International Women Artists' Salon

Member Spotlight: Aimee Whelan & Jenny Green Cabaret Performance - ALMOST THERE!

2012-02-15T15:25:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists' Salon is happy to share information about Almost There! A cabaret performance by The OPTimisks featuring members Aimee Whelan and Jenny Green.

Where: Duplex Cabaret Theatre (Christopher Street on Corner of 7th Avenue - 1 train to Christopher Street)

When: Tuesday February 21st @ 9:30pm

The OPTismistiks
Proudly Presents:

ALMOST THERE!
The girls are back!
Come on a journey.
Hosted by: Jenny D. Green
Staring: Christine Mckenna
Chanel Thomas
Fiona Thompson
Aimee Whelan

With Dylan Glatthorn

Where: The Duplex Cabaret Theatre
When: Tuesday February 21st, 9.30 pm
Tickets: $7 plus 2 drink minimum

Reservations can be made at :
http://www.theduplex.com/~thedup/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=6486&date=20120221

Phone: 212-255-5438

Aimee Whelan is originally from the north of England, Her favourite roles include: Chantel- Citizenship (National Theatre- UK), Jane- Get Over It (Lowery Theatre- UK), Pistol- Henry V (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot), Ado Annie- Oklahoma and May in Billy Carver... She is excited to be able to use her singing chops tonight, Can be contacted at aimeewhelan@hotmail.com

Jenny D Green: mc, actor and producing artist, working in NYC since she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2008. She has enjoyed hosting events ever since leading school assemblies as a tween (before tweens existed) and is more surprised than anyone that this has recently developed into being a Priestess (of the non-denominational www. kind). Fave mc & presenting gigs incl Mind The Gap, the BBC, Manhattan Theatre Source & indeed The Duplex. See jennydgreen.org for more and please don’t hesitate to contact Jenny at jennydgreen@gmail.com especially if you need your nuptials officiating! And keep an eye on her production company The OPTimistiks for word on a PANTOMIME for NYC...

Poetry Reading Featuring Member Lynn McGee at Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City, February 18th

2012-02-03T10:06:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists' Salon is happy to announce that member Lynn McGee will be reading from her new manuscript, The Heirloom Bulldog, at Cornelia Street Cafe on Saturday, February 18th, 6-7:30pm

The reading will feature Lynn McGee, George Wallace and Georgie Edel, and is hosted by Dean Kostos.

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (Between West 4th and Bleecker Streets; in the West Village)

Saturday, February 18, 2012
6-7:30 p.m.

A $7 fee includes one complimentary house drink.

DIRECTIONS
(F) train to West 4th
Street. Cross Sixth Avenue to West 4th Street, immediately turn left on
Cornelia Street.

OR (1/2/3) train to 14th Street. Exit
onto 12th Street, walk toward Sixth Avenue. Turn right on Sixth Avenue,
and then right on West 4th, and left on Cornelia Street.

Lynn will be reading from her new manuscript, The Heirloom Bulldog, which centers on conflicts at the heart of human/animal interactions: bulldogs bred to meet standards that disable their ability to breathe or give birth without surgical intervention; abandoned pet Burmese pythons thriving in the Everglades, causing panthers to go extinct; wild boars escaped from hunting compounds and factory farms and taking over forests of the South; the brilliant octopus, eaten alive in some cultures; feral cats causing many small mammals and birds to disappear; mares bred for their hormone-laden urine; coyotes existing invisibly in suburbs; orca whales forced to live decades in tiny pools, and other controversial topics. While the poems are serious in nature, they also focus on the triumph of animals surviving somehow, in an environment made dangerous by humans.

BIO

Lynn McGee's work appears in current issues of the Hawai'i Review and Big City Lit. Her work is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Same, 2 Bridges Review and Bluestem, and just appeared in The New Guard (where her work was a finalist in a contest judged by Donald Hall), and Tilt-a-Whirl. She also was just announced a finalist with honors in the winning writers.com War Poetry Contest, and was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Dana awards. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many literary journals and magazines including The Ontario Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Phoebe, and others. Her chapbook, Bonanza, won the Slapering Hol national manuscript contest; she earned an MFA at Columbia University and lives with her partner and stepson.

CONTACT
Lynn McGee
347-633-2245
scoutronic@aol.com

Fundraising Campaign: Catherine Taormina & OperatiON: MuSiC CoNNeCT

2012-01-30T16:53:00.000-08:00

OperatiON: MuSiC CoNNeCT

International Women Artists' Salon would like to raise awareness (and hopefully funds) for member Catherine Taormina's kickstarter campaign!

The proceeds will go towards the production of a musical collaboration at the Triad Theater in NYC in April. This prospective event involves diverse musical genres. Incentives for backing the event include tactile arts and crafts.

OperatiON: MuSiC CoNNeCT

The Fundraising Campaign ends Saturday Feb 18, 2012

Location: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831913038/operation-music-connect

MESSAGE FROM CATHERINE
Hi! I’m Rockstar Sissy also known as Catherine Taormina. I’m looking to put together an awesome musical show called Operation: Music Connect. This show is so exciting because it involves diverse musical acts. The show will include classical, contemporary, rock, jazz, opera dixieland, french chanson & gutbucket blues. The bands performing will be me, Rockstar Sissy with my bandmates Jotan Afanador who will be back from his tour with Aventura just in time for this event! and Joseph Wallace on bass. I write and sing pop-rock-funk-punk groovin songs, Nick Addeo the amazingly sweet sounding operatic tenor, Anna Kendrick who composes and sings jazzy, bluesy, cabaret-esque standards, Nicky Addeo oldies, contemporary and R&B singer, the amazingly talented world renown concert pianist Inna Faliks, and the Hot Sardines french chanson, dixieland, and gutbucket blues musical group. The show will be MC’d by Johnny Petillo of the Johnny Petillo show. I am looking at producing this show at the Triad Theater in NYC in April on a Saturday at 2pm. So please take a look at the incentives for donations and the youtube links below of the amazing performers I have linked up. $8,000 is the minimum I need to raise for this show to happen. If I am able to raise this $8,000 I intend to produce more music performances, plays, and even films. So please pledge and awesome happiness can be shared with a whole lot of people, not just me!

BIO
Catherine Taormina a fun, energetic & extremely involved in creative and performance arts. Her most notable movie credit is playing Paul Reiser’s mother and Peter Falk’s wife as Olympia Dukakis’ character as a younger woman in a flashback scene in the movie “The Thing About My Folks”. She also works behind the scenes in video production.

She is also known as Rockstar Sissy singer-songwriter-guitarist-pop-rock fun-punker composer of 23 fun, danceable, groovin’, catchy songs. With a background in writing poetry, she is author of the book of poetry “Chalkboard With A Bad Eraser” and also the handmade book “My Steaks Are Rare Put Up Your Dukes You Ain’t In The Ring With No Porkchop”, lyrics are noticeably smart and artistic. Unique style & presence with strong energy. She is a 3 year Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivor and composed the song “I’m Too Young For This” for the organization Stupid Cancer/I2Y. She is an environmental steward and a conscious consumer. When she is not busy organizing, creating artwork, knitting or crocheting, she goes for a 4 mile run in Central Park and bops from here to there on her little foldable bike.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I will use a quote from Quentin Crisp here “It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.” as by now I cannot run a pig farm.

MORE FROM CATHERINE
Hi! It’s me! Your rockin’ Rockstar Sissy!

The kickstarter campaign I started still has more days to go and we could use your kick! Everyone I talk to about it gets excited about how fun this event would be!

Diverse musical acts all in one performance! Classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, rock, french chanson, dixieland and gutbucket blues! Please take a look at the very fun video I took the time to make describing my idea and wish! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831913038/operation-music-connect

I keep going over figures in my head like if 800 people pledge $10 then the project will be funded! Or if 130 people pledge $75 than not only will the project be funded, but each person would get a ticket to the show (or you can assign your ticket for a cancer survivor to come in place of you if you can’t make it or if you are a cancer survivor, it would be awesome if you can spread the word and get someone to sponsor your ticket!) Or, if 400 people donate $20 dollars then the project will be funded. $10 is the cost of one good lunch you may buy for yourself and then forget you ate by the next day! Of course, you can pledge less, ever bit helps!!! I have great incentives...like an appearance in a Rockstar Sissy video or video project of mine!!! There is ad space in the program so if any business would like to participate, they can!

I did another fundraiser after I went through my cancer experience. Getting in shape and running that 1/2 marathon was very important to me and the funds raised went towards my getting to the marathon and the training helped my body heal. Running and athleticism are a hobby of mine while the rest of life is mostly consumed by the creative arts. This fundraiser is really the beginning of a new dream of mine, which, I know in my spirit is even more important than running is to my well-being! That is, having the control a producer has - which has to this point in my life been absent from my creative life. How amazing it would be if I called the shots when it came to my art, my music, my performance, my compensation and the well-deserved compensation of my fellow artists.

We already have 23 amazing donors to our campaign! We really only need a few more! Will you be the one? Thanks so much!

Most importantly, if I don’t meet the $8,000 goal, no one is charged the pledge they make, so why not consider it? If you pledge and I don’t make the goal, I will remember you as being warm-hearted and enthusiastic for me!

Pledge my kickstarter campaign!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831913038/operation-music-connect
Fun Fun Fun!

SAG-AFTRA-AEA
http://www.catherinetaormina.com aka Rockstar Sissy
http://www.youtube.com/rockstarsissy
http://www.facebook.com/rockstarsissy
http://www.facebook.com/catherinetaormina
http://www.myspace.com/rockstarsissy

Venue http://www.triadnyc.com

Kickstarter Campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831913038/operation-music-connect

ARTISTS
http://www.catherinetaormina.com
http://www.catherinetaormina.com/rockstarsissy
Rockstar Sissy (pop-rocker funk-punker) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3K7RWdb0o&

Jotan Afanador on drums http://www.jotanafanador.com/
Joseph Wallace on bass http://www.josephwallacemusic.com

Nick Addeo operatic performance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR_97Ne5bvM&
www.nickaddeoenterprises.com

Inna Faliks Concert Pianist
http://innafaliks.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NlMOSGUW_0

The Hot Sardines - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtUWNN5dSXc
www.hotsardines.com Dixieland, French Chanson & Gutbuck Blues

Anna Elizabeth Kendrick - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZKP8EhDko&
www.annaelizabethkendrick.com Jazzy Bluesy Cabaret-esque Singer with the Jeevan D'Souza Trio

Nicky Addeo
www.nickyaddeo.com/ -Oldies, Contemporary, R&B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6d5UOQbOk&

MC Johnny Petillo - www.johnnypetillo.com

CONTACT
www.catherinetaormina.com
Phone: 212-333-3611
Email: rockstarsissy@gmail.com

International Women Artists' Salon Presents Their Second Annual Salon exhibition November 22nd - December 4th, 2011

2011-11-22T12:04:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists' Salon

presents their second annual salon exhibition...

photographysculpturecollagepaintingmusicdrawingtheaterpoetrydance

videofilmcomedyparticipationartnon-fictioninstallationmixedmedia

fictionspokenwordanimationfabricart

Participating Artists:

Aimee Whelan, Annie Heckman, Ashley Brooke Roberts, Bev Thompson, Bridget Riversmith, Caren Jo Shapiro, Carren Strock, Dorothy A. Krakauer, Elena Bouza, Ella Veres, Francine Trevens, Heidi Russell, Irina Kuzminsky, Janet Restino, Jeanine Alfieri, Jendog Lonewolf, Jennie Booth, Jenny D Green, Ji Ye Kim, Karlyn DeSteno, Kate Perotti, Kathryn M. Fazio, Kelley Donovan, Kera MacKenzie, Laura Cannistraci, Lauren Bond, Lisa Ferber, Lisa Zilker, Maggie Cousins, Maria Lago, Marla Mossman, Maria Taveras, Mary Gagler, Meg Graham, Melissa Riker/Kinesis Project, Miranda Loud, Nadine Charlsen, Orly Benun, Patricia Shea, Prinny Alaví, Rica Takashima, Sabina Pieslak, Sheryl Scott, Silvana D’Mikos, Stiliani Moulinos, Toni Silber-Delerive, Wen-Chi Chen, YaliniDream

Exhibition Hours:

November 22-27, Noon to 7pm, closed Thanksgiving

November 28-Dec 3, Noon to 8 pm

December 4th, Sunday, Noon to 5 pm

Special Events:

Reception: Tuesday, November 29th, 7-10pm

Film Viewing: Friday, December 2nd, 6 pm

Performance Salon: Saturday, December, 3rd, 7-10 pm

Literary Salon: Sunday, December 4th, 3-5 pm

Introducing

Participation Peace: tapestry of hope

YOU are invited to contribute to our exhibition's participation art project, anytime during the show ~ come on in!!!

