Women to Watch: Photography in Philadelphia

Featuring new or recent work by five established and three emerging women artists

The Galleries at Moore College and The Pennsylvania State Committee of
the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) are collaborating to
present an exhibition of outstanding women photographers from
Philadelphia. Curated by Susan Fisher Sterling, Deputy Director and
Chief Curator of NMWA in Washington, D.C., Women to Watch: Photography
in Philadelphia showcases new or recent work by established artists:
Alida Fish, Eileen Neff, Clarissa Sligh, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, and
Deborah Willis as well as emerging talents: Genevieve Coutroubis,
Sarah Stolfa, and Zoe Strauss.

Women to Watch: Photography in Philadelphia is made possible by
Glenmede as Lead Sponsor and Reed Smith LLP, with additional funding
from Sotheby's, Keith & Jim Straw, and The Pennsylvania State
Committee of NMWA.

The Galleries at Moore
Moore College of Art & Design
20th Street and The Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Contact: 215.965.4027 or galleries@moore.edu


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Shoot Films, Not People Productions Events

SILENCE: IN SEARCH OF BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY IN AMERICA IS SCREENING TONIGHT Shoot Films, Not People Productions and the BLFC DATE: October 24, 2007 TIME: 8:00pm LOCATION: Jilani's Resturant, 507 Waverly (1 block from Washington Ave.), Brooklyn, NY MORE: $7 bucks to enter

Shoot Films, Not People Productions

www.shootfilmsnotpeople.com

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Ernest Withers, focus on civil rights
By Claire Noland
Los Angeles Times
San Jose Mercury News
Article Launched:


Ernest C. Withers, a photographer who documented more than 60 years of black history by capturing visual images from the civil rights movement, Negro Leagues baseball and blues and R&B performances on Beale Street in his native Memphis, has died. He was 85.

Mr. Withers died Monday at the Memphis VA Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered in September, his son Andrew Withers said Tuesday.

Trained as a photographer by the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, Mr. Withers returned to Memphis and opened a commercial studio. He also worked as a freelance photojournalist for such local black newspapers as the Tri-State Defender and the now-defunct Memphis World.

In 1955 Mr. Withers traveled to Sumner, Miss., to cover the trial of two white men accused of the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who allegedly had whistled at the wife of one of the defendants. An all-white jury acquitted the pair, who later admitted their guilt. Many blacks, including Mr. Withers, were outraged by the verdict, and he self-published a booklet with photographs from the trial.

The pamphlet, which he sold for $1 each, brought Mr. Withers to the attention of the national black media. He started getting assignments from the Chicago Defender, the Baltimore Afro-American, Jet and Ebony, as well as mainstream outlets such as Time, Life, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

"Ernest was doing conventional studio work," said his agent, Tony Decaneas of Panopticon Gallery in Boston, "but he loved history and he was aware of this social revolution that was taking place."

Over the next several years Mr. Withers became an up-close witness to key moments in the civil rights movement in the South. He captured the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his colleague Ralph Abernathy riding a bus in Montgomery, Ala., on the first day the transit system was desegregated in December 1956.

Mr. Withers went on to chronicle the integration of Arkansas' Little Rock High School in 1957 and the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Mr. Withers' photos provided records of the funerals of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers, who was killed after working to register voters in 1963, and King, who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.

Ernest Columbus Withers was born Aug. 7, 1922, to a Memphis postal worker and his wife. The teenage Mr. Withers made his first photograph with a Kodak Brownie camera he borrowed from his sister at a school event where the wife of boxer Joe Louis was speaking.

Returning from military service, Mr. Withers became one of nine black men to join the Memphis Police Department in 1948. He patrolled black neighborhoods and got to know judges, police officers and other law enforcement figures.

He soon turned to photography full time and took all manner of jobs to make ends meet, shooting weddings and graduations, church socials and civic meetings.

