That reminds me of when I used to run from the cops by Sergio Garcia

One Hundred and Ten Degrees
TractorBeam Gallery

Last Saturday night was burning hot with the One Hundred and Ten Degrees opening at TractorBeam Gallery downtown. There are 10 artists showcasing their hottest work.

Hot Tip From StealingKitty: If you have ever questioned going to one of these openings for a variety of personal reasons, I urge you to put those reasons to rest.

This opening had a hot bartender serving top shelf alcohol for tips. In contrast, down the street you could get the same drink for about $20 plus tip. Hot bartenders, hot art, electric atmosphere! What more could you ask for in a night on the town.

This show included works from Joshua King, Stephen Hartzler, Fredrik Broden, Shane Pennington, Sergio Garcia, Scogin Mayo, Tony Bones, Zach Saucedo, Jorge Rivas, Steven Wrubel, and Adriane Dutzi. My favorite from the show came from Sergio Garcia. It was a large white piece in what seemed like a wooden frame, it stated “That reminds me of when I used to run from the cops”. I love the moment captured in this piece and the provocation it evokes in my brain. Another notable was Stephen Hartzler. I saw him first at Function at Corinth Park and was drawn to his work there as well. This time he does painting on a mirror of the wing motif he is known for around town. I love it.

Click here to visit StealingKitty’s Flickr gallery for One Hundred and Ten Degrees opening.

In addition, Steve Wrubel’s photograph was inspiring. The piece is beautifully framed. The framing actually costing more than the photo itself, made the whole piece. If you are interested in purchasing, I would definitely have the frame included since it is framed the way a fine photographed should be framed, impeccably. I look forward to checking out more photographs from Steve Wrubel as his style and clarity are amazing

TractorBeam Gallery is part of a kickass design/ad agency. Wondering about the offices had my mind imagining working there and how creative of an environment it must be to go to everyday for your job. I was able to glimpse June Mattingly at a roundtable of other art aficionados. June Mattingly is known for bringing fine art to Dallas from the beginning. We all owe her a bow for sure as she is a pretty cool lady and one with great connections and taste. One Hundred and Ten Degrees was the hottest show of the evening and the art … smoking!

That reminds me of when I used to run from the cops by Sergio Garcia

Buxton is a well-known personality on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, a program whose participants frequently stand in line for hours to learn the values of their possessions. Antiques Round-Up at The Grace Museum closely follows the format of the PBS show; Buxton will entertain attendees with interviews and on-the-spot discussions highlighting some of the most interesting items brought in to the event.

Activities begin Friday night, July 30, at 6:30 p.m. in the Historic Ballroom of The Grace Museum. Buxton will present a review of his time during Antiques Roadshow and display highlights from the show. Tickets are $25 for museum members and $30 for non-members. The talk will be followed by a wine and dessert buffet, hosted by BJ Naranjo-Smith of Antique and Almost.

Saturday, July 31, at 10 a.m., the guest appraisers will participate in a panel discussion at the museum. Appraisers will answer questions regarding conservation and renovation, where to buy and sell items, and how to have items authenticated. The panel discussion is $10 per person and will include a light breakfast of pastries, fruit and coffee for attendees.

The Antiques Round-Up appraisal show will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are available in advance or at the door, and ticket holders will be directed to the appropriate appraiser for each of their items. Appraisers at the event will be qualified to appraise paintings and prints; gems and fine jewelry; quilts; Native American Indian jewelry, rugs and pottery; Oriental rugs; art pottery and art glass; residential contents, which include crystal, porcelain, china, lamps, silver and decorative accessories; guns; primitives; Western memorabilia; and more.

Tickets for the appraisal event are $20 for one item, $35 for two items and $50 for three items.

At 1 p.m. Saturday, Ellen Amirkhan, a certified appraiser specializing in Oriental rugs, will give a gallery talk on the care and conservation of Oriental rugs. Amirkhan will bring a large assortment of Oriental rugs, and her appraisals during the appraisal show will take place in a bazaar-type setting. All rugs will be for sale with a portion of the cost going to benefit The Grace Museum. Tickets to the 1 p.m. gallery talk are $10 each. Rugs may be viewed throughout the day without the purchase of a ticket.

The doors to the appraisal show will close at 4 p.m., but all ticket holders will have access to the appraisers.

For more information and advance ticket sales, call The Grace Museum at (325) 673-4587, or visit www.thegracemuseum.org/roundup.

The Grace Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and houses a children’s museum, history museum, and art museum. At 55,000 square feet, The Grace Museum is the tenth largest general museum in Texas, and is the cornerstone of cultural arts and education in West Texas. The museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Grace Museum is a non-profit organization, and the museum’s exhibitions and educational programs are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, the City of Abilene, Taylor County, and the Downtown Revitalization Program of the Tax Increment Finance District.

The Grace Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Thursday. Admission is free Thursday evening after 5 p.m.

The result is The Living Room, opening on July 27 and on view for two months in the Tower Gallery. For it, Foley uses a unique material, recycled cardboard, to create naturalistic forms and makeshift home furnishings to envelop visitors in an active living space. Foley says she drew upon the Museum’s encyclopedic holdings for inspiration when creating The Living Room, particularly from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Reves Collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts objects are displayed together in a re-created domestic setting modeled after the couple’s Villa La Pausa in the south of France, once owned by Coco Chanel.

“Jill has made an environment for the temporary C3 that is dramatic, fun, and memorable,” said Diachisin. “Her ‘living room’ maintains the important elements of C3 for visitors as a social place for learning, interacting, and contributing.”

“In The Living Room, I wanted to create a space at the DMA that felt like home as well as a retreat,” noted Foley. “I feel that in much of my work I am trying to escape from the art world while being part of it, so it seems appropriate to have a domestic and inviting retreat within the Museum’s gallery.”

