Revolution/Evolution
IFebruary 8 - March 9, 2003
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8, 7 - 10pm
Tertulia: Thursday, February 20, 7pm
Featuring current works by: Paul Botello, Alfredo de Batuc, Chuy c/s, Ernesto de la Loza, Man One, Reyes Rodriguez.
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
3802 César Chávez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90063
323.881.6444, www.selfhelpgraphics.com
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
The Visual and Performing Arts Department at Cal State University San Marcos is currently looking for a visual artist to hire in a tenure track position.
California State University San Marcos
Assistant Professor, Visual Art, full-time tenure track contingent on funding.
Teach drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, 2D design, sculpture and/or installation art, history and contemporary theory.
Familiarity with electronic/digital art. Committed to working across disciplines of Performance, Visual and Electronic Arts. Experience in public/collaborative projects desirable. Provide leadership in developing new visual art program, including management of resources and facilities for curriculum addressing gender, race, and class within a global context. Interest in teaching UD and LD GE courses. Exceptional record of accomplishment and exhibition.
Teaching experience beyond graduate student level. M.F.A. or equivalent.
Submit: documentation (20 slides, video, and/or Mac compatible CDROM), 3 references, Teaching philosophy, Letter of intent and SASE to:
Chair, Search Committee
Visual and Performing Arts Department
CSUSM
San Marcos CA 92096-0001
Deadline: February 20, 2003 or until filled.
Art Fo Da Soul: New Works by San Antonio artist L.A. David
February 08 2003 to February 31 2003
Opening Reception: February 08 2003, 7:00 PM
A long time staple and progeny of the West side and its art scene, L.A. David will unveil his newest works in "Art Fo Da Soul," at Gallista Gallery during second Saturday. A self taught artist, L.A. fuses futuristic themes, UFO's, Azted deities and Burros into his work that pays homage to his Chicano heritage.
Gallista Gallery / Calle Flores Arts Studios Complex
1913 South Flores St
San Antonio TX-78204
Hours of Operation: 10am - 6 pm.
Cajitas Workshop by Jorge Eagar
The February workshop will be held at my residence on February 8 from 12 Noon to 4:30 p.m. Please call 480-786-3165 to RSVP. The January workshop filled very quickly.
I will be holding monthly workshops facilitating the creation of personal shrine boxes. This is an art form that I have worked with over the last ten years.
These "cajitas" (as they are called)
* evoke sacred space in your office or home
* restore enchantment to ordinary places
* nurture the spirit of creativity and
* honor your connection to the great mystery.
Cost: $45 includes wooden box, art supplies, decorative items, and guided instruction. Payment (cash only) is due in full the day of the workshop. While at the workshop, you also have the opportunity to visit and relax in my personal meditation garden.
Workshops can only accomodate 10 persons as this affords me the opportunity to give personal attention to each participant.
Remember, you will be creating your personal shrine box with items that bespeak your connection to the sacred and/or divine in your life.
As a participant you must bring the following items:
1) a key figure/image/symbol that is evocative of your connection to the Great Mystery
2) 4 objects that respectively represent the elements of fire, air, water, and earth.
3) Any other items that you may wish to place in your sacred box.
4) special cloth or fabric if you wish to use it as a backdrop.
Please bear in mind that you will be working with a space no larger than 8 x 10 inches. Choose your items accordingly. Please e-mail inquiries to retablos@cox.net.
Latino Art Display featuring original piece from an array of Latino artists hosted by "Latino Pop Shop".
Latino Pop Shop displays original art by Los Angeles artists who are either Latino or who include Latino imagery, and handcrafted Latino pop culture. It is a beginning of a movement to insure placement in the history books as contributors to the artistic and commercial world in the USA and the positive influence of Latino's.
The art display will include (among others) art from Lorenzo Gomez, Hector Silva, Andres Ysais, Mike Ruiz, Rob Sabala, Antonio Escalante, Magda Audifred, Raul R. Rodriguez and the creator of Latino Pop Shop himself Antonio Rael. There will also be a surprise in person appearance by a well-known Latino artist.
SUNDAY, February 9, 2003, 11:00am - 5:00 pm
PLAZA DEL VALLE
8500-8700 Van Nuys Blvd
Panorama City, CA 91402
DETAILS: PLAZA DEL VALLE - a new family oriented community plaza, which is located in a densely populated area of San Fernando Valley is designed to become the community plaza and gathering place for the people that live and work in the immediate vicinity. Neighbors will have the opportunity to buy products and services from each other. The mindset of this community plaza is the emphasis on a certain amount of programming where a percentage of the funds allocated are facilitated towards good causes such as schools and charities.
"Slightly Erotic: Mostly Love" - An art exhibit about love
The Avenue 50 Studio is pleased to announce an art exhibit of "slightly erotic, mostly love" art works by artists Michael Amescua, Rudy Calderon, Maria Castro, Jose Cortez, Alfredo de Batuc, Sam Hernandez, Michael Odell, Oliverio, Jose Orozco, Sara Remetch, Frank Romero, Betty Wan, and Adrian Wong-Shu. A reception for the artists will be held on February 14, 2003 from 7-10 p.m.
