Looking to transform society? Many philosophers and poets give this advice: Start with yourself. But Loiter Galleries, starting this weekend, will offer a slightly different answer — start with nature. The gallery will host the West Coast premiere of “Oasis in the Woods: Earth Art” this Friday, Aug. 23, an exhibition featuring the pioneering philosophical works of four artists: Clinton, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Mendocino, California; and Oakland, California.The exhibit will kick off with an opening ceremony dubbed “The Gathering” on Friday, August 23, from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. The event, according to a recent news release, will set the tone for a weekend of reflection, discussion, and creative exploration.
The following day, attendees can attend “Stories and Artists Talk,” a session from 1 to 6 p.m. that offers insight into the artists’ processes and the themes behind their work. The exhibition will conclude on Sunday with a “Salon and Closing Ceremony,” starting at 7 p.m., providing a final opportunity to experience the art and engage with the artists in a more intimate setting.
But what exactly is this “Earth Art,” and how can we — and society — benefit from it?
"Art is Business"Curator Fran Joy invites you to an Artists Talk and Reception.
Artist Bio: Fran Joy is an artist, designer, curator, and life coach currently living in Evanston. Born and raised in southern Illinois, she moved to New Orleans and the greater Chicago/Evanston area. This life experience, ten years of residence in Los Angeles, and frequent visits to New York City have flavored and colored her passion as an artist.
After studying oil painting, creative writing, and drawing at Columbia College in Chicago, Joy combined her own experimentation with the impromptu training she received from independent artists whose work she admired. Joy is known for her images on social justice, women, spirit images, iconic portraits, colorful abstract landscapes, and large designer wood screens and wall mounts. Her paintings usually begin with an acrylic base on canvas or wood, followed by oil pastels used with various sponges for texture, blending, and intensity.
Joy has exhibited at the Evanston Art Center, the Noyes Cultural Art Center, 1100 Florence Gallery, Curt’s Cafe, Open Studio Project, Garrett Theological Seminary, Artem Gallery, Danon Gallery, Lorraine Morton Civic Center, and Creative Coworking. Her works are in private collections in Evanston; Chicago; New York; Los Angeles; San Francisco; New Orleans; Philadelphia; Seattle; Centralia, Illinois; Arizona; New Mexico; Canada, and New Zealand.
Joy has coordinated various art installations throughout the greater metro area, including co-curating SOULWORKS at the Evanston Art Center, a collection of art by both renowned and emerging artists of color.
Email: fwjoy@icloud.com
Website: http://www.franjoy.com/
Vibrational Sound Narrative, 2019 "Fletcher Fire II"
Chicago Jazz Ensemble at Millennium Park 07
Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36"
Alpha Bruton
PUR
Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as the leader of the first great jazz big band, an arranger and composer in the 1930s, and a masterful talent scout. Between 1923-1939, quite an all-star cast of top young Black jazz musicians passed through his orchestra. And yet, Henderson's band was little-known at the height of the swing era.
Fletcher Henderson had a degree in chemistry and mathematics. Still, when he came to New York in 1920 with hopes of becoming a chemist, the only job he could find (due to the racism of the times) was as a song demonstrator with the Pace-Handy music company. Harry Pace soon founded the Black Swan label, and Henderson, a versatile but fairly basic pianist, became an important contributor behind the scenes, organizing bands and backing blues vocalists. Although he started recording as a leader in 1921, it was in January 1924 that he put together his first permanent big band.
He was soon at the top of his field using Don Redman's innovative arrangements. His early recordings (Henderson made many records during 1923-1924) tend to be both futuristic and awkward, with strong musicianship but staccato phrasing. However, after Louis Armstrong joined up in late 1924 and Don Redman started contributing more swinging arrangements, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra had no close competitors artistically until the rise of Duke Ellington in 1927. By then, Henderson's band (after a period at the Club Alabam) was playing regularly at The Roseland Ballroom. Still, due to the bandleader being a very indifferent businessman, the all-star outfit recorded relatively little during its peak (1927 to 1930).
