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We've been working on Serious Starlight for just over two years and made enormous progress yesterday. AEP had been in Presidio finishing every single light swap we had in the queue! This included the remaining municipal fixtures, a lot of residential lights, and a group of lights at the International Boundary and Water Commission.

We're moving on to the Alpine queue next where we will be swapping outdated street lights and more residential; then over to Marathon and back to Marfa for its second round of swaps. The queue of sign ups is a long one and the work takes a while, but when it happens it's magical and we're excited to keep going.

Help support our dark skies by grabbing a signed poster by Marfa-based artist Julie Speed. Julie created a lot of new work to support BBCA's dark sky efforts including "Our Lady of the Dark Sky"—who offers protection against night blindness, tech zombification, and city lights—and "Navigator Nun"—who offers protection against lost birds, space junk, and orbiting billionaires.

Posters are available for a limited time. All proceeds go to BBCA's #SeriousStarlight program which swaps lights in the Big Bend with dark sky compliant fixtures helping preserve the night skies in one of the darkest regions of the world.

Find Julie’s dark sky nun posters, t-shirts, make a donation, and learn more about Serious Starlight, a campaign to protect the night skies of the Big Bend.

Link in bio, link in stories!

www.seriousstarlight.org

#LightPollution #DarkSky #DiscoverTheNight #IDSW2023, #DarkSkyWeek #birds #migration #CelestialNavigation #JulieSpeed #LightsOutTexas #McDonaldObservatory #BigBend #DarkSkies #BigBendIDSR #WestTxDarkSkies

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Thank you soooooooo much for supporting dark skies out west—Our Lady of Dark Sky flew off the shelves yesterday!

Now it's time to meet the Navigator Nun—here's what @speedstudiomarfa said when working in her studio on this piece...

"Just finished this second dark sky nun. She’s a navigator nun and I am thinking she could protect against aimlessness, space junk and black holes. …maybe disassociation or dissociation…not sure of the difference. Maybe she could protect against orbiting billionaires too?"

Julie settled on Navigator Nun offering protection against lost birds, space junk, and orbiting billionaires. She holds the lesser goldfinch and the dark skies of the Big Bend are featured in the landscape behind her.

All proceeds go to BBCA's #SeriousStarlight program which swaps lights in the Big Bend with dark sky compliant fixtures helping preserve the night skies in one of the darkest regions of the world.

Find Julie’s dark sky nun posters, t-shirts, make a donation, and learn more about Serious Starlight, a campaign to protect the night skies of the Big Bend.

Link in bio, link in stories!

www.seriousstarlight.org

#LightPollution #DarkSky #DiscoverTheNight #IDSW2023, #DarkSkyWeek #birds #migration #CelestialNavigation #JulieSpeed #LightsOutTexas #McDonaldObservatory #BigBend #DarkSkies #BigBendIDSR #WestTxDarkSkies

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We love the dark skies of Fort Davis and this trans pecos region!! So do the migratory birds! When you visit, you will see skies that you didn’t know existed! It all works with the help of @bigbendconservationalliance who work with individuals and the community to help provide proper lighting to folks. It can’t be done without them!! SO..Julie Speed has done an incredible 30 edition large print for their Spring Fundraiser. It is offered here on our website until May 6th or all 30 sell. It is gorgeous!! Support this great cause! Link in Bio
#webbsfairandsquare #webbgallery #juliespeed #bigbendconservationalliance #darkskiesforlife #fortdavis

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Time well spent ♥️

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Flatbed Files No. 1

"Ad Referendum” by Julie Speed is our featured Flatbed Files print of the week.

Julie Speed (born 1951, Chicago, Illinois) spent her twenties moving around the U.S. and Canada until moving to Texas in 1978, where she established her unique niche in the history of American art. Speed is known for mixing old styles with modern themes, creating works that are often timeless, whimsical, and folklorish.

Speed’s most ambitious project at Flatbed was her “Bible Studies” series of 2005, where she created seven prints using collaged antique engravings by Gustave Doré, a prolific French printmaker from the mid-19th century. Among these is “Ad Referendum”, a color polymer gravure with chine collé and hand coloring. “Ad Referendum” depicts the frontal portrait of a cleric in front of a bright red background. The cleric’s clothing surrounds him in collaged imagery of different biblical scenes. At first glance, the cleric’s facial expression and naturalistic style seem similar to that of a traditional Renaissance portrait. However, Speed’s unique rendering and maximized use of collage against the brilliant red background create something entirely unique.

You can see “Ad Referendum” and many other selections from Flatbed Press at Amanda Kadinov’s gallery event “Coming Home // Creating Home” on March 30th. The single-evening event will take place at 1215 W. 9th St. from 6-8 pm with a poetry reading at 7 pm.

JULIE SPEED
“Ad Referendum”
2005
Color polymer gravure with chine collé and hand coloring
Image Size: 23" X 17"
Paper Size: 30" X 22"

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Thank you Julie Speed for the New Year’s Eve studio tour!

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“Holy Ghost,” Julie Speed, 2021, gouache on canvas, 26 x 20.50 in.

Detail on the visual representation of the holy ghost exiting through the figure’s body through her ears.

Sometimes described as neo-surrealist, Speed’s art holds affinity with the figurative Surrealism of René Magritte, yet her work offers scenarios that are simultaneously more personal and complex than Magritte’s visual puns.

Her art melds a technical mastery rivaling the Old Masters with motifs created from diverse sources ranging from Renaissance engravings to Japanese woodblock prints. As critic and curator Elizabeth Ferrer has written, “The contemporaneity of her art is rooted in its emphatically open-ended nature.”

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Julie Speed’s studio Marfa, Texas . Photo: Antoine Sanfuentes.

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