Buffalo Exchange Community Art Award Ceremony 2018
Through the nomination of my co-Artistic Director, Ashley Bowman, of Artifact Dance Project, I was enabled to apply for the 2018 Buffalo Exchange Community Arts Award for Performance. Created to acknowledge artistic pursuit, contributions within the community, and recognize and individuals art practice, the application process once nominated centered my aspirations as an artist, recognize my advancements within my career and within the artistic community. Beyond humbled, I won the award and was asked to perform at the award ceremony. TRIangulation was the first installment that I integrated my practices of movement and visual art. In further conversation of the community work, Performance Statement, highlights and expands.
“I’ve been asked to share my inspirations and motivations for my work. How I came to finding that creating is my call in life, and articulate the decisions that lead me from music, to visual art, and now movement. Simply, I have found that it is essential to be honest within these artistic practices, the work I produce, and aptly how I talk about my the practice. An honesty and boldness of subject and the surrounding conversations. There was a pivotal moment which I turned to art, April, 30th 2016, I had to. I could not stay dormant and let fester in my experiences, I needed an outlet in hopes of sharing that in which I could not formulate with words. That is when my art turned to be honest.” - BEA Speech
TRIangulation - TRIangulation is driven by that time which I survived my Deathly Hallows through the life raft of God and artist expression. Art gives me an adrenaline rush when the subtle details create synapses to prior works and interconnectedness, like the art installation I performed amongst, is a deconstructed from my solo exhibition, 1.48.116. The performance was part of the 2018 Buffalo Exchange Community Arts Award Ceremony, performed at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. In celebration of the many progressive achievements had within the year and a half of training within dance.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Nathanael Gregory Myers Receives Buffalo Exchange Arts Award" | Buffalo Exchange. TRIangulation
“PR: Buffalo Exchange Announces Emerging Artist Winner in Performing Arts Award” | Community Foundation for Southern Arts
“Buffalo Exchange announces Emerging Artist Winner in Performing Arts Award” | KOLD
“ 4.30.16 - The passing of my grandmother was the first of three events within a weeks time which were the catalyst to the revival and recrouse of my art practice. This triad of events, which I describe as my Deathly Hallows, was foundation shaking yet showed me the breadth of which I could handle. “Triangulation” the performance that you witnessed earlier was driven by that time which I survived my Deathly Hallows through the life raft of God and artist expression. Art gives me an adrenaline rush when the subtle details create synapses to prior works and interconnectedness, like the art installation seen here is deconstructed from my solo exhibition.”
- BEA CEREMONY SPEECH
