Contents for July 15, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, New Paltz, NY July 20
2. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, at DIA, Manhattan, thru July 20
3. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at eroplay.org
4. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at InterviewMagazine.com
5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, summer news
6. Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Autumn Knight, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at CultBytes.com
8. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, receives Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement
9. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, thru Sept. 14
10. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, receives Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant
11. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Bridge Street Theater, Catskill, NY, July 16
12. Graciela Cassel, FF Member, at Governors Island, Manhattan, July 13
13. Vernita N’Cognita, FF Alumn, at Viridian Artists, Manhattan, thru Aug. 3
14. Bill Gordh, FF Alumn, at The Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA, July 20
15. Sally Apfelbaum, FF Member, at 14th Street Y, Manhattan, July 24
16. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, receives 2024 Lillian Orlowsky & William Freed Grant, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
17. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, July 16 and more
18. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, with Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, live online, July 25
19. Nina Sobell, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, opening Sept. 19, and more
20. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publications now available
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1. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, New Paltz, NY July 20
‘AN EMPTYING’
Invited Artists: Millicent Young, Verónica Peña, Alexis Elton, Michael Asbill, Manasa Thimmiya Appaneravanda, Ellen Carpenter, Siralia Foundation, and Kyriakos Apostolidis
Curated by Lital Dotan
Glasshouse ArtLifeLab
Saturday & Sunday July 20-21, 10a-10p
251 Springtown Road, New Paltz, NY
Free and open to the public.This program is part of Upstate Art Weekend 2024
For more information visit https://www.glasshouseproject.org/an-emptying-24h-program
‘AN EMPTYING’ 24h program is part of a year-long theme that looks at the aftermath of performance as part of its becoming. The works presented will be embodying the notion of “emptying” as an ongoing action from various physical, alchemical and gestural perspectives. Durational performances will be exploring submergence, participatory hovering sites, an ongoing weaving of surrealistic matter, a work of endurance and exhaustion, a cyclical micro-healing offering, along gentle participatory actions and activations.
Among the durational live performances happening on the grounds throughout the program, will be three process-based installations around our new site, which was flooded in 2011 and vacant since- Alexis Elton will be activating wicking salt sculptures, Michael Asbill creates an environment of carbonized charcoal and Millicent Young looks at rusting, a process chorus for an ongoing emptying.
The program will be physically engaging the grounds with an emptying, while acknowledging that any process of emptying is always simultaneously, and relationally, filling.
VERÓNICA PEÑA (US/Spain) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, empathy, and women’s empowerment. Peña performs/exhibits primarily in Europe and America. In America: Museo Ex Teresa (ZonaMACO, Mexico City, 2022), SatelliteArt Fair (Miami Art Week, 2021), ChaShaMa (NYC, 2021), Grace Exhibition Space (NYC, 2021), Franklin Furnace (NYC, 2021), NARS Foundation (Artist-In-Residence, 2021), Coaxial Arts Foundation (LA, 2021), Pioneer Works (2020-canceled due to Covid-19), Smack MellonFoundation, Triskelion Arts, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, SAIC (Visiting Artist), Times Square, Armory Show, Defibrillator Performance Gallery, Momenta Art Gallery, Dumbo Arts Festival, Consulate of Spain in NY, among others. Europe: Fundación Bilbaoarte (Bilbao, 2021), Museo La NeomudéJar (Madrid, 2019), Friche La Belle De Mai (Marseille, 2018), Festival Intramurs (Valencia, 2018), Zaratan Arte Contemporáneo (Lisbon, 2017), among others. She was selected for the Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, received a QAC Fund 2022, FCA Grant 2022, and a Franklin Furnace Fund 2018, among others. She published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +33,000 member FB Community. Peña received an MFA from Stony Brook University. veronicapena.com @veronica.pena.live.art
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2. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, at DIA, Manhattan, thru July 20
Please visit this link:
https://diaart.org/program/calendar/liliana-porter-a-video-program-screening-06212024
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3. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at eroplay.org
The Frank Moore Archives have an amazing collection of zines and small press publications that was accumulated during the 1990s when we were publishing our zine, The Cherotic [r]Evolutionary. We are now in the process of going through these materials and boxing them up to be archived at The Bancroft Library, University of California in Berkeley.
You can see just a tiny sampling of some of those creations here:
https://www.eroplay.org/p/our-zine-and-small-press-collection
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4. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at InterviewMagazine.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/77-years-old-pat-oleszko-own-gallery-show
Thank you.
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5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, summer news
Dear Friends,
It has been an eventful few months and summer is in full swing! I am pleased to announce my new co-representation with Susan Inglett Gallery, Chicago IL; and my promotion to tenure at the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practices at Northwestern University.
