Goings On: posted week of October, 22 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Justin Allen, FF Fund recipient 2019-20, at Jack, Brooklyn, Nov. 15-16
2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Oct. 25
3. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at Galerie Lelong & Co., Manhattan, thru Nov. 16
4. Judith Ren-Lay, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Nov. 24
5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, thru Dec. 5
6. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, at the Mauser Foundation for Sustainability, Costa Rica, November, and more
7. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, in the Brooklyn Rail, now online
8. Regina Vater & Bill Lundberg, FF Alumns, at 14th International Biennnial of Curitiba, Brazil, thru March 1, 2020
9. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, fall news
10. Christen Clifford, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 3
11. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, Nov. 15
12. Marni Kotak, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, thru Nov. 24
13. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 22-27, and more
14. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, October 26, and more
15. David Cale, FF Alumn, receives Equity Jeff Award 2019
16. Deb Margolin, FF Alumns, now online in Broadwayworld.com
17. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at SF Moma, CA, thru March 8, 2020
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1. Justin Allen, FF Fund recipient 2019-20, at Jack, Brooklyn, Nov. 15-16
Justin Allen
EXPLAIN TOTALITY (VERSION 7)
November 15 – 16, 2019
When America screams, how does it sound? Performer Justin Allen uses moshing and screaming vocals to reflect on the evolution and aesthetics of hardcore punk and the suburban landscape of his youth. History, geography, and music collide in this physical reflection on subculture, personal experience, and catharsis.
Performance Dates & Times
Friday, November 15 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 16 at 8:00pm
Tickets
$18 General Admission, available here:
http://www.jackny.org/justin-allen.html
The performance will be ASL interpreted.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Justin Allen is a writer and performer from Northern Virginia that lives and works in New York City. He has performed at Performance Space New York and Brooklyn Museum with fellow artist and frequent collaborator Devin Kenny, and performed solo work at Movement Research at the Judson Church, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and ISSUE Project Room, among other venues. He has read his poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at venues such as The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE), and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation, The SHS Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Oct. 25
JOIN US!
OPENING FRIDAY: OCTOBER 25, 6-8PM
ART ALUMNI SHOW 2019
Art Alumni Show 2019
Curated by Martha Wilson
October 25 – November 9, 2019
Opening Reception, October 25th, 6-8pm
Curator Talk, October 25th, 6:30pm
Barney Building, Commons Gallery
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, 10003
Since the pharaohs of Egypt, sex and politics have had long association. Today, we remain fascinated by both-so I thought to select works that are explicitly sexual and/or political in their content. These works may reveal innermost secrets, or may take the wide world as their scope. Does making art change the world? Perhaps not, but if we don’t do anything, we will explode. Please enjoy pieces by the following NYU Department of Art and Art Professions Alumni:
Shelly Bahl, MA Studio Art 1995
Letizia Balzi, MA Art Education 2016
Rebekah Birkan, BFA 2014
Rachael Brannon, MA Art Education 2014
Rina AC Dweck, BS Studio Art 1998
Federico Hewson, MA Art Education 2016
Molly Lambe, BFA 2014
Zaq Landsberg, BFA 2007
Madeleine LeMieux, MA Arts Administration 2011
Kimberly Lin (with Roland Arnoldt), BFA 2016
Andy Šlemenda, MFA 2012
Julie Stopper, BFA 2014
Jacqueline Tse, BFA 2006
Magaly Vega, MA Art Education 2019
Amy Wenzel, MA Art Education 2011
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and art space director, who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by the New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works.
Martha Wilson is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York. She received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2013. She has received fellowships for performance art from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; Bessie and Obie awards for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression; a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts; a Richard Massey Foundation-White Box Arts and Humanities Award; a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women’s Caucus for Art; and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Art Alumni Shows are annual exhibitions to showcase the work of artists who graduated from the NYU Department of Art and Art Professions’ undergraduate and graduate programs. The 2018 inaugural exhibition was curated by Chrissie Illes, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through this exhibition we would like to celebrate, recognize and bring together our alumni community.
Copyright (C) NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions, All rights reserved.
Department of Art and Art Professions
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY 10003
212-998-5700
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3. Ana Mendieta FF Alumn, at Galerie Lelong & Co., Manhattan, thru Nov. 16
ANA MENDIETA
La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks)
October 17 – November 16, 2019
Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works from Ana Mendieta titled, La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks). Deeply affected by her exile from Cuba to the United States at just 12 years old, Mendieta made several highly anticipated returns to Cuba two decades later. La tierra habla presents works that Mendieta created during her trips back to the island nation in the early 1980s, as the first exiled artist officially recognized by the Cuban Ministry of Culture to practice within its borders.
