Artist Bailout

Some Pics from the December 10th Artist Bailout

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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: Knowledges and the Mobile Pinhole Project. Congratulations! All of the other participants received a $100 prize.

Thanks to everyone who attended and to all our sponsors and volunteers who helped make this Artist Bailout a success!

Below is a selection of photos from the evening. You can view more pictures on our facebook page and picasa.

Enjoy!

December 10, 2011 Artist Bailout Participants

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Slanguage Studio www.slanguagestudio.com

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).

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.

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.

http://vimeo.com/asltt

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Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown

Part activist architecture, part education station, with a hint of playfulness, the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown is a transportable kiosk that will engage the public about the history of Riverside’s Chinatown and the current political struggle to preserve the historic site. The project aims to share untold stories and document an important piece of Asian American history, and larger US history.

In Riverside, one of the most well preserved archaeologysites containing invaluable artifacts documenting one of the oldest Chinatownsin the country is under attack. Private development is attempting to purchasethe site, and the community is organizing.

Partnering with Save Our Chinatown Committee, a 501(c)3 non-profitorganization, we plan to construct a mobile museum that will serve multiplefunctions. The Mobile Museum will display photographs of artifacts that are instorage at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, hidden from public view.Additionally, it will be a roving information booth that will provide importantinformation about the political campaign to save the site to the community andserve as a mobile volunteer station. It will also be an interactive artworkshop station for the community to create their own vision for a public parkon the site, NOT a medical building.

The Mobile Museum will be deployed in Los Angeles, Riverside andother locations, to support interactive learning, political awareness, andcultural exchange. It’s portable nature is a comment on the ability to reclaimspace for our history, not confined to a brick and mortar structure. We CANbuild our own cultural institutions!

Think silkscreened canopy, collapsable modular architecture,community art, and political message—that is the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown.

This will be a collaboration between DreamLA (Melissa Guerrero)and FrameShiftDesign (Theresa Hwang), both LA based art and design studios.

About Save our Chinatown Committee: www.saveourchinatown.org

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Actual Size Los Angeles
www.actualsizela.com

Guy de Cointet
ACR CIT, 1973
Offset on newspaper
22 x 17 inches
001-75-GC

Actual Size Los Angeles is collaboratively run by Lee Foley, Justin John Greene, Samia Mirza and Corrie Siegel. The current Actual Size location at 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.

PRINT IMPRINT

Take abook, and you will find it offering, opening itself. It is the openness of thisbook that I find so moving. A book is not shut in by its contours, is notwalled up as in a fortress. It asks for nothing better than to exist outsideitself, or to let you exist in it.

- Georges Poulet, Interiority and Criticism,1970

PrintImprint is asatellite exhibition in partnership with Once Emerging Now Emerging, Cirrus Gallery’s year-longexhibition project in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time. Print Imprint seeks to develop an intimaterelationship and conversation between artworks from the 1970’s and 80’s,and current artworks works produced by emerging and mid-career Los Angelesartists. Participating Artists include Ali Bailey, Scott Benzel, Gui de Cointetand Larry Bell, Cayetano Ferrer, Katie Herzog, Laura Owens, Ed Ruscha, andBarbara T. Smith. The artists’ responses to the concept and form of the bookwill 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.

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Outpost for Contemporary Art

www.outpost-art.org

Outpost for Contemporary art has a six-year history of promotingcommunity-based projects with international influence. Through Outpost'sresidency program, artists from Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe and SouthAmerica have operated for extended residency periods from Outpost's HighlandPark headquarters and embarked on projects that have engaged the community in apart of the city historically underserved by the region's major culturalinstitutions. Outpost also serves as an important satellite for members of LosAngeles' vibrant artist community whose practices manifest largely outside therealms of galleries and institutions.

Outpost for Contemporary Art seeks to engage and enrich diverseLos Angeles communities through cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinaryprojects that blur the boundaries between art, social practice, and publiclife. Programs support the work of innovative, socially-engaged artists whoutilize public spaces, temporary venues, and collaborative methods ofproduction to foster intimate contact and genuine connection with theiraudiences.

Outpost has been connecting people to art and artists through awide variety of events, exchange programs and residencies since 2004. Alive tothe specificity of its location in heterogeneous Northeast Los Angeles,Outpost’s programming actively creates community and intellectual exchange onlocal and global levels.

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Knowledges

Knowledges is an emerging, artist run curatorial organization that seeks to broaden the context of contemporary art production and reception. Our mission is to create dialogue between contemporary art and geographic sites of historic, scientific or cultural influence by organizing site-specificexplorations and events.

