renewal.
Meet our dancers: Heather Hamilton, Lily O'shea, Anna Hansen, Lauren Ehnebuske and not pictured, Hanna Frahn. 
Heather Hamilton: Choreographer, Poet BA Environmental Humanities;
We are so grateful to have the chance to create this important new work of art celebrating freedom of speech, joy, humanity, and, ultimately, hope. Thank you for supporting the arts!
Actors Sam Cavallaro, Helen Curry, Hanna Frahn, Tristan Riley and Pascale Sanok will perform excerpts from the 1923 expressionist play, Roger Bloomer.
The artist, Andrea K. Lawson, Visions in Motion 2020 Creator/Producer, Andrea K. Lawson in her studio creating her new Rite of Spring painting series, oil on canvas 72 x 48" www.andreaklawson.com 
Andrea K. Lawson as a child with her grandfather, John Howard Lawson
Grandpa Jack stood up for the United States Constitution's First Amendment and freedom of speech as a member of the Hollywood Ten. His screen plays include Algiers, Cry Beloved Country and Sahara. He was passionate about creating a new American theatre with his plays Roger Bloomer, Processional, Success Story among others.
Lauren Ehnebuske, Dancer
Lauren holds a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington. She balances parallel careers in dance, architecture and being a mom.
"The theme of our Visions in Motion project is connected to what I love about the artistic process: it is about finding the deep thread in ourselves (the inspiration) that allows us to walk together with others in the world. It is about seeing superficial decoys of connection for what they are: unsatisfactory distractions. There is no better way to heal the world of our current collective pain and confusion than by looking into our own dreams, rising up with our inspiration, and stepping forward into creative acts. Collaborating on this project provides the opportunity to claim and call out the inherent insanity of the world, to share this with one another and an audience, and see through the mayhem to the deep strength that has been within us all along. Ideally through this project we embody the message we preach: eliciting deeper understandings of ourselves, a deeper understanding of our cultural crisis, and reconnecting with the bud of possibility
that lies within it all."
Nancy Lawson Carcione, Creator: Media Presentation
Nancy works in the arts in Southern California. She enjoys researching, editing, and textile weaving. Nancy holds a degree in fine art and art history, and is granddaughter of the playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson. Her media presentation captures the creative and historical context of Visions in Motion 2020.
"I am honored to collaborate on Twenty/Twenty: Visions in Motion which blends music, dance, painting, playwriting, and freedom of belief and expression. This multimedia art experience explores how various aspects of 20th century modernism in the arts have worked toward advancing social concerns. It celebrates the First Amendment, and shines a light on our current times through painting and dance, so that we may all find our individual voices."
The Visions Dancers: Lily O'Shea, Hanna Frahn, and Lauren Ehnebuske; not pictured, Anna Hansen, Heather Hamilton
Denise Winter, Artistic Director of Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, keycitypublictheatre.org
"The Artist Colab was launched at Key City Public Theatre in 2019. Designed to encourage unique collaborations between artists and art forms, the Colab annually culminates in public presentations at Key City Playhouse. This initiative in is alignment with KCPT’s core value of nurturing new artwork creation by generative artists. The results are performances that transcend form, expanding KCPT’s reach to new audiences and artists. Participation is through invitation by KCPT’s Artistic Director and extended to notable artists from our community whose work is not primarily theatrical, in the sense of telling a specific story via actors. Each invited artist is given a month long residency and is required to identify and include at least one artistic collaborator whose work is in a different art form. The Artist Colab provides valuable resources and opportunity so that individuals may engage in artistic risk taking, explore new methods and mediums, and foster dynamic creativity between collaborators."
Jessica Plumb is an award-winning filmmaker and writer known for exploring the relationship between people and place. She is the Producer, Co-Director and writer of Return of the River, a feature documentary about the restoration of the Elwha River, and the largest dam removal in history.Plumb holds a B.A. from Yale University and an interdisciplinary MFA from Goddard College.
She says: "I’m eager to document this multimedia project by Andrea Lawson, and to learn more about the legacy of John Howard Lawson and the Hollywood Ten. I’ve seen Heather Hamilton’s dance performance evolve over the years, and I look forward to seeing what she choreographs around the themes of this project. I’m inspired by the multi generational and multimedia elements of this ambitious, collaborative effort."
Sample gifts, for more images, see my website www.andreaklawson.com 
The Creative Process Begins: