The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika 2010.

Pepon Osorio confetti piece on display at the PAFA for the Philagrafika 2010,Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art, in Philadelphia, on January 27, 2010.

Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious

Dates:
January 29 - April 11, 2010

Press Day: January 27, 2010, PAFA 9:30 a.m.
VIP Opening Events: January 28, 2010
Public Opening: January 29, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
PAFA Public Reception: January 30, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
PAFA Curator and Artist talk: January 31, 2010, Julien Robson and Orit Hofshi, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location:
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building

Description:

PAFA is one of five venues presenting the exhibition The Graphic Unconscious in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating the print in contemporary art. Philagrafika 2010 will focus on artistic practices that engage the visual, intellectual, and creative frontiers in printmaking and how these approaches relate to social and political issues in the public sphere.

The Graphic Unconscious, the core exhibition of the festival, is curated by José Roca, Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, with John Caperton, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Print Center; Sheryl Conkelton, for Temple Gallery, Temple University; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Lorie Mertes, Director/Chief Curator of The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design; and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Exhibited in the Morris Gallery, in the museum’s Historic Landmark Building, and in the majestic Fisher Brooks Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, PAFA’s participation in The Graphic Unconscious brings contemporary art into the midst of the museum’s collections. PAFA’s School of the Fine Arts is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the world, with a program whose history, while grounded in figuration, emphasizes both tradition and innovation. Addressing this commitment to craft-based practices, at PAFA, The Graphic Unconscious presents the work of seven international artists who take conventionally recognized mediums and treat them in new and imaginative ways. Working with woodcuts, Christiane Baumgartner and Orit Hofshirealize the woodcut’s potential on an immense scale, while the Indonesian artist groupTromarama turns each cut of the wooden panel into the frame of a stop-motion animation. Mark Bradford collages together found posters and then sands this surface to excavate other forms of information hidden underneath, while Pepón Osorio prints on confetti in a work that turns two-dimensional print into three-dimensional sculpture. Kiki Smith collages lithographs on handmade paper into large-scale poetic works, while Qiu Zhijie carves traditional Chinese calligraphy from concrete blocks that, after being printed, stand as sculptures in their own right alongside the wall-hung images.

Curator:
Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art
Guest Curator: Jose Roca

read about this amazing beader

Bessie Nelson at her home in Cranford, N.J., beading costumes for “A Chorus Line.”

not quite fibers major, greg powell sent me this article about an amazing beader--

Puttin' on Razzle-Dazzle, One Bead at a Time

Collaboration Opportunity

A student from the Fox business School has approached the Fiber Area in search of finding someone to collaborate on an idea he plans to patent. Please see his e-mail below and contact him with any questions:

Thank you for your help. I need a designer who has extensive
knowledge of materials and could help me design and manufacture a
prototype. Preferably, this person would also have the ability to
produce technical concept illustrations and patterns for the suit.
This idea is patent ready and I am willing to share the intellectual
property rights with the right person. Ideally I'm looking for
someone who would want to stay on board as a partner and help me bring
my vision to life.

This is a training device that would fit like clothing, but it would
have to hold up to some pretty rough conditions. The market is huge
and growing at an exponential rate. The opportunity for big profit is
there for the right person. I'm looking to get moving on this and
strike while the iron is hot, so those who respond late may miss the
boat.

Thanks again for your help.

Sincerely,

--
Christopher Joynt
Fox School of Business
Temple University
cjoynt@temple.edu

Alternate Selves, Opportunity at Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