"Art is Business" https://www.chicagotextileweek.com/week-of-events/community-conversation-and-quilt-installation.
Blue Circles is a community art project developed by Amanda Christine Harth for her residency SAIC at Homan Square.
I visited this Community Conversation and Quilt Installation, and so glad I did.
On Friday, September 30th, 2022, I joined an open-ended community conversation about Chicago's textile art and craft communities and their interrelating histories.
What is Chicago's textile history, and what can we do to remember that history while creating its present and imagining its future?
This conversation occurred in Nichols Tower, part of Chicago's textile history. Once part of the original Sears, Roebuck & Company, the building now hosts the School of the Art Institute's Homan location. Several community quilts will be displayed during the conversation as a reminder of Chicago's rich quilting history and to link this gathering to the tradition of quilting circles as a community gathering, planning, and healing site. Featured quilts include A quilt from recent denim dying and quilting workshop participants at SAIC Homan, a "circle work" quilt made by Teen Creative Agency, and quilts from a local church.
Gatherings like quilting circles, sewing clubs, embroidery protests, and knitting collectives inspired this community conversation! So, in the spirit of those gatherings, bring your projects (knitting, crochet, embroidery, card weaving, quilt squares, fashion sketching, hand stitching, lace work--whatever!) to work on during the conversation. Some basic materials will be on hand if you don't have a project to bring. Then, CTW representatives and makers of the quilts on display will give brief opening remarks to set the stage for the remainder of the program.
RESOURCE: Sickler Welcome Blanket Kits, 2000 Miles of Warm
Sickler Welcome Blanket Kits, 2000 Miles of Warm Welcomeblanket.org, Making change with Art & Activism-Craftivism. Partnering with refugee resettlement agencies & immigrant aid groups to distribute blanks.
Donating quilts to those in need of a warm welcome. What better way to welcome than a pretty, fun, and useful blanket? The need is great.
Where are the blankets going?
Your blankets are helping three organizations:
THE IRC, our refugee resettlement partner, works with asylum seekers who have been released from detention.
Miry's List a movement dedicated to welcoming new arrival refugee families.
Catholic Charities USA, aiding in their Helping at the Boarder program.
Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum- Big Day of Giving is 365 days.
Shonna McDaniel's the Founder and Director of the Sojourner Truth Art Museum (founded in 1996). McDaniels is a professional artist/teacher/muralist, and community activist. She has an extensive background in art instruction and mural designs. She has studied under some of the finest professors in the Los Rios Community College network and master artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. While residing in Germany, McDaniels instructed art classes for two years on Military Bases and organized art exhibitions and programs.
Before 1996, Shonna McDaniels was one of the co-founders and artists of the Visual Arts Development Project (founded in 1988); McDaniels taught art classes, conducted workshops, and organized art exhibits throughout the Oak Park and Del Paso communities. She has donated art to various organizations and helped raise money for charitable causes throughout the Sacramento Region. She has over 25 years of community involvement with multiple organizations that support the arts through exhibitions, artist residencies, community activism, community murals, and organizing community-based festivals in South Sacramento.
Ms. McDaniels has contributed over 150 murals to the landscape of Sacramento, Stockton, and San Francisco:
These collections can be found: in Sacramento Unified School District, Sacramento Arts Commissions,
County of Sacramento, Florin Business Arts Complex/Sojourner Truth Murals Project
And her artistic legacy within the community is renowned to grassroots, professional artists, politicians, and the business community. Her contributions have been recognized by Council members: Lauren Hammond, Bonnie Pannell, Larry Carr, Mayor Kevin Johnson, Congress Doris Matsui, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Entertainer Russell Simmons. Mrs. McDaniels is a committed “social artist-activist.” Her work is dedicated to creativity and social change within the context of an evolving, healthy community.
