cadre: the $10 artist grant

I was just included in the 1968: Then and Now exhibit, curated by Deborah Willis (through November 22).  I am also included in the Obama exhibit @ the Leica gallery (through November 8), and in the accompanying book.  The images from that exhibit [are above].

Work from my Hilltop High series was included in OjodePez #13, a Spanish documentary photography magazine, edited by Aaron Schuman.  Other featured artists include Todd Hido, Alec Soth, Stephen Shore, Tim Davis, Ryan McGinley, Richard Mosse, Kalpesh Lathigra, and Colby Katz.

Part 1:

I will be participating in the Headlands Fall Open House this Sunday in Building 960 (up the hill from the main buildings, in the door, down the stairs, on the left).

Just three times each year, Headlands invites you behind the studio doors of its internationally renowned Artist in Residence program to witness the creative processes of writers, musicians, dancers and visual artists of all kinds. Round up your family and friends to enjoy an exhilarating afternoon of art and ideas, fill your belly with a delicious organic lunch prepared by Chef Juliette Delventhal, and meet the artists developing today’s most exciting contemporary work.
When: Sunday, October 12 from noon - 5PM.
Mess Hall Cafe open from noon - 4:30PM.
Where: Headlands Center for the Arts, Buildings 944, 945 & 960
How: FREE Admission
On Sundays and holidays, MUNI bus #76 runs every hour between 9:30AM and 5:30PM. Click here for transit details and timetables.

To learn more about Fall Open House and current AIRs, click here.

Part 2:

I am a part of an artist collective that is curating and exhibiting in a very unique art show this weekend. Here is the info. I would love to see any of you there. If you can’t make it, you’ll be able to catch the documentary footage on our webpage in the coming weeks.

Sezio Presents : St{art}er Home

A house in Downtown Mountain View will be torn down in late October. Leading up to this demolition, a group of local artists will collaborate on an art installation within the 850 sq.ft. of this single family home. An artist reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 11th from 6 to 10pm, featuring a live DJ and adult beverages. A traditional open house will be held Sunday, Oct. 12th from 1 to 6pm, including hors d’oeurves and live music…visit www.sezio.org/starterhome for more details or email starterhome@sezio.org

Friday November 7, 2008, 4:30-6:30pm
CFA CINEMA
Free and open to the public

Reception to follow: 6:30-7:30pm

EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Center for the Arts | Wesleyan University | Middletown, Connecticut

Internationally renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald,  Eric Gottesman, and Susan Meiselas join acclaimed writer and critic David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography’s role in the world today. Wesleyan President and hiswill introduce the panel. A Q&A session will follow.
A reception and viewing of the exhibition Framing and Being
Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography will begin

immediately after the panel in Zilkha Gallery.

Co-sponsored by The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life,

Center for the Arts, Center for the Humanities, History and Theory, and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

RELATED EVENT

Artist talk with Perry Bard, creator of

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Friday, November 7, noon-1pm

EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Please join New York artist Perry Bard as she talks about her

ground-breaking participatory video currently in Zilkha Gallery’s Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography and shot by people around the world. You are invited to interpret Vertov’s 1929 experimental documentary film and upload your own footage to Bard’s site http://dziga.perrybard.net Several days later it will be projected in Zilkha’s North

Gallery alongside the original film. For additional information,

please contact Nina Felshin nfelshin@wesleyan.edu>

Sponsored by Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

I thought you would be interested in this show I’m in at Wesleyan. It’s a show called “Framing and Being Framed,” curated by Nina Felshin, sort of about the role of the subject-photographer relationship. Other cool artist-photographers are in it (Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, An-My Le, Koto Ezawa, and others). My installation is a collaboration with Sudden Flowers, the collective from Ethiopia with whom I have been working for 9 years. Members of the Ethiopian art collective designed the conceptual set-up of the show and I installed it, along with a video that they made.

Also, there is a conference around the themes of photography and historical interpretation on November 7-8: http://eyeofhistory.wesleyan.edu/conference/index.html.

