Press Release for June 18, 2011 Artist Bailout

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

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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!

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

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

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.