Our first major project is an event that will take place at theMount Wilson Observatory. Located in the San Gabriel Mountains, just outsidePasadena, Mount Wilson is an astronomical observatory and site of historicscientific discovery, contemporary research, and sweeping views above LosAngeles. Art and science communities thrive in Los Angeles, but seldom haveoccasion to converge. We are initiating a dialog by inviting contemporary LosAngeles 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/videoscreenings, and other forms of temporary installations on the observatorygrounds, as well as night viewing through the telescope. The observatory hasgranted us unprecedented access to the facilities and grounds, including thehistoric auditorium, astronomical museum and the observation decks inside the60-inch and 100-inch telescope domes.

We have an overwhelmingly positive response so far, with thefollowing artists and organizations confirmed: Lita Albuquerque, JenniferBoysen, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Claude Collins-Stracensky, CloudEye Control (Anna “Oxygen” Huff, Miwa Matreyek, Chi-wang Yang), Zoe Crosher,Russell Crotty, Katie Grinnan, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, Norman Klein, EmilyLacy, 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 beannounced...

Funding from an Artist Bailout grant will help cover our project’sorganizational costs, including the development of a comprehensive researchwebsite, the creation of a companion publication, printed event maps orpromotional materials, and a possible park permit fee. Additionally, we need toraise funds to rent the 60” telescope.

Christina Ondrus, Founder/Director, Co-Curator

Elleni Sclavenitis, Associate Director, Co-Curator

Information about the Mount Wilson Observatory:

www.mtwilson.edu

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Signify, Sanctify, Believe

www.signifysanctifybelieve.org

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.

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 full schedule, and the complete Libraryof Sacred Technologies, can be found online at http://signifysanctifybelieve.org.)

This year we hope to travel our two very special branches – TheSaints and Servants of the Order of [Con]Temporary Religious Observance, and The Libraryof Sacred Technologies – up, down, and around the West Coast and Southwest,spreading the good word and creative gospel currently infusing the sanctifiedwork of our Los Angeles experimental art and performance community. Inaddition, we hope to meet and collaborate with artists in these locales aswell, as we continue to produce creative, gentle, temporary religious services,sermons, healing dens, and so forth.

Money earned through the Artist Bailout will potentially help usvisit Portland, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Salt Lake City. Itwill also help us print and distribute more copies of our Library of SacredTechnologies.

a videoadvertising the first iteration of Signify, Sanctify, Believe:

http://signifysanctifybelieve.org/Together

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Mobile Pinhole Project

www.mobilepinholeproject.tumblr.com

This past summer, I founded the Mobile Pinhole Project, a new community arts organization in Los Angeles. The Mobile Pinhole Project brings hands-on photography workshops to youth in neighborhoods across Los Angeles using the VanCam, a giant pinhole camera on wheels. The Mobile Pinhole Project is having a huge impact for kids across Los Angeles, guiding them to re-examine their neighborhood community through a visual lens. The “oohs” and “ahhs” from the kids when they go INSIDE the camera makes all the hard work worth it. Unfortunately, we can’t continue our programming unless we raise funds to support our materials and maintenance costs. The Artist Bailout micro-grant would support the paper, developing, snacks and gas for 5 workshops, allowing us to continue to inspire the creative leaders of tomorrow by making arts education available to youth who otherwise don’t have access to creative outlets.

WHAT WE DO
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.

WHY WE DO IT
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.

Press Release for December 10th Artist Bailout

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
www.artistbailout.org

ARTIST BAILOUT: COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER FEEDS PATRONS WHILE BENEFITING LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS & COLLECTIVES

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.

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, the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown, 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.

As a special bonus for the winners of this upcoming Artist Bailout, GOOD (www.good.is) 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.

“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.”

For more information about Artist Bailout visit artistbailout.org.

-- COMPLETE LISTING INFORMATION --

Artist Bailout:
A public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by local and emerging artists.

Date & Time: Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Price: $10–$10M, sliding scale donation (includes dinner and a ballot)

Location: Human Resources: 410 Cottage Home St. in Chinatown, Los Angeles 90012

Website: www.artistbailout.org

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.

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Join us for the next Artist Bailout on December 10th!

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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!

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, the Mobile Museum of Riverside Chinatown, Actual Size L.A., Outpost for Contemporary Art, Knowledges, Mobile Pinhole Project and Signify, Sanctify, Believe.

As a special bonus for the winners of this upcoming Artist Bailout, GOOD (www.good.is) 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.

Here are the details:
Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 6:30pm–9:30pm
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St in Chinatown
Los Angeles, 90012

About the Artist Bailout:
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!

For the latest news and updates, join the Artist Bailout community page on facebook: www.facebook.com/artistbailout.

