Colorado De'Via

Please join us for a reception in the Curfman Gallery to celebrate the opening of the Colorado De'VIA exhibition featuring Tony Fowler, Nancy Rourke, and Uzi Buzgalo. This exhibition is a collaboration between the CSU LSC Arts Program and Resources for Disabled Students. Additionally, the reception will include an artist talk by Nancy Rourke. Everyone is welcome to attend this open event!

De'VIA: an art movement that "represents Deaf artists and perceptions based on their experience".
http://www.deafart.org/Deaf_Art_/deaf_art_.html

ART21 Film Screening & Post Discussion at the Rialto Theater Center

Exploring the contemporary artwork of Chicago artists Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, Chris Ware

The ART 21 film screening and panel discussion is a collaboration between Artworks Loveland and the Rialto Theater Center aimed at expanding the conversation around and appreciation of Contemporary social practice art and the artist's process.


About ART21:
ART21’s flagship program “Art in the 21st Century” will release its eighth season. ART21 engaged three exceptional documentary directors: three-time Academy Award nominee Deborah Dickson; MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Peabody Award-winner Stanley Nelson; and Emmy Award-winner Pamela Mason Wagner.

Portraits of 16 Innovative Artists Who Live & Work in Four Dynamic Cities

Chicago             Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, Chris Ware

Mexico City       Natalia Almada, Minerva Cuevas, Damián Ortega, Pedro Reyes

Los Angeles      Edgar Arceneaux, Liz Larner, Tala Madani, Diana Thater

Vancouver         Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Liz Magor, Jeff Wall

The series provides unparalleled access to the most innovative artists of our time, revealing how artists engage the culture around them and how art allows viewers to see the world in new ways. Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Claire Danes will join the Peabody Award-winning documentary television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century” as its broadcast host for the series’ eighth season.

“Growing up in a family where art was a part of everyday life, my parents taught me to question the world around me,” said Danes. “Artists today influence how we see the world, how we express ourselves, and how art can transform society.”

For the first time in the show’s history, the episodes are not organized around an artistic theme. Instead, the 16-featured artists are grouped by their unique and revealing relationships to the places where they live: Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver. The artists share universal experiences through their life stories and creative works: resistance, pleasure, mortality, and the hope for a better tomorrow.
“Art is increasingly being defined and described in relationship to a sense of place. In our time of hyper-interconnectivity, where you choose to live and work matters like never before,” said ART21 Executive Director Tina Kukielski.

The new season showcases the geography, architecture, society, culture, and heritage of each location. Each episode highlights aspects of contemporary life that viewers everywhere experience. “Using the sounds, colors, and energy of the city as a landscape that artists respond to and interact with, the films expand beyond the studio to explore each artist’s engagement with their communities and the world around them,” said ART21 Executive Producer Eve Moros Ortega.

Season 8 reveals how artists today simultaneously draw inspiration from and influence their immediate surroundings, while engaging far-flung communities from all over the world—Amsterdam, Aspen, Basel, Bloomfield Hills, Bregenz, Brussels, Chiapas, Cuernavaca, Denver, Detroit, Istanbul, La Porte, Lisbon, London, Milan, New York City, Okanagan, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Puebla, San Francisco, Sinaloa, and Toronto. Through their work, artists participate in global conversations about the pressing issues of our time: from terrorism to environmental crises to the struggle for civil rights.

“ART21 brought on three visionary directors— Deborah Dickson, Stanley Nelson and Pamela Mason Wagner—enlivening the series with a fresh approach to photography and storytelling,” said Beth Hoppe, PBS Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming. “PBS is delighted to continue featuring ART21’s series as a treasured and unique highlight of our ongoing commitment to arts programming.”

The featured visual artists are some of the most compelling creative thinkers of our time and they granted ART21 filmmakers intimate access to their lives. The documentary series provides a window into contemporary art that is ordinarily hidden from public view. ART21 presents artists in their private homes and studios and goes behind-the-scenes to reveal how artworks and exhibitions are created. Viewers meet artists’ family members, friends, collaborators, and admirers who share their own insight into the featured art and its creation. Season 8 visits major exhibitions of the past two years, showing artworks in vivid color and detail, as well as presenting rare archival footage and documents. Artists narrate their own stories and invest the documentaries with humor, pathos, and surprising insights.

In the past seven seasons, “Art in the Twenty-First Century” has profiled over 100 artists. ART21’s ongoing series is a celebration of the diversity of art-making today, featuring artists from different backgrounds—age, gender, ethnicity, orientation, education, nationality—who make work in countless media and styles. In Season 8, photography is explored through abstract still lifes and pictorial narratives; sculpture through hand-crafted and found objects; painting through murals, figuration, and cartoons; performance through staged plays, improvisational dance, and group actions; video through immersive installations, literary adaptations, and films that blend fact with fiction. “These artists pose questions through their work in new and exhilarating ways, provoking social change as much as instigating aesthetic revolutions,” said ART21 Curator Wesley Miller.

