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Karla Diaz, Curator
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Gallery Director and Faculty
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STAYBITE: MODES OF OPERATION
An exhibition curated by Karla Diaz and Evelyn Serrano
Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 6:30-9pm
Exhibition Dates: January 23-February 21, 2009
The University of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building
800 West Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9am-10pm, Sat. 9am-6pm, Sun. closed
Dallas, Texas, December 17, 2008 - The University of Texas at Dallas presents StayBite: Modes of Operation, an exhibition curated by artist Evelyn Serrano and writer Karla Diaz. The exhibition brings together a group of Southern California and Tijuana-based artists, art collectives and their accomplices whose practices enact questions and proposals about public space, personal agency, civic engagement, and models of action.
StayBite: Modes of Operation is a “walk-in tool box” for artists, educators, cultural field workers, policy makers and other curious types looking beyond art’s representational paradigm and contemplative value. The exhibition concentrates on context-based and process-focused practices that consider new territories for artistic and collaborative activity. From the direct political action of the clowns of C.I.R.C.A., to the migrant cities of Roberto Romero-Molina, the history plaques of the Pocho Research Society, and Elana Mann’s international performance exchange organized in response to the 2008 US presidential elections, StayBite is an anthology of strategies and a call to action.
As part of this exhibition the curators have also organized a screening, an expedition, and a series of lectures and Skype forums. For information about activities related to this exhibition visit www.ah.utdallas.edu.
This exhibition is an Artists for Social Justice project. www.artistsforsocialjustice.blogspot.com
Images of the work in the exhibition are available here:
http://artistsforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2008/12/presenting-artists-and-collectives.html
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND COLLECTIVES
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (C.I.R.C.A.), San Diego Chapter
Colectivo Bulbo
Fallen Fruit
Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
Ariel Kletzky / Islands of LA
Elana Mann / Exchange Rate
Amitis Motevalli
Pocho Research Society
Roberto Romero-Molina
Selah Artistic Giving Center
Shannon Spanhake
Arnoldo Vargas
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Evelyn Serrano is a Cuban interdisciplinary artist, educator, independent curator, community organizer, and mother currently living in Los Angeles County, California. Serrano obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, in Valencia, California. Prior to that, she studied visual arts, design, art theory, epistemology, and literature in Havana, Montevideo and Miami. She has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In addition, she is honored to have worked with talented artists, choreographers, writers and performers in many exhibitions, projects and art events she has organized and curated throughout the United States as well as in Montevideo, Tel Aviv, Tijuana, and La Habana. Serrano currently teaches at the CalArts School of Art and the School of Theater, and has lectured and led workshops at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, the CEART in Mexicali, the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, the University of Texas in Dallas, and the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial in La Habana. She is also the Assistant Director of Programs at the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP). Her work as artist, educator and arts administrator focuses on context-specific practices that advance the impact of the arts as a tool for social change.
Karla Diaz is a writer, artist and curator. She is a professor at California State University Long Beach and Harbor College. Diaz has read her work and exhibited projects in venues throughout Southern California including the Getty Museum of Art, REDCAT, the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Zocalo in Mexico City. She writes for several art magazines including Beautiful Decay, FlashArt and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Karla is a founding member of Slanguage, an artist collective in Wilmington, CA and curator at the New Chinatown Barbershop gallery in Los Angeles.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Presenting Artists and Collectives / StayBite at University of Texas at Dallas
STAYBITE: MODES OF OPERATION
An exhibition curated by Karla Diaz and Evelyn Serrano
Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 6:30-9pm
Exhibition Dates: January 23-February 21, 2009
The University of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building
800 West Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9am-10pm, Sat. 9am-6pm, Sun. closed
CLANDESTINE INSURGENT REBEL CLOWN ARMY (C.I.R.C.A) SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
We are Clandestine because the sneaking game is our favorite, especially when everyone knows you're coming.
We are Insurgent because we spend our days mocking racist vigilante paramilitaries. (aka the MinuteKlan) Our only weapons are feather dusters, baguettes and bubbles.
We are Rebel because our solidarity knows no borders and because we want to eat borders like the cookie monster until they crumble in our laps.
We are Clowns because what else can one be on the edge of the nation state. Because nothing undermines the border like holding it up to ridicule. Because since the conquest tricksters have embraced the contradictions of inclusion and exclusion, creating coherence through confusion. Because in the face of fascism we are fools, both fearsome and innocent, wise and stupid, entertainers and dissenters, healers and laughing stocks, scapegoats and subversives.
We are an Army because in the borderlands we are in permanent war – a war of money against life, north against south, profit against dignity, to stop the right of mobility, of neo-Colonialism against culture and tradition.
We are C.I.R.C.A. because we live in the borderlands, always in between, on the edge of the nation state, mischievously ambiguous.
Look out!!! We're silly, we're angry and we've got grease paint!
COLECTIVO BULBO
bulbo (Tijuana, Mex, 2002) explores the possibilities of exchange and collaboration while using broadcast media with constructive aims. Each of the collective's projects lets people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, take part in a creative process and helps nurture other ways of understanding our context. bulbo has intervened media with bulbo TV (in all of Mexico); bulbo press magazine; disco bulbo record label; the bulbo broadcast web streams and www.bulbo.tv. Other projects include bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, (San Jose, US, 2008); Tianguis de Diseño, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City, Mex, 2007) and La Tienda de Ropa, inSite_05 (Tijuana/San Diego, Mex-US, 2005). And group exhibitions like From A to B, Fellows of Contemporary Art, (Los Angeles, US, 2008); Inside the Wave, SDMA, (San Diego, US, 2008); Don’t, a reactivation of an Allan Kaprow Happening, as part of Allan Kaprow – Art as Life, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, (Los Angeles, US, 2008); Tijuana Organic, Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK, 2006); IV Bienal de Estandartes, CECUT (Tijuana, Mex, 2006); Strange New World, MCASD (San Diego, US, 2006) and SMMOA (Santa Monica, US, 2007); and Tijuana Sessions, ARCO (Madrid, Spain, 2005).
FALLEN FRUIT
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that investigates the city, urban ecology and new forms of citizenship and community through the lens of fruit. We believe the symbolic values of bounty and generosity in fruit are cross-cultural, transhistorical and not bound to any social class. Fallen Fruit's projects include public events, videos, photographs and installations that express these ideas in dynamic ways. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we examine nature in the city and the nature of the city, and investigate new, shared forms of land use and property. Originating as an artist’s project in The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest in 2004, FALLEN FRUIT has been participated in art gallery shows including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), 18th Street Arts Complex, (Santa Monica), NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute), ARTLA – Los Angeles Art Fair 2007, University Art Gallery – UC Irvine, CA, Photo Miami 2006, The New Museum (NYC), Folk Art and Craft Museum (LA), Millard Sheets Gallery (LA), Machine Project (LA), Bonelli Contemporary, (LA), MESSHALL (Chicago), Armory Center (Pasadena), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Interviews, publications and other media include: KCET/PBS, Discovery Channel/Planet Green, CBS news, LA Times, Cabinet, Paper, The LA Weekly, NPR “Day-To-Day”, Daily Telegraph (UK), Los Angeles Magazine, READYMADE, KCRW Radio 88.9 FM, KPCC Radio 89.3 FM, Whole Life Times, Utne Reader, worldchanging.com, and BOINGBOING.NET.
VICKY FUNARI AND SERGIO DE LA TORRE
Vicky Funari, Producer/Director/Editor:
Vicky Funari is a filmmaker whose work focuses primarily on the lives of working people and on the complex identities of today's culturally mixed and dynamic migratory populations. Funari produced, directed and edited the acclaimed non-fiction feature film PAULINA, which has screened in over 30 of the world's most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, Havana and Amsterdam.
Among numerous awards, PAULINA received a Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival and Lifetime Television's Vision Award at the 1998 Hamptons Film Festival. PAULINA aired on the Sundance Channel in 2000.
Most recently, Funari co-directed and edited the documentary LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!, a fierce and funny account of the first successful strippers' union in the country. This film premiered at the 2000 SXSW Film Festival, won a Golden Spire and the Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, enjoyed a national theatrical release, aired on Cinemax in 2001, and is now in home video release on both VHS and DVD.
Funari also produced and directed SKIN-ES-THE-SI-A, an award-winning short experimental work which explores the cultural codification of the female body through images from performance art and pornography. SKIN-ES-THE-SI-A has screened at festivals on three continents, including the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. From 1996 - 2000, Funari served on the Board of Directors of the Latino media arts organization Cine Accion.
Sergio De La Torre, Producer/Director:
Sergio De La Torre is a photographer and performance/installation artist. De La Torre grew up in the Tijuana/San Diego border area and migrated to San Francisco. His photographic, performance and installation works have focused on issues regarding diaspora/tourism and identity politics. In 1995, De La Torre co-founded the performance/installation group Los Tricksters. These performance/installations have taken place in a variety of venues including street fairs, academic conferences, art galleries, film festivals and non-profit art spaces.
De La Torre's works, among them ACCESS DENIED, DISAPPEARING and MEXICLONE, have appeared in the Bienal Barro de America at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela; in the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, in Cleveland, Ohio; at the Centro Nacional para las Artes in Mexico City; and in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. De La Torre's film and video work has included photography for Los Que Se Van, directed by Adolfo Davila, and assistant to the art director on GARDEN OF EDEN, directed by Maria Novaro.
Sergio De La Torre is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco in the Art + Architecture Department.
ARI KLETZKY / ISLANDS OF LA
Ari Kletzky is an artist whose work focuses on an ongoing project in public space called Islands of LA. The intention of the project is to explore the use and availability of traffic islands as public space to foster discussion and create community. The project is, in short, an experiment in the free use of available public land given, on one hand, the car and commercial-centric landscape of Los Angeles and, on the other hand, the idea of public forum and assembly. Ari currently is an MFA candidate in Art CalArts and has worked in a variety of mediums. He graduated from UC Berkeley with dual degrees (B.A. in Rhetoric and B.S. in Business Administration).
ELANA MANN / EXCHANGE RATE
Elana Mann (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her artwork probes the theatrics of everyday life and investigates the collapse of social spaces through a variety of mediums including performance, sound, video, installation and curatorial projects. In 2007 Mann graduated with an MFA from CalArts and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Mann recently organized "Exchange Rate: 2008" an international performance project in response to the US presidential elections and co-organized "Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Calarts Feminist Art Symposium and Exhibition" and "TROCA: Brasil/US" an art exchange between Brazil and the USA. Mann’s artwork and projects have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Artweek, O Globo, O Jornal do Brasil, La Republicca and El Pais. For more information please visit www.elanamann.com.
AMITIS MOTEVALLI
Amitis Motevalli was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US in 1977. In 1995 she received a BA from SFSU in Art with a minor in Women’s studies and in 1998 an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Her work as an artist incorporates a combination of near-eastern aesthetic with a western art education. Motevalli states, “Being an immigrant in the US shows in my work a duality of culture, both natural and learned. In all of my work, I create a dialogue that critiques dominant views of oppressed people and culture in general”.
Her work in art education is with youth who share a similar duality in vision. Motevalli has been active in creating social change with her students on issues of civil rights within the class through pedagogy or working with students and community to organize around issues that effect their quality of life and access to education.
Amitis Motevalli is a recent recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship and the Visions of California Award, a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship and the NEA artist fellow at 18th Street Arts Center. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, exhibiting art nationally and abroad as well as organizing to create an active and resistant cultural discourse through information exchange, either in art, pedagogy or organizing artist and educators.
POCHO RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Pocho Research Society is an on-going collaborative project that involves artists, activists and “rasquache” historians who reside in Los Angeles. Dedicated to the systematic investigation of place and memory, the PRS challenges dominant constructions of local Los Angeles history through archival projects and public interventions. In 2008, the PRS completed a project, Fort Moore, Living Monument, for the traveling exhibit, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For the show, the group explores a monument located in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to a fort built during the Mexican American War. The installation contains real and fictionalized archival materials and a video that animates the actual monument. During the summer of 2007. the PRS launched “Echoes in the Echo” an action addressing gentrification. The group installed “unofficial” plaques in public spaces to commemorate formerly queer Latina/o bars in Los Angeles.
