Call For Artist- Culture Bridge 2017

"Art is Business" Posted for Marianna Buchwald International Art Group

CALL FOR ARTISTS !CULTURE BRIDGE/ KULTURBRUECKE 2017

Feb.18. - March 18. 2017

Dank Haus, Scharpenberg Gallery

4740 N. Western, 4^th Floor, Chicago IL 60625

“Culture Bridge” 2017 "KULTURBRUECKE", a culture bridge of musicians, painters, dancers, sculptors, and photography/video/film artists. In 2016, the International Art Group Chicago featured more than 50 artists from 5 different continents, and presented  a broad range of artworks with an intention to deepen cross-cultural ties.

This year’s exhibit will be curated by Alpha Bruton, Chief Curator of the Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, and Marianna Buchwald, Director and Founder of the International Art Group.

All artists interested in participating in the 2017 exhibition, send your prospectus to Marianna Buchwald, Director of International Art Group, internationalartgroup1@gmail.com,  Subject Culture Bridge.

    

A $40 Application Fee is due BY January 18, 2017, Paypal donation button can be found at:  http://phantomgallery.blogspot.com/
or mail check, or money order to: 

Phantom Gallery Chicago Network/ CO Alpha Bruton, PO Box 2956, Chicago IL 60653.

Please call  Marianna Buchwald 773 507 1300 with questions are if you are interested in volunteering on a committee, helping to host one of the events, or soliciting for donations.

This project is supported in part by:

Name of Project: ARTIST APPLICATION:
“Culture Bridge” 2017

Name of Artist:

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Artist(s) Bio/Statement (write a statement about your work in general and your process in 250 Max)

SUPPORT MATERIALS

• Curriculum Vitae please include your name, address, phone number and email address along with exhibition and educational background.
• Please include a Web site links of your work along with 5- JPGS, please label all jpeg images. The jury will reserve the right to select work from the submissions of 5 images.
• For video work: For curatorial previewing, please supply you YouTube Station, Video segment should be no longer than 3 minutes and cued to the appropriate segment for panel to view. Time-based media, video art or documentation of performance art, should be submitted. Please do not submit videos of documentation of artistic process.
• For live art: web site links that document previous work; title, and a description of content and concept of proposed work.

WHO IS RENEE BAKER? Author of Cipher Conduit Linguistics

Renee Baker's Blu' City Documentary

WHO IS RENEE BAKER? Author of Cipher Conduit Linguistics

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE-RENEE BAKER

Renee' Baker is founding music director and conductor of the internationally acclaimed Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (CMOP), a polystylistic organization that grew from the plums of classical music as well as jazz. A member of the world renown collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Critical acclaim for her graphic scores novels has come from performances in Berlin, Poland, London, Scotland and as far reaching as Vietnam.

As a disruptive composer and visual artist, there are few barriers to the creative turns of this composer, conductor, artist, and instrumentalist. As a featured ensemble, CMOP has been chosen to work with NewMusicUSA and the EarShot program of the American Composers Orchestra.

An expert at ensemble development and training, Renee’ developed the Mantra Blue Free Orchestra (Chicago), PEK' Contemporary Project (Berlin), the progenitor of Bleueblue Walkers/Bass Kollektief, Twilight Struggles (Berlin) as well as being involved in starting over 20 cutting edge new music ensembles. Among them: TUNTUI, Wrinkled Linen, Chocolate Chitlin' Caucus, Red Chai Watch, FAQtet, Project 6, Renee' Baker's AWAKENING, Baker ArTet, a Butoh ensemble BODY STRATA, and Strings Attached.

Ms. Baker has performed globally from Bimhuis (Amsterdam) to Symphony Center (Chicago) and was a founding member as well as Principal Violist of Chicago Sinfonietta for 26 years Ms. Baker has composed over two thousand works for ensembles ranging from pieces for solo instruments, ballet, opera to large orchestral works that bridge the classical, jazz and creative music genres. Her ability to embrace various creative parameters in her work has led to commissions for the Chicago Sinfonietta, Berlin International Brass, PEK’ Contemporary Project, and DanceWright Project, among others.

As a disruptive force in composition, Ms. Baker’s eclectic visual score compositions led her to create a gestured conducting language she calls CCL/FLOW (Cipher Conduit Linguistics), which she employs when working with numerous cutting edge groups in Cologne, Berlin, Netherlands, London, Chicago, Portland (OR), and other ensembles around the world.

A further aspect of her composition skills is the development of her painted score exploratorium pieces for ensembles of variable sizes. Ms Baker is also in demand as a lecturer and expert in nontraditional composition techniques, as well as large ensemble “comprovisation”/ improvisation development.

Aspects of the art world permeate Ms. Baker’s work. Her performance art work SUNYATA:TOWARDS ABSOLUTE EMPTINESS will premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA, Chicago) in May 2015, and her tactile score sculpture works were featured at the MCA Chicago as part of the Sunyata premiere.

Ms. Baker is the composer of four operas. Currently she is working as a film score composer, having composed and released a new score for

Oscar Michaeux's “race film” masterpiece BODY AND SOUL (1925) with the music performed by her Chicago Modern Orchestra Project ensemble.

Called the latest AACM visionary by Downbeat Magazine, Ms. Baker is one of the brightest and most fertile minds in active in composition today.

Renee' C. Baker, Conductor/Composer
Chicago Modern Orchestra Project /PEK'
Contemporary Project
reneebaker@comcast.net
reneebakercomposer.com
reneebakercomposer.net
chicagomodernorchestraproject.org
For more information:
http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/Black-Composers.html
http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/Black-Composers-2.html

http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/CH125.html

Alan Emerson Hicks Featured Crazy 8 Artists' Carnival

State Street Gallery @ Robert Morris University401 S. State Street, Chicago ILGallery hours Mon- Thu, 10 am - 6 pmShow Runs - Dec 23, 2016Crazy8art.com

The work of eight Chicago artists working in a wide range of mediums and a wild range of techniques.Interpreting the themes of carnival, circus, and festival, the artists are joined by their exuberant delight in the visual and their unique re-imagining of the world. Curated by artist and curator Jason Messinger and Gallery Director and Dean of Arts Shelley Lamantia, Alan Emerson Hicks, is featured artist in a three month artist in residency during the exhibition.

Gallery Director and Dean of Arts Shelley Lamantia, and Alan Emerson Hicks

Featuring artists Kass Copeland, Alan Emerson Hicks, IZZO, Anne Leuck, Edward Master, Jason Messinger, Anthony Stagg, and Joey Wozniak. 

Gallery Director and Dean of Arts Shelley Lamantia

"Carnival Horse" gets a saddle. I'll work on the tail next and filling in some empty areas.

Alan Emerson Hicks uses found plastic objects and heat-manipulated plastic detritus to create tightly corseted structures of complexity. In his hands ephemeral materials are transformed into complex latticed sculptures, elaborate airy costumes, and unique works of art. Hicks conjures the modern world's everyday plastic objects of dull invisibility into a bright parade of startling singularity and vision.

Monica Moore model

Tyler Hicks., Model

 Mini Clown Sculptures on sale at the gallery store

Mini Clown Sculptures on sale at the gallery store

Crazy 8 Artists’ Carnival showcases 

Kass Copeland creates large graphic photo collages referencing by-gone eras and surrealistic tableaus. Both droll and serious, her works are constructed with humorous juxtapositions and garish pleasures while weathered with rich patinas and haunting emotional complexity. They re-invent familiar themes from the circus and the carnival into nostalgic fever dreams. A true master of her materials, Copeland’s artwork is a stage craft of delight.

IZZO unleashes fantastic images on printed-pattern fabric that bridge foreground with background, abstraction with representation, and the flat plane with spatial depth. Alternately embellishing and obscuring the existing fabric patterns, this suite of works focuses on the idea of dizzying love. IZZO fashions images into funhouse rides of joyful exuberance.

Anne Leuck uses her emotional and observed life as a jumping off point to create narratives that charm with their fresh immediacy and universal joy. Using crisp bold colors and a signature graphic style, she exposes a world both intimate and newly seen. In this collection she renders sideshow banners out of her own anxieties of physical aging. Leuck turns her own vulnerabilities into sideshow marvels of the human condition.

Edward Master paints hallucinatory patterned visions astounding in their complexity and richness, referencing natural and man-made motifs, along with decorative and ornamental traditions. With a bewildering level of detail one seemingly hovers above the work, sensing both a microscopic viewpoint and an overwhelming vastness. Swooping in layered complexity, Master’s artworks are a carnival ride for the eye.

Jason Messinger creates ceramic tile murals and sculptures of bright colors and wry content. His sculptures twist and turn with organic yearning and figurative sensibility, creating abstract interpretations of famous sideshow acts. His tile murals vibrate between sneaky humor and abstract beauty - commenting on the lexicons of the circus and the carnival. Utilizing the materials of ceramic and richly colored glazes, Messinger’s artwork is its own circus act.

