tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8773993693976144532024-03-13T19:50:48.555-07:00ecoLOGIC Los AngelesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-24332008234832946172010-09-13T08:51:00.000-07:002010-09-13T14:02:59.257-07:00Matthias Merkel Hess at Las Cienegas Projects until 10/2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5I2GUBoMI/AAAAAAAABbM/a-l_B7P9gTk/s1600/tumblr_l8hokgtARZ1qbypga.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 182px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5I2GUBoMI/AAAAAAAABbM/a-l_B7P9gTk/s320/tumblr_l8hokgtARZ1qbypga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516426687820177602" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5Impq_DfI/AAAAAAAABbE/cwd9U5e27SE/s1600/tumblr_l8homjTqA11qbypga.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 184px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5Impq_DfI/AAAAAAAABbE/cwd9U5e27SE/s320/tumblr_l8homjTqA11qbypga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516426422433811954" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5QPnszgHI/AAAAAAAABbc/iTsoz1iLPWo/s1600/tumblr_l8hom1uYAd1qbypga.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 184px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5QPnszgHI/AAAAAAAABbc/iTsoz1iLPWo/s320/tumblr_l8hom1uYAd1qbypga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516434822860603506" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5QFxBCsNI/AAAAAAAABbU/yIvzSzdKqmE/s1600/tumblr_l8hongy2yk1qbypga.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TI5QFxBCsNI/AAAAAAAABbU/yIvzSzdKqmE/s320/tumblr_l8hongy2yk1qbypga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516434653562712274" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/deto/">Devil's Tower</a> has officially become an LA Monument, at least for a little while, until the clay dries in the exhibition of <a href="http://www.poststudio.org/post/1092449112/devils-tower-la-install-shots">Matthias Merkel Hess</a>' new work, which comes down on October 2nd at <a href="http://lascienegasprojects.wordpress.com/">Las Cienegas Projects</a>. The notion of recreating an iconic natural wonder (the original is located in Wyoming) in an urban setting, even in a gallery, is a novel one. Hess, who is the creator of the <a href="http://ecoartblog.blogspot.com/">EcoArtBlog</a> and editor/publisher of <a href="http://www.mammutmagazine.org/">Mammut</a> magazine, which he launched in 2008, is also a recent MFA graduate from UCLA (and undergraduate in Journalism and Environmental Sciences). For his first solo show in a LA gallery, he has chosen to combine his interest in art and ecology with his love of clay, in a brillant "outpost" installation where visitors can purchase handmade postcards, paperweights and miniature color glazed clay replicas of Devil's Tower, all under $20 each. Wall posters are original works of art and go for a lot more, but still under $1,000. If you cannot afford to go to Wyoming to see the real Devil's Tower, it is highly suggested you head on over to La Cienega near the 10 Fwy and catch a glimpse of Hess' handmade wonder ASAP.<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-41217987884001142272010-09-09T19:40:00.000-07:002010-09-09T19:47:50.890-07:00MAKE:CRAFT at the Ben Maltz Gallery opens Oct. 2nd<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TIma_N4U8hI/AAAAAAAABa0/WWUt4pABINc/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-09-09+at+3.35.15+PM.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TIma_N4U8hI/AAAAAAAABa0/WWUt4pABINc/s320/Screen+shot+2010-09-09+at+3.35.15+PM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515109629540233746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TImbEtdyz9I/AAAAAAAABa8/Bw3-qzdVeYc/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-09-09+at+3.34.59+PM.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/TImbEtdyz9I/AAAAAAAABa8/Bw3-qzdVeYc/s320/Screen+shot+2010-09-09+at+3.34.59+PM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515109723918225362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.otis.edu/">Ben Maltz Gallery</a><br />Otis College of Art and Design<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >October 2 - December 4, 2010<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Kim Abeles, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Frau Fiber, Garnet Hertz, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Seth Kinmont, Liza Lou, David Prince, Mark Newport, Alyce Santoro, Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn), Eddo Stern.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Inspired by the cultural currents represented in the popular magazines MAKE and CRAFT published out of Northern California, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">MAKE:CRAFT </span>includes contemporary artists who combine handmaking and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a sociopolitical statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.”<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The exhibition is guest curated by Patricia Watts, founder and west coast curator of ecoartspace, who feels that recent trends in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement of making and crafting have empowered contemporary artists and designers to create more socially relevant work that supports sustainable communities.<br /><br />Go to the Maker blog <a href="http://themakershow.blogspot.com/">HERE</a><br /><br />Go to MAKE:CRAFT Facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/MakeCraft-The-maker-show-2010/144970652194042?v=wall">HERE</a><br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-52026530674954016462010-04-21T10:12:00.000-07:002010-04-21T10:18:37.794-07:00A High Desert Test Sites Lecture & Workshop Series<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S88yBHxSNyI/AAAAAAAABOo/iQpdRaSglOE/s1600/NewEverydayLifeLogo_color.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S88yBHxSNyI/AAAAAAAABOo/iQpdRaSglOE/s400/NewEverydayLifeLogo_color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462639867870721826" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Saturday May 1st-Sunday May 2nd 2010<br /><br />2-Day Workshop in Joshua Tree, 12 students, $120 fee<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >The New Everyday Live is an endeavor designed to both stimulate conversation and catalyze action by considering overlap between contemporary art and craft, sustainable living, survival skills, ecology and earth science, and cultural variation. Each participant in The New Everyday Life will leave with a new set of skills and inspirations, after intimately experiencing the Mojave desert’s unique context for life and living.<br /><br />Only a few spots left as of 4/21. Email info.hdts@gmail.com</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br />For more information go to: http://www.highdeserttestsites.com</span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-5073834529209067462010-03-11T17:15:00.001-08:002010-03-11T17:32:34.074-08:00World Water Day LA at Natural HIstory Museum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S5mYE4CveBI/AAAAAAAABM8/r7oA3r-c_F4/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2010-03-11+at+5.16.11+PM.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 118px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S5mYE4CveBI/AAAAAAAABM8/r7oA3r-c_F4/s400/Screen+shot+2010-03-11+at+5.16.11+PM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447552433812109330" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S5mVpFynlcI/AAAAAAAABM0/BeC8Qvg1hOs/s1600-h/WWDLA+logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 207px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S5mVpFynlcI/AAAAAAAABM0/BeC8Qvg1hOs/s400/WWDLA+logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447549757442987458" border="0" /></a> <!--StartFragment--><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >This Sunday at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles you will find a day long program of water and sustainability education. It is a non plastic event (however they are providing paper cups - which someone will need to talk with them about). I'm sure it will be a good turnout. It is always fun to go to events like these and educate the educators on how it could be even more GREEN.<br /><br />Don't miss the Water Justice Forum at 1:30pm where speakers will discuss water challenges for Los Angeles from the Southern California Watershed Alliance, Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy, Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, and Urban Semillas.</span> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-56403024756578657712010-02-25T16:17:00.001-08:002010-02-25T16:28:09.769-08:00LA Urban Rangers final tours of Malibu Beaches 2/27<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S4cTOtWprUI/AAAAAAAABIY/ht9DYyAACD0/s1600-h/malibusignage.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S4cTOtWprUI/AAAAAAAABIY/ht9DYyAACD0/s400/malibusignage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442339818114231618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:black;">The LA Urban Rangers are wrapping up a three year <a href="http://www.laurbanrangers.org/content/events/malibu2010.html">Malibu Project</a> to celebrate public beaches one last time. They are offering three mini-safari's at 11am, 1pm and 3pm on Saturday, February 27th. No sign up and all are welcome to come along!<br /><br />These tours are meant to share how to access these beaches peacefully, legally, safely and respectfully.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:black;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-23417254642927507512010-02-12T14:07:00.001-08:002010-02-12T14:16:18.819-08:00Gadget OK! Symposium and Exhibition at UCLA Broad Art Center<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S3XRRMEQiOI/AAAAAAAABHQ/EU5WvuzIPKc/s1600-h/2010-02-11_gadget_ok%21_device_art_in.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S3XRRMEQiOI/AAAAAAAABHQ/EU5WvuzIPKc/s400/2010-02-11_gadget_ok%21_device_art_in.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437482218346809570" border="0" /></a><br /><h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="UIStory_Message">Gadget or device art is a great tool for ecovisualization. This is an interesting symposium happening Feb. 18 & 19th at UC Los Angeles. Gadget OK! (also an exhibition) will explore new ways of bridging art, design, technology, science and entertainment using both latest innovations and everyday technology.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="UIStory_Message">RSVP via Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=294836843375&ref=ts">HERE</a></span></span></h3><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Or, for more information go <a href="http://eda.ucla.edu/?id=612">HERE </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-2864077507915141382010-02-05T22:37:00.000-08:002010-02-05T22:53:46.590-08:00Mel Chin to speak at Farm Lab 2/11 7pm<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S20OxyIDPUI/AAAAAAAABGo/Ws0HYoDUVe4/s1600-h/wac_4218e.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S20OxyIDPUI/AAAAAAAABGo/Ws0HYoDUVe4/s400/wac_4218e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435016573737975106" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">For those of us who have followed the art and ecology movement over the last two decades, Mel Chin is considered an influential pioneer combining art with brownfield remediation. His famous or infamous </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Revival Field</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> (1989-ongoing) funded with NEA money that was rescinded then later reinstated, demonstrated the natural processes of removing heavy metals from soil using hyper accumulator plants. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:130%;">He did this project in collaboration with an agronomist at a landfill site in Minnesota.