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Local Artist Jasmine Inglesmith Displays Photography at the Green Alliance

PORTSMOUTH — The Green Alliance Artist in Residence Program is currently hosting local artist Jasmine Inglesmith and her photography at the Green Alliance Gallery.

Jasmine’s work features stills from music videos that she created for a number of different musical artists. She produces the music videos from photographs taken in rapid succession with her Nikon D-7000 camera. One of the photographs featured at the Green Alliance was taken from the music video “The Farthest Forest.” Employing a slightly blurred camera effect, Jasmine captures the feeling of running through the forest, following a woman in a long yellow dress.

Jasmine’s interest in photography began when she was 9 years old and her grandfather gave her a camera. Her love for photography grew when she attended Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Mass., where she had the opportunity to develop her own film in the school’s dark room.

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At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Jasmine further developed her skills under her instructor, Archie LaSalle. “He always pushed me to be better,” Jasmine says of her former teacher.

Upon completing high school, Jasmine took film and animation classes at the Museum of Fine Arts School. After traveling around Montana taking photographs, she moved to Atlanta and then settled in the greater Portsmouth area, where she has lived for the past 10 years.

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As for the music videos, she has always felt inspired by music and enjoys putting her own twist on things. “As a kid I remember lying on the bed with my best friend, listening to music with our eyes closed, and visualizing music videos in our minds,” she says.

Her first music video, “A Friend in Goddamn,” won the contest to become the official music video for Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. The video features her son and father and was produced using her technique of high speed camera shots. A number of stills from this piece are on display at the Green Alliance. She creates these music videos under the name Milk Zombie Productions.

Also on display at the Green Alliance are a number of paintings by Jasmine that reflect different emotions.

The Artist in Residence Program is one of the GA’s endeavors and was inspired by the artistic community of the Seacoast, a region rich in art, music, and cultural offerings. In addition to working with its growing list of Business Partners, the GA spotlights these local artists through the program. The program’s goal is to link local artists that engage in environmentally themed work with the Green Alliance network, as well as with the local community as a whole.

The Green Alliance headquarters in downtown Portsmouth boasts high ceilings, beautiful natural light, and 1,000 square feet of potential gallery space. In short, this prime real estate in the Franklin Block Building on Congress Street is the ideal arena for artistic exposure.

“When we first moved into this building, I thought what an opportunity to cover the walls with art that connects with our mission to strengthen the local green economy; and of course the art community plays a crucial role in that mission,” says GA Director Sarah Brown of the initial idea for the Green Alliance’s Artist in Residence program. “Additionally there are so many incredible artists out there who simply don’t get enough exposure. We have a very robust and engaged group of consumer members and partnering businesses – couldn’t we be promoting a local artist to the GA community and helping them to succeed financially as artists?”

Residents who visit the Green Alliance Gallery and are not yet members can join the GA on the spot and use their Green Cards to access exclusive discounts to Inglesmith’s photography and paintings as well as products and services at more than 100 other local green businesses. As an Artist in Residence, artists receive promotion, gallery space, an artist profile, a business page on the GA Web site, exposure through various media outlets and a reception. 

The Green Alliance Gallery is open during Green Alliance office hours: Monday through Friday from 10a.m to 7 p.m.

Interested artists or art groups should contact GA Director Brown for more information, send an email to Sarah@greenalliance.biz or call 603-817-4694. 

 

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