"Slightly Erotic: Mostly Love" lays bare a variety of media from playful sculptures by Maria Castro and Jose Orozco to small erotic etchings by Adrian Wong-Shu. Photography by Jose Cortez, Sam Hernandez, Michael Odell and Sara Remetch explore the sensuousness of the human body. Michael Amescua, known for his metal sculptures, crafts a mythological playland out of steel, forming a six-foot tall divider. Balancing this exhibition where eroticism and love merge, a colorful mural-sized painting by collaborators Frank Romero and Alfredo de Batuc fits in nicely.
This timely Valentine exhibit invites amorous dialogue and visual involvement, supporting the phrase, "make love not war". Please join us to celebrate love.
This exhibition runs from February 4, 2003 through February 28, 2003 and is free to the public.
The reception will be held on Friday, February 14, 2002 from 7 - 10 P.M.
Avenue 50 Studio, 131 No. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
(323) 258-1435; email: ave50studio@msn.com
Studio hours: Tuesday through Thursday 10-12 noon, Saturday and Sunday 10-4 p.m.
CORAZONADA / Fifteen Years of Women's Work, part of the annual Solo Mujeres Exhibition.
This year we are celebrating our fifteen years of women's art, with a special Theater Performance, Roundtable and events complimenting the exhibit, The exhibit commemorates and honors the Latina women artists in our community. The theme is of the heart and the way women see the world. Corazonada, represents a feeling of intuition, presentiment, and foreboding. It also explores the ways in which this intuition contributes to an added perception and understanding of situation both political and personal. The artists participating in this exhibit are from many parts of the country.
Exhibition dates February 14-March 21, 2003
Gala Reception February 14, 2003, Time 7-9 pm
Admission $3.00
Corazonada Performance Event
Corazonada is an evening of women's theater, modern dance, music, poetry and video art that explores the theme of intuition and premonition. Topics addressed during this performance will be a Latina girls coming of age, as well as, developing connections with our spirituality. The performers are local artists: Susana Aragon, Begonia Caparros, Tania Llambelis, Susan Matthews with Sexteta, Vanessa Mosqueda and Paula Tejeda Rieloff, among others. Both performances will be dedicated to Nuestras Hijas de Regreso, a grass roots organization based in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, that works with the families of more than 465 women who have disappeared on their way home from work.
Performance Event dates
Friday, March 14, 2003 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 8:00 PM
Admission $10.00 Gen. $8.00 Seniors and Students
Corazonada Women and Art Roundtable presentation
The Panelists: Dr. Constance Cortez, Assistant Professor of Art History at Santa Clara University California, Dr. Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz, Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Performance Story-Teller and Installation Artist, and Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Fiber and Installation Artists, and Professor of Art, in the School of Art and Design, San Jose State University.
Roundtable Presentation
Saturday March 8, 2003, 2-5 pm
In the MCCLA Theater
Admission $2.00
Valentines with the Violin Virtuoso • Fri Feb 14 • 4-8 pm • Borgatta.
Valley Violinist Quetzal Guerrero, back from gigs in San Francisco, L.A., Austin and Chicago, will be appearing at the Borgatta Jazz Series this Friday with his latest Latin Music project: Cascabel.
Featuring Miguel Melgosa from San Francisco on percussion and Gustavo Angeles from Mexico City on guitar. The performance is open to the public.
Don't miss this special opportunity to celebrate Valentines with the Violin Virtuoso in the exotic confines of Scottsdale's Borgatta (at Scottsdale Road south of Lincoln). Quetzal's latest CD release "Buscando" will be available.
Quetzal performs as a duo on Fridays' evenings 7-9:30 PM at Barrio Café (16th Street south of Thomas in Phoenix) and on most Thursdays and Saturdays at El Zócalo (downtown,Chandler Blvd and Arizona Ave). The Sky Lounge in downtown Phoenix (at Washington and 1st Street) lights up with a salsa sextet version of Cascabel on Fridays from 10:30 PM to 1 am. And beginning in March, he will be appearing on Tuesdays at Famous Sams. More info to come later.
If you don't have Quetzal's CDs yet, they are available at the Heard Museum Shop and Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. To order through the mail please send $12 check or money order and your address to:
Guerreros, 551 N. Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ 85201.
Bridge Art, music and poetry extravaganza
$10 presale for both days
$7 for each day of event
Saturday Feb. 15
Doors open at 2p.m.
Movie
2:15 p.m. Crumb
Music
Concert line-up
4 p.m. Nancy Green - World Music
5 p.m. Artistic Noise - Synthetic
6 p.m. Yarbrough - Rock
7 p.m. Chunk Fuzzmen - Rock
8 p.m. 65 Revolucions - Spanish Rock
9 p.m. FUGA - Latin Fusion
10 p.m. Foreign O - Spanish Hip Hop
10:45 p.m. The Giants - Hip Hop
11:45 p.m. Hot Buttered Soul - Old School Funk, Jazz
Gallery closes at 10 p.m.
Showing: Life Still, the drawings of Spencer Fidler
Sunday Feb. 16
Door opens at 2 p.m.
