tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22076961963349983762024-02-02T13:42:00.203-08:00Artist BailoutA Public Meal Designed to Solicit Community-driven Financial Support and Democratically Fund New Work by Emerging Artists in Los Angeles.Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-62903002557766602572012-06-10T14:15:00.001-07:002012-06-10T14:27:58.830-07:00Artist Bailout at the Last BookstoreThe Artist Bailout at the Last Bookstore on May 26th was a success! All the participating artists gave incredible presentations and were all deserving of mini grants. We raised enough to give away two grants for $308.50 each. A tremendous thank you to everyone who helped make it happen from making soup to cleaning to planning.See photos from the event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.316672098415894.71695.121586944591078&type=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The two artists who received the most votes were <a href="http://ideatruck.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Idea Truck</a> and <a href="http://homoeconomicus.biz/" target="_blank">Homo Economicus.</a> Check out this video of Homo Economicus taking the cardboard check to Bank of America.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/43449977">Artist Bailout (Gyges)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user7071992">billy mark</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<br />Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-89135886312791782322012-05-17T01:13:00.001-07:002012-05-23T14:39:25.794-07:00May 26, 2012 Artist Bailout Project Summaries<b style="text-align: left;">Artist/s:</b><br />
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Josh Atlas</div>
<a href="http://www.joshatlas.com/" target="_blank">www.joshatlas.com</a><br />
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Pool Girls, Lady Parts<br />
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Over the past year, I began a body of work based on figurative characters called Pool Girls. These drawings and sculptures are amalgamations of food, lust, and intimacy, cobbled together from a variety of materials that includes donuts, icing, and pool toys.<br />
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Through the Pool Girls, Lady Parts project, I aim to investigate the sculptural possibilities of their body (arms, torsos, and legs) as individual sites of comfort, lust, delight, and vulnerability. By using individual body parts, I want to shift the work from characters (which implies narrative) to objects (which emphasizes tone and function).<br />
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In order to realize this project, I want to expand my tool-set to be able to bend and stretch PVC pipes (for the limbs) and stretch vinyl (for the pools). This will allow for a more playful and gestural approach to generating sculptural forms. The funds will be used to purchase tools and safety equipment.<br />
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Ayers Baxter<br />
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Hopestreet<br />
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I am Ayers Baxter. I have a musical, Hopestreet. The script and songs are written by me and an assembly of Grammy, Academy & Country Award winning writers. Herb Alpert and Derick Alpert at Almo Erving helped in the initial steps. I started working on this project in 1988 and have finally got it ready for the next step—workshop production and showcase performances.<br />
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Hope runs away from a single parent mom and lands on the streets of Hollywood. Meets a young up and coming rock star, falls in love, gets pregnant and finds herself alone when he leaves her on a rock tour.</div>
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Hot music and a story that makes us laugh and cry.<br />
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<i>We’re on Hopestreet<br />It’s no journey’s end<br />Nor last retreat<br />Wherever fate may send<br />We’re on Hopestreet<br />And broken hearts will mend,<br />So don’t give up<br />Living on Hopestreet.</i><br />
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Audition space for one (1) day, unless a multitude of actors and singers show up<br />
A place to rehearse (4) weeks<br />
A place to perform shows example: Pursing Square, Old Theatre or on a street or theatre in the Arts District<br />
CD copies of the music for performers to use for practice<br />
20 copies of the script for cast and crew<br />
Miscellaneous stuff: grocery cart, trash can, plastic grocery bags, kite, furniture, construction paper and props<br />
PA system (rent or loaned)<br />
We may need money for a musical director<br />
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Elizabeth Liang<br />
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UNPACKED: a story of growing up among worlds<br />
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Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? UNPACKED is a one-woman multi-character comedy-drama about growing up as a girl of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, and New England. Alienation and the search for identity, as well as the sometime refusal to search and learn, weave thematically through the narration. The piece depicts how a young girl copes as a culture/language/religion straddler (“other”) in country after country. My intention is to bring many disparate cultures together onstage and hopefully in the audience—to at least create dialogue about identity, home, culture (shock), and how to bridge the gaps.<br />
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An Artist Bailout grant would go toward paying the sound designer and director for my workshop performance at Beyond Baroque in late June. Excellent sound design would help to establish "place" in the most immediate way (for example, the call of the muezzin in Morocco). The piece also needs a director to polish and tighten it.<br />
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Tehani Sarreal<br />
<a href="http://www.dancingtehani.com/" target="_blank">www.DancingTehani.com</a><br />
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AFA (Artists for Action)</div>
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Artists for Action is a concert that gives artists of different media (from dance theater to oil painting) and walks of life an opportunity to voice community issues and promote safe dialogue towards positive and peaceful approaches—if not resolutions—to these themes as a community. The concert first started in 2007, and this fall 2012 I will expand the event with an artist panel to discuss their particular pieces with the audience as well as their personal connection to/work with the subject matter (from LGBT themes to Police Brutality to the 99%). This event will be open and free to the general public, cover a diverse and balanced presentation of themes and ultimately aim to inspire everyday citizens to get involved and become advocates of understanding and acceptance of our diversity that makes our community so unique. By virtue of offering these concerts for free to the general public, the community impact is more tangible. It will be a one day event held on September 22, 2012.<br />
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The micro-grant will be primarily used for the venue rental (if not donated), artist stipends and everything else not covered by a similar micro-grant I am also applying for. The other micro -grant (maximum of $1,000) has the requirement of a matching grant/in-kind funds. This micro-grant (with Artist Bailout) will supplement the costs as well as meet the requirements of a matching grant to support the event.<br />
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Billy Mark (<a href="http://billymark.biz/">billymark.biz</a>), Miranda Wright (<a href="http://sustainablepractice.org/">sustainablepractice.org</a>), Poordog group (<a href="http://poordoggroup.com/">poordoggroup.com</a>), Christine Marie (<a href="http://cimimarie.com/">cimimarie.com</a>) & Jon Armstrong<br />
