Contents for January 23, 2023
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace live at Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25
1. John Ahearn, Joe Lewis, FF Alumns, at The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 22
2. Helen Xinan Ran, FF Alumn, at Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, thru April 4
3. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Bell House, Brooklyn, Feb. 2
4. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library New Amsterdam Branch, Manhattan, Jan. 24
5. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL, opening Jan. 27
6. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at THIS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, opening Feb. 4
7. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, at Bienvenu Steinberg & J, Manhattan, thru Feb. 18
8. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Member, at Heller Museum, Manhattan, thru July 20
9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Manhattan, March 13
10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at Berkeleyside.org
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace live at Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25
https://franklinfurnace.org/dragging-the-workshop/
Dragging the Workshop
January 25, 2023
6:00 pm-8:00 pm ET
In the Alumni Reading Rooms in the Brooklyn Library at the Pratt.
Free & open to the public.
An in-person interactive workshop led by Pratt Institute Archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez on finding meaning in the archive. Working with and around objects highlighted through the current Live at the Library exhibition Dragging the Archive, participants are invited to look beyond the content of an archive in order to focus on its structure, context, and significance. Collectively and collaboratively, participants and facilitator will reflect on how meaning is constructed through a contextualization and critique of the archive and its processes. Instead of asking: What is this?, we will ask: Who created it? Who kept it? Why? What does this mean to me?
Participants will leave with an understanding of how to gather and interpret information in a variety of formats – including photographs, correspondence, and ephemera, and an appreciation of how seemingly static records can influence our (very alive!) interpretations of events, people, histories, and relationships.
Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez is the Institute Archivist at Pratt, where she also teaches a course on archival theory and practice. This event is open to the public and free to attend, with a maximum of 20 places.
This event is presented as part of Dragging the Archive: A personal (re)encounter with Franklin Furnace’s Cyber Beginnings by Elly Clarke – the 8th Live at the Library collaboration between Franklin Furnace and Pratt Institute.
Register for the event here: https://franklinfurnace.org/dragging-the-workshop/
See the exhibition onsite in the library at Pratt, Brooklyn campus, and online at https://franklinfurnace.org/dragging-the-archive/
Bio:
Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez is the Virginia Thoren and Institute Archivist at Pratt Institute Libraries and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Information. Prior to joining Pratt, Cristina was a National Digital Stewardship Resident for Art Information at the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Decker Library. Cristina’s work is focused on the application of social justice principles to archival practice through participatory and non-hierarchical ways of knowledge-seeking and making. She is a founding member of Archivistas en Espanglish, a collective dedicated to amplifying spaces of memory-building between Latin America and Latinx communities in the US and currently co-runs Barchives, an independent outreach initiative that brings archivists to bars to talk about New York City’s archival collections and local history. She holds a BA in Geography from Universidad de Puerto Rico and an MLS with a certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from CUNY Queens College.
Dragging the Workshop is part of Dragging the Archive, curated by Elly Clarke, with identity designed by Yunjia Yuan. Live at the Library VIII is presented with the support of Michael Asher Foundation; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Pratt Institute; The Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and the Board of Directors, members, and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
Thank you.
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1. John Ahearn, Joe Lewis, FF Alumns, at The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 22
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Helen Xinan Ran, FF Alumn, at Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, thru April 4
Name: Tutu Gallery
Artist: Helen Xinan Ran
Exhibition: Very Sweet
Opening time: 1/20/2023 6-9PM
Closing date: 3/4/2023
Address: Willoughby Ave x Stuyvesant Ave, DM @gallerytutu or email tutugallery.meow@gmail.com for exact address
URL:
https://www.tutugallery.art/xinanhelen
Any additional info please refer to AAA-A listing:
https://www.aaa-a.org/events/very-sweet
Description:
Tutu Gallery presents its best exhibition in over 3 years of making with artist/researcher/comic/magician Xinan Helen Ran. Behold Very Sweet, a project that playfully explores language, material, and comfort that gather around the theme of intimate joy. Mingling domestic objects with unassociated and overheard conversations in the public sphere, this show reflects the disorienting journey that one goes through from fear to, well, let’s avoid using that corny word* here to keep it sexy.
Thank you.
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3. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Bell House, Brooklyn, Feb. 2
“Happy” “New” “Year” “!”
I’m having a great 2023 so far. A real solid beginning. For instance, yesterday I got a call that there was a baby stuck in a sewer pipe in a wall. At first I thought it was just the stoner neighbor having an auditory hallucination on pot, but I jumped in my fire truck and headed to the emergency locale. I tore the wall down with a sledge hammer and discovered there WAS indeed a baby in there! Someone flushed it, understandably. It was still alive and it slid right out of the pipe. A rebirth! A couple hours later I got a call that someone was being choked to death. “elp me… ‘ees choking me, cough cough” I rushed to the address and found it to be a satanists lair, filled with reptiles and sex nerd contraptions and bisexual lighting. The owner of the house was a scantily clad dominatrix type red headed harlot and she was indeed being choked…by her boa constrictor! I chopped its head off. Then I had spaghetti with the boys at the fire house. Ok that didn’t really happen to me that was the plot of the Season 1 Episode 1 of 911 on FOX network.
Annnnnyways, here is what is upcoming in my hulu hoop. I am so very excited to come back to NY in February with this mega talented lineup for Weirdo Night. See you there please.