As a visiting artist at the DMA, Foley will lead a variety of art workshops over the next two months. Each Thursday evening during Thursday Night Live, she will lead Thursday Night Specials, including Make It/Take It, Tech Lab: Open Lab, DIY@DMA, Drawing in the Galleries and Creative Process: Inside Out. During these adult workshops, Foley will share her creative process and inspire participants to create their own works of art.

On September 25, the Center for Creative Connections will re-open on the first floor with a new exhibition, Encountering Space.

About the Visiting Artist

Dallas artist Jill Foley earned an M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University in May 2009 and a B.F.A. from Texas Wesleyan University in December 2005. Her work has been featured in three exhibitions at Dallas’s Conduit Gallery.

About the Center for Creative Connections and the Dallas Museum of Art

The Center for Creative Connections (C3) offers an environment for visitors of all ages to have a creative, educational experience with real works of art. C3 is an expansive 12,000-square-foot space consisting of the centrally located exhibition and several distinct learning areas. The learning areas include the Art Studio, an interactive learning space for children under the age of four called Arturo’s Nest, a Young Learners Gallery for children 5–8 and their families, a theater and a Tech Lab. The Center hosted more than 150,000 visitors in its first year. Today, this translates as roughly 30% of all Museum visitors.

Located in the vibrant Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) ranks among the leading art institutions in the country and is distinguished by its innovative exhibitions and groundbreaking educational programs. At the heart of the Museum and its programs are its encyclopedic collections, which encompass more than 24,000 works and span 5,000 years of history, representing a full range of world cultures. Established in 1903, the Museum today welcomes more than 600,000 visitors annually and acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary readings and dramatic and dance presentations.

The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Manhattan Bridge Looking Up by Berenice Abbott, 1936

American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
Amon Carter Museum
October 2, 2010 through January 2, 2011

On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White. This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. American Modern will be on view through January 2, 2011; admission is free.

Featuring more than 140 photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971) and Walker Evans (1903–1975), American Modern was co-organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. The exhibition is the result of a unique partnership between three curators: Jessica May and Sharon Corwin of the Carter and Colby, respectively, and Terri Weissman, assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Together, the three curators present the works of these three artists as case studies of documentary photography during the Great Depression and demonstrate how three factors supported the development of documentary photography during this important period in American history: first, the expansion of mass media; second, a new attitude toward and acceptance of modern art in America; and third, government support for photography during the 1930s.

“This exhibition considers the work of three of the best-loved American photographers in a new light, which is very exciting,” says curator Jessica May. “Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White are undisputed masters of the medium of photography, but they have never been shown in relation to one another. This exhibition offers viewers an opportunity to see works together that have not been shown as such since the 1930s.”

In addition to vintage photographs from over 20 public and private collections, the exhibition also features rare first-edition copies of select books and periodicals from the 1930s. American Modern, May says, “reminds us that documentary photography was very much a public genre—this was the first generation of photographers that truly anticipated that their work would be seen by a vast audience through magazines and books.”

A scholarly catalogue, published by the University of California Press, accompanies the exhibition. The museum has also prepared a mobile tour of the exhibition, which will be available on the museum’s website or on preloaded iTouch devices available for free loan from the Carter’s Information Desk.

American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White and its accompanying publication have been made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

The Fort Worth presentation is supported in part by RBC Wealth Management. Promotional support is provided by Star-Telegram, WFAA, and American Airlines.

In conjunction with American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, the Carter will host the following free public programs:

Saturday, October 2, 10:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Modern Documents: Photography in 1930s America
Amon Carter Museum of American Art Lectures on American Photography

This scholarly symposium featuring six panelists will reflect on the legacy of 1930s documentary photography in conversations about the exhibition American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.

This symposium on American art, culture, and society by distinguished individuals is made possible by a generous gift from the late Anne Burnett Tandy.

Reservations are required. Boxed lunches are available to preorder for $8. Call 817.989.5030 or e-mail education@cartermuseum.org to register.

Sunday, November 14, 1–4 p.m.

Picture This

Family Funday

Explore photography with your family by discussing artworks in the galleries and taking photographs!

Family Fundays are sponsored by The Junior League of Fort Worth, Inc., and Alcon.

Thursday, November 18, 6 p.m.

Evans in Film

Film Screening and Discussion

Discuss the role of early documentary film in the career of Walker Evans, and view film shorts by Evans and his friends Helen Levitt and Jay Leyda.

Because seating is limited, reservations are required. Call 817.989.5030 or e-mail education@cartermuseum.org to register.

Manhattan Bridge Looking Up by Berenice Abbott, 1936

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs proudly announces the grand opening of the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, located at 223 West Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208, and will mark the event with a dedication ceremony on Thursday, August 12, 2010 and a community open house and street fair on Sunday, August 15, 2010.

The dedication ceremony for the new center will be held on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, and will be hosted by the Office of Cultural Affairs Director and the Cultural Affairs Commission. Council Member Delia Jasso and City officials will dedicate the new facility and will unveil the Cultural Center’s inaugural art exhibition, Perspectives from the Cliff: Recent Work by Oak Cliff Artists. This juried exhibition features 25 artworks by 17 artists who live or work in Oak Cliff: Sal Barron, Chris Bingham, Carrie Cook, Christa Diepenbrock, Bryan Steven Gooding, Cynthia Garrison, Keirston Jacobs, Santiago Lopez III, Cynthia Maute, Wendy Medling, Brent Mitchell, Lyndon Ardell Mitchell, Terri Neal, Kenda North, Larry Pile, Sam Theis and Jessica Trevizo. Serving as jurors were Dallas artists Tina Aguilar and Charley Mitcherson.