Alternate Selves April 23 - June 26, 2010 Entry Deadline: March 1, 2010

Alternate Selves is an exhibition that explores the transformative power of costume. Through theater, annual holiday celebrations (such as Halloween and Mardi Gras), and even contemporary drag shows, costumes have allowed the wearer to reveal a new identity or at times hide from their own. Artists creating wearable items or those using costume, disguise, masks, etc. as primary thematic elements in their work may apply. Artists are encouraged to creatively interpret the theme. 2-D, 3-D, and time-based entries will be considered. Eligibility: Artists must be at least 18 years old to enter and cannot submit work that has previously been displayed at LAL. To Enter: There is no entry fee or limit to the number of entries submitted by each artist. There are no limitations on the media that will be considered. POSTMARK DEADLINE: March 1, 2010. Artists may enter by mail, drop-off, or email, but all images of work must be digital. Application materials will not be returned. To enter by mail or drop-off- Please send or deliver completed entry form, jpeg images of work on CD or video on DVD (video submissions must be mailed or dropped-off), and artist statement to: Alternate Selves Becky Alley, E & P Director Lexington Art League 209 Castlewood Dr. Lexington, KY 40505 To enter by email- Please type subject of the email as “Alternate Selves Entry” and attach completed entry form (available for download atwww.lexingtonartleague.org under “artist opportunities”), jpeg images (video submissions must be mailed or dropped-off), and artist statement to: balley@lexingtonartleague.org Entry Form: Download entry form here. Calendar Postmark deadline for entry March 1 Email notification of results March 10 Accepted artwork delivered April 7 High res images due for catalog April 7 Exhibition dates April 23 – June 26 Shipping Accepted artists are responsible for all shipping costs associated with the exhibition. Information For questions or more information, please contact Becky Alley, Exhibitions and Programs Director, Lexington Art League,balley@lexingtonartleague.org, 859-254-7024.

Euphrasie in the Chandelier

Nicole Campanale a Fiber Area 2009 BFA graduate will be having a performance of her work "Euphrasie in the Chandelier," this Friday the 29th at 8:oopm in the Sculpture Department Critique Space here at Tyler School of Art. The work made for the show looks fabulous so be sure to check it out, you won't be disappointed!

The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika 2010.

The Graphic Unconscious Temple Gallery Tyler School of Art, Temple University Opening: Friday, January 29  2 - 5 pm:  Remarks by Curators Sheryl Conkelton and Jose Roca and artists Carl Pope, Francesc Ruiz, Barthélémy Toguo and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES  The Graphic Unconscious is the core exhibition of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art. Multi-sited, The Graphic Unconscious is displayed in five venues: Moore College of Art & Design; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA); Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Print Center; and Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, with major installations at each one of these sites.  Temple Gallery will feature the work of the following artists: Thomas Kilpper (Germany), Carl Pope, (U.S., Indianapolis),* Francesc Ruiz (Spain), Superflex (Denmark), Swoon (U.S., New York),* Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon/France), and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (Korea). *Carl Pope's project will be on view in North Philadelphia during March 2010.  Swoon's works are on view in North Philadelphia beginning in January 2010.  Maps are available at Temple Gallery and will be available for download from www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions in conjunction with the exhibition. __________________________________________________________ Programs and Events Superflex in Conversation with Karyn Olivier Tuesday, January 26, 6 pm 126 AUDITORIUM / Temple University Architecture building 1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Free and open to the public The Danish artists' group Superflex, participants in The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, speak about their work and engage in a conversation with artist and Tyler School of Art professor Karyn Olivier. Superflex examines the dynamics and dependencies created by economic systems and develops tools to be used in constructive transformations.  Many of their works propose solutions to real problems, such as developing local and efficient alternative fuel sources, or initiating a network of local television stations to directly engage users in the creation of content.  This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.   YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Tuesday, February 2, 6 pm 126 AUDITORIUM / Temple University Architecture building 1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Free and open to the public YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is a Seoul based web-art group formed in 1998. Its C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and its C.I.O., Marc Voge (USA) will discuss their practice and their new piece MY PRETTY PEACENIK created in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art.   YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is yhchang.com. YHCHI has made work in 16 languages and presented much of it at the following institutions: New Museum, New York; Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Whitney Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Center, Los Angeles; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Venice Biennial; the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial; the São Paulo Biennial; the Kitakyushu Biennial; and the Istanbul Biennial.  This program is supported in part by the Korea Foundation, Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  For more information, please visit: www.philagrafika2010.org orwww.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions _____________________________________________________________ This exhibition was organized as part of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious in collaboration with Philagrafika, a nonprofit arts organization in Philadelphia that provides leadership for large-scale, collaborative initiatives with broad public exposure. Major program support for The Graphic Unconsciouswas provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Additional support for artists projects at Temple Gallery was provided by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) for Thomas Kilpper; the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services and Clear Channel for Carl Pope; the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art for Superflex; and the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX), the Directorate General for Cultural and Scientific Relations with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Francesc Ruiz, and the Korea Foundation for YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. Images, top: Photo courtesy of Superflex.  Bottom: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING, 2007.  Flash animation transferred to video, 7 channels, 11:36 minutes each, original texts and music soundtrack, dimensions variable.  Installation view, New Museum, New York.  Image courtesy of the artists.

