Contents for April 21st, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, live online at the FF LOFT, April 22
1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
2. John Fleck, FF Alumn, now online at PasteMagazine.com
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at BAAD, The Bronx, May 4
4. IV Castellanos, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Miller, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at Weis Acres, Manhattan, May 11, 18, 25
5. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, April 23-25
6. Lorraine O’Grady, Robert Ransick, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at VeraListCenter.org
7. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, now online at ArtReportToday.com
8. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1073003777
9. Sonja Lucien, FF Alumn, wins award at Gallerij Artroom, Roskilde, Denmark
10. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
11. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, April 24
12. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 9
13. Christina Schlesinger, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, opening May 8
14. Richard Foreman, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
15. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org and more
16. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, now online
17. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Folsom (SoMa), San Francisco, CA, thru June 7
18. The Dark Bob, Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Sheree Rose, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, May 16-17
19. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, at Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY, May 3
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Weekly Spotlight: Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, live online at the FF LOFT, April 22
Franklin Furnace digital LOFT event this Tuesday, April 22
Return to Valhalla: screening
Eddy Falconer, Patricia White
April 22, 2025, 6-7:15pm ET
Please register for the online event here:
https://franklinfurnace.org/return-to-valhalla/
Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, “Return to Valhalla” is an essay film that traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?
Valhalla, the home of the gods in Norse mythology, famously depicted in the operas of Richard Wagner as a place of final rest when the light dims on these waning superpowers….Here, a cinematic meditation on what the superpower of stitching tenses and moments and even new words together might really mean to the filmmaker.
Artist bio:
Eddy Falconer, FF intern alum, is an 89er, someone who experienced the Wendezeit in Berlin and was formed by their battles for queer and non-German recognition there and then. In the early 90s, they created the performance character Eduardo Falcone, Super 8 films, installations, and paintings, and studied theater with Achim Freyer.. In the US, in 2000-01 Eddy helped stage the premiere of Solanas’ Up Your Ass with George Coates Performance Works. In 2003 Eddy co-founded The Icarus Project website, a peer support network. Since 2007 they have created experimental and animated festival videos.
Patricia White is Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Coordinator and Aydelotte Foundation Director at Swarthmore College. Her books include Rebecca; Women’s Cinema/World Cinema, and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. She is on the boards of Camera Obscura and Women Make Movies.
Thank you.
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1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
Please visit this link:
https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2025-guggenheim-fellows
Thank you.
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2. John Fleck, FF Alumn, now online at PasteMagazine.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at BAAD, The Bronx, May 4
Performing the Bronx with Charles Rice-González
& Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
Queer presence in the Bronx
Sunday, May 4, 12 Noon, 2025
Meet at BAAD! 2474 Westchester Avenue
More information here: https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/happenings/charlesricegonzalezandnicolasdumitestevezraful
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente,
and Performing the Bronx
to join this gathering, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or https://www.instagram.com/interiorbeautysalon/?hl=en
Charles Rice-González and Nicolás convene with a group to activate LGBTQ+ space – outdoors in the open –through writing. This event is co-shaped by all participants as a ritual that honors the queer Bronxites who have been here before and who have courageously inhabited our neighborhoods. Taking this as a point of inspiration, all of those present give this experience tangible form through an altar in flux, to be infused with the writings that emerge, the devotions that arise, and any other offerings to this impermanent socio-emotional sculpture.
Queer presence in the Bronx continues to inform the cultures, activisms and spirits of this part of New York City where many of those existing at the edges of society have played a central role in the struggle for social justice. Charles will guide us all into the herstories/theirstories/ourstories/histories whose roots run deep into the rich soil of our borough, and which have allowed many of us to flower.
What are the catalyst organizations, groups and individuals – some no longer existing or alive in physical form – who must be remembered and their impetus invoked into our now?
Please bring a simple offering for the altar.
For directions to BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, go to: https://www.baadbronx.org/
The closest train is the number 6 to Westchester Square in the Bronx. BAAD! and then walk a couple of blocks.
Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBTQ activist, and co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Associate Professor at Hostos Community College – CUNY. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His debut novel Chulito (Magnus Books 2011) has received nearly a dozen awards including honors from the American Library Association and the National Book Critics Circle. His writing’s been published in over a dozen journals and anthologies, and he co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. His play I Love Andy Gibb was published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology, and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo has been produced each year at BAAD! since 2004.
His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, Letras Boricuas Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, a PEN Writing as Activism Fellowship, the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, an Audre Lorde scholarship from the ZAMI Foundation, and a Gay City News Impact Award for his activism and contributions to advancing the lives of LGBTQ people.
In 1998, Charles co-founded, with award-winning choreographer/dancer Arthur Aviles, BAAD! – The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a cultural organization and theater that presents empowering works for women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community.
He serves on the boards of the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National Association of Latino Art and Cultures, where he is currently chair of both.
This event will be documented through video and photographs. Those attending must be okay with this.
