practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s
Labels: Kehinde Wiley
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Thursday, November 29, 6-9PM
No less than 100 pieces of artwork to choose from, created by some of the Bay Area's biggest artists. Start your art collection, make it bigger, or get your holiday shopping done early.
Exhibition: November 24 - December 23, 2007
Participating Artists: Patricia Ancona, Lorene Anderson, Kathy Aoki, Laura Ball, Deborah Barrett, Steven R. Barich, Ray Beldner, Linda Braz, Allegra Burke, John Casey, Kirsten Chappa, Susan Chen, Jared Lindsay Clark, Lia Cook, Ben Cressy, Lauren Davies, Dana DeKalb, Jeff Eisenberg, Tara Foley, Erik Freidman, Terry Furry, Marianna Garibay, James Gayles, Kathy Graddy, Jackie Gratz, Lora Groves, Andrea Guskin, Elyse Hochstadt, Josh Hagler, Mayumi Hamanaka, Taro Hattori, Dave Higgins, Laura Kamian, Michael Kerbow, Sherry Koyama, Mary Anne Kluth, Lisa Kokin, Jaime Lakatos, Noah Lang, Christina La Sala, Hugh Livingston, Christopher Loomis, Jeremiah Maddoch, Paul Madonna, Michelle Mansour, Eileen Starr Moderbacher, Elise Morris, Gage Opdenbrouw, Nathaniel Parsons, Chris Pew, Lisa Perrott, Chris Powell, Michele Pred, Yuri Psinakis, Thomas Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, Walter Robinson, Andrew Romanoff, Bayete Ross Smith, Laurel Roth, Reuben Rude, Nadim Sabella, Andrew Schoultz, Jessica Serran, Ema Sintamarian, Casey Jex Smith, Travis Somerville, Kirsten Stolle, Kirk Stoller, Inez Storer, Sudhu Tewari, Josephine Taylor, Kevin E. Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Cleo Vilett, Andy Vogt, Stuart Wagner, Heather Wilcoxon, Christine Wong Yap, lauren woods, Mary Younkin, Dana Zed
Labels: Bayeté Ross Smith, exhibitions, Hank Willis Thomas, Lauren Woods
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(thanks, Bridget!)
Are you a woman of colour artist? Are you looking to speak out against
the oppressive representations of women of colour in art?
We are looking for women of colour who are painters or photographers to participate in an exercise of strategic approximation. Selected artists will be required to
produce a subversive reproduction of a canonic work of art in which you feel
women of colour have been unfairly represented. Your painting or photograph will be an
approximation of a work of art reproduced from a feminist and anti-racist perspective with minor or major modifications that highlight the patriarchy and/or racism of the original piece.
The artwork will be exhibited at the
Please send a one-page proposal of the artwork you hope to exhibit along
with a portfolio or slides of your work to:
Meera Karunananthan
700-170 Laurier Ave West
We welcome contributions from women artists from aboriginal, African, Asian and other minority communities. Please note that we will give greater consideration to the content proposed than to the experience and technical skills of the artist.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 19, 2007
For more information, please contact Meera Karunananthan at mkaru021@uottawa.ca
Corrective Lenses is sponsored by the following
The Institute of Women's Studies, Community Life Services, The University of Ottawa Women's Resource Centre and The Social Justice Group, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law.
Labels: calls for submissions
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Labels: Suzan-Lori Parks
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Labels: James Brown, Princeton, symposium
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(FSB Magazine) -- Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February.
The company behind the Espresso is called On Demand Books, founded by legendary book editor Jason Epstein, 78, and Dane Neller, 56, but the technology was developed six years ago by Jeff Marsh, who is a technology advisor for New York City-based ODB (ondemandbooks.com).
The machine can print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers. It prints in any language and will even accommodate right-to-left texts by putting the spine on the right. The upper page limit is 550 pages, though by tweaking the page thickness and type size, you could get a copy of War and Peace (albeit tough to read) if you wanted.