______________________________________________________________________________ Temple Gallery is located at 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122.  The Graphic Unconscious is on view from Friday, January 29th through Sunday, April 11th.  Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm. Please note the gallery will be open on these additional days: Sundays, January 31st and April 11th.     ______________________________________________________________________________

Exhibitions and Public Programs Offices: 2001 N. 13th Street, Suite 110 Philadelphia, PA 19122 phone 215.777.9144 fax 215.777.9143 www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions

Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection October 17, 2009 – April 11, 2010.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto shocked the fashion world by introducing avant-garde styles that challenged received Western notions of “chic.” Informed in part by Japanese traditions such as the kimono, obi and the art of origami, these designers produced radical garments with shapes and textures often incongruous with the natural contours of the human body. Their designs—characterized by asymmetry, raw edges, unconventional construction, oversized proportions and monochromatic palettes—effectively overthrew existing norms and set the stage for the postmodernist movement in the fashion industry. Miyake, Yamamoto, and Kawakubo remain three of the most successful designers in today’s fashion world, and under their tutelage a new generation of Japanese talent has emerged.

This exhibition, an expanded version of an earlier showing at the Cincinnati Art Museum, includes avant-garde garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s.

Image: Dress, Fall/Winter 1990/91, Issey Miyake (b. 1938), Japan. Collection of Mary Baskett.

THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
2320 S Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008-4088

http://www.textilemuseum.org/

tsa scholarship opportunity

Student/New Professional Scholarships Offered by the Textile Society of America

The TSA offers scholarships for students and new professionals to attend their biennial symposium. “Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space” will be held in Lincoln Nebraska from October 6 through 9, 2010. This exciting event will feature many presentations, exhibitions, and networking opportunities for those who share a passion for textiles. (A program detailing this information will be available online after Feburary 1, 2010 www.textilesociety.org)

The Student / New Professional Scholarship (SNPS) was established by the Board of Directors of the Textile Society of America (2004-2006) as an initiative to support and encourage student and young professionals in the textile field to attend the biennial Symposium. The award is merit-based, and is not based upon financial need.

The Scholarships will not be cash awards, but will include the cost of the Symposium registration and the Friday evening banquet. The recipients will be responsible for covering travel costs, accommodation, as well as other meals during the symposium. The conference hotel is offering excellent rates and the comfortable rooms can easily be shared.

Any TSA member who is currently either a student in a textile-related field, or has graduated from a textile-related field within the past three years or has been in their first job in the textile field for less than three years is eligible for the Scholarship. Current members of the TSA Board are not eligible to apply.

Applicants must send the following information by email to TSA Awards Chair, RuthScheuing rscheuing@gmail.com

A clearly presented, well-organized and well-written statement (maximum 750 words) outlining how attendance at the Symposium would relate to and benefit their professional goals.

1. A resume clearly indicating title and starting date of their current occupation.

2. A 250 word bio that will be used to announce successful applicants in the TSA newsletter, website and at the Symposium.

3. Optional: Up to 8 jpg images to support the work; explain how the images contribute to your application.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2010

The SNPS Selection Committee will be composed of at least three members including the Chair of the Awards Committee. One member of the Committee will be a non-Board member of TSA in good standing. Scholarship winners will be notified by e-mail and announced at the symposium, the Winter Newsletter and on the website with a short biography.

click here for additional information.

exhibition opportunity

Call for Entries-Artspace, Richmond
January 15th, 2010
Show your fiber based work

Information
Artspace in Richmond, VA is accepting entries for “Pushing the Limits”, an exhibit of contemporary fiber art. There is a $20 entry fee for the juried show, with a March 15, 2010 deadline. The call is open to women and women graduate students that work in a wide range of ways related to the fiber medium. The exhibit will be open to the public may 28-June 20, 2010.

Contact
For more information and a prospectus, go the the artspace website here.

arrowmont opportunity

Former Resident Artist Alex Kraft working in her studio at Arrowmont

Arrowmont's Artist-In-Residency Program application deadline is February 1, 2010. Please share with any qualified person seeking an opportunity to develop new work while living in a creative, educational and supportive community.

Total benefits associated with the 11 month Arrowmont Residency Program value over $11,000 per resident. This includes a $300.monthly stipend, private studio, housing, utilities, professional development and exhibition opportunities and all meals (provided during our 20 weeks of workshop sessions).