I’m also thrilled to share that I have been selected to receive The Walder Foundation Inaugural Platform Award for 2024 alongside a cohort of incredible performing artists who are shaping Chicago’s cultural landscape through a commitment to meaningful community engagement. Alongside myself, the 2024 Platform Award recipients are theater artists Lili-Anne Brown, Sandra Delgado, and Myra Su; dance artists Darrell Jones, Chief Manny (Brandon Calhoun), Vershawn Sanders-Ward, and Robyn Mineko Williams; music artists Lisa Kaplan, Sam Thousand, and Matthew Ulery; and interdisciplinary artist avery r. young. I am honored to have my work recognized and to have been selected among such a talented group of artists committed to fostering a more equitable and sustainable culture.
Thank you all for your continued support, and I hope to see you all very soon!
Brendan
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6. Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Autumn Knight, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at CultBytes.com
Please visit this link:
https://cultbytes.com/a-variety-show-demanding-balls-fly-at-center-for-performance-research
Thank you.
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7. Melissa Wolf & Paul Lamarre, Edward Albee, Suzanne Anker, Ron Athey, Holly Block, Robert T. Buck, Cecilia Clarke, Vernita N. Cognita, Douglas Davis, David Dean, Ronald Feldman, Karen Finley, Allen Frame, Olivia Georgia, Frank Gillette, Judy Glantzman, Leon Golub, Agnes Gund, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Susan Kleinberg, Tony Korner, Ruby Lerner, Larry Litt, Jeff McMahon, Alexander Melamid, Tim Miller, Robert C. Morgan, Nam June Paik, Lucio Pozzi, Rachel Rosenthal, Ellen Salpeter, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Buzz Spector, Nancy Spero, Carol Sun, Marianne Weems, Lawrence Weiner, Helene Winer, Fred Wilson, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at EIDIA House, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 2
THE NEA TAPES Documentary
THE ARTISTS’ Battle for Free Expression in the Arts
PRODUCTION STILLS of the ARTISTS
As assembled by EIDIA, Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre
for the film THE NEA TAPES and subsequent archive
Plato’s Cave @ EIDIA House, 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249
July 11 to August 2, 2024
Hours: 1-6pm Wednesday – Saturday
Contact: eidiahouse@earthlink.net
As THE NEA TAPES DOCUMENTARY is currently experiencing renewed interest, you are invited to PLATO’S CAVE (the Cave) for the 32nd exhibition from the EIDIA House Studio. Plato’s Cave had its formal launch in 2009. This special summer salon will feature 21 digital Glycee photographs in color and black and white—11”x14” and 13”x19” taken over the six year period of film production of THE NEA TAPES documentary created from 1995 to 2001. These are never before seen images of some of the individuals selected from hundreds interviewed and photographed by Lamarre and Wolf for the film. (See total list below.)
The documentary will be screened during the exhibition run. Throughout the film production EIDIA traveled cross-country (to nearly all 50 States) where some 300 interviews were recorded addressing the proposed dismantling of the National Endowment for the Art.
Along with THE NEA TAPES doc having numerous presentation and acquisitions (to the present day) this ‘representation’ of the project after 30 years will give the viewers a significant pause for reflection. “Sadly not much has changed.” stated one prominent museum curator. It is as if the ‘Art World’ has intentionally chosen to forget this period of history.
As the art world spins once again into a morass perhaps EIDIA House has the answer. In this era when censorship abounds internationally vis-a-vis Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram we revisit a ‘fulcrum, point of origin’ for such behavior now in 2024. THE NEA TAPES is a document of a ‘questioning’ sensibIlity, reviewing a time that cannot be recreated or repeated because its of a very specific time. The project records a world that is not like any other and documents a slice of a time when the art world knew it was at a precipice —its future at stake.
THE NEA TAPES is an “oral history” of the 1990s arts funding “culture wars”—increasingly worthy of preservation. There are 54 voices in the 60 minute film, edited from 300 interviews recorded across the US from 1995 to 2001. The film tells the story of diverse arts community support for America’s federally funded arts and humanities. It was the mandate of this film that this passionate oral and visual history be documented and retained. THE NEA TAPES provides an engaging platform for debate.
“This is a pretty good government that can fund its dissenters, that has the self-assurance to know that all voices can be heard in a democratic society.”
Tim Robbins, actor / director, as quoted in THE NEA TAPES
“It was frustrating.. I recognized pretty early on it was a political game, maybe not in the first year but once I had gotten some response from some congressman on both sides of the aisle that said; Oh yes don’t worry I am ‘with’ you, but then they didn’t vote with me. Then I realize there was something else going on.”
Jane Alexander Chairperson of the NEA 1993-1997
EIDIA is a transdisciplinary artist duo based in New York City who collaborate under the name EIDIA (1983 to present.) Lamarre was living at the Chelsea Hotel to create THE CHELSEA TAPES film and Wolf became camera person and editor. And true they also create work individually. They are co-directors of EIDIA House—a meeting place and forum for artists, scholars, poets, writers, architects and others interested in ‘idée force’ the arts as an instrument for positive social change.