<br /><br />Mel will be in Los Angeles next week to give a talk on his Fundred Dollar Bill Project in New Orleans. If you have never heard him speak, you should go, with the promise that you will be entertained and educated. Being an artist should be so much fun!<br /><br />For more information go the FarmLab website <a href="http://farmlab.org/2008/02/mel-chin-special-evening-salon-february.html">HERE</a><br /></span><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-25283222315597907882010-01-21T17:08:00.000-08:002010-01-21T17:17:30.885-08:00Saturday, Jan. 30th, 2010 @ Honor Fraser Gallery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S1j6rlqd1YI/AAAAAAAABEo/yZ0lVxClPxY/s1600-h/bigcity.title.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 185px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S1j6rlqd1YI/AAAAAAAABEo/yZ0lVxClPxY/s400/bigcity.title.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429364977546679682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://bigcityforum.blogspot.com/">Big City Forum </a>invites you to a round table conversation </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >about our relationship to nature, is</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >sues of perception, land use and the built environmen</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >t.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Saturday, Jan. 30th, 2010<br />4 - 6 pm<br />Honor Fraser Gallery<br />Culver City, CA<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Featuring:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">REBECA MENDEZ</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KIM </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">STRINGFELLOW</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">REBECA MENDEZ</span> is a professo</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >r at UCLA, Design | Media Arts who works in photography and video art installations to explore issue</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >s of perception, specifically our relationship to technologically mediated nat</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >ure. Méndez’s works are included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Mode</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >rn Art, National Design Museum, NY, and Denver Art Museum, among many others.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KIM </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">STRINGFELLOW</span> is an artist and educator residing in Los Angeles</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >, California. She teaches multimedia and photography courses at San Diego State University as an associate </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History. Sh</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >e received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S1j7PVM8bPI/AAAAAAAABEw/wROKZNMdWI0/s1600-h/K%2BStringfellow%2Bimage002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S1j7PVM8bPI/AAAAAAAABEw/wROKZNMdWI0/s400/K%2BStringfellow%2Bimage002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429365591603178738" border="0" /></a><br /><!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-55781812372575343922010-01-09T13:30:00.000-08:002010-01-09T13:38:02.927-08:00Fallen Fruit Presents EAT LACMA<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S0j2RXZQw7I/AAAAAAAABEY/mM94FOOzyWQ/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 75px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/S0j2RXZQw7I/AAAAAAAABEY/mM94FOOzyWQ/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424856529365943218" border="0" /></a></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="BODY_criticsChoice_creditName"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="BODY_criticsChoice_creditName"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="BODY_criticsChoice_creditName"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span class="BODY_criticsChoice_creditName">February–November 2010</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibFallenFruit.aspx"><em>EAT LACMA</em></a> is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA's permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, <em>EAT LACMA's</em> projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. <em>EAT LACMA</em> unfolds seasonally, with artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition,<a href="http://fallenfruit.org/"> </a><em><a href="http://fallenfruit.org/">Fallen Fruit </a>Presents The Fruit of LACMA</em> (June 27-November 7, 2010). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum's campus and galleries. <em>EAT LACMA</em> is curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-22514927551220337942009-11-24T11:44:00.000-08:002015-10-29T18:52:39.655-07:00Community Design at SciArc - Hybrid Fields lecture<h2 style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, November 24th at 5:30pm</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Patricia Watts of <a href="http://www.ecoartspace.org/">ecoartspace </a>will present a lecture on the exhibition <a href="http://hybridfields.blogspot.com/">Hybrid Fields</a> which she curated for the Sonoma County Museum in 2006 including 18 artists who address how food is grown, distributed and consumed in their art practice. The lecture is in conjunction with the "Watts Cooking: Imagining an Accessible Food Infrastructure" course in the <a href="http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/programs/community_design/index.html">Community Design Program</a> at SciArc taught by Michael Pinto, Program Coordinator.