He toted his camera to Martin Stadium, where the Memphis Red Sox played in the Negro American League. Mr. Withers provided publicity shots for the team and photographed many of the greatest black baseball players who competed against one another before the major leagues were integrated. His pictures of Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, a teenage Willie Mays and many others appeared in a 2005 book of his photos called "Negro League Baseball."

Mr. Withers also spent a lot of time on Beale Street, the center of Memphis' music scene, photographing B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, Aretha Franklin and countless other singers. Many of these images were collected in "Pictures Tell the Story" (2000) and "The Memphis Blues Again" (2001).

congrats, ladies!

(I'm going back to the bookstore to look for this in San Fran because I couldn't find it before.)

Greetings,

I'm so late, but I wanted to let you know that my photography collective, She Shootin', has been featured in the latest issue of Trace magazine (www.trace212.com) as part of the NYC Creative Collective spread (images of cover and article are attached). On stands now and I have included the text in this email. Hope all is well and good, more later, peace!

Best regards,

Laylah

(and, She Shootin' - Nsenga Knight, Delphine Fawundu-Buford, Kerika Fields and Ava Griffiths)

She Shootin’

Other than Lorna Simpson and Deborah Willis, Brooklyn photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn saw few black female lens masters getting props for being at the top of their game. So last year, she and four other Brooklyn women decided to take matters into their own hands by forming the She Shootin’ photography collective. “I had this vision to put women photographers in the forefront and take the industry by storm,” says Laylah. “You only hear about the dudes. And they’re great, but we’re fly too. I want to push black women photographers, and all women photographers, to get out there.”

After showcasing their work together in the summer of 2006 at Harriet’s Alter Ego – a Park Slope boutique and gallery – the women won a grant to curate a group show, “A Drum Beats in Brooklyn,” at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The springtime exhibit, highlighting the tradition of African drumming put She Shootin’ on the cultural map.

Individually, these women have worked hard to land their work in places such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the African American Museum in Philadelphia and The Museum of Contemporary Art – D.C. Some have been published in anthologies such as BLACK: A Celebration of a Culture and Reflections in Black, both edited by Deborah Willis, and in magazines such as Essence, Vibe and Rolling Stone. All are world traveled – Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East. For now, the ladies of She Shootin’ are focusing on solo projects, but they hope to do another major group show in 2008. They also plan to introduce an educational component to their mission as they seek non-profit status. In the meantime, they contact each other occasionally, finding comfort in the camaraderie they have established.

“Aside from putting our names out there, we offer each other support,” says Nsenga Knight. “There are some reasons why women don’t reach certain levels in this field. Children, working other jobs, and we’re all there to help. If one of us needs to borrow money, or have someone go pick up prints, we’re there for each other so everybody is able to accomplish their goals.”

Likewise, Kerika Fields finds strength in numbers. “The sisters push me,” she says. “They encourage me. Also, we share resources. I now have people to call when I need a frame, or a referral for a printing place. But ultimately, they inspire me because they are all so good. I am compelled to keep pushing my own limits and exploring my own vision.”

The women of She Shootin’ are quick to point out that although their work often shares a socio-political focus, their photography does not influence each other’s – each has her own vision. However, they do occasionally bounce ideas off each other. “We appreciate each other’s styles, but we don’t always share our work with each other,” says Delphine Fawundu-Buford. “I have enough confidence in everyone to bring something powerful to the table.”

–Selena Ricks

still fierce

How could you not love her? (Kate Moss I could do without.)