While last year’s exhibition reflected our mission through the theme of

limitless possibility in Exhibition ONE: zero gravity, this year’s theme will

reflect the very personal and, at times, aggressive use of the universal language of color in Exhibition TWO: color talk. Each artist’s use of color changes from culture to culture and from year to year as they develop, rebel and delve into their use of color’s limitless vocabulary. The theme embraces the many backgrounds and influences of salon members and exhibits them all as a survey of what women artists are saying with color today.

For more information contact Heidi Russell:

heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com or 646.272.8879

Much appreciation to chashama and their staff!

www.chashama.org

Exhibition TWO: color talk - video and film program

2011-11-22T10:00:00.000-08:00

Click on cards for readable view:

Exhibition TWO: color talk - Visual Art Price List

2011-11-22T08:00:00.000-08:00

Member Spotlight: Visual Artist Joelle Circé as part of EstroGenious Festival

2011-10-12T08:00:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to share some images from visual artist Joelle Circé, one of the participants in Estrogenius Festival exhibition, highlighting several Salon members and other women artists. October 5th-November 5th.

Tanguero, oil, 28 inches x 20 inches

You can see her work in person at Manhattan Theatre Source during the Estrogenius Festival Exhibition, October 5th-November 5th.

Estro Art is that portion of the overall EstroGenius Festival celebrating female artists voices. It's open every night at the Theater before the show. Opening reception is on october 6th, from 6-8pm. Manhattan Theater Source, 177 MacDougal Street, NY, NY, 10011 (from october 5th to november 5th).

Check out: http://estrogenius.org/

Shut up and be pretty, sanguine,

pastel and charcoal, 20 inches x 17 inches

Circé's Artist Statement

My creations primarily consist of works in oils and occasionally charcoals and pastels. My process is instinctive and I?m unerringly drawn to expose and reveal the image and the moment contained therein to it?s fullest potential. I am a queer woman of transsexual origin and my art reflects an integrated queer feminism that is political, social and often emotional in nature. My art is integrated in my own personal politic and feminism, and I explore the power of this in my art.

---Circé

Breaking free, oil, 20 inches x 16 inches

My Bio in short

I was born In Montreal, Canada, and raised catholic though even from a young age, I had already begun to walk my own path. I was also born with a physiological condition called transsexuality and as might be imagined, this caused much consternation, eventually I was cured of it and today live life as a very happy woman indeed. I am agnostic as far as what I think about beliefs.

I grew up in rather poor settings, covering the walls of the shared bedroom with my drawings.

I began drawing as a child and the passion for lines and colors just grew as I aged. I studied at a private Art School in Montreal for about four years and participated in many art shows.

---Joelle Circé

Red Light, oil, 36 inches x 24 inches

Salon Collaboration Event: One Body, A Multitude of Expression works by female artists, a component of Estrogenius Festival 2011

2011-10-06T10:28:00.000-07:00

"Three Goddesses", Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Triptych, three 10"x 20" panels

by Anastacia Drake

International Women Artists' Salon is excited to announce founder Heidi Russell curates Estrogenius Festival exhibition, highlighting several Salon members and other women artists. October 5th-November 5th. Opening event: Thursday October 6th 6:00-8:00PM

One Body, A Multitude of Expression

works by female artists, a component of Estrogenius Festival 2011

Curated by Heidi Russell and installed by Ashley Middleton and Mary Gagler

at Manhattan Theatre Source

177 MacDougal Street, between Waverly and 8th Street

New York, NY 10011

http://estrogenius.org/Estro2011/components/art.html

Opening event: Thursday, October 6, 6-8pm

Show runs: October 5-November 5

The show will be on display from October 5th-November 5th.

Best viewing times: 12:00 - 7 pm

Artists include:

Anastacia Drake, Anne Carlino, Ashley Middleton, Barbara Lee, Beatriz Olivetti, Bridget Riversmith, Elena Bouza, Ella Veres, Eva Mueller, Fotini Vurgaropulou, Gretchen Radecki, Jade Chiu, Jeanine Alfieri, JiYe Kim, Joelle Circe, Judy Francesconi, Lee Ann Monat, Lillian Gottlieb, Lisa Lebofsky, Migdalia Luz, Maria Taveras, Marla Mossman, Mary Gagler, Matilda Szydagis, Meg Graham, Patricia Shea, Sheryl Scott, Stacie Joy, Toni Quest, Tracy Von Becker, Tricia Sellmer, and Zofia Bogusz

Poetry, music and performance by leading NYC female artists will help launch the opening on Thursday, October 6th, 6-8pm.

Performers at the free reception include:

Cheryl B. Engelhardt, Ella Veres, Jennifer Pawlitschek, Kat Georges, Lauren Bond, Louise D. E. Jensen, Nicole Zaray, & Patricia Shea

Member Spotlight: Heba Amin, filmmaker, announces fundraising campaign for experimental film "Voices from the Revolution"

2011-09-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is honored to support filmmaker member Heba Amin's fund-raising campaign for her experimental film "Voices from the Revolution." We invite you to visit her IndieGoGo and Facebook pages to learn about her film project and support her effort in any way you can.

During the recent uprising in Egypt in 2011, speak2Tweet allowed Egyptians to post their breaking news and opinions on Twitter via voicemail despite countrywide Internet cuts. The result was thousands of heartfelt messages from Egyptians recording their emotions by phone. This experimental film presents selected speak2Tweet messages prior to the fall of the Mubarak regime on February 11, 2011 and juxtaposes them with the abandoned structures that represent the long-lasting effects of a corrupt dictatorship. It attempts to depict the harsh reality of the physical state of the city and addresses the role that the urban infrastructure plays in instigating unrest amongst its inhabitants. The project reveals the hopes and fears of a people who have yet to discover the outcome of their revolution within the context of their crumbling surroundings. This is not another documentary about the revolution but rather an artistic presentation revealing the collective psyche during a specific time-frame.

Bio:

Heba Amin: Artist, Director
Heba Amin is an Egyptian artist whose work seeks to map collective memory as it relates to the built environment. Her theoretical and studio-based work addresses themes related to urban planning, mapping, migration/immigration and language as an aesthetic database to explore junctures, failures, and flawed memory.

Amin has taught at the University of Minnesota, the American University in Cairo, and the Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin. She is a 2009 Rhizome Commissions grant recipient and a 2010 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) scholar. She has exhibited her work internationally and has attended several workshops and residencies in Europe. Amin currently resides in Berlin. More information about her work can be found at www.hebaamin.com.

www.hebaamin.com

More from Heba:

I am very happy to share with you exciting updates for Voices from the Revolution, an experimental documentary I am directing! I see this project as a platform to discuss very important issues addressed by the film including democratization of communication, rights to internet access, impact of neglected infrastructure, and importance of historical structures, among others. This is not another documentary about the revolution but rather an artistic presentation that not only gives you intimate insight on what the emotional state of the people was before their government fell but also features beautiful architecture in Cairo, much of which has been abandoned, neglected and forgotten, relaying the context in which revolution happened.

I am perhaps doing the unthinkable, but with complete confidence in the project, I am sending you a call to help support it.

Contributions can be as low as $1, be anonymous and be done using Paypal or credit card. Couldn't be more simple!

To help make this project happen visit our IndieGoGo campaign (where you can also see an excerpt of the project): http://www.indiegogo.com/Voices-from-the-Revolution

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Voices-from-the-Revolution/150658441691544

Member Spotlight: Visual Artist Jennie Booth - Solo Exhibition- "The Universe Goes Looking 4 an Answer"

2011-09-15T08:39:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce member Jennie Booth's solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings, "The Universe Goes Looking 4 an Answer" at Chashama 461 Studio Gallery, September 14, 2011 - Tuesday, September 27, 2011.

The Universe Goes Looking 4 an Answer

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Wednesday through Sunday, 1-6PM

Chashama 461 Studio Gallery, 461 W. 126th St, NYC

Opening Reception Friday, September 16th, 2011 6-9PM

Click HERE for directions.

Universe Gets a Query

4"w x 7" h 2011

oil/beeswax on paper

The Universe comes to Harlem from September 14-27, 2011 as chashama's 461 Gallery presents mixed-media paintings by New York City artist Jennie Booth. Booth fills the gallery with glowing portraits of an iconographic Universe walking through the landscape of her own Consciousness.

These oil and mixed media paintings express the power and vulnerability of the human psyche when faced with its own vast and mysterious nature. Having lost loved ones to the worst outcomes of mental illness, and having struggled for years herself with the crushing depressions of Bipolar II, she has experienced firsthand how "reality" is truly a projection of the mind, and the mind is vulnerable to the complex wiring of its motherboard, the brain.

Jennie Booth's iconography carries us through a world of Freaky Observers, vibrating Strings, life-anchoring yucca and blazing sunsets painted with jewel-like colors that have the feeling of stained glass. This layering of brain science, physics, psychology, icongraphic traditions and landscape tableaux speaks to the miracle of thought on the micro and macro scale.

Universe Goes Looking 4 an Answer

Oil/beeswax on Paper

Bio

Artist, Jennie Booth has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Residency, Vermont Studio Full Fellowship, and Fundacion Valparaiso Residency in Spain. She works between New York City and Los Angeles, California

Sunset With Freaky Observers

10" x 10" 2010

Oil Beeswax on Canvas

Artist Statement

The central figure in my work is the Universal Self, wandering through a landscape of her own Consciousness. She is compassion, rationality, strength and kinetic energy. Brain clouds hovering around her are the Freaky Observers of the Albrecht/SoroBoltzmann Brain Paradox; a play on the mathematical unlikelihood that we are here thinking at all.

Travel through the Egyptian Sahara in 2005 and White Sands Desert during a 2007 Artist Residency at Mano Y Mente in New Mexico allowed me to experience the awe and strange familiarity of being surrounded by an ocean of sand. These vast, stark environments were the settings in which celebrated thinkers from both regions sought to answer fundamental questions and gain control of their worlds, resulting in The Eyptian Book of Emerging Forth Into the Light…..and the nuclear bomb. Quiet, immense and dazzling, I found the Desert ecosystem to be a potent symbolic parallel to our human presence on Earth: fragile, tentative and interdependent, yet ultimately alone.

PowerSource (The Universe Gets Juiced)

71/2" w x 6" h 2007

Oil/Beeswax on Paper

Member Spotlight: Judith Z. Miller - "Celebration of Life!" Artists Commemorating 9/11

2011-09-04T14:15:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon member Judith Z. Miller Invites You to Collaborate in the Celebration of Life! “Be-In” Artists Commemorating 9/11

Come Celebrate LIFE on 9/11/2011

Artists Commemorating 9/11

2-7pm

(*RAIN DATES: Saturday, September 24 or in case of rain, Sunday, September 25th.)

In Park Slope's Lush Warren/ St. Mark's Community Garden (619-625 Warren St, Between 4th and 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY).