<br /><br />Southern California Institute of Architecture</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Kappe Library</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">960 E. Third Street</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Los Angeles, CA 90013</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Parking at 320 E Merrick Street</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">This program creates opportunities to engage with various local communities by spearheading a number of tactical, action-based projects enabling students to collaborate directly with community agencies and undertake design/build projects. Each project deals with some form of practical and urgent problem solving circumstance and might involve the creation of built structures or functional implements, or the imparting of vital skills to community members or at-risk groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Watts Cooking investigates urban food infrastructures and is generating proposals for a 2.5 acre urban farm in Watts. This project is funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-30997467613218060882009-10-26T18:27:00.001-07:002009-10-26T18:30:57.021-07:00Waste Reduction & Recycling Workshop<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SuZMnpUtb6I/AAAAAAAAA44/tnuEIf3PISc/s1600-h/2007+10.13+WRRW+%2820%29.JPG.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SuZMnpUtb6I/AAAAAAAAA44/tnuEIf3PISc/s400/2007+10.13+WRRW+%2820%29.JPG.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397085447441444770" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Did you know that nearly 70% of materials thrown in the trash are commonly recyclable? Help educate your students by educating yourself. Go to the Waste Reduction and Recycling Workshop!<br /><br />Are you interested in learning why recycling is so critical? Interested in how to recycle on your campus? Interested in the best practices to take your recycling program to the next level? The Waste Reduction and Recycling Workshop introduces participants to Los Angeles County's waste cycle and helps teachers and students set up or improve their campus recycling programs.<br /><br />The Waste Reduction & Recycling Workshop will take place:<br /><br />Saturday, November 7th<br />9:00 AM - 12:30 PM<br />Registration begins at 8:30am<br />Culver City High School<br />4401 Elenda Street<br />Culver City, CA 90230<br /><br /><a href="http://www.generationearth.org/calendar_registration.cfm">Click here to register! </a> Registration Deadline: November 6th, 2009<br />Contact Steve Howe at: showe@treepeople.org or (310) 402-7400</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-76099998888411654752009-10-09T10:24:00.001-07:002009-10-09T10:34:56.036-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9xyF5nhuI/AAAAAAAAA2g/xfHR51WRg_o/s1600-h/wanted_03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 61px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9xyF5nhuI/AAAAAAAAA2g/xfHR51WRg_o/s400/wanted_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390652384377013986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9x2NRJp_I/AAAAAAAAA2o/1qwyTWFDCRE/s1600-h/wanted_57.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 75px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9x2NRJp_I/AAAAAAAAA2o/1qwyTWFDCRE/s400/wanted_57.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390652455074244594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9x9s1o38I/AAAAAAAAA2w/QwjSHEUSYr8/s1600-h/wanted_58.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 72px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Ss9x9s1o38I/AAAAAAAAA2w/QwjSHEUSYr8/s320/wanted_58.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390652583807868866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ><br />For the fourth and final installment of </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.18thstreet.org/almost%20utopia/about%20almost/About%20almost.html">Almost Utopia</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >, the gallery at <a href="http://www.18thstreet.org/">18th Street Arts Center</a> will be dedicated to an unprecedented investigation of </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.18thstreet.org/almost%20utopia/bob%20sane/wanted.html">100 Car-Less Angelinos</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" > and it will tell their stories of living in Los Angeles.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Public Discussions are as follows:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" > </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >November 6, 9:30PM</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Ride-ARC Ride on Santa Monica Car and Pedestrian Culture: Alex Amerri</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >November 11, 7:OOPM</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >“Walking in LA” Panel/Discussion with:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" > Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Professor, UCLA Department of Urban Planning; author of Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation Over Public Space</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Herbert Medina, Professor, Loyola Department of Mathematics</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Nigel Raab, Assistant Professor, Loyola Department of History</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >DJ Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, Real City:Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out and Where We are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, Public Information Officer for the City of Lakewood</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Damon Willick, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Loyola Marymount University</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >November 14, 2pm</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >“Transportation and the Future of Los Angeles”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" > Jessica Meaney, Transportation Planner, So. CAL Assoc. of Governments</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Browne Molyneux, Journalist and Blogger, Shame Train LA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" >Claude Willey, Artist, Urbanist and Educator, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, California State University, Northridge</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Others to be confirmed</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-13872049206713018852009-09-16T11:46:00.000-07:002009-09-16T11:54:34.765-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SrEy_EY3_cI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/Po6zHN_caCg/s1600-h/389.