Bow down, baby.

ohmygod--brilliant!

http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
(made me laugh out loud--
this impulse is a personal favorite of Deirdre's)


and also:

http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

if you're in Miami

Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 11, 7-10pm

Artist Talk:
Saturday, October 13, 2-4pm

Artists: Elizabeth Axtman, Lauren Woods, Mansita Diawara, Nekisha Durrett, Stanley Squirewell, Bayeté Ross Smith, Russell Watson, Heather Hart, and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

Off Color
October 11-November 20, 2007

Diaspora Vibe Gallery
3938 N Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

www.diasporavibe.net

Miami, FL.- Diaspora Vibe is pleased to present Off Color an exhibition designed to highlight nine international emerging artists (Elizabeth Axtman, Lauren Woods, Mansita Diawara, Nekisha Durrett, Stanley Squirewell, Bayeté Ross Smith, Russell Watson, Heather Hart, and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum) who create video and photo based work that considers the complexities of the body politic in the contemporary age. These artists each take a very nuanced approach to their practice in which technology, space, time, and abstraction manifest in various conceptual and aesthetic forms. This exhibition is a curatorial project by Hank Willis Thomas and Kalia Brooks. Hank Willis Thomas is an artist that lives and works in San Francisco and New York and a recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship Award. Kalia Brooks is a New York based curator and writer and a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Elizabeth Axtman (b.1980) received her MFA in 2006 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She creates photo and video based images that attempt to represent the spectrum of emotions within the African American experience. Being of mixed race, she in interested in exploring the accessibility to race privilege. Axtman uses identity as material in the construction of her work. Her work will be featured in Black Is Black Ain't (2008) at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois. She was recently awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006.

San Francisco based artist Lauren Woods (b. 1979) hybrid media projects use video and 16-mm film as well as appropriated imagery to reflect on, re-envision, and rewrite the history of a postcolonial and global society. Her work, in the form of single-channel projections and large-scale multichannel video installations, contemplate and question cultural and collective memory and examine sociopolitical discourses. Woods earned her MFA in 2006 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Out The Box, at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.

Mansita Diawara makes images that are grounded in the literary. She pulls inspiration from scholars such as James Baldwin and Benjamin Buchloh to construct visual portals that inscribe apocalyptic messages. As anartist living and working in New York City she uses her camera to document sites that have become popularized by death, creating photographic eulogies to an absurd end. Diawara received her BFA in 2004 from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was awarded a residency with the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2006.

Nekisha Durrett's (b. 1976) large-scale portraits reveal her interest in the ubiquity of popular media. She has arrived at a process that combines drawing and photography to illustrate fictive characters that bear likeness to graphic logos. Durrett earned her BFA at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. She went on to earn her MFA in photography in 2000 at the University of Michigan as a Horace H. Rackham Fellow. Her work was most recently featured in Vote With Your Art at the OK Harris Gallery in New York.

Stanley Squirewell (b. 1978) is dissolving and re-fabricating images that deal with the complex socio-economic issues and control mechanisms of self-perpetual slavery. He works in a combination of found objects, furniture, and old and new visual technology to assemble images that are metaphorically related to the condition of people of African ancestry. Squirewell received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at Warehouse Gallery in Washington, DC 2005). Squirewell lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

Bayeté Ross Smith's (b. 1976) photographic portraits borrow from "official" identification portraiture like passport, driver's license and mug shot photographs. He uses the camera to document the ways in which identity is created, interpreted and expressed in the world. Ross Smith is curious about the individual'ssense of self, rather than the assumptions that are placed upon that individual. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004. His workhas been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally including the Goethe Institute in Accra, Ghana, a performance at the Zacheta NationalGallery of Art, in Warsaw Poland, the Leica Gallery in New York and The San Francisco Arts Commission.

Russell Watson (b. 1973) is a multimedia artist that crisscrosses genres of performance, sculpture, photography and video. His practice investigates thepersistence of ancestral memory and its relationship to the performative body. Rooted in the visual culture of the Caribbean his work seeks an idiosyncratic meta narrative that allows for the transcendence of the body as it strives for its full expressive potential. Originally from Barbados, Watson received his MFA inFilm, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently lives and works in New York.