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Homo Economicus<br />
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Nearly twenty artists have gathered together to collaborate on a performance that attempts to answer the question: "How can we live creative lives, and still put food on the table?" Through six public events, and four weekends of performance, our team will bring to life one of the most challengingly complex characters of all time: Homo Economicus. And, in the process, we look to uncover the theatrical dimensions of our economy.</div>
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In order to fully represent the pervasiveness of this socially realized, fictional character called Homo Economicus, we will pay all the "actors" of H.E., everyone who puts on or comes to a fundraiser that lives in our culture, $1 an hour. Meanwhile, we will explore alternative value systems at play in our country: political, religious, familial, moral, and prestige. <br />
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The performance will involve ten musicians, ten actors, an immersive shadow environment. Our public events & fundraisers leading up to the performances will include:<br />
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1. A proposal at the Artist Bailout<br />
2. A self-published magazine<br />
3. A tithing party<br />
4. An award ceremony<br />
5. An interactive Kickstarter campaign<br />
6. A yard sale surrounding a foreclosure<br />
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We will use the funds to purchase a few small items for the performance (old overhead projectors & screens), pay each actors $1 an hour, and to put food on our tables at home during our rehearsal process. <br />
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Eva Montealegre<br />
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Cave Art Research and Community Presentation<br />
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I will go to spend time in ancient shamanic caves where I have been invited to work with a respected American artist in the south of France and stay at a barn/studio near the caves and work on my painting technique using limestone pigments and immersing myself in my artistic process—eventually inviting the neighboring village to an open studio presentation.<br />
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Then I will come home to Los Angeles and create a community event using imagery and techniques acquired providing mask/head-dress structures for participants, children and adults, to decorate and perform in under my simple direction using original music and simple home made costumes. This will serve as an opening night presentation for the reception exhibiting my paintings utilizing the techniques learned.<br />
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I have a gallery interested in this presentation who will invite a neighboring performing art school to participate.<br />
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Bailout $ for mask & head-dress "foundations" which are first made by me in ceramic form then I utilize various materials & molding techniques for creation & duplication so multiple foundations can be decorated by as many participants as needed for each event. I’d add horses, bees & bird foundations (already have bear & deer.) Plus costume materials & art supplies.<br />
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Lorri Deyer<br />
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Idea Truck<br />
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Idea Truck is a food truck with only IDEAS on the menu. Order a Half-baked Idea or Worst Nightmare from the service window but first you must pay with your own idea.<br />
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Idea Truck will travel L.A. for 6 months—a wandering venue for conversation, inspiration, and engagement. This is an opportunity to learn and enlarge our potential as humans and neighbors. In a world increasingly isolating, let's have ideas amaze us with the creative spark in all of us. Awarding Idea Truck says people everywhere have worthy ideas.<br />
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Laminated imagery: photos of the idea creators on the truck (a la ice cream stickers) as a visual representation of their participation.</div>
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Streaming video: record passersby reaction for the blog and verbal explanations of ideas (for those who can’t write, want to elaborate, to sing…)<br />
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Maintenance: radiator repair, speedometer cable, gas gauge, windshield replacement, gas ($20/week).<br />
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Concord (an artist-run-space based in L.A.'s Cypress Park whose members include: Andy Robert, Arjuna Neuman, Marco Domenico, Car Martin & Michelle Kurta)<br />
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Spaghetti Sessions<br />
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Spaghetti Sessions, is an ongoing lecture series, panel discussion and experiment. Our first installment, December 9th, 2011, invited David Ross and Allan Sekula to discuss 70s video art. The convention we played with, was in having them cook spaghetti for the audience, a light-hearted formality that helped break the lecture/artist, audience dynamic—addressing the authoritative concerns of Fluxus, Paik, Kaprow and others of that generation; while they discussed 70's art and the plurality built around this new and intentional medium.<br />
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David provided the recipe he learned from an abstract expressionist—a roommate of his youth. And we purchased the ingredients. Thus, Spaghetti Sessions was born: "You'll cook for us and at the end we'll eat and chat together over red wine and pasta. How does that sound?!"<br />
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An Artist Bailout grant would help with overall project cost and a budget—which would help us provide and cover speaker fees, and the price of cooking a collective meal. That night, in December, we estimated $60 was spent gathering ingredients, with another $50 on wine; with a $200 speaker fee and $140 covering David's rental car; to total roughly $500.<br />
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In continuing with our collective research our next visitors will be the L.A.-based members of Ultra-red who will discuss their School of Echoes and their initiative to have high schools teach a class on community, we’re excited to see what they’ll cook up.</div>
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Calling all lovers of art and food... and books! The long-anticipated
next Artist Bailout event will take place on Saturday, May 26th from
6-9pm @ The Last Bookstore: <span class="fsm fwn fcg">453 S. Spring Street</span><span class="fsm fwn fcg"> </span>in Downtown, Los Angeles.<br />
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Presenting artists will include: Josh Atlas, Ayers Baxter, Elizabeth Liang, Tehani, Eva<span class="text_exposed_show">
Montealegre, Lorri Deyer, Concord (Arjuna Neuman, Andy Robert, Marco
Domenico, Car Martin & Michelle Kurta) and the collaborative team of
Billy Mark, Miranda Wright, Poordog group, Christine Marie & Jon
Armstrong. Summaries of their projects will be posted soon...<br /> <br />
Sliding-scale, suggested donation for dinner and a ballot ranges from
$10 to $10M (so invite your billionaire friends!) All proceeds raised
will go towards funding (at least) two of the amazing projects being
presented that evening. <br /> <br /> In the interest in keeping costs low
and sustainability high, we'll be giving out special prizes for all
Artist Bailout patrons who show up with their own soup bowls and spoons!
