Luke Cooper is a painter and designer. He plans to attend CCAD next fall with his sister, Mauri Cooper. Luke's relationship with painting involves layers of study and research, he incorporates geometric shapes, color theory and design to create paintings that are highly pigmented and full of dimension. During our conversation Luke highlights his personal experience with ADD and how it has shaped his life in various ways. He talks about how his creativity has changed overtime, and how he has learned to keep focused on his paintings no matter how distracted he may become.
In this episode we are talking with Mauri Cooper also known by her art name "M.J". MJ uses her wisdom, experience, and experimentation to make moving, expressive works of art. Born and raised in Columbus, she loved going to museums as a child and practicing her creativity. However, creating art became essential to her well-being when she became ill due to meningitis. Not only did she experience a chronic migraine for 9 months straight, but she lost her vision for 6 months, and was diagnosed with Amplified Muscular Skeletal Syndrome, Functional Neurological Disorder, Severe Photophobia, and Photophobia. Join us as we talk about not only Mauri's experience with Meningitis but her experiences with racism within the healthcare system!
Our second artist features Regina Dorfmeyer. Regina is a 67 year old self taught artist, wife and mother from East Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor’s of social work from Cleveland State University in 1997, but discovered later in life, after she lost her sight, she wanted to pursue visual arts and become an impressionistic finger- painter. Her work has been discovered in Art Possible Ohio’s AEO shows and other events across Cleveland, Ohio.
This year Art Possible Ohio will be celebrating Black History month by highlighting four different artists from the Ohio area. These artists include, Zayne Harshaw, Regina Dorfmeyer, Ron Shelton and Mauri Cooper. The artist will have a chance to be interviewed and talk about their work with Art Possible Ohio program director, Simone Robinson. These interviews will be podcast style and will highlight different intersectionalities of each artist. Illustrating the idea of what it means to be not only an artist, but an artist of color, with disabilities. Our first interview will be with Zayne Harshaw. Zayne is a rising musician in the Columbus, Ohio scene. His musical abilities have been featured in various local and national media outlets: NBC4’s Autism Puzzle, the Associated Press, the Lancaster Eagle Gazette, the Youngstown Vindicator, the Columbus Dispatch, Bounce TV, and Telemundo to name a few. He has played all over Central Ohio and the surrounding cities and counties. ID: Zayne identifies as male wearing all black and black hat his skin is brown and he is holding a brown guitar the background is red yellow green and blue the font is all white