For press enquiries, please contact Sarah Landry, (212) 315-0470 or sarah@galerielelong.com
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HOURS
TUESDAY – SATURDAY: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
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4. Judith Ren-Lay, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Nov. 24
Dear Friends,
As the present overcomes the past I am sending this first to my angels list since I have gained the courage to do it, largely because of you.
CRONE OF THORNS
performance by Judith Ren-Lay
a vocal tornado
of songs and poetry
asking questions
about our shared human identity
Sunday, November 24, 2019 7:00 PM at Pangea 178 2nd Ave NY, NY at 11th Street
Tickets: $20 in avance/ $25 at the door (cash only)
advance tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4407302
DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 PM
$20 per person food or beverage minimum at the tables.
Dinner seating begins at 6:00 PM
Seating at Pangea is communal. Other guests may be seated at the table.
presented by pangea
produced by TWEED’S Sundays at 7 Series, Kevin Malony, artistic director
Please come, if you can, and tell anyone else you know.
Thanks for being my friend and supporter over these past 9 years!
J R-L
Judith Ren-Lay
Corporeal Studio, Ltd.
42 Grand Street #1
New York, NY 10013
phone: 212.941.7828
ren-lay@mindspring.com
website | facebook
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5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, thru Dec. 5
Dear friends,
This month, I am excited to share with you a new exhibition of my work! Inaction, a new solo show, installation and performance, opened at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. on Wednesday, October 2nd.
In this work, situated in the unique brutalist architecture of Zilkha Gallery, I have collaborated with dancer, Charles Gowin; students in the performance department at Wesleyan University; Norman Kelley Architects; and designer, Rad Hourani to produce a new and ambitious installation. With support from so many, this new project builds on the work (just closed!) we accomplished with the Master and Form at the Whitney Biennial.
In addition to the opening performance, performances will run throughout the exhibition into December:
Tuesday 15 October: 5PM
Monday 28 October: 12:15PM
Saturday 2 November: 2PM
Friday 8 November: 12PM
Thursday 5 December: 5PM
Last, on Saturday 26 October at 8PM I will be back in Middletown for a unique performance of Inaction where the dancers’ performance will lead all into a collective celebration and dance party within the space.
I hope very much that our paths will cross along the way!
As always, sending my best,
Brendan
Copyright (c) Brendan Fernandes Studio 2019
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6. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, at the Mauser Foundation for Sustainability, Costa Rica, November, and more
Ann Rosen will be at the Mauser Foundation for Sustainability in Costa Rica, November, and more
Also, her entire archive for my project, In the Presence Of Family is now permanently in Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza.
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7. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, in the Brooklyn Rail, now online
Mark Bloch on an outstanding outsider art show:
Shut Up: Joe Massey’s Messages From Prison
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/10/artseen/Shut-Up-Joe-Masseys-Messages-From-Prison
A couple excerpts:
These 42 mostly black and white works, the original “thug life” drawings, have a lovable but menacing charm-a deep wrongness that somehow looks right. They survive because in the 1940s, Joseph Cyrus Massey, an incarcerated African-American man, sent mail embellished with sketches and stamped CENSORED, to the ultimate aesthete, Charles Henri Ford, on East 53rd Street in Manhattan for the trailblazing Surrealist magazine, View.
Children’s art, the creations of the mentally ill, outsider art by visionaries, and so-called “savages” of indigenous cultures were considered sacred for the Surrealists, as were automatic writing and dreams, after Freud explained their potential to transcend an oppressive “reign of logic” over instincts, making the impossible achievable, the fantastic feasible and offering liberation from the shackles of etiquette and reason. Thus, when Charles Henri Ford, who introduced the avant-garde to U.S. audiences through View, discovered the autonomous cartoon art of Joe Massey, killer of two women, they must have enraptured him as vehicles to his own reformation-and America’s. “I have made a mistake in my life and I am trying to make the best of it,” Massey wrote him. “[…] to overcome my past mistakes. And to rehabilitate myself. […]I am waiting for a better day.”
So Ford published the work, sending back issues of View, checks, and art paper. Massey drew in blue-black ink, probably with a dip pen, with almost every line carefully drawn twice, giving these portrayals their idiosyncratic appeal. But, in addition to showing some very likable art, Ricco Maresca has also put front and center some questions that might sting: Is it OK to revel in a murderer’s art? Is it patronizing to appreciate outsider art for a perceived lack of “skill?”