The Artist Bailout is also a proud member of Sunday Soup, an international network of meal-based micro-granting initiatives.

Calling all L.A.-based arts organizations!

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OPEN CALL FOR ARTS ORGANIZATIONS / COLLECTIVES / SPACE-MAKERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT ARTIST BAILOUT

This is an open call for applications to the third iteration of the Los Angeles-based project Artist Bailout! 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.

What is the Artist Bailout?
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! Even if you don’t get chosen, this is a great way to share your project with a large and diverse community.

When & where does the next Artist Bailout happen?
The next Artist Bailout takes place on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at Human Resources in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

How do I qualify?
If 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 Artist Bailout.

Submit a proposal!
If you’d like to participate as a presenting arts organization at the upcoming Artist Bailout (and we hope you do!) please send us your proposal by Sunday, November 20th. We will be notifying selected presenters by Thursday, December 1st. For your proposal, please email the Artist Bailout team at renegadebountyexchange@gmail.com with the following:

300 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 Artist Bailout grant.
(optional) Attach any supplementary materials such as images, videos and links you would like to share which pertain to your organization and/or proposed special project.

How are participants selected?
If more than six proposals are received, they will all be reviewed by the Artist Bailout 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 Artist Bailout!

Where can I find out more about the Artist Bailout?
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 website: www.artistbailout.org. For the latest news and updates, join the Artist Bailout community page on facebook: www.facebook.com/artistbailout.

The Artist Bailout is also a proud member of Sunday Soup, an international network of meal-based micro-granting initiatives.

"Stair Street Ghosts" by Louisa Van Leer (Arist Bailout grant winner)

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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!

Check out the Stair Street Ghosts blog 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!

International Soup at Living is Form

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If you happen to be in NY on October 1st join us for Living as Form

The International Soup Network Dinner
Communal Dinner for 100
Tickets available for purchase in advance (check back for details)
Saturday October 1st, 2011
8:30–11:00pm
Historic Essex Street Market

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 sundaysoup.org/soup-network.

New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities July 23rd

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Join us at Red Cat this Saturday for State of Independence: A Global Forum on Alternative Practice

"New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities"
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.

Saturday, July 23rd from 4:30-6pm at Red Cat 631 W. 2nd St. L.A., CA 90012.

2011 Grant Recipients

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Louisa Van Leer for her project Stair Street Ghosts won $500.

John Hogan & David Reich for their project Heretics Television Workshop won $500.

Creative Migration for their project The Green American Road Trip won $250.

Press Release for June 18, 2011 Artist Bailout

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Autumn Rooney
213.220.0295 | www.artistbailout.org

ARTIST BAILOUT: COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER FEEDS PATRONS WHILE FUNDING NEW WORK BY EMERGING ARTISTS

June 1, 2011, Los Angeles: Artist Bailout 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 Artist Bailout will be held at Atwater Crossing on Saturday, June 18th from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

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.

“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.”
For more information about Artist Bailout call 213-220-0295 or visit www.artistbailout.org

-- COMPLETE LISTING INFORMATION --

Artist Bailout:
A public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by emerging artists.

Date & Time: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Price: $10 (includes dinner and a ballot) or $5 (ballot) only

Location: Atwater Crossing: 3191 Casitas Avenue, room 165 (Corner of Casitas and Minneapolis) Los Angeles, CA 90039,

Website: www.artistbailout.org

Phone: 213-220-0295

This event was made possible through generous support from Dan Greaney, Atwater Crossing, Trader Joe’s, the Echo Park Fim Center and many more.

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Artist project summaries are up!

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The artist project summaries for the upcoming Artist Bailout on June 18th are in. Get your sneak preview here!

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Parking is limited. Please consider biking or carpooling to the Artist Bailout! Special gift for those who do. :)

Artist Bailout 2011 - June 18th!

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The next Artist Bailout will be on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 from 5-8PM at Atwater Crossing 3191 Casitas Avenues, L.A. CA 90039! Save the date.

International Sunday Soup Network

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Artists Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange is proud to represent Los Angeles in the Sunday Soup network, an international association of meal-based micro-granting initiatives.

Join us for an "International Day of Soup" during Creative Time's, Living As Form, exhibition in New York September 16th - October 16th, 2011. Curated by Nato Thompson.

Project Update - Edith Abeyta

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Edith Abeyta made this wonderful little catalog from her exhibition entitled, "Me, You, Us: Interpretations of Cooperation" at the El Camino College Art Gallery. It features texts about collaboration by Sesshu Foster, Apio Ludd, Sal Randolph, Charlene Roth, Judith Thissen and Pamela Wells.

The partial title of this book, Me, You, Us 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.