The Arrowmont Residency Program provides a variety of opportunities in the way of professional development, teaching and gallery experience and interaction with professional artists, educators and students who attend Arrowmont each year. Established in 1991, the Residency Program is designed for early career, self-directed artists who are at transitional junctures in their careers.

For a more comprehensive description of the program, facilities, privileges, responsibilities and the application form, please visit here.

unusual opportunity

I’m working on a feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder and Mila Kunis. The film is called BLACK SWAN. It is a dark psychological thriller set within a ballet production of Swan Lake. We’re looking for wall tapestries and textiles for use in Natalie Portman’s character’s apartment. We’re contacting you to see if you have any students or artists who are interested in loaning us their work.

We’re open to any size or style, however we are working within a very specific color palette (black, white, gray and muted colors that include blue, green and very pale pink. No reds or yellows.) These pieces must be available from next week until mid February. If any of your artists are interested we would love to see their available work. We will pay for shipping both ways or pick up directly from you. We would love for you to email us any photos that you have. Thank you and please get back to us at your earliest convenience.

Daniel Hahn
Black Swan
Art Department
1065 Avenue of the Americas
33rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-840-2022

many opportunities

The Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY has several postmark deadlines this spring for internships, fellowships, and residencies in our studios for book arts, letterpress, hand papermaking, photography, ceramics, and printmaking.

The Feb 15 deadline for internships is perfect for graduating undergraduate students looking to develop experience working alongside professional artists. Many of our interns return as resident artists, or use their experience at WSW to apply for other residencies. The position is
challenging but rewarding and offers young women a stepping stone along their artistic career-path.

WSW also has upcoming deadlines in March for Fellowships, and in April for Residencies. Fellowships are partially subsidized opportunities allowing artists to live and work at WSW for a nominal fee while developing a new body of work. Residencies are fully subsidized and offer artists a living stipend, a materials stipend, technical support, housing and unlimited studio access. Please visit www.wsworkshop.org for specifics on our individual programs and application requirements.

Postmark Deadlines--

Feb 15:
Arts Administration Internship
Studio Internship
Summer Internship

March 15:
Art-in-Education Fellowship
Studio Fellowship

April 1:
Art-in-Education Residency
Studio Residency

The Women's Studio Workshop's mission is to operate and maintain an artists'
workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists,
to provide professional opportunities for artists, and to promote programs
designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness, and support for the
visual arts.

www.wsworkshop.org

scholarship opportunity

From Heather Caswell, owner of The Wardrobe, a California modern vintage women’s boutique in downtown Davis, a Sacramento, CA suburb:

I am proud to announce a short story contest to be featured on The Wardrobe’s new fashion blog, “If Our Clothes Could Talk.” I am looking for participants to share an occasion or an experience where something fashion related has made a difference in their life.

Fashion tells a story about where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. Since students are leading the way to the future of fashion, I would like to extend this opportunity to them. I am asking students to submit their “true stories” of up to 1,000 words along with an image (photo or sketch) between now and April 15, 2010 by e-mail to blog@thewardrobe.com. Visitors to the blog will have an opportunity to vote and then a special fashion panel including well-known designers and Leigh Grogan, fashion editor of The Sacramento Bee, will decide the final winners in the Spring of 2010. A $500 scholarship will be awarded to the winner of the contest. Submissions will become property of The Wardrobe to be used for future projects. The contest guidelines can be found through the site here.

Tyler School of Art, Critical Dialogues, Visiting Artist Lecture Series Spring 2010, Schedule.

Tyler School of Art
Critical Dialogues
Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Spring 2010

Room: TA 0B004 @ 11:00 AM

Monday, February 1 - William Cordova
William Cordova was born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Lima and Miami, Florida. He earned his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and his MFA from Yale University in 2004. Cordova's solo exhibitions include laberintos, Sikkema Jenkins & Co; and More than Bilingual, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VA (2009); Moby Dick, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (2008); P'alante, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany (2006); Drylongso (Pichqa Suyo), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006); and Project Row House, Houston, TX (2005). Cordova's work has participated in many group exhibitions including; 1969, Ps1/MOMA, NY; San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009); Neo-HooDoo, Menil Collection, Houston, TX; Whitney Biennial, NY: Prague Triennial, Czech Republic (2008); Street Level, Duke University, Durham, NC (2007):
Scratch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005) and Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Cordova has participated in Artist residencies including Artpace, San Antonio, TX; The Core program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Woodstock Center for Photography, NY, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem; NY and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Main. Forthcoming projects include El Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba (2010), and an exhibition he will be curating at Project Row House, Houston, TX (2010). The artist currently lives and works New York, Miami and Lima.

