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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Events and Film and Music on
18 November 2009, with no comments so far.
Welcome to the Wednesday feature here at the ReadyMade blog. Each week, I will provide a list of upcoming events, releases and happenings for the following Thursday through Wednesday. If you have (or know of) an event that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email, and I will do my best to make it happen.
24-Hour Draw-A-Thon
Saturday, November 21 through Sunday, November 22
New Orleans, Louisiana
With 24 hours of programmed drawing booths, workshops, games, and other activities, the Press Street Draw-A-Thon at The Green Project facilitates literally thousands of drawings that wind up covering every inch of the space. Also, it’s a free, all ages event where you can release some creative energy.
Cranksgiving
Saturday, November 21
New York City, New York
Since 1998, the New York Bike Messenger Foundation (NYBMF) has organized Cranksgiving to act as both a competition and a food drive. Last year, the alleycat race donated over $1,000 worth of food items to Saint Mary’s Soup Kitchen and over $1,600 to City Harvest. Each rider has one hour to find the participating grocery stores in Manhattan, purchase the designated items, and head to the finish line. In order to participate, you just need to register at the event and race!
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe to Art and Culture on
13 November 2009, with 1 comment so far.
It’s almost December…I’m thinking it’s time for me to get rid of the verdant summer-vacation photo on my computer desktop and replace it with something more seasonally appropriate. Enter these high-res images by mid-century graphic artist Charley Harper, made available by the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati.
There’s a joyfulness to the work that I think I’m really going to appreciate come January and February…
[Via How About Orange...]
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Culture and Design and Events and Film and Music on
11 November 2009, with no comments so far.
Welcome to the Wednesday feature here at the ReadyMade blog. Each week, I will provide a list of upcoming events, releases and happenings for the following Thursday through Wednesday. If you have (or know of) an event that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email, and I will do my best to make it happen.
Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary
Thursday, November 12 (opening weekend)
Cherokee, North Carolina
Construction began on the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1935, the longest planned single-unit road in US history. After 75 years, this elongated park is the most heavily visited part of the National Parks Service. Kicking off the anniversary celebration this weekend, the schedule through January includes lectures, tours, concerts, history days, and ends with the Blowing Rock Winter Festival to wrap things up.
Kimberley Hart: SCOUT
Opening Thursday, November 12
New York City, New York
In her second solo exhibit at Mixed Greens, Kimberley Hart and her alter-ego take on the less glittery role of battling an unknown adversary through drawing and sculpture. Gone is the glitter and in its place are weapons and predatory species in this new-found dystopia. See her portfolio, and previous tales, here (a favorite is the Hunting Stand With Unicorn Bait).
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Posted by Andrew Wagner to Art and Craft and Materials and Places on
6 November 2009, with 7 comments so far.
On Wednesday evening the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series (boo!). On Thursday I went to the City of Brotherly Love to visit with stained glass artist Judith Schaechter (below, Monument).
The city was quiet and morose in a way that I’ve only experienced one other time in San Francisco—the night the Giants fell to the Angels in the 2002 World Series. But Judith Schaechter is not one to let a baseball game bring her down and she greeted me at her door with all the good humor and joyful snark anyone who knows her might expect. (more…)
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Craft and Design and Environment on
5 November 2009, with 2 comments so far.
Kathryn Kenworth and Sasha Petrenko of San Francisco think that we are spending beyond our means and our current currency system is severely lacking. They believe now, more than ever, is the time to discover a more personal avenue for exchange: and the answer is Non*Mart.
Opening on November 6, the two month experiment bases its commerce on trade, stripping back flashy packaging, advertising, and marketing. The idea is to get both buyers and sellers interested in trading for their respective wares: art, designs, clothing, services, etc.
Kathryn says: We believe that it is time for Non*Mart. We are spending beyond our means to keep up with the lure of consumerism, meanwhile, the economy is in crisis and the planet is slowly becoming littered with junk. As artists and creative people, it is time to intervene, now is the time to make community, now is the time to turn the junk we’re inheriting into something beautiful, useful, new.
