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Torus Installation at Day One Pasadena

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:40:29 -0700

Armory Center for the Arts and Day One Pasadena are pleased the present the temporary outdoor installation of Torus, a variation of Peter Tolkin Architecture’s Dunnage Ball Series. Originally presented at the 2013 Pasadena Earth and Arts Festival, the work is now to be installed at Day One Pasadena at 175 North Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101.

Peter Tolkin Architecture, with assistance from former employee Leigh Jerrard, have designed Torus — an interactive sculptural installation, 30 feet in diameter, 15 feet tall, and made of of 90 dunnage bags. Like its dynamic predecessor Dunnage Ball, which drew crowds at the 2008 Glow festival in Santa Monica, Torus inspired adults and children alike at the one-day celebration of the earth and the arts. It can now be enjoyed at Day One Pasadena for several weeks. Many thanks to Stopak and Sunrise Manufacturing for their in-kind donation of the dunnage bags.

About Day One Pasadena

Day One is a community-based nonprofit organization with a 25 year history of creating healthy, vibrant cities by advancing public health, empowering youth and igniting change. According to Day One Executive Director Christy Zamani, Torus exemplifies Day One's passion to encourage fun, promote physical activity, and create vibrant places. Torus accomplishes all this by bringing the arts to a non-conventional space and integrate play into the lives of our children.

Day One is located at 175 N. Euclid Avenue. Pasadena, CA 91101 www.dayonepasadena.org Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, 10a.m-6 p.m. Saturdays from 11:00a.m- 3:00 p.m Admission is free. Day One is easily accessible from the Gold Line Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. For information about Day One programs and events, please call 626.229.9750 or visit Day One online at dayonepasadena.org or facebook.com/dayonepasadena

About the Armory

Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a healthy civic community. Founded in 1989, the Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites.

Armory Center for the Arts is located at 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California, 91103. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Admission is free with a $5 suggested donation. Armory members, students, and seniors are free. Armory is easily accessible from the Gold Line Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. For information about Armory exhibitions and events, please call 626.792.5101 x122 or visit Armory online at armoryarts.org or facebook.com/armoryarts.

Teaching Artist Fellowship Opportunity

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:40:56 -0700

Teaching Artist Fellowship Opportunity

The Armory Center for the Arts is seeking visual artists to participate in nine-month Teaching Artist training and teaching program. The program involves learning to teach children and teens ages 3 through 17 through gallery touring techniques and hands-on art making experiences in a contemporary art context. The Fellows participate in a series of training sessions throughout the first three months which emphasize innovative teaching methods, educational theory, and idea-based teaching processes. Fellows also receive one-on-one guidance and mentoring by experienced teaching artists as they learn about and assist in other Armory programs.

Requirements: Graduate or post-graduate MFA students in visual art may apply. Some teaching experience is preferred.

Fellowship period: September 2013 – June 2014

Commitment: Monday – Friday, 2 days a week, approximately 6.5 hours per week

Award: $4000 per Fellowship

To apply: Send a recent resume, cover letter, and a digital CD of 20 images of your recent artwork to:

Armory Center for the Arts
ATTN: Director of Professional Development, Lorraine Cleary Dale
145 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA. 91103

For more information or questions contact:
Lorraine Cleary Dale
lcleary@armoryarts.org

Deadline to apply: June 7, 2013

Local Students Win National Recognition in the 2013 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:36:55 -0700

LOCAL STUDENTS WIN NATIONAL RECOGNITION IN THE 2013 SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS
Young artists and writers join a prestigious list of Awards alumni including Zac Posen, Lena Dunham, Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates & Robert Redford

New York, NY — March 25, 2013 — The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the country’s longest-running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative teenagers, announced its 2013 National Award recipients. Los Angeles Art Region had 5 students awarded national medals from a panel of distinguished judges. The students all submitted their work to the competition through The Armory Center for the Arts.

More than 1,600 of the most talented and ambitious students in grades 7-12, representing 47 U.S. states, as well as students in Washington, DC and American schools abroad, were chosen to receive national medals. Students' works were blindly adjudicated, first locally through the 116 affiliates of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the presenting nonprofit of the Awards, and then nationally by panels of judges comprised of renowned artists, authors, educators, and arts professionals. This year’s list of jurors included Edwidge Danticat, Myla Goldberg, Kurt Andersen, Althea Harper, Red Grooms, and Andres Serrano. Works were judged on originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal vision or voice. Teachers of national winners were also recognized with awards.

2013 marks the 90th anniversary of the Awards, and this year’s program attracted more participants than ever before. More than 230,000 submissions were received in 28 categories, including dramatic script, journalism, humor, novel-writing, science-fiction, as well as painting, sculpture, photography, fashion design, film and animation, and video game design, among others.

In the Los Angeles Art Region, the following students were honored:

• Mikhaila Quezada-Freda, Westridge School, Pasadena, Gold Key and American Visions Nominee, Mixed Media and Sculpture

• Rafaella Barbosa, Rolling Hills Preparatory, San Pedro, Gold Key, Photography

• Kai Blatt, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, Gold Key, Digital Art

• Connor Gewirtz, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, Gold Key, Drawing

• Cole Mercier, L.A. County High School for the Arts, Los Angeles, Gold Key, Digital Art

A complete list of winners across the United States is available here.

“This 90th year of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards demonstrates just how vital the program is to America’s creative young people,” said Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. “We received more entries than ever before, and the depth of talent from all across the country is astounding. In some cases, an Award and its attendant scholarships can make the difference between whether or not a young writer or artist attends college. We are privileged to provide recognition and assistance to these deserving young people, and to celebrate the importance of arts education in American cultural life.”