On Sunday, August 15, 2010, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., the community is invited to an open house and street fair to celebrate the new center. The 200 block of Jefferson Boulevard will be closed for a street fair, which will feature three musical acts on stage, face painting, booths offering information on City services, the Dallas Public Library’s Bookmobile, and more. Inside the center, activities will include artist talks in the gallery and dance demonstrations in the studio by Alegre Ballet Folklórico. More information on these events can be found at www.dallasculture.org/occc.

“We are thrilled with our new space in Oak Cliff, in the midst of the vibrant commercial district of Jefferson Boulevard,” notes Maria Muñoz-Blanco, director of the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. “The Oak Cliff Cultural Center will serve as a family-oriented arts venue, bringing a variety of dance classes, arts workshops and exhibitions that showcase the diversity and creativity of Oak Cliff.”

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) works to enhance the vitality of the City and the quality of life for all Dallas citizens by creating an environment wherein arts and cultural organizations can thrive so that people of all ages can enjoy opportunities for creative expressions and the celebration of our community’s multicultural heritage. Our mission is to establish a cultural system that ensures that ALL Dallas citizens and visitors have an opportunity to experience the finest in arts and culture. The OCA is advised by an 18-member Cultural Affairs Commission appointed by the Dallas City Council. The OCA manages the city’s investment in arts and culture, including oversight of 21 city-owned cultural facilities that include the Bath House Cultural Center, Latino Cultural Center, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, and South Dallas Cultural Center; a Cultural Contracts Program; Public Art Program; and the city’s classical music radio station, WRR101.1FM. More information on the programs and services provided by the OCA can be found at www.dallasculture.org.

The Door by Cathey Miller

I Am Women
RISING Gallery
Through July 31, 2010

RISING Gallery was pulsing like a crowded downtown nightclub for a full three hours on July 15, 2010, for the I Am Woman art opening. The FGIII Art & McKane organization who put on the exhibition packed the venue with great art, a DJ, string musicians, a beautiful crowd, and eighteen local smoking hot female artists. The show features a group of artists’ works benefiting Alley’s House, a non-profit for teen mothers and their children. The artwork is on 24 x 24 inch canvases all priced at $300 and based on the theme “feminity, love, beauty, passion and power”.

Hot Tip from StealingKitty: Jennifer Morgan’s awesome donated piece was still available for purchase as of Tuesday.

Pinky and Rocco by Cathey Miller

The front wall of the gallery displayed RISING Gallery Artist Chris Panatier’s custom portrait of a woman with a flower for the occasion, and set the stage for the gallery literally full of paintings and photographs. I featured Chris Panatier last month (Review of Chris Panatier at RISING Gallery), and continue to be impressed with his work. Each of the eighteen artists displayed five works, and as a whole, the show was very impressive and colorful.

Immediately upon arriving, Cathey Miller’s new series, Pinky, stood out to me. The Door, from this series is a striking close up portrait of a woman in a mustache crouching down in front of a door. I found myself looking into the painting’s large eyes and was curious about the implied shenanigans about to happen in front of the shiny doorknob. When I took a closer look, I was delighted to find how painterly the portrait was painted. The brush strokes throughout the whole painting were deftly handled, and the bright happy colors Ms. Miller uses add whimsy to her cryptic subject matter.

The Monkey on her Back by Jennifer Morgan

Pinky and Rocco, a painting of two women, had me giggling a bit at Ms. Miller’s ability to communicate her humor through her well executed art works. This painting seemed to show two sides of Ms. Miller. In one pose she has long white hair with a white cat, both appearing soft and vulnerable. In another pose she is a Don Juan character complete with mustache holding a black cat in a pose of confidence. They appear either as a couple, room mates, or maybe she is trying to give the viewer a glimpse of two sides of herself. It works for me. I continue to find myself intrigued by this artist and it is nuances like this that keep me coming back for more. Her Don Juan character is the one I want to watch feminist porn with or maybe make feminist porn together. Don Juan knows about sexytime this is for sure.

Each painting has Ms. Miller appearing as one or the other of these characters and you feel you are getting to know her just a bit more, through her disguises. This series is my favorite work from Cathey Miller, and it is a direction that I hope she continues exploring.

Click here to visit StealingKitty’s I Am Woman Flickr gallery.

The other artists I especially enjoyed were Jennifer Morgan, Michelle de Metz, and Laura Elia.

Jennifer Morgan’s work was strong, colorful and displayed an appealing subject matter. Ms. Morgan’s painting, The Monkey on her Back, featured an 18th century woman with literally a pink monkey on her back was my favorite from her series.

Goldilocks by Michelle de Metz

Michelle de Metz photorealist pastels were provocative and appear at first glance to be blurry photographs. Goldilocks was my favorite Ms. de Metz piece because of the blurred vulnerability that kept me there with its fine execution. There was strength here that was communicated. Add to the fact that Ms. de Metz was wearing a strapless leopard print dress and is a blonde bombshell, you totally feel her blurred art is trying to let you know she is more than what she appears. I raise my hand in attention to say yes, Ms. De Metz, I want to know.

Laura Elia’s work features Tibetan prayer flags on 36 x 36 inch wood panels. These are acrylic works using a reactive polymer compound over the top that give each panel a high gloss finish. After inspecting each of her pieces I was impressed with the craftsmanship she possesses in a medium that was new to her. Give her work a good look, you will be pleasantly surprised. A favorite from her collection was an abstract, I Am Happy. Each piece of artwork has one or more Tibetan prayers embedded within – a humble request for compassion, courage, knowledge, or end to suffering. The mantras and sutras embedded in the paintings are conduits to assist on the path toward enlightenment and freedom.

I was trying to stalk Bonnie Leibowitz, but failed as I could not seem to find her. I need to visit her studio sometime or perhaps maybe I will finally meet her out and about. I felt the same way about the elusive Jennifer Morgan.

