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Meanwhile, those who remain are left to preserve an entire history that they hadn't been part of, and they often feel ill-equipped and unprepared to do so. Many of these organizations' core leaders have left their posts within the past year. However, that bedrock has begun to move underneath her feet. She's also a studio artist participant for Brown County Studio Tour.īolam is involved in a variety of local, regional and statewide arts organizations that have a decades-long foundation. She's the committee president for Bloomington's Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts. She's a former board member and site manager for the Indiana's Limestone Symposium as well as currently its youth hand-carving instructor. These are the words that Bolam associates with her art organizations. "It's just wonderful and I feel like I never had that in my younger life ever."Īwakening.
"It's just been a tremendous coming home for me to find a community of people that are like-minded and we all work towards the same goal," Bolam said. Now open: Arts Alliance Center opens in College Mall with gallery and gift shop They operate on a nearly identical brain wavelength, she said. They shoulder similar problems and come up with similar solutions. Most artists are cut from the same cloth, Bolam said. You know what I mean? I've been an artist all my life - that's the only thing I'm good at - and it was a real awakening to find a community of people that are like me," Bolam said. To her surprise, it provided a new, belated sense of belonging.
She was in her late 20s, a new mother juggling sippy cups and diapers, when she first began reaching out to her local community of artists. "All my life, I've been around people where I'll say something and then everyone looks at me like I'm nuts," Bolam told The Herald-Times.Īrt was an escape for her, but it was solitary and, at times, lonesome. In a small group, she could never think of the right words to say.
Sidney Bolam equates her life as an artist to "the ugly duckling story." Growing up, she was an outsider, never fitting in with any club or clique.