Performance Brush Painting

Bob has performed as an improvisational brush painter with Enso Daiko, a Twin Cities based Taiko drumming ensemble,

Soul Cafe, a jazz combo,

with Coloring Time, the Minneapolis based improvised music collective,

and in multi-modal performance pieces.

 

a thousand beats of the brush and the drum

Brush painter Bob Schmitt and Enso Daiko perform Rick Shiomi's Pounding Hooves at the dedication of the the Theater in the Round Amphitheater in downtown Minneapolis. May 2, 2019

Brush painter Bob Schmitt performs with Enso Daiko in Minneapolis on July 11 2019. This taiko piece, Impermanent Wind, was created by Jeff Ellsworth

  • Painting the Great River

    Bob performing with Soul Cafe a jazz combo at an event at Open Book, Minneapolis.

  • Improv brush painting

    Bob with the Coloring Time ensemble at Icehouse, Minneapolis, 11.6.2012

  • Bob setting up the glowing altar for “discomfort”, Joe Horton’s multi-modal improvisation piece at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, 2.10.2014.

  • Joe Horton, Blake Nellis, Taja Will, Kristoff Krane, foreground; Robert Mulrennan, Graham O’Brien, Casey O’Brian, Chastity Brown and John Keston on stage

  • poster for dis•comfort

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