Monday, February 8 - Shinique Smith
Shinique Smith received her BFA (1992) and MFA (2003) from The Maryland Institute College of Art, and attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003. From 1994-99 she was the director of Flava Fest: The Seattle Black Film Festival, where she exhibited works by filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien among others. Selected solo exhibitions include Ten Times Myself at Yvon Lambert New York (2009), Like It Like that at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2009), Torch Songs (2008) at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, All Purpose (2007) at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, and Lost & Found (2007) at Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis.
She curated the multi-media group exhibition Elsewhere (2009) at Saltworks and a group exhibition Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day (2006) at The Proposition in New York. Her work has been included in numerous group shows including Freeway Balconies, curated by Collier Schorr, at The Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century at The New Museum (2007-08); RECOGNIZE! at The National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution (2008), Altered, Stitched and Gathered at MoMA's PS1 Contemporary Arts Center (2006); and FULL ON!
at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2005). Shinique Smith's work is included in a number of prominent public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse (Miami), and the Rubell Family Collection (Miami). Shinique Smith lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Monday, February 15 - Tillman Kaiser
Born in Graz and living in Vienna, Austria, Tillman Kaiser pulls from Dada, Surrealism and Constructivism in the development of his work.
Kaiser moves with ease between 2D and 3D, using a purposefully understated pallette, architectonic structuring, as well as found and ready-made objects, to create work that is both formalist and conceptually surprising. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Wilkinson, London and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include, Wallworks at Yerba Beuna, Center for the Arts, San Francisco;
Unreal: Altered Perspectives in Painting, the Saatchi Gallery, London; and Jan Koch, Tillman Kaiser, Danielle Tegeder, Klaus-Martin Treder, at Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin.

Monday, February 22 - Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether, born in Cologne, is an artist, musician and critic based in New York since the early 1990s. Ms. Koether's work defines painting as defiantly multipurpose; it provides pleasure, incites thought and questions assumptions about taste and technique. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and at Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne; Reena Spaulings, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Monika Sprueth Gallery, Cologne; and at the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Austria. She has been included, among others, in "Zwischen Zwei Toden / Between Two Deaths", ZKM, Karlsruhe; in "Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art
Practice: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution", Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, and De Appel, Amsterdam; in "Music is a Better Noise", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island; in "Make Your Own Life", ICA Philadelphia, ICA Boston, and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; in The Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; at the Kunstverein Graz, Austria; at Magasin 3, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; at Kunstwerke, Berlin; and at the Secession, Vienna, Austria. She has collaborated with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on a number of projects, including, Her Noise at Tate Modern in 2005.

Monday, March 1 - Valerie Cassel Oliver
Valerie Cassel Oliver is curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Prior to this, she was director of the Visiting Artist Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, she cocurated the Biennial for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Cassel Oliver has organized numerous exhibitions including the acclaimed "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970" in 2005 and most recently, with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, "Cinema Remixed and
Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image," in 2008. In addition, Cassel Oliver has organized the first solo museum exhibitions for such artists as Xaviera Simmons, Demetrius Oliver, Robert Pruitt, Su-en Wong and CONTACT _Con-3DC54852116 \c \s \l Ghada Amer. Her forthcoming exhibitions slated for 2010 include a survey exhibition of work by painter, Donald Moffett; a retrospective on Fluxus artist, Benjamin Patterson; and Hand+Made Contemporary: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, a group exhibition that chronicles the animation of objects through performance. In 2006, Cassel Oliver received a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship for research in developing the Benjamin Patterson exhibition, and was among ten fellows selected for the 2009 class for the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York.