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 95px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SrEy_EY3_cI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/Po6zHN_caCg/s400/389.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382139088775675330" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Emerging Green Builders - Los Angeles<br />EGB-LA Committee<br />Upcoming Opportunities for Member Participation</span><br /><br />SCRAP CASTLES | SUSTAINABLE BEACH ART EVENT</span><br />Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 9am<br />Lifeguard Tower 4 | In front of 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica, CA<br />Near Annenberg Community Beach House | Parking south of 415 PCH<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Event Description</span> | Designers and builders are encouraged to come out and enjoy the morning on the beach with fellow Emerging Green Builders (EGB). We will design and create large and small scale scrap castles comprised of sand and your scrap materials. This is a great time to meet the group, learn about upcoming events, and of how you can become involved. Please review the Beach Rules included below.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What You Bring </span> | Used scrap materials such as: window frames (no glass), doors, small furniture, lumber, ply, (no nails) and any decorative item that you can haul out to the beach. Sand castle tools such as: buckets, shovels and maybe a ladder. Bring a friend, co-worker, or partner.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beach Rules</span> | Normal beach restrictions will apply: No smoking, no fires or fireworks, no tents or temporary enclosures, lifeguards' directions must be obeyed, etc. For more on Beach Rules, see http://www01.smgov.net/osm/beachrules.htm. Be sensible when choosing scrap to bring to the beach. If you are unsure about what you may bring or are looking for more information about this event, you may contact Paul at pjramirez@gmx.com<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">*Note | Tours of the Annenberg Community Beach House are at 11am, 1pm and 3pm for more information contact Paul at pjramirez@gmx.com</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >About EGB-LA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60860308693&ref=ts">EGB-LA</a>, a committee of the USGBC-LA Chapter provides emerging green builders, primarily young professionals and students, a network from which to gain knowledge and become involved in the green building community, established by the USGBC-LA.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-71857071829678187912009-09-16T11:42:00.000-07:002009-09-16T11:59:07.853-07:00Leave the Land Alone by Bruce Nauman<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Realized September 12th, 2009 in Pasadena</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">See previous post regarding this work on the ecoartspace blog <a href="http://ecoartspace.blogspot.com/2009/03/report-from-caa-2009-los-angeles.html">here</a>.</span></span><br /><br /><object height="265" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gsHCKLYh8UM&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gsHCKLYh8UM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="265" width="320"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-24549230562689870772009-08-13T13:40:00.000-07:002009-08-13T13:57:13.418-07:00Armory 20th Anniversary Exhibition<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt auto; position: relative; width: 100%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;"> <div style="padding: 10px;"> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.armoryarts.org/upcoming.php"><strong>Installations Inside/Out</strong></a></span><br />September 20 – December 31, 2009<em><br />Opening reception, Saturday, September 19, 2009, 6–9 p.m.</em><br />Jay Belloli and Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne, curators<br /></p><p>This exhibition will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Armory Center for the Arts by commissioning twenty contemporary artists, who have created art installations in the past, to make new site-specific art installations both inside and outside the Armory. Artists in the exhibition will include Kim Abeles, Edgar Arceneaux, Deborah Aschheim, Daniel Buren, Carl Cheng, Seth Kaufman, <a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32217/bruce-nauman-plans-aerial-artwork/">Bruce Nauman</a>, Barry McGee, Michael C. McMillen, Carlos Mollura, Matthew Moore, Jane Mulfinger, Sarah Perry, Rudy Perez, Ed Ruscha, Betye Saar, Barbara T. Smith, John Trevino, Pae White, and Mario Ybarra Jr.<br /><br />The Armory has a long-standing goal of supporting contemporary Southern California artists, as well as the Gallery’s determination to bring art to the public in exterior, non-art locations.<br /><br /><em> At the Armory, Caldwell, Mezzanine, Art All iance Galleries and outside the Armory.</em></p> </div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-25107582348029548552009-07-27T12:30:00.000-07:002011-01-30T22:27:49.519-08:00i wanna jam with you<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Sm4AsfIjQBI/AAAAAAAAAus/Q5fSpTgaBpM/s1600-h/+public+fruit+jam+jar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Sm4AsfIjQBI/AAAAAAAAAus/Q5fSpTgaBpM/s400/+public+fruit+jam+jar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363224970516447250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Public Fruit Jam 2009!