“Celebration of Life!” - a dance-percussive-art “Happening” - features Sticks & Stones healing ritual artist

Judith Z. Miller’s primal wearable art and sculpture made from trees and stones, set to a live soundscape of global rhythms by Music for the Masses DJ Neva Wartell, in Park Slope’s lush St. Marks/Warren Street Community Garden.

“Celebration of Life” will include dancers in body paint wearing Judith’s handmade, one-of-a-kind amulets, moving throughout the garden with her “Sacred Staffs” made from the roots and trunks of trees. Dancers will be accompanied by music spun by DJ Neva along with live percussion. The community will be invited to participate.

To RSVP, search Facebook:

Celebration of Life! “Be-In”

View Video Invitation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR-w_EsNHVw

Dancers will honor the earth by creating movement in response to the song “MANKIND” by MAURI, accompanied by live music.

http://mauri.bandcamp.com/track/mankind

Dancers, Choreographers, Percussionists, Body Painters, Poets & Writers, Photographers, Videographers, and advance & on-site Event Organizers are invited to collaborate. If you want to participate, please let us know what skills you'd like to share!

POTLUCK: Please bring food and non-alcoholic beverages to share. The grill will be fired up.

Featured Artists:

DJ NEVA (Music for the Masses) is an ethnomusicologist and long-time cultural activist. Along with performances at festivals and events, she co-produces "New York International" — NY’s longest-running weekly live-format World Music radio show — on Haitian community station Radio Soleil http://www.radiosoleil.com/.

More information: http://www.facebook.com/DJNeva
Radio show archive: http://www.djneva.podOmatic.com/

Judith Z. Miller (Sticks & Stones) is a self-trained healing ritual artist who lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition, she draws and creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees, stones and found objects, which she fashions into ritual staffs, instruments, wearable amulets, and employs in healing rituals.

To learn more about Judith Z. Miller, go to:

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller

http://www.zamo-zamo.com/

Partial list of collaborating artists:

Artist/Designer/Raconteur Thomas Lynn Pool will display his origami designs and shoot video.

Jazz improvisational and devotional vocalist Deborah Shelton will lead a song circle combining vocal improvisation and multi-part songs of faith, hope and love.

Dub Poet Infinity [http://www.adiosbabylon.com/INFINITY.html] will perform.

Jim Su and Tyler P. Fairbanks [www.modelmayhem.com/582872] will paint the dancers’ bodies and Ahuva Adanani will do makeup and hair.

Taino tongue drummer William Ruiz [http://www.reverbnation.com/percussionistwilliamruiz] and percussionist Shoshana Jedwab [http://shoshanajedwab.com] will lead drum circles.

Brooklyn videographer Jett Cain a documentary, live music performance and music video producer will document the days’ events and create a music video.

We invite your collaboration, please contact CelebrationOfLifeNYC@gmail.com and let us know what you’d like to contribute.

Please include the words “Celebration of Life!” in the subject line.

Event Hashtag: #911COL

Create a small temporary installation and document it for submission for "Return, Remember" sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council at Celebration of Life!

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL
Return, Remember

Ephemeral Memorials in the Legacy of September 11^th Deadline: September 30, 2011

For more information:

http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1716

For information and inspiration, view this beautiful memorial on CityLore's website:

http://www.citylore.org/911_exhibit/911_home.html

Member Spotlight: Kelley Donovan & Dancers showing work in NYC!!‏

2011-08-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is happy to share the good news that Salon Member Kelley Donovan and Dancers will be in New York City on September 17th with "In a World" and "What is Stable Shifts, What is Solid Slips."

Kelley Donovan and Dancers present

In a World
and
What is Stable Shifts, What is Solid Slips

Guest Choreographers: David Parker,
Jessica Parks and Sharon Montella

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH AT 8:00pm

UPDATE:
CHANGE OF VENUE!
We are now performing at PEARL STUDIOS!
500 8th Ave., 12th Floor, room 1204

For tickets go to: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/186602
(if you cannot attend the show but want to contribute please go to the link above and purchase a ticket)

for directions WWW.PMTHOUSEOFDANCE.COM
Monthly Series Continues: October 8, Nov. 12th, December 10th

“…a noticeably personal style…gorgeously fluid,
strongly rooted movement. -The New York Times

$20.00 GENERAL ADMISSION,
$12.00 STUDENTS/SENIORS

Performed By: David Parker, Jessica Parks, Sharon Montella, Samantha Wilson, Michael West Jr., Sasha Peterson, Kelley Donovan, Nordica Holton, Lucy Considine, Laura Murphy, Tiffany Ballinger, Stephanie Reeves

for information call 617-388-3247 or e-mail kddcompany@yahoo.com

Bio

Kelley Donovan splits her time between Boston and New York City, teaching in both cities and has performed work by Ann Carlson and Liz Lerman. She currently teaches modern dance at UMass Boston, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge and Third Life Studios in Somerville. She received her training in choreography from Mark Morris and Bessie Schonberg and her work has been called “vibrant, imaginative...with a rare feeling for stage space” by the New York Times. She has shown work in numerous Boston venues and at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research, The Rover and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. She has been selected as a Choreography Fellow at Summerstages Dance at Concord Academy this summer. Starting in September she will produce a monthly Salon Series in New York City this fall at PMT House of Dance. You can find information at kddcompany.wordpress.com.

Kelley Donovan & Dancers classes
http://kddcompany.wordpress.com/classes

Blog, about our process & recent work
http://kddcompany.wordpress.com/

Member Spotlight: Nicole Zaray's One Woman Musical Show "A Woman Alone" in New York City on Sept 9th

2011-08-24T12:40:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce member Nicole Zaray's performance in her One Woman Musical Show "A Woman Alone," Friday, September 9th at 7:30pm at The Dixon Place Lounge, NYC. Admission is FREE!

Welcome the FALL

with a night of music with

NICOLE ZARAY

FRIDAY SEPT 9th

7:30 pm

A WOMAN ALONE

a one woman musical show

Nicole Zaray

Get ready to challenge your preconceptions of pop and American Songbook. Nicole Zaray guarantees you some bizarre hooks tonight. This is a musical journey through various existential modalities of solitude in the city. Within her set of quirky, feminist, jazz-influenced experimental songs, Nicole delivers catchy choruses and weird piano phrasings (while dancing) and illustrates the particular loneliness of the urban environment of our time, while providing brief analyses on how it makes perfect sense that we have all arrived here. This is funny, memorable, and definitely a new form of one-woman-cabaret. Think Almodovar meets Laurie Anderson. Loneliness never seemed so interesting.

Photo: Eva Mueller

The DIXON PLACE LOUNGE

161A Chrystie Street NY NY 10002 212-219-0736

F R E E.

Music, vocals, keyboards and music production by Nicole Zaray.

Visuals by Eva Mueller and Nicole Zaray.

Nicole Zaray Brief Bio:

Nicole Zaray is a vocalist, songwriter and producer. She was born on the LES, was raised in Brooklyn and studied at Barnard College. She studied classical piano for 10 years, but was greatly influenced by stride piano players Fats Waller and James P. Johnson when no one was looking. Her solo music work has been presented at PS 122, the Roulette Concert Series, and the SuperCoda music series. Dedicated to studying the evolution of ‘The American Songbook’, she was commissioned by The American Music Center to write about American film music history. She was featured vocalist on Moby’s CDs “Feeling So Real” and “Next is the E” (Mute/Elektra); and starred in the eclectic scifi flick “The Sticky Fingers of Time” which premiered at the Venice Biennale, played over forty other festivals, and was released worldwide.

More information:

info@nicolezaray.com

http://www.nicolezaray.com

Member Spotlight: Sharine Mohamed, filmmaker, announces fundraising campaign for "I am not Virgin" film teaser

2011-08-01T14:58:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is honored to support filmmaker member Sharine Mohamed's fund-raising campaign for her 'I am not Virgin' film teaser. We invite you to learn about her film project and support her effort in any way. She will hold a fundraiser event August 3rd in conjunction with an IndieGoGo online fund-raising campaign through November 18th, 2011.

Sharine invites you to join her Wednesday, August 3rd, 7pm through the evening. Enjoy an Egyptian Homemade Dinner. Drink Mediterranean Fig Flavored Vodka. See the Live Monologues. Win Raffle Prizes. All monies raised will be used for I am not VIRGIN's five minute film teaser.

Please see event details at these two links and to reserve your ticket (please reserve by August 1st ,or contact Heidi Russell or Sharine if interested and past reservation deadline).

https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=205868529463414

SHARINE A. MOHAMED

F I L M D I R E C T O R

I am not Virgin Movie. INC

Note from the Filmmaker:

I love filmmaking. I am obsessed. I just want to be on set all day, all night, directing. I really believe that I was born in this life just to make movies. I come from an art background, and love colors, lighting, scenes; the beauty of the creative process obsesses me! But aside from that, throughout my life, I have always thought critically, and fought against what I felt was wrong. Due to activism DNA in me, what better idea could I have than to mix both my passions?

My mission as an Egyptian filmmaker is to be a voice for women on women’s issues in my country, Egypt where it can be an example to all other countries. As an American, my mission as a filmmaker is to show how even here in America we can still find social conflict, and that in the end, a city is only a city and becomes labeled by its people. Hopefully my films can beautifully and artistically emphasize fundamental human rights on a global level, and to be a bridge to link different cultures so that it would broaden and highlight the similarities that unite us as a people on this one same planet that we all share.

The Project: Stage in Development:

Log Line: Egyptian feature film based on true events about victimized women accused of not being virgins. The double standards between women and men on the topic of virginity and hymen restoration procedures with a backdrop of the current revolution in Egypt and the outcome of vile acts towards women involving their virginity while protesting.

Why this Topic?
The topic is important because it’s a twisted old fashion tradition. It’s dreadful and serious, painful, astonishing, unfair and brutal. These atrocities are still happening to women, women I personally knew and still know till this day, my friends, family, even myself and it needs to end.

What is virginity? What does it mean to be a virgin? Does the hymen need to be intact? What is the significance of a hymen in terms of biological, traditional, physical? How many types of hymens are there? Religious people have one answer, while doctors have another, different from what some Egyptian men think, different from what Egyptian women think even amongst other Egyptian women, different from what non-Egyptian men and women think…

How sad is it to know that a father would let his daughter die rather than permit her to have necessary cervical surgery, believing that she would no longer be a virgin and therefore not die with honor.

How crazy is it to know that after seven years of a loving marriage, the wife is divorced because the husband suspects she was never a virgin after she gifts him with a hymen restoration procedure on their seventh wedding anniversary.
How sad is it to know that most women end up marrying their rapist, since the rapist has the luxury to choose between being in prison for a few months or marrying the victim in order to not press charges against him thereby preserving her and her family’s’ honor.

How strange is it to learn that some women, between the ages of twenty and forty, are so depressed that they refuse to engage in sexual intercourse with their husbands because of fear and paranoia.

How sad is it for a woman to be accused of not being a virgin, brutally threatened, mentally and physically abused, all because she did not bleed?