We look forward to seeing you. Contact EIDIA House: eidiahouse@earthlink.net EIDIA House / Plato’s Cave
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THE NEA TAPES PARTICIPANTS TOTAL
Assembled in 1999 revisited May 2023 and updated according to THE NEA TAPES film
contractual releases, signed by all participants. (276 to 300 total participants)
Floyd Abrams – Attorney (“Sensation” Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Edward Albee – Writer
J.B. Allen – cowboy / poet, Whiteface, Texas
Jane Alexander – Actress / Former Director of the National Endowment For the Arts, Washington DC
Oscar Alvarado – Artist
Gregory Amenoff – Artist / Educator
Grimanesa Amoros – Artist
Maxwell L. Anderson – Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
Marilyn Andrews – Accountant, Amana Iowa
Suzanne Anker – Artist / Educator
Katya Apekina – Artist (featured in NEA PSA)
Bill Arning – Director, White Columns
Anne Arrasmith – Artist / Co-director and Founder of Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama
Edward Asner – Actor
Ron Athey – Artist, Performance Artist
Tanya Augsburg – Performance Art Scholar, Arizona State University
Margaret C. Ayers – Executive Director, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Josh Baer – Art Dealer / Publisher Baer Faxt
Kenneth Baker – Art Critic, The San Francisco Chronicle
Kathleen Bailer – Director of Art Barge
Jennifer D, Bates – Basketweaver, Chairperson, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Graham W.J. Beal – Director of Detroit Institute of the Arts
Eddie Becker – taped in Washington DC
Gabriele Becker – Program Director, Goethe House
Lynda Benglis – Artist / Educator
Amir Bey – Muiti-media Artist, Astrologer and Curator
Greta Billinger & Carolyn Coleman
Michael Blackwood – Filmmaker
Holly Block – Executive Director, Art in General
Maryanna Bock – Artist & Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Portland, Maine
Jef Bourgeau – Artist & Director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Michigan
Charlie R. Braxton – Poet / Playwright, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Ellen Brooks – Photographer / Educator
Wayne Rocand Brown – Musician / Nashville, Tennessee
Robert T. Buck – Former Director, Brooklyn Museum
Bobby Byrd – Poet / Publisher Cinco Puntos Press
Mary Carpelan – Basketweaver/ Shasta-Cohiulla, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Adelina Casseus – (featured in NEA PSA)
Schuyler G. Chapin – Commissioner, City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs
Alan Chartock – CEO, WAMC Radio
Farai Chideya – Author, Radio Commentator
June Choi – Executive Director, Asian American Arts Alliance
Noam Chomsky – Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
Cecilia Clarke – Executive Director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Chuck Close – Artist
Andrei Codrescu – Writer / Editor of Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans, Louisiana
Vernita N. Cognita – Artist
Esperanza Cortes – Artist
Anna Sue Courtney – Puppeteer, Huntsville, Alabama
Emilio Cruz – Artist / Educator / Musician
James Cryer – Writer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Arthur C. Danto – Writer, Critic
Douglas Davis – Artist / Educator / Writer
Lisa Corinne Davis – Artist / Educator
David Dean – Director, Printed Matter
Andre Dekker – Visual Artist, Amsterdam
Jane Delgado – Executive Director, Bronx Museum, New York
Kathie deNobriga – Co-director / Alternate Roots, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Andre Dekker – Artist, The Netherlands
Donna De Salvo – Curator at Large, Wexner Center for the Arts
Jenny Dixon – Director, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Nicholas Drake – Disabled Person / Artist / Writer, Charleston, South Carolina
Rev. Priscilla Dreyman – Executive Director, Spiral Arts, Inc., Portland, Maine
Matthew Dudin (NEA PSA)
Sandra Edwards – President, Childesign, East Hampton, New York
Shannah Ehrhart – Assist. Director Visual Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York
Arthur Eisenberg – Legal Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
Gail Elston – Lawyer for the Arts
Helene Erenberg – Marketing Director / Theatre in the Square, Cobb County, Georgia
Jonathan F. Fanton – President, The New School for Social Research
Carol L. Farrell – Co-Artistic Director, Figure of Speech Theatre, Portland, Maine
John J. Farrell – Co-Artistic Director, Figure of Speech Theatre, Portland, Maine
Jane Farver – Director of Exhibitions, Queens Museum of Art
Dewey Fattorusso – (NEA PSA)
Richard Feigen -Owner/Director, Richard Feigen Co.
Ronald Feldman – Owner / Director, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc.