This year’s National Celebration will kick off in New York City on May 31 when the Empire State Building will be illuminated in gold, and the LED super signs at 1515 Broadway in Times Square will feature the Awards throughout the day. That evening, national gold medal level winners will be honored onstage at a special ceremony at the world-famous Carnegie Hall. In addition, for the first time ever, in celebration of the 90th Anniversary, the ceremony will be webcast live from Carnegie Hall. Select Award-winning art and writing will be exhibited at Parsons The New School for Design and the Pratt Manhattan Gallery through June 15, 2013. The exhibition and accompanying public programs are co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design.

Alumni of the Scholastic Awards have gone on to continue their education at many of the top colleges and universities across the country, including Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the School of Visual Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University. Distinguished alumni include Andy Warhol, Ken Burns, Robert Redford, Richard Avedon, Zac Posen, Joyce Carol Oates, Lena Dunham, Cy Twombly, John Baldessari, John Updike, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Stephen King and Red Grooms.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is generously supported by Scholastic Inc., the Maurice R. Robinson Fund, The New York Times, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Command Web Offset Co., the AMD Foundation, Blick Art Materials, the National Endowment for the Arts, 3D Systems, New York Life, Bloomberg L.P., Ovation, Amazon.com, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, the Bernstein Family Foundation, Duck Tape®, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and contributions from numerous other individual, foundation, and corporate funders.

For more information, please visit the media room.

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The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, the Awards program is the longest-running, most prestigious program of its kind, having fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students through recognition, exhibitions and publications. Over the past five years, students have submitted 920,000 works of art and writing) and over $40 million has been made available in scholarships and awards to top winning participants. The Alliance partners with 116 regional affiliates across the country to bring the program to local communities, and works with a network of more than 60 colleges and universities to increase scholarship and award opportunities. With the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Alliance is a founding partner of the National Student Poets Program, the country’s highest honor for youth poets, which selects five students exclusively from current Scholastic Art & Writing Award national poetry winners. More information about the Alliance and its programs can be found at www.artandwriting.org.

Contact:

Angela Baggetta
Goldberg McDuffie Communications
212-705-4221
abaggetta@goldbergmcduffie.com

Kathleen Zrelak
Goldberg McDuffie Communications
212-705-4222
kzrelak@goldbergmcduffie.com

Summer Studio Registration Begins March 20, 2013

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:09:05 -0700

Registration is almost open for Summer Studio: the Armory's award-winning art classes for children, teens, adults and families.

Registration begins Wednesday morning, March 20. Register either via mail, fax, in-person, or on-line. On-line registration begins at 10am on the 20th. Visit armoryarts.org/studio for complete info.

Summer Studio runs from July 1 - August 30, 2013.

See you in the Studio this Summer!

* Due to a printing delay, Summer Studio brochures will be available March 23, 2013.

Two Upcoming Opportunities for Local Visual Artists

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:56:34 -0700

We'd like to let you know about two fabulous opportunities for local visual artists:

The City Of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division Rotating Public Art Exhibition Program - Phase II

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Submission Deadline: 5:00 pm on April 22, 2013

The City is seeking proposals from artists, artist teams and galleries for the selection and commission of artworks for Phase II of the Rotating Public Art Exhibition Program. Selected sculptures will be installed for 24 months at eight highly-visible locations within the City of Pasadena, California. Two of the six loaned artworks may reflect sustainability, water, conservation, electrical, or recycling themes.

Launched in 2011, the Rotating Public Art Exhibition Program seeks to create an outdoor art gallery that enlivens the urban landscape and produces a dynamic visual experience for residents and visitors. The Program places existing loaned and newly commissioned sitespecific sculptures on public view in neighborhoods representing all City Council Districts. Exhibition sites are unsupervised and include traffic islands, medians and smaller, more intimate parcels.

Artist honoraria are $3,000 for the loaned artworks and $5,000 for site-specific projects. Loaned artworks must be available for installation by June 30, 2013.

The City is hosting a public meeting to review the Program and the Request for Proposals on April 2 at 6:30 PM at the Armory Center for the Arts, located at 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena 91103.

Additional information can be accessed at: http://www.cityofpasadena.net/arts.

The website includes the full RFP; images, a map and brochure of the Phase I installations; and photos of all Phase II sites.

Please contact the Cultural Affairs office at 626-744-7062 with questions.

Feitelson Arts Award

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAGA) Associates are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award. The Award was conceived by two seminal Los Angeles modernist painters, Lorser and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson, and friends to encourage young artists early in their careers by awarding grants to support their creative potential. The Award is offered with the generous support of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates (LAMAGA) in partnership with the Feitelson Foundation. For an application, CLICK HERE.

DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS: 6 P.M., April 1, 2013.

This year the Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award will be juried by Ciara S. Eliel, director/curator of modern art at LACMA; Pilar Tompkins Rivas, curator and director of residency programs at the 18th Street Arts Center; and Richard Wyatt, a former instructor of drawing and painting at UC Irvine, Otis Art Institute, and the Watts Towers Art Center, produces art for public and corporate spaces and exhibits smaller-scale works in galleries and museums.

The Feitelson Arts Fellowship award is granted to an individual who works in the following media: painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation and/or new genre. The 2013 Feitelson Fellowship winner will receive an award of $5,000 and will be given a solo exhibition in conjunction with COLA 2013 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. The Gallery and the Associates are proud to provide funding and support to these Los Angeles-based artists. Past award-winners include Emanuel Tet and Kira Lynn Harris (1999); Dana Maiden (2008); Saul Alvarez (2009); Justin Bower (2010); and Nuttaphol Ma (2011).

Spring 2013 Studio Registration Begins Wednesday, February 13

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:40:20 -0800

Registration is almost open for Spring Studio: the Armory's award-winning art classes for children, teens, adults and families.

Registration begins Wednesday morning, February 13. Register either via mail, fax, in-person, or on-line. On-line registration begins at 10am on the 13th. Visit armoryarts.org/studio for complete info.

Spring Studio runs from April 8 - June 17, 2013.

See you in the Studio this Spring!