Also, everyone is strongly encouraged to take the bus, light rail,
bike, walk or carpool to The Last Bookstore. Instead, you can use those
dollars you saved on gas and parking to beef-up your donation for our
artists. Win-win!</span><br />
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Thanks for supporting the Artist Bailout and we look forward to eating with you!Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-88882071310225907792012-04-07T02:14:00.001-07:002012-04-07T03:03:41.215-07:00Open Call for Artists / Artist Groups to Participate in the Next Artist BailoutThis is an open call for applications to the fourth iteration of the Los Angeles- based project Artist Bailout! If your application is chosen, you will have the opportunity to present a proposal to a live, voting audience for the chance to win an instant micro-grant to help turn your idea into a reality. <br />
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<b>What is the Artist Bailout? </b>The Artist Bailout is a public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by emerging artists in Los Angeles. This experimental philanthropic model literally brings together artists and patrons around the table. During the course of a meal, artists present proposals for projects in need of funding to members of the community who have each made a small donation to attend the dinner. The dinner-goers then vote for their favorite ideas and at the end of the night, two (or more) participating artists win cash grants for their projects comprised of the donations raised at the door. Remember, even if your project isn’t chosen for a grant, presenting at the Artist Bailout is a great way to share your project with a large and diverse community. <br />
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<b>When & where does the next Artist Bailout happen? </b>The next Artist Bailout takes place on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at The Last Bookstore in Downtown L.A. <br />
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<b>How do I qualify? </b>If you are an artist, part of an artistic collaboration or collective, or you just have a great idea for a project that you would love to get funding for, please apply! <br />
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<b>Submit a proposal! </b>To participate as a presenting artist / artist group at the upcoming Artist Bailout please send us your proposal no later than <b>Saturday, April 28th</b>. We will notify selected participants by Monday, May 7th. Selected artists will be asked to prepare and deliver presentations at the May 26th Artist Bailout! For your proposal, please email the Artist Bailout team at renegadebountyexchange@gmail.com with the following information:<br />
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1. Name of artist/s or artist group (first and last names / groups, please indicate a main contact person)<br />
2. Project title & description (100 words or less) <br />
3. Breakdown of how you’ll use an Artist Bailout grant to realize your project (60 words or less)<br />
4. Please attach up to 6 images, a video that helps illustrate your idea and a website if you have one. <br />
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<i> Note: Text and images from your proposal will be reproduced and made available at the Artist Bailout event as well as published on our website.</i><br />
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<b>Where can I find out more about the Artist Bailout? </b>You can read all about the Artist Bailout project as well as check out photos and view an archive of past events, participants and grantees on our <a href="http://www.artistbailout.org/" target="_blank">website</a>. For the latest news and updates, join the Artist Bailout community page on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/artistbailout" target="_blank">facebook</a>.Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-23115731193665265832012-03-29T15:39:00.000-07:002012-03-30T15:47:48.585-07:00Downtown Artist Bailout Community Planning Meeting #1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The Artist Bailout Collective is holding a Community Planning Meeting to
organize the next Artist Bailout event (which is taking place in May @
the Last Bookstore). Please come join us if you are interested in
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Bailout, or are just interested in finding out more about this project.
We will also give you tools to help you learn how to start a similar
fundraising project in your own community. DTLA residents are
particularly encouraged to come out as May's event will take place in
your own back yard (errr... bookstore).<br /></span><br />
Date: Tuesday, April 3rd<br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Time: 7pm–8:30pm</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Place: The Last Bookstore (</span>453 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013) <a href="http://lastbookstorela.com/">lastbookstorela.com</a><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">We look forward to seeing you there and hearing your awesome ideas for the next Artist Bailout!<br /></span><br />
(For you facebooky-types, check out the event info and rsvp <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/334172003306502/" target="_blank">here</a>!)<br />
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The third Artist Bailout took place on December 10, 2011 at Human Resources. All told, we collectively raised over $2,500 and awarded $1,000 grants to the two participants whose presentations received the most votes: <a href="http://theknowledges.org/" target="_blank">Knowledges</a> and <a href="http://mobilepinholeproject.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">the Mobile Pinhole Project</a>. Congratulations! All of the other participants received a $100 prize. </div>
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Thanks to everyone who attended and to all our sponsors and volunteers who helped make this Artist Bailout a success! </div>
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Below is a selection of photos from the evening. You can view more pictures on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.210605239022581.50787.121586944591078&type=1" target="_blank">our facebook page</a> and <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/103251608698540197296/ArtistBailoutAtHumanResources?authuser=0&feat=directlink" target="_blank">picasa</a>. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqCmjGo8SJNEDuJ0a8heB-8iMeX0S-AsHoL9nStCM1s1aA2X9llOG1Aq-hnOeKmmPbeCoeaX7kkIrsgE3G3-Q4K-f28rAWxkQApqF76uh1SRMmj4tcgFAlRX5mk5AhDnW1lspRMuhqM0/s1600/slanguage.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqCmjGo8SJNEDuJ0a8heB-8iMeX0S-AsHoL9nStCM1s1aA2X9llOG1Aq-hnOeKmmPbeCoeaX7kkIrsgE3G3-Q4K-f28rAWxkQApqF76uh1SRMmj4tcgFAlRX5mk5AhDnW1lspRMuhqM0/s320/slanguage.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Slanguage Studio is an artist-run space and art collective founded in 2002, operating from a storefront in the industrial/harbor neighborhood of Los Angeles in Wilmington, California. Originally intended to be a studio for poet/artists, Karla Diaz and artist Mario Ybarra Jr., Slanguage Studio became an art project and public space in response to a need for art by the community. Slanguage Studio is dedicated to art, education, art workshops, performances, music, residencies, and curating of events and exhibitions all over the world. The work of Slanguage artists operates as examinations of conflated and excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, identity, neighborhoods, invisible histories and marginalized cultural, street narratives. Slanguage’s most recent projects include “Police and Thieves” at Chicago Hyde Park Art Center (2011), “Landscapes” for MDE 2011 in Medellin, Colombia (2011) “Defiant Chronicles: Women and Graff” at MOLAA (2011) CA, “Possible Worlds” at LACMA (2010-11), “Slanguage” (2009) at ICA Boston; and Engagement Party MOCA Los Angeles (2009).<br /> <br /> In accordance to Slanguage’s mission of arts education and mentorship, for the Bailout Project, we’d like to propose that you fund a project for SLANGAIR (Artist in Residency). This is part of Slanguage’s art residency program which annually invites local artists from Los Angeles, from California, including one from Los Angeles, a national artist, and an international artist to make a new piece of work. As part of this residency we have a literacy component that invites poets/organizers/activists to do events that will promote literacy at the studio/community. We have a green residency program that invites artists to also work with the community but also with our Teen Art Council. During their time at Slanguage, each artist builds a body of work to show at the studio’s gallery space and may include teaching a workshop, leading a lecture or panel discussion.<br /><br />Please visit one of our latest project “Slanguage TV” working with El Paso Texas and Ciudad Juarez to make the first bi-national project since the most recent violent attacks in Mexico. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Riverside, one of the most well preserved archaeology
sites containing invaluable artifacts documenting one of the oldest Chinatowns
in the country is under attack. Private development is attempting to purchase
the site, and the community is organizing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Partnering with Save Our Chinatown Committee, a 501(c)3 non-profit
organization, we plan to construct a mobile museum that will serve multiple
functions. The Mobile Museum will display photographs of artifacts that are in
storage at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, hidden from public view.