In 2005, the PRS curated “Collective Synapse; A Forward Memory of the Peace and Justice Center”, an archival project focusing on a youth-run cultural space that existed in Los Angeles during the mid-nineties, culminated in an exhibit, live events and panel discussions. Other projects include the October Surprise (2004) and Operation Invisible Monument, (2002). For documentation of past PRS projects visit: http://hijadela.com/projects/prs/prs1.html.
ROBERTO ROMERO-MOLINA
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Robert Romero-Molina (National City, CA. 1970) has lived, studied and worked in both sides of the border for the last thirty-seven years, among the different roles that he has carried out through the years are those of architecture student (1991), graphic design student (1992), art student (southwestern college, 1992-1996), fisherman (Alaska, 1997-98), entrepreneur (co-founder & CEO, Safenet Marketing Agency, 1995-1996), cook (Fillipis, 1986-87), DJ (Jet Sound, 1986-1988), clarinet player (Harborside School, 1977-78), homeless person (Seattle, 1997), painter (on and off between 1987-2007) and Artist (1977-present). In 1979 he wrote his first book, a biography on an Italian artist.
He has dedicate himself to a large extent to writing and recording words and voice on magnetic tape, using multiple recorders simultaneously, manipulating and creating loops with the purpose of creating electronic soundscapes of words and voices. In 1995 he co-founded with Raul Domínguez and Eduardo Lizárraga a noise group/workshop and continued sessions formally until 2000 with more than twenty collaborators participating on and off at different stages and in different incarnations of the group/workshop.
At the moment he works from Estudio Sierra Circular [ESC], his studio located in Tijuana and guarded by Bruno (Siamese) and Amber (golden retriever). Among the projects he’s currently working on are an infomercial for television and a lane for non-running cars for the Tijuana-San Diego border. In February 2008 he inaugurated a solo show, Amphora: Un Índice de Posibilidades at the university gallery of The Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Tijuana campus. In the exhibition are nine new works that range from projects and interventions to installation and video works.
SELAH ARTISTIC GIVING CENTER
SELAH Artistic Giving Center
Empowering artists through the dynamic relationship between art, business, and charity.
SHANNON SPANHAKE
Shannon Spanhake is a post-doctoral researcher at The California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2). She received her M.F.A in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and began her studies with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadephia PA, and went on to receive a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Spanhake is the co-founder of Lui Velazaquez, an art space in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and the founder of the collective DoEAT. Her work has been presented throughout the US, notably at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
ARNOLDO VARGAS
Arnoldo Vargas was raised in the small community of Wilmington, CA, which is the only place in the world surrounded by petrochemical refineries on all four sides. While many coastal communities can relate to beach sunsets, his childhood memories involved purple and orange hues painted by smokestacks diffused into the horizon. Wilmington also sits at the heart of the Los Angeles Harbor, the third largest port in the world. Confined in a pocket within this industry exist a group of people (Vargas' community), which are five times more likely to get cancer than the average American. Vargas says, "growing up in this environment helped forge my artistic lens. My work is very personal because it deals with what I have experienced, witnessed and felt."
Vargas received a B.A. in Studio Art from UCLA in 1999, and is current a MFA candidate of Photography and New Media at Cal Arts in Valencia, CA. Solo exhibitions include “Welcome Wilmington” at Monte Vista, Highland Park, CA., and “Artifice Orange” at Slanguage, Wilmington, CA. His work was featured in Museo de Anthropolocura, curated by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and the Wight Gallery at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. He is a grantee of the Michael Jordan Foundation, and a recipient of the Bill Muster Foundation Award for Photojournalism. Vargas lives in Lynwood, CA., and teaches advanced placement arts and photography in Wilmington.
An exhibition curated by Karla Diaz and Evelyn Serrano
Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 6:30-9pm
Exhibition Dates: January 23-February 21, 2009
The University of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building
800 West Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9am-10pm, Sat. 9am-6pm, Sun. closed
CLANDESTINE INSURGENT REBEL CLOWN ARMY (C.I.R.C.A) SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
We are Clandestine because the sneaking game is our favorite, especially when everyone knows you're coming.
We are Insurgent because we spend our days mocking racist vigilante paramilitaries. (aka the MinuteKlan) Our only weapons are feather dusters, baguettes and bubbles.
We are Rebel because our solidarity knows no borders and because we want to eat borders like the cookie monster until they crumble in our laps.
We are Clowns because what else can one be on the edge of the nation state. Because nothing undermines the border like holding it up to ridicule. Because since the conquest tricksters have embraced the contradictions of inclusion and exclusion, creating coherence through confusion. Because in the face of fascism we are fools, both fearsome and innocent, wise and stupid, entertainers and dissenters, healers and laughing stocks, scapegoats and subversives.
We are an Army because in the borderlands we are in permanent war – a war of money against life, north against south, profit against dignity, to stop the right of mobility, of neo-Colonialism against culture and tradition.
We are C.I.R.C.A. because we live in the borderlands, always in between, on the edge of the nation state, mischievously ambiguous.
Look out!!! We're silly, we're angry and we've got grease paint!
COLECTIVO BULBO
bulbo (Tijuana, Mex, 2002) explores the possibilities of exchange and collaboration while using broadcast media with constructive aims. Each of the collective's projects lets people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, take part in a creative process and helps nurture other ways of understanding our context. bulbo has intervened media with bulbo TV (in all of Mexico); bulbo press magazine; disco bulbo record label; the bulbo broadcast web streams and www.bulbo.tv. Other projects include bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, (San Jose, US, 2008); Tianguis de Diseño, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City, Mex, 2007) and La Tienda de Ropa, inSite_05 (Tijuana/San Diego, Mex-US, 2005). And group exhibitions like From A to B, Fellows of Contemporary Art, (Los Angeles, US, 2008); Inside the Wave, SDMA, (San Diego, US, 2008); Don’t, a reactivation of an Allan Kaprow Happening, as part of Allan Kaprow – Art as Life, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, (Los Angeles, US, 2008); Tijuana Organic, Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK, 2006); IV Bienal de Estandartes, CECUT (Tijuana, Mex, 2006); Strange New World, MCASD (San Diego, US, 2006) and SMMOA (Santa Monica, US, 2007); and Tijuana Sessions, ARCO (Madrid, Spain, 2005).
FALLEN FRUIT
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that investigates the city, urban ecology and new forms of citizenship and community through the lens of fruit. We believe the symbolic values of bounty and generosity in fruit are cross-cultural, transhistorical and not bound to any social class. Fallen Fruit's projects include public events, videos, photographs and installations that express these ideas in dynamic ways. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we examine nature in the city and the nature of the city, and investigate new, shared forms of land use and property. Originating as an artist’s project in The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest in 2004, FALLEN FRUIT has been participated in art gallery shows including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), 18th Street Arts Complex, (Santa Monica), NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute), ARTLA – Los Angeles Art Fair 2007, University Art Gallery – UC Irvine, CA, Photo Miami 2006, The New Museum (NYC), Folk Art and Craft Museum (LA), Millard Sheets Gallery (LA), Machine Project (LA), Bonelli Contemporary, (LA), MESSHALL (Chicago), Armory Center (Pasadena), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Interviews, publications and other media include: KCET/PBS, Discovery Channel/Planet Green, CBS news, LA Times, Cabinet, Paper, The LA Weekly, NPR “Day-To-Day”, Daily Telegraph (UK), Los Angeles Magazine, READYMADE, KCRW Radio 88.9 FM, KPCC Radio 89.3 FM, Whole Life Times, Utne Reader, worldchanging.com, and BOINGBOING.NET.
VICKY FUNARI AND SERGIO DE LA TORRE
Vicky Funari, Producer/Director/Editor:
Vicky Funari is a filmmaker whose work focuses primarily on the lives of working people and on the complex identities of today's culturally mixed and dynamic migratory populations. Funari produced, directed and edited the acclaimed non-fiction feature film PAULINA, which has screened in over 30 of the world's most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, Havana and Amsterdam.
Among numerous awards, PAULINA received a Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival and Lifetime Television's Vision Award at the 1998 Hamptons Film Festival. PAULINA aired on the Sundance Channel in 2000.
Most recently, Funari co-directed and edited the documentary LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!, a fierce and funny account of the first successful strippers' union in the country. This film premiered at the 2000 SXSW Film Festival, won a Golden Spire and the Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, enjoyed a national theatrical release, aired on Cinemax in 2001, and is now in home video release on both VHS and DVD.
Funari also produced and directed SKIN-ES-THE-SI-A, an award-winning short experimental work which explores the cultural codification of the female body through images from performance art and pornography. SKIN-ES-THE-SI-A has screened at festivals on three continents, including the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. From 1996 - 2000, Funari served on the Board of Directors of the Latino media arts organization Cine Accion.
Sergio De La Torre, Producer/Director:
Sergio De La Torre is a photographer and performance/installation artist. De La Torre grew up in the Tijuana/San Diego border area and migrated to San Francisco. His photographic, performance and installation works have focused on issues regarding diaspora/tourism and identity politics. In 1995, De La Torre co-founded the performance/installation group Los Tricksters. These performance/installations have taken place in a variety of venues including street fairs, academic conferences, art galleries, film festivals and non-profit art spaces.
De La Torre's works, among them ACCESS DENIED, DISAPPEARING and MEXICLONE, have appeared in the Bienal Barro de America at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela; in the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, in Cleveland, Ohio; at the Centro Nacional para las Artes in Mexico City; and in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. De La Torre's film and video work has included photography for Los Que Se Van, directed by Adolfo Davila, and assistant to the art director on GARDEN OF EDEN, directed by Maria Novaro.
Sergio De La Torre is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco in the Art + Architecture Department.
ARI KLETZKY / ISLANDS OF LA
Ari Kletzky is an artist whose work focuses on an ongoing project in public space called Islands of LA. The intention of the project is to explore the use and availability of traffic islands as public space to foster discussion and create community. The project is, in short, an experiment in the free use of available public land given, on one hand, the car and commercial-centric landscape of Los Angeles and, on the other hand, the idea of public forum and assembly. Ari currently is an MFA candidate in Art CalArts and has worked in a variety of mediums. He graduated from UC Berkeley with dual degrees (B.A. in Rhetoric and B.S. in Business Administration).
ELANA MANN / EXCHANGE RATE
Elana Mann (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her artwork probes the theatrics of everyday life and investigates the collapse of social spaces through a variety of mediums including performance, sound, video, installation and curatorial projects. In 2007 Mann graduated with an MFA from CalArts and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Mann recently organized "Exchange Rate: 2008" an international performance project in response to the US presidential elections and co-organized "Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Calarts Feminist Art Symposium and Exhibition" and "TROCA: Brasil/US" an art exchange between Brazil and the USA. Mann’s artwork and projects have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Artweek, O Globo, O Jornal do Brasil, La Republicca and El Pais. For more information please visit www.elanamann.com.
AMITIS MOTEVALLI
Amitis Motevalli was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US in 1977. In 1995 she received a BA from SFSU in Art with a minor in Women’s studies and in 1998 an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Her work as an artist incorporates a combination of near-eastern aesthetic with a western art education. Motevalli states, “Being an immigrant in the US shows in my work a duality of culture, both natural and learned. In all of my work, I create a dialogue that critiques dominant views of oppressed people and culture in general”.
Her work in art education is with youth who share a similar duality in vision. Motevalli has been active in creating social change with her students on issues of civil rights within the class through pedagogy or working with students and community to organize around issues that effect their quality of life and access to education.
Amitis Motevalli is a recent recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship and the Visions of California Award, a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship and the NEA artist fellow at 18th Street Arts Center. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, exhibiting art nationally and abroad as well as organizing to create an active and resistant cultural discourse through information exchange, either in art, pedagogy or organizing artist and educators.
POCHO RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Pocho Research Society is an on-going collaborative project that involves artists, activists and “rasquache” historians who reside in Los Angeles. Dedicated to the systematic investigation of place and memory, the PRS challenges dominant constructions of local Los Angeles history through archival projects and public interventions. In 2008, the PRS completed a project, Fort Moore, Living Monument, for the traveling exhibit, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For the show, the group explores a monument located in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to a fort built during the Mexican American War. The installation contains real and fictionalized archival materials and a video that animates the actual monument. During the summer of 2007. the PRS launched “Echoes in the Echo” an action addressing gentrification. The group installed “unofficial” plaques in public spaces to commemorate formerly queer Latina/o bars in Los Angeles.