I am Happy by Laura Elia

I Am Woman not only revealed that women are sexy and beautiful but they are capable of creating fine art. You rarely get to see talented women artists together in a gallery and this is an opportunity you should seize. You can see all of these women works along with others through July 31, 2010, at RISING Gallery.

RISING Gallery is located at 4631 Insurance Road in Dallas and is open Tuesday – Saturday. RISING Gallery owners Bryan and Taber Wetz along with Director Jamie Arendt, houses fine arts and furniture in a relaxed and welcoming space.

WASP (photo courtesy of Texas Woman's University)

National Women’s Museum in Dallas, Texas, opens exhibit dedicated to the accomplishment of women in air and space.

The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future announces the opening of Dreams of Flight: A Journey through Air and Space on Friday, July 23, 2010, and runs through October 31, 2010. In a special twist, the opening of the exhibit coincides with one of America’s beloved pioneers of flight birthday, Amelia Earhart, born July 24, 1897. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight in 1932. In June 1937, Amelia began the infamous final trip that would mark the first around-the-world flight. She and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, completed almost two-thirds of their flight when they were lost at sea.

Amelia Earhart (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University)

Women have broken boundaries in the realm of air and space as pilots, astronauts, astrophysicists and scientists. The more than 40 women featured in Dreams of Flight: A Journey through Air and Space, presented by ExxonMobil, demonstrate remarkable resilience, strength and character in the face of opposition. This exhibition highlights the women, from the earliest pioneers of flight including Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman (Texas native), Jaqueline Cochran and Jeana Yeager (Fort Worth, Texas, native), to science and space innovators such as Barbara Askins, Patricia Cowings and Jerrie Cobb.

Dreams of Flight represents the personal sacrifices and professional fortitude of more than 40 women who have made unparalleled contributions to the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an effort to advance these fields in America.

Dreams of Flight: A Journey through Air and Space will feature items on loan from museums and collections across America, including uniforms, artifacts, images, videos and interactive activities.

The exhibit is broken down into areas where women had the most impact in aeronautics:

• FIRST IN FLIGHT – the first women in America to fly planes, perform aeronautic acrobatics, and pave the way for future women
• FLY GIRLS – During WWII women would given the chance to serve their country and through the development of the WAFS and WFTD, the WASP were created, and became the first women to serve as pilots and fly military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
• TURBULANT TIMES – Although women had been flying since the early 1900s, were still not accepted into aeronautics. The FLATS (or Mercury 13) went through rigorous training to be accepted into NASA
• LIFT OFF – Women began to make their mark in aeronautics and space flight, as well as commercial flight and unique piloting careers. Women worked as both pilots, astronauts, and in supporting roles such as scientists, engineers, and on ground commanders.

“It is appropriate that our 10th Year Anniversary features women for whom the sky was NOT the limit,” said Wanda Brice, CEO of The Women’s Museum. “Like those adventurous flying women, the women who dreamed of and made happen The Women’s Museum, saw the possibilities and flung themselves into the project. The contributions of women to the fields of air and space are too often overlooked. This year, they will be celebrated by all the visitors to the now well-established Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future.”

In conjunction with Dreams of Flight, the Museum opens two exhibits Fly Girls and Women and Flight. Fly Girls is a traveling exhibit created by Texas Woman’s University (TWU). Texas Woman’s University completed the exhibit, FlyGirls, in 2000 for the WASP Reunion, which was held, in part, on the TWU campus in Denton, Texas. The exhibit consists of nine cloth panels that share the history of America’s Fly Girls.

Women and Flight, images by Carolyn Russo, is an exhibit of selected images from the Women and Flight collection, which originally toured as a SITES traveling exhibition and was created by photographer Carolyn Russo. Photographs include images of Jean Ross Howard-Phelan, Shannon Lucid, Patty Wagstaff, Susan Still, Eileen Collins, and many others.

The Women’s Museum, celebrating a decade of empowering women in association with the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation’s only comprehensive women’s history museum that chronicles the lives of American women through interactive exhibits. The Women’s Museum is supported, in part, by the City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs. Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5:00 p.m. (closed Mondays). For more information, please visit www.thewomensmuseum.org.

Presenting Sponsor

ExxonMobil is committed to advancing U.S. math and science education and does so by supporting a wide variety of educational initiatives. This outreach includes programs that seek to improve education and career opportunities for minorities and women, particularly within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Lending Institutions: The Women’s Museum collaborated with other institutions to bring exciting and interesting artifacts and images in for this exhibit. The lending institutions include: the Gee Library Special Collections, Texas A & M University-Commerce; The Women’s Collection of the Blagg-Huey Library at Texas Woman’s University; Johnson Space Center; National Air and Space Museum; Wings Across America; Patty Waggstaff; and many others.

Sally Ride (NASA)

Programming sponsored in part by KIDS FIRST!

Films are shown in the auditorium at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to the first 250 guests. The age ranges listed below are recommendations. For the most up-to-date information, visit www.themodern.org.

Take a break from the Texas heat and join us for The 2010 Modern Kids – Summer Flicks Series! Share the art of the screen with your children as they watch stories unfold and ideas form in delightful and innovative films. The bonus for seeing these films at the Modern is the opportunity to visit the galleries before or after and experience the wonder of the art as stories unfold and ideas form in paintings, sculptures, installations and videos found in works from the permanent collection.

Make a full day of creative activities at the Modern. Beautiful sketchbooks made of materials that inspire are available for children of all ages free at the front desk any day of the week and the perfect partner to the films showing for the Summer Flicks Series.

KIDS FIRST! is a project of the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to empower children to make wise media choices and to promote quality media products that enrich their lives. www.kidsfirst.org.

Film Schedule

August 10

10:30 am (ages 3-7)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (30 min)

Based on the classic book, these adventures star Harold, an inventive and curious toddler with thoughts, desires and feelings typical of any child his age. In his Crayon World, Harold can muse on questions that all young children naturally wonder about, and he can come up with his own answers.