Peter Fend – Artist / Architect
William Ferris – Director / Center For the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi
Tom Finkelpearl – Director, Percent for Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC
Karen Finley – Performance Artist
Janet Fish – Artist
Dana Fleming – Arts Administrator, Blountsville, Alabama
Radney Foster – Singer / Songwriter, Nashville. Tennessee
Allen Frame – Artist / Educator
Susan K. Freedman – President, Public Art Fund
Lea Freid – Director, Lombard / Freid Fine Arts
Alan J. Friedman – Chair, Cultural Institutions Group, NYC
Rose (Rosanna) Gatens – Historian / Educator, Belmont University Nashville, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Sieglinde Geisel – Cultural Correspondent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Olivia Georgia – Director of Visual Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Michel Gerard – Artist
Stefan Gerard – Founder, Gen Art
Sandra Gering – Owner, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC
Frank Gillette – Artist / Educator
Judy Glantzman – Artist
Thelma Golden – Associate Curator, The Whitney Museum of American Art
Joanne Goldstein – (NEA PSA)
Leon Golub – Artist
Bernard Goodman – Artist
Claudia Gould – Director, Artists Space
Alexander Gray – Director, Art Matters
Richard Grebanier – Actor (NEA PSA)
Agnes Gund – President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art
Anthony Haden-Guest – Journalist
Neil Gursahani – Businessman (NEA PSA)
Jeffery Hart – Senior Editor National Review
Helen Harrison – Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York
Eleanor Heartney – Writer
Jeanne Hedstrom – Artist
Betty-Sue Hertz – Director, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, New York
Kathy High – Video Artist / Editor, “Felix”
Clark L. Holt – Artist, Birmingham, Alabama
Budd Hopkins – Artist
Sterling Houston – Artistic Director Jump Start Theatre, San Antonio, Texas
Richard Howorth – Bookseller / Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi
Karen Humpherys (NEA PSA)
Valerie Jaudon – Artist
Cynthia M. Johnson (NEA PAS)
Thomas P. Johnson – Producing Director, The Old Creamery Theater, Amana, Iowa
Joan Jonas – Artist / Educator
Kim Jones – Artist
Thomas W. Jones II – Artistic Director / Jomandi Productions, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Richard Kalina – Artist
Alex Katz – Artist
Jason Edward Kaufman – Journalist
Linda Kaufman – Professor, English, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Carmel Keoshey (NEA PSA)
Elaine A. King – Author & Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Kiuchi (NEA PSA)
Susan Kleinberg – Artist
Zoya Kocur – Artist / Educator
Christopher Kohan – President, Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Tony Korner – Publisher, Artforum, New York City
Trudy C. Kramer – Director, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
Sali Ann Kriegsman – Former Executive Director, Jacobs Pillow
Ron Kuby – Lawyer, Civil Liberties, New York City
Martin Kunz – Director, New York Kunsthalle, New York City
Donald Kuspit – Historian, Critic
Yihai Yvonne Lai – Art Therapy (NEA PSA)
Corky Lee – Photographer
Ruby Lerner – Executive Director, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
Diane Lewis – Architect / Educator
Larry Litt – Writer / Performer
Howard Lofland (NEA PSA)
Robert MacNeil – Writer
Agusto Mann (NEA PSA)
Margaret Mathews-Berenson – Curator / Educator Mark Mazur – Student, Birmingham, Alabama
Martin Mawyer – founder, Christian Action Network
Mark Mazur – student Birmingham, Alabama
Bradley McCallum – Artist in Residence, New York Civil Liberties Union
John M. McCann – Consultant / The Bay Group, Washington DC
Jeff McMahon – Artist / Educator
Jonas Mekas – Filmmaker / Director, Anthology Film Archives
Alexander Melamid – Artist group Komar & Melamid
Klaus Metzser – Theatre Director, Sud House Tubingen, Germany
Laurie Michelson (NEA PSA)
Mark Crispin Miller – Professor, Media Studies New York University
Tim Miller – Artist
Mary Miss – Artist
David Moos – Curator, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Robert C. Morgan – Educator
Edward Morgan Jr. – Director The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Ron Morosan – Artist
Marilyn Murphy – Artist / Assoc. Professor of Art, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Patrick T. Murphy – Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Jerrold Nadler – U.S. Representative
Linda D.Navarro – Basketweaver/ Shasta- Cohiulla, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Victor Navasky – Publisher / Editorial Director, The Nation. New York City
Roy Nicholson – Artist
James Nicola – Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City
David Olsen – Artist / Educator, Los Angeles
Phyllis O’Neill – Executive Director, Portland Performing Arts, Portland, Maine
John O’Sullivan – Editor The National Review
Frank Oudeman – Photographer, The Netherlands
Nam June Paik – Video Artist / Educator
Thomas I. Palley – Educator
Charles Parnes – Artist
Martin Paschall – Band Director / Henry County High School, Paris, Tennessee
Gladys Patlak (NEA PSA) or the Art Barge
Barbara A.B. Patterson – Professor / Priest, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Jill Pattiz – The Art Barge
Lewis Phillips (NEA PSA)
Katha Pollitt – Writer (on the occasion of the debate between The Nation Magazine vs. The National Review in Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1997)
Lucio Pozzi – Artist
Nancy Princenthal – Writer
Michael Rafkin – Artistic Director, Mad Horse Theatre, Portland, Maine