In 2005, the PRS curated “Collective Synapse; A Forward Memory of the Peace and Justice Center”, an archival project focusing on a youth-run cultural space that existed in Los Angeles during the mid-nineties, culminated in an exhibit, live events and panel discussions. Other projects include the October Surprise (2004) and Operation Invisible Monument, (2002). For documentation of past PRS projects visit: http://hijadela.com/projects/prs/prs1.html.
ROBERTO ROMERO-MOLINA
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Robert Romero-Molina (National City, CA. 1970) has lived, studied and worked in both sides of the border for the last thirty-seven years, among the different roles that he has carried out through the years are those of architecture student (1991), graphic design student (1992), art student (southwestern college, 1992-1996), fisherman (Alaska, 1997-98), entrepreneur (co-founder & CEO, Safenet Marketing Agency, 1995-1996), cook (Fillipis, 1986-87), DJ (Jet Sound, 1986-1988), clarinet player (Harborside School, 1977-78), homeless person (Seattle, 1997), painter (on and off between 1987-2007) and Artist (1977-present). In 1979 he wrote his first book, a biography on an Italian artist.
He has dedicate himself to a large extent to writing and recording words and voice on magnetic tape, using multiple recorders simultaneously, manipulating and creating loops with the purpose of creating electronic soundscapes of words and voices. In 1995 he co-founded with Raul Domínguez and Eduardo Lizárraga a noise group/workshop and continued sessions formally until 2000 with more than twenty collaborators participating on and off at different stages and in different incarnations of the group/workshop.
At the moment he works from Estudio Sierra Circular [ESC], his studio located in Tijuana and guarded by Bruno (Siamese) and Amber (golden retriever). Among the projects he’s currently working on are an infomercial for television and a lane for non-running cars for the Tijuana-San Diego border. In February 2008 he inaugurated a solo show, Amphora: Un Índice de Posibilidades at the university gallery of The Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Tijuana campus. In the exhibition are nine new works that range from projects and interventions to installation and video works.
SELAH ARTISTIC GIVING CENTER
SELAH Artistic Giving Center
Empowering artists through the dynamic relationship between art, business, and charity.
SHANNON SPANHAKE
Shannon Spanhake is a post-doctoral researcher at The California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2). She received her M.F.A in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and began her studies with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadephia PA, and went on to receive a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Spanhake is the co-founder of Lui Velazaquez, an art space in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and the founder of the collective DoEAT. Her work has been presented throughout the US, notably at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
ARNOLDO VARGAS
Arnoldo Vargas was raised in the small community of Wilmington, CA, which is the only place in the world surrounded by petrochemical refineries on all four sides. While many coastal communities can relate to beach sunsets, his childhood memories involved purple and orange hues painted by smokestacks diffused into the horizon. Wilmington also sits at the heart of the Los Angeles Harbor, the third largest port in the world. Confined in a pocket within this industry exist a group of people (Vargas' community), which are five times more likely to get cancer than the average American. Vargas says, "growing up in this environment helped forge my artistic lens. My work is very personal because it deals with what I have experienced, witnessed and felt."
Vargas received a B.A. in Studio Art from UCLA in 1999, and is current a MFA candidate of Photography and New Media at Cal Arts in Valencia, CA. Solo exhibitions include “Welcome Wilmington” at Monte Vista, Highland Park, CA., and “Artifice Orange” at Slanguage, Wilmington, CA. His work was featured in Museo de Anthropolocura, curated by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and the Wight Gallery at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. He is a grantee of the Michael Jordan Foundation, and a recipient of the Bill Muster Foundation Award for Photojournalism. Vargas lives in Lynwood, CA., and teaches advanced placement arts and photography in Wilmington.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
StayBite
STAYBITE: An Artists for Social Justice Exhibition
CalArts Mint and Lime Galleries
June 2008
Organized by Steven Lockwood and Evelyn Serrano
For further information please email Evelyn Serrano at eserrano@calarts.edu.
Photo Credits: Scott Groller, Steve Gunter, Evelyn Serrano
The work was exhibited in two gallery spaces at CalArts. One of the rooms was used as a screening room and the other as a regular white-wall space. Below, is some information about each of the artists and their work. The opening went really well and we are really excited about the possibilities for our upcoming Spring 2009 large -scale symposium, performance series and exhibition.
INSTALLATION
STAYBITE
MARLENE BELTRAN
(with Amanda Vigil- scroll down for Amanda's bio)
Titles: CalArts Thursday Night
CalArts Fashion Show 2008
Media: DVD
Artist statement:
CalArts Thursday Night: This documentary was shot in the Spring of 2007 at a typical CalArts Thursday night gallery opening and ultimately captured a slice of CalArts life that should be chewed, swallowed and hopefully digested.
CalArts Fashion Show 2008: The second documentary was shot this past March during the 2008 CalArts Fashion Show. Our interest this time was in inquiring about students’ opinion on the annual fashion show. In the end we were able to document a disturbing situation that opened up a whole other can of worms: How do we as a community handle sensitive issues?
CAP/DIGITAL MEDIA PROGRAM YOUTH PARTICIPANTS
Elizabeth Alexander
“Green” t-shirt
Alex Beauregard
“Lady with Leaves” t-shirt
Sidnee Denson
“Greenpiece” t-shirt
“Kellogg” clutch
Bryan Kim
Recycled and refused plastic bag
Patrick Tamayo
“Fresh” t-shirt
About the work:
Entitled “Going Green”, this CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Youth Digital Media Program took place during the Fall 07 and Spring 08 semesters and met at CalArts’ Mac Lab once a week under the leadership of long-time CAP faculty and CalArts School of Art faculty Shelley Stepp. The program included discussions and hands-on conceptual projects using Adobe Creative Suite software, scanners, digital cameras, printmaking and recycling processes. Projects produced were based on environmental themes such as eco-friendly living, sustainable landscapes and green roofs, reducing our carbon footprints, creating cleaner and healthier communities, clean energy, and global warming. The class was attended by high school-age students who were encouraged to focus on content-based social statements, political comments, or cultural narratives. This exhibition includes a small selection of work designed, produced and printed by some of the CAP participants in this program.
CAROLINE CHANG
Title: I don’t know either
Media: Video (22:29 min) and paper handouts
Artist Statement:
I have to maneuver through the sharpened tips of graphite, so I do not get scratched, so I do not get marked. If I misstep, and lean to one side, then they will pierce, and the wood will run right through me, burrowing through my fleshy insides. I was born here. And yet, everyday I must prove myself, but at least mine are dulled and have been used to scribble. And if you were not born here, you have to prove yourself even more. You have to work harder, live harder, know more, and sharpen the patriots in your bones and move as if the filed forms of your past are not embedded into your flesh. You have to do more than me to be permanent. So, I’m sorry, I can’t help you with your INS interview. Because I don’t know either.
Artist Bio:
Caroline is a writer and performer, and has attempted to dabble in a few things from theatre to crocheting. Much of her work focuses on issues of identity and ethnicity exploring human threads of connectivity and disparity, and though it mostly comes in the form of writing and spoken word/poetry performances, sometimes there’s mixed media involved too. She is also good at office work! And baking! When she grows up, she wants to be the cat lady, who sits on her porch waving her broomstick at you. She wants approximately 30 cats.
DIEGO GARZA
Title: The Agitators are Ignorance, Power, and Poverty
Media: Video with sound (11:10 min)
Artist Statement:
The Agitators is a one-channel video that depicts social unrest as a reactionary method towards the mishandling of social order and the incompetence of the state. The narrative of this video is based on the student massacre of Tlatelolco (Mexico, D.F.), which took place on October 2, 1968. This detourned form of puppetry acts as an allegory for master-slave relations, as well as setting the stage for a dramatic de-control. The Agitators illustrates that despite social progress, movements must continue to fight against the politics that were practiced in 1968, as well as the politics of our times.
NICHOLAS GRIDER
Title: Untitled (Translation)
Media: Ink on Paper
Artist Statement:
While working on a project during which I spent time with US troops, I asked them about their experience in learning the language of whatever country they're deployed to, and one soldier handed me a small booklet produced by the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. All of the phrases in my piece were pulled from freely downloadable pdfs at the DLI website.
Artist Bio:
Nicholas Grider is an artist, writer and curator who divides his time between Milwaukee and Los Angeles. This fall he'll be embedded as media in Afghanistan as part of a long-term project on military training.
VIRGINIA GRISE
Title: pineapple/full moon offerings
Media: Performance
Artist Statement:
‘pineapple/full moon offerings’ was written as a prayer to my nephew. This is a performance installation that includes original photographs from Vietnam and footage of the Chicano moratorium.
Artist Bio:
Virginia Grise, a Chicana cultural worker, writer, performer, and teacher is from San Antonio, Texas - a highly militarized city. She has taught writing in the juvenile correction system and has facilitated organizing efforts among women, immigrant, Chicano, working class and queer youth. The Panza Monologues, her one-woman performance piece, was published by Evelyn Street Press. As a member of Accion Zapatista, she traveled to Chiapas, Mexico as a peace observer and edited a volume of Zapatista communiqués entitled Conversations with Don Durito, published by Autonomedia Press. Virginia has performed throughout the Southwest as well as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, and Cuba. She is currently seeking her MFA in Writing for Performance at the California Institute of the Arts and teaches playwrighting to high school students in East Los Angeles through the Community Arts Partnership.
MONICA HICKS
Title: Nothing But Net
Media: Mixed media (graphite on paper, acrylic paint, prefabricated frame, sarcasm)
Artist Statement:
The frame is apart of the work. The design of stereotypes. Commodity and marketing of specific marginalization and "framing" in relation to how cultural ideologies connote freedom (like basketball helps one to escape the ghetto) but are traps that become about nothing but the net......
Artist Bio:
Monica Elayne Hicks is a MFA candidate from California Institute of the Arts. Her work focuses on the biological and social constructs involving and embodying race and identity politics. She explores ideas of entitlement to history and personal agency in relation to specific subconscious stereotypes and racism.
LUBA LUKOVA
Title: Social Justice 2008, 12 Posters
Media: 12 Offset prints
Artist Statement:
Ms. Lukova does not presume to decide for anyone what they should conclude from the images in this portfolio, rather she leaves it to the viewer to draw their own conclusions about each poster’s meaning … to create their own paths of change if they share her belief that action–that change–is not only necessary, it is just and it is right. If you feel that the news you hear and read–dominated by a few mega-conglomerates–is fair and just; if you feel that healthcare is affordable and equitable, although 40 million Americans–including children–have no healthcare at all; and if you feel that our world is safer now than ever–in spite of two on-going wars, a budget deficit projected into the trillions, global scientific acknowledgment of world-wide climate change, and unchecked nuclear proliferation–then surely this portfolio will have little appeal. For those whose lives are touched and informed by the art in this collection, the catalyst for change now resides with you.
Artist Bio:
Luba Lukova is a renowned artist and designer working in New York. Her distinctive art utilizes metaphors, juxtaposition of symbols and economy of line and text to succinctly capture humanity’s elemental themes. Lukova has won numerous awards including the Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon, Paris; the Golden Pencil Award at the One Club, New York; Honor Laureate at the International Poster Exhibition in Fort Collins, CO; and ICOGRADA Excellence Award. She has received commissions from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Adobe Systems, Sony Music, Harvard University. Lukova’s work is widely exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include: UNESCO, Paris, France; DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan; La MaMa, New York. Her posters are in the permanent collections of MoMA New York and the Library of Congress.
www.lukova.net
ELANA MANN
Title: Evidence: Embroid, Embroil
Media: Light jet digital print
Artist Statement:
"Evidence: Embroid, Embroil," 2007-8, depicts one of the most circulated icons of torture and "othering" stitched into the palm of the artist's hand. The photographs embody the desire and agony to process images of Abu Ghraib and reveals how this legacy of torture penetrates into the surface of our daily lives.
Artist Bio:
Elana Mann (b. 1980) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Mann investigates the theatrics of everyday life and the breakdown of social spaces through a variety of mediums including performance, sound, video, installation and curatorial projects. In 2007 Mann graduated with an MFA from CalArts and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including "The Collective Body" (FABS Gallery, Poland, 2008 and Galerie Califia, Czech Republic, 2007), “From A to B,” (Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008), “The Girly Show” (The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, CA, 2007), "Abre-Alas" (A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR 2007). Mann’s projects have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Artweek, O Globo, O Jornal do Brasil and Veja magazine.