1:30 pm (ages 8-11)
Beatless Nick (4 min), Pigeon Impossible (6 min), Varmints (24 min), Life on a LimbYellow Sticky Notes (6 min), and Gerald’s Last Day (12 min)

Beatless Nick is a 1950s UPA style animated short about a little beatnik with no sense of rhythm. Nick searches for his cool so he can fit in with the other Beats. In a basement jazz club, Nick tries to impress his friends by performing poetry, jazz, and even interpretive dance. But, his attempts do nothing but empty the club. Just when Nick is about to give up and move to Squaresville, he accidentally discovers a talent for scatting. The Beats love it and Nick finds his cool in his own beatless way. He may stick out like a sore thumb, but that’s because Nick always marches to the beat of his own drum.

Pigeon Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.

Varmints tells the story of one small creatures struggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever through recklessness and indifference.

In Life on a Limb, irreconcilable enemies, a tree and a lumberjack, are stuck in a waiting room together. Inevitably, conflict ensues. Will they end up burying the hatchet?

Yellow Sticky Notes After realizing that yellow sticky note “to do” lists were consuming his life, filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years. Animation meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score by Genevieve Vincent through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes.

In Gerald’s Last Day, Gerald the dog, an unlikely candidate for adoption, has been scheduled for termination by the pound at 5:00. Today is his last chance to seduce a potential adopter…..can he do it before his time runs out?

7 pm (ages 12-up)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Modern and mythical worlds collide in a heroic epic adventure in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Based on the popular book series by Rick Riordan, the film follows trouble-prone Percy Jackson who finds himself having problems in high school but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus have walked out of the pages of his Greek mythology texts and into his life, and they’re not happy Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Learning he is the son of Poseidon, the young teen finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, and embarks on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

August 11

10:30 am (ages 3-7)
Lost and Found (24 min), The Happy Duckling (9 min)

In Lost and Found, little boy finds a penguin on his doorstep, and though at first unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home. Even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!

The Happy Duckling is an animated adventure set in a pop-up book world. Assembled and led by writer/director Gili Dolev, and accompanied by a whimsical score from composer Mick Cooke of Belle and Sebastian, the film follows the antics of a young boy in his struggles against a stacking duck! In this pop-up book world, expect the unexpected. Surprises aplenty behind every flap opened and every tab pulled.

1:30 pm (ages 8-11)
Against the Grain (2 min), Reach (4 min), Snow Day (2 min), Abridged (4 min), Again and Again (3 min), Kid Show (3 min), Alex and the Ghosts (7 min), and The Girl Who Cried Flowers (25 min)

In Against the Grain, a hapless karate fighter meets his biggest opponent.

In Reach, a tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable.

Snow Day Can a helpless T-Rex dinosaur save himself from the impending doom of the Ice Age with only one sock?

Abridged is a romantic comedy set on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Again and Again Tons of cool ways to use a Mac, set to the song of ‘Again & Again’ by the Bird & the Bee.

Kid Show The playful fantasy world of little boys, where you can have weird conversations with the sun, dance around with wiggly arms, and, when your dad tells you to “go to sheep,” your pillow turns into one.

Alex and the Ghosts is a story of childhood magic and wonderment around a legendary hockey team, uniting past and present, reaching out to the youthful hearts of sport fans of all ages.

The Girl Who Cried Flowers is a moving narrative about the beauty of creation and the power of desire brought to life in a painterly watercolor style. In ancient Greece, a mysterious orphan is discovered. At first the local villagers are wary of the strange girl who cries beautiful blossoms instead of tears. But in time they begin to treasure her magical gift and desire her flowers. Olivia, a kind and giving spirit resolves to spend her days thinking sad thoughts and crying mountains of flowers for the insatiable villagers. However, sudden love brings change when Olivia falls for a jovial farmer named Panos. Panos desires nothing from Olivia except her happiness and so, out of love, he forbids her from crying. But the villagers will not simply forsake their beloved “girl who cries flowers.”

7 pm (ages 12-up)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

The adventures of wisecracking pre-teen Greg Heffley, who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone’s life… middle school. Convinced it’s the “dumbest idea ever invented,” Heffley considers junior high school a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment of the cafeteria floor and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties that he must overcome to become popular. His diary-or “journal”-chronicles his thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would be) schoolyard triumphs.

August 12

These films from Mexico are part of the Festival de la Risa Celebration, commemorating the Bicentennial of the Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution of Mexico.

10:30 am (ages 3-7)
Global Wonders: Mexico (32 min)

Trey and Brianna visit Marisa’s home which is buzzing with activity as her family prepares for a Quinceaera celebration for her sister Anna.

1:30 pm (ages 8-11)
La Lune (7 min), Un Duelo (3 min), El Salon Mexico (13 min),
Folktales from Around the World: The Bear Prince (12 min), and Swaying Giants (26 min)

In La Lune, a couple living on top of a bizarre hourglass and under a tree discover the moon accidentally for the first time. The woman’s desire to reach and obtain the moon will lead them to experience things that they have never gone through before. In the end, they would discover new things about themselves and new truth about the world they thought they knew.

In Un Duelo, two hummingbirds engage on a senseless but sometimes funny battle.

El Salon Mexico is a fantasy set in Mexico in the 1800’s when a very young campesino who, along with his burro and rooster, sneaks out of the house one night to see a fiesta for the very first time.

Folktales from Around the World: The Bear Prince is a Mexican tale about a spirit that turns a prince into a bear. When the bear marries a woodcutter’s daughter, he reveals his secret and exacts a promise that she will never tell. In a fit of anger, she reveals it, setting off an extraordinary quest.

