Blue Thunder Circle ARTiFactory is a community of artists, organizations, and patrons that cooperate towards the aim of developing culture worth living in.
The BTC Artifactory facilitates artist residencies: providing private studios, shared workshops, career development paths, exhibit space, and networking opportunities.
The Vision of BTC is to create a thriving ecosystem of resident artists and organizations whom contribute to the vitality of the region through artistic production, educational workshops, and the production of cultural festivals.
BTC is a non-rivalrous space where-in members are supported in their efforts to build their careers while simultaneously contributing to the development of wealth within the community.
Joe Bob Merritt
Joe Bob Merritt earned the degree of Bachelor of Environmental Design at Texas A&M University in 1991. He earned the degree of Master of Architecture at The Southern California Institute of Architecture
(SCI-ARC)
in 1996.
Joe Bob is interested in the intersection of the visionary arts, mindfulness, and the creative process. He believes that art making provides one with innumerable opportunities to develop sensory clarity, strengthen concentration skills, and cultivate powers of equanimity. He believes that the efforts that we as artists make in the cultivation of these skills contribute to the possibility of having direct experiences of freedom from mechanical conditioning and habitual re-actions, thus increasing the probability of intelligent, response-able, and creative activity in the midst of everyday life situations.
Amanda Sage
‘Through my work I aim to shatter the ‘illusion of separation’, to challenge the viewer to question, and evolve out of ignorance, conditioning and ingrained genetic habits.
In life I strive to take responsibility for the effect of my existence, and through my actions and images, inspire others to think/dream beyond their immediate capacity. Ultimately I seek to create portals that open to the infinite possibilities of being and expressing, so that we may remember and re-discover who we are, where we originate from and where we are headed.
My aspiration is to paint messages, visions and narratives that communicate with an ‘older & wiser us’, awakening ancient memory; as well as the ‘present us’, that we may grow up and accept the responsibilities towards ourselves, each other and the rest of existence on this planet… now.