Monday, April 5 - Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago, IL in 1975. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2006. Solo exhibitions include Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium, and the 2009 Frieze Fair in London. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include the Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.
Selected group exhibitions include Artist's Space, New York, Francesca Pia, Zurich, The Approach, London, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, John Connelley Presents, New York, Bellwether, New York, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, and The LA Times. Amanda Ross-Ho lives and works in Los Angeles

Monday, April 12 - Robert Nickas
Bob Nickas is an independent critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than seventy exhibitions since 1984, and served as Curatorial Adviser at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York from
2004 to 2007. Among his many exhibitions at PS1 are Lee Lozano: Drawn From Life - 1961-1971; William Gedney - Christopher Wool: Into the
Night: Stephen Shore: American Surfaces; Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom From The Known, and The Painted World. He collaborated with Cady Noland on her installation for Documenta IX in 1992; contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale, An Essay on Liberation; and served on the curatorial teams which organized the 2003 Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, and Greater New York 2005, PS1/MoMA. His book, Live Free or Die: Collected Writings 1985-1999, was published in 2000 by les presses du réel. In 2002/03, he bought works of art as a specific project over the course of a year, later documented in Collection Diary (JRP/Ringier, 2004). A new collection of essays and interviews, Theft Is Vision (JRP/Ringier), was published in 2008. His writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, and Purple, and he has contributed to many books, monographs, and catalogues - including essays on Peter Hujar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Yayoi Kusama, and Jules de Balincourt. His new book, Painting Abstraction, has just been published by Phaidon Press. Nickas's most recent project is a record label, From the Nursery. The first release, a full-length limited edition pressed on white vinyl, with original cover artwork by painter David Ratcliff, is the debut album from Orphan, a grunge metal duo from Brooklyn. The next release, in collaboration with Primary Information, is XXX Maccareña, a trio comprised of Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller.

Monday, April 19 - Chitra Ganesh
Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where she currently lives and works. Her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations seek to excavate and circulate buried narratives typically excluded from official canons of history, literature, and art. Ganesh graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art Semiotics in1996. In 2001 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally and in the United States at venues including PS1/MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum of Art, the Asia Society, Bronx Museum of Art, White Columns, Momenta Art, and Apex Art in New York, Fondazione Sandretto, MOCA Shanghai, Montehermoso Center in Spain, ZKM, and the Saatchi Museum in London.
Her work has been featured in ArtSlant, ArtKrush, New York Times, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, and Time Out New York. She is represented by Thomas Erben Gallery in New York, and Haas & Fischer Gallery in Zurich.

Monday, April 26 - Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a painter, photographer, printmaker and installation artist. His work is in major American museums and private collections, including the Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has been a featured artist in the
1997 Whitney Biennial, Documenta 10, and the 2000 Carnegie International. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. In 1997, he was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation award. He has been production designer for several independent films, including Julie Dash's acclaimed Daughters of the Dust. He lives in Chicago and teaches art at the University of Illinois, where he is a full professor.

Monday, May 3 - Rachel Hayes
Rachel Hayes hails from Kansas City and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She uses innocuous and readily available media such as fabric to create spectacular experiences of color and motion in otherwise under-appreciated settings. She has had solo exhibitions and projects with Bravin Lee Programs, NY; Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge LA; Solvent Space, Richmond VA; LAB Galley, NY, and Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. Group exhibitions include the Sculpture Center, NY; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Grand Arts, and Fakespace, LA.
Her awards and residencies include Sculpture Space Residency, Art Omi International Residency, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. Most recently she was awarded the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture and will have a solo show in 2010 at the Saint-Gaudens

SUPERGIRL! at Nexus Foundation for Today's Art

Rebecca Parker, video still from Balancing Terrain SUPERGIRL! December 10, 2009 - February 5, 2010

Contact Info

Nexus Foundation for Today's Art Crane Arts Building 1400 N. American Street, suite 102 Philadelphia, PA 19122 tel 215-629-1103 info@nexusphiladelphia.org www.nexusphiladelphia.org gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday, noon - 6 pm

About the Exhibitions Opening reception: Second Thursday, December 10, 6 - 9 pm NEXUS presents SUPERGIRL!, an exhibition of female video artists who represent themselves as superheroes in their work. The exhibition features the work of Jenny Drumgoole, Kate Gilmore, Miranda July, Shana Moulton, Liz Nofziger, Rebecca Parker, Amy Walsh, Cintra Wilson, Saya Woolfalk, and Jody Wood. The characters within these works not only represent themselves as super heroic but as uber-women, meca-warriors, and transformer characters. Themes of empowerment, the body as a tool, physical transcendence, as well as hypersensitive awareness, and achievement of the impossible are explored by these video heroines.SUPERGIRL! supports the idea that the female superhero is elusive and constantly evolving. She battles her adversaries, her environment, and her preconceptions as well as herself. The heroines in these videos revise, redefine and re-evaluate the discursive constructions of both girlhood and heroism and through these battles expose the irony of the outside world. The works in SUPERGIRL!range from playful to provocative, examining powerful reflections of the elusive nature of contemporary gender roles. About the Gallery NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art was established in 1975 as an artist-run, non-profit, non-collecting exhibition space. The Nexus mission is to showcase challenging, innovative, and compelling contemporary art within a context intended to stimulate creative thought and dialog both among our artist membership and within the community at large.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations, at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

Decode is a collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, a contemporary arts organisation operating internationally with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive arts.

The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works.Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.

Decode will be on display in The Porter Gallery. Exhibits can also be found on the V&A Exhibition Road façade, in the Grand Entrance, John Madejski Garden and South Kensington tunnel, at the bottom of the stairs to the National Art Library (Staircase L), as well as in the Science Museum.

Video capture from Recode by Karsten Schmidt for the Decode website, 2009.

teaching opportunity

call for fiber artists who might be interested in presenting a 3 hour hands-on workshop for K-12 art educators as part of a professional development event to be held March 4, 2010 on Long Beach
Island, New Jersey.

contact:
Valerie Sorce
Children's Program Director
LBI Foundation of the Arts and Sciences
609-494-1241 ext. 108
childrensprogram@lbifoundation.org

pennsy flea market

The Pennsy Flea Market would like to sponsor an art sale for either students or faculty work of the Tyler School of Art.

The Pennsy Flea Market is Philadelphia's largest indoor flea market. We are open every Saturday and Sunday and get 5,000 people a day.

It can be an incredible venue and opportunity.

Here are links to our website, our televsion commercial, and channel 6 news report about our market.

Let us know if you are interested and we can discuss the details.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpdiGBTTbY
abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/consumer/save_with_6abc&id=6789024

Joshua Zoppel
215 913 4826

patrick burgoyne's new web site

fibers major patrick burgoyne just launched a new web site and it looks fabulous!

www.patrickrburgoyne.com

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Exhibition will be on view through March 1, 2010 at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and through March 2010 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130 www.philamuseum.org [T] 215.684.7720 [F] 215.684.7325

The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 [T] 215.561.8888 [F] 215.561.8887

Click on the image below to watch video from the Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms exhibit opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 2009:

The Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collaborate to Present an Exhibition of Works by Renowned Artist Cai Guo-Qiang

The Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time, memory, and memorializing. One of the artist's signature "explosion events," Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project has been specifically commissioned for the exhibition and occurred at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; followed by a second explosion event at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Inspired by the memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008), late director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her long friendship with the founder and artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Marion Boulton Stroud, Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms addresses themes of memory, loss and renewal on a personal and public level. It is Cai's first solo exhibition in Philadelphia and the first in the United States since his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in early 2008.

Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project took place on Friday, December 11, 2009, starting at approximately 4:15 p.m. on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was followed by an event featuring the creation of a gunpowder drawing at the Fabric Workshop and Museum at 6 p.m. Each event was momentary. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms includes four components, distributed between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum. In addition to the explosion event on December 11, a series of four gunpowder drawings and a sculptural installation are on view inside the Museum in a presentation titled Light Passage. Two newly commissioned works,Time Flies Like a Weaving Shuttle and Time Scroll, are on display on the seventh and eighth floor of the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

"Anne d'Harnoncourt and I were friends for more than 40 years," said Ms. Stroud. "Among the things we had in common were a shared commitment to public service in the arts, to Philadelphia, and to Pennsylvania. Before she died we both had in mind doing an exhibition devoted to Cai Guo-Qiang in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Afterward, in discussions with the artist I began to see that in his hands a larger meditation embracing the memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt might emerge, something that would find in the expression of the momentary something infinite."

"The concept for this collaborative exhibition actually began in a conversation between Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kippy Stroud several years ago, and it has now become, in part, a memorial to Anne," said Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Museum. "We are grateful to Kippy Stroud for her commitment to realize the exhibition, both in appreciation of the Museum's extraordinary late director and as a reflection on universal themes."

FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM (December 11, 2009 - March, 2010)
Themes of friendship, the passage of time, and loss are reflected at the Fabric Workshop and Museum through its presentations incorporating textiles, fibers, and other media. An audio recording of Stroud's reminiscences of her friend Anne d'Harnoncourt, which the artist used to create the exhibition's works, can be heard in the galleries where Cai Guo-Qiang's work is on view.