Neller says that future versions of the machine will accommodate longer works with fewer hassles. Prices for the finished product will vary depending on locations, but the production cost is about a penny per page. (At right, FSB's interpretation.)
Some 2.5 million books are now available - about one million in English and no longer under copyright protection. On Demand accesses the volumes through Google and the Open Content Alliance, among other sources. Neller predicts that within about five years On Demand Books will be able to reproduce every volume ever printed.
Epstein says that the larger obstacles are consumer preference - the machine can't make you a latte - and convincing skeptics in the industry. But some early adopters are already sold on the idea.
Niko Pfund, a publisher at Oxford University Press, says the evolution away from traditional bookstores is only natural. "For hundreds of years the industry was unchanged," Pfund says. "Then audio came out. Now it's time for digital."
Would you use a vending machine to buy books? Please send feedback or column ideas to fsb_mail@timeinc.com
Labels: publications
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Last night the ultra-fabulous KAMOINGE, Inc., opened their show, 'Revealing the Face of Katrina' at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo.
Follow the link below for just a taste of the festivities: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21344423@N08/sets/72157603313403765/
Labels: Kamoinge, Katrina, Radcliffe Roye
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"NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS" SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES "
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEY STAND" TO AIR BEGINNING ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
New York, N.Y. – November 15, 2007 – Throughout the week of November 26, "NBC News With Brian Williams" will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series "African-American Women: Where They Stand." The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the '08 Presidential race, to the increased health-risks that they need to be concerned about.Monday's installment will discuss African-American women's progress in the education field. Nearly two-thirds of African-American undergraduates are women. At black colleges, the ratio of women to men is 7 to 1. And that is leading to a disparity in the number of African-American women who go on to own their own businesses. Rehema Ellis will talk to educators, students and businesswomen about why this disparity exists.Tuesday, Ellis will look at the relationships of African-American women. Many agree the gender disparity in education and business among African-Americans is having an effect on relationships that African American women have. Some even say the implications could redefine "Black America's family and social structure." In the past fifty years, the percentage of African-American women between 25-54 who have never been married has doubled from 20% to 40%. (Compared to just 16% of white women who have never been married today). Ellis sits down with the members of a Chicago book club and talk about this difference and how it impacts them.Dr. Nancy Snyderman will discuss the increases risks for breast cancer for African-American women on Wednesday. Mortality rates for African-American women are higher than any other racial or ethnic group for nearly every major cause of death, including breast cancer. Black women with breast cancer are nearly 30% more likely to die from it than white women. Premenopausal black women are more than twice as likely to get a more aggressive form of the disease. And, not only are African-American women more likely to die from breast cancer, but they're less likely to get life-saving treatments. Dr. Snyderman will profile one of the only oncologists in the world who specializes in the treatment of African-American women with breast cancer.On Thursday, Ron Allen will take viewers to South Carolina -- the first southern primary state -- and ask the question: Will race trump gender or gender trump race? In South Carolina, black women made up nearly 30 percent of all democratic primary voters in 2004. This year, polls show a significant number are undecided, torn between choosing the first African-American or first female Presidential candidate. Allen talks with the undecided, as well the state directors for the Clinton and Obama campaigns, who happen to be African-American women.To close the series on Friday, Dr. Snyderman will raise the frightening statistic that African-American women are 85% more likely to get diabetes, a major complication for heart disease. And, like breast cancer, more black women die from heart disease than white women. Dr. Snyderman will profile a leading expert and a unique church-based outreach program in South Carolina that seeks to spread the word about heart disease risks to black women congregants. Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address two hot topics in the African - American community: interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women. Interracial dating is a growing trend in the African - American community. An Essence.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non- black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family"of the future.Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for an engaging discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men. Consumers can go online to join the discussion and share their thoughts on message boards. They can also read and respond to blog entries at _www.nightly. msnbc.com_ (http://www.nightly. msnbc.com/ ) . Alexandra Wallace is the executive producer of "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams." Bob Epstein is the senior broadcast producer, and Rich Latour is the senior producer for this series.NBC News' home on the Internet is _www.msnbc.com_ ( http://www.msnbc. com/) . For more news and information about "Nightly News," please go to _www.nightly. msnbc.com_ ( http://www.nightly. msnbc.com/ ) .