Additionally, it will be a roving information booth that will provide important
information about the political campaign to save the site to the community and
serve as a mobile volunteer station. It will also be an interactive art
workshop station for the community to create their own vision for a public park
on the site, NOT a medical building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mobile Museum will be deployed in Los Angeles, Riverside and
other locations, to support interactive learning, political awareness, and
cultural exchange. It’s portable nature is a comment on the ability to reclaim
space for our history, not confined to a brick and mortar structure. We CAN
build our own cultural institutions!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think silkscreened canopy, collapsable modular architecture,
community art, and political message—that is <o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will be a collaboration between DreamLA (Melissa Guerrero)
and FrameShiftDesign (Theresa Hwang), both LA based art and design studios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />About Save our Chinatown Committee: <a href="http://saveourchinatown.org/">www.saveourchinatown.org</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Actual Size Los Angeles</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actual Size Los Angeles is collaboratively run by Lee Foley, Justin John Greene, Samia Mirza and Corrie Siegel. The current Actual Size location a</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t 741 New High Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles opened in April 2010. Actual Size has hosted over 20 exhibitions/ curatorial interventions and worked with over 90 artists. Actual Size collaborates with established and emerging artists to encourage situations that activate the exhibition and engage the public. Projects curated by Actual Size have been profiled in the L.A Times, Mousse Magazine, and Flash Art International.</span></span><br />
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book, and you will find it offering, opening itself. It is the openness of this
book that I find so moving. A book is not shut in by its contours, is not
walled up as in a fortress. It asks for nothing better than to exist outside
itself, or to let you exist in it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - Georges Poulet, Interiority and Criticism,1970<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Imprint</i> is a
satellite exhibition in partnership with <i>Once Emerging Now Emerging</i>, Cirrus Gallery’s year-long
exhibition project in conjunction with <i>Pacific Standard Time</i>. <i>Print Imprint</i> seeks to develop an intimate
relationship and conversation between artworks from the 1970’s and 80’s,
and current artworks works produced by emerging and mid-career Los Angeles
artists. Participating Artists include Ali Bailey, Scott Benzel, Gui de Cointet
and Larry Bell, Cayetano Ferrer, Katie Herzog, Laura Owens, Ed Ruscha, and
Barbara T. Smith. The artists’ responses to the concept and form of the book
will take many physical forms, including prints, paintings, slide projections,
musical composition, and custom vitrines and pedestals. Actual Size will produce a limited edition book in conjunction with the exhibition.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outpost for Contemporary art has a six-year history of promoting
community-based projects with international influence. Through Outpost's
residency program, artists from Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe and South
America have operated for extended residency periods from Outpost's Highland
Park headquarters and embarked on projects that have engaged the community in a
part of the city historically underserved by the region's major cultural
institutions. Outpost also serves as an important satellite for members of Los
Angeles' vibrant artist community whose practices manifest largely outside the
realms of galleries and institutions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outpost for Contemporary Art seeks to engage and enrich diverse
Los Angeles communities through cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinary
projects that blur the boundaries between art, social practice, and public
life. Programs support the work of innovative, socially-engaged artists who
utilize public spaces, temporary venues, and collaborative methods of
production to foster intimate contact and genuine connection with their
audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outpost has been connecting people to art and artists through a
wide variety of events, exchange programs and residencies since 2004. Alive to
the specificity of its location in heterogeneous Northeast Los Angeles,
Outpost’s programming actively creates community and intellectual exchange on
local and global levels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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explorations and events.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first major project is an event that will take place at the
Mount Wilson </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Observatory. Located in the San Gabriel Mountains, just outside
Pasadena, Mount Wilson is an astronomical observatory and site of historic
scientific discovery, contemporary research, and sweeping views above Los
Angeles. Art and science communities thrive in Los Angeles, but seldom have
occasion to converge. We are initiating a dialog by inviting contemporary Los
Angeles artists to create and exhibit works in response to the location,
history and influence of Mount Wilson. This weekend-long, experimental event,
scheduled for June 2012, will incorporate exhibitions, performances, film/video
screenings, and other forms of temporary installations on the observatory
grounds, as well as night viewing through the telescope. The observatory has
granted us unprecedented access to the facilities and grounds, including the
historic auditorium, astronomical museum and the observation decks inside the
60-inch and 100-inch telescope domes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have an overwhelmingly positive response so far, with the
following artists and organizations confirmed: Lita Albuquerque, Jennifer
Boysen, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Cloud
Eye Control (Anna “Oxygen” Huff, Miwa Matreyek, Chi-wang Yang), Zoe Crosher,
Russell Crotty, Katie Grinnan, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, Norman Klein, Emily
Lacy, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Laura Riboli, Kim Schoen, Sneaky Snake
(Ian James & George Jensen), April Totten & Donnie Stroud, Kara Tanaka,
Mungo Thomson, Cody Trepte, Viralnet.net (Tom Leeser) and more to be
announced...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Funding from an Artist Bailout grant will help cover our project’s
organizational costs, including the development of a comprehensive research
website, the creation of a companion publication, printed event maps or
promotional materials, and a possible park permit fee. Additionally, we need to
raise funds to rent the 60” telescope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elleni Sclavenitis, Associate Director, Co-Curator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://signifysanctifybelieve.org/">www.signifysanctifybelieve.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLamEsujGZ-5wKZf65_jMQDfWpuEEncvDHMyhkR4HW3UC1WcKcHi23fUUF9zh_dlK-nqeH0dd6ubyp1-3v0pJoWZxyqJjeiuDkPK2Y-ssAIlcIDo5_Xf2Rgza9AfXwgCR2feaPpexrDU/s1600/signify_sanctify.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLamEsujGZ-5wKZf65_jMQDfWpuEEncvDHMyhkR4HW3UC1WcKcHi23fUUF9zh_dlK-nqeH0dd6ubyp1-3v0pJoWZxyqJjeiuDkPK2Y-ssAIlcIDo5_Xf2Rgza9AfXwgCR2feaPpexrDU/s320/signify_sanctify.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Signify, Sanctify, Believe—facilitated by Claire Cronin, Adam Overton, and Tanya Rubbak, and featuring the sacred gifts of dozens of contemporary artists, performers, and visionaries—is invested in the temporary, playful exploration of [semi-]fictional religious technologies.<br /><br />Over 2 weeks last Spring 2011, we opened our storefront revival center doors – within the Free Church of Public Fiction – to the Highland Park public. We provided a venue for over 70 semi-secular artists to present over a dozen inspirational services, sermons, and workshops, and oversaw the publication of nearly 20 pamphlets, consisting of creative articles of faith and other religious ephemera. (Our fu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ll schedule, and the complete </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Library