Second Floor:
The passage of time will be slowed on the second floor, where the explosion event realized at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is shown in a high-definition video that stretches the 10-second explosion event to several minutes.

Seventh Floor: Time Flies Like a Weaving Shuttle
This newly commissioned work involves the participation of five weavers from the Tu Family clan of the Xiangxi region in Hunan province, China, who have taken up residence in Philadelphia for three months at FWM's artist apartments, and are working daily in the galleries on a series of tapestries inspired by Stroud's remembrances of Anne d'Harnoncourt. Over the course of the exhibition, the weavers will create five tapestries to illustrate the accumulation of memories and the endurance of friendship, weaving at a speed of approximately 35 cm per day. Visitors are invited to watch the process as it takes place in the gallery.

Eighth Floor: Time Scroll
In this installation, an artificial river constructed of metal panels will flow through the length of the gallery. In a live public event on the evening of December 11, Cai ignited a 120-foot-long gunpowder drawing on silk, and which was then submerged into the river, where the scorched imprints are slowly washed away over the course of the exhibition.

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (December 11, 2009 - March 21, 2010)
Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project occurred in front of the Museum's East Façade on December 11, where the image of a blossoming flower appeared at sunset, suggesting the ephemeral beauty of a spring blossom as the sky darkens behind it.

Inside the Museum, an exhibition of four gunpowder drawings are on view in the Lynne and Harold Honickman Gallery 172. The drawings, which follow the cycle of the four seasons, were created by igniting patterns of gunpowder on paper, evoking and renewing the spirit and tradition of Chinese literati ink painting. In the same gallery is 99 Golden Boats (2002), an installation consisting of leaf-shaped boats made of gold and suspended as if floating on an invisible river; symbolizing longevity and infinity.

"It is a testimony to Cai Guo-Qiang's sensibility and perceptiveness that this overall project is so particularly appropriate to its setting in Philadelphia, where history and reflection have always played such an important role in civic life," said Carlos Basualdo, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art. "It explores and represents its themes so precisely, in a manner that is at once public and intimate."

About the Artist:
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. He initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China at the time. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, which led to the development of his signature explosion events. His installation works draw upon feng shui, philosophy, Chinese medicine and history, employing a site-specific, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across diverse mediums including drawing, painting, video and performance art. Cai was awarded the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize in 2007, and the 20th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009. He was Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2008, he was the subject of a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He has lived in New York since 1995.

Catalogue:
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms will be published by the Fabric Workshop and Museum in early 2010, documenting the events and exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms will include an introduction by Carlos Basualdo, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and essays by Marion Boulton Stroud, Founder and Artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, art critic Wang Mingxian, and independent curator David Elliot. The catalogue will also include a statement by the artist and a selected exhibition history.

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms has been funded at the Philadelphia Museum of Art by anonymous donors in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt, and at The Fabric Workshop and Museum by the members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Also on View at The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Also on view in The New Temporary Contemporary at 1222 Arch Street is Ryan Trecartin's 2009/2010 rotation of films K-Corea Inc. K, Sibling Topics, andRe'Search Wait'S in the galleries, and Robert Chambers' Ribbon Vault in the display windows.

About the Museums
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is the only museum of its kind, offering internationally renowned artists the resources to create new work in experimental materials. Artists come from all media-including sculpture, installation, video, painting, ceramics, and architecture-and use FWM's facilities and technical expertise to create works of art that they could not create on their own. Research, construction, and fabrication occur on-site in studios that are open to the public, providing visitors with the opportunity to see works of art from conception to completion. FWM's permanent collections include not only complete works of art, but also material research, samples, prototypes, and photography and video of artists making and speaking about their work. Access to the creative process provides visitors with a point of entry into understanding challenging works of contemporary art. FWM offers an unparalleled experience to the most significant artists of our time, students, and the general public.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States, showcasing more than 2,000 years of exceptional human creativity in masterpieces of painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and architectural settings from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. An exciting addition is the newly renovated and expanded Perelman Building, which opened its doors in September 2007 with five new exhibition spaces, a soaring skylit galleria, and a café overlooking a landscaped terrace. The Museum offers a wide variety of enriching activities, including programs for children and families, lectures, concerts and films.

For additional information, contact The Fabric Workshop and Museum at 215.561.8888 or the Communications Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at 215.684.7860. The Fabric Workshop and Museum is located at 1214 and 1222 Arch Street and The Philadelphia Museum of Art is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street.