</span></span><br /><h2>Fourth Annual Jam with the <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.fallenfruit.org/">Fallen Fruit Collective</a><br /></h2> <p style="font-family: arial;"> Sunday, August 2<br />10am to 1pm</p><p style="font-family: arial;">at <a href="http://machineproject.com/events/2009/08/02/i-wanna-jam-with-you/">Machine Project</a> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">This year Fallen Fruit has also sent out a National Call for a Summer of Public Fruit Jams, encouraging people everywhere to get together and organize their own collective jam sessions. Their hope is to inspire a national movement of public jamming. </span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-1691316648919950062009-07-20T12:40:00.000-07:002009-07-20T12:45:50.648-07:00AFLA's 2009 Design Green Call for Entries and Scholarship<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SmTJMdkf1eI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/QBxB7Nq-ztw/s1600-h/dga_head.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 115px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SmTJMdkf1eI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/QBxB7Nq-ztw/s400/dga_head.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360630672411055586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">From the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles:</span> As Renzo Piano suggests, sustainability is the 21st century order for architecture and the built environment-and when exceptional design is seamlessly integrated with new high performance standards for conservation and sustainable building practices are implemented, innovative and sophisticated solutions are the result. This evolution of form is coming of age and changing the landscape one space, one home, and one building at a time. The Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles (AFLA) mission recognizes this metamorphosis of design integrated with the language of sustainability and a spirit of environmental justice. AFLA recognizes both LEED and the Living Building Challenge (LBC) as measures of best practice sustainable design and sees a need to recognize design elegance in that context.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The Design/Green Awards were created by the AFLA to honor exceptional design of LEED and LBC projects in Southern California. As with the judging of last year's entries, this year's jury will include internationally recognized architects, engineers, and designers.<br /><br />To download an application form go to http://www.afla.us/cfe.html<br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-26844222815951635702009-06-01T11:21:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:27:01.951-07:00<div class="note_header" style="font-family:arial;"><div class="note_title_share clearfix"><div class="note_title"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Are You Happy to See Me?</span><br />UNITED FRUIT at LACE<br /></span></span></div></div></div> <div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="font-family:arial;"> <div><span style="font-size:100%;"><b> June 16 - Sept 27, 2009</b><br /><br /><b>FALLEN FRUIT</b> who will be in residence at the Hedlands in the Bay Area for the month of July opens a new show this month in Los Angeles that explores the most popular fruit in the world, the banana. <b>United Fruit,</b> drawn from Fallen Fruit’s recent trip to Colombia, examines the social, political and pop history of the banana.<br /></span> </div><div class="photo photo_left"><div class="photo_img"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1872484&op=1&view=all&subj=112250825319&aid=-1&oid=112250825319&id=12466118842"><img src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4714/62/8/12466118842/a12466118842_1872484_7263882.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></div></div><div class="clear_left"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b> OPENING RECEPTION:</b> Tuesday 16 June 2009, 8pm - 10pm, featuring <span style="font-style: italic;">Are You Happy to See Me?</span>, a participatory performance involving hundreds of bananas available for eating. Attendees will be encouraged to photograph themselves playing with this often comical or suggestive fruit.<br /><br /><b>LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)</b><br />6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90028<br />Gallery Hours: Weds-Sun 12-6, Fri 12-9<br />www.welcometolace.org</span> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-29885198984770809432009-05-29T12:23:00.000-07:002009-06-03T09:06:58.787-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SiafmbSBmbI/AAAAAAAAApo/1VEIeVtvX1U/s1600-h/jackieapple.Water_Gully.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SiafmbSBmbI/AAAAAAAAApo/1VEIeVtvX1U/s400/jackieapple.Water_Gully.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343133490428877234" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.newtownarts.org/shows/09_on_the_trail_of/index.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NewTown</span></a> has presented several of these "trail art" exhibitions in Pasadena over the last ten years. Here is the latest. Don't miss it! Only open for two days and includes a great line up of site-specific art and nature experts and some new names. If you go and take pictures, please send me some or send a link to post on the ecologic blog.<br /><br />NewTown Presents:</span> <h1 style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">On the trail of A Half Mile of Al Fresco Installations, sculptures and performances</span></h1><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" >Karen Bonfigli & Andreas Hessing<br /> Neil Fenn<br /> Thadeus Frazier-Reed and Cassia Streb<br /> Libby Gerber<br /> John P. Hastings<br /> Stanton Hunter<br /> Huckleberry Lain<br /> Richard Newton<br /> John O’Brien & Cielo Pessione<br />Toti O’Brien<br />Miguel Olivares<br />Joseph Ravens<br />Karen Reitzel<br /></span><p style="font-weight: bold;">June 6, 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM<br /> June 7, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM<br /> Hahamongna Watershed Park (see below for directions)<br /> Free<br /> A stroll through art and nature</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Directions to Show:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> The Park is in the northwest corner of Pasadena, just south of JPL. Exit the 210 Fwy. at the Berkshire/Oak Grove offramp (N. of 210/134 Intersection). If you were going west on 210, turn right. If going east on 210, turn left. Turn left at Oak Grove (light at end of Berkshire). Go 0.3 miles to stop light at Foothill Blvd.. Turn right into park. Turn left to go down the hill to main parking area. Maps will be available at parking lot island.