VITA RABINOVICH
Title: Giant Elephants Roam, Year 1
Media: Final output on DVD, originally created on note cards with pen, ink, crayon and watercolor
Artist Statement:
This is a culmination of work produced by the students of Giant Elephants Roam. Giant Elephants Roam is a non-profit organization that brings the education of animation into prisons and works with prisoners to produce awesome animated films. This video is a compilation of the first works of some very talented people who produced their animated films using very limited resources. More info at www.giantelephants.com
Artist Bio:
I am a nomad with a lot of ideas, skills, and abilities.
INGRID VON SYDOW
Title: Mapping the Invisible
Media: Video with sound
Journal entry 02/14/08, Observations from the Black Space Residency
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
-Mark Strand. from the poem, Keeping Things Whole
During time spent taking part in The Black Space Residency Program I collected this footage. I lost track of the storms, all I have to document my time there is this artifact, everything else is immaterial. In that black space, the environment or atmosphere appears in reverse, with light space dark and dark, light...the air swallows everything.
Artist Bio:
Through the use of video, stand-alone sound, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture Ingrid von Sydow's artwork examines the political issues effecting marginalized people and in so doing aims to make palpable that which often goes unnoticed or hasn't any physical form. She has participated in a number of group shows in NYC and Connecticut as well as Bling, a group show curated by Mark Steven Greenfield at the Palos Verdes Art Center. She is currently a graduate student at Calarts and received her BFA there as well.
NATHAN TENNEY
Title: The Songs and Stories of Whales and Wolves
Media: Live music performance with turntables
Artist Statement:
The Songs and Stories of Whales and Wolves was composed in 2007 as a response to the allegations against and subsequent firing of Ward Churchill, who was up until last year a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. In 2001 Churchill wrote an essay called "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," a highly publicized and controversial work debating the innocence of many of the World Trade Center casualties and suggesting that the attack was provoked by US imperialist foreign policy. He was investigated and fired for research misconduct in 2007. Regardless of his innocence or guilt in this matter, the investigation was begun as a retaliation for his essay, and his case is a flaming beacon for the erosion of academic freedom in this country.
The voices in this piece are Ward Churchill, taken from his CD “Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left”, and Arundhati Roy, writer and activist from India, taken from her CD “Come September”.
Artist Bio:
Nathan Tenney is {a(n)} musician/artist/DJ/turntablist/MC/poet/guitarist/man
/human/heterosexual/5'9"/agnostic/atheist/anticapitalist/socialist-anarchist/
anarchist-socialist/catlover/foodlover/loverlover/chef/gardener/hoping you enjoy the show.
AMANDA VIGIL
(with Marlene Beltran- you can find Marlene's bio when scrolling up)
Titles: CalArts Thursday Night
CalArts Fashion Show 2008
Media: DVD
Artist statement:
CalArts Thursday Night: This documentary was shot in the Spring of 2007 at a typical CalArts Thursday night gallery opening and ultimately captured a slice of CalArts life that should be chewed, swallowed and hopefully digested.
CalArts Fashion Show 2008: The second documentary was shot this past March during the 2008 CalArts Fashion Show. Our interest this time was in inquiring about students’ opinion on the annual fashion show. In the end we were able to document a disturbing situation that opened up a whole other can of worms: How do we as a community handle sensitive issues?
Artist Bio:
Amanda Vigil was born and raised in the Bay Area San Francisco. She is currently completing her BFA in Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts. In 2007 she took part in an exchange program between CalArts and Berlin’s University of the Arts. Amanda's practice involves performance, installation and video art. One of a family of five girls, she often incorporates her family into her work and deals with themes of grief, ideas of gender and inheritance. After graduating this Spring semester Amanda will be a faculty member on the California Summer School of the Arts Summer Program for the third consecutive year.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
StayBite! Our first Artists for Social Justice Exhibition opening on May 12!
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StayBite showcases work that investigates, questions, and advances social justice issues in its content and/or process. StayBite includes incendiary text pieces, video screenings, original music compositions, photography, drawings, poster art and t-shirt art. Artists: Marlene Beltran, Caroline Chang, Diego Garza, Nicholas Grider, Vriginia grise, Monica Hicks, Luba Lukova, Elana Mann, Vita Rabinovich, Amanda Vigil and CAP/Digital Media Youth Participants.
This show was curated Stephen Lockwood and Evelyn Serrano and it is a first in a series of exhibitions organized by the Artists for Social Justice Collective (ASJ). ASJ is a group of artists and troublemakers meeting every month at CalArts. We act on and engage in dialog about:
Art for social change + Art and social responsibility + Strategies for community engagement and social change through the arts +Context-based and collaborative artistic practices + Presentations by visiting artists, activists and civic leaders + Self-empowerment strategies for artists and their communities + Alternative or minority histories +Practices outside institutional and mainstream venues
http://artistsforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/
Need more info? Email us at eserrano@calarts.edu
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Public Lecture Series at UCSD!
Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to
Challenging Power
Public Lecture Series, as part of VIS198 Directed Study Group
flyer: http://sdhacklab.org/vis198-lecture-series-flyer.pdf
A series of talks looking at the how groups are using collective
practice and online public space to confront social issues embodied in
the San Diego/Tijuana border region. All lectures will be held at
Calit2, Atkinson Hall, 2nd Floor, Wednesday nights from 6-7pm. This
lecture series is sponsored by UCIRA. If you have questions or are
interested in registering for this class, email Micha Cárdenas at
mcardenas (at) ucsd.edu.
Week 1 - April 2: A Class Without A Teacher? Critical Pedagogy and Intro
to Collective Practice
Presenters: Members of the Groundwork Books Collective,
http://groundwork.ucsd.edu
Week 2 - April 9: A Rich Legacy of Collective Practice
Presenters: Brett Stalbaum, Ricardo Dominguez speaking on Electronic
Disturbance Theater and particle group, http://pitmm.net
Week 3 - April 16: Social Sculpture, society is the sculpture,
collectively creating change - Presenters: The Boredom Patrol of the
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, http://circasd.org
Week 4 - April 23: Transnational corporations, transnational resistance
Presenters: Colectivo Zapatista (tentative) and
Simon Sedillo of El Enemigo Comun, http://elenemigocomun.net
Week 5 - April 30: Gaming Theory, "In Game" Resistance
Presenters: Adriene Jenik, http://adrienejenik.net
Week 8 - May 21: Gender, Sexuality and Erotic Art Practice
Presenters: Sharing Is Sexy, http://sharingissexy.org
Week 9 - May 21: DIY, Self-Publishing, Craftivism
Presenters: Grrrl Zines A Go-Go, http://gzagg.org
Week 11 – Friday, June 6th, 6pm, Presentation of Group Projects from VIS198
More info at http://crca.ucsd.edu
Directions at http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net
Challenging Power
Public Lecture Series, as part of VIS198 Directed Study Group
flyer: http://sdhacklab.org/vis198-lecture-series-flyer.pdf
A series of talks looking at the how groups are using collective
practice and online public space to confront social issues embodied in
the San Diego/Tijuana border region. All lectures will be held at
Calit2, Atkinson Hall, 2nd Floor, Wednesday nights from 6-7pm. This
lecture series is sponsored by UCIRA. If you have questions or are
interested in registering for this class, email Micha Cárdenas at
mcardenas (at) ucsd.edu.
Week 1 - April 2: A Class Without A Teacher? Critical Pedagogy and Intro
to Collective Practice
Presenters: Members of the Groundwork Books Collective,
http://groundwork.ucsd.edu
Week 2 - April 9: A Rich Legacy of Collective Practice
Presenters: Brett Stalbaum, Ricardo Dominguez speaking on Electronic
Disturbance Theater and particle group, http://pitmm.net
Week 3 - April 16: Social Sculpture, society is the sculpture,
collectively creating change - Presenters: The Boredom Patrol of the
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, http://circasd.org
Week 4 - April 23: Transnational corporations, transnational resistance
Presenters: Colectivo Zapatista (tentative) and
Simon Sedillo of El Enemigo Comun, http://elenemigocomun.net
Week 5 - April 30: Gaming Theory, "In Game" Resistance
Presenters: Adriene Jenik, http://adrienejenik.net
Week 8 - May 21: Gender, Sexuality and Erotic Art Practice
Presenters: Sharing Is Sexy, http://sharingissexy.org
Week 9 - May 21: DIY, Self-Publishing, Craftivism
Presenters: Grrrl Zines A Go-Go, http://gzagg.org
Week 11 – Friday, June 6th, 6pm, Presentation of Group Projects from VIS198
More info at http://crca.ucsd.edu
Directions at http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Webcast- Thu Feb. 14
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 9:00am to 2:00pm PST
WATCH LIVE WEBCAST
NCG's Arts Loan Fund & The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
present an arts intensive relevant across all sectors.
Web & Where 2.0+
Streaming live on the NCG website - February 14, 2008 from 9:00am
until 2:00pm PST. The in-person event is full, but the online webcast
is universally accessible and free through the "WATCH LIVE WEBCAST"
link.
About the Program
Twenty-first century digital media makers are pushing the boundaries
of collaboration and copyright, once the exclusive domain of
industry. YouTube further opened up the digital revolution by:
exploding user choice, creating a user-to-user vetting system,
allowing online users to share and mix media, and creating a culture
of mass collaboration where audiences and communities can participate
as co-creators and co-curators. YouTube's success reflects a new
force where users are the agents of social change and the creators of
cultural content.
This day long Arts Intensive will reflect on the changes being led by
digital culture. We will examine how foundations and organizations
might want to position themselves to achieve impact within the
digital cultural space. With a myriad of different speakers from
various sectors, we will contemplate many of the emerging questions
evolving from digital media and culture. (more)
Featuring Presentations from:
Eskender Aseged, Nomadic Chef, Radio Africa Kitchen
Kelsang Aukatsang, Director, WiserEarth
Cathy Casserly, Director of Open Educational Resources Initiative,
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Zaven Demerjian, Entrepreneur; Student
Barry Katz, Fellow, IDEO
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine
Gordon Knox, Director, Global Initiatives at the Stanford Humanities
Lab
Dave Marvit, V.P., Connected Information Innovation Center, Fujitsu
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
Micropixie, Artist
Biographies of the speakers can be found by clicking here.
The day will be moderated by Moy Eng, Program Director, Performing
Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
A link to the full agenda can be found by clicking here.
Full program information can be found at http://www.ncg.org/watch.
WATCH LIVE WEBCAST
NCG's Arts Loan Fund & The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
present an arts intensive relevant across all sectors.
Web & Where 2.0+
Streaming live on the NCG website - February 14, 2008 from 9:00am
until 2:00pm PST. The in-person event is full, but the online webcast
is universally accessible and free through the "WATCH LIVE WEBCAST"
link.
About the Program
Twenty-first century digital media makers are pushing the boundaries
of collaboration and copyright, once the exclusive domain of
industry. YouTube further opened up the digital revolution by:
exploding user choice, creating a user-to-user vetting system,
allowing online users to share and mix media, and creating a culture
of mass collaboration where audiences and communities can participate
as co-creators and co-curators. YouTube's success reflects a new
force where users are the agents of social change and the creators of
cultural content.
This day long Arts Intensive will reflect on the changes being led by
digital culture. We will examine how foundations and organizations
might want to position themselves to achieve impact within the
digital cultural space. With a myriad of different speakers from
various sectors, we will contemplate many of the emerging questions
evolving from digital media and culture. (more)
Featuring Presentations from:
Eskender Aseged, Nomadic Chef, Radio Africa Kitchen
Kelsang Aukatsang, Director, WiserEarth
Cathy Casserly, Director of Open Educational Resources Initiative,
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Zaven Demerjian, Entrepreneur; Student
Barry Katz, Fellow, IDEO
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine
Gordon Knox, Director, Global Initiatives at the Stanford Humanities
Lab
Dave Marvit, V.P., Connected Information Innovation Center, Fujitsu
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
Micropixie, Artist
Biographies of the speakers can be found by clicking here.
The day will be moderated by Moy Eng, Program Director, Performing
Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
A link to the full agenda can be found by clicking here.
Full program information can be found at http://www.ncg.org/watch.