Personal Statement: My purpose as an artist is to leave a legacy for future artists. I want young black girls and boys to see my art and experience something of worth, pride, and value. For this reason, I strive to have the essence of my work reflect dignity, strength, and the beauty of each subject I present. For me, youth education is critical, and I have spent a large part of my career as an artist educating youth. I feel today, more than ever, that art is needed by young people as a forum for safe expression, communication, exploration, imagination, and cultural and historical understanding. Art is an essential, encompassing life element that can produce an environment with a productive cultural exchange of ideas. In addition, art promotes acquiring intellectual skills in literature, science, and math. Indeed, art should be a priority in human development. Art can inspire youth to be creative, think outside the box, and use their skills to beautify their environment.
10 African American female artists invited to exhibit at the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum have proved unafraid of provoking controversy. Through their artwork, these women confront the injustices of misrepresentation done to black women throughout history and disrupt the built-in prejudices they have faced. Importantly they also prove that the importance of black females' bodies runs more than just skin deep.
"Women's bodies have constantly stirred within society, especially from the seeming contradiction between female sexuality and motherhood.
Often called the “Madonna and whore dichotomy,” this ambivalence makes the site of the female body a contentious spectacle for men and women alike. Add to this mixture the sight of a black female body and the racial context it elicits, and we find ourselves in the middle of a textured conversation about womanhood, race, and inevitably society’s opinions upon it.”Christabel Johanson is a writer and a curator from London.
Curator Talver Germany Miller:
A native of Sacramento, California, I was educated like many other artists from grammar to graduate school. I received a BA degree in Studio Art, BA in Social Science/ Anthropology, and an MS. Degree in Counseling Education all from the California State University of Sacramento. I am an Associate Professor of Art at Folsom Lake College, a member of the Placerville Arts Association, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Sacramento African American Art Collection, Phantom Gallery Chicago Network on LinkedIn, and a member of the California Arts Association.
INSIGHTFUL, ACTIONABLE, AND COLLABORATIVE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
JOIN US ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT POPUP RESEARCH STATION CAFE, AS LISA GUIDES THE COLLABORATIVE TEAM OF RESEARCHERS INTO SHAPING AND DESIGNING THEIR COLLECTIVE ARCHIVES.
Lisa Gaines McDonald, Reseach Explorers, Inc.
Lisa Gaines McDonald has conducted qualitative research since 1994 through her company Research Explorers, Inc. Her specialty has been in the areas of communications and messaging testing, consumer package goods, social marketing, healthcare, arts, and new products and services. Over her career, she has worked with a broad range of respondents including African Americans, women, the elderly, public officials, tweens, teens, medical professionals, and business owners.
Topic: Pop-up Research Station CAFE
Time:,11:00 AM Pacific Time (the US and Canada), 1pm CST, and 2pm EST
The Pop-Up Research Station will be a place to glean information. We hope to give emerging artists and arts organizers the necessary skills to advance their creative visions." While providing municipalities, communities, developers, and realtors the business case for helping artists advance their vision.
BMRC's Introduction to Archiving Workshop: Part One via this link:
Community Engagement Archivist Tanya Calvin walks through the processes of determining the value of materials, organizing and describing them; small preservation tips, and providing access to collections for users. This workshop was designed to answer from the BMRC's Community Needs and Assets Assessment and the Community Discussions that followed it. The BMRC's workshop was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This year 2021 The Ocean Between III organized by Marianna Buchwald, Cem Koc, Anke Aust, and Beate Axmann, is an International and Interdisciplinary Art Festival, started July 24. 2021 with the grand opening at Gallery bei Koc , Hahnenstrasse 8, 30167. Our mission is, that art, film, dance, music, and mask theater are an important medium for International understanding to further develop International Art festivals and exhibitions and to create inspiring collaborations amongst artists with different cultural backgrounds and art forms.
The opening held on July 24.5pm in Hanover features the exhibition The Ocean Between lll, curated by Cem Koc, a dance solo by Ellyzabeth Adler: "Healing Letters", music by Uli Meinholz and Michelle Schaefer, and a performance: "The Three Totems" with Ronit Marach, Nga, Werner Egly, Susanne Spaltenstein and Anke Aust by Marianna Buchwald, as well as works by the artists.
