CULTURE BRIDGE/KULTURBRUECKE 2017

DANK Haus, Scharpenberg Art Gallery, 4th floor

4740 N. Western, Chicago, IL.

"Culture Bridge is an annual exhibition and International Festival open to the interpretation and views of artists, who enjoy the variety of expression in the form of paintings, music, photography, sculpture, jewelry, graphic design, fashion design, outsider art, performance art, film, storytelling and theater. 

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Cultures approach each other by way of travel and communication. I use to call it accultulation.  What is meant by acculturation? Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; also : a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact. The process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy.

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

It can also refer to "the process by which Western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations.

The International Art Group and artists invited to participate in 2017 Culture Bridge exhibition aim to create a dialog between cultures, using our many different art forms. Mariana Buchwald Founder of Iinternational Art Group.

Piotr Wolodkowciz, Keo Ra Zen, Past Curators of Culture Bridge/Kulturbruecke joined me in the installation of 2017 artworks, an amazing collections of art from artists who have traveled all over the world, now living and creating art in Chicago.

Featured artists Martha Juarez Photo Credit Warren Perlstein  

 Opening reception was documented by artist Warren Perlstein, visit him on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenp/sets/72157680473493096/,to see the amazing photographs of the opening event.

Featured Artist Judith Roth- Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Artist Renee Baker- Film Series  maker and Composer

  

 Experimental Film and Sound

Tuesday, February, 28 and Wednesday March 1, 6pm - 9pm

 RENEE BAKER

Filmmaker/Composer

“SONIC CONSCIOUSNESS”

 Film 1 OUTEREXTREMIA 13

 Film 2: THE BLUE BIRD

Art Activities, Painting of Portraits

Saturday, March 4. 12:30pm - 3pm

Bookmaking with Linda M. Platt for families and artists

 

Linda M. Platt will be conducting a workshop for family and friends, photographed here with her daugher and son in law .

                          Portrait Painting:4pm  - 9pm:The Artist as Subject and Object:

 Michael Abcede, Martha Juarez, Elizabeth Parker, Piotr Wolodkowciz

Art talks with Laura Engel, The Native American Drum: Warren Perlstein

          

           Art Talk, Play, Film Festival 

Saturday March 11.Art Activities and Play,12:30 - 3pm with Penelope Thrashe        

Film Festival, 6 - 9pm: 

KULTURE KLASH featuring Kao Ra Zen,                                           

Tom Palazzolo, Daniel Brehm, Ron Richardson, Spencer Hutchinson     

Kao Ra Zen Curator of Film Festival KULTURE KLASH featuring Kao Ra Zen

     

 Live Music and Movement

SONIC NEWNESS: 

Renee Baker & Althea Teamer

Tues March 14. 6pm - 9pm

 Wed March 15. 6pm - 9pm

 Renee Baker & Chicago Mask Ensemble: Marianna Buchwald, Althea Teamer, Gina Carpenter, Daniel Weinberg, Kathryn Gauthier

Closing Reception

Saturday. March 18. 6pm - 9pm

Music: Ancestral Resurrections, George Larson,

Fashion show with Elizabeth Parker, 

Art bazaar: Daniel Weinberg

 EXHIBITING ARTISTS 

images can be seen on ArtSlant-
 

Michael Abcede 

Rah Marie Anderson

Renee Baker

Alpha Bruton 

Hans-Ulrich Buchwald

Marianna Buchwald 

Gina Carpenter

Paulo Carvalho

 Janina Ciezadlo

Kambua Chema   

Sara Peak Convery

Tomasz Fudala    

Henning Greve  

Kathryn Gauthier

Teresa Gierwielaniec – Rozanacki

Ladan Ghajar

Judith Heinemann

William Hill    

Spencer Hutchinson 

Martha Juarez      

Delia Jean

Stanislaw Kielar

Wes Lee K (Wesley Kochan)

Agnieszka Kulon
Renata Kowalczyk        

George Larson

Boruch Lev

Ginny Ching Yin Lo

Bishal Manandhar

Aimee Michel

Brittany Nacole  

Didier Nolet   

Elaine O’Sullivan

Tom Palazzolo 

Elizabeth Parker 

Warren Perlstein

Lauren Pilot

Linda M. Platt

Robert Pockmire

Judith C. Riemer

Erin Rossi

Judith Roth

Daniel Shumis

Paola Cofresi Silverstien    

Joanna Szymanska    

Joyan Tang

Althea Teamer

Bala Thiagarajan

Penelope Thrasher 

Elsa Toebelmann

Eileen Tull

Kim Denise Uhe

Daniel Weinberg

Zackary Williams

Piotr Wołodkowicz

Teresa Zawitkowska

Fotios Zemenides

Kao Ra Zen

  

        

CURATOR’S NOTES:

TIME ARTS - Marianna Buchwald             

"Culture Bridge is an annual exhibition and International Festival open to the interpretation and views of artists, who enjoy the variety of expression in the form of paintings, music, photography, sculpture, jewelry, graphic design, fashion design, outsider art, performance art, film, storytelling and theater. The objective of this exhibition is to build the cultural exchange and dialog between artists from the United States, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. 

Guest Curator - Alpha Bruton     

 Cultures approach each other by way of travel and communication. It can also refer to "the process by which Western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations. The International Art Group and artists invited to participate in 2017 Culture Bridge exhibition aim to create a dialog between cultures, using our many different art forms.

   SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2017 

    

Culture Bridge Committee: Martha Juarez, Joanna Szymanska, Sara Peak Convery, Sarah Marie Anderson, Linda M. Platt, Penelope Thrasher, Daniel Weinberg, Kambua Chema, Warren Perlstein, Piort Wolodkowicz, and Bishal Manandhar.

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein