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Eviline: Upcycle Queen Autumn Knight Friday January 4, 2013
Art League Houston (ALH) is pleased to present Evilene: Upcycle Queen; the last week of the STACKS Laboratory Residency by artist Autumn Knight, which will transform the Main Gallery into a site of transformation addressing themes of Black imagination, creativity, and commodification. This exhibition features a performance by the artist. The opening reception is 6 - 9 PM Friday, January 4 at ALH and the performance will begin at 6:30 PM
Evilene: Upcycle Queen is a performance addressing themes of Black ingenuity and reinvention by activating the remaining materials from the STACKS opening. Evilene: Upcycle Queen creates a new experience with the remnants of that cathartic moment by focusing on a critical feature of black creativity, resistance, survival and innovation: upcycling.
This piece reclaims and reorganizes discarded memories, desires, memorabilia, stereotypes, overused tropes, historical shame into new forms, new moments in the tradition of Black creativity. This idea is inspired by several concepts: Evilene -a character from The Wiz, African rural engineering, dump site work, inventions made from waste, and local makeshift architectural structures that challenge the possibility of both raw and abandoned materials. Evilene: Upcycle Queen begs the question: Can one afford to completely discard discomforting objects, people, ideas as a strategy? Or can we scour and excavate these social, emotional, and historical carcasses for usable material?
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FLYING SOLO
Panel Discussion
2 PM Saturday January 5, 2013
A panel discussion presented in conjunction with the group exhibit FLYING SOLO at Art League Houston
Panelists:
Pat Jasper - Paul Middendorf - Kari Steele - Lovie Olivia
The discussion in the project gallery will be moderated by Flying Solo curator Jennie Ash, and will include panelists: Pat Jasper, Director of Folklife & Traditional Arts, Houston Arts Alliance; Paul Middendorf, Director, Gallery Sonja Roesch & Executive Director, GalleryHOMELAND; Kari Steele: Assistant Director Station Museum, Houston TX and Lovie Olivia, Artist. Flying Solo artists will be presnt in the audience.
The topic of discussion will use the FLYING SOLO exhibition as a jumping off point to discuss the growing phenomena of emerging artists who are major contributions to the Houston art scene but not represented by a local commercial gallery.
The panel discussion will focus on the following topics:
* The developmental of Houston as a leading creative and
diverse city
* Opportunities for emerging artists in Houston. Discuss
* Social media as a tool for self-promotion. Discuss
* Unrepresented vs. represented: Discuss
* In-state vs. out-of-state representation. Discuss
This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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STACKS
Party Panel
7-9 PM Saturday January 5, 2013
Art League Houston (ALH) is pleased to present a panel discussion of it's most recent exhibition STACKS. This exhibition was an experiment in reconciling the relationships between cultural tropes and the notion of authentic black experience. Through an opening performance which deconstructed materials stigmatized with such black tropes, and five subsequent mini residencies, each artist attempted to create a new strategy for working without those tropes.
The panel discussion will take a very unconventional format in the hopes of fostering a more intimate and open conversation. The Artists of STACKS will host a party in the main exhibition space complete with drinks, music and dancing but also 3 conversational areas where invited panelists will hold court. Audience members are invited to sit and join the conversation with the invited speakers or to just enjoy the party and dance, or as we recommend, do both.
Please join the artists of STACKS, curator Robert Pruitt, and panelists Jennie Ash, Toby Kamps, Garry Reece, Ryan Dennis-Taylor, and Alvia Wardlaw as they contend with the exhibition through three main topics.
- What are the high or low costs of destroying those black materials?
- What new strategies for recontextualizing Blackness came from this exhibition?
- How does the artist's role as agitator, explorer, conjure woman, and researcher in this exhibition facilitate a larger discussion?
Everything Records will be providing the music.
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Last Chance to Register for Art Classes during the Winter Quarter
Classes begin January 7 and end March 16
Members save an additional $35 on classes!
REGISTRATION CALENDAR
LATE REG: begins January 2, $15 late fee
During the upcoming winter quarter, Art League is offering several NEW classes. Become a member of Art League Houston to save an additional $35 off each class!
Class Highlights this Winter
DRAWING IN PUBS (21+) (D-6) 6:30 - 9:30 PM, Thursday, January 10 - Thursday, March 14 (10 weeks) $315 members / $350 non-members
Using a variety of media and sketchbooks, this class will meet at local pubs to explore the interior, atmosphere, light, and local pub patrons. The first class will meet at Art League for a list of locations and to discuss chiaroscuro. Each class for the next 8 weeks will meet in a different location to practice this art concept and basic drawing skills. The final class will meet at Art League for a show and tell of all work and a discussion about the experience.
COLOR THEORY (P-11) 6:30 - 9:30 PM, Monday, January 7 - Monday, February 25 (8 weeks) $265 members / $230 non-members
This class will explore color in its purest forms, ranging from creating moods or emotions to harmonies. It will borrow from Albers' own color theory, acquainting students with "color aid," but will focus on each student creating their own sense of color.
WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE TECHNIQUES (W-3)
6:30 - 9:30 PM, Thursday, January 10 - Thursday, February 28 (8 weeks)
$265 members / $300 non-members
This course will explore the interactions of varying water based media. We will work to create balanced images with the transparent fluidity of watercolor and the flat opaqueness of gouache. Emphasis will be placed on the interaction of color, composition, and texture to create both representational and abstract works.
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Upcoming Events
JANUARY
January 4: Last day to see Stacks and Flying Solo
January 4: STACKS reception - Autumn Knight
January 5: FLYING SOLO - Panel Discussion
January 5: STACKS: Party Panel
January 7 - March 16: Winter class quarter
January 18, 6 - 11 PM: Opening reception for The Uncontrollable Nature of Grief and Forgiveness (or lack of) by Kathy Kelley in the Main Gallery and Bringing it Back Home by El Rincon Social in the Project Gallery
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The Art League is funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and is supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Art League Houston acknowledges the following private foundations, public funders, and corporations for their support this season: Art Colony Association, Inc., Axiom, CenterPoint Energy, Inc., ExxonMobil Foundation, Felvis Foundation, Houston Endowment, Inc., Krewe of Olympus-Texas, Inc., Lone Star Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Association, John P. McGovern Foundation, Mrs. Katherine McGovern, Oshman Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Target, Susan Vaughan Foundation, Trademarks Promotional Products, The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation, and the Wortham Foundation, Inc. Art League Houston also wishes to thank its many generous individual donors for their support. |
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