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Bolm Studios
Sodalitas Art Group

Painting | Collage | Mixed Media Installation

Sodalitas Art Group is Shea Little, Joseph Phillips and Jana Swec. A year after forming Bolm Studios in 2002, we started the East Austin Studio Tour, and more recently were one of the founding partners of the Texas Biennial in 2005. To us, these are more than just peripheral projects - we consider this part of our art.
Because we're three people attempting to work together, collaboration is an ongoing theme in our work. Collaboration, cooperation, working towards a goal unattainable as an individual, but achievable as a group. This isn't easy, and some of us are not idealists. Finding ourselves constantly challenged, we understand the difficulties and obstacles that can impede the progress of cooperative endeavors.

One of our most recent projects has been a series of psuedo-anthropological 'Walks' through our city; picking up debris, discussing systems, the way we live, move and interact as a community. Attempting to gain a better undersatnding of how we function as a group, and how we function on a larger scale as a society. This project is currently the focus of an exhibit at Sewanee University in Tennessee. For E.A.S.T 2006, we are encouraging people on the tour to bring folded origami cranes to Bolm Studios, hoping to collect at least 1,000 cranes as part of an interactive installation in our gallery.

5305 Bolm Rd 12 | 385-1670 | info@sodalitasart.com | www.sodalitasart.com