Edward Rashti – M.D. Houston, Texas
Carter Ratcliff – Poet / Art Critic
Megan Ratner – Writer
Barry Redlich – (NEA PSA)
Ruud Reutelingsperger – Artist, The Netherlands
Jesse Rhines – Filmmaker / Educator
Frank Rich – Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
Lois S. Riggins-Ezzell – Executive Director, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Robert Rindler – Dean, School of Art The Cooper Union
Tim Robbins – Actor
Walter Robinson – Artist / Writer
Geno Rodriguez – Director, Alternative Museum, New York City
Elizabeth Rogers – Independent Curator / Historian
Stephen F. Rohde – Attorney, President ACLU of Southern California
Tim Rollins & K.O.S. – Educator / Artist
Jonathan Martin Rosen – Artist
Rachel Rosenthal – Director, Rachel Rosenthal Company, Los Angeles, California
Andrew Ross – Director American Studies, New York University
David A. Ross – Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Robert A. Rothman (NEA PSA)
Catherine Saalfield – Video Maker / Writer / Aids Activist
Don E. Saliers – Professor of Theology / Director, M.S.M. Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Stephan Salisbury – Staff Writer, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ellen Salpeter – Director, Thread Waxing Space
Nancy Salmon – Arts and Education Associate, Maine Arts Commission
Ellen Salpeter – Director, Thread Waxing Space
Graciela I. Sanchez – Director, Esperanza Space, San Antonio, Texas
Juan Sanchez – Artist
Pauline Stella Sanchez – Faculty, Art Center Collage of Design, Los Angeles, California
Hope Sandrow – Artist
Cal Scaggs – Filmmaker
Gene Searchinger – Filmmaker
Andres Serrano – Artist
Michael Shaughnessy – Artist, Educator, Parent, Portland, Maine
Cynthia Shearer – Curator / Rowan Oak, Home of William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Patterson Sims – Deputy Director for Education and Research Support, Museum of Modern Art
Leslie Singer – Video Artist, Administrative Director, Creative Capital
Forrester C. Smith – Writer and Fundraiser
Kiki Smith – Artist
John T. Smith II – Art Teacher, Birmingham, Alabama
Holly Solomon – Owner, Holly Solomon Gallery
Jeannette Sorrell – Music Director, Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Cleveland, Ohio
Buzz Spector – Artist and Professor of Art
Nancy Spero – Artist
Wendy Steiner – Chairman, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Gabriele Stellbaum – Video Artist based in Berlin
Martha Stotzky – Curator of Education, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
Sean Strub – President, Strubco / Founder, POZ Magazine
Carol Sun – Artist
Ameta Sutekno (NEA PSA)
Mary H.D. Swift – Managing Editor Washington Review
Judith Tannenbaum – Associate Director & Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Simon Taylor – Art Critic, Writer
Marina Temkina – Poet
Michael Thiemann (NEA PSA)
Terese Thonus (NEA PSA)
Pawel Tulin – Designer / Co-Founder, Disruptive Experience, New York City
Rev. Kenneth O. Turley – Minister, Swendenborgian Church, Maine
Lisa Tuttle – Artist / Curator, Co-Artistic Director / Arts Festival of Atlanta
Michael Uliche – The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Geert Vande Camp – Visual Artist, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jess Marie Walker – Interdisciplinary Artist, Birmingham, Alabama
Kathy Wallace – Basketweaver, Board Member California Indian Basketweavers Association
Joan Waltemath – Artist
Tom Warren – Artist
John Weber – Art Dealer
David C. Webster – Executive Director, Very Special Arts Maine
Marianne Weems – Theater Director, President of Art Matters
M.K.Wegmann – Managing Director, Junebug Productions, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lawrence Weiner – Artist
Lawrence Wells – Writer / Publisher Yoknapatawpha Press, Oxford, Mississippi
Palmer D. Wells – Managing Director / Theatre in the Square, Cobb County, Georgia
David White – Director, Dance Theater Workshop
Betty Wilde – Associate Director, En Foco Elizabeth Williams – Theatrical Producer
Helene Winer – Owner / Director, Metro Pictures Gallery
Alden C. Wilson – Director Maine Arts Commission
Andy Wilkinson – Writer, Lubbock, Texas
Carlton Wilkinson – Photographer, Nashville, Tennessee
Elizabeth Williams – Theatre Producer, President Four Corners Productions, New York City
Fred Wilson – Artist and Educator
Martha Wilson – Director, Franklin Furnace, New York City
Dayton Wright – Artist / Jamestown, Tennessee
Lenore Wright – Art Barge
Susan Wyatt – Executive Director, Citizen Exchange Council / International Partners, New York City
Sidney R. Yates – U.S. Representative
Philip Yenawine – Educator / Author
Pat Zaborski – The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Donna Zigmund (NEA PSA)
Justyn Zoili (NEA PSA)
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8. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, receives Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement
I am beyond thrilled, overjoyed, and honored to share that I have received the Lee Krasner Award for Life Achievement. This July marks my third year of support from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Thank you from the center of my heart @pollockkrasnerfoundation !
Lee Krasner was a true pioneer of abstract art, and it is a gift and a responsibility to carry her name with me as I create new work. Although often overshadowed by men, Lee Krasner was always pushing abstraction forward. I am very thankful to her spirit, and to her legacy of generosity to the artistic community.