Anthony Stagg allows his artwork to speak in the language of the street, utilizing tropes as far ranging as graffiti styles to comic book archetypes. Melding pop culture references with fantastical vignettes, the artist exposes a wry observation of the modern world. His non-judgmental viewpoint is both open and humorous, retro and contemporary. Stagg invites you into his own festival of life.

Joey Wozniak pushes, scrapes and layers vibrant color paints to create densely rendered landscapes with an underlying energy bursting below the surface. Bridging a physical approach to the physicality of paint with a masterful understanding of the stimulus of color, the artist crafts joyful scenes in riotous hues. Rich with references to classical architecture and peopled with characters from a wide sampling of cultures, Wozniak constructs his own unique post-modern jubilees.

CIPHER CONDUIT LINGUISTICS

An exhibit featuring new works: Art Books, Paintings, and Wall Sculpture. 

The Phantom Gallery Chicago Network is proud to announce Renee Baker as guest- artist in residency. Her residency took place June 1st– December 31, 2016. She worked directly with Phantom Gallery Chicago’s chief curator Alpha Bruton, and Alan Emerson Hicks. The Phantom Gallery Chicago provided  technical and administrative support, for the creation of new works and the exploration of new ideas with an exhibition at the end of the residency.

As a disruptive force in composition, Ms. Baker’s eclectic visual score compositions led her to create a gestured conducting language she calls CCL/FLOW (Cipher Conduit Linguistics), which she employs when working with numerous cutting edge groups in Cologne, Berlin, Netherlands, London, Chicago, Portland (OR), and other ensembles around the world. 

A further aspect of her composition skills is the development of her painted score exploratorium pieces for ensembles of variable sizes. Ms Baker is also in demand as a lecturer and expert in nontraditional composition techniques, as well as large ensemble “comprovisation”/ improvisation development.

Opening Reception -  Monday, December 19, 2016 7-9pm 

Closing Reception January 22, 3-5pm.

Phantom Gallery Chicago Network

436 E. 47th Street, Room 205

Chicago IL  60653

773-681-6570, Buzz 205 for entry 

RSVP strongly suggested.

Renee' C. Baker, Conductor/Composer

Chicago Modern Orchestra Project /PEK' Contemporary Project

reneebaker@comcast.net

reneebakercomposer.com

reneebakercomposer.net

chicagomodernorchestraproject.org

For more information:

http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/Black-Composers.html

http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/Black-Composers-2.html

http://www.billdoggettproductions.com/CH125.html *

Dail Chambers - Studio Artist & Community Art - A Word

"Art is Business" was reposted for Dail Chambers.

The Convergence + Exhibitions After organizing with Yeyo Arts Collective, Solidarity Economy, Cowry Collective, Sistahs Talkin' Back, and Progressive Emporium for our second bi-annual conference, Black Lotus Mobile, the fine artwork has been full of expansive experiences. During the conference, we set up a healing station and a manifestation workshop. Participants were able to create a vision board, organize their dreams, and evaluate their surroundings. Prenatal artwork has been exhibited in two community spaces. In New Orleans, La., three pieces were displayed for the Nation Breastfeeding Month event, "Birth Something Beautiful." One large-scale piece is currently being shown at Community Birth and Wellness in Ferguson, Mo., as part of their permanent collection. I have just completed Doula Training, and I am now a certified childbirth educator, breastfeeding peer counselor, and more. A doula is someone who assists a birthing mother before, during, and after the childbirth experience. A doula is a community resource for mothers and families. The knowledge gained from this experience will further the mission of Yeyo Arts Collective and Black Lotus Mobile Healing Arts. Another highlight of the summer is the showing of new fine artworks. Phantom Art Gallery in Chicago, IL,l. hosted my work as the featured artist for their September schedule. The installation, wall hanging work, and animation of "Sankofa: A Collective Mythology" received great feedback, and I look forward to upcoming exhibitions. If you enjoy community engagement and the ideas and inspiration of others, you will love this video: https://youtu.be/J-0wfR39YwI Dutchtown South in Saint Louis, Mo., has created a great project with community members, and I am thankful to be an animator for this work. Have a warm and wonderful fall to all! yeyoarts.blogspot.com itshanapa.tumblr.com

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Exhibition!

