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MCAF grantee Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Inc. Receives Rave Review from NY Times
"Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!" presented by 2013 MCAF grantee Crossing Jamaica Avenue has received excellent reviews from the New York Times. This 3-week theatrical run of a manga/ music-theater opera features music by Fred Ho, book by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff, martial arts and sword-fighting choreography by visiting artist from Japan Tsuyoshi Kaseda, and is directed by Sonoko Kawahara.
Visit the NY Times for the review.
MAY16 -JUNE2, 2013 Thursday-Friday 7:30 PM / Saturday 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM / Sunday 2:30PM
Ticket $30 /25 (Senior/Student) Box Office 212.475.7710 / Online Ticketing www.lamama.org
May 24, 2013permalink
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2012 MCAF grantee Dustin Grella Featured on the New York Times
The New York Times is featuring former MCAF grantee Dustin Grella's short film, "Ode to Bike Sharing". This short film is a part of Grella's "Animation Hotline" project: short animations created from the messages left on the artist's answering machine. In "Ode to Bike Sharing", a New Yorker discusses the city's new bike-share program.
Visit the New York Times to view the video.
For more recent animations:
www.animationhotline.com
May 24, 2013permalink
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Former MCAF Grantee Gesche Würfel Interviewed by WNYC-NPR about “Basement Sanctuaries”
Former Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee Gesche Würfel was interviewed by WNYC-NPR. Tune in on Saturday morning to hear her speak about "Basement Sanctuaries".
Missed it? The interview will also be available online as a part of the "One NY Artist" series.
More about Community Showcase "Basement Sanctuaries" by Gesche Würfel
at Inwood Library, New York Public Library:
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 2:00-4:00pm, Story Hour Room, 2nd Floor Exhibition Dates: May 31 - June 27, 2013 as part of the Uptown Arts Stroll Bilingual (Eng/Sp) Artist Talk: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 2:30-4:00pm, Story Hour Room, 2nd Floor (Moderator: Jaime Permuth, photographer and educator at the School of Visual Arts (SVA))
Inwood Library, New York Public Library, 4790 Broadway (near Dyckman Street) New York, NY 10034 (212) 942-2445
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/basement-sanctuaries-gesche-w%C3%BCrfel
May 24, 2013permalink
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Former Swing Space Artist Jillian Sweeney Exhibits Vulture-Wally
Jillian Sweeney’s
VULTURE-WALLY
Choreography & Concept: Jillian Sweeney
Direction: Jeffrey Cranor
Performance: Siobhan Burke, Lydia Chrisman, Tara Willis & Jillian Sweeney
May 31 – June 9// $18 general // $14 student
Tickets can be purchased in advance at incubatorarts.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212- 352-3101. Incubator Arts Project (located inside St. Mark’s Church) • 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.) • L to First or Third Ave; R, W to Broadway/8th St.; 6 to Astor Place; N,Q, 4, 5 to Union Sq.
May 23, 2013permalink
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Past FUND Grantee Fulcrum Wins an Obie!
Past FUND grantee Fulcrum wins an Obie! A sincere congratulations! Read more here.
May 21, 2013permalink
Arts ServicesWorkshop Series
LMCC’s Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshops Series is Open for Registration!
Professional Development Workshops 2013 Fundraising Fundamentals: Uptown Edition
LMCC’s core fundraising series moves to Harlem this summer! Designed to help artists develop knowledge and skills in raising the resources to support their practice, the series features five free workshops on Wednesday evenings from June 5 through July 3, and a follow-up session of one-on-one grantwriting consultations on July 31 for participants who attend three or more workshops. Covered topics include: the funding ecosystem, grantwriting, budgeting, work sample dos and don'ts, and cultivating individual donors.
The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open. Register here.
Participants who attend three or more workshops in the series will be invited to register for a follow-up consultation session on July 31 to receive direct feedback on a proposal in process. See “About the Grantwriting Consultations” for details.
May 21, 2013permalink
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Open application for the Wooster Group Fellowship
Wooster Group Fellowship
The Wooster Group offers a one-year, paid, full-time Fellowship to a talented individual who will work with the company in one or more of the following areas: production management, technical direction, stage management, costume maintenance and construction, lighting/electrics, sound, video, and administration.
The individual who receives a Wooster Group Fellowship will work alongside company members in a collaborative environment during development, rehearsals, and performances of new and repertory productions. Technical and production Fellows may have opportunities to work with The Wooster Group on tour or work with visiting artists at The Performing Garage.
The Fellowship recipient will receive a $24,000 grant award. At the end of the one-year period, the recipient will have gained practical understanding in the areas of the Fellowship’s focus and will be well positioned for opportunities in his or her chosen field.
How To Apply
There are two ways to receive a Wooster Group Fellowship. First, the Wooster Group internship program can act as a stepping-stone to the Fellowship program: http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?internships
Or, individuals can apply on a rolling basis directly to the Fellowship program by sending a letter of interest and resume to:
THE WOOSTER GROUP
Cynthia Hedstrom, Producer
PO Box 654, Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
fellowship@thewoostergroup.org
http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/
May 17, 2013permalink
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Open Call for the International Creator Residency Program 2013
Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence
Open Call for the International Creator Residency Program 2013!
Tokyo Wonder Site is now calling for international creators who could perform new creative activities based on the subjects which are core of our projects such as "Art and Environment", "Cultural diversity and the activities of New Art Centres", or "Possibilities of collaboration" during their residency at TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence for three months.
Residency Period: From 7 January 2014 to 29 March, 2014 (Tentative)
Details: Creators who are planning to undergo cultural study or research based at TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence during the above period.
Number of participating artists: 2
Application period: From May 2, 2013 to August 2, 2013
Application Form must arrive at TWS Aoyama by post no later than August, 2 2013. The application must be sent by traceable delivery service.
Application Outline and Form: Please download the Application Package from following URL:
Inquiries: Email research2013@tokyo-ws.org
May 17, 2013permalink
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14th Street Y announces annual LABA Arts Festival June 1-2
LABA: A laboratory for Jewish culture at the 14th Street Y presents “EAT,” a festival of new work inspired by the power of food in ancient Jewish texts.
Art, music, performances, teachings and tastings June 1st and 2nd at the14th Street Y.
The Theater at the 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street (Between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
New York, NY 10003
Saturday, June 1, at 8:30pm
Sunday, June 2, at 3:00pm
The festival will be structured as a four course “meal” of teachings from the Torah and Talmud and the new performances and art they inspired. The courses will be food and power, food and ritual, food and ethics and food and desire.
The LABA Festival is a multidisciplinary event featuring new art, music and performances by LABA artist fellows, inspired by their study of classic Jewish texts. The work they create aims to push the boundaries of what Jewish art can be and what Jewish texts can teach.
EAT will take place on 8:30pm on Saturday June 1 and 3pm on Sunday, June 2 in the Theater at the 14th Street Y.
On Sunday LABA kids will present a separate activity for kids ages 4-12, free of charge.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 the day of the event.
For tickets, purchase at http://www.labajournal.com/labalive or http://labafest.brownpapertickets.com/ or call 1-800-838-3006.
Tickets are limited and advance reservations are recommended.
Saturday night is intended for an adult audience. Sunday there will be an adult program and a separate children’s program for children age 4-12. Children are free with paying adult.
May 17, 2013permalink
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Tamar Latzman, former Swing Space artist-in-residence at GI, premieres work at Video_Dumbo Fest
You're invited to the New York premiere of Tamar Latzman's latest work Mrs. Tadd's Visit at this year's Video_dumbo festival. Latzman made this work during her Swing Space residency last spring,
Video_dumbo will take place this year on May 16th - 25th at Eyebeam, Art + Technology Center in Chelsea, NYC.
Mrs. Tadd's Visit will be at a program called RISK on Friday, May 17 at 9 pm.
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/videodumbo
May 17, 2013permalink
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LMCC Grantee Amore Opera Presents Faust
From May 10, 2013 through May 26, 2013, Amore Opera presents Gounod’s five-act grand opera, Faust: The Eternal Struggle for Man's Soul. In the second half of the 19th Century, Faust, which debuted in Paris in 1859, was among the most popular operas in the world. With 12 performances in French with English subtitles with four rotating casts, Faust will be conducted by Douglas Martin and staged by Nathan Hull. The opera will be performed complete and fully staged performed in its entirety, with a full cast, chorus and orchestra. For more information, visit: Amore Opera.
May 14, 2013permalink
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LMCC Grantee Underworld Productions Opera Presents Il Trionfo dell’Onore (Honor Wins Out)
Underworld Productions Opera Il Trionfo dell'Onore (Honor Wins Out) Friday, May 17, 7PM Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marima, 24 West 12th Street Underworld Productions Opera presents the New York premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti's full-length comic opera filled with memorable characters and interlaced with gorgeous melodies. Originally premiering in 1718 at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples, this seminal opera is not to be missed.
For more information, please visit Underworld Productions Opera.
May 14, 2013permalink
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LMCC Grantee Rebeca Tomas Presents A Palo Seco: Cinco por Cinco
Rebeca Tomas A Palo Seco: Cinco por Cinco Friday, May 17, 8PM Saturday, May 18, 8PM Sunday, May 19, 3PM Theatre 80, 80 St. Marks Place A Palo Seco Flamenco Company returns to Theatre 80 for a third season, presenting a new production Cinco Por Cinco, a show that encompasses a unique blend of traditional and contemporary Flamenco dance. Don’t miss out on what has been described as "awesomely fiery" (The New York Times) and "a feast for the eyes and the ears" (Theater Online). A post-show discussion will follow.
For more information, please visit A Palo Seco Flamenco Company.
May 14, 2013permalink
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Grant Deadline: 2013 French-American Jazz Exchange due May 31
French-American Jazz Exchange Application Deadline Approaching!
The application for the 2013 French-American Jazz Exchange ("FAJE") program is due May 31, 2013. The application and program guidelines are available here
About the Program:
A program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation ("MAAF") and FACE ("French-American Cutlural Exchange"), FAJE supports projects designed collaboratively by French and American professional musicians that encourage artistic exploration, foster intercultural dialogue, and contribute to the dynamism of jazz. Projects eligible for support can include creative residencies, composition, recording, performances, and other activities that develop new professional relationships and audiences. Projects may include jazz artists in France and the United States investigating forms other than jazz with artists who work in different music genres.
Webinars:
MAAF Staff conducted three webinars reviewing program guidelines and online application. An archived video of the final webinar can be found here.
Questions? American applicants should direct their questions to Josh Kohn, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Program Officer, Jazz & Traditional Arts josh@midatlanticarts.org
French applicants should contact jazz@facecouncil.org
May 10, 2013permalink
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Call for applications: NYC DOT Summer Streets 2013
Application deadline has been extended to Friday, May 24th.
This year as part of Summer Streets 2013, DOT is interested in presenting dance, music and theatrical performances along the route. Two stages are available for programming: Uptown Rest Stop at 51st Street and Park Avenue and Foley Square Rest Stop at Duane Street and Centre Street. Each presenter is allotted a half hour time slot at a given stage. Visit http://www.nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information on the program, download the application (PDF) and email it to summerstreets@dot.nyc.gov if you’d like to propose a performance for this year’s event!
BECOME A PROGRAMMING PARTNER: Summer Streets 2013
Summer Streets partners with local nonprofit organizations to host activities, workshops and demonstrations along the route. Tents (10” x 10”) are setup at all five rest stops: Uptown, Midtown, Astor Place, SoHo and Foley Square. Download the applications (pdf) to bring your organization to Summer Streets!
Email bsummerstreets@dot.nyc.gov if you’d like to participate in this year’s event.