Synopsis:
A young woman Azraa (popular Egyptian name meaning Virgin), in her early 20s, admitted by the lead scholarship to study Psychology, Western Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, and the Arts at the AUC: American University in Cairo. Although she is obedient at home amongst her parents (in a slum like area called Boolak in Cairo) and abides by the Eastern traditional ways, she has a Westernized and unaccepted (by Egyptian Society standards) lifestyle when away from home; and even though she wishes to be accepted, she has a dreadful fear and expresses her desperate desire to never reveal her secret “but preferred” life-style to her parents. An American professor at AUC makes an announcement in class about a study-abroad contest, where the student contestants are assigned to research a conflicted cultural topic to win a sponsored trip to New York City and attend The International Cultural Convention at the UN where the student will represent Egypt with a public speech on the researched topic. Azraa is interested and applies. However, Ahmed, Azraas’ jealous, controlling boyfriend threatens to tell her family that she is not a virgin unless she drops the assignment and stops spending so much time with the American Professor. After seeing Ahmed’s true colors, she decides to end the relationship. She is heartbroken and crushed with confusions, fears and regrets. Azraa is drenched in fear and decides to go to one of those illegal clinics to find a cosmetic surgeon to stitch her hymen. Azraa cannot afford the procedure but begs the doctor to work in exchange and he agrees. During her working hours she shares chats with a few women who attend the clinic and learns so much about virginity and all matters involved. She takes an interest in the subject and starts to research the topic for the AUC competition assignment. The relationship with her professor becomes deeper as they work together, and although its platonic, students and faculty see them together often, start to gossip and assume it’s more. Ahmed, her ex-boyfriend, continues to follow her and harass her with his threats. Meanwhile, her parents are aware it’s her last year in college and they keep telling her about potential husbands who are visiting to propose, but she avoids them by creating excuses to not show up, and her parents start to suspect something is wrong. Political turmoil results in new uprising and protests start to take place in Tahrir square. Azraa joins one morning after seeing a group of women shouting for freedom and democracy. Masses of people are protesting to get rid of the President. She and a few other women get arrested by the authorities and are forced to undergo virginity examinations. As her family finds out and her ex-boyfriend confirms this news by spreading rumors in the town where she lives, Azraa is brutally beaten by her brother and father, her family disowns her, and she is a popular subject for gossip, exaggerative rumors and an outcast in her neighborhood. After rejections from family members and friends for a place to stay, she can think of no one to go to but the American Professor. He takes her in and tries to encourage her to finish the research she’s started, but she is too hurt, depressed and distracted as everything else in her life falling apart. Rumors from faculty and students intensify. After a long time of almost giving up, she than realizes it’s all she has left. After seeing people who die to free Egypt, Azraa realizes the importance of voice and insists on struggling against all odds to achieve her only serious desire to win the contest. She presents her project proposal to the dean and wins. The film ends with Azraa in New York City at the International Cultural Convention. She starts the long public speech revealing her entire research on the virginity issue with women in Egypt. The crowd comes to tears, laughs, and claps.

What is Needed:
Right now I am working on producing a 5 minute teaser and have 4 months between Aug 15th and December 15th for Pre-production and Production in Cairo then post here in New York once I get back December 15th. In general I probably need to raise about $150,000.00 or above only for development and still figuring it out. Some examples for why I need this amount...

1-      5 min Teaser ($50 thousand) Deadline December15th
2-      Website www.iamnotvirginmovie.com
3-      Script
4-      Logo & other stationeries
5-      Critiquing and proof reading
6-      Entertainment Lawyer/ drafting Contracts and Agreements
7-      Casting
8-      Locations & Permits

The list goes on, but this was just to give you an idea… What I am really focusing on now is producing the 5 minute teaser. I have been working on research in Cairo for the past year, attending film festivals to network and working on the development. I just registered the project as an S-corporation, and all of this preliminary work is expensive, so I need support.

For any questions please email me at info@iamnotvirginmovie.com
Thank you!

Sharine

SHARINE A. MOHAMED

F I L M D I R E C T O R

I am not Virgin Movie. INC

+1 917 703 8244 USA

+2 019 718 1 718 EGYPT

+33 6 197479 23 FRANCE

About the Director:
New York and Cairo based emerging filmmaker Sharine Mohamed intends to create fictional films based on true stories about issues that women face, relationships, cultural clashes, and social stigmas. The daughter of an Egyptian father and American mother, Sharine Mohamed has lived half her life in each country always feeling torn between two very different cultures and having difficulty adapting to both and being accepted in each. Currently, she shifts between living in New York and Cairo and tries to mix the best from both cities which mold her to be who she is today no matter where she goes.

Member Spotlight: Silvana D'Mikos, visual artist, participates in the Show: CART, Baltimore, MD, USA - July 9 - Sept 4, 2011‏

2011-07-07T11:56:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce visual artist member Silvana D'Mikos is participating in the exhibition C A R T at Current Gallery in Baltimore, MD, USA, July 9th through September 4th, 2011, with opening reception on July 9th.

"Soap Series"

Silvana D’Mikos participates in

C A R T

July 9 - September 4, 2011

Opening Saturday July 9, 7-10pm

Current Gallery

421 N Howard, Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.currentspace.com/

Opening coinciding with 30^th Annual Artscape

http://www.artscape.org/about

"Soap Series"

C A R T

The average American makes two trips to buy groceries each week, making supermarkets, mini-marts, and corner stores essential and incredibly influential parts of our everyday lives. All items are bought and sold at these stores using money. Money is earned through labor, and labor comes in countless different packages, much like our food. Through our labor we are inspired and we are exploited. We progress and we are repressed. We survive.

Art is created through labor, but unlike some of the more negative forms labor takes, art stimulates our minds, challenges our imaginations, and expands our vision for the world. Art is at the center of humanity’s continuous evolution, but it remains extraordinarily undervalued by mainstream American society, which is almost solely focused on the seemingly endless cycle of labor and consumption. This limited view of life is slowly eliminating our ability to imagine, dream, and think freely.

Through C A R T, Current Gallery is positing that art is not optional, but essential. It affects all of us internally, whether we are aware of it or not, and it should therefore be considered as fundamental to our daily lives as the products we purchase at grocery stores every week. Therefore, Current Space will be transformed into a fully functional mini-supermarket, complete with aisles, window displays, shopping baskets, and cash registers in an attempt to explore the exchange of artists’ labor for profit in a familiar, everyday setting.

Curators: Michael Benevento, Monique Crabb and Andrew Liang

Silvana D’Mikos is an interdisciplinary installation artist from Uruguay. Her installations are characterized by a variety of aesthetic languages; sculptures, digital images, sound and animation, also through the use of different materials. D’Mikos’s work explores social conflicts derived from human feelings, emotions and relationships.

In 2004, she obtained a Bachelor in fine Arts degree from the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, she taught art history to high school student in deprived neighborhoods, worked in carnival as a sculptor, and participated in urban art, community and recycling art projects.

In 2005 she moved to Miami, Florida, where her work began to change direction by the incorporation of new media elements. She also worked as a graphic designer, and, as an art teacher with at-risk high school students at the Young Men's Academy at MacArthur South.

D’Mikos’s work has been exhibit internationally. In 2007 she moved to France to participate in the international curatorial program of L’ecole du Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble. At the L’ecole, she researched and studied contemporary art collections, focusing on the Belgium collection of Annick and Anton Herbert. Research that originated the exhibition “Hypothèse pour une Histoire”, a selection of documents from the collection archives, from 1989 and 1990 emphasizing the relationship between the collection and the socio-political events of that period. Also, the publication, “Access to documents/ Access through document”, magazine Hors d’Œuvre, on the access of documents in contemporary art practices and researches.

The following year, she has attended an international summer program in New Media at Transart Institute, Danube University, Berlin, Germany. There she participated in workshops and seminaries about Identity, Sensory perception and Newness.

"Soap Series"

Artist Statement

My training as a sculptor began at the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After graduation in 2004, I worked as an interdisciplinary artist, and produced a number of works reflecting my views on the controversial aspects of society. The Invisible Blood Sucker, my instillation that exposes the economic crisis of 2008 exemplifies this idea.

I see art as an experimental process originating from daily human interactions, and use a variety of media; sculptures, sounds, digital images and motion to express it. My work, I Cannot Understand, which focuses on the problems of communication between people of diverse ethnicity, is a good example.

At present, I am working with a variety of materials and to uncover and hope to uncover a new meaning and potential to highlight life’s transformations and impermanence. My recycled paper installation and soap sculpture project are based on this idea.

www.demikosart.com

Member Spotlight: Marye Lobb, musician - announcing her fundraiser for her second album‏

2011-07-01T15:34:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce singer/songwriter member Marye Lobb is working on her second album and is asking for your help in making it come to fruition. Please join us in supporting her goal to share her creative gifts with the world.

"An artist has a responsibility.

to listen to the world around him or herself.

to take it in and comprehend the complexity to the best of his or her ability.

An artist has a responsibility.

to be honest.

art, in its truest form, has no hidden agenda - it is there to breathe, to speak, to merely exist.

An artist has a responsibility.

to create a positive message.

to propose a solution, radical or simple as it may be - to serve the greater good."

-Marye Lobb 2011

What this is all about:

I released my first album Finding Home (which you can find on itunes) in 2008 and now it is time to record album number 2.

The songs on my second album are intimate stories from the heart about living in New York City as an artist for the past three years.

I have selected the best professionals, studios and material so that you can enjoy this album in your living room with a glass of wine or cup of tea and hopefully it will make your life better.

The plan:

My good friend and colleague George Saenz will be producing the album. (Cumbiagra, Mic the Robot, Jarana Beat, Son Tostáo). George has shared the stage with: Ruben Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Eddie Palmieri, Maria Schneider, Gloria Estefan and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Montreal Jazz Festival with McCoy Tyner as well as clubs and venues throughout New York City and North America. George is hot!

We have selected the best studios, the best engineers and the most talented musicians to record with us. We have photographers and designers on board to make the album not only sound good, but look good.

What the money will go towards:

Recording an album is a big project that requires a lot of love and a substantial amount of money. We for sure have the love part down. Just need to get that budget together!

The budget will pay the producers, engineers, studios and musicians. It also covers the photographers, designers, manufactures and publicists. Hard working, talented professionals will be compensated for their excellent work.

You can be a part of this production as it's only possible with the participation of fans, friends and family.

How to Support Me:

My friends’ love and support greatly contributed to the success of my first album and I'm striving to make this one even better! Unfortunately, to do it well requires more resources then I currently have; therefore, I am using Kickstarter (a groundbreaking resource for independent artists) and am working to raise $6,000 by July 20th. That money will go to studio time, mixing, duplication, registration fees, cover art, and a very talented producer. I'm sending you this message in hopes that you would be able to help me reach my goal.

Here is the link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/928568145/be-part-of-the-production-for-mary-e-lobbs-2nd-alb?ref=live

When you check out the site you will notice that there are different rewards for each denomination. For example, if you contribute $10 you will get a digital download of the album before it is released. If you contribute $25 you will get a copy of the album signed and sent to your home. So, if you contribute you are essentially pre ordering the album - pretty cool, right?

The program is set up in a way that if I do not reach my goal I won't receive the money, and for that reason I have set my budget at the bare minimum amount I need to complete this project.

I totally understand if you can't pitch in right now, money is tight for everyone so please don't even give it a second thought if this isn't doable for you right now - I completely understand.

Either way, if you feel comfortable, it would mean the world to me if you can forward this information on to three people you know who might want to be a patron to the arts. I'm trying to get the word out however I can.

If you'd like to be a patron of the arts to an artist who you believe can go somewhere, now is your chance! Every little bit helps, I promise.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU in advance for your consideration, time and generosity.

Thank you for believing in me.

Marye

www.maryelobb.com

Born in the Midwest and raised in Rochester, NY, Marye trotted the globe in search for inspiration and purpose. After listening to sounds and taking in the culture of Ireland, Norway, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, she found herself singing songs and playing guitar in New York City clubs. With her Quaker and Buddhist ideals at heart, she put herself through school at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Upon graduation, she released Finding Home in response to her travels. Now in New York City she teaches, writes and performs and is working on her second album.

Member Spotlight: Lanie Zipoy, Producer and Orietta Crispino, founder of Theaterlab, collaborate with "Voices from a Kentucky Prison" project. Benefit reading in NYC, May 23rd

2011-05-17T14:12:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is honored to announce the participation of members Lanie Zipoy (producer) and Orietta Crispino (founder of Theaterlab) in the collaborative project, Voices from a Kentucky Prison.

