Make Your Own History- Blatz Project Opening

MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY

May 2nd - May 17th, 2008
Opening Reception, May 9th, 7-10 p.m.
Closing Reception, May 16th, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-5 pm






The Blatz Building
270 East Highland Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(enter gallery from Broadway St.)


For more info visit the website and the blog... Visit Jennifer Bastian's flickr site for some good work in progress images.

Artists included:

Jennifer Bastian
Brandon Bauer
Maria Bolivar
Max Estes
Kristen Haas
Jonathan Horvath
Tiffany Knopow
Madeline McGrath
A. Bill Miller
Ashley Morgan
Richard Mutz
Vijay Paniker
Annushka Peck
Holli Pitsch
Leah Schreiber

Make Your Own History- Beer Barons & Brewery Workers project sneak peek...

Make Your Own History is a group exhibition of 15 emerging artists that uses the historic Blatz Building (a former beer brewing facility) as both a subject and location for narrative experimentation. Responding to the transitional state of the space, as well as how the site symbolizes Milwaukee’s own shifting identity, these artists have created site-specific works and interventions that complicate and challenge how history gets told and remembered.

For this exhibition A. Bill Miller and I are collaborating on a project titled Beer Barons & Brewery Workers.

Here is a video segment of the animated portraits we are working on for the installation:


From our statement:

The Project Beer Barons & Brewery Workers creates a dialog across the history of the brewing industry in Milwaukee. Animated portraits of beer barons from the era of the rise of the brewing industry interact with archival text about the 1953 brewery strike, a strike that anticipated the decline of the brewing industry in Milwaukee. The subtle and humorous animated gestures engage both the viewer and the texts shedding light on these important historical events. These two historical points become bookends to a history that is still very much a part of the fabric and character of the city of Milwaukee.

Along with the animations a site-specific drawing in the exhibition space weaves the portraits and texts in an abstract and fragmented way around a column and the floor of the installation space. This intertwining of these disparate events within the Blatz building is a physical representation of how these two events are inextricably linked to the history of this building, as well as to the larger history of the Milwaukee brewing industry.

I will post more information on the exhibition soon.

Seeing Green- Film and Video Update.

Seeing Green Film Screening, Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00-9:00pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust Street

Screening of videos by:
Lane Hall and Lisa Moline
Brian Carlson
Lindsay Holden
Brandon Bauer
Ray Chi
Laura Klein
Eddee Daniel
Suzanne Rosenblatt and Spencer Tepper
Zachary Nesgoda

This event is free

Also, on Wednesday, curator talk by Nicolas Lampert 4:30-6:00.

Press:
To read the MKE article click here
Here is the post from Mary Louise Schumacher's Art City Blog

for more information:
Seeing Green currently on view at Woodland Pattern
http://seeinggreenartshow.wordpress.com/

Reproduce & Revolt Book Out Soon!

Due out April 15th!

I will have a few designs in this new book- Reproduce and Revolt!

Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez (eds.)
Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
$18 ($19.95 cover price)

A collection of over 500 political graphics, Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate contains original art granted by the creators to the public domain, to be freely used on political posters, flyers, and campaigns. A bilingual (English & Spanish) book, it also includes a history of the reproducible political graphic and a design how-to for anyone interested in using the images in this book to help change the world. A powerful collection of graphic work by some of the world’s most active and interesting political propagandists, street artists and socially conscious graphic designers. Over 100 artists from over 25 countries are included!

You can order a copy from Just Seeds.

196 pages
10.5"x8"
Soft Skull Press

Paper Politics in Corpus Christi, TX

Paper Politics is a traveling political art exhibition I have been involved in since its first inception in Chicago in 2004. The show is curated by Josh MacPhee and has an amazing range of print processes and political sentiments... Next stop Corpus Christi, TX!

(re-posted from the Just Seeds blog)

Paper Politics, the political print show I've been traveling around the continent has made it's way to Texas! K Space Contemporary opens Paper Politics on Saturday, April 5th.
The exhibit showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. All the Justseeds artists are in the show, as well as 175 other artists from the US and around the world. An eclectic collection of work by artists who are primarily activists, as well as artists, whose work may not always be politically motivated, but who wanted to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.

Opening: Saturday April 5th, 6-8 PM
Free Admission, Food & Drinks
On view April 5th-May 11th

Also:
Woodcut Printmaking Workshop with Paper Politics artist Mike Stephens
Saturday, April 12th, 10Am-1PM
$65 materials fee, call to reserve a space.