To join this gathering, please contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com
ABOUT: PERFORMING THE BRONX
Since 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has invited a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved home borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces, as well as in the Bronx’s public realm, and focus on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods in our part of the City. Performing the Bronx is an expansion of Nicolás’s ongoing in honoring, recovering, reclaiming and remembering herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s neighbors and trailblazers that run the risk of being effaced by time, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation.
Past participants: Arthur Avilés, Bill Aguado, Benny Bonilla, Mili Bonilla, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’, Dr. Drum, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García, Reverend Danilo Lachapel, Wanda Salamán, and Rhina Valentin
Performing the Bronx as a whole has been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Casita Maria’s South Bronx Culture Trail 2020, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. It has also received love, space and support from Mothers on the Move, BronxNet TV, The Andrew Freedman Home, and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.
The 2025 chapters of Performing the Bronx with Lisa Ortega, and Charles Rice-González are presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.
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4. IV Castellanos, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Miller, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at Weis Acres, Manhattan, May 11, 18, 25
Co-curators Martita Abril and Cathy Weis are pleased to announce another exciting season of Sundays on Broadway featuring new and in-process works at WeisAcres.
April 27: Film by Emily Coates with discussion led by Brent Hayes Edwards
May 11: Film and discussion led by Yvonne Rainer
May 18: Nami Yamamoto + Emma Judkins + IV Castellanos
May 25: Dance performance & Xylocarp string band led by Jennifer Miller + Jonathan Gonzalez + Keith Hennessy & Ishmael Houston-Jones
Sundays on Broadway
6:00 p.m. – doors open at 5:45 p.m.
WeisAcres, 537 Broadway #3
NYC 10012
All donations go to the performers.
$5-20 suggested.
For more information, please visit https://cathyweis.org
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5. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, April 23-25
Situation As Site: Public Social Performance and Interventions
A one-of-a-kind workshop with public artist Ed Woodham
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – April 23, 24,25, 2025
The Art Students League of New York / 215 West 57th Street
Public space is where we gather to discuss and fuel social change regardless of our economic status, gender identity, age, culture, religion, or beliefs. As martial law slithers into our present circumstances, artists’ voices in civic spaces are crucial – right this very minute.
Like a laboratory, participants explore methods from a variety of art forms, social engagement, and performance practice to cultivate innovative approaches to the construction of new public work in our quickly changing social landscape.
Artists of all levels are welcome.
For more information and to register, visit: https://workshops.artstudentsleague.org/course/Woodham-WS-Public-Social-Performance_cd_6536_6787
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6. Lorraine O’Grady, Robert Ransick, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at VeraListCenter.org
Please visit this link:
https://www.veralistcenter.org/events/lorraine-ogrady-1934-2024-a-celebration-of-life
Thank you.
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7. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, now online at ArtReportToday.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.artreporttoday.com/2025a/the-dark-bob-songs-for-artists-interview.html
Thank you
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8. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1073003777
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS MAILING LIST:
PZ, APRIL 13, 2025
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9. Sonja Lucien, FF Alumn, wins award at Gallerij Artroom, Roskilde, Denmark
My piece “Still alive” got an award during Saturday’s opening in the gallery artroom, where it was crowded with people. Three works out of 139 works were selected for awards by a jury.
The exhibition lasts until 25.05.25
GALLERI ARTROOM
Birkelundsvej 14
Hvedstrup
2640 Hathouses
Roskilde
Open:
Weekdays 9 am – 4 pm
Weekend 12-15
EASTER DAY 10-13
Or by appointment artkatepiil@gmail.com
Thank you.
Sonja Lucien
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10. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
HSToo *AGP27
12/01/25 Here we are, posing for the 27th Annual Group Photograph. Over the years many definitions of what constitutes a group photograph have been added to this ongoing project. They acknowledge context, history, and an ever expanding range of tools for documenting. For HS Too participants were asked to come to the enormous building site for HS2 that surrounds Euston Station in London. It was bitterly cold and communication was difficult. Sunny weather was added when available.
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
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11. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, April 24
Thursday April 24th! Galinsky Presents Poetry in New York – at Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street NYC – 1st artist hits the mic at 8pm! – 10 Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: Avalon Akahoho, Oscar Sanders, Deb Long, Yelda Ali, Margie Mia X Johnson, Sean Battle, Oliver Baer, Olga Ast, all hosted by Galinsky and co-host Anna Carlson and Ian McFarland Music with Dig Ferreira on live action painting!
The show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN / FREE and all donations, here on Eventbrite and live at the venue, are accepted – your generosity at any level is valued. The show starts at 8pm and the Book Club cafe is fine place to relax before and after the show.
Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NYC.
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12. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 9
Hello Friends –
I am excited to announce my upcoming solo show at Olympia Gallery
Companion
41 Orchard Street, New York, New York
Opening Reception: 6-8pm, Friday, May 9
Exhibition dates: May 8 – June 21, 2025
Olympia is located between Hester and Grand at 41 Orchard in the Lower East Side.
