Call for Artists for Bici Show

Posted on March 19, 2011 by The Collective

On Friday April 29 Bici is having a poster and bike art show showcasing our race posters over the years, along with bike related art – prints, sculptures, functional pieces, hand-built bikes, and who knows what else! We’d love to have as many artists as possible show their work at the show. If you’re interested email anna@bicicoop.org

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Opening “Yeon Yue : Grey American Landscape” at Beta Pictoris

Posted on January 21, 2011 by The Collective
Friday, January 21 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

-Grey American Landscape by Yeon J. Yue-

My recent project “Grey American Landscape” comes out of a three months cross-country road trip, photographing American Military families, military towns, and other tourist areas, from Los Angeles to New York.
Through dealing with two opposite contexts, War and Family, in one project, I am trying to create the narrative of the world that has co-existed within reality and fiction. This new …War Documentary photographs are mosaic pieces of what American Landscape means to me.
I searched all the military related areas through the Google Map, and I realized that the areas are colored in grey color on Google Map. Grey color, between black and white, exists in our real life even on the map.

I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, where the ideological conflict still exists. And at the age of 22, as all the South Korean males do, I joined the military service, and served alongside the U.S. Air Force as a Military Police. While I was serving, 9.11 happened, and everything seemed new to me, traumas, worries, desires, and friends and family.

This is an unseen American Landscape. Security and insecurity, reality and fiction are co-existed in one space. Glorious and disgusting, but their beautiful and heart touching stories could be found alongside my road trip. My dearest friend, Tony in Shevlin Minnesota, still puts his pistol in the vase, but never locks his front door.

YEON YUE, “GREY AMERICAN LANDSCAPE”
new photographs

January 21 – February 26, 2011

opening reception Friday, January 21, 6-8 pm

beta pictoris gallery
2411 Second Avenue North
Birminbgham, AL 35203

www.betapictorisgallery.com

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172146512827337

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D.I.Y Birmingham – The Forge Zine

Posted on January 17, 2011 by The Collective

D.I.Y Birmingham, which we all love, is creating a zine called “the Forge.”

If you have any artwork (drawings, paintings, collages, photos, etc), write ups, album reviews, interviews, event write ups for the zine email theforgezine@gmail.com.

CORRECTION: not made by DIY Birmingham. but by “Members of the DIY Community” :)

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Opening: “First Impressions” at Lite Box Gallery in Young & Vann Building

Posted on January 11, 2011 by The Collective

Opening reception, Friday, January 14, 2011, from 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

From the Lite Box Website:

Lite Box Gallery will exhibit this show from January 14 through February 26 in the ArtFolk space at the Young & Vann Building in downtown Birmin…gham, Alabama. The show will be one of the largest exhibits of its kind in the state, featuring more than 30 Alabama artists who are exploring the increasingly popular medium of printmaking. Featured artists include many of Alabama’s most talented printmakers as well as emerging artists.

Printmaking can take many forms, from colorful screenprints and bold block prints to the delicate lines of intaglio and the nostalgic look and feel of letterpress. Visitors to “First Impressions” will see examples of each type of printmaking and gain insight into the different artistic processes, including the new frontier of digital printmaking. In addition, weekly workshops, demonstrations, and artist talks will enable the public to experiment with printmaking and make their own art pieces. Upcoming classes are listed at http://liteboxgallery.wordpress.com/upcoming-classes-and-demos/.

Artists include:

Justin Banger
James Cormier
Michelle Ray
Debra Riffe
Bethany Moody
Rebecca Munkachy
West Finlayson
Tenisha Hicks
Michael Swann
Jane Marshall
Brandon Oswalt
Lauren Faulkenberry
Suzanne Sawyer
Helga Mendoza
Cathy Wright
Sarah Marshall
Aaron Drew
Drea Zacharenko
Rebecca Reynolds
Chris Bisset
Mimi Boston
Shelleigh Buckingham
Ashley Lindsey
Scott Stephens
Kathy Baty
Patrick Mayton
Jill Marlar
John DeMotte
Scott Fisk
Timarie Fisk
Jeremy Markham
Charles Buchanan

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Lite Box Gallery is Now at the Young and Vann Building

Posted on January 11, 2011 by The Collective

Lite Box Gallery at Young & Vann, a view from 1st AVenue North at 18th Street. The gallery entrance is located on the back side of this historic building.