May 10, 2013permalink
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State of the Arts Ecosystem: Arts & Cultural Policy Panel, May 16
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts and World Policy Institute present:
STATE OF THE ARTS ECOSYSTEM
Thursday, May 16 @ 7pm
Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn)
A Panel Discussion with:
Caron Atlas, Director, Arts & Democracy Project & Co-Director, NOCD-NY
Jamie Bennett, Chief of Staff & Director of Public Affairs, NEA
Paul Nagle, Executive Director, Cultural Strategies Initiative
Edwin Torres, Associate Director of New York City Opportunities Fund & Innovation, Rockefeller Foundation
Moderated by: Jacqueline Davis, Executive Director, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Join us for conversation and libations with thought leaders from across the cultural spectrum. This panel discussion will explore recent and emerging trends in arts philanthropy and cultural policy in NYC and across the country. We'll unpack the complex questions surrounding these important issues, learn about the approaches of various institutions, and examine the roles they play, individually and collectively, in shaping our cultural landscape. No matter what area of the arts you work in – this conversation affects you! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to engage in a spirited discussion with our panel of experts and your peers.
Suggested Donation $10
For more information and to RSVP: http://www.elnya.org/
May 9, 2013permalink
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Make Wall Street Park Bloom! May 18 Community Day
Saturday May 18, 2013
10AM- 12PM
110 Wall Street
Free event
The Downtown Alliance invites you to join them and your neighbors as we plant new flowers and spruce up Wall Street Park. In addition to gardening for all, there will be kid friendly activities like face painting and balloon making. The Downtown Alliance will provide the plantings, the tools, and the top soil, you bring some elbow grease. Together we'll make Wall Street Park bloom and the kids will have a blast too. Light refreshments available, provided by Whole Foods.
http://www.downtownny.com/node/14929?origin=2013-5-18&mini=calendar%2F2013-5
May 9, 2013permalink
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The River To River Festival 2013 is Live!
The River To River Festival 2013 is live!
To see the full line up and more information, click here.
May 8, 2013permalink
Public Programming
Check Out Photos from Paths to Pier 42 Waterfront Community Day
On May 4, we celebrated Waterfront Community Day at Pier 42. Check out our Facebook album here. For more information on Paths To Pier 42, please click here.
Waterfront Community Day at Pier 42 was hosted by:
Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance:
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Good Old Lower East Side
Hester Street Collaborative
Lower East Side Ecology Center
267/275 Cherry Street Tenants Association
Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
in Partnership with:
State Senator Daniel Squadron
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
with Support from:
Community Board 3
City Lore
Ideas City Festival
May 8, 2013permalink
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Creative Capital Professional Development May Webinars
Creative Capital is offering four great webinars taking place during the month of May, covering a range of topics including budgeting, social media, marketing strategies and curatorial practice:
Real Life Budgeting, with Andrew Simonet
Monday, May 6, 7:00-8:30pm EST
Social Media: How to Be Everywhere All the Time, with Eve Mosher
Monday, May 13, 7:00-8:30pm EST
Creating a Marketing Strategy, with Dread Scott
Monday, May 20, 7:00-8:30pm EST
Visual Arts Round Table: Curators, with Rachel Nackman & Matthew Deleget
Thursday, May 30, 7:00-8:30pm EST
Webinars are $25 each.
All webinars are interactive and allow time for participants to ask questions. To participate, all you need is access to a computer with speakers and an Internet connection (hard-wired preferred). There is no special software needed.
Learn more and register here
May 6, 2013permalink
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Grayson Cox’s newest project at the New Museum’s Ideas City festival this weekend
Saturday May 4, 2013
11am-6pm: On Somethingness/Speechbuster
Street Fest – Sara D. Roosevelt Park
A series of talks and conversations presented by a diverse group of individuals (architects, artists, engineers, environmentalists, urban agriculturalists, researchers, among others) on familiar subjects and ideas, to uncover radical new ways to understand and construct public life. The program will present innovative ideas on “somethingness” about how to render anew the world that surrounds us. Events will take place around the Speechbuster, a performative table the exact size of Storefront , designed in a collaborative project by architect Jimenez Lai and artist Grayson Cox, which will make its world premiere at the Ideas City Festival.
The Speechbuster, an urban mobile table sculpture commissioned by Storefront and designed by Jimenez Lai and Grayson Cox, will provide a platform for discussions throughout the day exploring this year’s theme “Untapped Capital” through a series of presentations, discussions, and performances on “Somethingness.” The Speechbuster, a performative structure, will change its configuration throughout the day, accommodating a diverse set of events by invited artists, architects, engineers, writers, philosophers, developers, politicians, students, and citizens. The Speechbuster is supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program.
http://www.newmuseum.org/ideascity/view/speechbuster-untapped-talks-on-somethingness
May 2, 2013permalink
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MADE HERE: A docu-series and website on artists surviving and thriving in New York City
MADE HERE is a documentary series devoted to the lives of performing artists based in New York City. In Season One, the series explored the issues of Creative Real Estate, Day & Night Jobs, Family Balance, Activism and Technology. In Season Two, MADE HERE explored Identity, Creative Practice, Money, Lifework, and Home.
Don't miss Season 3:
Art & Commerce (uptown vs. downtown, stage vs. screen, and artists & institutions)
Criticism (the review, the critic, and DIY)
Health (healthcare as well as maintaining mind and body)
Special finale July 1 “What Do You Dream of Doing Next?”
May 2, 2013permalink
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Huffington Post features article about grantee Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC has been a recipient of The Fund for Creative Communities and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant.
Read the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/gay-nyc-youth-city-counci_n_3116045.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices
May 2, 2013permalink
Grantee Spotlight, April 2013: In May 2013, LMCC grantee Amore Opera presents: Faust
From May 10, 2013 through May 26, 2013, Amore Opera presents Gounod’s five-act grand opera, Faust: The Eternal Struggle for Man's Soul. In the second half of the 19th Century, Faust, which debuted in Paris in 1859, was among the most popular operas in the world. With 12 performances in French with English subtitles with four rotating casts, Faust will be conducted by Douglas Martin and staged by Nathan Hull. The opera will be performed complete and fully staged performed in its entirety, with a full cast, chorus and orchestra.
The Amore Opera is committed to providing training and performance opportunities to aspiring opera singers in an intimate setting. It was founded in 2010 as a successor to the world-famous Amato Opera, which ran for 61 years on the Bowery. In 2009, when Anthony Amato, its founder and artistic director, retired and sold his “Smallest Grand Opera House in the World,” a core group of his singers and instrumentalists decided to continue his mission. With the gift of Amato costumes and sets for 30 productions, they founded the Amore Opera. Its home, the Connelly Theater, which allows the Amore Opera to include a full orchestra of 23 instrumentalists, is only a few blocks from the Amato’s former home on the Bowery.
As the only opera company on the Lower East Side, the Amore reaches out to veteran opera lovers, senior citizens and children. The Amore Opera’s community, both onstage and off, reflects the full range of New York’s ethnic, economic and racial community. The company entertains, educates and nurtures music appreciation through performances of classical and overlooked opera works that are affordable to all audience.
The complete 2012-2013 season also includes Donizetti’s 1827 “Olivo e Pasquale”, presented in repertoire with “Don Pasquale,” “La Bohème” sung in Italian with English titles and “Operas-in-Brief” series for the whole family.
Location
Connelly Theater
220 East 4th Street (between Avenues A & B)
New York, New York
Dates & Times
May 10-11: 7:30pm
May 12: 2:30pm
May 16-18: 7:30pm
Sunday, May 19: 2:30pm
May 22-25: 7:30pm
May 26: 3:30pm
Tickets:
For event details and discounted tickets:
http://www.amoreopera.org or call 866-811-4111
April 29, 2013permalink
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NYC Performing Arts Spaces: Searchable Database for Performing Arts Rental Space
Resource and searchable datbase for artists looking for rental space (music, dance, theater) in New York City
April 29, 2013permalink
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Cultural Survival Bazaar, May 24
Cultural Survival Bazaar
When: Fri. May 24th, 10am - 6pm
Where: Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 833 1st Ave, New York, NY 10017
Cost: FREE Admission
Summary: A Festival of Indigenous Arts & Cultures from Around the World. We feature guest artisans, handmade products benefiting the livelihoods of artisans, projects in their communities, and fair trade. Shop unique art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, decor, tribal rugs, & much more. Enjoy FREE music performances, presentations, Native American storytelling, educational displays, & craft-making demonstrations. Proceeds support Native artisans, fair trade, and Cultural Survival's non-profit work worldwide.
For dates, locations, special features and performance schedules visit http://www.bazaar.cs.org
April 26, 2013permalink
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2013 Photo Urbanism Fellowship: Call for Submissions
The Design Trust for Public Space is now accepting submissions from photographers for the 2013 Photo Urbanism Fellowship, which will focus on "life under and around elevated infrastructure in New York City."
Application deadline: May 23, 2013
The Design Trust is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing design innovation to New York City's public spaces. We believe that photography is vital to understanding our shared environment and is the most powerful tool for illuminating New York City’s complex public realm. The Photo Urbanism program was founded in 2001 to support the creation of new work that explores the natural and built environment of New York City, and surpasses strictly editorial and documentary imagery.
The 2013 Photo Urbanism fellowship will focus on “life under and around elevated infrastructure in New York City.” The fellowship award includes a $5,000 cash prize and a book dedicated to the fellow’s work, published at the project’s conclusion (see “From Roof to Table” for an example). The Fellow will have full artistic vision over how they interpret the topic. The resulting photographs will inform the new Design Trust project, Under the Elevated, a project in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation, and be considered for inclusion in the final project publication.
The Fellow must be based in New York City and be available to participate in meetings with the Design Trust and the Under the Elevated project team. The Design Trust will act as a resource and sounding board throughout the fellowship, providing access and assistance to sites when possible. The fellowship requires a minimum 6-month and maximum 1-year commitment.
The selection jury will be chaired by Mark Robbins, executive director, International Center of Photography and will include Iwan Baan, photographer; Susanna Sirefman, designer and Design Trust Board member; Rob Stephenson, photographer and 2011 Photo Urbanism Fellow; and Erica Stoller, director, Esto.
To learn more, visit http://designtrust.org
The 2013 Photo Urbanism fellowship is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
April 26, 2013permalink
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Copland House Residency Awards: June 1 application deadline
The prestigious Copland House Residency Awards allow emerging or mid-career American composers to reside, one at a time, at Rock Hill, Aaron Copland's restored New York home. This unique experience allows composers to focus on their creative work, free from the distractions of daily life.
Applications must be postmarked by June 1, 2013
More information and application here
April 22, 2013permalink
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NEA Challenge America Fast Track Grants - May Deadline
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has posted 2014 application guidelines. Challenge America Fast Track deadlines are May 23.
More information: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/GAP14/Challenge.html
April 22, 2013permalink
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Apply Now for EtM’s Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program
Applications and guidelines are now available the fifth round of Exploring the Metropolis, Inc's Con Edison Musicians' Residency: Composition Program. This year, EtM will award eight residencies in four New York City cultural/community facilities. Composers-in-Residence receive three months of free rehearsal space plus a stipend. This program is open to all New York City-based composers, working across genres.
Complete applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, June 3, 2013.
For more information about the program, email musiciansresidency@exploringthemetropolis.org
April 22, 2013permalink
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Get tickets now for Tongues of Fire Choir at Apollo Theater, April 27
Tongues of Fire Choir
Reconceived by Craig Harris
This program is part of the Blink Your Eyes: Sekou Sundiata Revised, a New York City-wide retrospective produced by MAPP International Productions.
Saturday, April 27 | 8PM
Tongues of Fire Choir, originally created by Sekou Sundiata and Craig Harris, is a concert of music and poetry that features three African-American male writers over three generations: Amiri Baraka, Abiodun of the Last Poets and Rakim.
Special guest artists include Regina Carter, Bobbi Humphrey, Wunmi, Vernon Reid and Liza Jessie Peterson.
Composed by Craig Harris and performed by his ensemble of Nation of Imagination, the concert will follow a lyrical journey as each poet explores the idea of "What's in a name?"
Tickets: $25, $35, $45. Click here to reserve
Use the code TFCSSR to receive $5 off until the day before the show!
April 22, 2013permalink
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Two current Workspace writers invited to read at MoMA on April 20
Dan Machlin and Betsy Fagin will both be participating in a group reading In celebration of National Poetry Month at The Museum of Modern Art.
Saturday, April 20, 3:00-4:00pm
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Painting and Sculpture Galleries, fourth floor
The Museum of Modern Art presents Transform The World! Poetry Must Be Made by All! For a full hour, the galleries come alive with the sounds of spoken word, as poets read their own works and those of others. The poets, ranging from emerging to established, from conventional to experimental, demonstrate and celebrate the broad range of American poetry today amid great works of postwar modern art in the Museum's collection. This event is organized by poet Kenneth Goldsmith as part of the Artists Experiment initiative.
Free with museum admission
More info here
April 18, 2013permalink
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Current Workspace artist Grayson Cox holds gallery open house April 18
Please join Klemens and Tanja in GASSER GRUNERT HEIM Thursday, April 18th from 6 – 8 pm for a reception in honor of Grayson Cox. It will feature Cox’s work both old and new, in a celebration of all of Grayson Cox’s recent success.
Gasser Grunert Gallery 9th St between 10th and 11th Ave.
Cox is currently working on a massive performative sculpture project with the Storefront for Art and Architecture. The Speechbuser is designed by Grayson Cox and Jimenez Lai and commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture with the support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program, which supports fearless and innovative collaborations in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg. This will be shown at the New Museum's Ideas City on May 4th. He will also be presenting new public sculptures in DUMBO this summer through summer 2014. Since his last gallery show - the giant labrynth piece The Water's Fine, which was installed at the gallery last spring - he has been developing smaller works, paintings and prints, along with new sculptural works, at the year-long LMCC Workspace residency in downtown Manhattan. His work will be installed at GASSER GRUNERT HEIM through May 4th, and it absolutely should not be missed.
April 18, 2013permalink
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2014 Sunroom Project Space now accepting applications
2014 Sunroom Project Space Application
Deadline: May 15, 2013
Information Session with the Curator of Visual Arts: Sat, April 13, 2013, 2:30pm at Wave Hill, Please e-mail sunroomproject@wavehill.org to RSVP
The Sunroom Project Space Program is a venue for New York-area emerging artists to develop a special project or new body of work to exhibit in one of the two windowed sunrooms on the ground floor of Glyndor House. Five artists will be selected for solo exhibitions in 2013. Work in all media will be considered and artists are encouraged to experiment with the parameters of traditional display and exhibition formats. The selected artists will have between six and 12 months to develop their ideas and to create new work for the project. The installation period is two days for most slots so the project needs to be installed and de-installed quickly. A meet-the-artist gallery talk will be scheduled for each artist. The selected artists will receive an honorarium of $1,500.
The floor area of the Sunroom is approximately 17 ½’ x 17 ½’ with a 10’ 8” high ceiling, and the Sun Porch’s floor area is about 16’ x 16’ with a ceiling that is 11 ½’ in height. The white Sunroom has hard plaster walls, with pairs of arched windows on two sides, and arched glass doors that open to the Sun Porch. The fourth wall has a door to the other galleries. There is a brown ceramic tile floor. The Sun Porch has windows on two sides with two brick walls, a stone floor, and four skylights. While proposed projects may include video as a component of the installation, keep in mind that both rooms have abundant natural light and cannot be completely darkened. Images of the Sunroom Project Space are available here.
Five artists will be selected for Sunroom exhibitions that will be on view for a period of six weeks each from April through November 2014.
Interested artists are strongly encouraged to visit Wave Hill before submitting an application. The gallery is open 10 AM - 4:30 PM, Tues - Sun, starting April 2.
Eligibility: Open to emerging artists residing in New York City, with a record of solid achievement and potential, for whom this opportunity might contribute to professional advancement, and who are not represented by a commercial gallery, not a student, and have not previously shown at Wave Hill.
Application Process: Applications with preliminary concepts are due on May 15, 2013, using this online application. At this point we are more interested in your approach to working here and how you would like to use the space than the actual outcome of the project.
Selection Process: A jury made up of Wave Hill’s Curator of Visual Arts, an invited curator, and a previous Sunroom artist will review the submissions and develop a short list of artists for the Curator to meet with. The curatorial staff will balance approaches and schedules to make a final selection. Decisions will be made by August 2013 and all artists will be contacted at that time.
More information: www.wavehill.org
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Grantee Spotlight, April 2013: The Movement Theatre Company presents Look Upon Our Lowliness
April 2013: Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee The Movement Theatre Company
LMCC grantee, The Movement Theatre Company (TMTC) in association with Radical Evolution, presents Look Upon Our Lowliness, a story of seven gay men of color whose lives are turned upside down after the death of a close friend. Written by Harrison David Rivers (2011 GLAAD Media Award winner), and conceived and directed by David Mendizábal (2012 Drama League Fellow), TMTC’s newest production brings forward untold stories of the LGBTQ community of color in New York City. Part meditation and part celebration, the play is a touching and unexpectedly funny examination of the interconnectedness of love, loss, faith, and healing.
TMTC is a Harlem-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing new works by artists of color and producing work that highlights both the collective and diverse human experience. With all of their work, TMTC engages audiences in a rich theatrical dialogue, enlightens communities of color to the important social issues affecting our world, and empowers emerging artists to find their voice.
With Look Upon Our Lowliness, TMTC will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and positive dialogue within the Harlem community surrounding LGBTQ issues, particularly through social media and partnerships with Harlem-based LGBTQ organizations, businesses and events. Prior to, during and after the actual performances, audience members receive pieces of the story through smart phone messaging. Each format creates the opportunity to bring people together to experience, commune and participate in a dialogue around a work that speaks directly to the growing LGBTQ community of color in Harlem.
Featuring: Keith Antone, Tommy Coleman, W. Tre Davis*, Lelund Durond*, Brandon Gill*, Brandon Kyle Goodman*, Paul Pontrelli*, Michael Satow*, and Jared Paul Shuler (*Equity Approved Showcase).
Design team: Paul Tate dePoo III (Scenic), Dede M. Ayite (Costumes), David Bengali (Lighting/Projection), and Mark Van Hare (Sound).
Dates and Times
April 4-6: 8pm
April 11-13: 8pm
April 18-20: 8pm
Including two matinees: April 12th and April 19th at 2pm
Location
The Harlem School of the Arts Theatre, located in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem
645 Saint Nicholas Avenue at 141st Street, NYC
Tickets: Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at www.themovementtheatrecompany.org
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Open Call for Independent Film Week NYC
Independent Film Week New York City: Discovering and Supporting Tomorrow’s Great Storytellers Today
September 15 – 19, 2013
New York, NY
Applications now live! www.IFP.org
About: Formerly known as IFFM and IFP Market, Project Forum has had a prolific history in the independent community supporting both emerging and established independent filmmakers at critical stages in their development processes. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Cohen, Kevin Smith, Todd Solondz, and Wayne Wang. Recently, it has also played a vital role in launching the first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Debra Granik, (Down to the Bone) Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (Half Nelson).
2013 Deadlines
Emerging Storytellers: May 3, 2013
No Borders International Co-Production Market: May 3, 2013 (U.S. producers) / May 24, 2013 (International Partner submissions)
Independent Filmmaker Labs: March 8, 2013 (Documentary); June 5, 2013 (Narrative)
Spotlight on Documentaries: May 3 (early) / May 25 (final)
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Past Workspace artist Simone Leigh featured in artist panel discussion
Brave New Land: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art
A Conversation with Saya Woolfalk, Chitra Ganesh, Simone Leigh. Moderated by Kalia Brooks
Wednesday, April 24th
Doors open at 6pm
Panel will start promptly at 6:30pm
This panel discussion was organized to compliment and close Saya Woolfalk’s exhibition Chimera at Third Streaming Gallery. Moderated by curator Kalia Brooks, artists Saya Woolfalk, Simone Leigh, and Chitra Ganesh will reflect upon how they mobilize science fiction in their art. All three artists will be participating in Approximately Infinite Universe, a group exhibition about science fiction at the MCA San Diego in the summer of 2013.
More info here
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15!
We've extended our deadline for our Summer cycle of LMCC's Internship Program. Summer cycle is a special time at LMCC with multi-faceted exposure and opportunities as part of our month-long River To River Festival! We encourage applicants who are aiming to work professionally in the non-profit field and are invested in re-thinking how to engage and affect communities from Lower Manhattan and beyond.
Please submit an application by April 15 by visiting our Internship program page
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Open call for Bryant Park Painter in Residence Program
The Bryant Park Corporation invites applicants to participate in the second annual Painter in Residence Program for the purpose of creating representational imagery of Bryant Park. The paintings will be a visual record of Bryant Park from a painter's perspective. Four painters will be selected to paint outdoors in Bryant Park for a two week periods. The competition is open to all U.S. artists 18 years of age or older. Any artwork submitted for consideration must have been completed in the last two years. Though representational styles will be given preference, innovative and experimental approaches are welcome. Likewise, art using either traditional or alternative media will be accepted.
Application deadline May 31, 2013
For more information and to apply, please visit http://bryantpark.org/about-us/painter_in_residence.html
April 5, 2013permalink
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Workspace alum LaToya Ruby Frazier exhibition reviewed in New York Times
Frazier's "Haunted Capital" exhibition is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum through August 2013.
Read the New York Times article here
April 5, 2013permalink
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The Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights
Deadline May 30, 2013
In memory of Leslie Scalapino, her extraordinary body of work, and her commitment to the community of experimental writing and performance.
The Leslie Scalapino Award recognizes the importance of exploratory approaches and an innovative spirit in writing for performance. It wishes to encourage women writers who are taking risks with the playwriting form by offering the opportunity to gain wider exposure through readings and productions. The award will also seek to increase public awareness for this vibrant contemporary field.
We are looking for a full-length work for live performance by a woman writer with an inquiring approach to language and content. The Award for Innovative Women Playwrights intends to support new writing by female-identified people, inclusive of transwomen. The prize is open to international submissions in English.
The Prize: The winner will receive a $2,500 cash prize, print publication of winning play by Litmus Press, and a staged reading of the piece this October at the The New Ohio Theatre in New York, by Fiona Templeton's company The Relationship. In subsequent years, the prize will also include the opportunity for a full production by The Relationship or another theatre company.
For full submission guidelines, including timeline and instructions for online submission of materials (via Submittable), please visit The Relationship's Award page
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Kickstart your project on Governors Island! Info session April 16
Every season, Governors Island welcomes all kinds of projects, exhibitions, festivals and experiences. We are thrilled to have hosted dozens of organizations and hundreds of thousands of visitors who have been able to enjoy pigs, unicycles, tree houses, math, art, design, you name it. We are so excited to be joining forces with Kickstarter to help bring new and exciting projects to Governors Island for 2013 and beyond.
Together with Figment and Kickstarter, Governors Island Trust is hosting a get together to let people learn more about how to create a Kickstarter project and how to bring a project to Governors Island. We at Governors Island are committed to hosting any project that gets funding and fulfills our permit requirements. Please attend if you have ever thought about doing something on Governors Island but didn’t know how to find funds for it. The Governors Island season starts Memorial Day weekend through the end of September and the Island has many outdoor and indoor spaces available for programming.