Through her installations, Heather Hart (b. 1975), explores the individual perception of reality and its influence on the acceptance of truth. She is fascinated by the ways humans relate to each other and in turn relate to materials by embellishing utilitarian spaces that merge physical, tactile, and psychological contradictions. Hart is currently a MFA candidate at Rutgers University. Her work was recently featured in an exhibition entitled, United Black Girls, at the Rush Arts Gallery in New York (2007). She was awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship forSocrates Sculpture Park and a Skowhegan Fellowship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's work alludes to histories that are ancestral and archaeological, while blurring them with stories that, in their urgency and immediacy, conjure current and impending moments. Bodies, as figures, become whispering coconspirators busy at the task of defacing dominant histories while themselves refusing to be obliterated, removed, or otherwise worked over. Sunstrum was born in Mochudi, Botswana and grew up in different parts of southern Africa and southwest Asia. She completed her MFA in May 2007 at the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art. Sunstrum was awarded a Skowhegan Fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School ofPainting and Sculpture.

Diaspora Vibe Gallery is located in Miami's Design District at 3938 North Miami Avenue, second level. An opening reception takes place on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 from 7pm - 10pm. An artist talk and slide presentation will take place on Saturday, October 13th, from 2pm - 4pm. The exhibition, reception and artist talk are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 305.573.4046 or log onto www.diasporavibe.net

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; Artography; Arts in a Changing America; a grant and documentation program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation; Surdna Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Council; Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Funding Arts Network; Dade Community Foundation; Dade Community Foundation's John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Donor-Advised Fund; Carl and Toni Randolph; and Dr. Michael Hill. Founded by its current Director/Curator, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Diaspora Vibe is currently celebrating its 11th anniversary.

Lauren Woods

IN ATLANTA:

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and
the Moving Image Since 1970 (part 1 of 2 part year
long exhibition)

September 14, 2007 -  December 8, 2007

SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART PRESENTS
GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION OF VIDEO ART BY BLACK WOMEN
ARTISTS

cinema%20postcard.pdf


cinema%20remixed.pdf

ATLANTA (August 14, 2007) – Video art is currently the
most pervasive genre of contemporary art and beginning
September 14, through Saturday, December 8, Spelman
College Museum of Fine Art will feature the first-ever
exhibition that explores this genre.  Unlike the more
conventional genres of painting and sculpture, video
art emerged in the later half of the 20th century and
has rapidly moved from the realm of cinema to visual
arts genre. Like cinema, video art relies on the lapse
of time, and the viewers’ willingness to allow the
work to unfold from frame to frame.

While black women artists have been creating video art
for more than 30 years as both experimental cinema and
as visual art, most exhibitions featuring video art
have not collectively or exclusively examined the
contributions that black women make to this exciting
field. “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women
Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970” is the first
exhibition that provides a close examination of black
women video artists.


IN LOS ANGELES:

Blacks In and Out of the Box
California African American Museum

September 13 - December 30, 2007

This exhibition focuses on African Americans as
artists and subjects throughout the  history of
photography.  Thematically, it highlights California's
influence on Blacks i  front of and behind the camera
and the on-going dialogue African Americans have  with
the images of their past.  The show features 20 works
from CAAM's permanent  collection as well as historic
and contemporary images from collectors and artists
ranging  from Blacks on the frontier to contemporary
videography.

http://caam.ca.gov/

IN WASHINGTON DC:

National Museum of Women in the Arts' 20th Anniversary
Festival of Women's Film & Media Arts

9/25/2007 10:00 AM - 9/30/2007 5:00 PM

The National Museum of Women in the Arts’ 20th
Anniversary Festival of Women’s Film & Media Arts will
take place September 25-30, 2007 in the NMWA Theater.
The festival is being launched in commemoration of
NMWA’s 20 years of dedication to celebrating the
highest creative achievements of women, in honor of
this history and to highlight exceptional and exciting
new film and media works by women.

http://www.nmwa.org/filmfest/

IN HOUSTON:

I will be in residence for a month at PROJECT ROW
HOUSES an exciting project happening in Houston...