We were delighted to feature these artists from USA: Sarah Beth Woods, Ellyzabeth Adler, and in Germany: Anke Aust, Beate Axmann, Andrea Wallgren, Cem Koc, Kristin Heike, Silke Bartsch, Ulli Meinholz, Fei Zhou, Timm Ulrichs, Anette, Lars Schumacher, Franz Betz , Katrin Hamann, Nini Seide, Knud Go., Michael Hall and Aikins Hyde.
August 2-8, The Ocean Between III, presented works by these artists at various venues in Berlin and performances in Oderberg with Lizzy Erber, Anke Aust, Marianna Buchwald, and Ellyzabeth Adler with music by Ulli Meinholz at the Zuendholzfabrik and with a pop-up exhibition at Airport Tempelhof, curated by Lars Schumacher on July 5- 6. at 7pm.
On Friday, Nov 19, 2021, at 7pm CST we will present our collaborative work and art with a special exhibition The Ocean Between lV at Phantom Gallery Chicago, during the Virtual Open Studio. Presented during the Bronzeville Art District Virtual Art Tour.
Please join us this evening for October 15, 2021, Bronzeville Art Tour starting at 7 pm.
Virtual Experience: To enjoy the evening virtually, please see the links below. You can visit any of the galleries, art institutions or studios and experience the amazing art and entertainment you would find on our in-person trolley tour. You can pop in and pop out and visit for as long as the presentation is available.
Links are subject to change. Please check before the event.
Gallery Guichard: Virtual and In-person
https://bit.ly/galleryguichardarttour
Webinar ID: 821 1588 2807
International numbers available: International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNbZGGLSe
Faie Afrikan Art: Virtual and In-person https:us02web.zoom.us/j/87320093471?
Meeting ID 873 2009 3471
Passcode 698508
Meeting ID: 883 7926 7223 Passcode: 687512
Blanc Gallery: Virtual and In-person https://bit.ly/AugustBlanc21
South Side Community Art Center: Virtual Only
https://bit.ly/sscacarttouraug
Passcode: 385108
Or One tap mobile :
US: +13126266799,,82475324412#,,,,*385108# or +13017158592,,82475324412#,,,,*385108#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 720 707 2699
Webinar ID: 824 7532 4412
Passcode: 385108
International numbers available: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbLn9FYPfL
"Art is Business" https://www.blogtalkradio.com/phantomgallerychicago/2021/09/07/creative-conversation-a-talk-with-curator-mercy-baty-part-2
CURATORIAL PRACTICE ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Wisdom Baty is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and arts collaborator interested in curating space for black and brown mothers and their children. With over a decade of community organizing, her practice reimagines physical space, autonomy, and historical accuracy in support of black motherhood through the lens of intersectionality. She is the founder and creative director of Wild Yams: Black Mothers Artist Residency.
An artistic collaborator, Wisdom has co-organized 6018N Windows to the World exhibition 2020, the inaugural Black Experience: Panel and MFA Showcase at SAIC Sullivan Galleries in 2015, and The Black Family Reunion 2017 with Threewalls and Reunion. In addition, Baty was a 2017 Marwen Teaching Artist Resident, a 2007 fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, participated in the Museum of Contemporary Art Teacher Institute, and currently has work represented on the Field Foundations website under the program areas section. Baty received her BFA in Painting at UIC’s School of Art and Design in 2012 and a Masters's degree in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018.
"No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts... the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity."
- Faith Ringgold
For more information, contact:
Wisdom Baty
M: 773.815.2419
Director of Development and Community Relations at COLAB 7100
Alpha Bruton is the Chief Curator at Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, a project that connects artists with temporary installation spaces. She aims to examine the current changes in curatorial production and develop innovative displays concerning virtual spaces. "Curatorial Practice" explores the impact of the urban environment on the artist and their work and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of a city.
Alpha Bruton completed her studies in art education at California State University, Sacramento, and earned an MAAA in Art Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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