Kickstart Your Project On Governors Island
The Kickstarter Office
Tuesday, April 16th
7pm – 9pm
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, games, fashion, food, publishing, and other creative fields. Since April 2009, more than three million people have pledged more than $400 million to projects by creators who always maintain full ownership and complete creative control of their work.
Join Kickstarter art program director Stephanie Pereira for a primer on how to bring a Kickstarter project to life. Deep dive into a case study of a successful project and learn how to structure a campaign, what kind of rewards work best, how to spread the word, and other helpful tips.
Lynda Realmuto, Director of Special Events and Public Programs, will talk about permits, logistics, spaces and everything you need to know to bring your project to the Island, however it is funded. David Koren will talk about Figment, the now international participatory festival that takes place on Governors Island every June and includes an incredible range of projects.
Space will fill up quickly so please RSVP to reserve your spot!
RSVP by email to Lynda Realmuto: lrealmuto@govisland.nyc.gov
For more information about Kickstarter go to kickstarter.com
For more information about bringing projects to Governors Island and to download permit requirements go to govisland.com Host Your Event on Governors Island.
For more information about Figment, go to figmentproject.org
Looking forward to seeing you there. If you need more information about the event contact Lynda Realmuto at lrealmuto@govisland.nyc.gov.
April 4, 2013permalink
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Call for artist submissions for Lower East Side History Tribute
ARE YOU AN ARTIST? OR FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE WHO IS? I mean, this is the Lower East Side…
The Lower East Side BID, in partnership with ArtHERE, is seeking artist submissions to create a Lower East Side History Tribute design to be installed on the fences that border the southern edge of the Delancey Street public plazas, located between Norfolk and Clinton Streets. This is a heavily trafficked area with over 230,000 motorists, pedestrians, and bicycle riders passing by daily. Interested applicants should include explorations that pay homage to the rich cultural history of this neighborhood.
Submissions will be accepted from now until Wednesday, May 1st and there are no restrictions as to who can apply. The winning project proposal will receive a $5,000 stipend to complete the project, with installation intended to take place this summer. Confirmed judges include Dan Barasch of the Lowline, David Crane of Community Board 3, Jan Hanvick of Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, Lesley Heller of Lesley Heller Workspace, and Natalie Raben of the Lower East Side BID. This project has already received attention from the Bowery Boogie, Curbed, DNAinfo, and the Lo Down, and is included on The New Museum’s Rhizome site. Join our Facebook event page HERE.
Be part of living history within the dynamically evolving Lower East Side! For questions or to learn more about the project please contact Natalie Raben via email at nraben@lowereastsideny.com by phone 212-226-9010, or in person by strolling into our Visitor Center at 54 Orchard Street.
http://www.lowereastsideny.com/events/open-call-for-artists-design-our-delancey-street-plaza-fences/
April 1, 2013permalink
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Workspace alum Megan Cump opens solo show “Black Moon” on April 10th
Black Moon by Megan Cump
April 10 to May 12, 2013
Opening Reception: April 10, 6 to 9pm
Station Independent Projects
164 Suffolk Street, NYC 10002
Megan Cump's Black Moon series constructs a world swallowed by darkness–terrains that skirt the visible. For Cump, the dark is itself a wilderness of sorts, full of the promise of the unknown. It is fitting that the locations she has photographed: underground caves, deep woods, night skies and oceans, conjure up mythic tales of transformation and the underworld. Some of these landscapes are inhabited by wild creatures, including a fox, ghostly white deer, and a shadowy woman who, in one photograph, floats in water black as the night, bringing to mind the ancient Hermetic axiom "as above, so below." This woman is, in fact, the artist, but one could argue that all of Cump's figures, even the animals, are enigmatic self-portraits.
Replete with auspicious meteor showers and subterranean passages, these photographs transport us, suggesting the other side of things. Stars appear to burn through the atmosphere and the evening sky fills with otherworldly light and color. The vivid flames are produced by deliberately introducing light leaks that simultaneously destroy and create anew the imagery on the negatives. In the past, Cump notes, the night imparted fundamental knowledge, serving as navigational field, timekeeper, and source of cosmologies. Distinctions were not drawn between scientific observation, spirituality, and art. Recent research suggests that some Paleolithic cave paintings are also prehistoric star maps–the stray dots and dashes overlaid on depictions of animals mark the earliest constellations.
Black Moon draws from folktales, spirit photography, epic poems, and the alchemy of analog photography. It connects photography's historical relationship with making the unseen visible with tales of metamorphoses, animism, and the netherworld. Megan Cump's photographs are earthly and astral, dark and ecstatic.
http://www.stationindependent.com/show_2013Apr_MeganCump.php
Cump's work is also currently on view in MASS MoCA's "One Minute Film Festival" exhibition organized by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon. http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=757
April 1, 2013permalink
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Jonathan Ehrenberg new show “The Outskirts” opening April 5
The Outskirts
April 5 – May 5, 2013
Opening reception Friday, April 5th 6-8pm
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
327 Broome Street (between Bowery and Chrystie)
New York, NY 10002
T: 212.375.8043
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present The Outskirts, a new video installation by Jonathan Ehrenberg.
Ehrenberg’s videos are set in oneiric spaces governed by the laws of instinct and intuition rather than those of the physical world. These spaces disarm through contradictions: handmade from rough materials, they are sensitively, intricately lit to viscerally evoke nuanced environments, times of day, emotions. Ehrenberg draws on the unique capacity of silent film to create a partnership between artist and viewers, who, in interpreting narrative clues, complete the story and project themselves onto the characters. Sculpted masks worn by the characters accentuate this effect. A screen for viewer’s projections, their simplified, immobile faces become strangely expressive even as they limit communication to the more primal language of the body.
http://nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/1750-2/
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Shinique Smith written up in New York Times
Smith participated in the 2003/2004 Workspace Residency
Read the article here: www.nytimes.com
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Current Workspace artist Liene Bosque solo show opening in Turkey
IMAGEABILITY
In her work, Liene Bosquê deals with the exploration of sensory experience within architectural, urban, and personal spaces emphasizing context, memory, and history. In this exhibition she explores the common preconceived images of a city and how it confronts its perception. Through the appropriation of cityscapes, silhouettes and miniature monuments of different cultures, she investigates ideas of representation of landmarks and the urban environment.
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CUE open call for curatorial proposals
CUE Curatorial Project Call for Proposals
This new program provides one deserving curator the necessary time and resources to realize an innovative project, with the aim of encouraging curatorial research in tandem with exhibition planning. CUE will provide institutional guidance and resources to the curator, who will produce a group exhibition in CUE's space with related public programming and an accompanying exhibition catalogue in July 2014.
DEADLINE: 11:59 EST ON APRIL 30, 2013
Proposals will be evaluated on merit of project, singularity of concept, and adherence to the application guidelines. Please note: applicant and all proposed artists must live or work in the United States. All applications submitted will be considered final and treated as such. You will not, under any circumstances, be permitted to add or edit your application once it has been submitted. All incomplete or duplicate applications will be immediately disqualified.
Please see website for guidelines and more information.
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THE FENCE open call for photography entries
THE FENCE is an annual summer-long outdoor photo exhibition that drew over 1 million visitors during its 10 week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2012.
Photographers of all levels are invited to submit their best image series that capture the essence of “community” and fit into one or more of the competition categories: HOME, STREETS, PEOPLE, CREATURES, PLAY. Winning images will be presented in TWO summer-long outdoor photo exhibitions in NYC & Boston!
Eligibility: Open to all amateur and professional photographers over the age of 18
Entry Fee: $35 for a series of 6 images
Deadline: April 15, 2013
Prizes: - Featured Series on both FENCES along Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway throughout the summer of 2013
- A solo exhibition at the United Photo Industries Gallery in DUMBO, NYC as part of their 2013/14 Season – including complimentary exhibition prints by Conveyor Arts.
- Full-page feature in PDN Magazine - Premium special edition camera package from Lomography
- B&H Gift Card - Recognition at the Photoville 2013 Opening Party slideshow
Contest page: http://fence.photovillenyc.org/
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Workspace alum and R2R 2013 artist Caraballo-Farman interview with BCAM
BCAM's Deborah Ostrovsky interviews Leonor Caraballo, an artist living in New York City and part of the artistic partnership caraballo-farman, whose projects include the path breaking Object Breast Cancer.
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Past Workspace artist LaToya Ruby Frazier featured on CNN.com
http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/22/latoya-ruby-frazier/
Frazier's "Haunted Capital" exhibition is on view at the Brooklyn Museum through August 2013
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Former Swing Space artist Milka Djordjevich announces upcoming show at The Chocolate Factory
KINETIC MAKEOVER
April 10 - 13, 2013
Wednesday - Saturday 8PM
@ The Chocolate Factory Theater, New York City
www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
Choreography & performance by Milka Djordjevich.
Kinetic Makeover is a dance solo giving power and autonomy to one body. This body attempts to produce various images through the self-imposed task of repeatedly and compulsively moving. Perpetual action is a means for change in order to establish a new way of seeing and being. The various thresholds of the body are revealed through this self-directed persistence. Actions oscillate between being repetitive, mechanical, mundane, sustained, hypnotic, energetic, aggressive and euphoric. The act of doing is always in negotiation of the past, present and future. The dance is an attempt at the here-and-now, a never-ending effort that ceases to exist. The work is a reimagining of the body and its potential, what it represents and how it exists.
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Performance with seniors at Hudson Guild Movement Speaks
Join current SPARC artist Naomi Goldberg Haas for a culminating presentation on April 5th at 2:15pm
MOVEMENT SPEAKS & DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION
Hudson Guild Fulton Center
119 Ninth Ave, NY,NY
More info: www.naomigoldberghaas.com
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Current SPARC artist Riitta Ikonen at Recess’s Session
Eyes as Big as Plates: Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth
Show open until April 26, 2013
Performance & Reception: March 22, 6-8 pm
Closing Reception: April 24, 6-8pm
Recess in Red Hook The Intercourse, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
On February 15, Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth began new chapter in their series Eyes as Big as Plates as part of Recess’s signature program, Session. Session invites artists to use Recess’s public space as studio, exhibition venue, and grounds for experimentation. Over the course of their Session, Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York who show a marked connection to their national and cultural roots. The artists will explore their subjects’ mental landscapes by playing with personifications of nature, while developing a series of photographs and performances.
From Recess’s project room at The Intercourse, Ikonen will create a series of personalized costumes using organic scavenged materials, and developed from interviews and activities with the senior participants. Working with residents from the Hamilton-Madison House – City Hall Senior Center in Manhattan, participants are encouraged to contribute ideas and stories for the photographs and to lend their own personality to Ikonen’s costumes. Hiorth will shoot selected stories in locations around New York, particularly amongst Red Hook’s waterways.
More information here
March 15, 2013permalink
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Past Workspace artist Mike Estabrook opens new installation
Mike Estabrook has an opening reception for his new installation he is creating at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects.
Sunday March 17th from 2-6p
The installation is entitled N.e.m.e.s.i.s., and is "a full room installation of Estabrook's larger than life homicidal paper puppets, as well as the stop motion animations showcasing these selfsame puppets commiting the foul acts for which they've been created."
In addition to N.e.m.e.s.i.s., there will be an accompanying group show featuring the work of Jane Ebarte, Johann Bitancor, and Flexi Casero, as well as live music by the James Hall Duo and the Douglas Detrick Trio.
Bliss on Bliss is in Sunnyside Queens at 4149 A, 45th St., ground floor. Take the 7 train to the 46th/ bliss stop and walk one block north on 46th street, make a left onto 43rd avenue, and a right on 45th street.