Labels: black women, media
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A friend sent the E-mail below last week regarding a recent staging in New Orleans of Waiting For Godot; she raises some important, seemingly perpetual questions, and I have not yet responded to her.Developed from the testimony of Katrina survivors in the Bay Area, Stardust and Empty Wagons is a tribute to the culture, music and everyday life of a New Orleans now struggling to be reborn. With live music performed by New Orleans' own The Hot 8 Brass Band, ten actors portray tales of terror and bravery from the greatest disaster in U.S. history. Out of destruction always comes creation-so new life will rise from the scattered "stardust" that comprises the Katrina Diaspora.
Cast: Velina Brown, L. Peter Callender, Elizabeth Carter, Olivia Charles, Frederick Delahoussaye, Jeff Jones, Amber McZeal, Elizabeth Summers and Karla Vaughn. Visual design by Daniel Gamberg, set design by Mikiko Uesugi, lighting design by Cathie Anderson, photography by David Allen, Associate Producer, C.C. Campbell Rock.
hi Everyone.....sorry for the mass mail......but i
would like your input.....these are questions i am
always pondering in regards to my own practice.....
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/chan/
waiting for godot staged in the 9th ward...and other
locations in new orleans.......paul chan..artist
project...
what do you think...?.....
interesting project....?..with altruistic
intentions..?...creative fundraiser......?.......or
another artistic exploitation by a visual artist of a
post katrina new orleans........or any other disaster
zone for that matter.......
if there is an ounce of "eploitation"......is this a
moot point when dollars are involved...?........the
end justifies the means.....
(sontag did it before chan in 93 in
sarajevo.....before that...some guy did it in the 50s
at san quentin penitentiary....)
SFKO
Labels: Katrina, Lauren Woods, New Orleans
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Labels: exhibitions, Kenneth Wingard, Studio Museum in Harlem
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NEW YORK , NY 10001
TEL 1 212 242 0599
FAX 1 212 242 0803
Labels: Carrie Mae Weems, Dawoud Bey, exhibitions, Hank Willis Thomas, Ifétayo Abdus-Salam, Mickalene Thomas, Radcliffe Bailey, Renee Cox
posted by Carla at 11:32 AM
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
Wear this flag and talk to me
Focus On Arts: Photographer stops at Winston-Salem State during tour to give voice to the attitudes of America's Generation Y
By Tom Patterson
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Sheila Pree adjusts the flag wrapped around Michael Wright of Gastonia, a freshman at Winston-Salem State. Her photos, taken at Diggs Gallery, will be part of an exhibit to premiere at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta next year. (Journal Photo by Lauren Carroll) |
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Sheila Pree, a photographer from Atlanta, is looking for members of "Generation Y" - young people from 18 to 25 - who are willing to be photographed with the U.S. flag in poses that reflect something about their identities and their feelings about the country.
Last week she brought her search to Winston-Salem State University. On Monday and Tuesday the university's Diggs Gallery was temporarily closed to the public so she could use it as a makeshift studio. She made color photographs of 15 students posed with a large U.S. flag against a white backdrop.
Images that she selects from these studio sessions and others she is holding in cities across the country will become part of a series titled "Young Americans," set to premiere in May as a solo exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The photographs are also scheduled to travel to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., and to be reproduced in a book devoted to the series, Pree said.
