Art for Aid: up for grabs!

The "art grab" at the Art for Aids event last weekend was so entertaining to watch.  Ticket holders get down-right territorial about their space in the line up waiting to grab of those 12" x 12" original canvases! My pieces went to two of my favorite fans (sorry the pics are so bad, it was my phone camera!):

Nicole

Tao

Grab wall with my 2 block prints

 FYI: This is the last week to view "Trading Places" at the Canton Gallery on the Green thru 6/26, and "Women's Work" at the Windsor Art Center thru 6/25 (see details on previous posts).

Clothesline Conversations

Strange how things go around with new interpretations.
I love using my clothesline! I garnered that 'green' ritual from my mom, who has always hung out laundry to dry on the clothesline that goes from her back window out to the tree in her yard.  My own clothesline is much funkier.  It swings out from a second floor porch which is adjacent to my home studio.  Well of course, it becomes extended studio space when needed, complete with ventilation!

Spray painted deconstructed lace, prior to my "Obeisance" installation, 2009. 

Now, author and colleague Maureen is addicted to her electric dryer, so when it came time to figure out her newest installation piece (and her very first visual art attempt!!), she had to find a seasoned linesman.  I was a willing vis art coach.  Is there clothesline protocol, she asked?  Which way do you hang them, upside down or right-side up?  For 5 bucks at target she banged out an amazing work of art, full of emotion and fragility. It was exhibited at our "Integrations" show in April.  Now that she's crossed into my artistic territory, I may have to compete in the bookwriting category.  That thought makes me cringe.

Maureen and "Birthday(Ad) dress"
Colt-Gateway Gallery, 2011

Check out Maureen's latest book "The Other Cradling" at www.finishinglinepress.com/Oauthor.

And one more clothesline convert, my artist friend Stephanie sports her laundry on a breezy spring day.  I told her it was good for her soul and her electric bill. Check out the black and green 'Cashed Fools' tie dye shirt hanging there!

See Stephanie's artwork on www.stephanielauretano.com.

Blues in the Air, tomorrow night!

Join the Balkun Brothers Blue Band as they compete for the first time in the CT Blues Society Band Challenge at Black-eyed Sally's, 350 Asylum Street, Hartford, CT 06103, (860) 278-7427 - Thurs. 6/9, 9 pm.
On June 30th, Sally's will also be hosting "One Concert One Child" featuring Chester "Big Boy" Coda (aka Robert Nasta) and others, sponsored by Artists for World Peace.  So save the date!!
Rock on.

Art Show - one night only!

Join us for a wonderful night of art, music, food and friends for a good cause.  I will have 2 pieces in the art grab, including this one.  Come and get 'em!

ART for AIDS

All proceeds will benefit The Richard B. Fried Fund for

the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition, an endowment

administered by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Saturday, June 11, 2011, 7:00 pm

ArtSpace, 555 Asylum St., Hartford

Ticket Information:

Prices start at $50 per person and go on sale Monday, May 2nd  at 10:00 am

The event will feature an open wine bar, tasty treats from local restaurants, music, an art show/sale, and a fabulous “art grab” where each guest will take home an original 12”x12”

canvas contributed by a local artist.

For more information or to buy tickets visit: ctaidscoalition.org

Movie Opening: !Women Art Revolution! opens June 24th in Hartford!

STARTS JUNE 24TH IN HARTFORD!                                                          An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century. For more than forty years, filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust, Strange Culture) has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries—and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. With a rousing score by Sleater-Kinney’sCarrie Brownstein, !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro,Marcia Tucker and countless other groundbreaking figures.

Watch the trailer and find out more at http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/%21WAR/

June 24-30th at REAL ART WAYS
56 Arbor Street
Hartford CT 06106
860 232-1006
www.realartways.org

A ZEITGEIST FILMS RELEASE