Mark
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8. Regina Vater & Bill Lundberg, FF Alumns, at 14th International Biennnial of Curitiba, Brazil, thru March 1, 2020
Regina Vater and Bill Lundberg are taking part in the 14th International Biennial of Curitiba (Brazil). Both are presenting new installation works. The Biennial will be on view in multiple places in Curitiba until March 1st, 2020.
Caio Meirelles Aguiar
current exhibition
– Comigo ninguém pode – coletiva/group show – (until January 24)
upcoming exhibition
– David Lamelas – gallery share: Herlitzka + Faria, Buenos Aires – (opening November 08)
upcoming art fairs
– ArtBasel Miami Beach (December 5 – 8)
www.galeriajaquelinemartins.com.br
Rua Dr. Cesário Mota Júnior, 443
Vila Buarque – São Paulo 01221-020
+ 55 11 2628 1943
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9. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, fall news
Dear Friends,
Hope you all are well and enjoying the fall season. I wanted to share some news and a show coming up this month.
Opening this Wednesday, October 23rd, I will have several sculptures, photographs, and a video from the Rewilding series in this group show at Wheaton College. I’m excited to be showing with this great group of environmental artists!
In the Weeds: Art and the Natural World at Wheaton College
Through seed collecting, camouflage, performance, and artists’ books, the six artists in this exhibition consider issues of rewilding and human influence on the natural world.
Artists: Kwang Choi, Rachel Frank, Jenny Kendler, Next Epoch Seed Library (a collaboration between Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco), and Tammy Nguyen
Curated by Elizabeth Hoy
Wheaton College Massachusetts
26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 23, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
October 23 – December 12, 2019
and
My solo show at MOCA Tucson opened two weekends ago and I was thrilled to return to Arizona and get an opportunity to share the work I had made in response to my residency there last year. More information and installation photographs can be found on my website HERE.
Rachel Frank: Thresholds
Thresholds takes its name from my featured video, made while in residence at MOCA Tucson and filmed within the fragmented current habitats of the Sonoran Pronghorn in Arizona. The video considers the establishment of wildlife corridors, passageways that allow for the movement of animal species between habitats separated by manmade development. Alongside several sculptures and installations, I use the wildlife corridor as a synecdoche for issues impacting the ecosystems of the southern Arizona Sonoran Desert’s borderlands: wildlife fragmentation; migration; borders; climate change; droughts; and the changing uses of the desert.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
265 S Church Ave, Tucson, AZ
October 5 -December 29, 2019
and
I also was recently interviewed for the podcast ART UNCOVERED:
Kimberly Ruth was kind enough to interview for ART UNCOVERED where we discussed Big Bone Lick, KY, Rewilding, and my upcoming show at MOCA Tucson.
Best wishes,
Rachel
http://www.rachelfrank.com
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10. Christen Clifford, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 3
November 3, 2019: Sundays on Broadway, Cathy Weis Projects, and guest curator Adrienne Truscott present an evening of performance by Mike Albo, Christen Clifford, and Magda San Millan.
Mike Albo will present current and in-progress works that address our obsessions and anxieties of the moment.
Christen Clifford presents an excerpt from Cancer: A Love Story, her first solo show in ten years. Directed by Lucy Sexton.
Magda San Millan presents The Cock Painter, a solo-show combining stand-up comedy, dream analysis, the studio visit format, and psychoanalysis to elaborate on human stench, sexuality, and sadness.
Please note: the elevator has been repaired and is now available to audience members who need it. Thank you for your patience.
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.
No reservations. No late seating.
$10 suggested contribution.
Keep in mind, this is a small space!
Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists.
For more information, please visit cathyweis.org.
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11. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, Nov. 15
FF Alumn Annie Lanzillotto performs her solo show “Feed Time,” an epic journey back to the heel of the boot, Friday November 15th, 7:30 pm, at City Lore, 56 East 1st Street, NYC. Directed by Marjorie LeWit. A solo meditation on time with a wind-seller, bone-washer, mourner, lady in red, a saint who sees ecstatic visions in fava beans, and all the ancestors talking at once. $15 TKTS in advance at Eventbrite.com / $20 at the door.
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12. Marni Kotak, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, thru Nov. 24
Marni Kotak
Dancing in the Oval Office
October 18 – November 24, 2019
Opening Friday October 18, 6-9pm
Microscope is very pleased to present “Dancing in the Oval Office”, Marni Kotak’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring works in performance, installation, video and painting made in response to the 2016 election and current presidency.