Swaying Giants is a documentary about a huge spectacle in Catalonia-the Human Giants. Sisters Laia, age 9, and Maria, age 7, have been practicing climbing these human towers for as long as they can remember, and they want more than anything to climb in the competition.

7 pm (ages 12-up)
*Furry Vengeance
*Film selection subject to change

Furry Vengeance is a live action family comedy in which an ambitious young real estate developer, Dan Sanders, faces off with a band of angry animals when his new housing subdivision pushes too far into a pristine part of the wilderness. Led by an incredibly clever raccoon, the animals stymie the development and teach our hero about the environmental consequences of man’s encroachment on nature.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Sun 11 am-5 pm

The Museum is closed Monday and holidays including, New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas.

In celebration of the centennial of the Mexican Revolution in 2010, the Mildred Hawn Gallery in Southern Methodist University’s Hamon Arts Library is featuring an exhibit of historic books and portfolios from Mexico, on view through August 29. The items are part of the Stanley Marcus Collection at SMU’s DeGolyer Library. Marcus, from the family of the founders of the exclusive Neiman Marcus store, was a passionate book collector who assembled a truly remarkable private library, numbering about 8,000 volumes and ranging across the centuries.

The exhibit includes a portfolio of drawings and color prints from prominent Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, dated 1949-1950 and depicting animals and abstractions. They’re accompanied by photos and letters between Marcus and Tamayo. “The Fight for Liberty,” a 1944 lithograph of a mural by Jose Clemente Orozco, is also highlighted, along with a book featuring Diego Rivera’s mural of the Mexican Revolution. Portraits of the artists themselves – Tamayo, Rivera and Orozco – are displayed in the portfolio “Drawings of 13 Mexican Painters” by Carlos Orozco Romero (1939). Also featured is a portfolio of black and white woodcut-style prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada depicting revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, calaveras and more.

Other cases in the exhibit include depictions of historical monuments and daily life. Vibrant silkscreened prints from the 1947 portfolio “Mexico in Color” by Elma Pratt show a man carrying flowers on a bamboo pole, women with baskets of corn balanced on their heads, and a colorful altar scene. Ancient monuments from Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan are the subject of a book by Frederick Catherwood, dated 1965. Also featured are black and white photographs taken by Marcus himself during visits to Mexico in the 1930s, in an album titled “This Is Mexico.”

The Hawn Gallery is on the first floor of the Hamon Arts Library, 6100 Hillcrest Ave. on the campus of SMU. The gallery is open during regular library hours. Summer hours, through Aug. 24, are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon. – Fri. and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thurs.; the library is closed Sat. and Sun. Regular hours begin Wed., August 25, and are 8 a.m. to midnight Mon. through Thurs.; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fri.; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat.; and 1 p.m. to midnight Sun. Admission is FREE. For more information, please call 214.768.2661.

The celebration of the Mexican centennial will continue in the fall with the exhibit “Mexico: Porfiriato to Revolution, 1876-1920,” from Sept.7-Dec. 17 at SMU’s DeGolyer Library, 6404 Hyer Lane. It will feature photographs, manuscripts and printed materials from Mexico including pictures of the fighting and carnage of the Mexican Revolution, Porfirio Diaz and other government leaders, native peoples, railroads, mining, agriculture, and the Mexican 1910 Centennial celebration. There will also be loan materials from Elmer Powell’s extensive Mexican Revolution collection.

A group of artists from the Texas Artists Coalition (TAC) will meet at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Anyone is welcome to join us. Bring your own art supplies for outdoor paintings or drawing, and lots of water. Call Doug Clark at 682.478.8060 for details and exact location of the group. There is no charge for participation. Come at any time Friday morning.

Panel with a seated ruler in a watery cave (Cancuen Panel 3), 795, Cancuen, Guatemala. Limestone, 22 5/8 x 26 1/4 x 3 in. (57.5 x 66.5 x 7.6 cm). Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes—Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City. Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph © 2009 Jorge Pérez de Lara

Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Kimbell Art Museum
August 29, 2010 through January 2, 2011

Rarely does an exhibition offer an entirely fresh way of viewing the art of a great civilization. Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea at the Kimbell Art Museum does exactly that––by revealing and interpreting the importance of water to the ancient Maya. Shark teeth, stingray spines, sea creatures and waterfowl appear in works of stone and clay; supernatural crocodiles breathe forth rain; cosmic battles take place between mythic beasts and deities—all part of a new and vivid picture of the Maya worldview.

Over 90 works, many recently excavated and never before seen in the United States, offer exciting insights into the culture of the ancient Maya, focusing on the sea as a defining feature of the spiritual realm and the inspiration for powerful visual imagery. Surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, denizens of Maya cities responded to the oceanic, inland and atmospheric waters that shaped their existence.

“In 1986, the Kimbell Art Museum’s landmark exhibition The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art shed new light on the importance of dynastic lineage and blood sacrifice to the Maya,” commented Eric Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “Recent archaeological discoveries and the deciphering of the Maya glyph for water have led to a new, broader understanding of the expansive influence that water in all its myriad forms had on both the daily life and spiritual beliefs of the Maya people. This exhibition is the next important chapter in Maya research, and I am thrilled that the Kimbell Art Museum will showcase it.”

At the height of its achievement, between 300 and 900 AD, the Maya civilization spanned hundreds of cities across Mexico and Central America. With a culture highly advanced in mathematics, astronomy, architecture and art, the Maya practiced a complex religion and used a refined pictorial writing system composed of more than 800 glyphs. The interpretation of this language has played a role in the understanding of Maya culture. While 90% of glyphs are now understood, it was only in the late 1980s that a glyph for the sea had been identified. Until this key glyph had been unlocked, the importance of the sea in Maya culture had not been fully studied or appreciated. The identification of this glyph, translated literally as “fiery pool,” was part of a growing awareness of the centrality of the sea in Maya life, which has culminated in this exhibition and its companion book.

