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Episode Synopsis
Jason was born and raised in Columbia South Carolina where he graduated from Richland Northeast High School. He briefly pursued a college football career at the University of South Carolina and then at North Greenville College before relocated to Sarasota Florida to attend and graduate from Ringling School of Art and Design in 1998. While in Florida he began competing in numerous triathlons.
After Art school Jason moved to Brooklyn New York in 2001 to work for Dia Center for the Arts in Manhattan. In 2003 he became the Aquatics Director at The Brooklyn Sports Club where he founded and developed their highly successful and well-known Learn To Swim Program. This program laid the foundation for the club’s competitive swim program known as The Brooklyn Sports Club D-Team (Developmental Team), which Jason was the Head Coach and the USA swim club, the BSCAT Swordfish (Brooklyn Sports Club Aquatic Team).
In 2006 Jason attended graduate school at NYU Jason split his time between being an artist, teaching art at NYU and coaching swimming until March 2009 when his wife give birth to twin girls.
Jason Kendall and his family permanently relocated back to Columbia South Carolina where he became a part of Palmetto Aquatics a year-round swim team …where he worked with coach Heath Edwards (Owner of Palmetto Aquatics) from 2009-2011. From 2011-2018 Jason taught art in Richland District Two. After walking away from teaching in June of 2018 he founded “The kendallprojects Media & Design Company” and has built that into a full-time venture with much success creating branding assets for small businesses and organizations in Columbia, such as graphics, video, social media content that are used by those clients to grow their business.
Artist Bio
In addition to being a small business owner Jason has been a successful professional artist for over twenty years. He is an inter-disciplinary contemporary artist who goes by the pseudonym kendallprojects to allow his work to easily transfer across different art genres. Whether it is graphics, film, music, drawings or sculptural investigations they all result in a wide range of altercations that engage his viewers on an experiential level that exploit the viewer’s perceptions and leave them curious about what they are viewing.
“kendallprojects” was founded in 1999 in response to the status of a series of multi-media performance works he was developing and needed to expand into a broader, more inclusive way of presenting the ideas together. It made sense to put the endeavor under the heading “project” including all the drawings, costumes, performances, videos, sculptures and installations created. This was also an effort to separate what was happening on the Internet by anyone going by the same name (i.e. musicians/ athletes using Jason Kendall), which is why he took the name kendallprojects. Providing a canopy for all the ideas within the work’s personas to related to identity construction throughout the production.
The packaged components center on a specific theme of investigation that pose precarious creative questions surveying specific interest in ritual and the dynamic relationship people have between work and play. Always in in a state of flux, they are called “projects” to creating narratives that are absurd, silly, aggressive, contradictory, strange, violent or even juvenile depending on the specifics of the project’s context.
Jason's Website:
https://www.kendallprojects.com/
HFTHOI Website:
https://www.hereforthehealthofit.com/
After Art school Jason moved to Brooklyn New York in 2001 to work for Dia Center for the Arts in Manhattan. In 2003 he became the Aquatics Director at The Brooklyn Sports Club where he founded and developed their highly successful and well-known Learn To Swim Program. This program laid the foundation for the club’s competitive swim program known as The Brooklyn Sports Club D-Team (Developmental Team), which Jason was the Head Coach and the USA swim club, the BSCAT Swordfish (Brooklyn Sports Club Aquatic Team).
In 2006 Jason attended graduate school at NYU Jason split his time between being an artist, teaching art at NYU and coaching swimming until March 2009 when his wife give birth to twin girls.
Jason Kendall and his family permanently relocated back to Columbia South Carolina where he became a part of Palmetto Aquatics a year-round swim team …where he worked with coach Heath Edwards (Owner of Palmetto Aquatics) from 2009-2011. From 2011-2018 Jason taught art in Richland District Two. After walking away from teaching in June of 2018 he founded “The kendallprojects Media & Design Company” and has built that into a full-time venture with much success creating branding assets for small businesses and organizations in Columbia, such as graphics, video, social media content that are used by those clients to grow their business.
Artist Bio
In addition to being a small business owner Jason has been a successful professional artist for over twenty years. He is an inter-disciplinary contemporary artist who goes by the pseudonym kendallprojects to allow his work to easily transfer across different art genres. Whether it is graphics, film, music, drawings or sculptural investigations they all result in a wide range of altercations that engage his viewers on an experiential level that exploit the viewer’s perceptions and leave them curious about what they are viewing.
“kendallprojects” was founded in 1999 in response to the status of a series of multi-media performance works he was developing and needed to expand into a broader, more inclusive way of presenting the ideas together. It made sense to put the endeavor under the heading “project” including all the drawings, costumes, performances, videos, sculptures and installations created. This was also an effort to separate what was happening on the Internet by anyone going by the same name (i.e. musicians/ athletes using Jason Kendall), which is why he took the name kendallprojects. Providing a canopy for all the ideas within the work’s personas to related to identity construction throughout the production.
The packaged components center on a specific theme of investigation that pose precarious creative questions surveying specific interest in ritual and the dynamic relationship people have between work and play. Always in in a state of flux, they are called “projects” to creating narratives that are absurd, silly, aggressive, contradictory, strange, violent or even juvenile depending on the specifics of the project’s context.
Jason's Website:
https://www.kendallprojects.com/
HFTHOI Website:
https://www.hereforthehealthofit.com/
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