</span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">**Contact Information**</span><br /> Richard Amromin, Artistic Director<br /> <a href="mailto:info@newtownarts.org" target="_blank">info@newtownarts.org</a><br /> <a href="http://www.newtownarts.org/">www.newtownarts.org</a><br /> (626)398-9278 or (626)240-7787 (show dates only)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-77616004388058382002009-05-22T11:49:00.000-07:002009-05-22T12:09:40.786-07:00Otis Connects with the San Joaquin Valley<object height="265" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C-tQ5AZd7hs&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C-tQ5AZd7hs&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="265" width="320"></embed></object><br /><br />This is an awesome community arts project that connects graduate students in the Social Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design with the rural agricultural area of Laton, California. Initiated by Suzanne Lacy who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. For more information go to <a href="https://wikis.otis.edu/sjv/index.php/Welcome%21_Bienvenidos%21_Bem-vindo%21">https://wikis.otis.edu/sjv/index.php/Welcome!_Bienvenidos!_Bem-vindo!</a><br /><br />The very first Social Practice program "graduate exhibition" open till June 6th at the <a href="http://www.smcbarrettgallery.com/artists/otis-college-of-art-and-design-public-practice-mfa-degree-exhibition-2009-pie/">Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barre</a><a href="http://www.smcbarrettgallery.com/artists/otis-college-of-art-and-design-public-practice-mfa-degree-exhibition-2009-pie/">tt Art Gallery</a> (includes work by Candida Ayala, Andy Manoushagain, Ofunne Obiamiwe, Jules Rochielle Sievert and Tory Tepp). Installation shot below:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Shb4YXMb9lI/AAAAAAAAAoY/O7XBkci5DF8/s1600-h/4335_79469864670_615879670_1761008_2464189_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/Shb4YXMb9lI/AAAAAAAAAoY/O7XBkci5DF8/s400/4335_79469864670_615879670_1761008_2464189_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338727505721030226" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-74266379536997169622009-05-22T10:38:00.000-07:002009-05-22T17:32:00.228-07:00LA 2019: CULTS, COLLECTIVES & COCOONING<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/ShbjuDdz8YI/AAAAAAAAAng/_KJI8_IfGjk/s1600-h/n654452117_1787599_7080472.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 422px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/ShbjuDdz8YI/AAAAAAAAAng/_KJI8_IfGjk/s400/n654452117_1787599_7080472.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338704788638134658" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ciara Ennis, Director/Curator of Pitzer Art Galleries in Pomona, has organized an oddly cool and thoughtful grouping of artists at 18th Street Complex in Santa Monica entitled <a href="http://www.18thstreet.org/almost%20utopia/cults%20collectives%20cocooning/cults.html">2019: CULTS, COLLECTIVES & COCOONING</a>. The show includes some ecoartspace favorites like <a href="http://www.fallenfruit.org/">Fallen Fruit</a> and <a href="http://machineproject.com/">Machine Project</a>, <a href="http://www.joeltauber.com/">Joel Tauber </a>(in ecologic at Cypress 2009), as well as <a href="http://www.sarameltzergallery.com/artist.php?artist=middlebrook">Jason Middlebrook</a> who east coast ecoartspace curator Amy Lipton has worked with the last couple years on various projects.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >What I like about this concept most is the imagined and practical applications that inspire a conversation about what kind of future do we want to live in. Do we want to live in fear, or in awe of the universe, and work together to solve very real problems creatively?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >This exhibition features objects, installations, photography, drawing and video works by emerging and establi</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >shed artists and explores three related themes: real and fictional intentional communities, the power of the collective versus the individual, and sustainable solutions for future living. Other artists include: Stephanie Smith/WSAC, Bede Murphy/Unarius, and Nattaphol Ma (artist fellow, 18th Street).</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/ShdDv_hXreI/AAAAAAAAAog/A2jyBS1uDAQ/s1600-h/Jason.Middlebrook.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/ShdDv_hXreI/AAAAAAAAAog/A2jyBS1uDAQ/s400/Jason.Middlebrook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338810375055322594" border="0" /></a><span style="padding: 0pt 0px; display: block;">Jason Middlebrook, <i>A Fresh Start, </i><br />2009, Pencil on Paper, 55'' X 132''<br />© courtesy of artist Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-25346997538885834222009-03-12T13:08:00.001-07:002009-03-12T13:14:34.691-07:00CAA Land Art II panel report<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mammutmagazine.org/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SblsFU_nlZI/AAAAAAAAAR4/YiGsBoBcdgY/s200/mammut.ltla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312396074250900882" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Go to <a href="http://ecoartspace.blogspot.com">http://ecoartspace.blogspot.com</a><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-14212125089326318822009-03-05T10:35:00.000-08:002009-03-05T10:42:57.933-08:002/28/09 Closing Reception response:<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Smiles are not easily generated when thoughts lodge on the precarious state of our planet. Life hovers on a precipice of incalculable dimensions. While its scale, time, and location cannot be predicted, the direction of the fall over the precipice seems clear. It is pointing toward disaster. Without diverting us from this worrisome scenario,<a href="http://www.joeltauber.