The art world and our region has lost a great one. Darcy Meeker, sculptor and creative director of The Color Project, has passed away.
We miss her and we are taking good care of her husband Jim. When Darcy passed away at the end of October he decided to host a Celebration of a Beautiful Life // Nov 19. His sister Diana, three nieces and dearest friends rallied and the event was the perfect send off befitting a Queen of Art. We laughed, cried, feasted, toasted, made new friends, sought comfort from old friends, created art, missed her there and started a plan of action for Darcy’s 2023 line up.
Everything has changed without her here and nothing has changed without her here.
When I first met Darcy she told me that she would probably have to die to become famous like the rest of them. She took it a step further and told me about this famous, and it was not for the reasons that you would think. As her personal assistant // fine art curator and artistic director of our fabrication team I am sprinkling extra all over her body of work and the best and most high profile showings are coming up.
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bent Mountain Center the Challenge America Grant. This is a matching grant of $10,000 from the NEA. The community has donated $10,000 in cash as well as in-kind services from The Color Project. This grant will help launch “Arts on the Mountain”, a program of arts, culture and education at the Center. Programming can include classes taught by local artists/artisans, music lessons, music events, theater and other educational programming for Roanoke, Floyd and Franklin county residents and beyond.
Hopkins Center for The Arts
juried international fine art exhibition
Hopkins Center for The Arts
Nelson Cultural Center
juried international traveling art exhibition
selected from Arts North International
Nelson Cultural Center
Floyd VA
Kinetic Light Art Experience
main stage deco
Jewel in the Lotus
Floyd VA
Virginia
making art like crazy, renovating fabrication studio, homeschooling children and college degree in art education
different and busy
Virginia
Lake Oswego OR
Lollipops
Lake Oswego OR
The Athenaeum - Alexandria VA
Interstellar Series - "Sunset"
The Athenaeum - Alexandria VA
Moss Arts Center - Blacksburg VA
Faces of The Chromilluminator
Moss Arts Center - Blacksburg VA
Studio 221 Floyd VA
meet the instructors - class demos - food and craft vendors - music - community appreciation - monthly event
Studio 221 Floyd VA
Floyd VA
Interstellar Light Henge & The Chromilluminator photo booth
Floyd VA
Virginia Tech - Blacksburg VA
Interstellar Light Henge
Virginia Tech - Blacksburg VA
The Color Project TM studies and applies color and light therapy.
The Color Project TM can shift the way we interact with and consider ourselves and other humans.
The Color Project is a kinetic art experience comprised of projective, refractive and reflective 3D installations.
We offer a new way of exploring the world around us in color.
Experience the compelling nature of light wave frequencies.
We look at the relationship between printing colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) and TV colors (red, green and blue).
part art - part science - part technology
Screen iterations have toured
as RGB Notorious
next they will be suspended twenty feet in
the air as Jewel in the Lotus
maquette 1' x 3' wrapped canvas
spray paint & aluminum screen
can be up to twenty feet tall
vertical horizontal suspended
light and sound component
moiré
fine art - festival deco - public art
The Chromilluminator is enclosed in a wooden structure that reduces outside sensory and perceptual stimuli. Software was developed by our design team to cycle through nine color combinations. The process uses the participant’s skin as the reflective surface for the projected light. The light technology allows participants to explore a surprising and compelling environment, and what they find may be unexpected and delightful. The Chromilluminator is available for museums, schools and festivals.
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