Juried Exhibition for the January 27^th Grand Opening of Laundry on Lawrence!

Under The Space Creators management, Laundry on Lawrence houses creative art spaces where creative individuals can be themselves, surrounded by peers who encourage expression and creativity.

Overview: During the January 27th grand opening celebration there will be a first ever juried art exhibition.  All artwork from 2D, 3D, video, sound and performance mediums can be submitted for consideration into the exhibition. All submissions must be sent via email to terrajo@thespacecreators.com.  Submitted images must be the same as the original intended for the exhibition. Show will end February 5th, 2012 and all unsold work should be picked up no later than February 12th.

Submission Requirements:

·         Submissions via email to terrajo@thespacecreators.com.

·         Up to 5 pieces may be submitted.

              Emailed submissions must include .jpeg  or .pdf images of work along with medium, size, dimensions and price.Video, sound and performance pieces must include space required, description, and photo/ video documentation. 

·         Deadline for submissions is midnight (MST) January 13, 2012.

·         Applicants will be notified of acceptance by January 16, 2012.

·         All accepted works MUST be received to the no later than Wednesday, January 23th.  *Sound/ Video artists are responsible for supplying all equipment needed.

o   All work must be ready to hang with all the following information included:

§  Artist Name

§  Phone number

§  Medium

§  Dimensions

§  Price or NFS

§  Website if applicable

Drop off Location: (Laundry on Lawrence) 2701 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO 80205

Drop off times: 10am-4pm Monday-Friday.

 

Prizes: FIRST PLACE WINNER receives a 3 week SOLO SHOW in the Laundry on Lawrence Gallery Space!

 

Jurors:

 

        Tomiko Jones

Tomiko received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the recipient of awards including the national Society of Photographic Education Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement, 4Culture and Tucson Pima Arts Council International Exchange Grant. She interned with the international collective 6+ and Center for Creative Photography's Voice of Photography. She exhibits regularly in Seattle and Portland, and has exhibited in solo shows in Tokyo, Mexico City and group exhibitions abroad. She taught photography at New Mexico University and teaches 3D concepts and Experimental Media at Drury University in an intensive Master Arts Program. Currently she is an Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Photography at Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO.

        Adan De La Garza

Adan received his Bachelor’s Degree in Photography with a minor in Art Education from the University of Arizona. He is currently pursuing an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Adan works mainly in media and sound work, and has been shown both nationally and internationally.

        Sandra Fettingis

Sandra Fettingis is an active Denver artist, originally from Chicago. She studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, ultimately earning a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has lead to commissions, grants, public works and exhibits at such venues as Black Book Gallery, Illiterate Gallery, Emmanuel Gallery, RedLine and The Bridge Art Fair Chicago. Sandra is also the founder and a curator of PROJECT HELLO.

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It is not required; however  jurors welcome a concise artist statement or details about each print. This material will be made accessible to visitors during the opening celebration.

The Space Creators cannot respond to inquiries about the status of a submission, nor are the jurors able to offer feedback or reasoning for rejected submissions.

The Space Creators seek to offer all work selected for the exhibition available for sale with a 10% commission retained by The Space Creators

Artists who work in art museums explore their experiences in So, I Work in an Art Museum at RedLine, on view from November 12 through December 4, 2011. This group exhibition, featuring eight artists working in five art museums across the Front Range area, provides a critical look at the influence(s) that working at an art museum has had on their creative development and production of art. Various media are employed in an effort to address this complex relationship, including painting, photography, ceramics, animation and multimedia installations. 

The works created for this show reflect personal experiences, yet when shown together, they form a collective and critical voice from artists who share an intimate connection with the formal art institution. “Each of the eight exhibiting artists address a shared aspect of what is like to be an artist working in art museum”, co-producer Sandra Fettingis explains. For example, ceramicist and Center for Visual Arts administrative assistant Jenny Pokorny reappropriates the mundane instructional manuals she routinely refers to for her job into high art objects; by slip-firing and displaying these manuals as a ceramic library, Pokorny’s work both friezes and marries the relationship between back-of-house production and front-of-house product. Alternatively, by drawing on his personal experience as Denver Art Museum employee, John Geiger explores the inspiration he found in the Alvise Vivarini painting of St. Jerome featured during the Cities of Splendor exhibition. Playing on the shifts of scale and structure in the Vivarini painting, Geiger’s large floor installation merges Renaissance vernaculars with contemporary art practices. Additionally, artists Erin Algiere, Amelia Carley, Dalton & McClellan, Harold, Keith Jenstzch and Jen Schneider present alternative perspectives on their experience working both inside – and outside – the institutional structure of the museum. 