The exhibition reflects the broad range of media used by Maya artists: massive, carved stone monuments and delicate hieroglyphs, exquisite painted pottery vessels, charming sculpted human and animal figurines, and a lavish assortment of precious goods crafted from jade, gold and turquoise.

“Not only does this exhibition provide a new understanding of the sacredness of the sea in Maya thought and culture,” remarked Jennifer Casler Price, curator for Asian and non-Western Art at the Kimbell Art Museum, “but the objects presented here are stunning examples of the highest caliber of art, from the monumental to the minute, that the Maya ever produced.”

Surrounded by the sea in all directions, the ancient Maya viewed their world as inextricably tied to water, an idea that is explored in the first section of the exhibition, Water and Cosmos. More than a necessity to sustain life, water was the vital medium from which the world emerged, gods arose and ancestors communicated.

A limestone panel from Cancuen, Guatemala, is an exceptional example of Maya sculpture, depicting a ruler known as Tajchanahk, “Torch‐Sky‐Turtle,” seated on a water-lily throne in the royal court while simultaneously inhabiting the watery realm. A bubbling stream delineates the space, with stylized foliage anchoring the corners. For the Maya, the realms of earth, sea, sky and cosmos may have been perceived as flowing into each other rather than as distinct territories of being.

The world of the Maya brims with animal life—animated, realistic and supernatural all at once. The objects in the second section, Creatures of the Fiery Pool, portray a wide array of fish, frogs, birds and mythic beasts inhabiting the sea and conveying spiritual concepts. An effigy of a Caribbean spiny lobster is the only known Maya representation of the creature, excavated in 2007 from one of the oldest sites in Belize. It dates from the turbulent early colonial period, when traditional Maya life was disturbed by the incursion of Spanish soldiers and missionaries. A plugged cavity bearing a stingray spine, three shark teeth and two blades of microcrystalline quartz hints at blood sacrifice. The head emerging from the mouth may be that of a Maya deity.

The section Navigating the Cosmos explores water as a source of material wealth and spiritual power. All bodies of water––rivers, cenotes (deep, inland pools) and the sea––were united, and all could be traversed to a cosmic realm. A magnificent head of a deity with characteristics of the Sun God––a Belize national treasure––is one of the most exquisite works discovered in the Maya world. Weighing nearly ten pounds, it was created from a single piece of jadeite, the color of which was directly associated with the sea. It was found in the tomb of an elderly man, likely cradled in his arm upon burial at the sacred site of Altun Ha.

The final section of the exhibition, Birth to Rebirth, addresses the cyclical motion of the cosmos as the Maya pictured it. The sun rose in the morning from the Caribbean in the east, bearing the features of a shark as it began to traverse the sky. Cosmic crocodiles exhaled storms and battled with gods of the underworld. An elaborate ceramic incense burner from Palenque, Mexico, portrays a deity central to a creation myth. Water-curls on his cheeks and ear ornaments, which link him to the rain god (Chahk), speak of his connection to the watery world. A shark serves as his headdress, topped by a toothy crocodile. From this censer, ritual smoke curled through the city of Palenque, suffusing it with scent and mystery.

The exhibition is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, and is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom. Additional support is provided by ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations), a program of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. It is co-curated by Daniel Finamore, Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum, and Stephen D. Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. The richly illustrated catalogue is published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in association with the Peabody Essex Museum. It is available in the Exhibition Shop ($65 hard cover; $39.95 soft cover).

Kimbell Art Museum hours: Tuesday–Thursday and Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Fridays, noon–8 p.m.; Sundays, noon–5 p.m.; closed Mondays. For general information, call 817-332-8451. Web site: www.kimbellart.org. Address: 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107.

*Admission to view the Museum’s permanent collection is always FREE.

** Admission to Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors age 60 and over, military personnel and students with an ID; $8 for children ages 6–11; and FREE for children under 6 and Museum members. Admission is half-price on Tuesdays and after 5 p.m. on Fridays. Admission to the exhibition is FREE to all every Wednesday and Thursday from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. (Free hours are unique to the Fiery Pool exhibition and may not be available during other Kimbell exhibitions. Check the Web site for details.)

***Acoustiguide audio tours of the exhibition are available in English and Spanish.

Panel with a seated ruler in a watery cave (Cancuen Panel 3), 795, Cancuen, Guatemala. Limestone, 22 5/8 x 26 1/4 x 3 in. (57.5 x 66.5 x 7.6 cm). Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes—Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City. Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph © 2009 Jorge Pérez de Lara

Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President, Heritage Auction Galleries

Heritage Auction Galleries has announced the appointment of Ed Jaster to Senior Vice President. He will be transferring to the company’s soon-to-be-opened Manhattan gallery.

“Since Ed came to Heritage in 2002 his vast expertise in collectibles and Fine Art, his marketing skills and his reputation for honesty, has meant a tremendous amount to Heritage,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auction Galleries. “Ed has been instrumental in bringing some of Heritage’s biggest collections to auction in his eight year tenure here, and with the opening of our new Park Avenue street-level location, we’re very much looking forward to having him apply his considerable talents to the New York City market.”

In Jaster’s time as Vice President at Heritage he has been a key to the significant growth of the American Paintings, Illustration Art and many Collectibles departments, with all having seen yearly jumps in sales that amount to tens of millions of dollars. His recent stewardship at Heritage has included helping to build the Vintage & Contemporary Photography department.

“I can’t wait to get to New York City and help introduce more New Yorkers to Heritage,” said Jaster. “We’re going to become a local presence in what is, clearly, the most vibrant collector market in this nation, if not the world.”

