Art in Provo is growing and fluctuating. "Hour Provo" is an effort to contribute to that growth and to allow the diverse people that make up our community to become the art themselves. These folks are just some of the elements and ingredients that represent Provo. Each individual’s portrait is captured in oil paints and painted directly from the live model in one hour.
Our community has a wealth of diversity. Some have been here for multiple generations while others have been here only months. Some ask for money for food and some ask for political votes. There are musicians, businessmen, children, artists, mothers, students, old and young, poor and rich. There are many beliefs and many ethnic backgrounds. All are equal. Whether prominent or subtle, each individual is given the same attention as a part of "Hour Provo". Each is painted in one hour and each is equally represented.
Please contribute to our community.
-STEVENps - I no longer regularly post to this blog but please look through to see all the 51 portraits. Quick links to each are on the side bar, or just scroll through.
Justin Hackworth
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Justin is a photographer here in Provo. His studio is right above
Gloria's Little Italy on University Ave and Center St. I usually paint in the little tiny plaza close to his studio. He stopped one day to ask me why I am always painting right there and what I am doing. I explained the project to him and he liked it. So, I painted him. He recently did a project in which he shot photos of local mothers and daughters each day of April and called it
"30 Strangers". The people he photographed did not pay a session fee. Instead, they made donations to
the Center for Women and Children in Crisis. Justin is a great
photographer. Go check out his work.
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The art scene in Provo is growing and fluctuating. "Hour Provo" is an effort to contribute to that growth and to allow the diverse people that make up our community to become the art themselves. These folks are just some of the elements and ingredients that represent Provo. Each individual’s portrait was captured in oil paints and painted directly from the live model in one hour.
Our community has a wealth of diversity. Some have been here for multiple generations while others have been here only months. Some ask for money for food and some ask for political votes. There are musicians, businessmen, children, artists, mothers, students, old and young, poor and rich. There are many beliefs and many ethnic backgrounds. All are equal. Whether prominent or subtle, each individual is given the same attention as a part of "Hour Provo". Each is painted in one hour and each is equally represented.
Please contribute to our community.
Bravo! I KNOW Justin and his family - grew up in my little town in Idaho! You're magic! Great work.
ReplyDeleteI'm from that same small Idaho town. Keep up the good work. Rexburg hearts Hackworths.
ReplyDeletesome really fine folks in Provo, great work Steven.
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