The exhibition was born out of a series of conversations between three local Denver artists, Erin Algiere, Kelsey Dalton and Sandra Fettingis, about the various influences that working in an art museum has had on their artistic careers. “We talked about large influences, like how I wouldn’t have become a photographer without having worked at MCA Denver, to the almost unnoticeable differences in a shifts in our vocabulary when talking about art and artistic processes,” comments co-producer Erin Algiere. Curious about other artists’ perspectives, the three approached over twenty local art museums, inviting artists to submit work that explored themes of personal influence, identity and observation. Creative Director Kelsey Dalton explains, “We designed So, I Work in an Art Museum to reveal a different type of artist working within the art world, one who has an intimate viewpoint of the art museum.” 

RedLine hosts this show in their Community Gallery, which is free (donations welcomed) and open to the public Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5pm and Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 5pm. RedLine: (303) 296-4448 

Artists exhibiting include: Erin Algiere (MCA Denver/Denver Botanic Gardens), Amelia Carley (MCA Denver), Dalton & McClellan (Art Institute of Chicago/MCA Denver), John P. Geiger (Denver Art Museum), Harold (MCA Denver), Keith Jenstzch (University Art Museum at Colorado State University), Jennifer Pokorny (Center for Visual Arts) and Jen Schneider (Aspen Art Museum). 

About the Co-Creators of So, I Work in an Art Museum: 

Erin Algiere (Co-Producer/Exhibiting Artist) studied Philosophy and English Literature at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina and Photography at the Art Institute of Colorado. She has collaborated with a variety of local artists on projects for “Yes Please More” Pop Up Store, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), and Denver Handmade Alliance. Most recently she assisted with the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Native Roots Modern Form: Plants, People and the Art of Allan Houser exhibition and now works as the MCA Department of Edible Structures - Event and Rental Manager, co-producing programs such as Black Sheep Fridays. 

Sandra Fettingis (Co-Producer/Curatorial Consultant) is the MCA Denver Shop Gift Buyer, and an active Denver artist, originally from Chicago. She studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, ultimately earning a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has lead to commissions, grants, public works and exhibits at such venues as Black Book Gallery, Illiterate Gallery, Emmanuel Gallery and The Bridge Art Fair Chicago. Sandra is also the founder and a producer of PROJECT HELLO. 

Kelsey Dalton (Creative Director/Exhibiting Artist) formerly worked for the MCA Denver as the Special Events and Cafe Assistant Manager and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she works for the Visiting Artists program. As an artist, she makes works as part of the collaborative, Dalton & McClellan. Collaboration is fundamental and an inextricable element to the purpose, design and process of the works of Dalton & McClellan, expressed through the medium of painting.

RedLine
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RESIDENT ARTIST ANNUAL FUNDRAISER: Reserve your Halloween weekend for RedLine's Artist Bacchanal.This annual fundraiser was created to support emerging contemporary artists, art, and RedLine's educational outreach programs. This event comes the week before our Resident Artist Exhibition. This year the exhibition is entitled "AU: Exchange" Cortney Lane Stell, curator of the exhibition will symbolically transform RedLine through artist’s creative engagement with gold; she explains, 

In the popular imagination, gold conjures up ideas of preciousness, consumerism, finance, value, malleability, even common identity.  What material better links our current economic state with the economies of the past?

This exhibition reconsiders gold, and the relationship of RedLine artists with the material and the economy. Each artist will be given a 2.5 gram gold bar to use in his or her work. The artists can choose to sell, trade, or use the gold in any manner they choose to create an artwork for the exhibition. The intention of this critical exploration of the material is to reveal the open nature of gold in both form and concept in relation to each artist’s individual practice.

RedLine’s annual fundraiser is designed to give visitors a participatory prelude to the upcoming exhibition and support RedLine Resident Artist Program. We will invite attendees to engage in gold through costume, programming and performance.