Slide 1: Josely Carvalho speaks about her “Affectio” installation at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro @museunacionaldebelasartes
Slide 2: Lee Krasner in Hans Hoffman’s studio, early 1940s. Photo ©Robert E. Mates and Paul Katz. Lee Krasner artwork ©Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS. Image courtesy of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
#PollockKrasnerFoundation #PKF #PKFGrantee #LeeKrasner #VisualArtists
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9. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, thru Sept. 14
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel included in Idensitat’s (Un)Open Archive in Athens, Greece, as part of Care Ecologies
https://stateofconcept.org/exhibition/care-ecologies
July 10th – September 14, 2024
Opening Wednesday, July 10th 2024 19:00 – 22:30
State of Concept Athens
Institution for Contemporary Art
19 Tousa Botsari Street, Athens, 117 41 T: +30 21 3031 8576
Open by appointment
please contact info@stateofconcept.org 24 hours in advance
State of Concept is proud to announce the opening of the group exhibition Care Ecologies, a collaboration among the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation, What, How & for Whom / WHW, Idensitat, State of Concept, and the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices / CNMFPP.
The exhibition explores how care manifests in contemporary society, prompting a collective re-examination of cultural practices as acts of care. Featuring works by Adelita Husni-Bey, Fokus grupa, Idensitat, Hana Mileticì, and Theo Prodromidis, it examines the notion of reclaiming care as a crucial strategy which could potentially be applicable in wider social contexts – care as solidarity and sustainability, care as a building capacity for wellbeing, care and labour, the sharing of resources and knowledge, care as a mending mechanism for fragile social structures.
IDENSITAT’s (Un)Open Archive is a curatorial and artistic project that collects and presents diverse perspectives on care. Featuring contributions from various cultural and political activists, this project expands the notion of care to include themes such as social justice, accessibility, and collective work. By creating a platform for dialogue and reflection, (Un)Open Archive challenges traditional archival practices and fosters a deeper understanding of care in contemporary society.
info@stateofconcept.org www.stateofconcept.org
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10. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, receives Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant
Honored and privileged to be the recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant for feminist artist and projects! At this moment especially- when women’s bodies continue to be in the peril of legal and social control by governmental and religious institutions and individuals- it means so much for my artwork and work on The Lace Archive to be recognized by this amazing organization.
It invigorates my energy to keep working – to continue to make visible these hidden craft histories, and to make this work in the context of growing violence and antagonism. This work demands to take up space, without ceding either softness or strength. I consider them feminist manifestos of softness.
Many thanks to Barbara Deming for her work for women, and to the fund for recognizing and supporting feminist work. I am forever humbled and grateful!
I am still accepting donations and stories for The Lace Archive. DM for info.
Founded in 1975 by writer and social justice activist Barbara Deming, Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency. Grants from the foundation give monetary support and encouragement to feminist writers and visual artists who are women (cis or transgender) or nonbinary. The Fund relies on a volunteer Board of Directors and carefully chosen judges who collaborate in making awards. While other grant sources have come and gone, Money for Women is now in its fifth decade, still feminist and still willing to take risks.
Barbara Deming (1917-1984) founded the Money for Women Fund in 1975 to give financial and moral support to creative women. Deming was a feminist, lesbian, poet, writer, and nonviolent activist in the civil rights, anti-war, and women’s movements. Her political writings and her dedication to peaceful protest inspired her contemporaries and continue to influence feminists and social justice activists today.
#moneyforwomenfund #barbarademingmemorialfund #feministartist #demingfundforfeministartists #grantsforwomen #demingmemorialfund @thelacearchive #thelacearchive #lacehistories #feministmanifestosofsoftness
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11. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Bridge Street Theater, Catskill, NY, July 16
The Famous Accordions of the Universe will be performing on Ukuleles Unleashed, hosted by Carmen Borgia and John Sturman, this coming Tuesday, July 16, at 8:00 PM.
We’ll be live on stage at the Bridge Street Theater, in Beautiful Downtown Catskill NY, and broadcast live on the radio on WGXC (the sleeping giant of the Hudson Valley), performing songs about Bears, Trees, and an obscure historical legend.
Ukuleles Unleashed presents a diverse range of music by Ukuleles, the third Tuesday of every month.
Why, then, are the Famous Accordions playing there?
Well, because this ensemble includes a goodly number of local Ukes, along with a bunch of accordions and a remarkable harper.
So – if you’re near Catskill, come down and hear us live. And if you’re not, well tune us in on the Radio or the Interwebs!