Scholastic Art Awards Announced

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:00:00 -0800

COOL ART HAPPENINGS, COOL ART CLASSES, AND COOL ART STUFF
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Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
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Teen Art Celebration & Award Reception
Armory ArtHigh Exhibition
February 2 – March 10, 2013
Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena CA
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, Noon – 5pm
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — LA Regional Exhibit
March 9 – April 7, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013 (1 – 3pm)

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Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, Noon – 5pm
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In Memory of Georgia Fee

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:05:09 -0800

It is with great sadness that we share the tragic news that ArtSlant co-founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief Georgia Fee passed away on Saturday evening, December 8th, in Los Angeles. Her last few days were spent with friends and family, and she was at peace.

Georgia Fee was born in 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles in 1997. She was involved with numerous arts organizations including LA Freewaves Media Festival and Foundation for Art Research, Los Angeles. Georgia and her partner Catherine Ruggles made their home in Los Angeles, New York, and in her favorite city of all: Paris.

Georgia made significant contributions to the Armory’s mission of building upon the power of art to transform lives and communities. She began her tenure at the Armory as a teaching artist fellow in 1997. From 1998-2004, Georgia taught several arts-based programs for the Armory throughout Pasadena. She also coordinated our Schools Programs and organized a highly-successful art career day for high school students. She was a stellar teaching-artist and served as a mentor to emerging artists new to the field of arts education. She will be profoundly missed by her friends at the Armory.

There will be a memorial for Georgia on Saturday, January 12th at 11:00am at The Victorian, located at 2640 Main Street in Santa Monica. Letters of condolence and support are welcome at georgialetters@artslant.com.

Mural Project completed by Washington Middle School and Armory Center for the Arts

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:00:39 -0700

The Armory is excited to announce that current 7^th and 8^th graders at Washington Middle School in association with Armory Teaching Artists recently completed the design and execution of a large wall mosaic using Venetian glass, installed in the main entrance of the school. This is the second Armory-led large-scale public art project completed at the school in the 2011-2012 school year.

Students worked on the mural with artist José Antonio Aguirre to study public art, with an emphasis on elements of art and principals of design, environment and placement, scale and proportion, form and content, use of materials and expressive qualities. Together, they successfully designed a work that expresses the cultural identity of their generation and community. The mural was unveiled in a ceremony on June 6, 2012. José Antonio Aguirre (born in Mexico City) has studied and lived in the United States since 1976. He obtained a visual arts degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in1982, and a Master of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts in 1990. Aguirre has designed and fabricated over 35 permanent works of public art for civic art programs, educational and private developer’s projects in Southern California, Chicago and Mexico.

To view more images of the mural and our other public art projects at Washingtom Middle Scholl, please view this Flickr page.

Arts Education at Washington Middle School is made possible in part by

Surdna Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
Sony Pictures Entertainment
California Arts Council
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Pasadena Human Services Education Endowment
Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission
City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division

Artist-in-Residence Gregory Michael Hernandez @ The Artist Studio One Colorado

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:16:24 -0700

The Artist Studio at One Colorado presents Gregory Michael Hernandez, Artist-in-Residence.

Pasadena, CA – Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado present Los Angeles-based artist Gregory Michael Hernandez as the Artist-in-Residence at The Artist Studio at One Colorado. The residency will run from July 2 through October 27, 2012. The Artist Studio, located at 24 Smith Alley in Pasadena’s One Colorado complex, is an interactive artist space in which visitors are invited to engage with artists as they work. While in residence, Gregory Michael Hernandez will maintain open studio hours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-5pm, and on Saturdays from 11am-5pm. Studio visits are free and open to the public. Armory and One Colorado are pleased to continue their over ten- year collaboration presenting innovative programs that introduce the arts and artists into daily life.

In his residency entitled A Bridge Between Landscapes, Gregory Michael Hernandez will create hybrid forms, images, and projects that metaphorically bridge two or more locations, combining his working materials and influences and mingling images from both desert wilderness and urban built environments. While at work in The Artist Studio Hernandez will be preparing a solo exhibition at Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Culver City in 2013.

Hernandez considers his work to be an ongoing, slow evolution from one body of work to the next, using preceding projects as conceptual stepping stones for those in the future. In accordance with his mission to construct a grander, hybrid art form, visitors will have the opportunity to both experience and witness this interactive process. Therefore, The Artist Studio will be used as an intersection between a gallery, a workshop, and a think-tank for the germination of future projects. Hernandez invites discussions with other artists and the public in order to cultivate inspiration for future work.

In conjunction with his residency Hernandez will make his signature Captive Universe pieces available to visitors. These photographic collages are comprised of 26 individual photographs that, when assembled, offer a panoramic, three-dimensional expansion of Renaissance one-point perspective. Visitors will be provided materials to cut, fold, and shape these photo-globes, which may then be taken home or given to the artist to be integrated into a future exhibition.

Gregory Michael Hernandez lives and works in Los Angeles. A graduate of Biola University, Hernandez has had solo shows at LAX Art and Emma Gray Headquarters, both in Culver City. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum, Gallery 727, and the L.A. Municipal Gallery. The artist is a 2011 recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists and received a grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department for a project at LAX Airport. He is preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition at Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Culver City, in 2013.

About the Armory: The Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites. The Armory believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a healthy civic community. For more information please visit www.armoryarts.org.

About One Colorado: One Colorado is an outdoor shopping and dining destination on one city block in the heart of Old Pasadena. The property unites 17 individual historical buildings; in addition to its retailers and restaurants One Colorado offers public art programs, cultural events, and entertainment. For more information please visit www.onecolorado.com.

For Immediate Release
February 23, 2012
Contact: Calvin Phelps, Armory Center for the Arts
Phone: (626) 792-5101 x 130
E-mail: cphelps@armoryarts.org
www.armoryarts.org

Teaching Artist Denise Figueredo featured in the book The Vandercook 100

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:01:07 -0700

One of our most popular classes has always been Letterpress taught by our Director of Letterpress Denise Figueredo. We want to extend our congratulations to Denise who was selected to be featured in the new publication The Vandercook100 celebrating 100 artists who own and operate the Vandercook press, on the 100th anniversary of the press.

