Formed in July 2024 by Benj, Alyss, and whoever else happened to be buying coffee that morning, this eclectic group of artists, musicians, and the occasional poet or two has been meeting once, twice, or thrice weekly ever since.
The official informal gatherings are Thursday afternoons whenever they sneak out of class or from 4-6 pm @ The Black Squirrel Cafe on Tisnikar Boulevard...I forget the address, but you can't miss the yellow sign. Since they're just as likely to be playing chess or chewing on a Bible verse as to be discussing art, you may come and go as you please.
Here's a few sources of inspiration for their art:
- Artists from the The BAM Lyceum and Velvet Pelican Projects.....each and every one of them
- Estudio de Fernandez
- Iconography, calligraphy, and petroglyphy
- Der Blaue Reiter group: Goncharova, Kandinsky, Klee, Macke, Marc
- Nonconformist movement: Komar, Masterkova, Melamid, Nemukhin, Rabin, Rukhin
- The Wanderers: Ge, Lavitsky, Pasternak, Repin, Vasnetsov etc
and the better parts of various "isms" (mannerism, symbolism, cubism, impressionism, abstract'ism)
Colonizers
Membership ebbs and flows according to the academic calendar, but current members and coffee/tea/cof-tea drinkers include:
Boolean - music music music...and the occasional
Molly - muzik, abstract art, collecting cows of a certain color
Alyss D. - painting, poems/short stories, banging drums & writing songs
Ellie K. - pottery, music, journaling
Benj K.- metalwork, music, some writing
Jena K. - watercolors, fashion design, and drawing animals (including Zemo)
Isabelle - block printing, calligraphy (and barista supreme!!)
Dante A. - photography
Dmitri Z. - taking machines apart and building weirder ones
Theo A. - portrait painter (& owner of the most excellent Red Zebra Art Gallery)
Zemo - music, poetry, deconstructionist / constructionist (upcycling furniture into something questionably better, working with all things wood or metal)
....and of course the cafe owners: Vos & Ai-Mei (chasing 4+ kids is an art in itself)
Gallery
Hopefully, Project Qaos will be blessed and decorated with the artwork below, but some of the pics may just remain as pieces o' inspiration or reflect the type of art which certain characters like to delve into. Like most things in this blog, it's constantly changing/growing, so please check back irregularly for aperiodic updates.
June 2025
Pripyat (Source Unknown)
Brenna Mahn - Bandung Strait (2016)
Alaina Mahn - Dürer's Rhinoceros
Brenna Mahn - Car Radio
(www.brennamahn.com)
Marc Chagall - Stained Glass Window
(All Sants' Church, Tudeley, England)
Andy Warhol - Orange Car Crash Ten Times (1963)
Brenna Mahn - Misericordia
Man Ray - La Fortune (1938)
Tomas Fernandez - Anatomy of Thought (2015)
(www.tomasjfernandezartist.com)
Claude Monet - Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur (1865)
Wei Jia - Door (2008)
Richard Montoya - Self Portrait (2015)
(http://richardmontoya.net)
Mukalay Ngoy Lwamba - Title Unknown
Yue Minjun - Untitled (2005)
Lyubov Popova - Still Life With Tray
Vincent van Gogh - Evening Landscape with Rising Moon (1888)
Olya Tkachenko - Golden June
Willem De Kooning - Whose Name Was Writ in Water (1975)
July 2025
Len Thomas-Vickory - Enso Over Rice Field Near Kyoto (2016)
Jean-Michel Basquiat - She Installs Confidence and Picks His Brain Like a Salad (1987)
Thomas Birch - Engagement between the "United States" and the "Macedonian" (1813)
Piet Mondrian - The Gray Tree (1912)
Frederic Edwin Church - The Icebergs (1861)
Robert Motherwell - Untitled (1963)
Edgar Degas - The False Start (1860)
Makoto Fujimura - Walking on Water - Azurite (2012)
(www.makotofujimura.com)
Brenna Mahn - Whaling (2015)
(www.brennamahn.com)
El Greco - View of Toledo (c. 1596-1600)
Grant Wood - American Gothic (1930)
Insert Name Here - Mark de Question (1 hour ago)
John Singleton Copley - Watson and the Shark (1778)
Edvard Munch - The Scream (1893)
Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890)
Douglas Mann - Walk Upon Fixed Emotions
Erin Bartels - A Dewy Morning on Thumb Lake, Michigan (2009)
(https://erinbartels.com)
Howard Hodgkin - Listening Ear (1986)
Brenna Mahn - Glass Bridge at Zhangjiajie (2018)
(www.brennamahn.com)
Masky (maybe Gael Kusa Kusa Maski) - Unknown (for now)
Dave Mitchell - Unknown (for now)
Alex Sobolta - Howl (2017)
Joy Hilley - Sevenfold Amen (2018)
(www.brennamahn.com)
August 2025
(www.joyhilley.com)
Tomas Fernandez - Love's Heat
(www.tomasjfernandezartist.com)
Louis Arnet Sabatier - Café Scene in Paris (1884)
Jennifer Wallace - Life and Peace
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818)
Ilya Repin - Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870-1873)
(www.tomasjfernandezartist.com)
Edward Gorey - Excerpt from The Gasleycrumb Tinies (1963)
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818)
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