{"id":2445792,"date":"2019-06-27T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308598"},"modified":"2019-06-27T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:00:53","slug":"aspen-ideas-fest-lynda-resnick-the-haas-brothers-and-a-communitys-rebirth-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-ideas-fest-lynda-resnick-the-haas-brothers-and-a-communitys-rebirth-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Ideas Fest: Lynda Resnick, the Haas Brothers and a community\u2019s rebirth through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.0267379679144\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-308598-386\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"b.ideas-atd-062819 | Lynda Resnick, Ana Patrisia Lomeli and Dulce Sanchez at Aspen Ideas Festival\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Lynda Resnick, Ana Patrisia Lomeli and Dulce Sanchez at Aspen Ideas Festival<\/strong><br \/>b.ideas-atd-062819<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Resnick, Ana Patrisia Lomeli and Dulce Sanchez at Aspen Ideas Festival\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-2-1024x691.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"b.ideas-atd-062819-2 |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>b.ideas-atd-062819-2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-2-1024x691.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"b.ideas-atd-062819-3 | Nikolai and Simon Haas\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Nikolai and Simon Haas<\/strong><br \/>b.ideas-atd-062819-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/b.ideas-atd-062819-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nikolai and Simon Haas\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-ideas-fest-lynda-resnick-the-haas-brothers-and-a-communitys-rebirth-through-art\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-ideas-fest-lynda-resnick-the-haas-brothers-and-a-communitys-rebirth-through-art\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A pair of irreverent twin brother artists, a community of artisans in a forgotten corner of inland California and the entrepreneur Lynda Resnick have formed an unlikely alliance that\u2019s creating art, community and economic opportunity.<br \/>Simon and Nikolai Haas \u2014 best known for the furry, funny sculptural furniture works \u2014 took the stage at Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday with Resnick and bead-workers Ana Patrisia Lomeli and Dulce Sanchez to talk about the ongoing project.<br \/>Lomeli and Sanchez are on the team of 21 \u201cHaas Sisters\u201d who do intricate beadwork for Haas Brothers sculptures. Resnick brought the two together.<br \/>Over the past decade, Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart, have invested millions of dollars in the community of Lost Hills, near the Central Valley almond groves of their Wonderful Company. Half of the households in Lost Hills include an employee of the company, which makes Fiji Water, POM pomegranate drinks and Wonderful almonds. The Resnicks have built sidewalks, parks, affordable housing, two recreation centers and a college prep academy there. But art hadn\u2019t found a place in their Lost Hills initiatives until Resnick met the Haases through an art dealer.<br \/>\u201cOf course, I met them in Aspen,\u201d Resnick, an Aspen Institute trustee, recalled. \u201cWhere do you meet anybody?\u201d<br \/>The Resnicks commissioned the Haas Brothers \u2014 who in recent years have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/activities-events\/the-furry-fun-world-of-the-haas-brothers-at-anderson-ranch-arts-center\/\">been in residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center<\/a> in Snowmass Village and exhibited at Boesky West in Aspen \u2014 to make a set of benches for their home, in the signature furry and footed Haas style. The meeting led to much more than stylish furnishings.<br \/>Resnick had been trying since around 2010 to bring art into the Lost Hills community as an economic driver. So when Simon Haas explained an intricate new approach to beadwork he\u2019d been developing, the idea for what would become the Haas Sisters clicked.<br \/>\u201cI had been working on a system for beadwork that\u2019s based in logic and requires a lot of time \u2014 it\u2019s not something most bead artists can do,\u201d Simon Haas explained. \u201cI was talking to Lynda about how I was having such a hard time executing it, and that\u2019s when the spark happened. .. I couldn\u2019t imagine that it would be so amazing.\u201d<br \/>Resnick told him about Lost Hills and her belief that the talented women of the area might be able to help. The project, she imagined, might be an economic boon to Lost Hills, bringing unemployed women into the workforce and building community.<br \/>The project, as outlined by Haas Sisters team members, has given them economic security with good-paying jobs as artisans, flexibility to bead at home or school and be with children and family, while it has brought together the women of Lost Hills with a common purpose and source of immense pride.<br \/>Before the Resnicks started investing in its rebirth, Lomeli recalled, Lost Hills didn\u2019t have basic resources such as streets and schools.<br \/>\u201cOur community was lacking so many things,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were pretty much forgotten out there. Nobody cared. And we were lonely.\u201d<br \/>Added Sanchez: \u201cMany of us view Lynda as our angel, because she came into this forgotten town and built something that was beautiful.\u201d<br \/>The Haas Sisters sculptures start as abstract drawings on paper, by the Haases. Simon then writes code for the Sisters to follow to weave together beads into three-dimensional forms. For the Haas Sisters, the painstaking process starts with that code and, as Lomeli put it, \u201cmillions and millions of beads in a jar.\u201d The works \u2014 like plant sculptures that the Haases brought on stage at the Ideas panel \u2013 require hundreds of hours of beadwork before the Haases assemble the pieces.<br \/>\u201cThere is no way that this could happen with one person,\u201d Simon said.<br \/>The artworks are playful and decorative. But they represent something more to the Haas Sisters who have become expert artisans to make them.<br \/>\u201cIt has all been my effort for my children, for my family, for my community and for all those people who never would think I would be able to do this,\u201d said Lomeli. \u201cIt\u2019s hard work I put into it, lots of heart, made with so much love and dedication. It\u2019s so much more than an art piece.\u201d<br \/>Following the series of blue-chip sculptures by the Haas Brothers and Haas Sisters (the palm tree sold for $100,000) the team is now working on rolling out a line of smaller and more affordable pieces called \u201cMicro Freaks.\u201d On display at Ideas Fest, they\u2019re small creatures in the distinctive beaded style and will soon be available online.<br \/>Resnick said she hopes that the rebirth of Lost Hills is her legacy, beyond her business and marketing successes with the Wonderful Company. She believes that the Haas Sisters could be the beginning of an art colony in Lost Hills.<br \/>\u201cI need more artists that need artisans, I need a knitting company,\u201d Resnick said in an interview after the panel. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be this advanced kind of labor, but this is the most hard-working, industrious community. They\u2019re not jaded. They\u2019re open. I think when word about this gets around, other artists or companies that need sensitive handwork will come to us.\u201d<br \/>For their part, the Haas Brothers \u2014 who have also been teaming with a community of bead-workers in South Africa for seven years \u2014 intend to stick around Lost Hills.<br \/>\u201cYou can\u2019t go into a community, create this amazing thing and then say, \u2018See ya!\u2019\u201d Nikolai Haas said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-ideas-fest-lynda-resnick-the-haas-brothers-and-a-communitys-rebirth-through-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynda Resnick, Ana Patrisia Lomeli and Dulce Sanchez at Aspen Ideas Festivalb.ideas-atd-062819 b.ideas-atd-062819-2 Nikolai and Simon Haasb.ideas-atd-062819-3 Show CaptionsHide Captions A pair of irreverent twin brother artists, a community of artisans in a forgotten corner of inland California and the entrepreneur Lynda Resnick have formed an unlikely alliance that\u2019s creating art, community and economic opportunity.Simon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:22:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}