Call for Works
UCLA will be holding a Katrina benefit the week of Feb 25th through
the 29th . There will be a night of Jazz accompanied by local New
Orleans cuisine. Accompanying the benefit night will be a week long
exhibit in UCLA's Kerckhoff Art Gallery. For this exhibit we intend to
show work with a New Orleans/hurricane Katrina theme. Please contact
me if you are interested in showing. kesmaeili@ucla.edu
Look forward to hearing back!!
Kian
the 29th . There will be a night of Jazz accompanied by local New
Orleans cuisine. Accompanying the benefit night will be a week long
exhibit in UCLA's Kerckhoff Art Gallery. For this exhibit we intend to
show work with a New Orleans/hurricane Katrina theme. Please contact
me if you are interested in showing. kesmaeili@ucla.edu
Look forward to hearing back!!
Kian
Monday, February 11, 2008
Great Links form Donna Golden:
http://www.chickeneggpics.org/ce.html
Chicken & Egg Pictures? primary mission is to support talented and passionate women filmmakers; non-fiction and fiction; emergent and veteran; who are committed to using their story-telling skills and command of cinema and/or guerrilla digital video; to address the social justice; equity and human rights issues of our times. Our primary objective is to provide these filmmakers with strategic financial; creative and producing support at pivotal stages in their lives as artists.
http://www.thefledglingfund.org/
We seek to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects and community-based organizations that target entrenched social problems.
Chicken & Egg Pictures? primary mission is to support talented and passionate women filmmakers; non-fiction and fiction; emergent and veteran; who are committed to using their story-telling skills and command of cinema and/or guerrilla digital video; to address the social justice; equity and human rights issues of our times. Our primary objective is to provide these filmmakers with strategic financial; creative and producing support at pivotal stages in their lives as artists.
http://www.thefledglingfund.org/
We seek to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects and community-based organizations that target entrenched social problems.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Our Next Meeting
Dear all,
The Artists for Social Justice group will be meeting at CalArts this coming February 1st at noon in room D206. All are welcome!
For further information about this meeting send me an email at eserrano@calarts.edu.
The Artists for Social Justice group will be meeting at CalArts this coming February 1st at noon in room D206. All are welcome!
For further information about this meeting send me an email at eserrano@calarts.edu.
Arts in the One World Conference at CalArts: Jan. 24-27
Well, what can I say... if you have any time to attend this wonderful conference I highly recommend that you do. Focus is on ART, ACTIVISM and SOCIAL JUSTICE. There will be artists and panelists coming in from many different corners of the world. You can check out the conference's schedule here:
http://www.theatercalarts.com/calartsschoolofb.html
Beautiful and energizing forums and dialog!
Thank you Erik Ehn and peers!!
http://www.theatercalarts.com/calartsschoolofb.html
Beautiful and energizing forums and dialog!
Thank you Erik Ehn and peers!!
Awesome panel at the Hammer on Jan. 27 at 5pm
The Nation is hosting an event this Sunday at the Hammer Museum. It's free, you don't need to RSVP, you just need to get there early because there will probably be a lot of folks. If you missed the event last month with Robert Greenwald and Naomi Klein, you should definitely take this opportunity to hear her speak. Here's a video: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/21971-it-s-time-to-hold-the-ideology-accountable-for-its-crimes
Here are the details for Sunday's event.
What's Missing? What Matters?
Beyond the Bush Era: Progressives and Election 08
Featuring:
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, Nation columnist
Patricia J. Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University, Nation columnist
Richard Kim, Nation Associate Editor
Moderated by Robert Scheer, syndicated columnist, founding editor, TruthDig
Sponsored by The Hammer Museum and The Nation.
WHAT: A panel on what needs to be done to reclaim and rebuild our country
WHEN: Sunday, January 27, 5:00 to 7:00pm
WHERE: The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Free of charge. No RSVPs. Seating limited. Please arrive early.
Here are the details for Sunday's event.
What's Missing? What Matters?
Beyond the Bush Era: Progressives and Election 08
Featuring:
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, Nation columnist
Patricia J. Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University, Nation columnist
Richard Kim, Nation Associate Editor
Moderated by Robert Scheer, syndicated columnist, founding editor, TruthDig
Sponsored by The Hammer Museum and The Nation.
WHAT: A panel on what needs to be done to reclaim and rebuild our country
WHEN: Sunday, January 27, 5:00 to 7:00pm
WHERE: The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Free of charge. No RSVPs. Seating limited. Please arrive early.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Funding
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is pleased to announce that the Guidelines and Application Forms for Round II of the Investing in Artists grants program are now available for download at www.cciarts.org/funding. Applications for Round II must be received in CCI's San Francisco office on January 11, 2008.
The Investing in Artists grants program is designed to enhance the working lives and creative environment for California artists by funding tools and market strategies that will allow them to create their best work more consistently, and distribute that work more broadly to new audiences. To support those aims, Investing in Artists provides grants in two categories: 1) Artistic Equipment & Tools; and 2) Presenting & Marketing Work.
Response to Round I of the Investing in Artists grants program was extremely encouraging, but we know that there are still many artists in California that we have yet to reach. Please help us in spreading the word about this unique funding opportunity by forwarding this email to artists in your networks. In addition, a representative from CCI will be traveling throughout the state to present an informational workshop on the Investing in Artists program. The current schedule includes the following workshops, additional details can be found at www.cciarts.org/workshops:
-Ventura: November 26, 2007 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm at Ventura City Hall
- San Bernardino: November 27, 2007 from 9:00 -11:00 am at the San Bernardino County Offices
- Riverside: November 27, 2007 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the Cesar Chavez Community Center
- Los Angeles: November 28, 2007 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
- San Diego: November 29, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Balboa Park Club
- San Jose: December 3, 2007 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm at the Hoover Community Center
- Oakland: December 4, 2007 from 5:30 -7:00 pm at Oakland City Hall
- Fresno: December 7, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm at Fresno City Hall
-Arcata: December 14, 2007 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm at the Seventh Generation Fund Offices
The Investing in Artists grants program is designed to enhance the working lives and creative environment for California artists by funding tools and market strategies that will allow them to create their best work more consistently, and distribute that work more broadly to new audiences. To support those aims, Investing in Artists provides grants in two categories: 1) Artistic Equipment & Tools; and 2) Presenting & Marketing Work.
Response to Round I of the Investing in Artists grants program was extremely encouraging, but we know that there are still many artists in California that we have yet to reach. Please help us in spreading the word about this unique funding opportunity by forwarding this email to artists in your networks. In addition, a representative from CCI will be traveling throughout the state to present an informational workshop on the Investing in Artists program. The current schedule includes the following workshops, additional details can be found at www.cciarts.org/workshops:
-Ventura: November 26, 2007 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm at Ventura City Hall
- San Bernardino: November 27, 2007 from 9:00 -11:00 am at the San Bernardino County Offices
- Riverside: November 27, 2007 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the Cesar Chavez Community Center
- Los Angeles: November 28, 2007 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
- San Diego: November 29, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Balboa Park Club
- San Jose: December 3, 2007 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm at the Hoover Community Center
- Oakland: December 4, 2007 from 5:30 -7:00 pm at Oakland City Hall
- Fresno: December 7, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm at Fresno City Hall
-Arcata: December 14, 2007 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm at the Seventh Generation Fund Offices
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
November 20th- Meeting Minutes
Dear all!
Thank you to those of you who came to our last meeting on November 20th! Our group is steadily growing! Thank you all for sharing so generously your ideas and questions with the group. For all of you who could not make it here is some of what happened (please pardon my somewhat inacurate note-taking). I have added the links I am listing below to our permanet link sections for future reference. If you attended the meeting and feel that I have left something out please please add a post or comment so we can get a more accurate picture of what happened.
1. Allright. So we started by going around the table and introducing ourselves. Some people chose to also talk about the many wonderful projects that they are involved in and shared with us some resources as well. Here is a list of some of these...
-Elana Mann brought up the work of the fantastic Tijuana based media collective BULBO. I will try to invite Omar from Bulbo to visit our group in January. Bulbo's website is http://www.bulbo.tv. Check them out!
-Annie Walton talked about a great new documentary called Fragments in Iraq. More info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492466/
-Nancy Buchanan was telling us about her recent visit to Iraq though an artists collective called ArtsRole. I wil try to get the link from Nancy. She was also telling us about a wonderful resource: the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. Link: http://www.socallib.org/
2. Joshua Parr, our special guest today, shared ideas and experiences regarding community organizing, activism and art. The dialog was absolutely engaging and all in attendance felt that we could have gone on for hours... We will have Joshua back next year as soon as he is available.
First, here is his bio:
Joshua Tanamachi Parr, Senior Intergroup Specialist
Tanamachi Parr, joins the HRC staff as a Senior Intergroup Consultant. Stories of his grandmother's internment by the US government during World War II lead Mr. Parr to critically examine cultural identity and social justice. After an early career as a journalist in Cambodia, South Korea and Venezuela, he returned to the U.S. in 1994. Here, he began organizing communities of color to fight for educational and economic equity in the Bay Area. From editing a youth publication, to running writing workshops in maximum security Juvenille Halls, to starting gang violence prevention and post-911 hate crime programs, Mr. Parr has worked with a variety of diverse communities.
In 1999, he joined Youth Together, a cutting edge youth leadership development organization in the East Bay, where he learned the principles of youth advocacy, and the tools of community building. Mr. Parr then joined Intergroup Clearinghouse, a top human relations organization in San Francisco. There, he consulted for the San Francisco Unified School District to assess and prevent hate crime and hate violence in K-12 schools. From there, he graduated with a Master's Degree from USC's School of Planning, Policy and Development, studying Multicultural Community Development.
At the Commission, Mr. Parr works in the School Intergroup Conflict Initiative, working in LAUSD District 7, which includes Watts. There, he facilitates programs in youth leadership development and parent education. In the community at large, Mr. Parr is spearheading an effort to update community policing protocols with LAPD's SE Division. Soon, he will be moving the HRC into the schools of Western San Gabriel Valley.
Additionally, Mr. Parr is a Board member for the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC), plays blues guitar, writes fiction, and coaches his son's basketball teams (this year, their team is undefeated.) He is known to travel whenever possible, and is involved in several international organizing efforts to promote meaningful cultural exchange.
I will attempt to convey some of the thoughts that Joshua Parr shared with us:
-Demographic shifts create conditions for ethnic threats. Joshua's current job with the LA County Commission on Human Relations is partly to assess these conditions and address them by creating a process or a structure that allows members of the affected communities to act on these issues. Establishing structures or processes that suit the needs and issues that affect the specific community can be done through implementing programming, identifying the community's leaders and advocates and partnering with them, and allowing the community itself to take on the responsibility for following through on their issues. In other words, "solutions" to issues need to meet the specific characteristics and resources available to that community and it is best if the members of said community are involved and invested in shaping the change they want to see. Another aspect of Joshua's work is to make the communities he works with aware of the resources that are available to them (be them legal, financial, etc.) within or outside their community.
-Joshua also talked to us about the differences between acting as an "observer/voyeur" vs acting as a "participant/advocate". In our previous Artists for Social Justice meeting in October we talked briefly about contemporary art practices that model themselves using traditional anthropological or sociological processes. Many artists have chosen to "catapult" themselves into communities, situations, and events that are entrancingly interesting, but foreign to them. Unfortunately, many can't or choose not to invest enough time to work in bridging the divide between being an observer and being an effective advocate/participant. Joshua noted that he favors his current work as a community organizer to his previous experiences as a journalist. Through community organizing he is able to partner with the members of a community, and to gain a deep understanding of their issues from their point of view and from the point of view of those other constituencies and institutions whose actions and policies have a direct effect on the community.
-Joshua talked highly about the work of visual artist Favianna Rodriguez, with whom he collaborated while working in the San Francisco area. Check out her work here:
http://www.favianna.com/. Favianna is well known for her very political posters and her work with youth.
Thank you Josh for joining us at our last gathering!!! We hope to have you back soon. For those of you who want to get in touch with Josh, here is his email address: jparr@hrc.lacounty.gov
Allright, so I think that's all for now. Please post a comment or send me an email if there is something you would like to add.
Best to all and we will see you in January!!
Have a great holiday!!