of Sacred Technologies</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, can be found online at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://signifysanctifybelieve.org/">http://signifysanctifybelieve.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year we hope to travel our two very special branches – <i>The
Saints and Servants of the Order of [Con]Temporary Religious Observance</i>, and <i>The Library
of Sacred Technologies</i> – up, down, and around the West Coast and Southwest,
spreading the good word and creative gospel currently infusing the sanctified
work of our Los Angeles experimental art and performance community. In
addition, we hope to meet and collaborate with artists in these locales as
well, as we continue to produce creative, gentle, temporary religious services,
sermons, healing dens, and so forth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Money earned through the Artist Bailout will potentially help us
visit Portland, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Salt Lake City. It
will also help us print and distribute more copies of our <i>Library of Sacred
Technologies</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advertising the first iteration of <i>Signify, Sanctify, Believe</i>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />WHAT WE DO<br />In half-day mobile workshops guided by professional local artists, young people experience photography as a powerful tool for exploring their communities. Our workshops makes visual arts geographically and technologically accessible by allowing youth in neighborhoods across Los Angeles inside the mechanism of photography, empowering a collective visual exploration of identity, culture, and place.<br /><br />WHY WE DO IT<br />Funding for arts and education has been cut deeply across the United States, and California is no exception. Twenty-nine percent of California's public schools offer no study in any arts discipline. Los Angeles has lost 25% of its full-time elementary art teachers in the past three years. Yet, we know that artistic expression is fundamental to youth development – as a tool for self-expression, communication, and critical thinking. Personally, founding the Mobile Pinhole Project has been a personal milestone for me, furthering my goal to improve accessibility to arts education for all youth.</span></div>
</div>Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-18222228845944983232011-12-04T23:50:00.001-08:002011-12-05T12:23:11.387-08:00Press Release for December 10th Artist Bailout<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ARTIST BAILOUT: COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER FEEDS PATRONS WHILE BENEFITING LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS & COLLECTIVES</b><br /><br />November 30, 2011, Los Angeles: Artist Bailout is a community driven means to fund the arts during the current economic crisis. This new philanthropic model brings together artists and patrons for a dinner which is part performance, part fundraiser and culminates in the awarding of two micro-grants. The third Artist Bailout will be held at Human Resources on Saturday, December 10th from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. This upcoming Artist Bailout will differ from the previous events as proceeds raised will go toward local artist-run organizations, rather than individual artists.<br /><br />At the Artist Bailout, patrons contribute donations on a sliding scale ($10 to $10M!) and receive a delicious meal and a ballot. While attendees enjoy their dinner, seven pre-selected Los Angeles-based arts organizations will present proposals for funding which will benefit their current programs and/or special projects they are hoping to realize. The participants—all selected from a pool of organizations that responded to an open call for proposals—include: Slanguage Studios, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Actual Size L.A., Outpost for Contemporary Art, Knowledges, Mobile Pinhole Project and Signify, Sanctify, Believe. Once the presentations conclude, dinner-goers vote for their favorite, and the two arts organizations that receive the most votes split the money donated at the door. These micro-grants will be used to fund the winning projects.<br /><br />As a special bonus for the winners of this upcoming Artist Bailout, GOOD (<a href="http://www.good.is/">www.good.is</a>) will make a donation matching the total proceeds raised throughout the evening, up to $1,000. Initial funding for this event was generously provided by Woodbury University’s Department of Art History. Winners will also receive a free copy of GYST Ink software.<br /><br />“Our hope is that the Artist Bailout will become an on-going support system for Los Angeles artists in a time when funding for the arts is vanishing,” expressed organizers Elana Mann, Laura Noguera , Michael Rippens, Autumn Rooney and Jenn Su. “Together we can share our resources to support each other’s projects, both creatively and financially. We are excited to collaborate in funding interesting and relevant projects and experimenting with unconventional philanthropic models.”<br /><br />For more information about Artist Bailout visit <a href="http://artistbailout.org/">artistbailout.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />-- COMPLETE LISTING INFORMATION --<br /><br /><br />Artist Bailout:<br />A public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by local and emerging artists.<br /><br />Date & Time: Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm<br /><br />Price: $10–$10M, sliding scale donation (includes dinner and a ballot)<br /><br />Location: Human Resources: 410 Cottage Home St. in Chinatown, Los Angeles 90012<br /><br />Website: <a href="http://www.artistbailout.org/">www.artistbailout.org</a><br /><br />This event is made possible through the generous support of Woodbury University Department of Art History Aesthetics of Deficit symposium and History of Performance Art class, GOOD, Human Resources, the Echo Park Time Bank and many more.<br /><br />###</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grab your dinner jacket and save your appetite 'cause the next Artist Bailout event is coming up on Saturday, December 10th at Human Resources in Chinatown!<br /><br />December's event will differ slightly from our last two Artist Bailouts as we will not have individual artists pre...senting their work, but rather we'll be voting to fund local arts organizations, artist collectives and independent spaces. The evenings participants and potential beneficiaries will be: Slanguage Studios, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Actual Size L.A., Outpost for Contemporary Art, Knowledges, Mobile Pinhole Project and Signify, Sanctify, Believe.<br /> <br /> As a special bonus for the winners of this upcoming Artist Bailout, GOOD (<a href="http://www.good.is/">www.good.is</a>) will make a donation matching the total proceeds raised throughout the evening, up to $1,000! Initial funding for this event was generously provided by Woodbury University Department of Art History Aesthetics of Deficit symposium and History of Performance Art class.<br /><br />Here are the details:<br />Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 6:30pm–9:30pm<br />Human Resources<br />410 Cottage Home St in Chinatown<br />Los Angeles, 90012<br /><br />About the Artist Bailout:<br />The Artist Bailout is a collectively organized public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by emerging artists. This experimental philanthropic model literally brings patrons and artists (or in this case, arts organizations) together around the table. During the course of a meal, participants present proposals for projects and/or spaces in need of funding to community members who have each made a small donation to attend the dinner. The dinner-goers then choose their favorite presentations and, at the end of the night, the two participants with the most votes receive a cash grant—sweet!<br /><br />For the latest news and updates, join the Artist Bailout community page on facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/artistbailout">www.facebook.com/artistbailout</a>.<br /><br />The Artist Bailout is also a proud member of <a href="http://sundaysoup.org/soup-network">Sunday Soup</a>, an international network of meal-based micro-granting initiatives.</span>Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-60473339752716392062011-11-07T19:13:00.001-08:002011-11-07T19:39:09.528-08:00Calling all L.A.-based arts organizations!<span id="internal-source-marker_0.9453266014303755" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OPEN CALL FOR ARTS ORGANIZATIONS / COLLECTIVES / SPACE-MAKERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT ARTIST BAILOUT</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is an open call for applications to the third iteration of the Los Angeles-based project </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!