Denise Figueredo was born and raised in Los Angeles, Calfornia. She became fascinated with the field of Letterpress printing in 1994. It was at this time that she began a six and a half year apprenticeship at a press in Upland, California. Congruently, Denise earned both her degrees: a BFA in Mix Media Sculpture and Art History from Pitzer College and a MFA in 3D Media: Fiber from California State University Long Beach. She has been a Lecturer at California State University Long Beach since 2001. Denise opened her own Letterpress Studio, Figgy Press in 2002 in Long Beach, California. Denise has been the Director of the Letterpress at the Armory Center for the Arts for the past 10 years.

It is a beautiful book and we are so proud of her. The book is available at Amazon.

Steven Bankhead Stables Napoleon's Horse into Northwest Pasadena

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:30:00 -0700

Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to present Eighteenth Brumaire, a large-scale sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Steven Bankhead. The temporary public work will be on display through May, 2013. Bankhead’s monumental sculpture, which utilizes the materials of billboard construction, stands prominently in the garden of the Madison Neighborhood Casita, 805 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena, California. A public reception at the Casita on Sunday, June 24th will feature refreshments, music by DJ Tailspin, and free pulled-pork barbecue — prepared by the artist (3-6pm).

History repeats itself*

In 1801, Napoleon commissioned Jacques-Louis David to create a painting depicting him crossing the Alps in order to valorize his 1799 coup d’état (also known as The Eighteenth Brumaire, regarded by some scholars as the beginning of 20th century fascism). David’s famous painting entitled Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard Pass (1801) is a romanticized depiction of valiant Napoleon astride a white stallion rearing back in victory. This work first caught Steven Bankhead’s attention when it was used to advertise the exhibition Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile at the Getty Center in 2005. The artist’s interest in semiotics and sign processes led him to question how the meaning of something can evolve and change over time – how a work of French imperialist propaganda can be equally provocative to contemporary viewers when the semantics are vastly different.

Bankhead’s response, entitled Eighteenth Brumaire, is a flattened, monumental, equestrian sculpture standing nearly ten feet tall and consisting of steel armature, plywood, and printed image – all the constructs of a billboard sign. The work represents David’s horse, removed from its surroundings with most of Napoleon cut out as well. With a tongue-in-cheek flair, Bankhead addresses American capitalism/imperialism by removing the very figure that symbolizes domination (Napoleon) and leaves a riderless horse – what many Americans deem an emblem of freedom.

The meaning of an object is often justified by its chosen location. Accordingly, the work was first displayed on the rooftop of Steve Turner Contemporary on Wilshire Boulevard, across from Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to elicit a dialogue about the Getty’s opulence during its Pacific Standard Time campaign throughout Southern California in 2010, following the global financial crisis. By relocating the work to Pasadena’s Madison Neighborhood Casita in 2012, Bankhead once again challenges the viewer to question how location, in this case, can enlighten the potential for new meaning.

*Karl Marx made reference to The Eighteenth Brumaire in his famous essay that included the frequently quoted passage that history repeats itself “first as tragedy, then as farce.”

Biography

Steven Bankhead’s project-based work is guided by a principal interest in signs and sign processes. He often explores the push/pull that exists between art and advertising – in essence, how one informs the other. It is his belief that all paintings are signs; forms of communication between the artist and the viewer. Born in 1971 in Augusta, Georgia, Steven Bankhead earned a BFA at Auburn University and an MFA at Otis College of Art and Design (2001). He has had solo exhibitions at Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles (2011); Circus Gallery, Los Angeles (2008 & 2010); and at Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich (2009).

About the Armory Center for the Arts

The Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites. The Armory believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a civil community.

Artist: Steven Bankhead
Exhibition: Eighteenth Brumaire
Exhibition Dates: May 23, 2012 - May 31, 2013
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 24^th, 3-6pm
Location: La Casita — The Madison Neighborhood Casita

805 N. Madison Ave., Pasadena, CA www.armoryarts.org

Contact: Calvin Phelps, Communications Manager
Phone: (626) 792-5101 x 130
E-mail: cphelps@armoryarts.org

Big City Forum: Photographing LA on June 6th

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:00:00 -0700

Join us on Wednesday, June 6th at 7pm for the final Big City Forum of this season.

This forum will explore how photographers influence how we view public and social space. Part of this will explore how photographers engage the urban landscape of Southern California in both objective and metaphorical ways and how these images inscribe the way we look at Los Angeles, from the larger scope of the urban spread to the in-between, marginal spaces. Featuring Peter Holzhauer, Alia Malley, and Monica Nouwens, moderated by Joshua Machat, special projects coordinator, Getty Research Institute.

Peter Holzhauer is a Los Angeles-based photographer and faculty member of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts. After studying at the Pratt Institute, NY and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Holzhauer received his BFA from the Art Institute of Boston and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Athenaeum, the George Eastman House, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Newark Museum, and have been featured in recent exhibitions at the Night Gallery and the Luckman Gallery, both in LA, and the Fred Torres Collections in New York. See http://peterholzhauer.com/.

Alia Malley was born in La Jolla, CA and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Malley has a BA in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. Malley’s work has been in many solo and group exhibitions including, most recently, A Cavalier in Sight of a Village and Southland, both at the Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, as well as at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; the Riverside Art Museum, CA; CENTER, Santa Fe; and POST, Los Angeles. Malley is the recipient of many awards including the CENTER Dealer’s Choice Award and the Merck Prize. See http://www.aliamalley.com/index.html.

Monica Nouwens is a Dutch photographer and video artist who came to Los Angeles on an exchange program with California Institute of Arts after completing a postgraduate fellowship in Art Media Studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Nouwen’s solo show Rubbernecking was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and her work has also shown at Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, Netherlands Photography Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Stedelijk Museum Helmond, Gallery Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam, and in London’s Trafalgar Square for World Aids Day. Nouwens has done commercial work for Nike, Levi’s and Salvatore Ferragamo and her photographs have been published in magazines including Volume, Surface, Blueprint, Maxim, and Elle. See http://monicanovolumethree.blogspot.com/.