"Art is Business" Spread the Word and Come Out, RSVP at CHi@artisanseriesevents.com by October 19th, 2016

Come Listen To The Artist Talk 
"Finding Your Fingerprint and Creating Your Brand!"
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Exhibition!

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Chicago, IL. 60653

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Transatlantic Rumours: Chicago to Liverpool 2016 show coming up in Liverpool

"Art is Business" reposted for AnySquared

2016 Collaborative exhibition between AnySquared Projects in Chicago and the Rose Howey Cooperative Art Gallery 

exploring cooperation as an alternative to capitalism.

Opening October 7th, 5pm

Rose Howey Cooperative Gallery10-1 Sunnyside | Liverpool | UK
On Display through December 2016
Collaborative exhibition between AnySquared Projects in Chicago and the Rose Howey Cooperative Art Gallery exploring cooperation as an alternative to capitalism. 

#COOPERATIONalternative #TransatlanticRumours #chicagotoliverpool
––AnySquared.com | AnySquared.tumblr.com
AnySquared photo album of project:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1507668525943982.1073741844.108828282494687&type=1&l=eaca4c50ab
––Rose Howey Cooperative Gallery is Documented in Liverpool on the Open Eye Gallery Blog: openeye.org.uk__rosehoweycooperativegallery@gmail.com

Transcripts from the call will be broadcast on Blogtalkradio December 5, 2016

 “Art Washing” the artist community's short-term occupancy is being used for a classic profit-driven regeneration maneuver: Vs “Let’s keep urban wastelands as bleak as they already are!”

Panel Discussion 3-5 PM, October 7th, 

AnySquared, 2328 North      Milwaukee, Chicago IL

Moderator- Alpha Bruton- Phantom Gallery Chicago Network

Panelist:

Tracy Kostenbauger-  AnySquare Art Collective, 

Rose Howey, Cooperative Gallery in Liverpool Guest Collaborator

Liza Simone, PopUp Research Station Co-Founder

Caryl Henry, Co-collaborator Creative Currency 

Caryl Henry and Gabriel Patti install yard signs as public art installation

Portrait of the Artist as Community Developer: Theaster Gates and Chicago's South Side - Urban Land Magazine

Portrait of the Artist as Community Developer: Theaster Gates and Chicago's South Side - Urban Land Magazine: Chicago-based Theaster Gates may be the only artist in the United States merging the roles of artist and real estate developer. A celebrated and commercially successful multimedia artist who has exhibited work in museums and galleries around the world, Gates has transformed blocks of his South Side neighborhood through key investments in housing and unique community assets that provide residents with outlets for expression while preserving local culture before it disappears.

"Art is Business"

Phantom Gallery Chicago Presents @ BRONZEVILLE ARTIST LOFTS

"Art is Business"

Phantom Gallery Chicago Presents

Dail Chamber- Art Talk and Discussion- 5–6 pm

September 16th

A Collective Mythology takes place in the heart of the Midwest, U.S.A.: Saint Louis, Missouri. Artist Itshanapa Dail Chambers begins the story with her grandmother, which parallels her genealogical art process. Through this experience, she is introduced to collective ancestors, famous people, and collaborators who have impacted society and the Saint Louis region.

 

Renee Baker- Presents 

"A PAGE OF MADNESS!!! on September 16 @ 7 pm.

Renee Baker, Popup Experimental Film during BAD Trolley

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE- RENEE BAKER

Renee Baker is the founding music director and conductor of the internationally acclaimed Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (CMOP), a polystylistic organization that grew from the plums of classical music and jazz. A member of the world-renowned collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Currently, she is working as a film score composer, having composed and released a new score for Oscar Micheaux's “race film” masterpiece BODY AND SOUL (1925) with the music performed by her Chicago Modern Orchestra Project ensemble.

 Bronzeville Art District Open Studios

Featured Artist Makeba Kedem-Dubose

"Art is Business" 

The opening reception is Friday,  16 September 2016, open studios and Bronzeville Summer Night Art District Trolley Tour.  Artist Reception 5-6pm, Trolley Tour 6-9pm, Alley Activation 5-10pm. 436 E. 47th Street, Chicago IL  60653.

Makeba Kedem-Dubose studied interior design at Harrington College of Design. She has been an established Chicago-based, multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, and arts educator for over 20 years.

