IDEEL ART PARIS, LONDON

metamodern, Existential, colorful, playful, Engelund’s new paintings Take us further into visceral encounters with paint and text as his landscapes abstract into the poetic road via a playful cosmos ~ Asphalt Abstracted Ad Astra

Ideel Art Paris, London exclusively represents a majority of the new paintings Asphalt Abstracted Ad Astra. Collectors may purchase artworks curated by IdeelArt Gallery across global online art markets including Widewalls , Artsy, 1st Dibs, Artsper, Artland, and Kooness.

“…pushing the boundaries of what is currently possible in the medium of photography… It is leading a global dialogue on the redefinition of the medium.”

— Deborah Klochko, Executive Director, Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art, Boundless group exhibition 2017.

Paris, London
& Direct from the Studios Artwork Sales

Ideel Art Paris, London represents a curated selection of Engelund’s artworks. Collectors may purchase select artworks here directly from the studio and collect artworks curated by IdeelArt Gallery across global online art markets including Artsy, 1st Dibs, Artsper, Artland, Kooness, The Artling and Widewalls and more.

Video DOCUMENTARY ON JASON ENGELUND

Art.By.Artists in depth interview with artist Jason Engelund focuses on inspirations, philosophies and studio practices that compose Jason’s art practice. From early childhood to exhibiting at the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art. From witnessing injustices to developing arts programs addressing social justice. From postmodernism to metamodernism. From memory to metaphor. Get a personal view inside the artist’s life, career and studio practices in abstracting film photography, poetry and painting.

Documentary by ART BY ARTISTS ~ View the full length feature here.

France ~ Artist Residency & Exhibition

Engelund’s exhibition in France Esprit sur la Route / Spirit on the Highway celebrated the paintings he made while there, which marked a transition in his studio practice shifting further into painting. View the artworks in the series Transcendental Road.

Arts and Social Justice
Art Addressing Real World Needs

Arts and Social Justice Programs Engelund is a founding member of the California College of the Arts Center for Art and Public Life where he worked for eleven years developing programs for artists to collaborate with communities locally and across the globe to address real world issues. He transformed the work study program putting art college students to work directly with schools, community organizations, and hospitals providing over 9,000 hours of arts based expertise supporting our communities every year. This program’s success paved the way for Engelund to create the Center’s grant program in which art college students and their community based partners collaborated to create projects that directly address in a real world needs. These grant funded projects have now taken place across the globe giving artists and their community partners opportunities for projects such as creating a entrepreneurial start up fashion business designing affordable shoes from repurposed materials in Africa, to arts education resources being delivered and taught in rural areas of South America, to public school arts projects in Oakland and more.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life Student in Action booklet 2005

FOREWORD

The CCA Center for Art and Public Life develops innovative applications of the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, equity, community development, and education. Artists' inherent talents and skills-developed from exploring personal and cultural landscapes-can be utilized to transform society. The blank canvas becomes a challenge to vitalize public life. Aesthetics are nomadic, applicable in different cultural and social contexts. Composition is a gestalt of community-defined needs and is, at its best, sustainable. The technique is collaboration. Its shape is partnership. Its color is positive transformative change. And the result is vitality for all the people involved.

This book showcases Students in Action projects from 2000 to 2005 made possible by the generous support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and other funders and partners. The Students in Action programs are based on a combination of community arts practice and a service learning framework. Learning by the act of serving: through developing partnerships, these programs have succeeded in simultaneously serving the public's needs and student learning at CCA. Community service federal work-study funds are a stable resource available to almost any college or university interested in beginning their own programs. Collaborations emerge through dialogue, giving participants the chance to articulate their needs as well as their resources. Through sharing and working together, projects were created.

The students in the Center's Students in Action programs have the opportunity to advance through the curriculum, eventually graduating to become professional artist-citizens. After graduation many students have been hired to continue their work with their community partners. Another focus of the programs is to encourage transformative change through dialogue between the public and the college. Art projects were designed, solutions were created, classes were developed, and lasting partnerships were formed. During the Center's formative years, this set of extracurricular programs helped create the foundation of the BFA in Community Arts at CCA, the first art college to offer this degree.

I've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to help develop these programs at the Center. I'd like to bring attention and gratitude to the folks who have worked together to make these programs possible-the Center for Art and Public Life staff, past and present; all at CCA; our partners, funders, and, of course, all the artists, from kindergartners to the professionals, espe- cially the CCA students who worked on all the Center projects. For more information, please visit our website at www.cca.edu/center.

-Jason Engelund
April 2005

Click on an image below, excerpts from the booklet, to see examples of our past projects.

A.R.T.s ~ Arts Resources for Teachers

Contemporary Voices in Arts Education and the A.R.T.s: Arts Resources for Teachers, Crayola Arts Education Grant
Arts education has struggled in California for decades. In 2017 Engelund received a grant from Crayola for his three year project “Contemporary Voices in Arts Education” and gave a year of monthly professional development seminars to public school teachers. Working in collaboration with the teachers as a part of the seminars Engelund developed a website of arts education resources for teachers and anyone on the internet to use.

Visit the
A.R.T.s Arts Resources for Teachers
website for links to lesson plans, tutorials, and free resources.