We were lucky to catch up with Drew Goerlitz and Ali Della Bitta recently and have shared our conversation below.
Drew and Ali, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?
We are currently working on the most meaningful project we have pursued in all collaborative endeavors so far. Our new business is a brainchild that came from wanting independent artists to have a platform to share and sell their work without having a large percentage taken from their earnings. Contemporary North Artist Collective aims to promote and support artists.
Drew and Ali, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Ali Della Bitta and I both pursued degrees in visual arts and focused in sculpture. In 2002 we met while attending a sculpture park residency in Minnesota. We worked well together and each brought different concepts, approaches and backgrounds of art making to the table.
Our first collaborative commision was a public art project in Silver Springs, MD that was focused on repairing the ecosystem of a community park. The concept of artwork promoting the natural ecosystem and surrounding environment has become a common thread over the last 20 years of our collaborative work..