If your organization is chosen, you will have the opportunity to
present a proposal to a live, voting audience for the chance to win an
instant micro-grant to provide operational support or to help turn a new
idea into a reality.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
is a collectively organized public meal designed to solicit
community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by
emerging artists. This experimental philanthropic model literally brings
patrons and artists (or in this case, arts organizations) together
around the table. During the course of a meal, participants present
proposals for projects and/or spaces in need of funding to community
members who have each made a small donation to attend the dinner. The
dinner-goers then choose their favorite presentations and, at the end of
the night, the two participants with the most votes receive a cash
grant—sweet! Even if you don’t get chosen, this is a great way to share
your project with a large and diverse community.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When & where does the next </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> happen?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> takes place on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at Human Resources in Chinatown, Los Angeles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do I qualify?</span><br />
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you are an arts organization that presents the artworks of local,
national or international artists, works with communities to develop
community-based artworks, or runs a gallery, experimental center,
performance space, or telethon out of your home, please apply! You DO
NOT need to be a 501c3 organization to qualify for participation in the
December 10th </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Submit a proposal! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’d like to participate as a presenting arts organization at the upcoming </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(and we hope you do!) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">please send us your proposal by Sunday, November 20th. We will be notifying selected presenters by Thursday, December 1st. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For your proposal, please email the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> team at </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:renegadebountyexchange@gmail.com"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">renegadebountyexchange@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with the following: </span><br />
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words (or less) about your organization and why it needs funding. This
proposal can simply include information about your organization and its
existing programs and/or it can be about a specific project, idea, or
exhibition that your organization would like to support through an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grant. </span></li>
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Attach any supplementary materials such as images, videos and links you
would like to share which pertain to your organization and/or proposed
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How are participants selected?</span><br />
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collective which is comprised of a rotating cast of volunteer
organizers. Selected organizations will be asked to prepare and deliver
presentations at the December 10th </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can read all about the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> project as well as check out photos and view an archive of past events, participants and grantees on our website: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.artistbailout.org/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.artistbailout.org</span></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. For the latest news and updates, join the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">community page on facebook: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/artistbailout"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.facebook.com/artistbailout</span></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><br />
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On Sunday, October 30th from 3-6pm, Louisa Van Leer will present her project "Stair Street Ghosts" in the form of a self-guided walking tour through Mt Angelus complete with live music by local artists and a Halloween parade. Come out and experience the project that YOU helped make possible through an Artist Bailout grant!<br />
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Check out the <a href="http://stairstreetghosts.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-oct-30-3-6pm-halloween-walking.html">Stair Street Ghosts blog</a> for more info about this great project as well as a schedule of the day's events. We'll see you on the Stair Streets!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-22365534180009527542011-08-26T22:01:00.000-07:002011-11-17T11:38:27.336-08:00International Soup at Living is FormIf you happen to be in NY on October 1st join us for <a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/about.htm">Living as Form</a><br />
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The International Soup Network Dinner<br />
Communal Dinner for 100<br />
Tickets available for purchase in advance (check back for details)<br />
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Historic Essex Street Market<br />
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The International Soup Network is a grassroots model for funding small-to-medium-sized creative projects through community meals, with initiatives in over 40 international cities. In this large communal dinner inside the Living as Form exhibition, a group of people come together to share a meal sold for an affordable price. All the income from this meal will be given as a grant to support a creative project, and everyone who purchases the meal gets one vote to determine who receives the grant. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.blogger.com/sundaysoup.org/soup-network">sundaysoup.org/soup-network</a>.<br />
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"New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities"<br />
Panelists: Kris Kuramitsu on USA Projects, Elana Mann on The Artist Bailout, Molly Surno on kickstarter, Autumn Rooney on Echo Park Time Bank –– Moderated by Edgar Arceneaux of the Watts House Project.<br />
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Saturday, July 23rd from 4:30-6pm at Red Cat 631 W. 2nd St. L.A., CA 90012.<br />
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<a href="http://www.johnhoganstudio.com">John Hogan</a> & David Reich for their project <i>Heretics Television Workshop</i> won <b>$500</b>.<br />