Joshua Machat works on special projects for the Getty Research Institute, including Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 and the upcoming architecture exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990. From 2005 to 2010 he was a publicist for Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., specializing in titles on architecture, film, and photography. Prior to Rizzoli, Machat was purchaser and web editor for Photo-Eye Books & Prints. He holds a MA in Liberal Arts (Great Books Program) from St. John's College and a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic.

About Big City Forum
Big City Forum is an interdisciplinary project founded by Leonardo Bravo that facilitates the exchange of ideas through gatherings, symposiums, exhibitions, and special events that provide access to forward-thinking creative projects. As an incubator of ideas and a generator for creative capital, it promotes the arts and imagination as powerful tools for community and civic transformation. In addition it seeks new ways to map and understand what acts of imagination mean to people and places. By bringing together creative visionaries and community/civic leaders, Big City Forum aims to build a platform for collaboration and partnerships that promote a more active sense of cultural vitality and engagement.

About the Armory

The Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a healthy civic community. Founded in 1989, the Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites.
Armory Center for the Arts is located at 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Sunday, noon-5pm. $5 suggested donation. Armory members, students, and seniors are free. The Armory is easily accessible from the Gold Line Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. For information about Armory exhibitions and events, the public may call 626.792.5101 x 122 or visit the Armory website at www.armoryarts.org.

Outpost's Monster Drawing Rally Comes to the Armory

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:49:27 -0700

It is time for the Monster Drawing Rally, a tradition established in Los Angeles by Outpost for Contemporary Art.*

The Monster Drawing Rally consists of four one-hour shifts with 25 artists drawing simultaneously each hour. Completed drawings will be available for $75 each.

This year’s guest curators are Carlyn Aguilar, Leonardo Bravo, Kristin Calabrese, Chloe Flores, Eve Fowler, Liz Glynn, Micol Hebron, Luis G. Hernandez, Maryam Hosseinzadeh, Bill E. Kelley, Jr., New Highland Art Agents, Elana Mann, Jill Newman, Karen Rapp, and Evelena Ruether. This year's signature image (above) by Carolyn Castaño.

Popular food trucks Nom Nom, No Tomatoes and Coolhaus will be on-site throughout the day. Beer provided by Pasadena's own Craftsman Brewing Company. Music by DJ Trolley Parker and DJ MANVNATURE. Kids drawing activities, too.

- $10 Suggested Donation at the Door -

*The event concept, Monster Drawing Rally, was initially developed by Southern Exposure, a San Francisco-based arts organization, in 2001 and has continued to thrive there since. Outpost is pleased to bring the concept to Los Angeles' vibrant art scene.

Big City Forum's Mapping LA: Design Based Thinking, Wednesday, May 2nd, at 7pm

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:28:38 -0700

Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to again welcome Big City Forum in residence through June 2012. Big City Forum presents the third conversation in the Mapping LA series, a set of four discursive events that features speakers from a similar creative practice sharing a lively discussion around livability, sustainability, community, and the politics of place in Los Angeles. The entire series, which is free and open to the public, takes place on the first Wednesday of May, and June 2012 at 7pm at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.

Mapping LA: Design Based Thinking
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 7pm

The forum will explore how design based thinking can be used as creative process that informs our way of engaging with public and social space. A group of design practitioners and educators will explore issues around design as a set of solutions that can be applied towards social innovation, and the argument for and against it. It will also look at design thinking as a pedagogical and cognitive approach to engage with larger issues.

Featuring:

Nik Hafermaas, Chair Graphic Design, Art Center
Marc Mertens, Principal, SESO Design
Kali Nikitas, Chair Communication Arts, OTIS
Joseph Prichard, Principal, J Prichard Design & Graphic Designer, Public Affairs, Cal Arts
Moderated by: Rebeca Mendez, faculty UCLA Design/Media Arts

Nikolaus Hafermaas is a designer, artist and the Department Chair of Graphic Design and Dean of Special Programs at Art Center College of Design. His Los Angeles based company UeBERSEE designs and produces data-driven art installations and design exhibitions. As former principal and chief creative officer of Triad Berlin, he and his two partners formed one of Germany's leading design firms. His team created pavilions for the World Expo2000 and for the Swiss Expo02. Prior to joining Art Center, he was a professor of integrated design at the University of Arts Bremen, and co-curator of the Berlin-based network Young Creative Industries. He has recently taught design workshops in France, Latin America and China. Nik is recipient of numerous international design awards and was member of the AIGA National Board of Directors.

Rebeca Méndez was born in Mexico City and received her MFA from Art Center College of Design. She is currently a professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. She has shown her work at ARCO Madrid 29th International Art Fair; X Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador; the National Design Triennial; the Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine; the Alyce Williamson Gallery, Pasadena; the Broad Art Center, UCLA; Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In addition, her work has been exhibited at, and is represented in collections of, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York; the Denver Art Museum; the Freitag Historical Museum, Hannover; and Museo José Luís Cuevas, Mexico City.   Méndez lectures internationally, including a TEDx Talk in 2011, and reviews of her work have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Eye Magazine, Metropolis, and I.D. Magazine, among others. Méndez has received extensive international recognition, including artist residencies at the Gunnar Gunnarson Institute in Iceland, at The Arctic Circle, and at HIAP at the world heritage site of the historical fortress island of Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Méndez is recipient of a 2010 California Community Foundation Mid Career Fellowship for Visual Artist and was selected for the Artist Pension Trust, México City.

Marc Mertens founded the experience design firm Seso to help organizations solve some of the world's largest challenges by creating engaging digital stories and experiences that move people. Seso has been engaged by organization such as TED, Nasa, The Smithsonian and the XPrize Foundation.