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Two Swing Space Alums Awarded Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space
Alan Ruiz & Matthew Jensen, both former Swing Space artists-in-residence, have been selected to create solo exhibitions at the Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space.
WAVE HILL SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE 2013 SEASON OPENS APRIL 2
Solo Shows Feature Installations Created by New York-area Emerging Artists Now for the seventh season, Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, commissions a diverse set of emerging New York-area artists to create a new body of work or site- specific project for a solo exhibition in Glyndor Gallery’s Sunroom Project Space. For 2013, a jury reviewed 125 applications, ultimately selecting Jarrod Beck, Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza, Matthew Jensen, Lynn Koble and Alan Ruiz as this year’s Sunroom artists. In addition, two Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows, Onyedika Chuke and Francisco Donoso, were chosen by Wave Hill’s Curators and will exhibit in the Sunroom Project Space. These seven join the growing list of artists who have found inspiration in Wave Hill’s breathtaking gardens, sweeping vistas and rich history, creating and exhibiting new work in a context unique to New York City. This year’s Sunroom artists are engaging architecture and space, transforming the rooms in exciting ways using various materials and techniques. They are looking at the ways that we interact with nature and how we observe it, understand it, and attempt to organize it.
See the press release
March 15, 2013permalink
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Rehearsal Residency Opportunities at The Field
The Field announces two subsidized rehearsal opportunities at their studio in Chelsea. Including a 40 x 26 foot space with chairs, a table, and a piano.
See their website for more information: The Field
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Past Workspace artist Jayson Keeling on view at ICA’s Project Space
Glitter and Folds
On view through March 31, 2013
The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania campus at 118 South 36th Street (at Sansom), Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289.
What do we know to be true? That the earth rotates, time moves forward, gravity pulls, and mirrors reflect light. A swinging pendulum traces seismic patterning on a gallery floor, concentric circles that reveal the invisible forces of their making. A single-channel video pulsates kaleidoscopic rhythms against a wall, the multiple reflections of conjoined mirrors echoed by a synthetic soundtrack of needles dropping. But as we move closer, reality seems to shift, and the certainties of perception and experience start to fold. A series of photographs embed the by-products of revelry—glitter, shattered mirrors, glass, and pearls—in soiled wastelands of an uncertain ground, asking us to reconsider seemingly inalienable laws of physics and faith. Elsewhere, the artist's body becomes a litmus test for the violence of social breakdown, a glittering reflection caught in a site of urban neglect.
Glitter and Folds, on view February 6 through March 31, 2013 in ICA's Project Space, presents photography, video, and site-specific installation by four contemporary artists, in whose works glitter appears to reveal a folding of invisible phenomena into material reality. As much as these actions divine the physical forces that structure the tangible fabric of everyday experience, they also reveal breaks in an urban and social landscape increasingly marked by precariousness, fear, and a gamble for redemption in the face of collapse.
http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/glitter-and-folds.php
March 11, 2013permalink
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Current SPARC artist chronicling her experiences in blog
Riitta Ikonen, a current SPARC artist-in-residence, is chronicling her experiences in a personal blog. See images and read stories about her various works in progress.
Access her blog here
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Tamar Ettun’s “One Thing Leads To Another” travels to Indianapolis Museum of Art
Tamar Ettun is a current Swing Space artist-in-residence working on Governors Island. The performance/installation One Thing Leads To Another is traveling to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She will have six performances inside the inflated balloon installation.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
March 23: 11am- 5pm
March 24: noon – 5pm
Performers: Ben Walker, Corinne Maloof and Yonatan Gutfeld, Amelia Smith, Kimmie Icenogle, Tommy Lewey, Tamar Ettun.
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Naomi Goldberg Haas & upcoming SPARC programs at Hudson Guild Senior Center
Wednesday, March 20th @ 3:30pm
Dances for a Variable Population: Performance & Workshop
More info here
Workshop Classes Fridays @ 2:00p
Movement Speaks
More info here
April 3 through June 12
Dances for a Variable Population: Hudson River Dances
More info here
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Current Workspace artist wins Beatrice Kolliner Young Artist award
Dana Levy, a current Workspace artist-in-residence, was recently awarded the Beatrice Kolliner Young Artist award by the Israel Museum.
Levy is also launching a new artist’s book World Order, which was produced for her 2012 solo show at The Center for Contemporary Arts Tel Aviv in affiliation with Braverman Gallery and Sternthal Books.
She will host a book launch and artist talk at the ICI on Thursday, March 14th
6:30pm–8pm
ICI Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
More information here
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Past Workspace artist Liz Magic Laser is featured artist at 2013 Armory Show
Read the NY Times article here
March 7, 2013permalink
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Past Swing Space Artist gives TED Talk in Austin, TX
Laurie Frick, past Swing Space artist, recently gave a TED talk at the TEDxAustin Conference
View the 15min TED talk video here
March 4, 2013permalink
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Former grantees launch season 5 of concert series
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra's opening concert of season 5
Friday, March 8, 2013 @ 7:30pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, 3 Spruce Street, Lower Manhattan
Special 25% discount for downtowners! Click here for ticket information.
AMERICAN AND WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES!
Music for a Changing World: Featuring acclaimed pianist Harumi Hanafusa
Gary S. Fagin and the KCO invite you to the launch of Season 5, at an exciting concert featuring works when jazz and classical music merged to electric effect. Acclaimed pianist Harumi Hanafusa performs Maurice Ravel's jazz-infusd Piano Concerto in G (1931). Music by Kurt Weill will transport you back to the smoky cabarets of Berlin and Paris -- his rarely heard Panamanian Suite from Marie Galante (1934) opens the program, and the world premiere of Maestro Fagin's Suite from Weill's Mahagonny (1930) concludes the concert. Ms. Hanafusa will also perform the American premiere of Akira Nishimura's soulful, challenging Piano Concerto (A Shaman).
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Grantee Spotlight, March 2013: The Midtown Arts Common presents Prez Fest 2013
Midtown Arts Common at St. Peter’s Church presents its annual one-day public jazz festival Prez Fest 2013, celebrating legendary jazz bassist, educator and photographer, Milt Hinton on March 3, 2013 at Saint Peter’s Church in Midtown Manhattan. The program will feature a documentary film based on Milt Hinton’s photographs and a jazz concert of Hinton’s music and the styles of ensembles with which he performed. A month-long show of Hinton’s photographs will also has been on view from January 24 in the Living Room Gallery of Saint Peter’s Church and will be closing on March 4, 2013.
Founded by Rev. John Gensel in 1965, the Jazz Committee of Midtown Arts Common is committed to supporting Jazz, a unique American arts form, presenting jazz programs at St. Peters Church, including programs like Prez Fest, Jazz on the Plaza, and Midtown Jazz at Midday. Prez Fest is an annual jazz festival, which seeks to further the jazz idiom while keeping the contributions of a late musician alive for the next generation of musicians and lovers of jazz. The festival explores the roots and the fruits of a particular musician’s life’s work in detail through concerts, exhibits, workshops, and lectures. Prez Fest has celebrated musicians such as Art Blakey, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Strayhorn, and Billie Holiday and Lester Young.
The 2013 Prez Fest festival program includes:
Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton, an award-winning documentary film followed by a panel discussion led by David G. Berger with bassist Bill Crow, jazz historian Dan Morgenstern, bassist Rufus Reid, and trumpeter Joe Wilder.
The Legend Wall exhibit tells the life story of Milt Hinton through photographs and other memorabilia. Thirty of Milt Hinton’s photographs drawn from the 60,000 he took during his lifetime are on display in the Living Room Gallery of Saint Peter’s Church from January 24 to March 4, 2013.
Jazz Vespers with Ben Williams Trio Each Sunday at 5:00 P.M. an open community gathers for prayer and reflection on the lines of jazz.
The Keeping Time Concert, presents Milt Hinton’s music and the styles of ensembles with which he performed, featuring preeminent, as well as emerging, artists. The 17-piece Purchase Jazz Orchestra (PJO) from SUNY Purchase, conducted by bassist Todd Coolman, plays works Hinton performed with the Cab Calloway Orchestra. Rufus Reid leads a 20-piece bass choir performing The Judge for the festival’s grant finale.
Location
Saint Peter's Church - Midtown Manhattan
619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street
New York, New York 10022
Dates & Times
Sunday, March 3, 3pm-9pm
Exhibition on view through March 4.
Tickets: See event website for details and discounted tickets
March 1, 2013permalink
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Current Workspace Artist Guy Ben-Ari opens first NY solo show
GUY BEN-ARI Out of Sight
Opening: Sunday, March 17, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: March 17-April 28, 2013
52 Orchard St. New York, NY 10002
Scaramouche is pleased to present Out of Sight, the first New York solo exhibition by artist Guy BenAri. The exhibition examines the condition of image consumption as mediated through digital technology. Presenting different positions of a hidden remote voyeur, the paintings address the experience of a digital screen as one that conveys a dissociative effect to its viewer.
Ben-Ari investigates the connection between psychoanalytic theory, Semiotics and the medium of painting. Following Jacques Lacan’s notion that “The word kills the thing” by fixing its meaning, he uses an illustrative approach to examine the way metaphors, when taken literally, become dysfunctional. BenAri is interested in the implications of using painting, a medium that rejects literal interpretation, to analyze concepts that reject visual interpretation.
Out of Sight addresses the contemporary culture of remote and ubiquitous image consumption. Confronting reality through the mediation of the digital screen is an experience that has a dissociative effect – a mental process that induces a separation of our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and even our sense of identity. For example, the act of sitting in front of a screen can cause one to become less aware of their surroundings, and at the same time, they can develop a feeling of removal and indifference towards the traumatic events that they are presented with. The exhibition consists of three large narrative paintings on canvas together with smaller nonfigurative paintings on panels. The larger paintings depict a hidden observer peeping at a psychoanalytic session, a seminar lecture with the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger projected for a class, a session of analysis through Skype, and a tragic act of protest from Israel’s social justice demonstrations as viewed remotely through a tablet device. In these paintings, both the viewer and the subject are removed observers. This state of global voyeurism is a symptom of the contemporary digital culture.
Each of the situations described includes a screen – a smartphone, laptop, tablet or projection. The smaller patterned paintings display segments and details from the large narrative works. Some present a subtle afterimage of a lamp as a light source hidden behind the flat patterned surface, becoming a direct visual signifier: an ideogram of the digital screen. In doing so, BenAri attempts to incorporate the digital screen into the lineage of painting.
More information here
March 1, 2013permalink
Around Town News
Current Workspace artist Liene Bosque featured in new show
CONSTRUCTING THE INTANGIBLE
New work by CITY SOUVENIRS
Curated by KATE BOWEN
March 3-17, 2013
Opening Reception : Sunday, March 3, 4-8PM
Open Hours : Sundays & Mondays, 12-4PM
ACRE Projects 1913 W. 17th St. Chicago, IL 60608
ACRE Projects hosts an opening reception on Sunday, March 3, 2013 from 4-8pm at 1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL. ACRE is proud to present CONSTRUCTING THE INTANGIBLE // new work by CITY SOUVENIRS, the next installment in ACRE's series of exhibitions by 2012 summer residents. Navigating the city, we learn how to operate within it. For urban dwellers, a firsthand knowledge of the texture of urban space is embedded in our daily lives as we notice small fragments like the uneven surface of the sidewalk, or ornate details embedded in the architecture we pass on the street. Buried in our everyday concern are the surfaces, sites and landmarks that help us orient ourselves. This experience is kinetic, like the city itself, and always changing us as we, in turn, change it. We are continuously building and modifying, collecting new information and altering the image of the city for ourselves.