On Monday, May 23rd, Theaterlab in association with AMZ Creative, LLC present Northpoint: Voices from a Kentucky Prison, a benefit reading of short plays written by prisoners at Northpoint in Burgin, Kentucky. This exciting, one-night only event will support the 2011 playwriting program at Northpoint as well as seed a two-week playwright residency at the prison.

Details:

Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm

at Baruch Performing Arts Center
25th St. between Lexington Ave. & Third Ave.

Here's what the prisoners said about the playwriting program:

"This opportunity encourages us to learn about subjects that can benefit us not only while we are incarcerated, but when we rejoin society. Many of us only have what we have learned prior to prison, or in prison. So any opportunity to learn and grow is tremendously beneficial and appreciated!” -- Denny Holder

“ After just two classes I have been really inspired to follow my dream of becoming a writer.” -- Jack Cook

“With art in our lives it allows us to be creative, which opens up an opportunity to think, which opens doors to see what is going on inside of us. It’s a wonderful chance to better ourselves.” -- Nicklaus Murrell

The performance will feature:

The Lie and the Cover by Nicklaus Murrell, directed by Daniel Talbott
Screen Warriors by Denny Holder, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
Convictions by Rob Daughenbaugh, directed by Melanie Sutherland
Lunker by Jack Cook, directed by Carlo Altomare
The Innocent Man by Calvin Sturgill, directed by Erma Duricko
Reflections from Behind the Wire by Rick Cavins, directed by Padraic Lillis

and live music by Doug Wamble.

Production Team:

Synge Maher (Artistic Director)

Lanie Zipoy (Producer)

Montserrat Mendez (Producer/Technical Director)

Destiny Lilly (Casting Director)

Theaterlab (Producing Organization), co-founder Orietta Crispino

The performance will last 80 minutes and be followed by a reception.

Website: http://www.northpointplays.com
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/827135
Donations: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/store/28175/donate/14585

Lanie Zipoy

Lanie Zipoy (Producer) is a producer with AMZ Creative, LLC and public relations consultant for the arts. Her producer credits include Universal Robots by Mac Rogers (2009 ITBA Best Off-Off Broadway Play, Four New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominations); 7 Sins in 60 Minutes (HERE and Philly Fringe); The Riverside Symphony (Planet Connections Festivity, 7 Award nominations) and The Battle of Spanktown (2010 FringeNYC). She is producing 23 Feet in 12 Minutes in New Orleans May 18 - 21, 2011, sponsored by Credit Suisse. Lanie is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, TRU’s Producer Development Program and the New York Innovative Theatre Awards Honorary Awards Committee.

Orietta Crispino

Theaterlab (Producing Organization), founded in 2006 by Carlo Altomare and Orietta Crispino, is dedicated to research into the nature of live performance. In the past five years, Theaterlab has established itself as the premier downtown salon for experimental theatre and performance. Altomare and Crispino have created experimental theatrical pieces, including Appearance -- A Suspense in Being and Solo Performance Workshop. Crispino also directed La Fricchettona, three monologues by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, and developed Three Sisters Come and Go, drawn from the texts of Chekhov, Beckett and Julia Kristeva. Altomare teamed with visual artist Naoki Iwakawa for a 13-part action painting cycle, EXCAVATION, which was presented at Theaterlab over two years (2008 - 2010). The company’s artist residency program has hosted Jef Johnson, renowned principal clown of Slava’s Snowshow; Dutch movement artist Linda Olthof; famed Italian performance artist group Motus and comedian Reno. For more information, visit www.theaterlabnyc.com.

Member Spotlight: Visual Artists Cornelia Jensen and Crystal Gregory showcase their studios at Madarts, Brooklyn, NY, May 14th and 15th‏

2011-05-15T09:55:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is honored to present visual artist members Cornelia Jensen and Crystal Gregory who invite you to visit their studios at Madarts in Brooklyn, NY, May 14th and 15th, noon to 6pm. They join over 40 fellow Madarts artists for this open studio tour for the public. This is a fine opportunity to see artists' finished pieces as well as work-in-progress and to see how they work.

MOST - Madarts Open Studio Tour

May 14th and 15th

12 to 6pm

255 18th Street

Brooklyn, NY

between 5th & 6th Avenue

"Sunset Crater Park"
Cornelia Jensen

latex paint on wood
2010
24" x 48"

"Foot Traffic"
Crystal Gregory

Granny squares on footbridge

2010

5' x 75'

"Dionysus"

Cornelia Jensen

Styrofoam packing material, plastic grass, fluorescent light

2009

18" x 13" x 9"d

"Foundation"
Crystal Gregory

Crochet incased bricks

2009

5' x 5'

"Sagres"

Cornelia Jensen

Flattened rusty can, latex paint, butterfly wing, ladybugs, milkweed on wood and canvas

2010

10" x 12"

"Heirloom"
Crystal Gregory

Drywall, wood, and glass

2010

14' x 10' x 10'

Crystal Gregory

Bio
www.crystalgregory.org
Crystal Gregory is a multi media artist creating works that focus
on urban landscape, home, and handwork. Her materials are domestic,
architectural, and organic. The art operates as both sculpture and
site specific installation. Lace and cloth and their collective
relationships to psychogeographies, domesticity, privacy and personal
space are the tools she uses to communicate within her work. Her
installations and component sculptures are hybridized spaces, fragile
and distressed. Her practice is divided into community outreach
projects, studio practice and public art.

Currently living and working in New York Crystal's work has been
written about in New York Magazine, ArtSlant, and Kipton Art. PS 122
Gallery hosted her for in a six week performative installation, On the
Fence. Other shows include Art in Odd Places, public art show, as well
as Giacobetti Paul Gallery Dumbo and Fair Folk & a Goat. She is
currently working with two architectural firms on permanent art
installations and has been given a grant for a public art piece from
the Department of Transit NYC. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts
from the University of Oregon with a focus in Fiber Arts. In the fall
she will attend The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Full
Merit Scholarship in the Fiber and Martial Studies MFA program.

Artist Statement

I use lace as the foundation of my work, giving structure to my ideas
and rhythm to my patterns. Lace draws the eye to negative space,
delicately unveiling, revealing more than it conceals, using it’s own
emptiness as pattern. Lace and cloth have strong relationships to
domesticity, privacy and personal space and at the same time this
material is incredibly charged with societal associations of class,
femininity, and sex.

As a multi media artist I am using the material ideas of lace to
inspect issues of the urban landscape, the home, and handwork. My
materials are domestic and architectural and operate as both sculpture
and site specific installation. I use antique lace and vintage damask
pattern to penetrate building material and create domestic sculpture.

Cornelia Jensen

Bio

corneliajensen@yahoo.com

www.corneliajensen.com

Cornelia Jensen’s work ranges from figure-ground painting to found-object assemblage, often blurring the boundary between abstract and representational imagery. By juxtaposing natural and recycled objects in a reliquary format, Jensen references the relationship between human-made environment and human unconscious. Jensen has begun incorporating light into some of her assemblages. The added element of illumination, transforms our conception of what is a normal avenue to the sublime.

Jensen received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2009 while living in New York. Prior to 2003, she spent fifteen years in San Francisco where she designed and co-created venues for art and film including the Lola Gallery and the The Werepad. She has curated art and multi-media events, and worked on independent films. In 1988 she began the graduate program in Film/Video Performance at what was then called California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1987, she received a BA in Philosophy from Haverford College. In 1986 she studied at the Syracuse University Studio Art Program in Florence, Italy. She graduated with honors in Art from The Masters School in 1983 and received the Merriam Hewitt Art Award. Jensen started exhibiting her art at the age of four and was fortunate enough to come from a family that encouraged the study and practice of art. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Korea and is in private collections in the United States and Europe. Jensen was born in 1965 and grew up outside of New York City. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Artist Statement

Ranging from pure painting to stylized found-object assemblage, my work explores the context of the “thing-in-itself” in relation to its environment. I integrate paint and hardware with natural and recycled objects such as ladybugs, milkweed, tin cans and circuit boards. The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate objects and materials emphasizes their formal qualities, severing the association of each part to its own history. This transforms the individual elements into relics laced with a blend of sentiment and irreverence. The relationship between the natural and man-made materials decodes the evidence of the collective unconscious in our fabricated environment, and raises the question of what is meaningful or useless, beautiful or ugly, rare or common.

For my graduate thesis I did a study of James Turrell’s use of light. By creating the illusion of making space appear to have mass, his art distills the experience of our perception down to the moment of “seeing ourselves see”. His subtle yet transformative use of light as a medium inspired me to integrate light into my work to enhance the perceptual response to mundane materials. I create pieces out of found Styrofoam packing material with internally incorporated light. The light pervades the material, illuminating the piece from within, instead of relying on external directional or ambient lighting to make the work visible. This alters our perception of the material by adding a level of intangibility, which transforms our perception of expected avenues to the sublime.

Member Spotlight: Laura H. Cannistraci, Visual Artist - Solo exhibition at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, May 9th - June 19th

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International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce the inaugural showing of member Laura Cannistraci's brilliant Mandalas. Her solo exhibition takes place at Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, May 9th - June 19th, with artist reception on May 15, 5:00-7:30 pm.

Spend time with Laura as she works on new pieces on 'Nights with the Artist', May 25th and June 8th, 5:30-7:30 pm. Create your own work if you feel up for the challenge. Laura would like to invite you to share this 'dream come true' for her.

Colliding Spheres

Manhattan Theatre Source presents

passage to wisdom

Mandalas by Laura H. Cannistraci

I have been creative since I was four years old. I remember drawing the peanuts in my yard for hours. Though the years my creativity came in many forms. Last year I started creating mandalas, which are a Hindu and Buddhist spiritual meditative art form. The Sanskrit meaning of mandala is circle. The circle is a symbol of perfection, eternity, unity and completeness. Some of my mandals are incomplete circles because sometimes we don’t know where we are going. Mandalas are versatile and can personify any number of meanings for the viewer. The meaning of each mandala is limited only by the creator and the viewer. Creating these pieces truly ground my spirit. Many pieces include an elephant. I have received much feedback concerning the trunk being down in some pieces. The elephant is not included as a symbol of luck. The elephant is a symbol of knowledge, seeker of wisdom and the remover of obstacles. My take on this is you gain knowledge through learning and living. You are the remover of obstacles by learning to listen to yourself on your passage to wisdom. Speak the ohm, the oldest sound in the universe and allow its vibration to transport you to a place of true knowledge.

colliding universes

Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street

New York, NY 10011

(bet. 8th St & Waverly Pl.)

Subway: ABCDEFV to West 4th
(one block east and one block north when exiting north exit of the station)

Reservations: 866-811-4111

Business: 212-260-4698

http://theatresource.org

manhattantheatresource is open
Sun - Tue, Noon to 10pm, Wed - Sat, 3pm - 10pm*
*or when the show is over.

Purple Haze

Member Spotlight: Lisa Haas, performer and writer - presents "In Heat", Monday, May 9th, 2011

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International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce that member Lisa Haas presents her new writing, IN HEAT, lampoons sexual desire, sexual orientation and gender self-identification, Monday, May 9 @ 6:30pm at Tada Theatre in New York City.

IN HEAT
SYNOPSIS
Written by Lisa Haas
Directed by Jocelyn Sawyer
Performed by Sally Sockwell

Monday, May 9 @ 6:30pm $10
Tada Theatre
15 W. 28th St. 3rd fl. (B'way & 5th Ave)

Media Contact:
Stephanie Schroeder
Tel: 718-902-8467
Email: stephanie.e.schroeder@gmail.com
To contact artist Lisa Haas directly
Tel: 720-468-2114
Email: heyhaas@mac.com

IN HEAT lampoons sexual desire, sexual orientation and gender self-identification.

Doris, a lesbian in her 50s, is alarmed to discover that lesbianism is being overshadowed by female-to-male transsexuals and a new Genderqueer culture.