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Creative Migration</a> for their project <i>The Green American Road Trip</i> won <b>$250</b>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">June 1, 2011, Los Angeles: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a community driven way to fund new work by artists during the economic crisis. This new philanthropic model brings together artists and patrons for a dinner, which is part performance, part fundraiser and culminates in the presentation of two micro-grants for emerging artists. The second </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> will be held at Atwater Crossing on Saturday, June 18th from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrons pay a sliding scale donation of $10–$10,000,000 at the door for a delicious vegetarian meal and a ballot (or $5 for the ballot only). At 6:00 pm a group of pre-selected artists will present proposals for new original work. Artists who will be presenting proposals include John Hogan, Kristen Smiarowski, Louisa Van Leer, Kristy Baltezore, Creative Migration and Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc. Due to the wide variety of artistic disciplines represented, these proposals will run from dance performances in local marshland to sculptural houses made out of bagels; all presented in the spirit of sharing visions and garnering community support. At the end of the presentations and performances, ballots will be collected and counted. The top two winning artists will each take home half of all the money collected at the door as a micro grant to be used towards their proposed project.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The goal is to get the pot up to a thousand dollars or more,” expressed organizers Michael Rippens, Jenn Su, Laura Noguera, Elana Mann and Autumn Rooney. “Our hope is that this will become an on-going support system for Los Angeles artists in a time when funding for the arts is vanishing. Together we can share our resources to support each other’s projects, both creatively and financially. We are excited to collaborate in funding interesting and relevant projects and experimenting with unconventional philanthropic models.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artist Bailout </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call 213-220-0295 or visit </span><a href="http://artistbailout.org/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.artistbailout.org</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by emerging artists.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This event was made possible through generous support from Dan Greaney, Atwater Crossing, Trader Joe’s, the Echo Park Fim Center and many more.</span><br />
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The artist project summaries for the upcoming Artist Bailout on June 18th are in. Get your sneak preview <a href="http://artistbailoutrenegadebountyexchange.blogspot.com/p/artist-project-summaries-2011.html">here</a>!Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-25400966367646041632011-06-04T19:28:00.000-07:002011-06-04T19:29:52.859-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Parking is limited. Please consider biking or carpooling to the Artist Bailout! Special gift for those who do. :)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYoC_2VSqHtzk0D-wEl1BcK-Jc-D8F4wx7SwBsHukKmwpJnxazPGo2ZluoFDPhyphenhyphen0zVJvZMvTB9v7fFK5vuqGCcVN-pZpAGFNpJ6UNw5-Mnp1GzbSgf3O4BVnn_drLIsjPrIqso5zopbg/s1600/annex-hepburn-audrey_022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYoC_2VSqHtzk0D-wEl1BcK-Jc-D8F4wx7SwBsHukKmwpJnxazPGo2ZluoFDPhyphenhyphen0zVJvZMvTB9v7fFK5vuqGCcVN-pZpAGFNpJ6UNw5-Mnp1GzbSgf3O4BVnn_drLIsjPrIqso5zopbg/s320/annex-hepburn-audrey_022.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Join us for an "International Day of Soup" during <a href="http://www.creativetime.org/">Creative Time</a>'s<i>, Living As Form,</i> exhibition in New York September 16th - October 16th, 2011. Curated by Nato Thompson. <br />
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The partial title of this book,<i> Me, You, Us</i> is the same as the title of the participatory installation of which this book serves as a component. Donated garments were deconstructed and reconfigured into backpacks displayed on shelves. Viewers/participants are invited to deposit a book into one of the backpacks. In return, they receive a copy of this book. Particularly motivated participants can further their experience/opportunity by exchanging one of the book filled backpacks for an object s/he made. <br />
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The grant we received has been put to great use this last year. We were not able to print the Dialogue Manual that we had initially wanted but we were able to cover pressing needs for several of the arts workshops that are leading up to the Community Festival on May 6th and our dialogue celebration. <br />
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- Printer cartridges to print photo tiles for Dialogue Photo Mural / Photography Lab<br />
- Honorarium for speaker Melissa Shepard for presentation on inter-racial tolerance<br />
- Covered the purchase of ingredients for 5 of our Cooking Lab workshops where guest chefs taught healthy recipes to youth and their families<br />
- Covered the purchase of paint and brushes to complete a public art project in which the youth designed oversized signs with their thoughts about their homes and neighborhoods<br />
- Covered a portion of the cost of software purchased for our Electronic Music Lab which is being used by the youth to design tracks for the neighborhood and festival, based on interviews and photos of the neighborhood. <br />
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The work created last Fall and this Spring will be shared with the community on May 6th. <br />
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Thank you again for the outstanding support for this project.Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-56466762341496982312010-05-19T23:08:00.000-07:002010-05-20T09:16:48.267-07:00The Two Funded Artists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to all the patrons who attended Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange we were able to give <a href="http://evelynserrano.net/">Evelyn Serrano</a> of <a href="http://vdonomadlab.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html">NOMAD LAB Dialogue Project</a> and <a href="http://www.edithabeyta.net/">Edith Abeyta</a> funding for their projects! It was a day to remember and all of the artist proposals were inspiring and inventive. <a href="http://artistbailoutrenegadebountyexchange.blogspot.com/p/thank-you.html">Thank you</a> to everyone who helped to make this event a success. Read more about it and see pictures <a href="http://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/have-a-meal-and-support-your-local-artists/">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi1gaO5wiS0pSZchqtX-d78e1ZuKetuFJmTOUcMdUHc9W9pEjyxqE2qwLHRku-KiCiWP5VaYu0Mv4YRyODE1F8kqf8725cntKSdzfsbGTDMKggdxSJWI1FBe05-Bd9FcsGgLNSnzvTF4s/s1600/group+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi1gaO5wiS0pSZchqtX-d78e1ZuKetuFJmTOUcMdUHc9W9pEjyxqE2qwLHRku-KiCiWP5VaYu0Mv4YRyODE1F8kqf8725cntKSdzfsbGTDMKggdxSJWI1FBe05-Bd9FcsGgLNSnzvTF4s/s320/group+pic.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWPMVwU8M1JEdADakCCdV5ZmlqWrs0I9G4YaZlFd64Kb9zK9VQaMaoTjKC8gfg2c2HrJyvSGB28BLMTaW0JBcZ54PdGWlM6E3ZbAi6QEbYvVxPFKGBVfb26T098LDpWeRg1wwlkVXHmI/s1600/artist-bailout-angels-gate-093.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWPMVwU8M1JEdADakCCdV5ZmlqWrs0I9G4YaZlFd64Kb9zK9VQaMaoTjKC8gfg2c2HrJyvSGB28BLMTaW0JBcZ54PdGWlM6E3ZbAi6QEbYvVxPFKGBVfb26T098LDpWeRg1wwlkVXHmI/s320/artist-bailout-angels-gate-093.jpg" /></a></div>Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-38579646935474151312010-05-16T14:16:00.000-07:002011-04-28T08:20:53.294-07:00<span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Date and Time:</b></span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">Sunday, May 16, 2010 from 1:00</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">pm to 4:00</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">pm</span><span lang="RU"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Price:</b></span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">$10 (includes lunch and a ballot) or $5 (ballot) only</span><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU"><b> </b></span><span lang="RU"> </span></div><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Location:</b></span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">Angels Gate Cultural Center |</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">3601 South Gaffey Street,</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">San Pedro, CA 90731</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For directions to Angels Gate click <a href="http://www.angelsgateart.org/visiting.html">here</a>.</div><br />
