August 8-14, 2013 ------Cover Story • Janice Furtner
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AUGUST 8-14, 2013 --------------------------- Cover Story • Janice Furtner -------------------------- Saturday, August 17 • 8:00pm ADJOA SKINNER $8 Adv., $10 D.O.S., $15 Gold An Artist Soldiers On By Heather Miller began cutting paper, a limited budget forced her to be inventive. Furtner Janice Furtner has a voice that is covered ordinary typing paper with best absorbed with one’s eyes closed. black, liquid ink and let the soaked pa- Its smooth, melodic tone can transport pers dry, sometimes crispy and curled a listener’s mind outside of this terres- at the edges. She used the dark pieces trial world to a place where art perme- of paper to cut small designs. Most of ates and massages the soul. Her voice her early pieces were smaller than four lifts the window and invites visitors to inches. slip inside to a place where art, music Paper cutting was an obsession and the written word reign supreme. In that she connected to deeply. Cutting Furtner’s world the arts are held high, and exploring, she used the simple and thoughts of money, traffic, trips tools of scissors and paper to investi- to the store and daily hassles are left gate music, emotions and her connec- Saturday, August 24 • 8:00pm to slip into secondary position, right tion to nature. where they belong. Her vocal training took her to As a trained musician with a de- places like Vienna, where Furtner was NICK MOSS gree in vocal performance, Furtner immersed in music, singing and art. $20 Adv., $25 D.O.S., $35 Gold sings soprano with the Heartland Inspiration poured down on her from Chamber Choir, a group she has been paintings and art pieces created by Wednesday, Sept. 11 • 7:00pm involved with for over eight years. Her world masters that hung in European voice is most recognized for her work museums. The information she ab- with public radio, however. For many sorbed from her museum visits brought KEVIN HAYDEN listeners, the silky, calm and techni- her work to a new level, a level worthy cally confident strands of words that of a solo show. slipped out over the airwaves are per- The show at First Presbyterian BAND manently etched in memory. Furtner was a success. Furtner envisioned her $15 Adv., $18 D.O.S., $25 Gold served WBNI for 26 years as music life moving toward that of a work- director, sharing her love of classical ing artist. The progression seemed Saturday, Oct. 12 • 7:00pm music and the arts with the commu- straightforward: cut paper, start a web- nity. In 2010 her job was eliminated. opened her artist toolbox and surveyed the site, cut paper, find gallery representation, “Radio was not a job. I don’t want to say options. Not only is Furtner a vocalist, she cut paper, sell art, cut paper – you get the CASH ‘N CLINE it was my life, but it was,” says Furtner with is a writer, a producer, a teacher and a visual idea. The idea of living an artist’s life was nostalgia twinkling in her eyes. “It was so artist who composes works with cut paper. exhilarating. Perhaps the blow to her career much of my society. It was so much of my Soon after the abrupt end to radio, a ser- with public radio was not the end of her TRIBUTE family. It was my neighborhood of people endipitous offer came from First Presbyteri- professional life. Perhaps the universe was $12 Adv., $15 D.O.S. who came in all the time. Karen Gibbons- an Gallery. They asked for a solo show and, pushing her toward a new path, a leap she Brown (artistic director of the Fort Wayne luckily, Furtner was prepared. She filled the would have never dared to take on her own. GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR Ballet) came in on Fridays to talk about bal- gallery with 48 pieces of cut paper works. Furtner had a new plan. Life seemed to make TICKET INFO & MORE let. People came in all the time and became “I have been an artist since I was a soph- sense again, until it turned upside down, in- such friends. Suddenly, it was all gone.” omore in high school,” says Furtner. “For side out and all over crazy. ALL SHOWS ALL AGES Like so many people who lost careers over 43 years I have cut paper.” Knock, knock. Who’s there? Cancer. during the economic crash, Furtner was left A self-taught visual artist, Furtner has The disease that lingers in the back of all to flounder in a world where she suddenly never taken a formal art class but explains, of our minds as we flow through life, hop- felt she had no professional identity. Her te- “I have had books. I have had the museums ing we don’t become a statistic, came to nacity and survivor instincts kicked in. She of the world.” Furtner’s door, pounding full-forced with a started to think about how to use her range Her skill and passion for paper have of talents to support a career change. She flourished with her own methods. When she Continued on page 4 2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------August 8, 2013 whatzup Volume 18, Number 2 mong the things we are trying to do – aside from telling you where to go and OVE-IN what to do, that is – is to recognize those folks who make a contribution to M our community through their artistic endeavors, be they music, the fine arts, performingA arts, whatever. To that end, we regularly feature artists of all stripes in FOR DET these pages, and we archive those features on our website where anyone who might CALL AILS be interested can see firsthand the depth and breadth of the talent that resides here in northeast Indiana. SPECIALS The artists we feature in this way include musicians, writers and authors, painters and other fine artists and, now, with Jen Poiry-Prough’s first artist profile (Tracey Buckmaster Graham on page 4), actors. It only took us 17 years to figure out that, hey, actors are artists too! And so, look for many such actor profiles in the future. JULY 23rd Some of the artists we feature have very compelling stories – a few so compelling that • Pet-friendly they become our cover. One such story is Janice Furtner’s, a woman who for many • Fitness center years was at the very center of the Fort Wayne arts community. Read Heather Miller’s • In-unit washer/dryer piece on this inspiring and courageous personality on page 2. Kathleen Christian’s feature on the talented quartet Juke Joint Jive is also an interesting read. You’ll find it on page 6. And Mark Hunter profiles the next Botanical Roots headliner, Morry Sochat and the Special 20s, on page 6. There are the usual calendars, Picks, reviews and columns as well. We hope you enjoy every word of this issue, and we hope you take what you glean from these pages to find yourself something fun to do. 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