Tea Party Magazine is doing a full spread on Nora’s photographs of Palestine, which she generously attributes to the publicity generated by her receipt of a cadre art grant!This will be published in August.

She’s headed back to Palestine for a third time this year, both for her regular gig on KPFA’s Flashpoints show, and to make more photographs with her refurbished 1950’s Rollieflex knock-off (a 120-mm box camera.) “It takes stunning photographs, and Ican’t wait to keep taking them as my journeys unfold!”

She’s looking for a good local venue to exhibit her photographs, so get in touch if you have ideas for her.

Nora has also launched a website where you can check out more of her work, both written and photographic:www.norabf.comShe writes that receiving the cadre $10 arts grant has “been a wonderful jump-start to a blossoming photographic romance.”

This is what we hope for. Thanks again to all of our generous donors.

Jessica has been busy shooting for the project, A Civil Rights Memorial. Her focus during the month of June was Alabama. The Southern Poverty Law Center opened their relevant files to her, which were an “amazing” research tool. In a week she leaves again to shoot for another month, focusing this time on eventsin Mississippi. Both excited and upset by all the new information, she is starting to work on the book project. We’ll continue to follow its development.

Please also note that she has just launched a completed website which (like all of our sites!) will be in constant development. Check it out at: www.jessingram.com

This is a CADRE update.
As you know, Collaborator’s Guide, is in full progress and we wanted to let you know what has been happening!

Both Bethany and Selwa have formed two groups in London and Tokyo. Our collective now includes seven members for the project (which we have nicknamed CADRE project for now).

Communicating between Tokyo and London.

Our original goal of working with a newer and bigger group, long-distance, is materializing, and we are dealing with administrative and creative solutions to enable this. Archiving our research, enabling all of us to challenge the concept democratically and synchronizing conversations between Tokyo and London are important parts of our process!

We recently started using a new online tool called Activecollab (activecollab.com). The tool is opensource (free and shared). This tool is helping us archive and manage the process as well as exchange information! We are just demo-ing the software to other Collaborator’s Guide members and have uploaded some notes/case studies/files.

Meanwhile, during our process of finding new like-minded individuals to work on this collaborative event/installation with us, we have also been visiting and assessing spaces. This has been a fun and interesting process. Tokyo galleries and some UK galleries charge for showing work (aside from commissions) so while visiting spaces to assess size, interest, location, cost we are also investigating non-traditional spaces.

Proposed Calendar.

ongoing: introducing our concept to artists, gallerists, creatives and receiving feedback about appropriate spaces/opening our concept to questions.
May 20: questionnaires and first meetings with new members of Tokyo group.
May-June: re-evaluating goals. conversations in cultural differences between tokyo and london (and what to portray in the exhibit).

July 5: questionnaire and first ‘official’ meeting of London group.
July 2-9: mini-exercise. Collaborator’s Guide member will exchange detailed journals of each day to share a more intimate picture of our relationships with Tokyo and London (and get to know each other better, faster).
10 July: all members receive short training on how to add info to activecollab tool and the blog.
28 July: tokyo vs. london ‘meet n greet’ for all members to get to know eachother via online web chat as well as other forms of introduction, possibly a meal, an gift exchange of some sort.

Start of August: second group exercise after agreed concept refinement.
August: fundraising, prep-time, making, sourcing materials….
Sept: final stages of workshop, exhibition/show.

We hope this finds you well and we will email again with an update in a few months!
Please feel free to email thoughts or concerns.

Thanks so much,
Bethany and Selwa

Family Geography

Bronwyn Hughes, Melissa Kaseman, and Jessamyn Lovell

RayKo Photo Center
428 Third Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

415-495-3773

closes Wednesday, May 30, 2007

This exhibition of photographs explores geography and space as it relates to family using environmental portraits, landscapes, and abstractions of space as seen by three CCA alumni. Places can serve a similar purpose in that they hold valuable stories and emotions that all come rushing back just by visiting the place. In a way the act of photographing these places and the people within them creates a link to the past, through the artists’ eyes. Stories are told, secrets are revealed and additional layers unfold.

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http://www.jessamynlovell.com