FINELY > > > > As belabored debates continue to draw alleged distinctions between high art and low art, newsense enterprises constructs environments intended to blur such boundaries and to dispel assumptive inclinations toward hierarchy and pretension. In the installation, Finely Low: Applied Arts Workshop Series, newsense enterprises hosted a series of Sunday craft workshops during the run of an exhibition at Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Positioned in a gallery setting for 'fine artists', the newsense endeavor was, by context, pre-determinately a fine art contemporary installation. However, that designation, by content, was somewhat debunked by the presentation of craft workshops that have obvious connections to decorative genres commonly categorized as lowbrow and ineffectual. It was through this interplay between context and content that this newsense work undermined constructs that perpetuate black and white notions of high and low art. In so doing, the processes and products that emerged from the environment ascended their stigmatized association with lowness to become finely low…

LOW > > > > As rough fights go on to show phony differences between paintings and pots, newsense enterprises has ideas that break down walls about the pecking order and all the uppity-ness. newsense taught some lessons, and called the whole thing Finely Low: Applied Arts Workshop Series at a gallery called Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights - over on the east side. The things that people made showed everyone that pots are just as good as paintings. We put our decorations on the walls of that gallery and people saw them for what they really are… finely low.