Marc currently serves on the council for the iSlate initiative, an ultra-low-cost, solar-powered learning tablet developed in a partnership with Rice University and NTU Singapore to foster rural education in developing nations. He also teaches User Experience Design at UCLA Extension and serves as the Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Glow, an all-night cultural experience on Santa Monica Beach that fosters human interaction through participatory, temporary art. The inaugural Glow featured over 20 commissioned art works and attracted more than 200,000 visitors.

Kali Nikitas is principal of Graphic Design for Love (+$) based in Los Angeles. She is Chair of the Communication Arts Department and founding Chair of the MFA Graphic Design program at Otis College of Art and Design. She has been recognized by Type Director’s Club, ACD, AIGA, Graphis; published internationally; lectured and given workshops throughout the United States and in Europe. She is co-editor and collaborator of :OUTPUT, the international student competition. Kali’s website hosts a daily document entitled: “FASHION FOR LOVE (+$)” and she encourages global submissions.

Joseph Prichard is a Los Angeles–based graphic designer, specializing in work for the nonprofit and arts sectors. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in film from the University of Southern California. He has collaborated with a number of leading Los Angeles’ design firms including, AdamsMorioka, Distinc, Muñiz/McNeil, Louise Sandhaus Design and Durfee|Regn Architects. He has created work for a diverse assortment of local and national clients including, United States Artists, CICLAVIA, TOMS Shoes, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Stones Throw Records and the Autry National Center for the American West. Joseph’s work has been featured in publications such as Monocle, Fast Company, Pasadena Weekly and the Montreal Gazette and was included in the 2010 California Design Biennial. He currently works as a Graphic Designer in the Public Affairs office of the California Institute of the Arts.

About Big City Forum

Big City Forum is an interdisciplinary project that facilitates the exchange of ideas through gatherings, symposiums, exhibitions, and special events that provide access to forward-thinking creative projects. As an incubator of ideas and a generator for creative capital, it promotes the arts and imagination as powerful tools for community and civic transformation. In addition it seeks new ways to map and understand what acts of imagination mean to people and places. By bringing together creative visionaries and community/civic leaders, Big City Forum aims to build a platform for collaboration and partnerships that promote a more active sense of cultural vitality and engagement.

On display at the Armory

The Armory’s lead exhibition, Accidents in Abstract Painting, the Armory, is a solo exhibition by Richard Jackson. It will feature the detritus and video documentation of an epic outdoor spectacle in which the artist crashed a 15’ model military jet, filled with paint, into a 19’ wall that read “accidents in abstract painting.” Also on display will be Jackson’s installation The War Room (2006-‘07), until now exhibited only once, and never in the Los Angeles area. By exhibiting the two installations side by side, Jackson reflects upon the Pasadena Armory's history as a repository for military accoutrements, confronting its current function as a contemporary arts center. The exhibition will be up though 12 June.

Also on display will be DANCE, OPERA, DRAW, an exhibition of a new work by Jocelyn Foye in the Armory’s Mezzanine East gallery and Please Please Please, recent photographs, photograms, and text by Nicholas Grider in Mezzanine West. Both shows run 12 February through 13 May. The Armory’s Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery will feature Music for Hoarders, video documentation by Dawn Kasper, through 12 June. In the Community Room will be a group show entitled Fantastic Scenarios of new work by students from the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design, from 12 February through 15 April.

About the Armory

Armory Center for the Arts is located at 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Sunday, noon-5pm. $5 suggested donation. Armory members, students, and seniors are free. The Armory is easily accessible from the Gold Line Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. For information about Armory exhibitions and events, the public may call 626.792.5101 x122 or visit the Armory website at www.armoryarts.org.

Contact: Calvin Phelps, Communications Manager
Phone: (626) 792-5101 x 130
E-mail: cphelps@armoryarts.org

Press Release

See full press release PDF for more information

Sandra Tsing Loh to emcee 10th Annual Earth and Arts Festival, featuring first-ever sustainable beer garden

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:45:14 -0700

SANDRA TSING LOH TO EMCEE 10TH ANNUAL EARTH AND ARTS FESTIVAL
FEATURING FIRST-EVER SUSTAINABLE BEER GARDEN

Celebrate a world of nature, art and live music at the Pasadena Earth and Arts Festival, Saturday, April 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Memorial Park and the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave. This year’s master of ceremonies is noted author, performer and KPCC radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh.

Marking its 10th anniversary as one of the biggest Earth Day events in the Southland, the free family festival features activities, exhibits and entertainment for all ages.

Browse through a huge eco-marketplace where local businesses and non-profit groups will promote green living, energy and water efficiency, composting, organic foods, green building design, alternative transportation and renewable energy. City staff will be on hand to answer your questions about waste reduction, recycling, water and energy conservation, and parks and nature preserves.

Green Truck and Coolhaus, two of the region’s most popular specialty food trucks, will sell affordable (and sustainable!) meals and snacks throughout the day.

Speaking of sustainable and eco-friendly business practices, locally brewed beers will be available inside the festival’s first-ever Sustainable Beer Garden, serving up exceptional artisan lagers and ales from Pasadena’s own Craftsman Brewing Company and Los Angeles’s Eagle Rock Brewery. Fourteen-ounce beers for $5 will be served in fully compostable, corn-based cups. Pita Pita of Pasadena will serve food inside and outside the beer garden.

In addition to providing free youth art workshops throughout the day, Armory Center for the Arts brings world-renowned artist collaborative Fallen Fruit to this year’s festival. Fallen Fruit is an ongoing art collaboration among Los Angeles-based artists David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Fallen Fruit began with creating maps of the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles and other American cities and has evolved into an ongoing series of visual images and participatory public projects. Fallen Fruit will present one of its signature Public Fruit Jams throughout the festival. The public is invited to bring homegrown or “found” public fruit and join in this community-building jam-making art experience.

