Lumonics School of Light Art

Lumonics School of Light Art, Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, and Tanner Studio, light and space artists Dorothy Tanner and Mel Tanner (1925-1993). We are based in Denver, CO US

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#BlackHistoryMonth Music to me means so much, such beautiful things, and it seemed impossible that you could find people who would curb you, stop you, from doing a thing which is beautiful. I wasn't trying to sway anybody into any movements or anything of that sort, you know. I just wanted to sing and share. I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. [about racism] When you stop having dreams and ideals--well, you might as well stop altogether. Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you? Marian Anderson (Feb 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) #mariananderson #blacklivesmatter #music (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CalMMzRliLf/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Photo of a section of the Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery photographer: @Kevin Beaty @Denverite Upcoming Events: - Second Sunday Tour on Feb 13 - Lumonics Immersed on Sat. Feb. 19 - Meow Wolf Denver Exhibit thru Feb 20 - Hosting in The Galleri at Meow Wolf Denver on Feb 16 www.lumonics.net #meowwolf #meowwolfdenver Lumonics is honored to be a contributing art team to Meow Wolf Denver and the first art exhibitor in the Galleri. Exhibit ends Feb 20th. https://lumonics.net/lumonics-at-meow-wolf-denver ______ Inquiries welcome re: art installations and commissions; hosting or co -producing events [email protected] ______ Lumonics was named one of ten Denver recipients of the #iMeowWolf DIY Grant in 2019, used to further the Lumonics School of Light Art. Instructor Marc Billard, who worked closely with Mel and Dorothy Tanner over many years, passes on knowledge to the next generation of light artists and anyone wanting to stimulate his/her creativity. 1-session, 2-session, and 4-session classes are available. Vocational education classes are also offered. www.lumonics.net/artclass ______ Awarded Best Gallery/Party Space by Denver Westword ______ Dorothy Tanner (1923-2020), recipient of the Denver Mayor's Award for Innovation in the Arts ______   #lumonics #denverart #lightsculpture #light #lightart #denver #colorado   #dorothytanner  #sculptures #denverartist #artschool #denverevents #immersive #creativity #relaxation  #artinstallation #instagramartists       (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZpbLK3lY0g/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistorymonth2022 Lorraine Hansberry (1930 – 1965) “I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.” “Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!” -A Raisin in the Sun “Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts." -Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.” ____ Lorraine Hansberry was a celebrated black playwright who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in New York City at the age of thirty-four from pancreatic cancer. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was partially inspired by her family’s legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood. #lorrainehansberry #raisininthesun https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmldrtFzpX/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This could be the start of something big :) #cesarchavez #césarchávez #heart (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZH_WublGIG/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid." Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) ___ It is said that his first word was “piz,” short of lápiz the Spanish word for ‘pencil.’ His father Ruiz, an artist and art professor, gave him a formal education in art starting from the age of 7. By 13, Ruiz vowed to give up painting as he felt that Pablo had surpassed him. photo: Self-portrait at 18 #art #drawing #picasso #pablopicasso (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/lumonics.lightart.school/p/CZH60aOF3kn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Thanks to Sarah Elizabeth Pederson for sharing this photo from her visit to Meow Wolf on Adulti-Verse night in January. @lionguns @han.imal @chadneyeverett Lumonics is honored to be a contributing art team to Meow Wolf Denver and the first art exhibitor in the Galleri. Exhibit ends Jan 20th. #meowwolf #MeowWolfDenver https://lumonics.net/lumonics-at-meow-wolf-denver ______ Inquiries welcome re: art installations and commissions; hosting or co -producing events [email protected] _____ Lumonics Immersed on Saturday, Feb 19 www.lumonics.net/immersed Lumonics Guided Art Tour on Second Sunday  Feb  13 www.lumonics.net/tour ______ Lumonics was named one of ten Denver recipients of the #iMeowWolf DIY Grant in 2019, used to further the Lumonics School of Light Art. Instructor Marc Billard, who worked closely with Mel and Dorothy Tanner over many years, passes on knowledge to the next generation of light artists and anyone wanting to stimulate his/her creativity. 1-session, 2-session, and 4-session classes are available. Vocational education classes are also offered. www.lumonics.net/artclass ______ Awarded Best Gallery/Party Space by Denver Westword ______ Dorothy Tanner (1923-2020), recipient of the Denver Mayor's Award for Innovation in the Arts ______   #lumonics #denverart #lightsculpture #light #lightart #denver #colorado   #dorothytanner  #sculptures #denverartist #artschool #denverevents #immersive #creativity #relaxation  #artinstallation #instagramartists       (at Meow Wolf Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAw4otF6Eb/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“When I first sculpted those big figures, I would look at them and they would scare me. Late at night they looked as if they were alive.” - Marisol (1930-2016) #marisol Lumonics is honored to be a contributing art team to Meow Wolf Denver and the first art exhibitor in the Galleri. #meowwolf #MeowWolfDenver https://lumonics.net/lumonics-at-meow-wolf-denver ______ Inquiries welcome re: art installations and commissions; hosting or co -producing events [email protected] _____ Lumonics Immersed on Saturday, Feb 19 www.lumonics.net/immersed Lumonics Guided Art Tour on Second Sunday  Feb  13 www.lumonics.net/tour ______ Lumonics was named one of ten Denver recipients of the #iMeowWolf DIY Grant in 2019, used to further the Lumonics School of Light Art. Instructor Marc Billard, who worked closely with Mel and Dorothy Tanner over many years, passes on knowledge to the next generation of light artists and anyone wanting to stimulate his/her creativity. 1-session, 2-session, and 4-session classes are available. Vocational education classes are also offered. www.lumonics.net/artclass ______ Awarded Best Gallery/Party Space by Denver Westword ______ Dorothy Tanner (1923-2020), recipient of the Denver Mayor's Award for Innovation in the Arts ______   #lumonics #denverart #lightsculpture #light #lightart #denver #colorado   #dorothytanner  #sculptures #denverartist #artschool #denverevents #immersive #creativity #relaxation  #artinstallation #instagramartists       (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAHi0JFvKI/?utm_medium=tumblr