Project Row Houses is a neighborhood based art and
cultural organization located in Houston's Third Ward.
PRH was established in 1993 on a site of 22 abandoned
shotgun houses (c. 1930) to connect the work of
artists with the revitalization of our community. It
was inspired by the work of African-American artist
Dr. John Biggers who celebrated the social
significance of the shotgun house house community in
his paintings.

Round 27 “Race & Class”
The focus of this current round “People, Places and
Things of Northern Third Ward” and this upcoming round
“Race & Class” are to address the changes that are
currently happening in our Third Ward Community.
Since the opening of PRH, the neighborhood is no
longer “one of the worst” sites; it is growing in
diversity, both ethnically and economically. These
changes offer new challenges to our ability to
creatively build community in our neighborhood.

Dates:
Working / Installation Period: Sep 17 – Oct 12
Exhibition Run: Oct 13 – Jan 20

http://projectrowhouses.org/

IN MIAMI:

Off Color
Curated by Hank Wilis Thomas and Kalia Brooks

October 11 - November 24, 2007

Off Color traces current uses of photography in
artistic experimentation. Artists from Jamaica,
Guyana, and the U.S. present their use of the camera
to frame critical explorations of a range of issues
including the body, self-portraiture, and as a
documentary tool. Photography workshops will be
presented to community youth for the duration of the
exhibit by participating artists. Curator, Hank Willis
Thomas is the son of Deborah Willis, who is a 2001
MacArthur Genius Fellow and a 1996 recipient of the
Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She has
pursued a dual professional career as an art
photographer and as one of the nation's leading
historians of African American photography and curator
of African American culture.This is Hanks first
Curatorial attempt.

http://www.diasporavibe.net/index.php

Call for Papers

The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts and Letters

March 27-29, 2008

University of Connecticut, Storrs

Keynote speaker: Mr. Spike Lee

The Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut announces a national conference

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant eras of artistic expression of the twentieth century U.S. Following World War I, the explosion of cultural work among African Americans reflected rich intellectual and political expression with visual artists, musicians, literati, and others. The conference will explore the major ideas, people, and legacies of this period. The conference will bring together a broad-based, interdisciplinary program that includes scholars, artists, activists, and cultural workers from across the United States and abroad.

We seek papers dealing with, but not limited to:

1. Class, gender and social hierarchies in African American communities

2. The Emergence of an African American aesthetic

3. Expressive culture in jazz, blues and other music of the era

4. Theoretical perspectives on the “New Negro”

5. Politics and black nationalism

We will consider both papers and complete panels. One-paragraph abstracts should be sent by November 30, 2007. Please send abstracts by email attachment in PDF or Microsoft Word format to:

Ms. Rosebud Lovelace

Program Manager

Institute for African American Studies

University of Connecticut

241 Glenbrook Rd, U-2162

Storrs, CT 06269-2162

Rosebud.lovelace@uconn.edu

www.iaas.uconn.edu

Shoot Films, Not People Productions

Good day to you. I want to thank everyone who has donated money to my new project, Maya: The Illusion. It is still not too late to become a 'mini producer' of this amazing film. The importance of this film being silent is to show that the subject of HIV/AIDS is still silent in our community. This will be a ground breaking film... Also, with the help of the community this film will be made. My name is Mya B., Director/Producer of the Award Winning Documentary, 'Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexualtiy in America'. I am doing it AGAIN... Diving in and making another powerful film. This time it is a narrative film piece, shot on Panasonic DVX100 and 8mm. "Mya Baker is a young filmmaker born and raised in Chi-town. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where she came to be around people of like mind in the independent film industry. Graduating from Columbia College of Chicago in 1995 with a concentration in film studies gave her the writing and production skills needed to pursue her passion as an independent filmmaker. From working as a PA on several independent films and interning, she decided to venture into her own project. After two years of groundbreaking interviews and obtaining historical information, she has just finished her documentary entitled, 'Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America.' This documentary has already received a Telly Award for 2004 and has been making noise at various film festivals." 'Maya: The Illusion', is a short narrative piece that won runner up in the American Gem Screenwriting Competion. Synopsis: In this semi-silent, black and white film, a young woman in college has her sights on a man that holds a secret lifestyle that is revealed after she has a night of passionate unprotected sex with him. Through animated battle scenes we see how the HIV Virus attacks her body from within. Blended with jazz music and specs of RED colors to symbolize caution, we see how a pretty face can have rotten insides. There were some problems with sending the money via paypal. I apologize for that. You can send your $13.00 donation through the link below or by mail. 'Mini Producer' certificates will be sent out sometime in October. "When spider webs unite, it can tie up a lion...' New ways to donate by Mya B. If you had some problems sending payments through paypal, you can donate directly by visiting my site at www.shootfilmsnotpeople.com.

Promotion Let's make history... I want people to know that through determination, all things are possible. As a community, we can accomplish many things. We must unite. I know some of us think that we are so established, that we don't have to network anymore, but that is not true. We must reclaim our community by taking back the arts. Let's work to help one another reach our goals. Do we really need Hollywood telling us, 'Drama doesn't work for Black folks'? Do we have to continue selling our culture to others or do minstrel type films in order to get recognition. For just a few dollars, you can become a part of the filmmaking experience by being a 'mini producer'. It takes a village to make a film also, so let's make it happen. Thank you in advance. Our Price: $ 13.00 donation

Mya B. Shoot Films, Not People Productions

OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS

The A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Program provides emerging and mid-career underrepresented women artists with a solo show

and18-month sponsored membership.The PDF below is the 2007 Application Form for A.I.R.s Fellowship Program.

If you have any questions, please email or call:

info@airgallery.org; 212-255-6651

2007-A.I.R.%20Fellowship%20Application.pdf

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I.O.U. MISSION 17's Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition Juried by: Clark Buckner (MISSION 17), Jeannene Przyblyski (San Francisco Art Institute), Elaine Santos (MISSION 17), and Meg Shiffler (San Francisco Arts Commission) December 7, 2007 - January 19, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 2007

I.O.U. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The engine of our economy is fueled by personal and public debt. Credit card bills and student loans weigh heavily on many, and often accrue at interest rates too exorbitant ever to pay off. Mortgages have been extended to people who don't earn enough to cover their costs. And the federal budget is paid by loans from foreign creditors. Psychologically, the dynamic too often is similar. We over-invest in others - parents, lovers, heroes, and icons - and expect the same in return. We make impossible demands, and suffer the inevitable disappointment of impossible expectations. But debt entails more than burdens. We owe others also for their support and inspiration, for the lessons they teach and the pleasures they provide us. What we borrow often sustains us, gives us hope, or becomes the basis for self-invention. What we take from our predecessors situates us historically, orienting us in our pursuits and providing us with a sense of our place in the world. And our indebtedness can fill us with gratitude. We valorize autonomy. But what about the debts we owe to others - are they sources of strength or debilitating? Do they arouse appreciation or shame? What do they reveal about our needs and limitations? What do they say about dependency, guilt, inheritance, and history? For its fourth annual juried exhibition, MISSION 17 invites submissions of works that, in one way or another, consider the nature of debt. MISSION 17: I.O.U. Submission Guidelines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eligibility: Open to all West Coast artists. All media welcome. Please submit the following for consideration: 1. Cover page including: name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and title of work 2. Artists Statement 3. Artist Resume 4. Image list (title, media, dimensions, date) 5. No more than 6 images (35 mm slides, Mac-compatible CD, or DVD with no more than 5 minute excerpt accepted). *Please label slides with your name, number corresponding to the image list, and indicate "top" of artwork. *Please label CD or DVD with your name, and digital images with numbers corresponding to the image list. 6. Provide a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with sufficient postage for the return material. MISSION 17 will make every attempt to safeguard submitted material, but cannot be responsible for loss or damage. Never send master slides. ***Artists will need to install and de-install their own work and provide own resources (including tools, brushes, nails,etc.) for install (11/27) and de-install (1/20) Send submissions to: ATTN: IOU/MISSION17 2111 Mission Street, Suite 401 San Francisco, CA 94110 Drop off hours are Thursday, Friday, Saturday 3-6pm DEADLINE: Friday, November, 9th with extended drop off hours: 12 - 6pm Accepted artitsts will be notified by November 20th and work will be exhibited at MISSION 17 from December 7th, 2007 - January 19th, 2008

Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2111 Mission Street, Suite 401 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.mission17.org info@mission17.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“No artists’ group embodies and enacts the spirit of their community like a collective, and no other collective does so more than Soul Salon 10, a group of fourteen artists based mostly in and around Oakland whose work manages to be both synonymous with their immediate communities while also global and expansive in its reach. Their ability to come together, almost organically, around a thematic project speaks to the degree to which they’ve each successfully integrated their art with living—these are not artists for art’s sake, but rather artists whose work depends upon the universality of their daily interactions in and observations of the world. The issues that shape these 21^st century blues are all here as the present dialogues with the past—from dollar dinners to sustainable agriculture, from mammy to motherhood, from Robert Johnson to Robert “R.” Kelly. These are the issues that we talk about, that affect us; Soul Salon are our interpreters who take those ruminations and deep discussions among family, friends, neighbors and co-workers and transform them from head-shaking futility to mind-expanding brilliance.”---Carla Williams (excerpt from the forthcoming BLACK and BLUE Catalog that will accompany the exhibit)

Visit www.soulsalon10.com for more info. or to purchase a catalog

Hi,

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Dear friends, collectors and guerillas,

Thank you for coming out to support our Emory Douglas exhibition and reception. It was one of the biggest turnouts we have had and very inspiring day indeed with many special guests. If you missed the reception and would like to collect (purchase) a poster or the complete set you can now do so online or at the Guerilla cafe in Berkeley, CA. The poster installation will be on view at the cafe until October 21, 2007.

These signed posters are printed on the finest archival paper.

Publisher: Konte Photoworks International
Signed and numbered by the artist Emory Douglas
Collection size: 5
Print size: 14"x 23"
Edition Size: 66
Print price: $66.00
Entire set of 5 $280.00

View and Purchase Posters

or visit www.kebakonte.com

SAVE THE DATE - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2007

RECONSTRUCTING WOMANHOOD: A FUTURE BEYOND EMPIRE
A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE WORK OF HAZEL V. CARBY

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College,
Columbia University, New York, NY

Conference Schedule

9:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
**Coffee available to participants

10:00am
Keynote 1: "Paranoid Empire, Masculinities and Other War Zones"
               Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:15am
Keynote 2: "The Stranger's Work: Desire, Intimacy, Violence, and
Cultural
               Restoration"
               Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY- Graduate Center

12:30
Lunch Break

2:00pm
Keynote 3:  "Reading and Reckoning Histories of Loss"
                Lisa Lowe, UC-San Diego/Yale University
(in-residence)
** Coffee available to participants

3:15pm
Keynote 4: "Reconstructing Manhood; or the Drag of Black
Masculinity"
               Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

4:30pm
Closing Keynote: "Lost (and Found?) in Translation"
                Hazel V. Carby, Yale University

6:00pm
Reception

The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hazel Carby's
groundbreaking text, Reconstructing Womanhood, which traces the
emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural
reconstruction and examines the ways in which dominant racial and
sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's
fiction. The work of reconstruction announced by the title is
three-fold: it describes the efforts of nineteenth-century writers
and activists to redefine the meaning of womanhood and to challenge
the color-line that placed blacks outside the boundaries of the
human; it entails political efforts to transform and refashion the
state; and it encompasses the critical labor of imagining a future
beyond Man. Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Carby's
scholarship in Literary and Cultural Studies, feminist theory,
critical race theory, Marxism, and post-colonial criticism, this
one-day symposium revisits the import of this work in relation to
an extended set of issues that include re-writing the human, the
production of disposable life, refashioning masculinities and queer
sexualities, and creating a world beyond empire.