"Young Americans" is the first series in which Pree has focused on generational identity. Her parents are black Americans from Waycross, Ga., she said, but she was born and raised in Germany as an "Army brat" and never lived in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Pree said she began working on her "Young Americans" series in July, after she came up with the idea of using the U.S. flag as a prop. "Young people born between 1983 and 2000 make up the biggest generation since the baby boomers, but they're often negatively portrayed in our society," she said. "I wanted to give them a platform to speak for themselves, to show and tell how they feel about this country."
Rather than directing her subjects, Pree said, she collaborates with them by allowing them to choose what to wear, how to pose and how to interact with the flag in the photographs.
"One of them said to me, 'Nobody has ever allowed us this type of freedom before,'" she said.
While the sessions are in progress Pree encourages her subjects to talk about their ideas and feelings about America. She makes audio recordings of these exchanges and plans to include some of the recordings in the exhibition, so that viewers can listen to them on iPods while looking at the photos.
Josh Phifer, an 18-year-old Winston-Salem State freshman from Charlotte, posed for Pree on Monday afternoon. In talking about the session afterward, he said, "I took her idea a step further and tried to show how I feel as a black person about America. For one of my poses I had the flag enveloping my body, and I held my fist up. For another one I held out the flag and looked down at it, to represent the struggle of black people in the past and how much I've gained by that struggle."
About the generational theme of Pree's project, Phifer said, "There's so much negativity about this generation. I just want to be able to make a change in the way people perceive us."
Soon after she began the project, Pree said, a group of art patrons from Hartford, Conn., came to her studio during a visit to Atlanta. One member of the group was on the board of directors for the Aetna Foundation in Hartford, and was so enthusiastic about Pree's project that she arranged for the foundation to award Pree a $45,000 grant to complete it, Pree said. She said that she spent most of the money on the Hasselblad camera and special lenses she is using to make the photographs.
Belinda Tate, the Diggs Gallery's director and curator, also visited Pree's studio last summer, while in Atlanta for the city's annual Black Arts Festival. Tate had arranged to talk with Pree about acquiring additional photographs from her "Plastic Bodies" series for Winston-Salem State's art collection.
"She told me about the new project she was working on, and I immediately fell in love with the idea," Tate said. "She wasn't originally planning to come to Winston-Salem, but I wanted to create a voice for our students within her project, and I was able to convince her to come here. Participating in this project is a wonderful opportunity for Winston-Salem State to demonstrate the diversity of the student body and to give a voice to our students who might not otherwise be heard."
Pree said she began making photographs for the project in Atlanta, and before coming to Winston-Salem she made additional photos at several northeastern colleges and universities, including Yale, Trinity College and the University of Connecticut. "But this project is not just about schools," she said. "I want to include young people from diverse backgrounds and from all socio-economic groups."
After leaving Winston-Salem, Pree was scheduled to make photos for the project in New York. She said she also plans to photograph young people in New Orleans, Little Rock and Memphis, and hopes to schedule sessions in California.
She said that her sessions to date have yielded 45 to 50 of the 100 photographs she wants to include in the series, and that she aims to complete the project early next year.
Pree, 37, holds a master of fine arts degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she has lived since 1996. Her previous work highlighted issues related to ethnic identity and gender. Her "Suburbia" series focused on suburban-dwelling black Americans.
In her "Plastic Bodies" series, Pree merged images of dolls and black American women to critically examine body-enhancement practices driven by the physically idealized portrayal of women in the mass media. A gallery representing Pree's work has donated a photo from the latter series to Winston-Salem State's art collection.
Labels: exhibitions, Sheila Pree Bright
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GIANT NEWS. GIANT!
I HAVE RECEIVED A UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP. I AM A 2007 USA GUND
FELLOW. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP.
My lady and I are back from the LA celebration and I am getting ready for
Thanksgiving. I will have much to report on the trip, the award, and the
red carpet ceremony, but it will have to wait until after Thursday. It was
surreal and amazing... Genuinely amazing. Thanks to all at United States
Artists; I am so grateful. I haven't answered email in almost a week, but
will be getting to it.