Project Update - Evelyn Serrano

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Here is an update from bailout recipient, Evelyn Serrano on her project Nomad Lab,

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.

- Printer cartridges to print photo tiles for Dialogue Photo Mural / Photography Lab
- Honorarium for speaker Melissa Shepard for presentation on inter-racial tolerance
- Covered the purchase of ingredients for 5 of our Cooking Lab workshops where guest chefs taught healthy recipes to youth and their families
- 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
- 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.

The work created last Fall and this Spring will be shared with the community on May 6th.

Thank you again for the outstanding support for this project.

The Two Funded Artists

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Thanks to all the patrons who attended Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange we were able to give Evelyn Serrano of NOMAD LAB Dialogue Project and Edith Abeyta funding for their projects! It was a day to remember and all of the artist proposals were inspiring and inventive. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this event a success. Read more about it and see pictures here.

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Date and Time: Sunday, May 16, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Price: $10 (includes lunch and a ballot) or $5 (ballot) only

Location: Angels Gate Cultural Center | 3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731

For directions to Angels Gate click here.

About:
Angels Gate Cultural Center proudly presents Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange, a community driven way to fund new work by artists during the economic crisis. A collaboration by Elana Mann and Autumn Rooney, 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 Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange 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.

Patrons pay $10 at the door for a delicious vegetarian meal and a ballot (or $5 for the ballot only). At 2:00 pm a group of pre-selected artists will present proposals for new original work. Artists who will be presenting proposals include Edith Abeyta, literary magazine Amor Fati, Laura Bouza, Owen Driggs, Liz Glynn, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective, Llano del Rio Collective, Anna Mayer, Nancy Popp, Evelyn Serrano, and Juliana Snapper. 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 will each take home half of all the money collected at the door as a micro grant to be used towards their proposed project.

“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. We are excited to collaborate in funding interesting and relevant projects and experimenting with unconventional philanthropic models.”

See the artist's proposals here.
Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange and Open Studios 2010 are sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The James Irvine Foundation.

Sloup on Marketplace

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Marketplace, Monday, April 19, 2010

Dinner parties help fund arts projects

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.

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Rhizome Interview with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST

2010-04-26T13:19:00.000-07:00

Rhizome Interview with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST

By Jenny Jaskey on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 1:00 pm.

As the second part of a series on art, labor, and politics, I spoke with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST, 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

What is FEAST and how did you begin?

Jeff Hnilicka: 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 Hit Factorie, an artist collective.

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.

State of The Arts

2010-04-25T18:29:00.000-07:00

State of The Arts The Present Group

Art:21 - WAGE Against the Machine

2010-04-25T18:22:00.000-07:00

Art:21 "W.A.G.E Against the Machine"
April 27th, 2009

Last September, as part of Creative Time’s Democracy in America: The National Campaign event at the Park Avenue Armory, activist group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) stumped for the rights of artists to be compensated fairly for their labor by art institutions in the United States. The economy has taken a bigger hit since then, which makes W.A.G.E.’s work even more important. The Brooklyn-based collective was formed in 2008 by artists A.L. Steiner, K8 Hardy, and A.K. Burns, and the group’s expanding membership includes artists, performers, independent curators, and all others who share their cause. W.A.G.E. cites exemplar, working models beyond our borders overseas and overhead—organizations such as the Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC), whose efforts resulted in the 1988 Canadian Artists’ Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC), which legally established a fee schedule for artists to be paid every time their work is exhibited at a gallery, museum, or institution that receives federal funds.
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When Meals Played the Muse - Gordon Matta-Clark

2010-04-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

When Meals Played the Muse
The New York Times
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: February 21, 2007

THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results. At one, recalled his widow, Jane Crawford, he cooked a lovely whole sea bass, but it emerged from the kitchen encased in a block of aspic nearly three feet long. He unmolded it, then gave the table a good kick, so that the aspic wobbled wildly and the bass seemed to fishtail upstream.
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The National Campaign to Hire Artists to Work in Schools.

2010-03-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

Check out The National Campaign to Hire Artists to Work in Schools. A national campaign for the public service employment of artists to work in schools and other community centers for economic stimulus, educational advancement and cultural enrichment.

Calling all artists, arts educators and advocates in all 50 states to convince the Obama Administration and Congress that this is a cost-effective, long-lasting, easy-to-start-up infrastructural investment and should be a significant part of the Jobs & Growth stimulus package now in development.

In the tradition of the WPA and CETA Arts when times were similarly tough. This is our window of opportunity. We've got our tools, our talent, passion, agility, hunger and commitment.

Also see this interview of actor Peter Coyote talking about the virtues of public employment of artists and his experience with the CETA Arts Program and the State Arts Council.