One of the first five artists honored by Diaspora Rhythms in 2003, Her work has been featured in various publications and many private collections worldwide, notably African Art: The Diaspora and Beyond by Daniel T. Parker, which features her art on the back cover. Poet Tara Betts also owns Makeba’s art and features it on the cover of her book Arc and Hue. In addition, her art is included in the collection of Oprah Winfrey–inspired artworks honoring the talk show host, A Time a Season, compiled by Janelle Dowell. Gallery owner Nicole Smith, fashion designer Barbara Bates, and DuSable Museum of African American History Director Dr. Carol Adams also collect Kedem-Dubose’s art.

I aim to pull viewers into a bigger picture beyond themselves to realize our origin. I view my art as a tool with the ultimate purpose of peace, painting with my heart and soul, knowing I am merely a vehicle for Love expressions from the creator of us all. Media, but are not limited to, acrylic paint, latex paint, paper, copper, canvas, ink, oil sticks, graphite, bark, branches, textiles, thread, ceramic tiles, wood, red beans, and other found objects.  Makeba

CAM 2015 Featured Artists Photo Shoot with Featured Artist and Curator of Migrations In Black and White CAM 2015 Featured Exhibition Program - 

Bold colors are my technicians to push the limits of the imagination. Strong lines are my fiery strokes to visually represent the thread that spiritually connects us to one another while simultaneously exploring the human connection with nature. These components unite as a catalyst to heal the effects of racism and separatism by displaying the varying hues of the human race often within a single image. 

With AnySquared and Makeba Kedem-DuBose Art.

Art Talks explored issues of interest and concern to artists and the art community, including political, environmental, moral, social, global, or personal ones. Black Experimentalism, Let Us Examine the State of Our Environment is a featured program as part of the Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, Bronzeville Artist Lofts Art, and Community Intersection.

Reference:

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/people/makeba-kedem-dubose

diasporalrhythms.org/makeba-kedem-dubose/

https://www.facebook.com/makeba-kedem-dubose/

http://blackartinamerica.com/profiles/blogs/passing-of-curator-and-gallerist-nicole-smith

http://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/nouvelles/nouvellesdiaspora/chicago_-_hommage_du_consul_g_n_ral_nicole_smith_une_grande_dame.html

Soul and Sufi Spiritual Soul Music from Pakistan

"Art is Business" Reposted for Global Resource  ID
www.sukooncreative.com/events

USE THE CODE: SOULMUSIC

Join us for an evening of Soul and Sufi spiritual music from Pakistan with Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad Qawwals.

Tickets: www.sukooncreative.com/events

Fareed Ayaz and Abu Mohammed are world renowned Qawwals from Pakistan that are the descendants of Amir Khusro, the originator of this centuries old spiritual and musical tradition.

Opening the night will be Chicago's own Zeshan and the Transistors, with their own eclectic take on Soul music with a South Asian flavor.

Doors open at 7pm, Show starts at 8pm Sharp

VIP Tickets include a reception with an artist meet and greet, refreshments and seating in the front rows.
...
There is free parking in the parking lot behind the building as well as plenty of metered street parking.

The venue is a two block walk from the Logan Square Blue Line stop.

Snacks will be available to purchase.

Creative Conversation with Artist Itshanapa Dail Chambers 03/29 by Phantom Gallery Chicago Network | Visual Arts Podcasts

Creative Conversation with Artist Itshanapa Dail Chambers 03/29 by Phantom Gallery Chicago Network | Visual Arts Podcasts:

Sankofa: A Collective Mythology takes place in the heart of the Midwest, U.S.A.: Saint Louis, Missouri. Artist, Itshanapa Dail Chambers begins the story with the search for her grandmother which parallels her genealogical art process. Through this experience she is introduced to collective ancestors, famous people and collaborators who have impacted society and the Saint Louis region.

Dail Chambers is a mother, artist and activist who exhibits and lectures nationally. She practices her studio art process in St. Louis Place, in north St. Louis, Missouri. Her artwork is based in material meaning and women's topics through an inquiry of history, self and family.

 Dail "Itshanapa" Chambers Mobile 

The concept of place and time are integral components of her work. Dail founded the Yeyo Arts collective, a group of five artists who opened Gya, a non profit community arts space that creates arts and culture experiences within the St. Louis region.

She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Visionary Award for Emerging Artist in 2011 and a Resolution from the City of St. Louis, Missouri in 2010. She is a 2010 Community Arts Training Institute graduate and 2011 Urban Bush Woman SLI fellow.

Investigation: What does it mean to exhibit in temporary installation spaces outside of the museum? What are you strategies for Community Arts Engagement? How do you envision the future present?

"Art is Business"