A few important moments were:
1. Meeting Leonard Nimoy
2. Seeing LA
3. Rennie Harris's performance: spectacular
4. Then later realizing that we live 3 blocks from Rennie Harris. We're
living it, South Philly!
5. Not spilling a drink on myself at the cocktail party OR the celebration.
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/AboutUnitedStatesArtists/index.cfm
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/GrantsProgram/index.cfm
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/USAFellows2007/index.cfm
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/USAFellows2007/ViewByDiscipline/Zo
eStrauss/index.cfm
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/USADonors/USANationalLeadershipCom
mittee/AgnesGund/index.cfm
Also, I'm late in sending this out, but there were full page ads announcing
the fellows this Sunday in the LA Times and NY Times, as well as a number of
other papers.
Thanks to Lynn Bloom, #1 wife of all time.
Cue up McFadden & Whitehead (RIP, friends)
..... "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
With Love,
ZS
Www.zoestrauss.blogspot.com
Labels: Zoe Strauss
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Check out these amazing photographs of Lorna Simpson and her daughter Zora in the new Gap holiday ad campaign. They're amazingly beautiful, but it's a shame they're coming out right on the heels of the Gap's latest child labor/slavery abuse scandal. Having this whole campaign with hip, beautiful Americans and their children juxtaposed with a passage like this:One 10-year-old boy told the paper he was sold to the company by his parents.
"'I was bought from my parents' village in [the northern state of] Bihar and taken to New Delhi by train," The Observer quoted the boy as saying. "The men came looking for us in July. They had loudspeakers in the back of a car and told my parents that, if they sent me to work in the city, they won't have to work in the farms. My father was paid a fee for me, and I was brought down with 40 other children."
Another boy, 12, said he worked from dawn until 1 a.m. and was so tired he felt sick, according to the paper. But if any of the children cried, he told The Observer, they would be hit with a rubber pipe or punished with an oily cloth stuffed in their mouths.
The children were producing hand-stitched blouses for the Christmas market in the United States and Europe at Gap Kids stores, according to the newspaper. The blouses were to carry a price of about $40, The Observer reported.
Labels: activism, Lorna Simpson
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OPENING RECEPTION Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3-6pm
ARTIST TALK (with video presentation) Friday, December 7, 2007, 6-8pmLabels: exhibitions, Harriet's Alter Ego, Nsenga Knight
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Labels: En Foco, Kesha Bruce, Myra Greene
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Wednesday, November 7th, 7PM
$10 at www.firstpersonarts.org or 800.838.3006
The First Person Stage at 2111 Sansom Street
For more information, call 267.402.2059
The documentary If You Break the Skin, You Must Come In does more than just
scratch the surface of the lives it examines. When a group of adolescents in
foster care were chosen to help make a film about maverick photographer Zoe
Strauss, the process was turned inside out by having them turn the camera on
themselves. The result is a sobering, but ultimately uplifting, look at
using art to find joy and magic in the world that surrounds us. The
screening will be followed by a discussion with Strauss, the director David
Kessler, and the young filmmakers; one of whom, Charday Laverty, also
curated the show of Strauss's photographs that will be on exhibit throughout
the festival.
A Harmelin Media Series Event.
Wednesday, November 7th, 7PM
$10 at www.firstpersonarts.org or 800.838.3006
The First Person Stage at 2111 Sansom Street
For more information, call 267.402.2059
Don't miss this.
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WWW.ZOESTRAUSS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Labels: film, Zoe Strauss
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Love her! I posted about Andrea Pippins' blog, Fly, when I first discovered it. As I recently posted on her site, I read a lot of design blogs, and though I enjoy the objects, tips, images, etc., black designers, stylists, creative people--black anybodies--are non-existent in that realm. It's so very tiresome. Fly is fabulous because it's so wonderfully integrated. Definitely check it out.Labels: Andrea Pippins, bloggers, design, Fly
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Labels: exhibitions, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier
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Labels: exhibitions, Glodean Champion
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