Since Transmen are getting all the girls and lesbians are passé, Doris has pioneered a Self-Identified Lesbian Community Center, which is a cultural hospice for the last of the lesbians who will all be dying off in the next 30 years.

Lisa Haas is a performer and writer most recently starred in Madeleine Olnek’s 2011 feature ﬁlm Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same and in Laura Terruso’s 2009 award winning short ﬁlm Dyke Dollar. In NYC she has been seen as a writer and performer at HERE Arts Center, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Artists of Tomorrow, Dixon Place, Joe’s Pub and other downtown performance spaces. She received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship to develop her solo comedy Crown Hill Cemetery, which played at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and Fringe Festivals in Orlando, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Some of her other works that have been performed in NYC, nationally and internationally include Stacked: A Deviant Doctoral Dissertation and Rita & Inez: The True Queens of Femininity. For more information, log onto www.lisa-haas.com.

Jocelyn Sawyer has directed new work for SP Productions, Reverie Productions, and for many festivals in New York including Six Figures’ Artists of Tomorrow, American Globe Theatre, Estrogenius, Samuel French and NYC Fringe, in addition to Queer@HERE, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s Women’s Performance Festival and the Left Out Festival for which she directed the different parts of In Heat by Lisa Haas. She has assistant directed at Playwrights Horizons, The Flea and Rattlestick Theaters and the Summer Play Festival. She has directed readings of new plays for Abingdon Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and the Becket Playwrights Festival. She received her BA in Theatre from the University of California at Berkeley and her MA in Theatre from San Francisco State University. She is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, Actors’ Equity Association and an associate member of SSDC.

Sally Sockwell played Joanne in the New York production of Vanities for over three years. She has appeared at The West Bank Cafe, The Lion Theatre Company, Manhattan Punch Line, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre, Primary stages, The W.O.W. cafe, and Dixon Place. She performed at HERE in Neurotica which she co-wrote with Carolin Brown. Her regional theatre credits include: the Humana Festival at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage and the Arkansas Rep. Sally was in Money Matters for HBO, the ﬁlm Rollover, the soap opera Texas and Lateline with Al Franken. She was a member of the Montana Playwright's Festival and the Sundance Institute. Her play The Contest was the ﬁrst new play to premier at the new Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas.

Member Spotlight: Eva Mueller, photographer, presents at Art Chicago, April 28 - May 2, 2011

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International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce that member Eva Mueller will have her photography on exhibit at Art Chicago with Asymmetrik Photography (Booth #104), April 28th through May 2nd, 2011.

Hazyvision Images

Message from Eva:
I am very happy to see all the interest the Hazyvision images are getting lately. I’ll be exhibiting at Art Fair Chicago this weekend. Limited editions of my Nudes, Projections and Hazyvision images will be on display with Asymmetrik Photography (Booth #104). I will be arriving on Thursday, 4/28 for the First Focus Preview. Please come and see me if you are in the city.

Here’s some background information on Art Chicago:

Art Chicago® 2011, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings together the world’s leading emerging and established galleries. Art Chicago offers curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive survey of current and historic work, from cutting-edge to modern masters in a wide variety of media including: painting, photography, drawings, prints, sculpture, video and special installations.

Art Chicago is proud to be North America’s premier fair committed to intelligent and relevant educational programming, exhibitions, and special events, while also providing a unique showcase for artists, museums and cultural institutions from key regional and other US cities.

Art Chicago 2011 will take place April 29 – May 2, with an Opening Preview on April 28.

www.artchicago.com

Projections images

EVA MUELLER (Art Chicago)

Photographer Eva Mueller is known for her stark, minimalistic images with a sometimes dark, humorous twist. Timeless, iconic yet fun images are well represented in her body of work. A noted music and fashion photographer, who works in London and New York, Mueller’s sense of style grows from training in graphic design in her native Germany. With her keen eye for concept and composition, Mueller’s work transcends traditional photography and veers into the wildly artistic. See evamueller.com.

The naked body in all incarnations is a major focus of her work and Mueller has developed a sophisticated technique to project textures and architectural elements onto naked bodies. Superimposing these sometimes subtle, sometimes startling symbols onto her nude subjects allows the photographer to makes a broader visual statement.

Mueller’s series of non-figurative photographs, entitled Hazyvision, are abstract images shot while the photographer is traveling, capturing the sign language of airport tarmacs, blurred luminescent colors of Times Square at night, or creating patterns through the blur of a moving train. These engaging works can be viewed at hazyvision.com.

Nudes Images

Member Spotlight: Lourdes Ramirez, Visual Artist - Solo exhibition at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, March 28th - May 8th, with artist reception on Sunday, April 3rd, 5:30-7:30 pm.

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International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce the solo exhibition of member Lourdes Ramirez’s American Dream body of mixed-media work, at Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, March 28th - May 8th, with artist reception on April 3rd, 5:30-7:30 pm.

the perfect trip, the perfect trap
monoprint
18’ x 23’
45 x 60 cm

The American Dream

Contemplation in the Subway Car

In the New York subway, inhabits an archetype frequently and easily recognizable by its gaze and portage. Attributes can appear one at a time, although they are usually combined: eyes closed, far away look, mobile tech device, newspaper, book, backpack, big bag...........

My work attempts to reflect some of those inhabitants of the subway, prototypical moments; flashes that repeat itself day after day.

The subway, particularly cumbersome for "territoriality", multiples the need to narrow one's own space. There is no escape from gazing out to the landscape that one might engage in on a bus ride.

The New Yorker copes with this alien proximity by avoiding one's outward glance, to prevent from seeing oneself across the aisle, as if looking at a mirrored reflection.

These tools are used to allow travel without acknowledging, or being recognized.

Listed below is the tailor made universe:

Closed windows,

Insulated ears,

Isolated mind and spirit,

Short naps before or after work, an endless day with a crazy schedule?

Sneaking a rest to be strong enough to pursue, "The American Dream"?

Small island transit from one urgency to another?

Going into the bubble, distancing oneself from others?

Tailored "Silence Spa"?

To not recognize?

To not be recognized?

To mark the distance?

I am surprised that even when sitting in a crowd, when people talk about the loneliness in the Big Apple, we decide to isolate ourselves...

I go on contemplating, trying to understand..........

El sueño americano.

Contemplando en el vagón del Subway.
En el subway neoyorquino habita un arquetipo frecuente y fácilmente reconocible por su mirada y pertrechos. Estos pueden aparecer de uno en uno, aunque preferentemente lo hacen combinados: ojos cerrados, mirada lejana, aparato móvil, periódico, libro, mochila, bolso grande,…

Mi trabajo intenta reflejar algunos de esos habitantes del Subway, y de esos instantes prototípicos, momentos que se repiten un día tras otro.

El metro es especialmente incómodo para la “territorialidad”, multiplica la necesidad de acotar el espacio propio. No puedes ausentarte de él perdiendo la mirada en el paisaje que divisas desde un tren o un autobús.

En un habitáculo donde el mínimo espacio de separación personal se ve invadido repetidamente por extraños, el neoyorquino se protege cerrando sus ojos, aislándose con sus auriculares, escribiendo mensajes, distrayéndose con sus juguetes inteligentes, la prensa, un libro…. Estas herramientas le permiten transitar sin reconocer ni ser reconocido, en un universo hecho a medida, eludiendo reflejarse en el otro como un espejo.

Ventanas cerradas,

Oídos aislados,

Mente y espíritu cercados.

¿Cabezadas antes o después del trabajo, en una jornada interminable con un horario imposible?

¿Arañazos al descanso para tener fuerzas y seguir persiguiendo “el sueño americano”?

¿Pequeña isla de tránsito de una urgencia a otra?

¿Alivio de las largas horas de traslado?

¿Spa de “silencio” ?

¿Para no reconocer?

¿Para no ser reconocido?

¿Para marcar la distancia?

Me sorprende la “soledad” que denunciamos en la Gran Manzana, lo acompañados que estamos durante esos trayectos y, sin embargo, lo solos que decidimos estar…

Sigo contemplando e intentando comprender…

LOURDES RAMÍREZ, BIO

Visual Artist born in Málaga, lives since 2007 in New York.
Self-taught, in recent years she has worked the sculpture with Alicia Tafur, in Bogotá; and during her stay in New York, she is deepening her knowledge in the painting, the drawing, the engraving and the lithography in The Art Student League.

Knowledge and deepening in other expressive tools have opened up new avenues of exploration and facilitated new vehicles of expression for this artist.

Figure human gesture, the look, the flash of an instant, and give voice to those who do not use to have it have been the focus of her interest. A biography of vivid life moments expressed strongly and with bright and joyful movements. Nowadays, in continuous evolution and searching, she is working in add simplicity, suggestion, lightness, and she investigates new media to transmit it.

Live in New York allows her to soak up the most alternative and classic, and live with a very mixed human range. Her objective is to explore this mosaic of moments, cultures and artistic expressions taking place in the City that Never Sleeps, assimilate them and tell them.

The expression of her work at the moment is a biographical report focused on two projects: A Travel Journal and The American Dream. The first, a story of images and colors of her experiences in contact with other countries and cultures; the latter, a deepening of her stay in Manhattan, the great show of the Subway and the different warps that weave the Big Apple.

In her career she has had solo exhibitions in New York, Bogotá and in several Museum and Venues in Málaga and its municipality.

She has also participated in group exhibitions in New York, Bogotá, Málaga and other Spanish cities.

She has collaborated in collective interventions with collective Málaga Contemporary Artists -MAC– in the University of Málaga, and designed and participated in seven editions of Open Studios, organized by the collective MAC which she was a co-founder member.

Nowadays she belongs to the international collectives DIN-A4, Pen and Brush, International Women Artists’ Salon in New York, and Collective of Plastic Artists in Málaga

Her work is represented in the municipality of Mijas and Guaro and in private collections of Andalusia, Extremadura, Madrid, Canarias, Basque Country, Catalan, Argentina, Colombia, and New York.

http://lourdesramirez.com/
Info@lourdesramirez.com
Tel. + 1 347 803 0831

Member Spotlight: Zofia Bogusz, painter – Solo exhibition of decoupage prints on hand-cut wood at Path Café, NYC, April 1-30, with artist reception on April 5th, 6-8pm.

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"all mixed up"
oil, graphite, acrylic on wood
11in x 22in

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce member Zofia Bogusz’s solo exhibition of decoupage prints on hand-cut wood at Path Café, NYC, April 1-30, with artist reception on April 5th, 6-8pm.

All Out Print Show

April 1 - April 30, 2011

opening reception:
Tuesday April 5 | 6-8pm

Path Cafe
131 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014

Please join me for a solo exhibition of my decoupage prints on hand-cut wood. I will be selling the mini fishboards from the surf series, as well as brand new first edition prints of all the other sunlit ladies from the mannequin and behind the sun series.

"lyonnaise"

oil and pencils on wood

16in x 31in

Limited edition print sets will also be available.

Every print is handmade, hangable and very affordable. "My paintings explore various constructs of identity through the depiction of individual histories, memories, and experiences. As a woman, I strive to render the remarkable balance of effortless beauty and vibrant strength that exists within the female form." - Zofia Bogusz
http://zofiaart.com
http://zofiaart.blogspot.com

A special invitiation to participate - Join us in Celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World: Live Art Installation and Open Mic, March 26th- March 31st, NYC and around the world

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International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to invite YOU to join us in celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World by contributing to our collaborative site specific art installation and/or participating in open mic nights at our partner venue, Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, March 26th - March 31st. Any woman (artist or non-artist) near or far are invited to contribute and our male friends are invited to show their support in conjunction with the international SWAN Day events around the world (Support Women Artists Now).

A special message from our Founder, Heidi Russell...

Celebrating Women around the World!

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, National Women's History Month, and the international SWAN Day festivities (Support Women Artists Now), I am thrilled to announce that we have secured a venue partnership with Manhattan Theatre Source for a 5-day celebration of women and women's artistry, March 26th through March 31st, with our March Salon gathering closing out the celebration on Thursday, March 31st.