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High Five (1974) by Mel Tanner Lumonics is honored to be a contributing art team to Meow Wolf Denver and the first art exhibitor in the Galleri. #meowwolf #MeowWolfDenver https://lumonics.net/lumonics-at-meow-wolf-denver ______ Inquiries welcome re: art installations and commissions; hosting or co -producing events [email protected] _____ Lumonics Immersed on Saturday, Feb 19 www.lumonics.net/immersed Lumonics Guided Art Tour on Second Sunday  Feb 13 www.lumonics.net/tour ______ Lumonics was named one of ten Denver recipients of the #iMeowWolf DIY Grant in 2019, used to further the Lumonics School of Light Art. Instructor Marc Billard, who worked closely with Mel and Dorothy Tanner over many years, passes on knowledge to the next generation of light artists and anyone wanting to stimulate his/her creativity. 1-session, 2-session, and 4-session classes are available. Vocational education classes are also offered. www.lumonics.net/artclass ______ Awarded Best Gallery/Party Space by Denver Westword ______ Dorothy Tanner (1923-2020), recipient of the Denver Mayor's Award for Innovation in the Arts ______   #lumonics #denverart #lightsculpture #light #lightart #denver #colorado   #dorothytanner  #sculptures #denverartist #artschool #denverevents #immersive #creativity #relaxation  #artinstallation #instagramartists       (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAHRBZFsXl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself. Some persons are captive to love, others would make the beloved a captive. Which one are you? Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. House of Light (1990) And yet, in this world, it is no small thing to sparkle. - Mary Oliver, who passed 3 years ago today (Sept 10, 1935 – Jan 17, 2019) ----- Mary Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She said that she once found herself walking in the woods with no pen and later hid pencils in the trees so she would never be stuck in that place again. She often carried a 3-by-5-inch hand-sewn notebook for recording impressions and phrases. Maxine Kumin called Oliver “a patroller of wetlands in the same way that Thoreau was an inspector of snowstorms.” Oliver stated that her favorite poets consisted of #WaltWhitman, #Rumi, #Hafez, #RalphWaldo Emerson, #Percy ByssheShelley and #JohnKeats. #maryoliver #maryoliverpoetry #maryoliverquotes (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY3GBAuMXjq/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Betty White, born 100 years ago today “People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board” “I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.” #bettywhite #bettywhitequotes (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY18f4Jl2cj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on this day in 1942 (Jan 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016) “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.” The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe." "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion." "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” “If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.” “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.” “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. #muhammadali (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/lumonics.lightart.school/p/CY18KdPFT3T/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#mlkjr #mlkday #mlk #mlkquotes #mlkjr #mlkweekend (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/lumonics.lightart.school/p/CY1lOJiFxJl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention." - Neil Young #neilyoung #promiseofthereal #music #punk #punkmusic #punkrock (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY0b51WsaUp/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Tonight at Lumonics Thanks to Emily Ferguson, Cultural Editor of Denver Westword, for including Lumonics Immersed in her articles: Show Business: The Ten Biggest Arts Stories of 2021 + Denver Arts Scene Is Bigger and Better Than Washington Post Suggests "Learn the true meaning of Lumonics when the temple of light art by the late Dorothy and Mel Tanner throws a special immersive evening combining art with special effects, original music and video by Dorothy Tanner and longtime collaborator Marc Billard. An audiovisual mantra meant to soothe the mind and expand awareness, this drug-free trip through Lumonics is unforgettable. Admission is $20." - Denver Westword Hope to see you tonight, Sat. Jan 15! https://lumonics.net/immersed photo: section of front wall with still image of video projection. (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYw1FqoFD1T/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize." "Does nobody understand?" (last words) - James Joyce, who passed Jan. 13 1941 (1882 – 1941) #James Joyce #jamesjoycequotes #education #art (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYsrm2Ts_8J/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Lorraine Hansberry, who passed on this day at the age of 34 (May 19, 1930 – Jan 12, 1965) “I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.” “Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!” A Raisin in the Sun “Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts.” - Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.” ____ Lorraine Hansberry was a celebrated black playwright who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in New York City at the age of thirty-four from pancreatic cancer. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was partially inspired by her family’s legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood. #lorrainehansberry #sidneypoitier #blm (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYo-W6jlV9B/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Clarence Clemons, Jr., born on this day in 1942 (Jan 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011) "Racism was ever present and over the years together, we saw it. Clarence’s celebrity and size did not make him immune. I think perhaps "C" protected me from a world where it wasn’t always so easy to be an insecure, weird and skinny white boy either. But, standing together we were badass, on any given night, on our turf, some of the baddest asses on the planet." - Bruce Springsteen eulogy (part of it) #ClarenceClemons #BruceSpringsteen #saxophone #sax #clarence (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmvFd5F8rW/?utm_medium=tumblr