Nicole Seisler and Liene Bosquê are a collaborative artist team known as City Souvenirs. The duo invites participants to make casts and impressions of their surroundings. The objects created serve as relics that hold the imprint of a site specifically chosen by each individual while also resonating with an experience familiar to most urban dwellers. The objects are made from clay, which changes physical states during the process of creation, from flexible to delicate to durable. This exhibition also marks an experimental shift in material for City Souvenirs, with the inclusion of brick casts made using paper. Unlike clay, the paper objects never reach a permanent state. The material remains delicate, and with water would return to a flux state of pulp, ready to be mixed and re-shaped. As with the city, the malleability of these objects is incorporated into our understanding of their material character.
March 1, 2013permalink
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Former Swing Space artist Orit Ben-Shitrit chosen for international show in Munich
The work of past Swing Space artist, Orit Ben-Shitrit, has been chosen for the international section of KINO DER KUNST in Munich. This festival celebrates artists’ films from the 1920s to the present day. The historical program includes Man Ray, Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dalí, Cocteau, Shirin Neshat, Steve McQueen, Julian Schnabel, Eija-Liisa Ahtila and many more. His work VIVE LE CAPITAL is included in the contemporary selection, and it will be presented on the last day: April 28. More information here
About KINO DER KUNST:
From April 24 to 28, 2013 Munich will host KINO DER KUNST, the first event of its kind worldwide to present films by visual artists who take cinema beyond its traditional boundaries and explore new narrative forms. KINO DER KUNST is designed to be an exhibition and a film festival in one, creating a showcase for today’s trends in art and an international meeting point for artists, curators and the public.
February 28, 2013permalink
Around Town News
LMCC Alumni Recieve Art Matters Grants
The new Art Matters Grants have been announced and LMCC is proud to have some artist alumni among the grantees.
Congratulations to: Kate Gilmore, Pablo Helguera, Jennie C. Jones, Deana Lawson and Paul Pfeiffer.
Art Matters grants funds to artists who are working on socially engaged projects with a local, national and/or global focus. Congratulations to the 2012 Art Matters Grantees!
See article: http://artmattersfoundation.org/recent-grantees#
February 11, 2013permalink
Grantee Spotlight, February 2013: Art in Motion – Creative Geometric Sculpture City
Creative Curricula Grantee Art in Motion, previously known for their partnerships with homeless shelters and specifically their work with homeless youth, expanded their reach in 2012 by partnering with Global Tech Preparatory School on a 10-week creative geometry program for 7th graders. In their project, Creative Geometric Sculpture City, the mathematics curriculum of geometric properties and formulas was linked with artistic design to increase students’ understanding of mathematical concepts.
Throughout the Sculpture City teaching sessions, students engaged with mathematical concepts, like calculating volume or creating scaled models with aspect ratios, using their own artistic abilities, such as drawing and painting, along with newly learned skills, including 3-D drawing and object construction. This 10-week exploration then culminated in the building of a geometric sculpture city made up of cohesive sculpture “blocks” by teams of participating students. The sculpture city was presented to Global Tech Prep’s student body and each 7th grade artist had the opportunity to speak to the audience about their work and their creative process. Creative Geometric Sculpture City illustrates the relationship between the creativity that goes into design and the geometry that goes into realizing that design. Though Art in Motion was extremely satisfied with the students’ understanding of the artistic and the mathematical concepts covered by the program, they were even more proud of the way students spoke in their final wrap-up session about how Sculpture City gave them confidence in presenting their work to others and instilled in them the importance of patience, determination, and teamwork.
February 1, 2013permalink
Grantee Spotlight, February 2013: Art in Motion – Creative Geometric Sculpture City
Creative Curricula Grantee Art in Motion, previously known for their partnerships with homeless shelters and specifically their work with homeless youth, expanded their reach in 2012 by partnering with Global Tech Preparatory School on a 10-week creative geometry program for 7th graders. In their project, Creative Geometric Sculpture City, the mathematics curriculum of geometric properties and formulas was linked with artistic design to increase students’ understanding of mathematical concepts.
Throughout the Sculpture City teaching sessions, students engaged with mathematical concepts, like calculating volume or creating scaled models with aspect ratios, using their own artistic abilities, such as drawing and painting, along with newly learned skills, including 3-D drawing and object construction. This 10-week exploration then culminated in the building of a geometric sculpture city made up of cohesive sculpture “blocks” by teams of participating students. The sculpture city was presented to Global Tech Prep’s student body and each 7th grade artist had the opportunity to speak to the audience about their work and their creative process. Creative Geometric Sculpture City illustrates the relationship between the creativity that goes into design and the geometry that goes into realizing that design. Though Art in Motion was extremely satisfied with the students’ understanding of the artistic and the mathematical concepts covered by the program, they were even more proud of the way students spoke in their final wrap-up session about how Sculpture City gave them confidence in presenting their work to others and instilled in them the importance of patience, determination, and teamwork.
February 1, 2013permalink
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Former LMCC artist Brad Farwell featured in The New York Times Magazine
Brad Farwell is featured in the most recent Sunday New York Times Magazine, with a brand new body of work shot on the streets of New York.
Working behind a two-way mirror in various locations around Manhattan, he photographed that instant on the street when we glance across and check out our reflection. The images capture a gaze which is unguarded and often unsettlingly direct, an appraising look into the eyes of the only person who knows who we really are.
Take a look or swing by your local newsstand to check out the hard copy!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/20/magazine/look-check-me-out.html?ref=magazine
January 25, 2013permalink
Around Town News
C.A.S Paints Has Generously Donated A Supply Of Oil Paints To Artists Affected By Sandy Storm
C.A.S Paints, an Illinois-based paint manufacturer, has generously donated a supply of oil paints for artists affected by Sandy Storm -distributed together with the NYFA Emergency relief Fund:
Artinfo: Queens Museum, Mana Contemporary, Joan Mitchel Foundation
FAIC Cultural Recovery Center in Brooklyn, NY
January 15, 2013permalink
Around Town
Former Swing Space Artist Jeremy Xido & Cabula6 Announce Angola Project
Click here for more information.
January 10, 2013permalink
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LMCC Artist Amy Whitaker Publishes Essay in The Millions
LMCC Artist Amy Whitaker Publishes Essay in The Millions
Read the essay here.
January 8, 2013permalink
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Former Workspace artist Lauren Silberman’s Work Appears in New York Times
Former Workspace artist Lauren Silberman's Work Appears in New York Times
View the photos and article here.
January 7, 2013permalink
Around Town Opportunities
The William F. Ryan Community Health Network Offers Healthcare for Dancers
To the attention of those in NYC dance who need healthcare:
The William F. Ryan Community Health Network invites the dance community to register for services including primary and preventive care, routine dental, mental health, OB/GYN, and eye/vision services. Click here for its letter to the field.
Founded upon former congressman William F. Ryan's belief that "health care is a right, not a privilege," the William F. Ryan Community Health Network is a family of not-for-profit, federally qualified health centers, which delivers medical care to diverse and underserved communities. The William F. Ryan Community Health Network is: dedicated to its patients, culturally sensitive, community-oriented, and linguistically diverse. Its goal is to ensure that everyone receives the most comprehensive care possible. www.ryancenter.org
Contact:
Maria A. Lugo Director of Operations William F. Ryan Community Health Center 110 West 97 Street N.Y. N.Y. 10025 212-316-8361 (Office) 212-932-8323 (Fax) maria.lugo@ryancenter.org
The need for healthcare options in dance is demonstrated by recent Dance/NYC research. For instance, the Dance/NYC Junior Committee's Dance Workforce Census: Earnings Among Individuals, 21-35, shows that only 55% of full-time danceworkers, and 3.6% of part-time dance workers receive health insurance benefits.
The Ryan Community Health Network's new initiative is one response to this identified need and grows out of field discussions initiated by Charles Reinhart and including dance artists and managers, Dance/NYC, Dance/NYC Junior Committee's Healthcare Subcommittee, Career Transitions for Dancers, Elsie Management, The Field, Fractured Atlas, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Live Arts, and Pentacle. For more on dancer health and to learn about Dance/USA's Taskforce on Dancer Health, see Dance/USA's resources.
December 21, 2012permalink
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Former Workspace Artist Eve Morgenstern to Exhibit in Sweden
Eve Morgenstern / Facades of Crises Over the past three years photographer and filmmaker Eve Morgenstern has been working for the American government to document the consequences of the housing crises. Bildmuseet 16 December, 2012 - 10 February, 2013
Eve Morgenstern has travelled across the USA and has been struck by the massive inventory of abandoned homes generated by years of economic decline and by the foreclosure crises. In cities as Oakland, Phoenix, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Miami, Las Vegas and Denver, plywood over windows and for sale signs become instant catalysts for decline. In her series, Facades of Crises Eve Morgenstern has portrayed these abandoned homes. Her colour photographs are intriguing portraits of individual homes. They are also strong testimonies of today’s financial crisis. The homes elicit feelings of fear and despair that ultimately affect the future of the neighbourhood and the impetus to live and invest there. With sad details of abandonment and neglect, the facades tell us a story. They also conjure up tragic stories of residents who lived there and what may have happened to them.
For more information, click here.
December 18, 2012permalink
Around Town
Workspace Artist Alberto Borea is Participating in No Longer Empty Exhibit
No Longer Empty: How Much Do I Owe You
The iconic The Bank of Manhattan Building in Queens Plaza North was built in 1924 and stood as the tallest building in Queens until 1990. Now this architectural gem will be the host to No Longer Empty's 14th exhibition How Much Do I Owe You?
Inspired by the bank, 26 artists from 15 countries will transform the building's vaults and lock boxes into immersive installations. With large scale sculptures, video works, participatory projects, and murals, the exhibition is a truly diverse and global look at exchange, value, and currency.
Featured Artists:
Sol Aramendi, Artefacting, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Alberto Borea, Susanne Bosch, Marco Antonio Castro, Jennifer Dalton, Nicky Enright, Colleen Ford, F.R.E.E. LIC Branch Bank of America-Draw Deposit Display Station, Ghost of a Dream, Guerra de la Paz, Susan Hamburger, Erika Harrsch, Pablo Helguera, Chris Jordan, Hayoon-Jay Lee, Shaun Leonardo, Leonidas Martin, Keiko Miyamori, Paulette Phillips, Ana Prvacki, Sal Randolph, Sean Slemon, Theodoros Stamatogiannis, Tom Sanford, & Caroline Woolard.
How Much Do I Owe You? December 12, 2012 to March 13, 2013, Thursdays- Mondays, 1 - 7PM
At The Clock Tower 29-27 41st Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Opening Reception is Wednesday December 12th, 7 - 9PM
Special Remarks by Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer
RSVP here.
December 5, 2012permalink
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Current Grantee Linda Stein will Exhibit at TEDxWomen 2012
Current Grantee Linda Stein will exhibit at TEDxWomen 2012 for her show Have Art: Will Travel
See more about the TEDxWomen event here.
November 29, 2012permalink
Grantee Spotlight, November 2012: Georgia
LMCC grantee Fariso Jordan performs her one-woman, four-character play, Georgia, at Stage Left Studio this December. Georgia investigates an issue that many people refuse to acknowledge—rape within a ‘functional’ relationship— and maneuvers through the complicated terrain of love in its aftermath. The play forges an analysis of opposing viewpoints through the vulnerability of the female main character; the generational consciousness of her best friend; the matured perspective of an immigrant parent and finally, from the gendered posturing of a young man. Georgia investigates the windows of good, evil, and the sometimes blurry lines in between.
The play was written to explore the raw reality of intimacy and submission, and uncovering personal freedom through expelling monsters from one’s own personal life. Jordan wrote this play while still studying at Fordham University to highlight the prevalence of partner rape among young couples. Since that time, she has been producing and performing Georgia around the country.
