Typeface the Movie

February 8, 2010

Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and to explore convergence of modern design and traditional technique together. The juxtaposition of historical and contemporary, as well as rural and urban America, make for a very fascinating film. Typeface will be of interest to art and graphic design enthusiasts, to teachers as an educational resource, and to anyone looking for a film about perseverance and preservation in the heart of America.

Further information on the film and screenings can be found here.

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Opportunities for Michigan and New York Artists

February 5, 2010

Snowbound? Jewish and a New Yorker? or a Michiganite? Alas, I am only the former, but YOU might be eligible and interested in pursuing these opportunities for artistes:

Emerging Jewish Artists in New York City Invited to Apply for Six Points Fellowship

The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists is accepting applications for its next cohort of artists.

The fellowship program will support nine individual artists in New York City between the ages of 22 and 38 who are working in the visual arts, music, and performing arts and who want to develop a new project with a Jewish focus, theme, or element.

The program seeks projects that reflect or embody a thoughtful engagement with Jewish experience, history, values, issues, or concerns and that will resonate with a broad range of audiences but with particular emphasis on the artist’s peers. During the two-year fellowship, artists will create and present their diverse projects to young audiences in the New York area through programs such as live performances, concerts, and gallery events.

To be eligible, artists need to have lived in New York City for one year prior to the fellowship start date (October 2010) and should already have networks and connections in New York City, which Six Points can help them use and leverage.

Each of the fellowships will provide a stipend of up to $20,000 over two years, a project grant of up to $20,000 over two years, and retreats, monthly workshops, coaching, and mentorship.

Visit the Six Points Fellowship Web site for complete program information here.

Kresge Community Arts Program Offers Grants for Projects in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park

The Kresge Foundation is calling for applications for year two of Kresge Community Arts, a national community arts and engagement project being piloted in five cities in the United States, including metropolitan Detroit. Grantseekers are invited to submit applications for projects in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park that use art and culture as a tool to address community issues.

In 2009, Kresge funded twelve projects totaling $109,958 in the Detroit-Hamtramck-Highland Park tri-city area. An additional $90,000 will be awarded in 2010; grants will range from $2,500 to $10,000 each.

The pilot program is designed to test Kresge’s belief that grassroots arts and cultural projects can be an effective tool to address pressing social issues. The foundation seeks projects that will engage underserved and new audiences as well as children, teens, and families; promote cross-cultural understanding; increase exposure to art and culture; and provide experiences in non-traditional spaces such as low-income housing developments, juvenile detention centers, battered women’s shelters, and afterschool program centers.

Applicants may request one- or two-year grants for planning and implementation. Projects do not have to be new, but existing projects will not receive priority funding. Grantseekers who applied in year one and were denied are eligible to reapply for the second year of funding. Current grantees are not eligible for a second grant.

Individuals and groups, including local artists and historians, neighborhood and homeowner associations, youth with parental consent, service agencies, municipal governments, community development corporations, and arts and cultural organizations, are encouraged to apply.

Visit the Kresge Foundation Web site for complete program information here.

Buen suerte!


John Baldessari Video

February 5, 2010

One learns about art by doing it and not by reading about it.

You can condition how people look.

We have so much information flow that we can just be giving a hint of something and we can imagine everything else.

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Corcoran Senior Thesis Exhibition Opens Tonight

February 4, 2010

© Jacqulyn Maisonneuve

Come see Jacqulyn Maisonneuve and others’ work at the Corcoran Gallery of Arts Senior Thesis Show Opening Tonight: Thursday February 4 from 6 – 8 pm.


Lancaster PA show

February 1, 2010

Marking Space: Still life photos by John Chervinsky, Laura Letinsky, and Olivia Parker
January 22 – February 26, 2010

Opening reception will be held on Lancaster’s First Friday, February 5, from 5 – 8 p.m.

The Main Gallery at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
204 N. Prince Street
Lancaster, Pa. 17603

Main Gallery hours: Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and many Saturdays; closed on most Sundays; and on all school holidays.