The title piece is a performance and installation that finds Kotak dancing continuously each day of the exhibit within a recreation and personal reinterpretation of the White House Oval Office. As is a custom in her family, Kotak uses dance in this work as a way to transform her daily anxieties into a cathartic and liberating act. In this way, Kotak seeks to reclaim her right to joy as an individual and an American, standing in opposition to those who abuse power, or use fear and other authoritarian methods. She encourages as many people as possible to join in and dance with her daily in the gallery.
Within Kotak’s Oval Office, elements such as the executive desk, sofas, armchairs, and a carpet with the presidential seal each mimic those of the actual office, but have been altered to suggest a more open, inclusive, and peaceful society. Although eight flags hang in the current Oval Office, Kotak has chosen the historical norm of two, offering her own hand-sewn versions of the American and Presidential flags and featuring materials culled from her own life as an artist and mother. The office is situated on a gold, oval dance floor surrounded by shear curtains of the twelve colors of the spectrum, and lit by rotating disco ball lights. Music is from a selection of cassette mix-tapes from the artist’s youth and digital playlists selected by her son Ajax, among others.
“Since I was a baby dance has been a central part of my personal and family life. … And as an adult I have found that when life feels overwhelming, sometimes the only thing to do is dance. I have been so personally bothered by the current presidency and corruption over the past three years, and feeling like I have to do something about it, so dancing came to mind. A saying in my family has always been: ‘The purpose of the game is not to win; the purpose of the game is to learn how to dance’.” – MK
Other works on view on the walls surrounding the installation include a new series of thirty-six acrylic on wood panel paintings. Each features multi-colored text – often re-written over, overlapped, or erased – extracted from her diary entries from each month of the past three years. Additionally, a series of ink and oil pastel drawings and writings on actual $1 bills, framed in gold memorabilia cases, push the political undertones of the exhibition further and remind us of the values of people’s lives over those of convention and commerce.
Marni Kotak: “Dancing in the Oval Office” opens on October 18th and runs through November 24th, 2019, with an opening reception on Friday October 18th, 6-9pm.
Gallery Hours: Thursday through Monday 1-6pm, and by appointment. For additional information and high res images please contact the gallery at inquiries@microscopegallery.com or by telephone at 347.925.1433.
Marni Kotak is a multimedia and performance artist presenting everyday life being lived. She has received international attention for her durational performances and exhibitions, most notably “The Birth of Baby X” (2011) in which she gave birth to her son as a live performance and “Mad Meds” (2014) during which the artist slowly withdrew from psychiatric medications prescribed for postpartum depression. In “Treehouse” (2017), Kotak – who had just experienced a devastating fire in her home – created a refuge for herself and others to pause from the overwhelming aspects of life. Kotak’s works have also appeared at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, Artists Space, Exit Art, Momenta Art, English Kills Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, among others. She has performed extensively in the US and abroad.
Kotak’s work appears in The Art of Feminisim: Images that shaped the Fight for Equality, 1957-2017 by Helena Reckitt (Chronicle Books, 2018) and Blackwells Companions to Contemporary Art: A Companion to Feminist Art, released September 2019 among other publications. Her exhibitions have been featured in ArtFCity, Artforum, Blouin Artinfo, Art Pulse, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, Studio International, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Magazine, Washington Post, among many others. She has also appeared on Good Morning America (ABC), CBC Radio, NPR, and other broadcasts. Grants include Franklin Furnace Fund Award and the Brooklyn Arts Council among others. Marni Kotak received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
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13. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 22-27, and more
Worlds of Homelessness
October 22 -27, 2019
In Los Angeles, where the phrase “Homelessness is just a paycheck away” is all too well known, the divide between the “haves and have-nots” is ever-present. While the city is best known for its Hollywood image, it is estimated that 60,000 individuals experience homelessness in LA County on any given night. Among these are also students and working-class individuals, who have to live in their cars because they cannot afford to pay rent.
Worlds of Homelessness is a project of the Goethe-Institut that offers an interdisciplinary engagement with the issue of homelessness and its many related themes such as the gap between rich and poor, participation, inequality, gentrification, racism, and migration. Worlds of Homelessness brings together local and international artists, architects, scholars, and others to create a platform to share ideas, thoughts and to present their work, as well as examining the wide range of strategies being employed to engage with the many questions and challenges surrounding the issue.