Georgia is directed by Kevin Benoit, stage managed by Marcus Wright, with musical direction by Dylan Maida. Georgia found its first success in 2011 with three sold out performances at the famous Nuyorican Poets Café, and has since traveled to New Jersey, Washington, D.C, Houston Texas, and Austin Texas. The play was also presented in the world renowned United Solo Festival and was also an official selection of The One Festival. Fariso remains committed to bringing the periphery to the center in her storytelling.
With the support of LMCC, the play will be presented on December 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 13th, 2012 at Stage Left Studio. After each performance, there will be a guided interactive discussion through which the public is invited to participate.
Location: Stage Left Studio 214 W. 30th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, 6th floor New York, NY
Dates and Times: Sundays and Thursdays, December 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 13th Showtime: 7pm each night
General admission: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Student admission: $15
November 29, 2012permalink
Around Town
Current Workspace Artist Alberto Borea Exhibits in Lima Peru
Current Workspace artist Alberto Borea exhibits in Lima Peru at Galeria Lucia de la Puente. For more information, click here.
November 29, 2012permalink
Around Town News
Artist-in-Resident Dana Levy Talks to Artforum
Artist-in-Resident Dana Levy talks to Artforum.
November 27, 2012permalink
Around TownOpportunities
Support Lower Manhattan Residents & Businesses
Below is a list of ways you can support Lower Manhattan Residents & Businesses:
RESIDENTS:
As Lower Manhattan grappled with the devastation brought on by Hurricane Sandy, many low-income residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, particularly older or disabled individuals, were stuck in their homes with little to no access to food and water. A number of community partners are working with local residents to help them recover from the storm and build a more resilient and vibrant community. Please visit their websites to learn more about their ongoing efforts to strengthen the neighborhood.
The Lower East Side Recovers is a site coordinating needs, gives, and volunteer opportunities.
Two Bridges Neighborhood Council are posting opportunities to help to Facebook.com/twobridges or @twobridgesnyc on Twitter.
The Jewish Community Project is also organizing some volunteer efforts in Lower Manhattan. Email info@jcpdowntown.org to help or to request assistance.
HERE IS A LIST OF RESOURCES FOR RESIDENTS:
The Citizens Committee of New York City is offering Hurricane Relief Grants of up to $5,000. Applications are due December 31. For more info contact Saleen at 212-822-9566 orsshah@citizensnyc.org.
The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) has mobilized a Legal Aid Disaster Relief Program to help victims of the storm deal with a range of legal issues. Call their hotline at 212-584-3365 or email StormHelp@nylag.org.
Councilmember Margaret Chin issued a helpful list soon after the storm; it has now been updated with new information. For residents the topics covered are FEMA assistance; compensation for lost wages; food stamp access; insurance issues; legal assistance; the NYC rapid repairs program. For small businesses and non-profits the topics include grants; loans; help available from the Mayor's fund, the Small Business Administration; Renaissance Economic Development Corporation; and various other resources. The list is available here.
LOWER MANHATTAN BUSINESSES:
Many of the storefront businesses along the East River in the old Seaport and in the Financial District were severely damaged in the storm, including many small and local businesses and restaurants. Their path to recovery is just beginning and they too will likely require assistance--skilled or unskilled expertise. Consider volunteering to assist these businesses as they work to clean up and re-open.
NYC Service is coordinating some volunteer efforts.
New York City's Public Advocate is also coordinating volunteer efforts.
Handbook for Individuals, Families and Small Businesses Affected by Superstorm Sandy: This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of resources available as a result of the storm. It was compiled from numerous sources by Morrison & Foerster LLP and co-produced by R.R. Donnelley who donated the printing of 30,000 copies. The Handbook is based on the Disaster Assistance Relief Manual compiled by Sarah Alba of Legal Services NYC, with assistance from The Legal Aid Society, organizations that have vast experience providing civil legal services to low-income persons in New York City. The Handbook can be viewed online here.
Make a donation to The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. One hundred percent of donations will be dispersed directly to relief efforts and organizations. Donations can be made online at www.nyc.gov/fund and checks can also be made out to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City with Hurricane Sandy in the memo line and sent to: Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, 253 Broadway, 8th Floor, NYC, NY 10007. For any further information please call 212-788-7794.
Finally, once these restaurants and store-front shops are up and running again, they will need your business more than ever. Later this month or as the holiday season ramps up, create an excuse to come down to Lower Manhattan to shop, dine, or visit the cultural institutions across this neighborhood. Discover local businesses and help support the recovery and ongoing redevelopment of this dynamic and historic district.
November 20, 2012permalink
Arts Services Other Resources
Emergency Resources for Artists
Emergency Resources for Artists: Artists, please note: if any of your work or live/work space has been damaged, take pictures and keep receipts of whatever you spend during this time.
Self-employed people are eligible for 'disaster unemployment insurance' in areas where a federal declaration of disaster has been declared. About.com explains more here.
EMERGENCY GRANTS:
The following are a selection of grants available to financially assist artists during periods of personal or professional emergency. Note: the term “emergency grant” can also be used to indicate a grant available for artists with an unanticipated opportunity or in need of last minute funding for a project. Such resources are not covered here.
The Artists' Fellowship: Is a charitable foundation that provides financial assistance to professional fine artists and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.
The Actors’ Fund of America: Provides emergency assistance to professionals in the entertainment industry (music, dance, film, television, circus & theater). Phone: (212) 221-7300. www.actorsfund.org.
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.: The Emergency Assistance Program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident. Phone: 212-226-0581, www.gottliebfoundation.org.
Artists' Fellowship: Assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement. 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Phone: 646-230-9833, www.artistsfellowship.com.
The Brooklyn Community Foundation: Has launched a Brooklyn Recovery Fund in coordination with the Brooklyn Borough President's Office and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. The fund offers grants to local nonprofit organizations affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Change Inc.: Emergency grants for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc. Grants of up to $1,000. P.O. Box 54, Captiva, FL 33924, Phone: 212-473-3742.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF): Provides emergency relief assistance, business development support, and resources and referrals on topics such as health, safety, and insurance. www.craftemergency.org.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts: Provides quick funding for visual and performing artists who have unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.
Mertz Gilmore Foundation: Is offering a NYC Dance Response Fund.
Mister Artsee: A mobile art laboratory group has set up an emergency relief fund for artists and art professionals who have suffered losses due to Hurricane Sandy.
The MusiCares Foundation: Offers emergency financial aid to eligible music‐industry professionals including performers, producers, engineers and songwriters.
New York Council for the Humanities: Is offering a hurricane recovery grant for cultural groups.
Wheeler Foundation: Assists visual artists of color who live in the tri-state NYC area with grants to help meet urgent financial needs involving housing, medical costs, fire, flood damage. Box 300507, Brooklyn, NY 11230, Phone: 718-951-0581.
The Dealers Association of America: Click here for relief funds.
Grantmakers in the Arts: Click here for a list of funding resources.
NYFA's Emergency Grants List: Click here. For NYFA's Emergency Relief Fund, click here.
Joan Mitchell Foundation: If you are - or know of - a visual artist who has been affected by the hurricane please contact us. The Foundation has funding allocated specifically for emergency assistance to painters and sculptors affected by natural disasters... We know that communication for many is very limited now, but our staff can be reached by email at: info@joanmitchellfoundation.org.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Currently accepting Sandy-related emergency requests for grants to professional visual artists. They have an online application at www.pkf.org or you can contact the Foundation by telephone (212-517-5400). A completed application form, cover letter, exhibition history and ten images of your work (jpegs or photos of work will be accepted) will be needed to be considered for their emergency grants. Pollock-Krasner has also released an Emergency Relief for Hurricane Sandy. For more information click here.
Rauschenberg Foundation: Emergency grants will be available to both individual artists as well as arts organizations impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
The United Way of New York City: Has established a fund to support the health and human services agencies that, due to Hurricane Sandy, are challenged in their ability to provide critical supports to individuals and families in need. Individual grants of up to $10,000 will be made to community‐ based organizations in areas hardest hit: the Rockaways, Staten Island, Coney Island, Red Hook, and the Lower East Side.
LINKS TO SALVAGE / CONSERVATION / RECOVERY INFORMATION:
Conservation OnLine
Studio Protector
American Institute for Conservation
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Heritage Preservation
Arts Ready
National Document Conservation Center (Hotline: +1.978.470.1010)
The Essential Guidelines for Arts Responders
Stephanie Diamond
MoMA consortium on conserving works released this document on emergency handling of artwork damaged by flooding.
OTHER RESOURCES:
Small Business Disaster Relief Loans:
Federal: Small Business Administration
City: Department of Small Business Services has set up a Sandy recovery website. For more information about the loans, call 311 and ask for NYC Business Solutions.
FEMA Assistance for Non-Profits: Register with FEMA as soon as possible by completing and submitting the one-page RPA form, available here. Email the completed form to John Grubsick at jgrubsick3@dhses.ny.gov and a FEMA representative will contact you directly. The deadline for submitting an RPA is currently December 2, 2012. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov.
New York City Arts Coalition offers helpful information about FEMA: Federal disaster resources will be dependent on your (or your arts group/business) being registered at FEMA. Go to www.disasterassistance.gov.
NOTE: Performing Arts groups: The federal legislation that controls eligibility had some limitations after 9/11, which the Chair of NYSCA, Richard Schwartz, was able to work with the Pataki administration to have lifted. This means that Performing Arts groups may be told they are ineligible. Please let us know if this happens to you.
NOTE: Individuals: You may want to also go to register at NYC Communities for Change. They assist with tracking and follow-up with FEMA and may help individuals with the FEMA process.
Brookfield Office Properties: Is offering a furnished, internet-enabled space free of charge to non-profit organizations that have been displaced by Superstorm Sandy. The space is located in their Four World Financial Center / 250 Vesey Street building. For more information click here or contact Mark Kostic at 212-417-2516 or Chris Zizza at (212) 978-1630.
Christie's: Christie's is arranging space for Downtown artists to use their laptops and charge their phones, and may be able to assist galleries with storage space for their art. Those interested, please call (212) 468-7177.
FAIC Cultural Recovery Center: Is offering space and to help owners of artworks damaged as a result of Superstorm Sandy. Artists and others in need of assistance are invited to contact the Cultural Recovery Center by phone: 718-757-2140 or by email: culturalrecoverycenter@gmail.com.
Fractured Atlas: Is offering free fiscal sponsorships to groups affected by Sandy, and will accelerate the application process to help members raise money for relief and recovery as quickly as possible.
Law Office of Sergio Munoz Sarmiento: Phone consultations free of charge to address questions pertaining to rights and possible compensation for damaged artwork or studios as a result of Hurricane Sandy. For more information click here.
Lawyers Alliance for New York: Helps nonprofits provide critical social services and emergency funds to people affected by terrorism, natural disasters, and other tragedies. For more information click here.
Mayor Bloomberg: Announces NYC Nonprofit Recovery Loan Program. For more information click here.
The Santa Fe Art Institute will be opening its doors to artists affected by the devastation of Superstorm Sandy through its international Artists and Writers Residency Program. Click here for more information.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts: Provides arts‐related legal aid and educational programs about the legal and business issues that affect artist and arts organizations. For more information click here.
New York City Economic Development Corporation: For any business temporarily displaced, NYCEDC may have short-term "swing" office or storage space: information at www.nyc.gov/nycbusiness.
November 20, 2012permalink
News
November 3 Waterfront Community Day CANCELLED
Due to the devastating impact of Hurricane Sandy, Waterfront Community Day on Saturday, November 3 will be cancelled.