Among the many collections and collectibles Jaster has helped bring to market in his time at Heritage, a few of the standouts include the Charles Martignette Estate of Illustration Art, the most exciting collection of its kind ever offered publicly – which has already brought more than $10 million with well over half the collection still to come; The Estate of the Hon. Paul Buchanan, Jr, which featured one of the finest collections of American Paintings Heritage has ever offered, and most recently, a 8.0 Detective Comics #27, which became the most expensive comic book ever offered at public auction when it brought $1.07 million last February.

From the beginning Jaster seemed destined for the art business. His parents met the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1940s, the same school he would later attend. Subsequently, for more than 20 years, Ed owned his own commercial art firm in Chicago, acquiring, trading, and selling world class collections of American photography, illustration art, and vintage comic books, where he built his vast experience and expertise.

Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $600 million, and 500,000+ registered online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com.

Upper Valley Sails by Doug Taylor, 2010

The City of El Paso Public Art Program and Representative Ann Morgan Lilly invite the public to the dedication and unveiling of Upper Valley Sails, a kinetic sculpture designed by artist Doug Taylor, located on the traffic circle intersection of Country Club Rd. and Upper Valley, on Monday, July 19, 2010, from 9 to10 a.m.

About the Project

As part of a traffic improvement project in district 1, the City of El Paso approved the construction of a roundabout traffic circle where two percent (2%) of funds were set aside for the design, fabrication, and installation of permanent public art. Upon review by an artist selection panel, the Public Art Committee, and the Cultural Affairs Advisory Board, artist Doug Taylor was selected from a pre-qualified group of artists to provide an iconic sculptural piece of art.

About the Art Work

Upper Valley Sails is a three sail kinetic, wind powered sculpture reminiscent of the cottonwood seeds, ubiquitous in the areas, floating translucent against the sky. The sculpture’s location and function symbolically recognize the site as a historic trade and travel route, transporting people and goods, commemorating a shared cultural history. The artist strategically built and designed the sculpture for comfort and not for speed in the effort to keep a slow moving turbine that is self governed in high force winds. As wind velocity increases, the rotor slows while the sails adopt a horizontal bias.

About the Artist

Artist Doug Taylor focuses largely on wind- and water-powered kinetic works, implementing renewable energy and exploring the relationship between society, technology and the environment. Taylor’s work has been installed at sites such as Whistler’s World Cup Plaza, Victoria’s Selkirk Waterfront and Vancouver’s False Creek (George Wainborne Park) and Kitsalano Pool.

Upper Valley Sails by Doug Taylor, 2010

Renato (René) Mazza

Renato (René) Mazza will be featured at the Mary Tomás Studio Gallery on July 31, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m. The preview will be on Friday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. The Mary Tomás Studio Gallery is located in the Design District in building 1080 at 1110 Dragon St., Dallas, Texas 75207.

The show titled “Celebrating Noted Portrait Painter and Sculptor 20th Century Artist Renato Mazza” encompasses a collection of portraits and busts of many well-known public figures in the Dallas area and around the world. Included are elected officials, such as a former Dallas mayor, Texas governor and lieutenant governor, along with celebrities, oil giants and philanthropists.

Mary Tomás, artist and curator, recognized the significance of Mazza’s impact on the Dallas art community. “As a Dallas gallery owner, I think it is important to recognize noted artists while they are still living and give an opportunity for collectors and friends to see work that was previously out of the public eye,” said Tomás. “Artists of today are building reputations on the shoulders of great artists like Renato Mazza.”

Mazza is a self-taught artist, sculptor, teacher, appraiser and former Dallas Italian Consul. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Venice, a law degree from the University of Padua and became a student at the Academy of Arts in Venice.

He came to the United States in 1938 and joined the U.S. Army in 1943, where he continued his art career by painting a mural of the Iwo Jima American flag raising and teaching art to soldiers. After serving his new country, he traveled to New York, Boston and California before setting up his studio in Dallas in 1947.

Also featured, will be artists Roy Tomboli, bronze sculptor and photographic printer, and Mary Tomás with a retrospective look at her paintings. Friend and professional framer, Caesar Amaya with Gallery Central, has offered his services to frame a select group of Mazza’s paintings for the show.

For more information, contact Dykeman Associates at (214) 528-2991 or adykeman@airmail.net.

I Am Woman (poster by Stealing Kitty)

I AM WOMAN
RISING Gallery
July 15, 2010 – July 31, 2010

Opening reception is Thursday, July 15, 2010, from 6 to 10 p.m.

RISING Gallery is proud to host a two week art exhibition here at the gallery titled I AM WOMAN. All proceeds from this exhibition will benefit Alley’s House, a wonderful non-profit Dallas organization. The mission of Alley’s House is to empower teen mothers and their children to achieve independence through support services, education and mentoring. Alley’s House strives to break the generational, economic, and social impact of teen pregnancy within the community. Please visit www.alleyshouse.org for more information.

Each participating artist will be given a 24 x 24 inch pre-stretched canvas to create an
art piece based on femininity and the following attitudes:

FEMININITY referring to qualities uniquely attributed to women.
LOVE that drives the Artist to create.
BEAUTY in artistic creation and output.
PASSION imbued within the art.
POWER latent within the work, demanding respect.
I AM WOMAN

Artists participating in the exhibition include:

• Cathey Miller
• Renee Vandevere
• Bonny Leibowitz
• Laura Elia
• Kate Wickham
• Carmen Menza
• Melissa Preston
• Maureen Womack
• Suzy Mortiz-Rawdin
• Andrea Reich Fender
• Michelle De Metz
• Kathleen Wilke
• Jennifer Morgan
• Sonia Semone
• Jessica Lee
• Karen Garrett
• Sue Ellen Davis
• Treva Gilkey

Alcohol sponsored by Absolute. The canvases sponsored by Betsy Walker “Course of a Different Color”. Venue donated by RISING Gallery.

I Am Woman (poster by Stealing Kitty)