<span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>About: </b></span><br />
<span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">Angels Gate Cultural Center proudly presents</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange</b></span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">, a community driven way to fund new work by artists during the economic crisis. A collaboration by <a href="http://www.elanamann.com/">Elana Mann</a> and <a href="http://autumnrooney.com/">Autumn Rooney</a>, this new philanthropic model brings together artists and patrons for a lunch, which is part performance part fundraiser and culminates in the presentation of two micro-grants for emerging artists. The inaugural</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange</b></span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">will be held during the open studios at Angels Gate Cultural Center on Sunday, May 16, 2010 from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm. </span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">Patrons</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">pay $10</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">at the door for a delicious vegetarian meal and a ballot (or $5 for the ballot only).</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">At 2:00 pm a group of pre-selected artists will present proposals for new original work. Artists who will be presenting proposals include</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.edithabeyta.net/">Edith Abeyta</a>, <a href="http://www.theamorfati.com/">literary magazine Amor Fati</a>, <a href="http://www.laurabouza.com/Site/home.html">Laura Bouza</a>, <a href="http://performingpublicspace.org/">Owen Driggs,</a> <a href="http://www.lizglynn.net/">Liz Glynn</a>, the <a href="http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/">Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective</a>, <a href="http://robbyherbst.com/">Llano del Rio Collective</a>, <a href="http://www.annamayer.info/">Anna Mayer,</a> <a href="http://www.nancypopp.com/">Nancy Popp</a>, <a href="http://evelynserrano.net/">Evelyn Serrano</a>, and <a href="http://www.julianasnapper.com/bio.html">Juliana Snapper</a>.</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">Due to the wide variety of artistic disciplines represented, these proposals will run from films about sound healers to mapping alternative cultures in Los Angeles; all presented in the spirit of sharing visions and garnering community support. Also on the bill is a special musical performance by Monica Howe (H.R. Muff’n Stuff). At the end of the presentations and performances, ballots will be collected and counted. The top two winning artists</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">will each take home half of all the money collected at the door as a micro grant to be used towards their proposed project.</span><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU"><i> </i></span><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">“The goal is to get the pot up to a thousand dollars or more,” expressed organizers Elana Mann and Autumn Rooney. “Our hope is that this will become an on-going support system for Los Angeles artists in a time when funding for the arts is vanishing. Together we can share our resources to support each other’s projects, both creatively and financially.</span><span lang="RU"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;">We are excited to collaborate in funding interesting and relevant projects and experimenting with unconventional philanthropic models.”</span><span lang="RU"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-family: Arial;"><b> </b></span></div><br />
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<a href="http://artistbailoutrenegadebountyexchange.blogspot.com/p/artist-project-summaries.html"> See the artist's proposals here.</a><br />
Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange and Open Studios 2010 are sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The James Irvine Foundation.Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-3340680004888692332010-04-27T09:13:00.000-07:002010-05-20T09:15:57.604-07:00Sloup on Marketplace<div id="subHeader"><div class="date">Marketplace, Monday, April 19, 2010</div><div class="listenShow" onclick="urchinTracker('/flashplayerShow/marketplace/pm/2010/04/19/marketplace_cast2_20100419_64.mp3');">Dinner parties help fund arts projects</div></div><img alt="Amelia Colette Jones and Maggie Ginestra " src="http://images.publicradio.org/content/2010/04/19/20100419_amelia_maggie_18.jpg" /> <br />
<div class="blurb">Public funding for the arts has been hurt by the downturn, so local groups have turned to small-scale private donors to offer micro-grants for starving artists. David Weinberg reports.</div><div class="blurb"><a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/19/pm-sloup-art-donating/">Listen to the story here. </a></div><div class="blurb"><a href="http://sloup2122.blogspot.com/">Sloup blog</a></div><div class="blurb"><br />
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</div>Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207696196334998376.post-46852896703858146742010-04-26T13:19:00.000-07:002010-04-26T13:21:54.046-07:00Rhizome Interview with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHkSwOVHyOQKdb_yKoqj0ua9fMdlrmnFQh-jYHuklF9GXYOvDc2tSeNYyiGevOzGdiY6gd6rCYNmnljLOzJQSBIAqJdQGGtzgEX8eX92yIL6rz0cvh2oxuaio8DuNbKHy6ZxCiB2mKkA/s1600/75_img8914.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHkSwOVHyOQKdb_yKoqj0ua9fMdlrmnFQh-jYHuklF9GXYOvDc2tSeNYyiGevOzGdiY6gd6rCYNmnljLOzJQSBIAqJdQGGtzgEX8eX92yIL6rz0cvh2oxuaio8DuNbKHy6ZxCiB2mKkA/s320/75_img8914.jpg" /></a></div><h3 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/3281" style="font-weight: normal;">Rhizome</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Interview with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST</span> </h3><h3 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Jenny Jaskey </span><span class="nowrap" style="font-size: small;"> on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 1:00 pm. </span></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>As the second part of a series on art, labor, and politics, I spoke with Jeff Hnilicka of <a href="http://www.feastinbklyn.org/">FEAST</a>, a Brooklyn-based community dinner that funds the work of emerging artists. FEAST will be hosting their next meal tomorrow evening, February 6, from 5-8 p.m. at Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell St, Brooklyn NY. The event is open to the public. - Jenny Jaskey </i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What is FEAST and how did you begin?</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Jeff Hnilicka:</b> FEAST has been going on for a little over a year and runs out of a church basement in Greenpoint. There are around twenty people who help facilitate it. We come from the art world, food world, and design world, and we are connected to ideas of collectivism and immediacy – things like zines, living room dance parties, bike rides, and dinners. Many of us are also involved with <a href="http://www.hitfactorie.com/">Hit Factorie</a>, an artist collective.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FEAST grew out of our desire to investigate the collapse of cultural production in the face of emerging sustainable food production systems that were successful.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/3281">Read more here... </a></div><div class="meta" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="nowrap"> </span> </div>Arist Bailouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16409232511485463524noreply@blogger.com0