Bridge Street Theater
44 W Bridge St,
Catskill, NY 12414
WGXC-FM – 90.7 FM (Acra NY) or online:
https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/mbk5yc
Accordions:
Bob Goldberg
Brian Dewan
Meghan Quinn
Ukuleles:
Carmen Borgia
Jerry Curtis
Jeanie Douglas
Jerelynn Mason
John Sturman
Rich Keyes (bass uke)
Harp:
Julia Haines
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12. Graciela Cassel, FF Member, at Governors Island, Manhattan, July 13
7/13/2024 at 12- 5 PM @ LMCC, Governors Island
Graciela Cassel, “Gardens”
I am thrilled to invite you, my dear friends, to our open studios at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island on July 13, 2024, from 12- 5 PM. I have worked on the ” Gardens ” installation for the past five months. It is a reflection of Governors Island, presented abstractly.
Sharing the space with twenty other artists has been a profoundly enriching experience for me, fostering personal growth and a deeper understanding of art. I am deeply grateful for this journey and excited to share the culmination of this experience with you at our closing open studios.
Directions: The Arts Center is accessible by ferries to Governors Island departing to and from Lower Manhattan. Ferries operated by the Trust for Governors Island run daily from the Battery Maritime Building, located at 10 South Street in Lower Manhattan. LMCC’s building is situated To the right of Soissons Landing.
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13. Vernita N’Cognita, FF Alumn, at Viridian Artists, Manhattan, thru Aug. 3
“Moments in Time”
Viridian Affiliates
Tuesday, July 9 – Saturday, August 3, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-8pm
Closing reception, Saturday, August 3, 4-6pm
Marie Ange Hoda Ackad * Matthew Cohen * Irene Christensen *
Charles Hildebrandt * Beatriz Ledesma *
Shawn Marshall * Vernita N’Cognita * Sheila Smith
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Moments in Time”, an exhibition of outstanding art by artists who are part of Viridian Artists’ Affiliate program. The show opens Tuesday, July 9 and continues through Saturday, August 3, 2024 with an opening Reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-8pm and a closing reception, Saturday, August 3, 4-6pm.
Time and timelessness are both constant considerations in our lives as we pass through different phases of living. When we are young, we anxiously await summer vacation and when we grow older, time speeds along far too quickly. Creative acts as well, are moments that vary in length psychologically, spiritually and emotionally as well as in actuality. These artists, each in their own creative and aesthetic ways are uniquely dealing with time.
Vernita N”Cognita, aka Vernita Nemec has been dealing with the environment through her art-making for the past 20 years, first with her Endless Junkmail Scroll and now with sculpture created from upcycled plastic food containers and other plastic detritus. She uses the aesthetics of Wabi-Sabi by focusing on the beauty of the discarded plastic’s physicality and uselessness and then creating art from it, saving it from enlarging the plastic gyres growing in the oceans, killing the coral and sea creatures who think it is food. These plastic objects from everyday life coalesce into compositions that speak to the chaotic interplay between our lives and the pervasiveness of plastic detritus that continues to grow with time.
Nemec has been active as an artist, a curator, environmentalist and a feminist, organizing one of the first all-female art exhibits, “X-12”, in 1970. She has continued curating over 20 exhibitions of art from detritus as well as serving as guest curator at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Workshop 13 in Ware, MA and many others. She was a part of Soho 20, a feminist cooperative gallery, in the 70’s & has presented more than 30 solo exhibits and performances in the US, Europe and Asia. More about the artist can be found on Wikipedia.
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14. Bill Gordh, FF Alumn, at The Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA, July 20
Talking to the Moon featuring Bill Gordh
Public works presents Saturday July 20, 2024, 7:30 pm. The Church in Ocean Park, 2nd and Hill Street, Ocean Park/Santa Monica, CA, $15 donation
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15. Sally Apfelbaum, FF Member, at 14th Street Y, Manhattan, July 24
Coming up soon:
Offered Wednesday, July 24th, 6:30-8:30, titled: ‘Cityscapes, Streetscapes, Architecture’, the last in a series of Urban Photography Workshops at the 14th Street Y this summer.
“This class looks at ways to describe the city, seeing the familiar with fresh eyes and dynamic photographic perspectives. We’ll walk to several nearby streets and avenues for inspiration. We’ll also talk about how to photograph the varied, vibrant landscape we inhabit.”
The workshop, with initial classroom presentation then photo session, takes place in the East Village where the 14th Street Y is located. The class is mostly geared towards smartphone camera use though any camera type is fine, and for those looking for basic guidance in composition, focus, lighting, and other fundamental photographic techniques. It’s a fun, informational, and inspiring time, come join us! To register please visit https://www.14streety.org/adult-programs/adult-classes/ For more information please contact Julie Gayer Kris: JGayerKris@14streety.org, 212-780-0800 or 646-395-4310
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16. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, receives 2024 Lillian Orlowsky & William Freed Grant, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant: Michelle Doll, 54, of Hoboken, NJ; Deborah Druick, 72, of Bronx County; Hongeli Li, 51, of Flushing, NY; Jeff Ostergren, 47, of New Haven, CT and Robin Tewes, 73, of New York, NY. They will split a grant prize of $35,000 and participate in an exhibition here at PAAM next spring.
The recipients, who are American painters over the age of 45, are chosen annually from more than 500 applicants, recognized for their talent, as well their ability to greatly benefit from this grant.