LMCC's friends at the Hester Street Collaborative are coordinating with community partners and Neighbors for Allied Growth to provide basic necessities to those who need them most and they need your help.
Many low-income residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, particularly seniors and those who are disabled, are running out of resources. With elevators, EBT cards and ATM machines still out of commission, these men and women are stuck in their homes with little to no access to food and water. HSC will be collecting food (nonperishable preferred), bottled water, batteries, flashlights, blankets, and generators in North Brooklyn on Friday, November 2 and distributing items to some of our community partners on the Lower East Side.
If you would like to donate and are not able to deliver yourself please contact hesterstreetrecovery@gmail.com and we will arrange a drop off in Brooklyn or arrange pick up. We are planning to accept drop offs at 1PM & 5PM at the Neighbors for Allied Growth Office, 110 Kent Avenue at N 8th St, but please email to confirm.
If you are able to transport items directly to the Lower East Side, donations can be made at:
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
46 Hester Street, 10AM - 5PM
Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
80 + 82 Rutgers Slip, 10AM - 5PM
GOLES: Good Old Lower East Side
169 Avenue B, 12PM - 6PM
Or Donate Online at:
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
November 2, 2012permalink
Around Town Events
Foregrounding the Palisades: Portfolio Reviews
This is a wonderful opportunity for artists to get feedback on their artwork images, project concepts and Web site, or to discuss opportunities and resources for artists. Artists may sign up for a 20-minute session with one of the following reviewers: Bartholomew Bland, Hudson River Museum; Susan Chevlowe, Hebrew Home at Riverdale; Charlotte Cohen, General Services Administration; Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC|Arts|Media|Bklyn; Jan Garden Castro, contributing editor, Sculpture Magazine; Monica Herman, Mixed Greens; Ellen Keiter, Katonah Museum; William Penrose, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Brooke Kamin Rapaport, independent curator; Suzanne Randolph, Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts; Mark Shortliffe, gallerist; Fred Wasserman, independent curator; and Wave Hill curators Gabriel de Guzman and Jennifer McGregor.
Review fee: $25 per artist to meet with one reviewer. Online registration required here. Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions on how to indicate your reviewer preferences. If you have questions, please contact annar@wavehill.org or 718-549-3200, x398.
October 22, 2012permalink
Around Town News
Open Call for Applications: 2013 Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award
During Clare Weiss' tenure she curated more than 100 outdoor public art installations throughout the city and organized complex, thought-provoking and visually compelling thematic exhibitions for the Arsenal Gallery.
The Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award is granted annually to one emerging artist who submits the most compelling proposal for an outdoor sculpture in a New York City park. The location changes annually and is determined based on the site’s visibility and proximity within a neighborhood underserved by public art. Tappen Park in Staten Island has been selected as the 2013 location. The selected sculpture will be exhibited for a maximum of one year.
The chosen recipient will be granted an award in the amount of $10,000. Proposals will only be accepted from New York City-based emerging artists— artists who have specialized training in their field (not necessarily gained in an academic institution), who are at an early stage in their career, and who have created a modest independent body of work. Artists who are enrolled in a school, college or university are not eligible for the Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award.
Deadline for proposals: December 15 2012.
To find out more about this great opportunity click here
October 16, 2012permalink
Around Town
MCAF grantee Rob Reese wins the NY Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical
MCAF grantee Rob Reese wins the NY Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical for MIRANDA. Miranda, a steampunk, murder-mystery chamber opera in which the instrumentalists play, sing, and act, will prompt the audience to choose the outcome of the last day in the life of Miranda, a young Indian‐American woman trying to find herself.
miranda-opera.com hellorobreese.com
October 15, 2012permalink
Around Town News
Memorabilia of Finance
This event is held just a block from the NYSE, where many of these companies have been trading for years. Museum entry will be FREE for these three days October 18-20, from 10 AM - 4 PM, and until 8 PM on Thursday.
The event is part of the annual Wall Street Collectors Bourse. The theme of this meeting is “Memorabilia of Finance” and objects will have connections to events of many periods.
As part of the Bourse event, an auction will be held in the Gallery and it will feature objects from anniversary companies exposing their history for greater public appreciation. Proceeds of sale will be shared among local organizations teaching the skills needed to repeat the accomplishment of the celebrating companies for future generations.
For more information, click here
October 11, 2012permalink
Around Town News
Auction at the Art Fete and Silent Auction
Orchestrated by the b.j. spoke gallery the event will be held at the DirectBuy of Long Island showroom, 20 Oser Avenue in Hauppauge. Doors open for preview at 6:00pm. Bidding will begin at 6:30pm and end promptly at 9:30pm. A portion of the auction proceeds will benefit public outreach and education programs at the gallery. Champagne and lite bites will be served. Free admission. For more information call (631) 549-5106. For a sneak peek of auction art click here.
October 11, 2012permalink
Around Town News
SHELLSHOCKED: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves
Once considered a cheap and plentiful food for everyday New Yorkers, the city’s oyster beds were closed in the 1927 -- pollution had made oysters unsafe to eat. Efforts to repopulate the Harbor are underway: scientists, government officials, and environmentalists are fighting to bring back oysters and a healthy ecosystem to the New York Harbor.
The screening will be followed by a reception and Q&A with director Emily Driscoll; Meredith Comi, Director of the NY/NJ Baykeepers Oyster Restoration Program; environmental activist and artist Mara Haseltine; and Peter Malinowski, Aquaculture Professor at the New York Harbor School.
The event takes place Thursday October 18, 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM. Click here to get tickets and enter code Seaport12 for $5.00 off admission!
October 11, 2012permalink
Grantee Spotlight, October 2012: Collective: Unconscious presents Charlie Victor Romeo
Charlie Victor Romeo is a live performance documentary derived entirely from the "Black Box" transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies, presented at 3LD Art & Technology Center by LMCC grantee Collective: Unconscious. Allowing the audience into the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, Charlie Victor Romeo is a portrait of the psychology of crisis and a testament to the ability to live to the last second. The performance asks questions that may be in everyone’s minds as airplane travelers: What is going on behind that door in the front of the airplane? Who are these people we trust our lives to? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong?
Charlie Victor Romeo was created as an experimental theater piece in 1999 by Bob Berger, Patrick Daniels and Irving Gregory. It was originally conceived as a theatrical experiment influenced by classic theatrical structures with an episodic nature that transforms the classic definition of theatrical tragedy. What began as a two-week limited run has grown to include national and international touring extensions, including a foreign language production in Japan, a student production at York College in Queens, NY and a presentation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK. Collective: Unconscious now hopes to offer Charlie Victor Romeo to existing fans as well as extending an invitation to professional aviation, medical, and first responder audiences.
Founded in 1995 by a group of multidisciplinary artists, Collective: Unconscious was conceived both to perform unique experimental theater and to administer a space that would serve as a community resource and laboratory in the performing arts. The mission of Collective: Unconscious is to foster an inclusive, creative community that serves as an incubator and launching pad for emerging artists in New York City. The group has been active in various capacities in the NYC "downtown" scene since 1995, administering space first on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side and relocating to Tribeca with the assistance of a LMCC Capital Grant for Culture until 2008.
Location:
3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
Dates:
October 4 – October 21, 2012
Thursdays – Saturdays, 7:30PM
Saturdays – 3:00PM
Sundays – 5.00PM
Tickets:
$25
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/917533/1349127881273
October 10, 2012permalink
Around Town Events
The Flea Theater presents American Song, a groundbreaking new dramatic series
The Flea Theater offers a live presentation of the first four episodes of AMERICAN SONG. Inspired by a song of the period, each episode is an original play set in a different decade of the American experience from the late 19th century to the present. Series slated for broadcast in 2013 by SiriusXM Satellite Radio, WGBH Radio and PRI. Don’t miss this sneak preview opportunity! Only at the Flea!
Creative team info:
Created and written by ARTHUR YORINKS
Directed by JIM SIMPSON and ARTHUR YORINKS
Executive producer BRUCE FAGIN
Music direction JOE RANDAZZO
Cast Info
Featuring the talents of: Joan Allen, Danny Burstein, Reg E. Cathey, Adam Driver, Rebecca Luker, Max Gordon Moore, Maryann Plunkett, Linda Powell, Linus Roache, Catherine Russell, Jay O. Sanders, Sigourney Weaver and more!
Dates / titles:
episode 1 OCTOBER 15 | Iron Will (1895 - 1909)
episode 2 NOVEMBER 5 | Lost Time (1910 - 1919)
episode 3 NOVEMBER 26 | Broken Pearls (1920 - 1929)
episode 4 DECEMBER 17 | Swing Blue (1930 - 1939)
Ticket info:
$100 reserve tickets 1 episode
$185 any 2 episodes
$275 any 3 episodes
$360 all 4 episodes
$25 rush tickets available at the door, limited to availability
call 212-352-3101 or visit www.theflea.org
telephone and internet orders subject to service fee
October 5, 2012permalink
Around Town News
ASMP NY Copyright Infringement Survey
ASMP supports the creation of an alternate dispute resolution system, such as a small-value copyright infringement court within the federal district courts, so that rights holders can take meaningful action against infringers.
A sister association, the Graphic Artists Guild, has prepared a survey of rights holders who have experienced infringement of their works. The survey asks how rights holders would like such an alternate court system to work. You are invited — and encouraged — to participate.
This survey will close at midnight on Tuesday, October 9, 2012. This is your opportunity to engage in advocacy to benefit all American creators.
Please visit https://www.research.net/s/BRJK7KM to access the survey. The survey will close at midnight on 10/9/2012.
October 4, 2012permalink
Around Town News
Call for Entries Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined
The exhibition will explore the ways in which animals have been a presence in the visual arts as metaphors, totems, objects of fear, and sources of emotional attachment and affection. The history of human and animal interaction is filled with tales of love, unusual friendships, failed domestication, and fearsome predators. From Kipling’s ferocious Shere Khan to the early imperial menageries, human fascination with the animal kingdom has run the gamut from emotional connection, to economic exploitation, and even scientific curiosity. Throughout all of these interactions, however, the sense of wonder we feel when we encounter animal life has been an enduring theme that has informed their continual and abiding presence in the visual arts. Peaceable Kingdom encourages artists to meditate on these complex and diverse relationships, addressing such issues as antagonism, admiration, attachment, and even the politically charged issue of animal rights.
Please visit the website for more information and submission guidelines http://bedfordgallery.org/artopportunities/juried.shtml
October 4, 2012permalink
Opportunities
Job opportunities at LMCC
Job opportunities at LMCC
October 3, 2012permalink
Artist Residencies SPARC
Announcing Open Call for Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC)
The program provides selected artists with a stipend and access to workspace in senior centers in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Participating seniors will be engaged in an art project or series of cultural programs over the course of the residency, which will also include a public program component - exhibits, readings, performances, open houses and other cultural interactions open to the surrounding community. This initiative seeks to connect artists with seniors in senior centers and positively impact the well-being of seniors through arts-based activities.
Information sessions will be held on Tuesday, October 16, 5:30PM and Wednesday, October 17, 10AM at the Department of Cultural Affairs, 31 Chambers Street, 10007.
To apply, and for more information, click here
Application Deadline: Friday, November 9, 5PM
October 2, 2012permalink
Artist Residencies Swing Space
RSVP for CABULA6 / Jeremy Xido Presents an Open Rehearsal
Step inside Jeremy Xido’s process during his Swing Space residency to witness and participate in the development of his new work, Part 3 of The Angola Project Trilogy, premiering at Dance New Amsterdam. Eat cake, talk about heartbreak, punch a punching bag, nap, read thoughts and words taped to walls, expect anything and expect nothing at all. For more information, click here. Reservation required. RSVP here.