Use the Metro Gold Line to come to the festival and show your Metro pass at the transportation booth to receive an Earth Day reusable bag, while supplies last. Or join the 5.7-mile Earth and Arts Festival Bike Ride through town, led by C.I.C.L.E. Perfect for riders of all ages and skill levels, the guided tour will showcase the city’s safe bike routes and some of the city’s best green buildings.

Start your weekend early with a free Earth Day film screening on Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Park’s outdoor Levitt Pavilion. Tom Shadyac’s inspirational documentary, “I Am,” asks what’s wrong with our world and what we can do about it.

The annual festival is co-sponsored by the city of Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Conscientious Projector and Metro. For more information, visit www.cityofpasadena.net/earthday or call 626-744-4087.

The Public Bench Project completed by Washington Middle School & Armory Center for the Arts

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:46:04 -0700

A set of benches were recently created by two groups of 7th grade students who participated in the Armory’s visual art classes offered at Washington Middle School during the fall semester 2011. Guest Teaching Artist, Stan Edmonson, worked with the students in developing ideas that would reflect their perceptions and feelings about their school through photography and collages. The creation of a public art piece was to develop students’ artistic skills, learn about developing a project from conception to execution while beautifying the school environment to create a legacy for the school.

To view more images of these beautiful benches, please view this Flickr page. Participating artists, faculty and supporters are listed below:

The Public Bench
Project Washington Middle School & Armory Center for the Arts
2011-2012

Stan Edmondson
Armory Teaching Artist

Doris Hausmann
Director of School Programs

Kelly Garrison, Natalie Patterson, and Shalini S. Patel
Teaching Assistants

Tiffany Williams and Marta Jimenez
Washington Teachers of Record

Student Artists: Elvia Alcarez, Joshua Andrade, Jose Arambula, Joseph Ayon, Denise Banuelos, Carey Bishop, Fatima Martinez-Bolanos, Gabriela Cervantes, Jordan Clark, Kira Dysart, Waltiana Fuqua, Roxana Gallegos, Arline Garcia, Luis Hoyos, Lindsey Lopez, Darren Meyers, Dreshawn Mitchell, Angel Rivera, Cynthia Robledo, Esmeralda Robles

The Public Bench Project
Washington Middle School & Armory Center for the Arts
2011-2012

Student Artists: George Rocha, Ivan Rosas, Ivan Ruiz, Prisma Salmoran, Denise Sanchez, Jaime Silva, Jessica Soto, Lizeth Tapia, Inaya Thompson, Clayton Torres, Stephanie Torres, Mia Upshaw, Brandon Valencia, Evelyn Williams

Arts Education at Washington Middle School made possible in part by

Surdna Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
Sony Pictures Entertainment
California Arts Council
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Pasadena Human Services Education Endowment
&
Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission
City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division

Big City Forum's Socially Engaged Aesthetics on Wednesday, April 4th, at 7pm

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:11:00 -0700

Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to again welcome Big City Forum in residence (continuing through June 2012). During its residency at Armory, Big City Forum presents Mapping LA, a series of four discursive events that will feature speakers from a similar creative practice. Each event will feature a panel of speakers who share a specific creative practice, which will provide the framework for a lively discussion around livability, sustainability, community, and the politics of place in Los Angeles. The entire series, which is free and open to the public, continues to take place on the first Wednesdays of April, May, and June 2012 at 7pm at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.

Socially Engaged Aesthetics

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7pm

This panel explores how contemporary artists and curators are engaging in public practice within a larger social and political dimension:

Dave Hullfish Bailey, an artist whose approach to investigating sites is focused upon how geography, physical infrastructure and social narratives of emancipation intersect in speciﬁc places.

Liz Glynn, an artist who often looks to historical narratives and artifacts to kindle in-depth reflections on the present moment.

Ashley Hunt, an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse about power structures.

Aandrea Stang, the Senior Education Program Manager for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and organizer of ENGAGEMENT PARTY, a series of interventions by local artist collectives at MOCA.

Aram Moshayedi (Moderator), Assistant Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT and a doctoral candidate in the department of art history at the University of Southern California.

About Big City Forum
Big City Forum is an interdisciplinary project that facilitates the exchange of ideas through gatherings, symposiums, exhibitions, and special events that provide access to forward-thinking creative projects. As an incubator of ideas and a generator for creative capital, it promotes the arts and imagination as powerful tools for community and civic transformation. In addition it seeks new ways to map and understand what acts of imagination mean to people and places. By bringing together creative visionaries and community/civic leaders, Big City Forum aims to build a platform for collaboration and partnerships that promote a more active sense of cultural vitality and engagement.

On display at the Armory
The Armory’s lead exhibition, Accidents in Abstract Painting, the Armory, is a solo exhibition by Richard Jackson. It will feature the detritus and video documentation of an epic outdoor spectacle in which the artist crashed a 15’ model military jet, filled with paint, into a 19’ wall that read “accidents in abstract painting.” Also on display will be Jackson’s installation The War Room (2006-‘07), until now exhibited only once, and never in the Los Angeles area. By exhibiting the two installations side by side, Jackson reflects upon the Pasadena Armory's history as a repository for military accoutrements, confronting its current function as a contemporary arts center. The exhibition will be up though 12 June.
Also on display will be DANCE, OPERA, DRAW, an exhibition of a new work by Jocelyn Foye in the Armory’s Mezzanine East gallery and Please Please Please, recent photographs, photograms, and text by Nicholas Grider in Mezzanine West. Both shows run 12 February through 13 May. The Armory’s Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery will feature Music for Hoarders, video documentation by Dawn Kasper, through 12 June. In the Community Room will be a group show entitled Fantastic Scenarios of new work by students from the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design, from 12 February through 15 April.

About the Armory
The Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a healthy civic community. Founded in 1989, the Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites.