The primary emphasis is to promote public awareness and a commitment to American art, as well as encouraging interest in artists who lack adequate recognition.
The 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant Jurors were Yaelle Amir, Jared Quinton, and Cara Smulevitz.
Robin Tewes writes “I’m interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves and the culture we live in…I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Queens. Class issues are a repeated theme. I have been and still am interested in painting interiors, specifically images of rooms. A home can be a place where one goes to seek protection from the outside world. A room is a place in a home where one creates their own world, and a painting of a room is a safe place where anything can happen.”
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17. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, July 16 and more
Please visit this link:
https://fivemyles.org/first-language
Thank you.
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18. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, with Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, live online, July 25
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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19. Nina Sobell, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, opening Sept. 19, and more
I am delighted to say that I will be participating in this special exhibition “Radical Software” named after the historic video magazine Radical Software started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider in 1970. I’ll be showing original BrainWave Drawings and electroencephalograms from 1974, which was first published in the book Video Art, also edited by Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider, and Beryl is in this show of course 😉!
OPENING and Press Conference – I will be there!
19 September 2024 at MUDAM in LUXEMBOURG this year
https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/women-art-computing-1960-1991
27 February 2025 in the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) next year! 🙂
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/radical-software
Artists:
Rebecca Allen (b. 1953, USA) | Elena Asins (b. 1940, ESP; d. 2015, ESP) | Colette Stuebe Bangert (with Charles Jeffries Bangert) (b.1934, USA) | Gretchen Bender (b. 1951, USA; d. 2004, USA) | Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946, USA) | Inge Borchardt (b. 1935, DEU) | Barbara Buckner (b. 1950, USA) | Doris Chase (b. 1923, USA; d. 2008, USA) | Analívia Cordeiro (b. 1954, BRA) | Betty Danon (b. 1927, TUR; d. 2002, ITA) | Hanne Darboven (b.1941, DEU; d. 2009, DEU) | Bia Davou (b. 1932, GRC; d. 1996, GRC) | Agnes Denes (b. 1931, HUN) | valie export (b. 1940, AUT) | Anna Bella Geiger (b. 1933, BRA) | Isa Genzken (b. 1948, DEU) | Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, FRA) | Lily Greenham (b. 1924, AUT; d. 2001 GBR) | Samia Halaby (b. 1936, PSE) | Barbara Hammer (b. 1939, USA; d. 2019, USA) | Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, USA) | Grace C. Hertlein (b. 1924, USA; d. 2015, USA) | Channa Horwitz (b. 1932, USA; d. 2013, USA) | Irma Hünerfauth (b. 1907, DEU; d. 1998, DEU) | Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, SWE) | Alison Knowles (b. 1933, USA) | Beryl Korot (b. 1945, USA) | Katalin Ladik (b. 1942, SRB) | Ruth Leavitt (b. 1944, USA) | Liliane Lijn (b. 1939, USA) | Véra Molnar (b. 1924, HUN) | Monique Nahas (with Hervé Huitric) (b. 1940, FRA) | Catherine Nash (b. 1910, USA; d. 1982, USA) | Sonya Rapoport (b. 1923, USA; d. 2015, USA) | Deborah Remington (b. 1930, USA; d. 2010, USA) | Sylvia Roubaud (b. 1941, DEU) | Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923, CAN; d. 2015, USA) | Ruth Schnell (with Gudrun Bielz) (b. 1956, AUT) | Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927, USA) | Sonia Sheridan (b. 1925, USA; d. 2021, USA) | Nina Sobell (b. 1947, USA) | Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931, USA) | Tamiko Thiel (b. 1957, USA) | Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952, DEU) | Joan Truckenbrod (Official) (b. 1945, USA) | Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951, BEL) | Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942, SWE)
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20. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publications now available
I’m happy to announce that my translation of Alphonse Allais’s “My Rent
Is Due!” is now available from Black Scat Books. This collection,
originally published in 1899, includes delightful stories about
tapeworms, phantom limbs, floating brothels, and other interesting
things. André Breton saluted Allais’s “terrorist activity of the mind”;
maybe you will too.
(https://blackscatbooks.com/2024/07/12/sweet-sixteen/)
I’m also honored to have written the introduction to Amanda DeMarco’s
sparkling translation of Gaston de Pawlowski’s “New Inventions and the
Latest Innovations” for Wakefield Press. Pawlowski’s outpouring of
burlesque inventions has to be read to be believed.
(https://wakefieldpress.com/products/new-invention-and-the-latest-innovations)
And I contributed a number of pieces to the latest issue of TYPO: a
short story (“Uncopyrightable”), a musical optical toy
(“Dodecaphonophenakistoscope”), an introduction to a Czech chronogram,
and an article on the “Indisposizione di Belle Arti,” a proto-Dada art
exhibit held in Milan in 1881.
(https://blackscatbooks.com/2024/06/03/a-big-new-issue/)
Happy summer! Doug Skinner
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