Gallery hours: 12-6pm, Tuesday – Saturday
I hope to see you there!
best to you,
Yura Adams
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13. Christina Schlesinger, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, opening May 8
Tabla Rasa presents
20th Anniversary Exhibition
Idiosyncratic Identities
May 8-30 2025
Opening reception May 8, 5:30-8 pm
224 48th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
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14. Richard Foreman, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Richard Foreman memorial tribute, edited by Charles Bernstein, now online at this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/tribute/a-tribute-to-richard-foreman
with John Zorn, Richard Schechner, Kate Valk, Bonnie Marranca, P. Adams Sitney, Shauna Kelly, Susan Bee, Tony Torn, Jay Sanders, Andrew Lampert, Tom Sellar, Travis Just, Felix Bernstein, Ivan Sokolov, Willem Dafoe, Kate Manheim, and Bernstein.
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15. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org and more
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/04/artseen/susan-bee-days-of-awe
and this link to the audio recording of Susan Bee & Kat Griefen’s Days of Awe interview at A.I.R. Gallery, April 6, 2025
https://jacket2.org/commentary/days-of-awe
Thank you.
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16. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, now online
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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17. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Folsom (SoMa), San Francisco, CA, thru June 7
Hello,
Upset about the direction of the planet and country?
I am in this pertinent fantastic show with a stellar lineup that just opened in San Francisco.
We are commenting on the state of the nation and proposing some answers, bon mots and Molotov cocktails.
My piece in the exhibit is American Aria, an 6 hour 11 minute mashup opus on the J6 riot made in collaboration with Seamus Davis and Oakwood Arts.
Hope to see you there!
Kal
ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance
Featuring works by Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Christy Chan, Nicólas González-Medina, Doug Hall, and Kal Spelletich April 19th – June 7th, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 19th 6:00 – 9:00pm
Closing Reception, Saturday, June 7th, 2:00 – 4:00pm An exhibition of political art, registering the re-election of Donald Trump as an authoritarian take-over of the country. The show adopts an historical lens on our current crisis, foregrounding the authoritarian tendency in American politics, tying this tendency to the white supremacy integral to our country’s past, and highlighting these artists’ voices as protests against the ever-present threat of authoritarianism – now taking hold of our society.
EVENTS: Nic[o] Brierre Aziz: In Conversation Tuesday, April 22nd, 6:00 –8:00 pm Free and open to the public Art and Politics: A Panel Discussion with Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich
Wednesday, April 30th, 6:00 –8:00 pm Free and open to the public
This is Doug Hall: A conversation with artist Doug Hall about his recently published memoir Saturday, May 17th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Free and open to the public
May There Be Light: A Two-Part Workshop on Large Scale Projection Art Presented by Christy Chan Wednesday, May 14th and Tuesday, May 20th, 6:00 – 8:00pm Free with registration (check back soon for link), limited to eight people. We strongly encourage participation by BIPOC and LGBTQ folk and political activists.
FULL STATEMENT
Since beginning his second term as President, Donald Trump has undertaken a frontal assault on our political institutions, aimed solely at consolidating his power. He has actively undermined the rule of law and exploited his position for the enrichment of himself and his cronies. He has implemented loyalty tests, based on acceptance of the “Big Lie” that the last election was stolen, and he has initiated a radical racist, sexist, and homophobic ideological agenda, targeting the most vulnerable, marginalized people in our society and subjecting them to extra-legal forms of discrimination and persecution.
As an exhibition of political art, this show registers the re-election of Donald Trump, as an attempted authoritarian take-over of the country that we are watching unfold in real time. At the same time, the show adopts an historical lens on our current crisis,foregrounding the longstanding authoritarian tendency in American politics,from Huey Long to George Wallace and beyond; and it ties this tendency to the authoritarianism of white supremacy integral to our country’s past. That is, not only have authoritarian movements in America’s past been marked by their xenophobia and racism, but white supremacy itself has functioned as a pervasive form of authoritarianism, plaguing the lives of people of color and compromising our self-proclaimed principles of liberty and justice.
Finally, the show marks a site of resistance, highlighting these artists’ voices as political protests – integral to their work as artists – and championing public activist opposition to the ever-present threat of authoritarianism, now taking hold of our society.
323 10th St. @ Folsom (SoMa), San Francisco, CA 94103 415-336-2349 | @tttelematiccc Info@tttelematiccc.com | www.tttelematiccc.com
If you are interested in Protests, this is a current site for keeping up to date!
https://indivisiblesf.org/events/2025/4/19/we-fight-back-stop-the-billionaire-agenda
https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profit-tesla-sf-protest-6
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https://www.tttelematiccc.com/galactic-scale-inquiries-into-the-nature-of-the-cosmos
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18. The Dark Bob, Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Sheree Rose, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, May 16-17
Please visit this link:
https://welcometolace.org/lace/performance/endurance/
Thank you.
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19. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, at Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY, May 3
Jane St. Art Center workshop with Linda Mary Montano
LAUGH/CRY/SOUNDARAMA
Sat May 3, 2-3:30 pm
Bring Yoga mat or blanket
needed -no experience necessary except to be tuned into THE CLIMATE OF NOW!
Adults only
Suggested donation $10-$20
Jane St. Art Center
11 Jane St., Ste. A, Saugerties NY 12477
845-217-5715 https://jqanestreetartcenter.com
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