About ART21 Episode 1: “Chicago”

Chicago is a city rooted in industry and towering architecture, and artists in Chicago are disrupting urban experience through experimentation. Nick Cave (b.1959, Fulton, MO, USA) creates “Soundsuits”—surreally majestic objects blending fashion and sculpture—that originated as metaphorical suits of armor in response to the Rodney King beatings and have evolved into vehicles for empowerment. Theaster Gates (b.1973, Chicago, IL, USA) first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist. Gates creates sculptures out of clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the raw material of the South Side into radically reimagined vessels of opportunity for the community. Barbara Kasten (b.1936, Chicago, IL, USA) makes photographs and video projections in her studio that evoke an experience of movement through modernist architecture.Chris Ware (b.1967, Omaha, NE, USA), known for his New Yorker magazine covers, is hailed as a master of the comic art form. Ware’s complex graphic novels, which tell stories about people in suburban midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflect on the role of memory in constructing identity.


When:
November 2nd, 2016, 6 to 8 pm (MST).

Where:
Rialto Theater Center, 228 E. 4th Street, Loveland, CO 80537
(970) 962-2120 / Bryan.Zellmer@cityofloveland.org

Social Media:
#ART21Season8

About Artworks Loveland:
Artworks is the largest nonprofit Studio Artist Community in Northern Colorado dedicated to advancing contemporary art and artists. We foster a collaborative studio environment supportive of the creative process. With a desirable framework of studio and gallery space, artists are free to work solo or to take advantage of collaborative opportunities. Artworks is proud to be an eclectic incubator that stands to shape the face and the future of Loveland. For additional information please visit www.artworksloveland.org.

Letter Press Workshop

Use our collection of antique ornaments and metal and wood type to design and print your own edition of holiday greetings! $50 for one session, all materials included to complete an edition of 20 cards and envelopes. Ages 12+ on November 1, Family friendly on November 12. Call or visit to reserve a spot today!   More information can be found here
970-682-2590
316 Willow Street, Fort Collins

Cat Giglio at Galvanize Fort Collins

First Friday, Local Artist Cat Giglio will present works at Galvanize Fort Collins.  Check it out Friday, November 4th at 6:00.

Love Letters Community Painting Done!

This from Northern Colorado Artist Bonnie Lebesch....

Love Letter Community Painting during the show at the Community Creative Center last Aug/Sept. As promised, I completed the painting after the show. This first image is the painting done by community members, and as you can see it is quite dynamic and bright. It’s quite like the beginning paintings of those in the show.

The second image is the completed painting, with cuts, a color wash, and shards glued back on. Some of the underpainting shows through, but it is mostly unrecognizable in the end. Only bits of imagery and all of the energy remains. Take a look— and let me know what you see!

Now that the painting is complete, I am looking for suggestions for what to do with it. Raffle it off? Auction? Donation? Give me your suggestions! Thanks—

If you’d like to keep up to date on my shows and classes, please sign up for my monthly newsletter. http://bonnielebesch.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cbadf5d41eda5039047eed496&id=34290f7259

Peace— Bonnie Lebesch

Vote for the Dome

We’re excited to announce that FCMoD has been named a finalist in First Western Trust’s #WealthIsAbout Grants Contest! This contest gives us a chance to win $7,000 to support our organization.
$7,000 would go a long way in helping us support innovative programming in our OtterBox Digital Dome.
Now, we need your help!
You can vote for us once each day until November 3rd! To participate, click here to view the voting page, or follow First Western Trust on Facebook to get updates on the contest.
As always, we appreciate your support of FCMoD and the work we do in the community. Thank you for your help!

November/ December Yart Sale!

Women Artists Unite!

Hello to my fellow women artists - Come join us to be part of a historic photo of women artists in Colorado!
We are gathering together for a large group portrait, to raise awareness and let our presence be felt. John Tonai ,Head of the Photography area at UNC in Greeley, has agreed to be our photographer for this event (so the women photogs can be IN the shot) - THANK YOU JOHN!

At the event, I will be passing out numbered pages so we can all hold them up and count ourselves easily... and so we can make a key for the photo later. (I will collect them at the end) We will ask for your email address as well - so we can send the final photo to everyone who is in it, and to make communicating about this easier if we do it again next year! Please RSVP so I know approximately how many pages to print.

We will also compile a list for "wish I was there" folks who can't make it this time - you are also welcome to join the list!

