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Near NorthWest Arts Council
Acme Art Works @ St Paul's Cultural Center |
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 Chicago's largest
art-making party
Halloween eve
artists, poets,
sound artists,
filmmakers ....
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Near NorthWest
Arts Council
St Paul's Cultural Center
Acme Art Works
2215 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
Call us with any questions at the email address or phone number listed below.
nnwac@nnwac.org
773.278.7677
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Exquisite: A Series of Corpses
Halloween party for Chicago artists
Interactive Text/Visual Art Series
Friday Oct 30 at 7 to 11 PM
Plastique Press and the Near Northwest Arts Council
present a new interactive poetry/visual art series;
CIMM Fest to present a series of short films.
Poets and writers will join artists on stage with a live model, drawing materials, and typewriters. Poets and writers are invited to create new works, hand or typewritten, based on the model, the art, the event, the people. Artists are asked to draw about the same, including the written works. The result will be an immediate broadside. Sound and video artists are also invited to come and create new works based on the event.
This event follows in the history of exquisite corpse parlor games. Exquisite corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled by a group of people. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed. Exquisite takes place at the Near Northwest Arts Council at St. Paul's Cultural Center where the exhibition Binary: A Pairing of Opposite States is currently on view. This event is an extension of the Wetware Render Machine drawing performance that happened there on Fri., Oct. 9 to great fanfare and with beautiful results.
Plastique Press will then publish an enhanced eBook of the works produced that night, with each poet, writer, and artist being credited as an author. Sound, text, visual art, and video will become part of the final book.
Works produced during Exquisite will be hung in the exhibition space through Nov. 7, 2009. The eBook will be released in early 2010.
Audience participation welcome; scheduled participants include:
Karen Becker, Ray Bianchi (Cracked Slab Books), Waltraud Haas Bianchi, Kristy Bowen (Dancing Girl Press), Melanie Brown, Mia Capodilupo, Joshua Cotter, Skye Enyeart-Rust, Philip Jenks, Dana Major Kanovitz, Jacob Knabb (ACM), Francesco Levato (Poetry Center of Chicago, Plastique), Lauren Levato, Darrell Roberts, Adam Rust, Fred Sasaki (Poetry Magazine), Larry Sawyer (Milk Mag, Myopic), Momoko Usami, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Barbara Wakefield, Jackie White. Artists model: Dalawn Simpson
About the exhibit: www.oppositestates.com
About Plastique Press: www.plastiquepress.com
About CIMM Fest: www.cimmfest.org
About NNWAC: www.nnwac.org
For more information contact:
Lauren Levato, Plastique Press, 773/640-4522 or ladybeetle@laurenlevato.com
Laura Weathered, NNWAC, 773/278-7677 or laura@nnwac.org
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National Survey to Artists
Artists and the Recession
Let your voice be heard
Most artists have many jobs. How many do you have?
Leveraging Investments in Creativity - LINC, is a ten year national initiative that wants to make sure the conditions artists are facing in the current economic climate are being heard and addressed. LINC realizes that the diverse talents artist possess are often
under-valued, and their contributions are considered to be inessential
or unnecessary by most sectors of our society. As a result, few
nation-wide programs exist to provide artists with the resources,
authority, and information necessary to pursue their creative work
without jeopardizing their basic living conditions. LINC believes that
providing artists with a relevant system of support and resources will
enhance their creative output, enabling them to make greater and more
meaningful contributions to our communities and society as a whole.
http://www.lincnet.net/artists-and-recession-survey
its a small investment. Take the survey, Turn up the volume for artists.
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DIY Weddings at St Paul's
The Artful Alternative Celebration Space
Make it your very own celebration, invite your family and musician friends to play a role, without going broke. The chapel provides a beautiful architectural space with stained glass, carved wood and seating for 250. Call for details: 773.278.7677
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Near NorthWest Arts Council | Acme Art Works | St Paul's Cultural Center | 2215 W North Ave | Chicago | IL | 60647
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