The project is developed in cooperation with the Los Angeles Poverty Department, which has created art with and promoted the activism of Skid Row Artists for decades; the Thomas Mann House, the renowned and independent architecture school SCI-Arc, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and NAVEL, a collectively driven cultural organization.
The event series including discussions, music performances, and film screenings takes place from October 22 – 27, 2019 in Los Angeles at the Skid Row History Museum and Archive, NAVEL, and SCI-Arc, and culminates with the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s 10th Annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on October 26 – 27, 2019 in Gladys Park, Skid Row.
• 10/22 DAY 1 | SKID ROW MUSEUM & ARCHIVE | CONFERENCE / PANEL DISCUSSION
Framing the Issue: Homelessness and its many related themes
RSVP Via Eventbrite
• 10/23 DAY 2 | NAVEL | CONFERENCE / PANEL DISCUSSION
How can artists engage with homelessness in a meaningful way?
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• 10/23 RADAMES EGER – EX°ST NAVEL | FILM / DISCUSSION
• 10/24 DAY 3 | SCI-ARC | CONFERENCE / PANEL DISCUSSION
How can design engage with housing insecurity and homelessness and nurture thoughtful processes with communities?
RSVP Via Eventbrite
• 10/25 DAY 4 | SKID ROW HISTORY MUSEUM & ARCHIVE
Knowledge Production and Ways Forward
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• 10/25 THE ADVOCATES | SKID ROW HISTORY MUSEUM & ARCHIVE | FILM / DISCUSSION
• 10/26 – 10/27 | GLADYS PARK | 10TH FESTIVAL FOR ALL SKID ROW ARTISTS
Calendar exhibit / projects / talks / movies
Exhibit – Aug. 17 – Oct. 25, 2019
Open: Thu. Fri. Sat. 2-5pm
DOGS IN THE HOUSE
October 22 – 25, 2019
WORLDS OF HOMELESSNESS – Goethe Institut
Worlds of Homelessness proposes an interdisciplinary and global engagement with homelessness, and its connections to inequality, gentrification, racism and migration. The project creates a platform for local and international artists, architects, scholars to come together to share ideas.
October 26 and 27: each day form 1 -5pm
Festival For All Skid Row Artists
Gladys Park, corner 6th street and Gladys Avenue.
Free Movie Nights at The Museum
Friday, October 25, 7:00pm
The Advocates Directed by Rémi Kessler
Runtime: 87 min.
O&A with Rémi Kessler and advocates
Three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of “care in the community” looks like amid a changing policy landscape.
Part of Worlds of Homelessness, a project of the Goethe-Institut.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
250 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Open Thu, Fri, Sat 2-5pm
and by appointment
Tel. 213-413 1077
info@lapovertydept.org
Mailing address:
POB 26190
Los Angeles, CA 90026
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10th Festival for All Skid Row Artists
Saturday and Sunday, October 26 & 27, 2019
1 – 5pm each day
Gladys Park, corner 6th Street and Gladys Avenue
Sign Up as a Skid Row artist – write us at info@lapovertydept.org / call 213-413 1077
Say What! TENth Annual -can you believe it! How Time Flies! How a community vitally sustains itself! You better believe it!
LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent! The project brings together local and international artists, architects, scholars and others and culminates with the 2 days of the Festival.
Festival attendees are invited to participate in a range of artist facilitated workshops and creativity stations. Skid Row Now & 2040, will be getting festival-goer input on their community generated plan for a Skid Row future without displacement and with housing for area residents now on the streets.
LAPD partners with Studio 526 and United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) to produce the Festival. This year, the Goethe-Institut is an additional producing partner.
The Goethe-Institut is organizing the event series “Worlds of Homelessness”, including discussions, music and film screenings, that begins Tuesday October 22, at LA Poverty Department’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive
with additional sites at Sci-Arc and Navel.
Worlds of Homelessness will open with music by the LA Playmakers and the Playmakers will close out the Festival on Sunday Afternoon.
The LA Playmakers are a local band founded by Joseph Warren and Stan Watson 5yrs ago. These accomplished professional musicians have played with a number of well known jazz and pop music figures. They can play anything, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Gospel- and they do. The band members have one thing in common: they all were members of the Praise and Worship Team at Skid Row’s Central City Church of the Nazarene.
DOGS IN THE HOUSE – exhibit
Aug. 17 – Oct. 26, 2019 Thu. Fri. Sat. 2-5pm
Having a pet can be a great comfort if you are on the street. In many cases, it’s also a barrier to getting off the street. Our furry friends can also be cited as reason for an eviction. Fortunately there are a bunch of people and organizations working to address these concerns. DOGS IN THE HOUSE showcases the work of organizations, My Dog is My Home, Housing Equality and Advocacy Resource Team, Downtown Dog Rescue, Inner City Law Center, and Skid Rover that utilize advocacy, and direct services to overcome the obstacles faced by low income and homeless pet owners. The exhibition also features multimedia works by artist Helen H. Kim, photographs by Marissa de la Torre, and paintings by visual artist David Askew. Additional elements include a “barkscape”, sound installation, designed by Helen H. Kim and LAPD resident media archivist Henry Apodaca and videos of housed and happy pet-owners produced by My Dog is My Home and HEART LA. Settle into a dog shaped beanbag chair to view videos or listen to photo / audio collaged stories of Skid Row residents as they talk about themselves and their pets.
ORGANIZATIONS:
Downtown Dog Rescue
Inner City Law Center
HEART LA
My Dog Is My Home
Skid Rover
ARTISTS:
Henry Apodaca
David Askew
Helen H. Kim
Marissa de la Torre
About Free Movie Nights at The Museum
Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, at 7pm, we screen movies about issues that are important to our Skid Row and downtown community at the #skidrowmuseum.
Free movie screenings, free popcorn, free coffee & free conversations.
Friday, October 25 at 6:30pm screening – The Advocates
Directed by Rémi Kessler
Runtime: 87 min.
O&A with cast
Over half a million people are homeless in the United States – 25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles–nearly 54,000 people on any given night–three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of “care in the community” looks like amid a changing policy landscape. Intensely human and humanizing, The Advocates provides a sweeping look at the historic and current causes of L. A’s unprecedented crises, largely due to defunded affordable housing. It goes behind the headlines with pragmatic stories of the transformative work that is possible when the right resources, funding, and compassion are applied. This movie is part of Worlds of Homelessness, a project of the Goethe-Institut that offers an interdisciplinary engagement with the issue of homelessness and its many related themes such as the gap between rich and poor, participation, inequality, gentrification, racism, and migration.
The event series including discussions, music performances, and film screenings takes place from October 22 – 27, 2019 in Los Angeles at the Skid Row History Museum and Archive, NAVEL, and SCI-Arc, and culminates with the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s 10th Annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on October 26 – 27, 2019 in Gladys Park, Skid Row.
About Los Angeles Poverty Department
Based in the Skid Row neighborhood since 1985, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is the first ongoing arts initiative on Skid Row, a non-profit arts organization that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks which express the realities, hopes, dreams, and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row. LAPD has created projects with communities throughout the US and in The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Bolivia.
LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum and Archive is an exhibition /performing arts space curated by LAPD. It foregrounds the distinctive artistic and historical consciousness of Skid Row and functions as a means for exploring the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, by mining a neighborhood’s activist history and amplifying effective community strategies.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive programming, including the exhibitions, is made possible with the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Support the work of the LAPD! Your donation helps us to continue our group devised performances, our annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, our biennial Walk the Talk parade and the Skid Row History Museum and Archive – for creating social change.
Phone / Fax:
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Skid Row History Museum & Archive
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14. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, October 26, and more
OCT26
Sherman Fleming: n00se
Hosted by BPL Presents and 2 others
Oct 26 at 10 PM – Oct 27 at 10:30 PM
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York 11238
www.bklynlibrary.org
at Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 13
Please visit this link
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/free/open-house-glean
thank you.
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15. David Cale, FF Alumn, receives Equity Jeff Award 2019
Please visit this link:
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/free/open-house-glean
thank you
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16. Deb Margolin, FF Alumns, now online in Broadwayworld.com
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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17. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at SF Moma, CA, thru March 8, 2020
The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust is excited to announce that the drawing Mercury (1978) is included in the exhibition Shifting Terrain – Works on Paper from the Collection at SFMOMA. The exhibition is on view now through March 8th, 2020.
The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust is pleased to release to the public the first six folios of the Sonya Rapoport Primary Source Document Collection, now available for viewing and download on our website.
Created for researchers, curators, and art historians, this collection of pdfs of scanned announcements, reviews, articles, notes, images, and ephemera is sourced from the three ring binders in which Rapoport displayed records of the history of her practice.
Sonya Rapoport, Annotated Calendar from Biorhythm Project, 1980.
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about exhibitions in the SF Bay Area and New York in early 2020!
Sincerely,
Farley Gwazda
Director, Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
Copyright (c) 2019 Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
1201 6th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
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