The DAM has agreed to allow us to meet in the second floor lounge above Palettes after the photo (in the Ponti wing) BUT not for free... to enter the museum, you still need to be either a DAM member, or pay admission (or find a member with an extra pass...) So we can gather after the photo to chat, and see if anything ELSE might arise from this gathering! (I will not be organizing anything else personally, but it will be great networking, if nothing else...)

PASS THE WORD! Invite all the self-identified women artists that you know - let's make this huge!

If you know any women artists who don't use social media, here is a shareable link to an EVITE for the event: http://evite.me/HVcNyGwgEZ - but please don't RSVP there if you've already marked "Going" here, or our count will be way off.

Here is the article about the event in LA that started the whole thing, along with the image credit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-artists-kim-schoenstadt_us_57c5cd52e4b09cd22d93049f?section=us_arts

October Hot Dish

Want to get to know fellow creatives in Fort Collins/Loveland?  Come out for Hot Dish!  Hot Fish welcomes ALL Creative types; Musicians, Actors, Crafters, Visual Aritsts, Writers....  Please come out this Tuesday, October 25th at 6:00.  We will meet at Bawarchi Biryani, a new Indian Restaurant on College Avenue.  As always, if you wish to receive invitations for our Monthly meetings, become a member of the Hot Dish group on Facebook. 

New Community Creative Center Windows Mural Dedication!

Frida Kahlo: through the Lens of Nickolas Muray

The Eastham Family Exhibition Series

October 7, 2016 - January 8, 2017

Approximately fifty photographic portraits taken of Frida Kahlo comprise the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray. The photographs, dating from 1937 to 1946, explore Muray's unique perspective; in the 1930s and 1940s he was Frida Kahlo's friend, lover and confidant. Muray's photographs bring to light Kahlo's deep interest in her Mexican heritage, her life and the people significant to her with whom she shared a close friendship. Correspondence between the two is also included.

Visit the ART.EDU.OSITY Creative Space and celebrate Frida Kahlo with fun, hands-on activities for all ages.

You can
color a picture of Frida
play with the face of Frida
make a self-portrait
make a Frida paper doll
write a letter to Frida (or a friend)
make a Frida collage
Enjoy the childhood fun of Frida in the gallery with:
a puppet theatre
a doll house-sized mini Casa Azul (Frida's blue house)
dress up like Frida
Frida Mural Project
If you are a school group or other organization that would like to participate in making a large Frida mural, please contact the Beth Gherardi, our Education Coordinator at bgherardi@ftcma.org.

 Click here to learn more about this exhibition

Half Moon Arts Looking for Director

HalfMoon Arts is looking for someone to continue and take over the program. This youth apprenticeship program uses the arts to teach at risk and creative youth how to make a living as an artist or musician. Included are adult life skills and business skills. You can check out our webpage at halfmoonarts.org. 

The business takes someone who is self-driven, creative and can write grants. We can provide some training and ongoing support. You take over and run the program create your own board of directors. We have established grants and have been in the community since 2004. The program can be modified to fit your strengths and interests.

Contact retiring director/founder Rose Moon at rose@halfmoonarts.org or call at 970-412-4998

Holiday 100

Do you make small fine art or fine craft objects perfect for holiday gift-giving and under $100? Then Lincoln Center's Holiday 100 exhibit and sale is perfect for you!

Sunday, October 23, is the last day to submit your work to be considered for this new holiday event. Lincoln Center is accepting submissions that are 100 square inches or 1000 cubic inches or smaller, and priced at $100 or less. The objects will be displayed in the Lobby Gallery and available for sale November 18-December 31.

Click here to apply or go to www.lctix.com/opportunities for more information.

Work at Nine Dot Arts

Check it out here

Master Class

MASTER CLASS, a play by Terrance McNally, opens tomorrow, Friday October 14 thru October 29.

"A must see! An amazing evening!" Join us for this award winning theatrical experience. Tonight 8pm. Tickets http://www.eventbrite.com/o/popup-theatre-8319894420

Legally Blonde at Poudre High School

SCFD Board members Wanted

Larimer county has opened the applications for positions on the SCFD Board of Directors in anticipation of its passing in November.  This is critical board that will determine many important pieces of our arts and creative industry future over the years  and we want to make sure there are qualified applicants for them to consider.  I am sharing the link to the description and summary of duties.  It is a position that is closing before the end of October so we have to activate on this pronto.  We discussed sharing this with any qualified applicants and making sure that people know about these positions.

So here is the link if you wish to apply yourself, share it with others who have enough experience and could be an asset to the greater arts community, or give me a name and I can send information to them directly.

Click here to read more about the board positions/responsibilities and to apply!
http://www.larimer.org/boards/brd_info.cfm?board=146