The Party & Program

Theme: Gold

Costume: Bling requested, gold suggested. Costumes are not required, just desired.

Performance: Collaborative works by Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine Artists

Installation: Contemporary art installation by RedLine Artists

Participation: Guests can bring gold to the Party of Gold exchange station and receive the value of their gold back via check. 15% of all transactions go to support RedLine’s educational programs.

Dialogue: Interviews with RedLine Resident Artists which will serve as a prelude to the upcoming Resident Artist exhibition, Au: Exchange. Each artist will discuss their engagement and relationship to gold, which will be featured on 15 flatscreen TVs.

Music: Soul & Jazz DJs from the Denver Hip Hop Congress, which will culminate in a slam poetry jam and DJ battle at 10pm.

Menu & Bar: Gold-themed food and beverage stations

Midnight Toast: Goldschlager Toast given by Denver-based drag queen Felony Misdemeanor. Felony will also perform in gold between 9-10pm. 

Tickets: RedLine Members- $40 / General Admission - $50 / VIP - $150

VIP Tickets include all night access to The Gold Lounge

project hello-er, mike flatt is the associate editor at counterpath press, an independent, nonprofit publisher here in denver.  mike told us that not only does counterpath support and publish writers, but they serve as a venue for readings, exhbitions and performances supporting visual and performance artist, as well.  we love this place!  

this friday, september 2nd, they open a new exhibition, Travel Patterns, an installation by chicago based artist sara schnadt.  make sure to make this a stop on your first friday route, and get to know this supportive organization.  

counterpath
613 22nd st.
denver, co 80205

call to artists for an upcoming exhibition of colorado-based artists. This exhibition is jointly organized by MCA Denver and the Aspen Art Museum and will be on view at both venues in 2012.  submissions need to be postmarked by august 1st.  

artists are requested to submit only the following via CD or DVD:

• current resume or cv
• 250-word (max) artist statement
• up to 8 images or film/video samples

mail disc to:

Colorado Exhibition Submission

Aspen Art Museum

590 North Mill Street

Aspen, CO 81611

 

designer brennan gilbert shares images from his interactive photo booth, and crafter cindi miller hereleman blogs about her wee ones and the interviews they conducted at project hello.  thanks you two!

thank you to everyone who came out to project hello on saturday, and all of the amazing creatives who brought our vision to life for a second time! we heart you! ( a LOT! )  :)

check out illiterate magazine's coverage of the event: here! 

full event pics here! 

 

PROJECT HELLO at RedLine in Denver, CO on June 25th, 12-7pm

12pm: project hello opens

1-2pm: readings: jerrod bohn, michael flatt, serena chopra 

2-3pm: open exhibition viewing

 3pm: charly "the city mouse" fasano
 

4-5pm: readings: derrick mund, mark rockswold, michele battiste

7pm: project hello ends

* photo of land lines by gary isaacs

westword chats up PROJECT HELLO!

get to know erin algiere, PROJECT HELLO'S photography amabassador! ph: tell us who you are, where you are from and how long you have been in denver.EA: I am Erin Algiere and I've been in Denver for about 4 years. This is my second year with project hello.  ph: what do you do as a creative, and how long have you been doing it? EA: I've "officially" been a photographer for 3 years now, although I've been making photos for about 10. ph: what is your favorite thing about denver's creative community? what would you like to see happen in the denver's creative community? EA: The Denver creative community is accessible and welcoming. People are into supporting each other's endeavors, which is vital to the health and growth of both individual creatives and the community as a whole. I'd like to see more critical art shows happening in Denver. We have an amazing, thriving craft community, which is inspiring, but I'd like to see more grass-root level shows that examine an idea and push a concept. I like project hello because it unites a panoply of creative disciplines under one concept.   ph: if you could offer advice to an emerging creator what would it be? EA: Read the book Art and Fear. And work your ass off for your vision.  ph: within your field, who are your favorite creators? EA: This is such a hard question! There are so many talented people working with photography and digital media. I am deeply inspired by french photographer and philosopher Sophie Calle. I enjoy the work of South African photographer Roger Ballen. And I will always have a place in my heart for the work of Arthur Tress, David LaChapelle, Maggie Taylor, Annie Leibovitz, and Gregory Crewdson, all of whom introduced me to photography's potential as a critical medium.  erin's site