From their site:

Just a little note to say Lite Bax Gallery has temporarily moved to the Young & Vann Building located at 1731 First Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

Our next show, First Impressions: An Introduction to Alabama Printmaking, will open with a reception on Friday, January 14th, 2011. Please make plans to join us!

Hours:
Wednesday – Friday, Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Other hours by appointment.

Location:
Young & Vann Building
1731 First Avenue North

Phone:
205-716-1665

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Please Support: One Year One Book: MMX Open Art Venue

Posted on January 8, 2011 by The Collective

©Jonathan Gröger/MMX

Get the book on Kickstarter! The awesome art venue MMX where Birmingham Collective’s own Jason Burgess works at. When I went to Berlin I was able to go to this incredible venue. Please Support!

We are searching for funding to publish a book that documents the beginning of an international and transitory art project. MMX Open Art Venue started with the challenge of one year to change a dilapidated building in a commercial neighborhood in a foreign country into one of the most successful spaces for emerging and underexposed art and creativity. The space we used last year will be demolished and renovated into condos next year and the only thing that will exist is this book cataloging the whole MMX experience.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2061620078/one-year-one-book-mmx-open-art-venue/

http://www.mmx.mx/

http://www.facebook.com/MMX.Berlin

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UAB Art Lab Opening: Currency Part 1: Modes of Expression

Posted on January 4, 2011 by The Collective
Carl Fudge

Image courtesy Carl Fudge and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York. It is Komposition Z by Carl Fudge.

Thursday, January 6 · 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Artlab at UAB
900 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL

The first of two exhibitions exploring trends in contemporary printmaking. Part 1 focuses on abstraction across print media, and features works by Polly Apfelbaum, Laura Berman, Carl Fudge, Kevin Haas, Karla Hackenmiller, Gunilla Klingberg. Co-curated by Derek Cracco and Brett Levine.

you can find the facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=147252025324696

art lab at UAB facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=46964882683

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teaching opportunity for artists

Posted on December 23, 2010 by The Collective

For those interested artists, check out the document and letter from Buddy Palmer below..

Arts Educator Job Announcement Nov 2010

The Birmingham City Schools and cultural partner, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham, have recently been awarded a 3-year grant to provide arts-integration based residencies in nine elementary schools. If you have a teacher’s spirit and have an interest in working in Birmingham City Schools, the details of the program and application information are provided in the attached document. If you have a problem opening the document, we are also in the process of posting the information on our website, www.cultural-alliance.com. You’ll find it there soon. The Alliance office will be closed beginning Friday, December 24, and will reopen on Monday, January 3. For those interested, if you have further questions after reading the document, feel free to give me a call in 2011. Happy holidays!

Buddy Palmer

President & CEO

Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham

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Call for Submissions: the Literary Journal Aura

Posted on October 13, 2010 by The Collective

We are accepting submissions now through November 6. We are interested in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography from UAB students, alumni, employees, and Birmingham-area writers and artists. I would like to encourage you, your friends, and your students to consider submitting work for our Fall 2010 issue.

You can check out the website at www.uab.edu/aura (it has not yet been updated for fall, but the submission info is still valid) or send submissions and/or questions via e-mail to uabaura@yahoo.com.

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DESPERATION Art Opening by Rebecca Davis & John Lytle Wilson

Posted on September 28, 2010 by The Collective

Please join us Friday, October 1st, from 5PM to 8PM here at Boutwell Recording Studios, for DESPERATION, an original art show by Rebecca Davis, and John Lytle Wilson.

We will be here in the studio, enjoying the fascinating new works by these talented artists, and sipping on nothing finer than the champagne of beers, unless you consider Pabst Blue Ribbon to be finer than High Life…
We’ll also have a few snacks for you grazers of …finger foods, and of course, we serve up scintillating conversation, and laughs-a-plenty with the most talented and interesting people IN THE WORLD, right here in Birmingham, Alabama!

If you are the type to check out an artist’s website before the show, have I got a link for you! John Lytle Wilson has a lovely website with his artist statement, bio, and images of his legendary work: http://www.johnlytlewilson.com/

If you prefer to have your mind blown in person, you’ll be glad to know that Rebecca Davis is a secretive, private person who does not share anything on the internet. I bet you can’t wait to see what she has in store for you on October 1st!

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152342451466326

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