Free and open to the public.

Learn more at pcad.edu.  Or call (717) 396-7833.


Deadline for PhotoEspana’s Descubrimientos 2010 Looms

January 29, 2010

I had the good fortune to participate in PhotoEspana’s excellent portfolio review as a finalist for their Descubrimientos Award in 2007.  The review runs concurrently with PhotoEspana which turns the city of Madrid into a series of photographic exhibits, far-flung and spread out perhaps, but a good excuse for a good exhibit/tapas crawl and who doesn’t love that.  If you have the funds and a love of paella, I highly recommend entering.  You can see the details, reviewers and forms here. Buen suerte!


April 15 Here We Come!

January 27, 2010
It’s approaching the dreaded time of year again.  Want to know what you can get away with what is deductible and what is not? Hamiltonian Gallery is here to help:
Hamiltonian Artists Board Member Richard Kamenitzer, Executive Director of the International Center for the Management of Arts & Culture, Program Director and Professor of Arts Management at George Mason University, College of Visual & Performing Arts, will help clarify the different avenues artists can take when administrating the business of their art and speak about:
  • Fact vs.Fiction
  • Record keeping
  • What is required to be declared income and what is deductible expense, including the “home studio”

The talk will begin promptly at 7pm at Hamiltonian Gallery, on Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Please RSVP to Jacqueline Ionita, Director of Hamiltonian Gallery, and for all other related inquiries. jackie@hamiltoniangallery.com, 202.332.1116

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Installation Shot: Old Havana Street with Paper Whites

January 19, 2010

© Dave Jordano

The very talented and prolific prairie wanderer Dave Jordano kindly sent me an installation shot of my print, Old Havana Street, Cuba, nestled next to Paper Whites.  He purchased it through Collect.Give, an effort conceived by Kevin Miyazaki to donate prints to the donors favorite charity.  My donation benefits research for a disease that my mother has been battling for 8 years now.  Today is her birthday.  Happy Birthday Mom, I love you lots!

Collect.Give, a  great way to collect affordable art and help good causes.


Brilliant. Wm Greiner Print & Monograph on Ebay to benefit Haitian Earthquake Relief

January 14, 2010

© Wm Greiner

Silly me, I stupidly just donated directly to an organization working in Haiti.  If I just waited (and to be honest I just wanted to clear my conscience early, like when you are listening to public radio during a pledge drive and you just go and pledge that money so Ira Glass won’t be talking directly to you. I know, I am a woman of questionable good intentions.  Motivated sometimes by something not altogether empathy but a desire to just not feel guilt. At least I’m honest about it. Of course not the case with Haiti, which made that much more difficult to reconcile with how much blight that country has already suffered.)

Silly me, I could have bid my limited resources instead by this fantastic print and monograph by one Wm. Greiner, which he is auctioning off on ebay in a brilliant maneuver to raise funds for the people of Haiti, who certainly need funds (and water, HURRY!), and aid in great quantities, so I hope that not one of us is not moved to donate something, however seemingly insignificant.  Anyway, I already bid it up past my maximum.  Perhaps you will fare better. Best o’luck.


Dennis Stock (1928-2010)

January 14, 2010

Miles Davis © Dennis Stock 1958

A man whose work is emblematic in my mind of a sort of halcyon time where long-term personal work could sustain a committed documentary photographer, Dennis Stock died on January 11 at the age of 81.

“I’ve never taken an assignment,” Mr. Stock said last year during an address to photojournalism students at the University of Texas. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself, and when you’re shooting what you’re interested in shooting, you’re always going to be happy.”

Sounds like you had a good life Mr. Stock, and you made some memorable mesmerizing images.  Thank you.

An obit can be found at the Washington Post here.

UPDATE: Doug Menuez has more personal remembrance here.

Also OT but not to be ignored you can donate to help HAITI through a number of resources here.