Evelyn
Thank you to those of you who came to our last meeting on November 20th! Our group is steadily growing! Thank you all for sharing so generously your ideas and questions with the group. For all of you who could not make it here is some of what happened (please pardon my somewhat inacurate note-taking). I have added the links I am listing below to our permanet link sections for future reference. If you attended the meeting and feel that I have left something out please please add a post or comment so we can get a more accurate picture of what happened.
1. Allright. So we started by going around the table and introducing ourselves. Some people chose to also talk about the many wonderful projects that they are involved in and shared with us some resources as well. Here is a list of some of these...
-Elana Mann brought up the work of the fantastic Tijuana based media collective BULBO. I will try to invite Omar from Bulbo to visit our group in January. Bulbo's website is http://www.bulbo.tv. Check them out!
-Annie Walton talked about a great new documentary called Fragments in Iraq. More info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492466/
-Nancy Buchanan was telling us about her recent visit to Iraq though an artists collective called ArtsRole. I wil try to get the link from Nancy. She was also telling us about a wonderful resource: the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. Link: http://www.socallib.org/
2. Joshua Parr, our special guest today, shared ideas and experiences regarding community organizing, activism and art. The dialog was absolutely engaging and all in attendance felt that we could have gone on for hours... We will have Joshua back next year as soon as he is available.
First, here is his bio:
Joshua Tanamachi Parr, Senior Intergroup Specialist
Tanamachi Parr, joins the HRC staff as a Senior Intergroup Consultant. Stories of his grandmother's internment by the US government during World War II lead Mr. Parr to critically examine cultural identity and social justice. After an early career as a journalist in Cambodia, South Korea and Venezuela, he returned to the U.S. in 1994. Here, he began organizing communities of color to fight for educational and economic equity in the Bay Area. From editing a youth publication, to running writing workshops in maximum security Juvenille Halls, to starting gang violence prevention and post-911 hate crime programs, Mr. Parr has worked with a variety of diverse communities.
In 1999, he joined Youth Together, a cutting edge youth leadership development organization in the East Bay, where he learned the principles of youth advocacy, and the tools of community building. Mr. Parr then joined Intergroup Clearinghouse, a top human relations organization in San Francisco. There, he consulted for the San Francisco Unified School District to assess and prevent hate crime and hate violence in K-12 schools. From there, he graduated with a Master's Degree from USC's School of Planning, Policy and Development, studying Multicultural Community Development.
At the Commission, Mr. Parr works in the School Intergroup Conflict Initiative, working in LAUSD District 7, which includes Watts. There, he facilitates programs in youth leadership development and parent education. In the community at large, Mr. Parr is spearheading an effort to update community policing protocols with LAPD's SE Division. Soon, he will be moving the HRC into the schools of Western San Gabriel Valley.
Additionally, Mr. Parr is a Board member for the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC), plays blues guitar, writes fiction, and coaches his son's basketball teams (this year, their team is undefeated.) He is known to travel whenever possible, and is involved in several international organizing efforts to promote meaningful cultural exchange.
I will attempt to convey some of the thoughts that Joshua Parr shared with us:
-Demographic shifts create conditions for ethnic threats. Joshua's current job with the LA County Commission on Human Relations is partly to assess these conditions and address them by creating a process or a structure that allows members of the affected communities to act on these issues. Establishing structures or processes that suit the needs and issues that affect the specific community can be done through implementing programming, identifying the community's leaders and advocates and partnering with them, and allowing the community itself to take on the responsibility for following through on their issues. In other words, "solutions" to issues need to meet the specific characteristics and resources available to that community and it is best if the members of said community are involved and invested in shaping the change they want to see. Another aspect of Joshua's work is to make the communities he works with aware of the resources that are available to them (be them legal, financial, etc.) within or outside their community.
-Joshua also talked to us about the differences between acting as an "observer/voyeur" vs acting as a "participant/advocate". In our previous Artists for Social Justice meeting in October we talked briefly about contemporary art practices that model themselves using traditional anthropological or sociological processes. Many artists have chosen to "catapult" themselves into communities, situations, and events that are entrancingly interesting, but foreign to them. Unfortunately, many can't or choose not to invest enough time to work in bridging the divide between being an observer and being an effective advocate/participant. Joshua noted that he favors his current work as a community organizer to his previous experiences as a journalist. Through community organizing he is able to partner with the members of a community, and to gain a deep understanding of their issues from their point of view and from the point of view of those other constituencies and institutions whose actions and policies have a direct effect on the community.
-Joshua talked highly about the work of visual artist Favianna Rodriguez, with whom he collaborated while working in the San Francisco area. Check out her work here:
http://www.favianna.com/. Favianna is well known for her very political posters and her work with youth.
Thank you Josh for joining us at our last gathering!!! We hope to have you back soon. For those of you who want to get in touch with Josh, here is his email address: jparr@hrc.lacounty.gov
Allright, so I think that's all for now. Please post a comment or send me an email if there is something you would like to add.
Best to all and we will see you in January!!
Have a great holiday!!
Evelyn
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Workshops: A to Z GRANTWRITING
A to Z GRANTWRITING
MONTHLY ARTS AND EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2007
presented by Southern California artist
LINDA VALLEJO
www.lindavallejo.com
CALIFORNIA FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NATIONAL ARTS RESOURCES AND FUNDERS
National Endowment for the Arts
State Arts
Agency List
http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/aoa/aoa_contents.shtml
A listing of all State Arts Agencies published by the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies (NASAA), the membership organization of the nation's
state and jurisdictional arts agencies.
Artdeadline.com
Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
http://arts.endow.gov/federal.html
Target Arts in Education Program
http://target.com/schools/grants.asp
FundsNets - Arts and Humanities
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/arts2.htm
ARTS
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's National Projects Fund, Deadline: Open.
Grants will range from $60,000 to $200,000 each, to support key national
projects in the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. Info and
app at
http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=10
Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Program, Deadline, Various.
Funds for performance-oriented requests that represent contemporary,
cutting-edge new work. Info and app at Linda B. Howe, Program Executive,
Zellerbach Family Fnd, 120 Montgomery St., Ste 1550 , San Francisco , CA
94104 or (415)421-2629 ext. 11.
Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants Program, Deadline: November 15,
2007. Five photojournalists will receive grants of $20K to enable them to
pursue their photojournalism projects. Info and app
http://corporate.gettyimages.com/marketing/grants_editorial/index.asp.
The Fund For Artists Arts Teacher Fellowship, Deadline: January 10, 2008.
Awards of up to $5,000 to teachers in the Bay Area, Northern California
middle and high schools. Funds should be used to defray the costs
associated with a self-designed course of study enabling arts teachers to
expand artistic range and abilities in the making of art. For applications
and more information contact Melody Ferris at
fund4artists@eastbaycf.org
American Composers Forum First Nations Composer Initiative Funding Program,
Deadline: January 31, 2008. Individual awards of $500 to $7,500 designed to
give an immediate financial boost to composers, performers, and other makers
of new music at a time when this help would have a significant
career-enhancing effect. Info and app at
http://www.composersforum.org/opportunities_detail.cfm?oid=7921&referrer=opp
ortunities%2Ecfm%3F
EDUCATION
US Department of Education Forecast of Funding Opportunities
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
California Department of Education UPCOMING DEADLINES
http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/af/
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/texis/events/searchdeadlines?q=fellow*,grant*'
&s=type&d=1&pg=gf
GrantsAlert UPCOMING DEADLINES
http://www.grantsalert.com/grant_writers_directory.cfm?pg=3
The American Express Philanthropic Program: Deadline, Open. Grants in
three major program areas: Cultural Heritage, Leaders for Tomorrow, and
Community Service. Info and app
http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/gb/submit.asp
The Bayer Foundation Program, Deadline: Applications accepted and reviewed
throughout the year. Support for programs designed to integrate science
and the arts. Information on how and when to apply at
http://www.bayerus.com/foundation/how.html
3M's Community Giving, Open. Gifts by the 3M Foundation, 3M, product
donations and employee volunteerism to the following California communities
where their facilities are located: Corona , Irvine, Monrovia , Northridge ,
Ontario , and Petaluma , CA. Program goals include Arts & Culture and
enhancing the quality of cultural life in 3M communities through
organizations with strong education and community outreach programs. Info
and app
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/CommunityAffairs/CommunityGiving
/US/Apply/
Folger Shakespeare Library Offers, Deadline: various. Two Mellon Research
Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000 and $40,000.
Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and
carry maximum stipends of $40,000. Info and app at
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=298.
Lexus and Scholastic Environmental Challenge Education Program, Deadline:
Various. More than $1 million in total scholarships and grants will be
awarded to middle and high school students, teachers, and schools to
develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their
communities. Info and app at
http://www.scholastic.com/lexus/
NEA Library Books Awards Program, Deadline: November 12, 2007.
Approximately fifty awards of $1,000 each to purchase books and other
reading materials for public school libraries. Info and app at
http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/BAA_2007.htm
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, Deadline: November 15, 29, 2007.
Fellowship awards of up to 40K aimed to increase the number of professors
who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of
all students. Info and app at
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html
National Schools of Character Awards, Deadline: December 3, 2007. $20,000
grant to enhance program and provide outreach to other educators. Info and
app at
http://www.character.org/site/c.gwKUJhNYJrF/b.993295/k.180D/National_Schools
_of_Character_Awards_Program.htm
Staples Foundation for Learning Education and Job Skills Programs,
Deadline: December 7, 2007. Grants of up to $25,000 to non-profits
dedicated to providing educational opportunities and job skills for all
people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Info and app at
http://www.staplesfoundation.org/foundhome2.html
William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program, Deadline January 10, 2008.
Awards of up to $175K for mid-career influential researchers, policymakers,
and practitioners to help strengthen the ways in which their work reflects
an understanding of policy and practice. Info and app at
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/usr_doc/2007_Distinguished_Fellows_RFP.pdf
UPCOMING A TO Z GRANTWRITING SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
The Conference for Community Arts Education, A to Z Grantwriting Workshop,
November 8, Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles
(http://www.communityartsed.org/)
California Lawyers for the Arts, A to Z Grant Writing Seminar, November 29,
7-8:30 pm, Ken Edwards Center, 1527 Fourth Street, Santa Monica. For
information and registration call (310) 998-5590.
A to Z Grantwriting 3-Day Full Immersion Seminar, Holiday Inn Woodland
Hills, February 11, 12, and 13, 2008. Details and registration
(www.atozgrantwriting.com)
MONTHLY ARTS AND EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2007
presented by Southern California artist
LINDA VALLEJO
www.lindavallejo.com
CALIFORNIA FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NATIONAL ARTS RESOURCES AND FUNDERS
National Endowment for the Arts
Agency List
http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/aoa/aoa_contents.shtml
A listing of all State Arts Agencies published by the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies (NASAA), the membership organization of the nation's
state and jurisdictional arts agencies.
Artdeadline.com
Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
Target Arts in Education Program
FundsNets - Arts and Humanities
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/arts2.htm
ARTS
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's National Projects Fund, Deadline: Open.
Grants will range from $60,000 to $200,000 each, to support key national
projects in the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. Info and
app at
http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=10
Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Program, Deadline, Various.
Funds for performance-oriented requests that represent contemporary,
cutting-edge new work. Info and app at Linda B. Howe, Program Executive,
Zellerbach Family Fnd, 120 Montgomery St., Ste 1550 , San Francisco , CA
94104 or (415)421-2629 ext. 11.
Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants Program, Deadline: November 15,
2007. Five photojournalists will receive grants of $20K to enable them to
pursue their photojournalism projects. Info and app
http://corporate.gettyimages.com/marketing/grants_editorial/index.asp.
The Fund For Artists Arts Teacher Fellowship, Deadline: January 10, 2008.