Let's celebrate each other and our connections, our individual and collective creative forces, and being Women, with women all around the world!

You can participate even if you are located outside of NYC! Please read on and send to me ideas of your contribution from your location (if you'd like to do something local in tandem and/or send me something to add to our installation here in NYC).

Looking forward to honoring, celebrating, and supporting women and women artists around the world with each of you!

Creative Cheers~Heidi
646.272.8879 cell
heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com
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International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World

March 26 - March 31, 2011

In conjunction with International SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now)
Site Specific Installation

We will have the front window box stage of Manhattan Theatre Source, where we will create together a site specific installation throughout the week...you can come by anytime MTS is open (see hours below) to participate/make your contribution...all disciplines are invited to contribute to the installation through visual art, writing, movement, music, sound, performance (think out of the box...dance around the physical piece, embed a video or sound element, perform with the piece, etc). We are also inviting other women artists to make contributions: MTS artists and patrons going in and out of the venue, passerbyers from the street (window box visible from the street), your friends and colleagues. There will be a component where men can even show their support through a SWAN fan book!

Nightly Open Mic and Salon Member Feature Performers
-We have the time period of 6-8pm for showcasing our performance based and writer members and opening up the mic for any other women performers, writers, etc. who would like to participate. Please contact me to let me know if you would like to be one of the feature performers/readers, and which evening you can perform or read.

Documentation of the Installation and Performances
-We would like to document the installation development by video and photographs, so come by with your video camera and camera and contribute to the documentation if you have the equipment and interest.

Other activity at MTS
-Salon member Lourdes Rameriz will be installing her show in the main gallery on Monday, March 28th, and a play honoring the tragedy and transformation that was the Triangle Factory Fire by Looking for Lilith Theatre Company: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle will be playing in the main theater March 24-27th, 2pm. See below for details.

March Salon Gathering
March 31st, 6:30- 9pm, gathering at Manhattan Theatre Source
Let me know if you'd like to present work.
Stay tuned for a Facebook event to share. Feel free to pass this email along to other women and women artists who you would like to invite to participate in this celebration.

Here are the details...
International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World at Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street (between 8th Street and Waverly Place, NW of Washington Sq Park area)
http://theatresource.org/contact_us.php
212-260-4698

Directions:
ABCDEFV trains to West 4th Street, exit out of north end of station (8th Street exit), walk one block east to MacDougal on Waverly Place, turn left onto MacDougal towards 8th Street. MTS is on the west side of three, with a pink/red iron detailing on the outside of the building.

Schedule:
Friday, March 25th - Preparation of the installation foundation, lead by Cornelia Jensen and Stella Moulinos during the afternoon. If you are interested in participating in helping with the foundation development, cleaning the stage/window, creating signage, please let me know.

Saturday, March 26th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Sunday, March 27th - Also World Theater Day
1pm - 7pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
5pm - 7pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Monday, March 28th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
Afternoon - installation of Lourdes Rameriz' exhibition in gallery space
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Tuesday, March 29th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Wednesday, March 30th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Thursday, March 31st
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6:30pm - 9:00pm - March Salon gathering - open house

Information about the play:
Tickets for the play at 2pm on March 24th-27th are available for Salon members at each (put in SALON for the promotion code if buy online here or tell ticket person you are a member of Heidi's Salon.

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8721425

Here is information about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire the play is based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent immigrant Jewish women aged sixteen to twenty-three. [1] Many of the workers could not escape the burning building because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits. People jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. The factory was located in the Asch Building, at 29 Washington Place, now known as the Brown Building, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.[2]

Member Spotlight: Rica Takashima, contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist, participates in BAAD!'s 'Dykes Draw the Line' slide show, discussion and comix mayhem in Bronx, NY on Sunday, March 20th, 6-7:30pm

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International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to announce member Rica Takashima will be participating in a slide show, discussion and comix mayhem at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance on Sunday, March 20, 2011 , 6-7:30pm...

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!?

Dykes Draw the Line

Slide Show, Discussion and Comix Mayhem

with cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother)

Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan)

Joan Hilty (Bitter Girl)

Rica Takashima (Rica ‘tte Kanji!?)

Sunday March 20, 2011 6-7:30pm

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

841 Barreto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx, NY

http://www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/

Trains: 6 to Hunts Point Ave., 2 or 5 to Simpson St.

For anyone inspired by comics, no experience necessary.

About the cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women and subGURLZ, and she’s the editor of two Juicy Mother comix anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in magazines, newspapers, comic books, anthologies, and bathroom walls, and have been exhibited internationally. www.jennifercamper.com

Diane DiMassa is the creator of the comic Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, the castrating classic cult cartoon heroine. She also illustrated the graphic novel, Jokes and the Unconscious, written by Daphne Gottlieb. Her work has appeared in many comic anthologies and has been shown from NYC to Amsterdam. Recently, DiMassa has plunged into oil painting and street art. www.hotheadpaisan.com (and) www.dianedimassa.com

Joan Hilty is the creator of the comic strip Bitter Girl, distributed to print and web everywhere by Q Syndicate since 2001. She was a longtime editor at DC Comics and has contributed to various publications including Gay Comix, The Advocate, Juicy Mother, andMs Magazine. www.joanhilty.net

Rica Takashima is a cartoonist and pop artist. She created the yuri manga series, Rica ‘tte Kanji!? and has had exhibitions and shows in museums and galleries internationally. Originally from Tokyo, she's lived in NYC since 2008. www.AozoraArt.com

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!?

Rica Takashima Bio

Contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist Rica Takashima’s vivid and socially challenging work has appeared in a number of exhibits including Instant Gender, part of the 2009 New York City Pride March; A Second Chance through manga art, part of the 2009 ComicArt event in New Jersey, and Who Are You?, a showcase of artists-in-residence presented at the Tachikawa International Art Festival 2006, in Tokyo.    Rica ‘tte Kanji, a graphic novel illustrated and written by Rica Takashima, debuted from ALC Publishing, in 2003, and she was Guest of Honor at the international manga conventions MangaNext, Yuricon and Yurisai.    Takashima’s award-winning short film, Talking About Amy, screened on Young Director’s Night at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art’s Muse festival, as well as festivals in Canada, Turkey, Japan and elsewhere. Her photographic series, Photos of Aozora Art, was part of the 2000 Japanese Seasons1 exhibit sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Commission of Photographic Art and Heritage, in Moscow.    Director of the Artists Support Council and full member of the Art Resources Development Association, both in Japan, Takashima earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She currently lives in New York. Rica can be reached at ricatakashima@yahoo.com

About BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Crowned "a funky and welcoming performance space" by The New York Times, BAAD! is an art, performance and cultural workshop space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established, evolving and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and visual and performing artists.

BAAD! is the home of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre and the Bronx Dance Coalition.

BAAD! presents four annual festivals, BAAD! ASS WOMEN, THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES, OUT LIKE THAT! and the BlakTino Performance Series. BAAD! celebrates the arts created by and featuring women, people of all colors and/or the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

COME TO BAAD! WHERE IT'S ALL GOOD.

email: crg_bx@yahoo.com

phone: 718-842-5223

web: http://www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org

Member Spotlight: Judith Z. Miller, artist, writer and spiritualist, will read her erotic writings in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" in New York, New York on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

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International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to announce that Judith Z. Miller will be reading her erotic writing in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" at WOW Cafe Theatre, in New York, NY on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

Essensuality:
An Evening of Erotic Expression 
Sex, love, relationship…

Anger, passion, longing…

Unspoken desires, unrealized fantasies,

Unheard of sensual adventures… 

...Essensuality invites out the essence of sensuality. The raw, vulnerable, uncensored, tender – usually private – moments step out into the spotlight to be shared. In poetry, spoken word, dance. Comedy, storytelling, music. Or some genre of your own imagination.

The evening will include: Featured acts, open mic performances, and spontaneous combustion…not necessarily in that order. Comfortable seating in the round, a limited bar, and an unrushed evening of erotic expression. Opportunities to laugh, cry…and blush.

Bring yourself, your friends, your lovers. Your desire, your embarrassment, your uncertainty. It's all welcome here! After all, that's what it is to be a sensual being. And that's what we're celebrating...the sensuality that lives — whether hidden or on the sleeve — of every single one of us.

Saturday, March 19 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

FEATURED PERFORMERS 3/19/11

*Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. (extended bio below)

*She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Married, Oy Vey!
Essensuality welcomes back Epstein and Hassan, known on the NYC comedy circuit as The Black and the Jew, a husband and wife comedy team willing to talk about "all things that make us nervous!" New York Daily News has called them "the Burns & Allen or the Lucy & Desi of the new millennium." They will bring their unique blend of shoot-from-the-hip truth-telling and hilarious insights on relationships, politics, families, race and, of course, sex. Epstein and Hassan will reveal how BlackJew Love Technology could save the planet!

*Jeremy Edwards (www.jeremyedwardserotica.com) writes quirky erotic fiction celebrating joyful sensuality, libidinous urgency, offbeat romanticism, and the pleasures of language and laughter. His novel Rock My Socks Off is an eroto-comedic romp through academia, live television, and a dysfunctional rocking-horse museum. The book takes on a theatrical dimension at Essensuality, as the author performs a favorite chapter in a live reading seasoned with improv and audience participation.

*Performance poet, Aimee Herman, works as editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. She has performed at various reading series including In the Flesh, Queer Lit Carnival and The Red Umbrella Diaries in NYC. She can be read in the anthologies, Best Lesbian Love Stories (Alyson Books), Best Women's Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press) and Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Cleis). She promises to excite, enthrall, entice and...perhaps even reveal all!

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door
For tickets and information: www.thesensuallife.com/events

TO PERFORM: Contact Monica Day by email monica@thesensuallife.com

*Special Note:*
This performance of Essensuality is the finale of the four-day festival:
The Sexual Act: An Experimental Erotic Performance Art Festival
"Exploring intimacy and how we relate to it"
Wed-Sat, March 16-19, 2011

To learn more about the other performances, and obtain a discounted festival pass go to http://passionatepersuasions.blogspot.com/

Judith Z. Miller

Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. Judith was trained as an actress in Washington DC, co-founded The Fine Line Actors Theatre (formerly Earth Onion Women's Theatre) and acted in numerous productions in the DC area. Her grant writing skills and hustling ability enabled the theatre to raise the necessary funds to produce its performances and special constituency projects, including the groundbreaking Women’s Prison Project. She spent six weeks teaching and performing in a women’s federal penitentiary, co-created original works with the communities the company’s various special projects served, developed her own dramatic and comedic original performance material, and was awarded an NEA Arts Management Fellowship in Theatre. Judith was the founder and director of ZAMO! (Zelda Arts Management Organization), an arts management organization that represented a multi-cultural mix of world-class award winning performing artists for over 20 years. She wrote promotional materials for the artists she represented, study guides for the Kennedy Center. and developed curricula for workshops shecontinues to teach on self-promotion for performers, presented by organizations such as The Field, The Red Tent Women’s Project and the Brooklyn Arts Counsel. In 2008 her paper “Sometimes a Tree Isn’t Just a Tree,” was read at the First International LSP-and Translation Studies Oriented Textual Analysis conference at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco. She is the Chief Rhythm officer of Microfundo, a crowdfunding platform supporting musicians worldwide, where she co-develops the company’s programs and website content. Judith’s blog, Artist Soul Speaks, is a forum for arts, culture, and community in NYC and beyond. She is also a visual artist who creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees and stones. Currently Judith is developing as an intuitive healer, via spontaneous chanting and the use of percussive shakers to stimulate trance – all the while attempting to translate these ecstatic experiences into words. She published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, and American Theatre magazine. Judith is a 2011 British Airways Face-to- Face Opportunity contest winner just recently returned from journeying to Thailand where she met with indigenous woodcarvers and shaman. She resides in Park Slope Brooklyn.

