PlatteForum staffers : Michael Gadlin, Sigri Strand, Zaia Sever, Kendall Kultgen, Axel Leonhardt. Front row: Destany Rodriguez, Kevin Sandoval-Torres.PlatteForum will celebrate its twentieth birthday under new leadership and with two brand-new spaces.
ArtLab is one of PlatteForum’s “great services,” Gadlin explains. The program provides students, often from Title 1 schools, the opportunity to study as interns under the nonprofit’s resident artists. About thirty interns are accepted every year, and 95 percent of them graduate from high school. But he was"lucky," he adds: He got into the Pratt Institute of Design in New York and went on to art residencies around the globe."I had a lot of belief in what I was up to and spent time in New York for undergrad and came back and taught. … This was an opportunity to do something that’s bigger than myself and give back."
“The mission of PlatteForum is our top priority,” Gadlin adds. “It’s about caring for the teens we serve, whoever they may be, and giving them the opportunity to have the same confidence and outlook that those of us who were privileged enough to have a lot of support have. It’s really being a service to them, to open up new doors and opportunities. And they’re paid.”
PlatteForum was so successful that after a decade, it moved into the Temple creative arts space, at 2400 Curtis Street. But during the pandemic, just as Gadlin was transitioning to his new position, the nonprofit decided it was time to save money, and moved into a smaller space at 2700 Arapahoe Street. “This new office space is a third of the size of what we used to have at Temple,” Gadlin notes.
The first show in the new space, which opens on May 27, will highlight the work of Annette Isham, a multimedia artist who works primarily in videography. “She does videos of her within a landscape, and then reimagines the landscape as these surreal video movements,” Gadlin says. After that, PlatteForum will showcase an artist from Spain, Raquel Meyers. Both artists have residencies with the group.
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