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>Joel Tauber</span></a> delights his audience by offering them an opportunity to smile. We delight in his efforts to rescue a pitiful and lonely tree from its plight in the middle of a parking lot. The care and affection</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.avant-guardians.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 132px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SbAbbfLL9CI/AAAAAAAAAQg/kjoddUBa3TA/s200/n655685629_5243.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309774119708652578" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > he lavishes upon this tree, as shown in his video installation, is more than endearing. It is a lesson in good environmental stewardship.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lindaweintraub.com/">Linda Weintraub</a></span>, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">writer, curator, educator, and artist and author of a series of college textbooks entitled <a href="http://www.avant-guardians.com/">Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology</a>.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-47078450908166642692009-02-20T16:12:00.001-08:002009-02-20T16:23:44.541-08:00Art & Ecology panels at CAA 2/25-2/28, 2009CAA is days away and there are a number of art and ecology related panels happening, which I would recommend attending at the Los Angeles Convention Center 2/25 - 2/28:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Relocating Art and Its Public</span><br />Wednesday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM<br />Chair: Kim Yasuda, UCSB<br />Gregory Sholette, Queens College<br />Christina Ulke, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest<br />Cameron Cartiere, Birkbeck College, University of London<br />Dara Greenwald, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br />Justseeds.org, Josh MacPhee<br />Marko Peljhan, UCSB<br />Daniel Tucker, AREA Chicago<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Land Use in Contemporary Art I</span><br />Thursday, February 26, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM<br />Chair: Kirsten Swenson, UNLV<br />Emily Eliza Scott, UCLA<br />Paul Monty Paret, University of Utah<br />Janet Kraynak, New School University<br />Navjotika Kumar, Kent State University<br />Martino Stierli, Universität Basel<br />Matthew Coolidge, CLUI<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proof: Art Illuminating Science</span><br />Thursday, February 26, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM<br />Chair: Ellen K. Levy, NYU<br />Lillian Ball, Cooper Union<br />Aviva Rahmani, Vinalhaven, Maine<br />Bill Tomlinson, UCI<br />Carol Steen, Touro College<br />Lev Manovich, UCSD<br />Roger Malina, CNRS<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Green Foundations: Curricular and Environmental Sustainability</span><br />Thursday, February 26, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM<br />Chair: Steven Bleicher, CCU<br />Tim Rumage, Ringling<br />Sheryl Haler, Ringling<br />Tracy Doreen Dietzel, Edgewood College<br />Linda Weintraub, Rhinebeck, NY<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Place Markers: Artists, Technology, and Landscape</span><br />Friday, February 27, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM<br />Chair: Peter Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery<br />James Geurts, Australia<br />Evamaria Trischak, Vienna<br />Emily Vey Duke/Cooper Battersby, Syracuse/Colgate<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Ecological Imagination: From Land Art to BioArt</span><br />Friday, February 27, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM<br />Chair: Rita Raley, UCSB<br />Melissa Sue Ragain, UV<br />Linda Weintraub, Rhinebeck, NY<br />Rita Raley, University California, Santa Barbara<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Land Use in Contemporary Art, Part II</span><br />Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM<br />Chair: Kirsten Swenson, UNLV<br />Kimberly Paice, University of Cincinnati<br />Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Modern Art<br />Chris Taylor, Texas Tech University<br />Ann Wolfe, Nevada Museum of Art<br />Patricia Watts, ecoartspaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877399369397614453.post-24163980092339610402009-02-01T21:54:00.001-08:002009-02-11T12:45:49.063-08:00ecoLOGIC installation shots by Paul Paiement, Gallery Director<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM4RwWWBzI/AAAAAAAAANY/FQm5dQx0qTg/s1600-h/Eco03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM4RwWWBzI/AAAAAAAAANY/FQm5dQx0qTg/s320/Eco03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301643064032757554" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM2xLUtRoI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/suYfaqcQsJM/s1600-h/Eco01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM2xLUtRoI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/suYfaqcQsJM/s320/Eco01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301641404826338946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM4C24N2NI/AAAAAAAAANI/aP-Yuaos_oM/s1600-h/Eco09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM4C24N2NI/AAAAAAAAANI/aP-Yuaos_oM/s320/Eco09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301642808087402706" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM3707ArZI/AAAAAAAAANA/_GdJf933PZg/s1600-h/Eco15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7o20MMoT4zk/SZM3707ArZI/AAAAAAAAANA/_GdJf933PZg/s320/Eco15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301642687303167378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com