Weirdo Night NYC at The Bell House
149 7th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215
Thursday, Feb 2nd
Doors 6:30 / Show 7:30
Vaccination required
Tickets can be purchased here: https://donyc.com/events/2023/2/2/weirdo-night-hosted-by-dynasty-handbag-tickets
Francesca D’uva
Jack Ferver
eddy kwon
Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Peter Smith
Thank you.
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4. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library New Amsterdam Branch, Manhattan, Jan. 24
NYPL Lower Manhattan Book Club
Lunar New Year Author Talk – Alvin Eng
New Amsterdam branch of NYPL
9 Murray Street (btw Broadway & Church St) Manhattan
The Lower Manhattan Book Club of the NYPL New Amsterdam branch has chosen my memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town, for their Lunar New Year book selection!
On Tuesday, January 24, from 5pm–6:15pm, I will be reading from and discussing the book to celebrate The Year of the Rabbit. Hope you can hop over and join us. The event is Free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. You don’t need to have read the book to join the discussion!
Thank you.
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5. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL, opening Jan. 27
The World is a Handkerchief will be at the Coral Gables Museum, Miami, Florida, Opens Jan 27th, 6-8pm until Feb 15, 2023, with a Workshop for families on Jan 28th. Curated by Claudia DeMonte and Cecilia Mandrile.
The World is a Handkerchief is a traveling exhibition rooted in the Spanish saying ‘el mundo es un pañuelo,’ which translates into English as ‘this is such a small world’. The project traces serendipitous encounters, moments of discovering personal connections in distant places or unexpected contexts.
The project began with the meeting of Claudia DeMonte and Cecilia Mandrile as a mentor and student respectively at the University of Maryland, United States in 1995 and has expanded through an international collaborative network between mentors, students, and peers. To celebrate this constant and sustained creative dialogue, in 2019 the curators developed a portable exhibition of 50 handkerchiefs that explored the meaning of belonging and interconnectedness that this Spanish saying so tangibly evokes.
Thank you.
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6. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at THIS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, opening Feb. 4
elin o’Hara slavick has a solo exhibition of collages, Make Me A Summary of The World, at
THIS Gallery, 485 Main Street, Vancouver BC, Canada, opening February 4, 12 noon – 4pm.
Show runs until the end of February, 2023.
Thank you.
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7. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, at Bienvenu Steinberg & J, Manhattan, thru Feb. 18
Dear Friends, Family, and Colleagues,
We hope you can join us for the opening of “Looks Good: On Paper” at Bienvenu Steinberg & J, opening January 19 from 6-8pm, at 45 Walker Street.
Max has two beautiful framed works on paper in the exhibition and two more in the flat files. The full press release is below.
Very best wishes,
Matt Jones
Studio Manager
Max Gimblett Studio
@maxgimblettstudio
Thank you.
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8. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Member, at Heller Museum, Manhattan, thru July 20
One Nation: Contemporary Artists Consider America’s Past, Present, and Future at The Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College in New York
On View: January 26 – July 20, 2023
Jeffrey Schrier’s “Look for America” is featured in a powerful new art exhibition, “One Nation,” at the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College in New York. This show presents a provocative view of America’s past, present, and future as interpreted by 45 contemporary artists who consider the state of our nation and hopes for a just future.
E pluribus unum, out of many, one – was the Founders’ vision for America: a nation forged from different ethnic cultures, national origins, religions, and economic classes – yet unified by a shared commitment to freedom, democracy, and guaranteed individual rights.
The artists in this exhibition have investigated America’s ideals and aspirations as well as its challenges through works mirroring the diversity of American culture and experience. Their diverse identities provide multifaceted perspectives of who we are, and who we might become.
From the Founding Fathers to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the welcoming Statue of Liberty to today’s immigration struggles, the joy of citizenship to the striving for the American dream, the many facets of our nation are powerfully depicted in multiple mediums, including paintings, woodcuts, photography, tapestry, collage, and textiles.
Curator Phyllis Freedman explains, “One Nation expresses more than an ideal. It reflects an essential truth about human society: we are stronger and more resilient together, embracing all of our differences, than we are apart.”
Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Heller Museum Director, adds, “This exhibition reminds us that we must take action against the systemic racism, attacks on human rights, and rising antisemitism that divide our nation, and ensure that our country endures as a guiding light of freedom and justice for all.”
Admission: Free; Identification and proof of vaccination required
Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
Tours: Free docent-guided tours on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm and by appointment; contact eberman@huc.edu
Information: Please contact HellerMuseum@huc.edu; (212) 824-2218
Thank you.
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9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Manhattan, March 13
Hi folks,
I am performing my first “live” U.S. event since pandemic times.
RSVP now by calling 212-642-2094
Free
Space is limited. This event will fill up quick. The audience will gather in person.
Vaccination essential.
Monday March 13, 2023
6pm
John D Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street
17th floor
New York, New York 10036
Stan Pugliese will join me in the antics. Who knows? We may invoke Pulcinella…
I will be selling and signing books. Cash only. If you want 10 or more copies, send me a note in advance. The book is gorgeous and deserves to find readers.
or buy books here:
https://iambooksboston.com/product/whaddyacall-the-wind/
Thank you.
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10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at Berkeleyside.org
BAMPFA presents the paintings of Frank Moore – a performance artist, poet and so much more
Opening Jan. 25, the exhibition focuses on the lesser-known body of work by the Berkeley countercultural activist who was also a playwright and filmmaker.
Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human Melting, at BAMPFA, Jan. 25-April 23.
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Mackenzie Penera and Kyan Ng, FF Interns, Spring 2023
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