On Friday night from 6-8 pm, join the ladies for a book swap, fashion exchange, and logo removal service along with ever-popular drinks and snacks, and experience the new alternative to bill-swapping.
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Events and Film and Music on
4 November 2009, with no comments so far.
Welcome to the Wednesday feature here at the ReadyMade blog. Each week, I will provide a list of upcoming events, releases and happenings for the following Thursday through Wednesday. If you have (or know of) an event that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email, and I will do my best to make it happen.
Go East Group Exhibition
Thursday, November 5 through Saturday, November 7
New York City, New York
L.A.-based LeBasse Projects heads east this week, setting up shop in NYC and showcasing contemporary west coast artists that embrace unique techniques. For three days, you can check out international artists with a left coast flair on Rivington Street. Also, be on the lookout for future pop-up exhibits from the gallery…
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair
Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8
Chicago, Illinois
In its 16th year, SOFA Chicago takes over Navy Pier for three days of art, sculpture, lecture, and innovation. Some of the exhibits even forgo the traditional tradeshow booth and are taking over a space showcasing installations exactly how the artists envision. Five special exhibits explore the work of Sam Maloof, Israeli jewelers, wood turning, global glass, and ceramicists. Get tickets here.
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Events and Film and Holidays and Music on
28 October 2009, with 1 comment so far.
Welcome to the Wednesday feature here at the ReadyMade blog. Each week, I will provide a list of upcoming events, releases and happenings for the following Thursday through Wednesday. If you have (or know of) an event that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email, and I will do my best to make it happen.
Indie Chic @ 10th Street
Call for artists now through Thursday, November 5
Tempe, Arizona
Arizona State University hosts its alternative craft fair on December 5, andthe organizers are accepting artist entries now through next Thursday. Head to the ASU Art Museum for all of your indie, handmade gift-giving needs.
—Halloween Festivities This Week—
Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine
Friday, October 30
San Francisco, California
The ghoulish gala celebrates not only Halloween, but ancient mummies and the contemporary technology used to examines them. You can purchase your tickets here, and that will gain you access to the wicked Legion of Honor, top shelf elixirs, and music from Pop Rocks and DJ Shissla.
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Design and Environment and Events on
23 October 2009, with 2 comments so far.
1992 A-Z Management and Maintenance Unit
Yesterday, Andrea Zittel spoke at the Des Moines Art Center and she touched on topics from the constraints of time (and how that caused her to eat ketchup soup) to discussing limitations and how they actually increase her creativity. To be honest, ever since I watched her segment of PBS’s Art:21 series, I have thought she is one of the most interesting people, and I (rightly) figured she would be even more so in person.
Andrea talked about her life after graduating from school and moving to Brooklyn, where she first started playing around with configurations of her store front/living space, which was something like 200 square feet split into public and private areas. “Since I couldn’t live like other people did, I wanted people to want to live like I did.”
While her designs are decidedly modern and clean, when she started, she didn’t like the look of modern furniture at all. But after reading The Fountainhead, Andrea found herself drawn to the inversion of values that came with the Industrial Revolution (which allowed frilly, fancy things that used to be handmade—and only for the wealthy—to be mass-produced for everyone).
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe to Art and Design on
22 October 2009, with 1 comment so far.
For her 3-year-old nephew’s birthday, New York-based designer Erin Jang created a custom subway map with all of his favorite places. (Click the image for a larger version.)
I love it as child’s-room art. Sweet, not treacly.
[via Kottke; Jang's site is The Indigo Bunting]
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Design and Environment on
20 October 2009, with no comments so far.
Jesse Graves brings street art back to its dirty roots with mud stenciling. And even though he signs his works with MSR (mud stencils rule), he doesn’t mind that people know the man behind the graffiti and even shares his recipe for the perfect dirt paint on his website.
(Via TreeHugger)
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