Movie
2:15 p.m. Artemisia
Concert line-up
3 p.m. San Patricio - Celtic
4 p.m. Ricardo Valencia - Classic Guitar
5 p.m. Krimson - Rock
6 p.m. Fallen Heroes - Rock
7 p.m. Da Grean - Punk
8 p.m. Maximus - Alternative
9 p.m. Fewel Project - Funk
10 p.m. Lipstick - Emo
Bridge Gallery:
6 p.m. Drum Circle (bring your own drum)
Followed by open mic poetry
Gallery closes at 8 p.m.
Bridge Center for Contemporary Art
Bridge is located in the corner of Stanton and San Antonio Streets
For more information - 532-6707.
Columbia Basin Latino Arts, Literacy, Theater and Music Workshop
February 15, 9:00 am - 1:30 pm.
Artist / Writer Xavier Garza will conduct an art workshop and do readings from "Jesus Wore A Zoot Suit" for adults and "Adventures in Mexican Wrestling" for children. There will also be Theater Workshops by Olga Sanchez and Music Workshops by Arnold Cavazos and Cruz Rangel.
Our Lady of Fatima Parish Hall
200 N. Dale Rd.
Moses Lake, WA
For Further info 509-764-9249
Lips and Hips
February 16, 3:00 - 8:00 PM
For the second consecutive year Tropico de Nopal will host the annual fund raiser for the National Womens Health Network. "Lips and Hips" an afternoon of poetry and salsa. Poets: Shonda Buchanan, Maria Elena Fernandez, Shahe Mankerian, Abel Salas and Terry Wolverton. Salsa Dancing instruction:Tony Flores and Gaby Gonzalez.
NWHN is a non profit health advocacy group for better federal policy on women's health through its information clearinghouse.
Suggested donation $75.00 (no donation too big or too small!)
For more information call 323.254.8337 or email: jylboline@yahoo.com.
Tropico de Nopal
1665 Beverly Blvd. (between Belmont and Union)
Los Angeles CA 90026
213-481-8112
nopalarte@earthlink.net
Negogiated Innocence
Recent works by Elizabeth Gómez and Jorge Natividad on display from February 19 to April 5, 2003.
Public Reception: Friday February 21, 6-8 pm
Artists' Talk: Thursday, March 13, 6:30pm
MACLA
510 S. First Street
San José, CA 95113
www.maclaweb.org
Gallery Hours: Wednesday & Thursday, 12 noon - 7 pm
Friday & Saturday, 12 noon - 5 pm
25 Years of Art & Culture Awards Gala Reception
St. Mary's Convention Center
1111 Gough St., San Francisco, CA
Thursday,
February 20, 2003, 6-9pm
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
· Evelyn Cisneros - Former SF Ballet Prima Ballerina
· Carlos Santana - Musician
CULTURAL & ARTISTIC SERVICE
· Herminia Albarrán - artisan / folklorist
· Juan Pablo Gutierrez - Comité de Rescate Cultural
VISUAL ARTS
· Juan Fuentes - silkscreen / etching / instructor
· Patricia Rodríguez - muralist / painting / instructor
MUSIC
· Rebecca Mauleón - pianist / musicologist
· Jorge Molina - folklorist
SPOKEN WORD / LITERATURE
· Cherri Moraga - playwriter
· Piri Thomas - writer / poet
PERFORMING ARTS
· Ava Apple - salsa dancer / instructor
· Rodrigo Duarte - Co-founder Teatro de La Esperanza
YOUTH ARTISTIC SERVICES
· Carlos Aceituno - capoeira / afro brazilian dancer / instructor
· Vanessa Mosqueda - ballet / fusion dancer / instructor
· Jose León - musician / youth program coordinator
Posthumous Recognition
· Juanita Rieloff - MCCLA Board member/ activist / childcare provider
2000
· June Jordan - African American poet / professor - 2001
· Teresita Nevarez - performer, singer, dancer - 2002
For more information or for reservations: please call 415-821-1155
SYMBOLS, MYTH AND METAPHORS: a process exhibition of Latin American Artists
Please join us in the gallery for a panel discussion, Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 6pm. Who are we? Definitions and Perceptions, moderated by Mario Castillo, faculty in the Art + Design department of Columbia College.
A+D 11 Street Gallery
Columbia College
72 East 11th Street
Chicago IL
312.344.6156
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 AM-5 PM
Convergence - Portable Labor and Convenience
February 22 to March 7
Tropico de Nopal will host 10 Los Angeles artists as part of an exchange between Mexicali, B.C. and Los Angeles, CA. Each artist will paint on a 5'x5' section of a 5'x50' canvas. This process will take place simultaneously in Mexicali with 10 artists from there, and displayed at the border, hanging from the fence that divides the USA and Mexico on March 22.
For info call Abel Alejandre at 562.223-0990 or Tropico de Nopal at 213.481-8112.
Tropico de Nopal
1665 Beverly Blvd. (between Belmont and Union)
Los Angeles CA 90026
213-481-8112
nopalarte@earthlink.net
