Artist Bailout 2011 - June 18th!

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

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

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

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

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.

 

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

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.

Listen to the story here.

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