Awards of up to $5,000 to teachers in the Bay Area, Northern California
middle and high schools. Funds should be used to defray the costs
associated with a self-designed course of study enabling arts teachers to
expand artistic range and abilities in the making of art. For applications
and more information contact Melody Ferris at
American Composers Forum First Nations Composer Initiative Funding Program,
Deadline: January 31, 2008. Individual awards of $500 to $7,500 designed to
give an immediate financial boost to composers, performers, and other makers
of new music at a time when this help would have a significant
career-enhancing effect. Info and app at
http://www.composersforum.org/opportunities_detail.cfm?oid=7921&referrer=opp
ortunities%2Ecfm%3F
EDUCATION
US Department of Education Forecast of Funding Opportunities
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
California Department of Education UPCOMING DEADLINES
http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/af/
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/texis/events/searchdeadlines?q=fellow*,grant*'
&s=type&d=1&pg=gf
GrantsAlert UPCOMING DEADLINES
http://www.grantsalert.com/grant_writers_directory.cfm?pg=3
The American Express Philanthropic Program: Deadline, Open. Grants in
three major program areas: Cultural Heritage, Leaders for Tomorrow, and
Community Service. Info and app
http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/gb/submit.asp
The Bayer Foundation Program, Deadline: Applications accepted and reviewed
throughout the year. Support for programs designed to integrate science
and the arts. Information on how and when to apply at
http://www.bayerus.com/foundation/how.html
3M's Community Giving, Open. Gifts by the 3M Foundation, 3M, product
donations and employee volunteerism to the following California communities
where their facilities are located: Corona , Irvine, Monrovia , Northridge ,
Ontario , and Petaluma , CA. Program goals include Arts & Culture and
enhancing the quality of cultural life in 3M communities through
organizations with strong education and community outreach programs. Info
and app
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/CommunityAffairs/CommunityGiving
/US/Apply/
Folger Shakespeare Library Offers, Deadline: various. Two Mellon Research
Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000 and $40,000.
Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and
carry maximum stipends of $40,000. Info and app at
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=298.
Lexus and Scholastic Environmental Challenge Education Program, Deadline:
Various. More than $1 million in total scholarships and grants will be
awarded to middle and high school students, teachers, and schools to
develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their
communities. Info and app at
http://www.scholastic.com/lexus/
NEA Library Books Awards Program, Deadline: November 12, 2007.
Approximately fifty awards of $1,000 each to purchase books and other
reading materials for public school libraries. Info and app at
http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/BAA_2007.htm
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, Deadline: November 15, 29, 2007.
Fellowship awards of up to 40K aimed to increase the number of professors
who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of
all students. Info and app at
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html
National Schools of Character Awards, Deadline: December 3, 2007. $20,000
grant to enhance program and provide outreach to other educators. Info and
app at
http://www.character.org/site/c.gwKUJhNYJrF/b.993295/k.180D/National_Schools
_of_Character_Awards_Program.htm
Staples Foundation for Learning Education and Job Skills Programs,
Deadline: December 7, 2007. Grants of up to $25,000 to non-profits
dedicated to providing educational opportunities and job skills for all
people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Info and app at
http://www.staplesfoundation.org/foundhome2.html
William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program, Deadline January 10, 2008.
Awards of up to $175K for mid-career influential researchers, policymakers,
and practitioners to help strengthen the ways in which their work reflects
an understanding of policy and practice. Info and app at
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/usr_doc/2007_Distinguished_Fellows_RFP.pdf
UPCOMING A TO Z GRANTWRITING SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
The Conference for Community Arts Education, A to Z Grantwriting Workshop,
November 8, Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles
(http://www.communityartsed.org/)
California Lawyers for the Arts, A to Z Grant Writing Seminar, November 29,
7-8:30 pm, Ken Edwards Center, 1527 Fourth Street, Santa Monica. For
information and registration call (310) 998-5590.
A to Z Grantwriting 3-Day Full Immersion Seminar, Holiday Inn Woodland
Hills, February 11, 12, and 13, 2008. Details and registration
(www.atozgrantwriting.com)
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Event: Political Equator
Political Equator II: Collective Territory / Territory of Collaboration will be presented by the Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in collaboration with the haudenschildGarage, Casa Familiar, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), and inSite, and co-sponsors including the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the Division of Arts and Humanities at UCSD, Woodbury University, The New School of Architecture in San Diego, Lui Velazquez in Tijuana, in conjunction with Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo (PAC) and Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA), and the PARC Foundation in New York. This 2-day trans-border event takes place on November 16 and 17, 2007, in San Diego and Tijuana. The event is free and open to the public.
The Political Equator Conferences were founded on the premise that if one traces an imaginary line along the US / México border and extends it across a map of the world, what emerges is a political equator roughly corresponding with the revised geography of the post-9/11 world according to Thomas P. M. Barnett's scheme for The Pentagon's New Map. Barnett effectively divided the globe into "functioning core," or parts of the world where "globalization is thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security," and non-integrating gap," "regions plagued by politically repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder, and ... chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation of global terrorists." This concept set the stage last year for an exploration of Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance. Political Equator II tackles questions surrounding the intersection between sociopolitical and natural domains, foregrounding the notion of a collective territory and the territory of collaboration that transgresses hemispheric boundaries. At the core of such trans-hemispheric sociopolitical and economic dynamics is the conflict between transcontinental borders and the natural and social ecologies they interrupt and seek to erase.
Re-emerging in 2007 in conjunction with Transito(ry) Público / Public(o) Transit(orio), Political Equator II follows an event-based itinerary traveling from LA to San Diego to Tijuana, and back again. Focusing on artistic, urban, and environmental collaboratives from Latin America and Europe, the events and interventions hosted by educational and cultural institutions as well as community-based NGOs cross over into the no man's land of the border zone itself, where the Tijuana River symbolizes the conflicts these collaborative practices seek to expose and engage.
Described as a "carnival of conversations on the move" by architect Teddy Cruz and art historian and critic Grant Kester, co-conveners of the event and members of the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, Political Equator II begins at 12:30 PM Friday, November 16, 2007, with a "Conversation on the Move" led by Teddy Cruz. This conversation aboard the AMTRAK Pacific Surfliner at Union Station in Los Angeles concludes when the train reaches San Diego; participants move to the haudenschildGarage at 7 PM for a "Table of Collaboration," a conversation involving members of the Argentinian art collaborative Ala Plástica, and the Caracas Think Tank from Venezuela.
At 10 AM Saturday, November 17, participants will reconvene in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro, at The Front at Casa Familiar, a cultural center recently inaugurated by the community-based NGO, for interventions by Mexican art collaboratives Tercerunquinto and Torolab. Following "Food for Thought," a lunch and performance piece, participants will begin a pedestrian border crossing at the Tijuana checkpoint. With the intent of closely observing the collision of the Tijuana River and the busiest checkpoint in the world, a bus tour traces the river deep into this city's sprawling mix of American-style subdivisions, informal settlements, and maquiladora factories. The conference concludes at Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT, where at 5 PM provocative French Landscape Architect Gilles Clement will present a public lecture on "The Share of Third Landscape in the Planetary Garden”; at 8 PM, the final event, "Conversation: From Tijuana to the World," engages invited artist s, architects, and critics in a debate projecting the case of Tijuana through the lens of territorial phenomena characterizing border zones worldwide.
For further information:
http://www.politicalequator.org / Yolie Torres (858) 822-3887
http://www.publicotransitorio.com
The Political Equator Conferences were founded on the premise that if one traces an imaginary line along the US / México border and extends it across a map of the world, what emerges is a political equator roughly corresponding with the revised geography of the post-9/11 world according to Thomas P. M. Barnett's scheme for The Pentagon's New Map. Barnett effectively divided the globe into "functioning core," or parts of the world where "globalization is thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security," and non-integrating gap," "regions plagued by politically repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder, and ... chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation of global terrorists." This concept set the stage last year for an exploration of Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance. Political Equator II tackles questions surrounding the intersection between sociopolitical and natural domains, foregrounding the notion of a collective territory and the territory of collaboration that transgresses hemispheric boundaries. At the core of such trans-hemispheric sociopolitical and economic dynamics is the conflict between transcontinental borders and the natural and social ecologies they interrupt and seek to erase.
Re-emerging in 2007 in conjunction with Transito(ry) Público / Public(o) Transit(orio), Political Equator II follows an event-based itinerary traveling from LA to San Diego to Tijuana, and back again. Focusing on artistic, urban, and environmental collaboratives from Latin America and Europe, the events and interventions hosted by educational and cultural institutions as well as community-based NGOs cross over into the no man's land of the border zone itself, where the Tijuana River symbolizes the conflicts these collaborative practices seek to expose and engage.
Described as a "carnival of conversations on the move" by architect Teddy Cruz and art historian and critic Grant Kester, co-conveners of the event and members of the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, Political Equator II begins at 12:30 PM Friday, November 16, 2007, with a "Conversation on the Move" led by Teddy Cruz. This conversation aboard the AMTRAK Pacific Surfliner at Union Station in Los Angeles concludes when the train reaches San Diego; participants move to the haudenschildGarage at 7 PM for a "Table of Collaboration," a conversation involving members of the Argentinian art collaborative Ala Plástica, and the Caracas Think Tank from Venezuela.
At 10 AM Saturday, November 17, participants will reconvene in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro, at The Front at Casa Familiar, a cultural center recently inaugurated by the community-based NGO, for interventions by Mexican art collaboratives Tercerunquinto and Torolab. Following "Food for Thought," a lunch and performance piece, participants will begin a pedestrian border crossing at the Tijuana checkpoint. With the intent of closely observing the collision of the Tijuana River and the busiest checkpoint in the world, a bus tour traces the river deep into this city's sprawling mix of American-style subdivisions, informal settlements, and maquiladora factories. The conference concludes at Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT, where at 5 PM provocative French Landscape Architect Gilles Clement will present a public lecture on "The Share of Third Landscape in the Planetary Garden”; at 8 PM, the final event, "Conversation: From Tijuana to the World," engages invited artist s, architects, and critics in a debate projecting the case of Tijuana through the lens of territorial phenomena characterizing border zones worldwide.
For further information:
http://www.politicalequator.org / Yolie Torres (858) 822-3887
http://www.publicotransitorio.com
Friday, November 2, 2007
Nov.10-Creating a Marketing Plan that Works for You
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
Creating a Marketing Plan that Works for You
CCI's Marketing Plan Seminar Designed Specifically for Artists
Marketing is key to the development of any business. You know you need
to do it but where do you start? Understanding basic fundamentals and
creating a marketing plan is the first step. In this workshop, you will
begin to explore strategies that will help you identify your audience,
develop a media mix and communicate what your work is about. We will
cover the planning process and provide you with definitions, concepts,
tools and resources that you need to create a marketing pan that meets
your needs as an artist.
Nancy Hytone Leb, is an arts marketing consultant and is CCI's Director
of Training. Nancy develops and presents workshops on marketing
concerns for artists and arts organizations. From 2000-2004 she was the
Director of Marketing and Development for Playhouse West in Walnut
Creek, CA. Her for-profit years were spent in senior account management
positions in three of California's largest advertising agencies.
D. Jean Hester is the owner of Dive Studios, a recent graduate of
California Institute of the Arts, and a multi-media installation artist
who has shown her work throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Formerly employed as a programmer for Jet Propulsion Lab, Toyota, and
other large corporations located in California, Jean has acquired an
extensive body of knowledge about marketing on the web. She is an early
graduate of "Business of Art" and has been teaching "Marketing on the
Web for Artists and Arts Organizations" for over three years. recent
exhibitions and installations have been included in the inaugural show
at LAAA's satellite gallery in Hermosa Beach (juried by Jeremy
Strickland); the Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery; the Armory; an the 13th
Annual International Symposium of Electronic Art, in San Jose.
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San
Pedro
Street, in Little Tokyo near Downtown Los Angeles map & directions
Cost: $75 (Non Member) / $60 (BOA/CCI Members) The fee includes a brown
bag lunch.
There are a limited amount of scholarships for Los Angeles County Arts
Commission (LACAC) grantees. To see if you qualify, please contact
Lauren Bailey at (213) 687-8577.
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
Creating a Marketing Plan that Works for You
CCI's Marketing Plan Seminar Designed Specifically for Artists
Marketing is key to the development of any business. You know you need
to do it but where do you start? Understanding basic fundamentals and
creating a marketing plan is the first step. In this workshop, you will
begin to explore strategies that will help you identify your audience,
develop a media mix and communicate what your work is about. We will
cover the planning process and provide you with definitions, concepts,
tools and resources that you need to create a marketing pan that meets
your needs as an artist.
Nancy Hytone Leb, is an arts marketing consultant and is CCI's Director
of Training. Nancy develops and presents workshops on marketing
concerns for artists and arts organizations. From 2000-2004 she was the
Director of Marketing and Development for Playhouse West in Walnut
Creek, CA. Her for-profit years were spent in senior account management
positions in three of California's largest advertising agencies.
