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1991 DOCUMENTATION
Home Movies and Other Family Secrets (1991)
Avoid Your First Inclinations
Choreographed by: Jimmy Miklavcic
Eleni Kambouris, Chara Huckins,
Elizabeth Miklavcic
Photograph: Video Still
2011 DOCUMENTATION
Daisy Chain (2011)
The Two
Created & Performed by:
Jimmy & Elizabeth Miklavcic
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
National Advisory Board
Charles Amirkhanian
Executive Director
Other Minds Festival
San Francisco, CA
Jeff Carpenter
Multimedia Specialist, NCSA
Urbana Champaign, IL
Kent Christensen
Artist
New York, NY
Karly Rothenberg
Faculty Member and
Industry Event Coordinator
AMDA College & Conservatory
Sun Valley, CA
Utah Advisory Board
Pauline Blanchard
The Pauline Blanchard Trust
Wayne Bradford
Systems Administrator
University of Utah
Harold Carr
Software Architect
Oracle Corporation
Board of Directors
Kathy Valburg
Another Language President
Whitney Loosle
Jan Abramson
Staff
Jimmy Miklavcic
Founding Co-Director
Elizabeth Miklavcic
Founding Co-Director
Gallery
Art-of-the-Month
Another Language Performing Arts Company's Art-of-the-Month was created to publicly feature a variety of visual art expressions created by the directors of Another Language. Exhibiting abstract acrylic to digital paintings, and running the gambit in-between, this gallery exhibition offers the viewer an online gallery experience with a new addition each month. The Art-of-the-Month web program began September 2010, and features a variety of paintings, showing a body of work spanning decades. Extensive visual art galleries are available to supporting members in the Membership area of the website.
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Unremembered Memory (2023)
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By Jimmy Miklavcic
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Excuse Me Mister! (2023)
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By Jimmy Miklavcic
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Subconscious Nebula (2023)
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By Jimmy Miklavcic
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I Painted With John (2023)
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By Jimmy Miklavcic
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Unremembered Memory and Excuse Me Mister were created on a Wacom Mobile Studio with Corel Paint 2019, and Subconscious Nebula and I Painted with John were created on the Apple iPAD Air with ArtStudio Pro software. All of Jimmy's paintings are expressions of his state of being at the time the painting is in process. They are inspired by significant events that have happened, sites that have been visited, or social and emotional experiences.
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Spotlight
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Pictured: Elizabeth Miklavcic Staining Fence
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Photo: Jimmy Miklavcic
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ANALOGY
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This summer I've been staining our fence. There are thirteen panels across the front of our yard. I'm only doing the front yard this year. Our strategy with such a big project is to break it down into smaller, achievable goals, and this means one area of the fence during a summer season. This year, my focus is on the west side. It takes approximately an hour and a half to paint one side of one panel. There is a complexity to the design of our fence with beautiful lattice across the top of each panel.
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The complexity of the lattice is what gives our fence its beauty, but also is a pain to stain. There are a lot of little pieces with a lot of surface area. Addressing this complexity is time consuming and meditative. I can stain one side of two panels in a morning, I do not do both sides of one panel since that would require excessive moving around in the yard. I'm either set up to work on the outside of the fence or on the inside. Once I've been working for three to four hours depending on how things go, it is time to clean up and move inside to a different daily task before the ninety degree and above temperatures arrive for the day. This a slow and painstaking process and should be fun, but isn't, really.
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I am up at 5:00am, outside by 6:00am, brushing off the spiderwebs, dirt, plant matter, bird poop, and peeling older stain before I can actually get going with the staining by 7:00am. I'm outside in the heat until 10:30am or 11:00am, sometimes until 12:00 noon. This has encouraged me to watch the sun. I've observed how the sun rises over the Wasatch Mountains, where it finds a break in our urban environment, where it shines on different areas of the fence at different times. I've been watching how the sun moves over the fence as the morning progresses and my goal has been to work in the shade as much as possible. The watching, the observing of my small corner of this world has been interesting and educational.
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Pictured: Elizabeth Miklavcic
Society In A Nutshell Concert (1994)
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Photo: John Brandon
Choreographer: Spencer John Powell
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What does this have to do with performance art? I don't know exactly, except that as I apply the stain to a peeling, exposed, and faded piece of cedar, and see it come back to life I feel a familiarity of purpose. People walk by on their way to the 9th & 9th business area. It is a wonderful place with coffee shops, restaurants, gift stores and more. Most of their comments are supportive, "Your doing a good job!" or "The fence looks wonderful." Most of the time I say thank you and that is that, but once in a while, I will get an arm chair director, and I find that so fascinating.
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This person has nothing to do with anything and yet they feel entitled to share too many opinions, "You missed a spot here." "When are you going get to that area over there?" etc, etc. I just let them ramble, but I do not stop what I'm doing. This reminds me of some experiences I've had when creating and directing some of our Another Language projects. A person who had just come on board as a camera operator or for some other technical purpose, would begin to step in and direct, or give unsolicited opinions. I never really understood what they thought they were doing, and this misguided participation would have to quickly be nipped in the bud. A piece of advice, do not do that! Especially when you are a guest on a project and you are working for artists with over forty years of experience in the field.
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Pictured: Jimmy, Elizabeth, & Hanelle Miklavcic
Society In A Nutshell Concert (1994)
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Photo: John Brandon
Choreographer: Hilary Carrier
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This fence staining analogy occurred to me as I've brushed and brushed and brushed some more. I've found that getting anything done is really about persistence and determination. A lifetime as an artist is about success and failure. It is about creating experiences and gaining knowledge through the many levels of understanding that one learns with every endeavor. It is about the painstaking slowness of hanging in there while one creates art for a lifetime. It is about how there are times when you are seen, and the many times when you are not. How sometimes your work is appreciated and how many times your work is not. It is about being able to see that there is art everywhere and to experience the artistic process in everything, even in something as simple as staining a fence.
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By Elizabeth Miklavcic - Founding Co-Director
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NEW INCENTIVE SET OF GREETING CARDS
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Sun
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Fractal by Elizabeth Miklavcic
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Elizabeth Miklavcic has been creating fractal art for seven years and has experimented with thousands of abstract designs. Many of her explorations are available to view in the Art-of-the-Month archive area of the Another Language website. Her first set of beautifully printed fractal cards is now available as an incentive gift for supporters of Another Language Performing Arts Company.
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A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over. – Description from Fractal Foundation Website
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BENEFITS
5x7 Cards by Elizabeth Miklavcic
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Sun
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Carnival In A Pinhole
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Emerging From Blue
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Ruffle's Opening
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