The symposium is free but space is limited so please R.S.V.P. by
emailing fkb2104@columbia.edu.

The symposium has been made possible by the generous funding of the
following institutional partners:

Office of the Provost, Yale University; Institute for Research on
Women and Gender Studies, Columbia University; Women's Studies
Program, Duke University; Barnard Center for Research
on Women,Barnard College; Institute for Research in African American
Studies, Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard
College and Columbia University Libraries

Mendi+Keith Chicago Public Radio feature (podcast, clips, & interviews)

We're writing to let you know about Chicago Public Radio's recent
feature on our project Big House / Disclosure. They have presented an
interview and excerpts of our work in conjunction with the Third Coast
International Audio Festival, where we'll be giving a presentation in
November. Please come check us out if you're in the area.



Peace,

Mendi+Keith



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and did I really think for a brief moment I could bid on this?

(Happy to hear it sold above estimate; I noticed whoever wrote the catalog used my text. Funny. Go, Maudelle!)

BEULAH WOODARD (1895 - 1955) Maudelle.

$7000 to $10000

Sold for $12000

Sale 2122 Lot 5

BEULAH WOODARD (1895 - 1955)
Maudelle.

Fired terra-cotta painted brown, with white and green additions, circa 1937-38. Approximately 305x310x202 mm; 12x12 1/4x8 inches. Indistinctly incised initials "BW" lower edge verso.

Illustrated in Selected Pieces from the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. Afro-American Art Collection.

This bust displays Woodard's powerful realism in the careful modelling of the subject's features and in the detailed description of her hair and earrings. Woodard made a similar African woman in terracotta with the same treatment of color on the earrings, and another version of Maudelle in fired clay. Throughout her career, Woodard faithfully recorded African styles of dress and decoration from her own research. Farrington pp. 94-94, ills. 4.16 and 4.18.

Maudelle Bass Weston (1908 – 1989) was an African-American dancer and artists' model known professionally as Maudelle. She went on to pose for such painters as Diego Rivera, Abraham Baylinson, Nicolai Fechin, and Robert M. Jackson and photographers Johan Hagemeyer, Sonia Noskowiak, Edward Weston, Weegee, Carl Van Vechten, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Lola Alvarez Bravo. She moved to Los Angeles in 1933; she became a sculptor herself in 1976.
Estimate $7,000-10,000

hope?

Former Democratic Party GA Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
considers run for President on Green Party ticket,
will hold a series of talks in SF Bay Area this week
For more info go to
www.RunCynthiaRun.com

OAKLAND - Six-term U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia Cynthia McKinney--who
may enter the 2008 California Presidential Primary on the Green Party
ticket--will speak at a series of events throughout the Bay Area this
week, according to "California Greens to Draft Cynthia McKinney in 2008."

McKinney has not yet made a commitment to run as a Green, or independent,
but supporters say she is expected to make her final decision public this
week.

McKinney will deliver a talk, "Confronting Empire," which covers the
arrogance of the Bush regime, spinelessness of the Democratic Congress,
plight of the under-represented and abused, corporate takeover of our
military and our government and what Americans can do about it.
Thursday, Oct 4 in Oakland (6:30-9 p.m., Oakland Branch Library, 1801
Adeline)

Friday in Berkeley, where "American Blackout" will
be screened (6 p.m., Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar),
and several San Francisco spots Friday and Saturday.

McKinney will also appear at "Impeach at the Beach #4" at Berkeley Marina
on Sunday, 11 a.m., with Cindy Sheehan and