D. Jean Hester is the owner of Dive Studios, a recent graduate of
California Institute of the Arts, and a multi-media installation artist
who has shown her work throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Formerly employed as a programmer for Jet Propulsion Lab, Toyota, and
other large corporations located in California, Jean has acquired an
extensive body of knowledge about marketing on the web. She is an early
graduate of "Business of Art" and has been teaching "Marketing on the
Web for Artists and Arts Organizations" for over three years. recent
exhibitions and installations have been included in the inaugural show
at LAAA's satellite gallery in Hermosa Beach (juried by Jeremy
Strickland); the Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery; the Armory; an the 13th
Annual International Symposium of Electronic Art, in San Jose.
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San
Pedro
Street, in Little Tokyo near Downtown Los Angeles map & directions
Cost: $75 (Non Member) / $60 (BOA/CCI Members) The fee includes a brown
bag lunch.
There are a limited amount of scholarships for Los Angeles County Arts
Commission (LACAC) grantees. To see if you qualify, please contact
Lauren Bailey at (213) 687-8577.
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
Workshop: Sustaining Yourself as a Working Artist
This just in from the Center for Cultural Innovation:
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
NEW! Sustaining Yourself as a Working Artist: A Discussion at the Center
for Cultural Innovation
Recent research indicates that contemporary artists, who envision and
build their practice(s) as individual or small business persons, achieve
success differently than in the past and differently than most other
entrepreneurs. Generally speaking, artists balance greater crossover
investments from multiple jobs, requiring more time management, with
updated outlooks about available resources and limited access to new
technologies.
In the new marketplace, artists are increasingly finding newer ways to
sustain themselves. Join us for an insightful evening with three Los
Angeles based artist-entrepreneurs who use their skills and creativity
to generate multiple income streams in order to achieve healthy
productivity.
Joe Smoke from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
will moderate a discussion with Cindy Bennett (visual artist), Lisa
Lynne (music), and Jodi Nelson (film and theater).
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San
Pedro
Street, in Little Tokyo near Downtown Los Angeles map & directions
Cost: $10
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
NEW! Sustaining Yourself as a Working Artist: A Discussion at the Center
for Cultural Innovation
Recent research indicates that contemporary artists, who envision and
build their practice(s) as individual or small business persons, achieve
success differently than in the past and differently than most other
entrepreneurs. Generally speaking, artists balance greater crossover
investments from multiple jobs, requiring more time management, with
updated outlooks about available resources and limited access to new
technologies.
In the new marketplace, artists are increasingly finding newer ways to
sustain themselves. Join us for an insightful evening with three Los
Angeles based artist-entrepreneurs who use their skills and creativity
to generate multiple income streams in order to achieve healthy
productivity.
Joe Smoke from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
will moderate a discussion with Cindy Bennett (visual artist), Lisa
Lynne (music), and Jodi Nelson (film and theater).
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San
Pedro
Street, in Little Tokyo near Downtown Los Angeles map & directions
Cost: $10
If you would like to register, please visit
http://www.cciarts.org/register.htm.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Workshop: Creating websites for artists
Interactive Workshop ‹ CREATING COMPELLING WEBSITES FOR ARTISTS
Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 1:30 to 3:30 PM (Please arrive for
check-in by 1:15 PM.)
Featuring RUTH ANN ANDERSON
Artist, Educator and Author of ³The Art and Technology of Web Design²
Presented by the Southern California Women¹s Caucus for Art (SCWCA)
Santa Monica Public Library
Community Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Email: annisolde@scwca.org
More details available at www.scwca.org
Fee: $35 regular ($20 for SCWCA members). Advance registration by November
14, 2007 is required. No late registration at the door.
More and more galleries now expect artists to have a website portfolio. In
this competitive art world arena, how can you make yours stand out from the
rest? This workshop will offer tips to help you enhance your images,
evaluate the success of your existing website portfolio and/or learn what to
ask from a designer you hire to create one.
Presenter RUTH ANN ANDERSON will start by projecting selected websites on a
screen to evaluate their content and technical sophistication. Then she will
deconstruct the components into tangible steps that can be implemented to
create unique digital portfolios with stunning images, engaging color
schemes, compelling content and clear navigation. There will be plenty of
time for questions and answers.
RUTH ANN ANDERSON teaches at California State University Northridge. As a
public artist, she understands the need for an easily accessible and
compelling website portfolio. As a designer and educator, she understands
the technology and aesthetic values behind such a website.
www.ruthannanderson.com
TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it to Ann Isolde,
1127 16th Street, Unit F, Santa Monica, CA 90403 with your email address,
telephone number and website url (if you have one).
This pubic program is presented by the Southern California Women¹s Caucus
for Art, one of 30 chapters of the Women¹s Caucus for Art, the leading
national organization for women actively engaged in the visual arts
professions and an affiliated society of the College Art Association. SCWCA
offers workshops, lectures, studio/gallery tours, exhibitions and
recognition opportunities. Membership information for 2008 is available
online at www.scwca.org.
Directions to the Santa Monica Public Library: Take the Santa Monica (10)
Freeway west. Exit at Lincoln Blvd. and turn right. Continue to Santa Monica
Boulevard and turn left to 7th St. Park on the street or turn right at 7th
St. to access the parking structure under the library. The parking structure
rate is 50 cents for every 30 minutes. Once inside the library, ask the
attendant at the Information Desk how to get to the Community Meeting Room
on the 2nd floor.
Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 1:30 to 3:30 PM (Please arrive for
check-in by 1:15 PM.)
Featuring RUTH ANN ANDERSON
Artist, Educator and Author of ³The Art and Technology of Web Design²
Presented by the Southern California Women¹s Caucus for Art (SCWCA)
Santa Monica Public Library
Community Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Email: annisolde@scwca.org
More details available at www.scwca.org
Fee: $35 regular ($20 for SCWCA members). Advance registration by November
14, 2007 is required. No late registration at the door.
More and more galleries now expect artists to have a website portfolio. In
this competitive art world arena, how can you make yours stand out from the
rest? This workshop will offer tips to help you enhance your images,
evaluate the success of your existing website portfolio and/or learn what to
ask from a designer you hire to create one.
Presenter RUTH ANN ANDERSON will start by projecting selected websites on a
screen to evaluate their content and technical sophistication. Then she will
deconstruct the components into tangible steps that can be implemented to
create unique digital portfolios with stunning images, engaging color
schemes, compelling content and clear navigation. There will be plenty of
time for questions and answers.
RUTH ANN ANDERSON teaches at California State University Northridge. As a
public artist, she understands the need for an easily accessible and
compelling website portfolio. As a designer and educator, she understands
the technology and aesthetic values behind such a website.
www.ruthannanderson.com
TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it to Ann Isolde,
1127 16th Street, Unit F, Santa Monica, CA 90403 with your email address,
telephone number and website url (if you have one).
This pubic program is presented by the Southern California Women¹s Caucus
for Art, one of 30 chapters of the Women¹s Caucus for Art, the leading
national organization for women actively engaged in the visual arts
professions and an affiliated society of the College Art Association. SCWCA
offers workshops, lectures, studio/gallery tours, exhibitions and
recognition opportunities. Membership information for 2008 is available
online at www.scwca.org.
Directions to the Santa Monica Public Library: Take the Santa Monica (10)
Freeway west. Exit at Lincoln Blvd. and turn right. Continue to Santa Monica
Boulevard and turn left to 7th St. Park on the street or turn right at 7th
St. to access the parking structure under the library. The parking structure
rate is 50 cents for every 30 minutes. Once inside the library, ask the
attendant at the Information Desk how to get to the Community Meeting Room
on the 2nd floor.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Resources
Center for Non Profit Management: a non profit that helps non profits start up and run smoothly. They also have seminars and workshops, but most importantly a library located on the first floor the California Endowment Center at 1000 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles. http://www.cnmsocal.org/
Interested in an Arts Loan??? check out http://www.cnmsocal.org/ForNonprofits/ArtsLoanFund.html
Los Angeles Public Counsel is the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world. They also have seminars and services for those who fit the criteria. http://www.publiccounsel.org/
Also, check out Giant Elephants Roam at www.giantelephants.com and tell your friends!!!
-please let me know if there is an interest in non profit specific information, or you contact me directly with any questions.
Thanks
Interested in an Arts Loan??? check out http://www.cnmsocal.org/ForNonprofits/ArtsLoanFund.html
Los Angeles Public Counsel is the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world. They also have seminars and services for those who fit the criteria. http://www.publiccounsel.org/
Also, check out Giant Elephants Roam at www.giantelephants.com and tell your friends!!!
-please let me know if there is an interest in non profit specific information, or you contact me directly with any questions.
Thanks
Workshop: Marketing Materials for Artists
Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825's ArtSpeak series presents:
Marketing Materials for Artists
"Marketing Materials for Artists" will be an informative talk by
working artist/photographer Larry Lytle (LAAA member) and graphic
designer Jeanie Lytle. They will share effective tips as well as
creative ideas on how to market yourself as an artist using printed
materials. Larry and Jeanie will show examples of various marketing
material formats including artist books, catalogues, postcards, and
business cards, as well as discuss "do it yourself" techniques.
When: Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 @ 10:30a-12:30pm
Where: Gallery 825
825 North La Cienega Blvd.
between Melrose and Santa Monica (street parking)
Cost: $15 for LAAA/Gallery 825 members
$20 for non-members
Spaces are limited & advance payment is required.
Please RSVP to Gallery 825 @ (310) 652-8272.
Contact: Sinead Finnerty-Pyne or Jessica Devereaux,
LAAA/Gallery 825
310.652.8272/ gallery825@laaa.org
About the Speakers
Larry Lytle is a member of LAAA. He teaches photography at
California State University Channel Islands and is a commercial
photographer specializing in product and fine art photography.
Jeanie Lytle is a freelance graphic designer with over 20 years
experience working in the entertainment field.
Marketing Materials for Artists
"Marketing Materials for Artists" will be an informative talk by
working artist/photographer Larry Lytle (LAAA member) and graphic
designer Jeanie Lytle. They will share effective tips as well as
creative ideas on how to market yourself as an artist using printed
materials. Larry and Jeanie will show examples of various marketing
material formats including artist books, catalogues, postcards, and
business cards, as well as discuss "do it yourself" techniques.
When: Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 @ 10:30a-12:30pm
Where: Gallery 825
825 North La Cienega Blvd.
between Melrose and Santa Monica (street parking)
Cost: $15 for LAAA/Gallery 825 members
$20 for non-members
Spaces are limited & advance payment is required.
Please RSVP to Gallery 825 @ (310) 652-8272.
Contact: Sinead Finnerty-Pyne or Jessica Devereaux,
LAAA/Gallery 825
310.652.8272/ gallery825@laaa.org
About the Speakers
Larry Lytle is a member of LAAA. He teaches photography at
California State University Channel Islands and is a commercial
photographer specializing in product and fine art photography.
Jeanie Lytle is a freelance graphic designer with over 20 years
experience working in the entertainment field.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Nov. 28: John Malpede at CalArts
CalArts Community Arts Partnership
(CAP) FORUM SERIES: JOHN MALPEDE AND THE LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT (LAPD)
Bijou Theater, CalArts
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
12:15-2:00pm
John Malpede, is a director, actor, activist, and writer. In 1985, Malpede founded and continues to direct the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), the first performance group in the nation comprised primarily of homeless and formerly homeless people. LAPD 's mission is to create performances that connect lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty.
The CAP Forum Series brings leading artists, intellectuals, civic leaders, community activists and policy makers in conversation with the CalArts community. The series promotes learning and critical dialogue about artistic practices and strategies committed to community engagement, collaborative approaches and the arts as a catalyst for social change.
CalArts is located at 24700 McBean Parway, Valencia, CA 91355
Contact Info
Evelyn Serrano
eserrano@calarts.edu
We meet once a month at CalArts.
Dates for upcoming gatherings will be posted on this blog.
CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
eserrano@calarts.edu
We meet once a month at CalArts.
Dates for upcoming gatherings will be posted on this blog.
CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
Great event on Art + Activism + Performance Art
www.publicotransitorio.com
This looks like a great event with a fantastic lineup. There are many latinamerican artists included in the schedule!
Highly recommeded
This looks like a great event with a fantastic lineup. There are many latinamerican artists included in the schedule!
Highly recommeded
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