Annual Benefit Tickets Now On Sale

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:55:33 -0700

The Armory Center for the Arts Benefit Committe proudly invites you to the Armory's Annual Benefit taking place Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 6:30pm. Experience the Armory like never before as good friends, new and old, come together to celebrate the power of art and to honor Harvey and Ellen Knell's passionate commitment to the arts and education. Enjoy stimulating conversation, captivating music, luminous art, cocktails, fine wines, artisanal beer, and the Armory's signature "strolling supper" throughout the evening - expertly prepared by 18 of the region's favorite restaurants and lovingly supervised by Gale Kohl of Gale's Restaurant.

Passionate about art, culture, and the community, for more than 20 years Harvey and Ellen Knell have generously devoted their time, resources, and considerable talents in support of the Armory Center for the Arts' mission to improve lives through the power of art. It is with deep respect, admiration, and affection that the Armory recognizes the Knells at this time for their many years of friendship and service.

- Order Tickets On-Line Through Eventbrite -

Tickets are $125 each and will be held at the door
Kindly RSVP by April 14

Food & Beverage Sponsors
Bar Celona, Bristol Farms, El Portal Restaurant, Europane Bakery, Gale's Restaurant, Green Street Restaurant, Julienne, Kensington Caterers, The Kitchen for Exploring Foods, La Grande Orange Café, Tam O'Shanter/Lawry's Restaurants, Inc., Marston's Restaurant, Mijares Mexican Restaurant, Noir Food & Wine, Parkway Grill/Smith Bros. Catering, Saladang Thai Restaurant, Sushi Bar Yoshida

For more information, or to purchase tickets over the phone with your Visa or MasterCard, contact Suzette Stambler at 626.792.5101 x 118. The benefit will take place at the Armory.

Photo from left: Armory Annual Benefit Committee members Jim Watterson (chair), Gale Kohl, Susan Caldwell, Jane Abascal, Leslie Saeta, Tammy Godley, Louise Brinsley, and Diane Cornwell. The Armory Center for the Arts Annual Benefit Honoring Ellen and Harvey Knell is scheduled to take place on April 12, 2012 at 6:30PM at the Armory.

The Artist Studio at One Colorado presents Eve Fowler, Artist-in-Residence to launch on ArtNight Pasadena

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:44:20 -0800

The Artist Studio at One Colorado presents Eve Fowler, Artist-in-Residence to launch on ArtNight Pasadena.

Pasadena, CA – Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado present Los Angeles-based artist Eve Fowler as the Artist-in-Residence for The Artist Studio at One Colorado. The residency starts on March 9, coinciding with Pasadena’s ArtNight, a city wide arts festival, and runs through June 10. The Artist Studio, located at 24 Smith Alley in Pasadena’s One Colorado complex, is an interactive artist space in which visitors are invited to engage with artists as they work. While in residence, Eve Fowler will maintain open studio hours on Saturdays 12p – 5p, Thursdays 12p – 6p, and Tuesdays 11a – 8p. Studio visits are free and open to the public. Armory and One Colorado are pleased to continue their over ten year collaboration presenting innovative programs that introduce the arts and artists into daily life.

Throughout her three-month residency, Fowler will focus on creating a new series of text-based works inspired from Gertrude Stein's radically experimental novel Tender Buttons. By departing from conventional meaning, grammar, and syntax, Stein captured and revealed moments of consciousness independent of conventional understanding of time and memory. In the spirit of Stein’s decisive ambiguity, Fowler creates artworks that quote from the novel in alternative forms and contexts, broadening the typical method of delivery – the bound book, read in private – of Stein’s text. Fowler has developed a prosaic approach to exhibiting the work by printing quotes from the novel – such as "Very different but much more" or "A difference of very little difference" – on common silkscreen posters, the type that typically advertise concerts, boxing matches, and other events. These familiar posters – "A narrative of like and like it,” as Stein once said – can be seen on city street corners, light poles, and hurricane fencing surrounding empty lots. Now, nearly 100 years after the publication of Tender Buttons shocked Victorian sensibilities, Fowler takes Stein’s invitation to play with language further, like what Stein called “A spectacle and nothing strange.”

In conjunction with her residency, Fowler will install a reading room at the entrance of the studio where visitors are welcome to browse through a selection of works from her library as well as the libraries of friends, artists, writers, and librarians. Live readings by a selection of local writers will be scheduled throughout the residency. A schedule is available on the Armory website www.armoryarts.org.

Eve Fowler lives and works in Los Angeles. A graduate of Temple University (BA, 1986) and Yale University (MFA, 1992), Fowler is co-founder of Artist Curated Projects (ACP) in Los Angeles, which was the subject of a dynamic group exhibition she organized (with ACP co-founder Lucas Michael) at Armory last autumn. Fowler has had solo shows at Horton Gallery and Julie Saul Gallery, both in New York, and Thomas Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles. She has participated in group exhibitions at Tulane University Art Gallery in New Orleans and New Langton Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, both in San Francisco. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Museum, New York; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Fowler’s work was included in the California Biennial at Orange County Museum in 2010 and will be included in a group show at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, Texas in April 2012.

About the Armory: The Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, California, builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through presenting, creating, teaching, and discussing contemporary visual art. The organization’s department of exhibitions mounts over 25 visual arts exhibitions each year at its main facility and in locations throughout the City of Pasadena. In addition, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites. The Armory believes that an understanding and appreciation of the arts is essential for a well-rounded human experience and a healthy civic community. For more information please visit www.armoryarts.org.

About One Colorado: One Colorado is an outdoor shopping and dining destination on one city block in the heart of Old Pasadena. The property unites 17 individual historical buildings; in addition to its retailers and restaurants One Colorado offers public art programs, cultural events, and entertainment. For more information please visit www.onecolorado.com.

For Immediate Release
February 23, 2012
Contact: Calvin Phelps, Armory Center for the Arts
Phone: (626) 792-5101 x 130
E-mail: cphelps@armoryarts.org
www.armoryarts.org

image of posters from Eve Fowler's A spectacle and nothing strange project via Fritz Haeg's website http://www.fritzhaeg.com/