Website: http://www.zamo-zamo.com

Blog: http://www.ArtistSoulSpeaks.wordpress.com

Featured Member Fractured Atlas:
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/ 2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller/

Member Spotlight: Lynn McGee, Poet: Feature presenter in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations”, Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm, The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, NY

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International Women Artists’ Salon is thrilled to announce member Lynn McGee will be reading her poetry in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations” on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm at The Old Stone House 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY

Re: Blarneypalooza
(Get Your Irish Up! No Green Beer)

A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm,
The Old Stone House

336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

(718) 768-3195

Presented by Brooklyn Reading Works

~D/N/R train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk down 4th Avenue till you take a right on 3rd Street~

Blarneypalooza is a literary celebration of Irish writers and influence planned with Saint Patrick’s Day in mind.

For more information: www.blarneypalooza.com

The following artists will read/perform:

Lynn McGee's poems were just published in The New Guard, where one was a finalist and one a semi-finalist in that magazine's contest judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. Two of her poems are forthcoming in NYC Big City lit, and others have appeared in the Kennesaw Review, Ontario Review, Northwest Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sun magazine, Phoebe, Brooklyn Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Southern Anthology, Laurel Review and other journals. Lynn's poetry chapbook, Bonanza, won the Slapering Hol national manuscript contest; she won the In Our Own Write and Judith’s Room Emerging Writers contests in New York City, received a MacDowell fellowship, and earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She spent over 15 years working in literacy, and works now as the Internal Writer for a CUNY college.

On Larry Honig: An avowed Situationist, this dude is way too old to behave the way he does. He's wanted in 6 countries and wishes his epitaph to contain a line from the police report: "He was found without pants."

Barbara O'Dair is a long-time magazine editor and writer who lives with her husband and four children in New Jersey. She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in American Studies and from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina with a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. She has edited two collections of writings, Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography and Censorship, and Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. In 2002, as the editor of Teen People, she instituted a regular poetry column and contest. Currently, as the executive editor for Reader's Digest, she oversees poetry in the magazine. Her journalism, essays and poetry have been published in many magazines, newspapers, journals and online publications. 

Pat Smith’s play Driving Around the House has been produced in theaters around the country and is published by New Rivers Press. He regularly posts new poems on his blog Not in the News Today . Recent work has appeared in the online journal Haggard and Halloo and is soon to be published in Used Furniture Review. He will be curating a Brooklyn Reading Works program in September.

Native New York poet Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Black Irish (2009), a book of verse about being a NYC Irish Catholic, and WISEGAL (2001) a book-length poem. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Fickle Muses and Eureka Street and she has won a few poetry prizes including a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry, Honorable Mention in Dublin Ireland’s Davoren Hanna contest (sponsored by Eason Books -- judge: Charles Simic), First Place Prize in the 2000 W. B. Yeats Society’s Poetry Competition (judge: Billy Collins). She posts poems and poems-in-progress on Fresh Poetry She written about religion for the New York Times, and her essays on religion and education appear regularly on her websites Indie Theology and Bored-O-Ed respectively as well as regularly on religion and education pages of the Huffington Post.

Michael Sweeney a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, earned his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and teaches at Fairfield University. In Memory of the Fast Break (Plain View Press, 2008).

Introducing: Salon Miami!‏

2011-03-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce the start up of our first local salon outside of our founding city of New York.

Welcome to Salon Miami!!!!

Photo by Jeff Riegel

We look forward to learning more about member artists in and around Miami and Salon Miami's activities in 2011!

Photo by Jeff Riegel

You may learn more about Salon Miami and it's artists and activities at their blog at http://salonmiami.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-environments-photos_07.html

Amanda Serrano,
founding member of Salon Miami

If you know of any women artists of any of the creative disciplines* in the greater Miami area, please pass along our invite for them to connect with Salon Miami.

Contact: Amanda Serrano at amanda@amandaserrano.com

Photo by Jeff Riegel

International Women Artists' Salon now has over 125 members hailing from all areas of the world.

Any woman artist of any discipline*, any stage of creative career and background, any age, any location around the world is welcome to join International Women Artists' Salon by contacting Heidi Russell at heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com. If you are interested in forming a local salon that is connected with International Women Artists' Salon, please contact Heidi. We are also looking to connect with women- run and women-artist-focused organizations around the world to share resources and creative energy.

Happy Creative 2011!!

*including music, theater, comedy, dance, writing, video, film, installation, visual arts, critical writing, curatorial, art administration, art history, etc

Creative Resource: EzTextiles - Extensive Online Textile Design Resource

2011-03-15T05:18:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to start sharing creative resources! We begin with EzTextiles, the world’s largest online source for royalty-free, production-ready textile designs. Today they launch their vintage library!

FOR RELEASE MARCH 15, 2011

EzTextiles® Adds 325,000-Plus Vintage Print Images to Popular Online Textile Design Resource
EzTextiles® has added a new Vintage Library with more than 325,000 high-resolution digital swatches to its popular EzTextiles.com online textile design service. The new library expands the scope of the more than 25-million existing plaids and stripes, prints, and knit designs already available at the site. The vintage designs, which include a variety of colorways and repeat patterns, cover more than 75 categories.

New York, NY – March 15, 2011 – EzTextiles, LLC announces the addition of a new Vintage Library to its fast-growing EzTextiles.com (http://www.eztextiles.com) online digital textile design resource center. Amassed over the past decade, the more than 325,000 vintage print images are becoming part of what is already the world’s largest online digital textile design resource with more than 25-million royalty-free woven plaids and stripes, prints, and knit designs. The innovative and unique site provides textile design content developed primarily for the apparel, accessories, home fashions, and related industries. Digital swatches from all EzTextiles.com libraries can be freely viewed and are available for purchase and immediate download based on a variety of subscription plans. During a limited-time launch period, newly registered users to the site can download 25 sample images.

According to Brian Kaminer, owner of a New York-based merchandising design firm that provides design direction for the U.S. Polo Association clothing line, “EzTextiles offers textile patterns in a convenient online platform at a fraction of the traditional price. When I showed the site to my design team, they knew just what to do and went crazy with it.”

The new library includes more than 75 categories of vintage prints. Vintage images can be searched by category, size, keywords, and other attributes. All of the 300 dpi TIF-formatted images are offered in a wide range of color options and are in repeat. In contrast to the production-ready original designs created for the other libraries on the site, vintage items are provided for use as inspiration and reference only. While the Vintage images are believed to be old and in the public domain, they are not warranted to be free of copyright restrictions.

All EzTextiles.com libraries provide visitors convenient search and visualization tools, the ability to save images to a personal collection, and visualize and evaluate patterns on more than 500 built-in apparel, footwear, accessories, home fashion, and other product sketches and photos. EzTextiles plans to add more vintage prints as well as new image categories as fashions evolve.

Textile designer Robin Lewellen, who has worked with design teams from Abercrombie & Fitch and Express, shares in the enthusiasm for the site. “Because EzTextiles does a lot of the trend research, the website allows me to spend more time experimenting with patterns and colorways as I develop new lines. Seeing the patterns on other items such as a scarf also expanded my thinking on different applications for the designs.”

EzTextiles has also integrated a blog on the site to enhance the user experience by informing visitors on industry trends and providing free textile and fashion industry news and reports. The new design portal, located at http://www.EzTextiles.com/blog, goes beyond simple distribution of information by providing readers with relevant EzTextiles designs and collections through the click of a mouse.

“We are pleased to make this exciting vintage collection and blog available to EzTextiles.com visitors and subscribers”, noted EzTextiles Vice President Tracy Sano. “After years of collecting and cataloging these images, this important step furthers our goal of providing a user-friendly and cost-effective design tool for a wide range of industry students, freelancers, professionals, and executives.”

About EzTextiles, LLC

EzTextiles.com is the world’s largest online source for royalty-free, production-ready textile designs. By making images available at the click of a mouse, it eliminates the traditional, time consuming and costly practice of manually searching, buying, and converting textile designs for each new season or product line. This easy-to-use and affordable design tool was created for a broad range of professionals in both the apparel and home furnishings industries including designers, merchants, stylists, colorists, mills, students, and others that use textile designs for inspiration and new product development. Developed by Sano Design Services, the New York-based CAD studio/service bureau, EZtextiles.com enables subscribers to immediately download production ready, editable designs that can be readily used in all CAD design software systems, Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®, and Microsoft® Excel®, Word, and PowerPoint® applications.

EzTextiles is a registered trademark of EzTextiles, LLC.

Adobe, Photoshop, and Illustrator are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

Microsoft, Excel, and PowerPoint are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

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Contact:

Mr. John Sano, President

Ms. Tracy Sano, Vice President

EzTextiles, LLC

info@eztextiles.com

(212) 679-6400

Member Spotlight: Artists Janet Restino and Maura McGurk Celebrating Women in the Arts March 19th and 26th at Queens Museum of Art

2011-03-07T19:16:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists' Salon congratulates Janet Restino and Maura McGurk for their participation in Legros Cultural Arts' celebrating women in the arts series this month on March 19th and March 26 (two separate nights) at the Queens Museum of Art.

And for our Connecticut members and fans, you can see more of Janet Restino's work in
Brazilian Roots Cultural Center in Wallingford, CT tomorrow night, March 8th for International Women's Day celebration.

JANET RESTINO PRODUCTIONS celebrates
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

You are cordially invited to attend
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EXHIBITION
Opening Reception:
March 8th, from 6 - 8 pm
Artwork will be on display March 5th - 20th

ART OF COLLABORATIVE GIVING
128 Center Street
Wallingford, CT 06492
(located in the Brazilian Roots Cultural Center)
Tel: (203) 269-9189
Email: info@ArtofCollaborativeGiving.com
www.ArtofCollaborativeGiving.com

Janet has 10 artworks - prints and originals - in this group show.
Wonderful community events, classes and opportunities taking
place here!

Other Events:

Legros Cultural Arts, Inc
Promoting Arts and Culture
Women in Arts Series 2011
Please join us as we celebrate women artist in honor of SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) during Women's History Month. LCA is hosting several events in March to pay tribute to women in music, film, theatre, art, and dance.

March 12, 2011    Women in Arts Series
Dix Hills Library 55 Vanderbilt Parkway Dix Hills, New York 11746
Art Exhibit and Performances
Featured Artists: Susan Varo, Anu Annam, Sheila Blunt, Chrysandra Sanders, Sophia Bastos, Sonia Hopewell, Zakiya Mars, Special Performance by The Stage Door Dance School and Kaitlin White
Free Admission
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March 18, 2011    Women in Theatre
Bridge Theatre @Shetler Studios 244 West 54th Street New York, New York
Donation: $20.00
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March 19, 2011 & March 26, 2011    Women in Arts
2:00pm-5:00pm
Queens Museum of Art
NYC Building @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park Corona, NY 11368
Art Exhibit, Vocal Performance, Film Screening, Dance Performances
Featured Artists: Susan Varo, Anu Annam, Sheila Blunt, Chyrsandra Sanders, Sophia Bastos, Sonia Hopewell, Simone Sobers, Shirley Crabbe, Flor Bromely, Jocelyne Dorisme, Greta Herron, Maura McGurk, Janet Restino, Andrea Cukier, Naomi Regis,
Donation: $20.00
City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras will be in attendance
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March 20, 2011   Women in Theatre
3:00 pm
Bridge Theatre @Shetler Studios 244 West 54th Street
New York, New York
Featured Artist: Pat Riley, Brittany Maldonado, Rashida Clarke, Nicole Rose
and more...
Donation: $20.00
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March 24, 2011   Women in Music
7:00pm
Club Groove   125 Macdougal Street   New York, New York 10012
Featured Vocalists: Noreen Crayton, Flor Bromley, Penelope Thomas,
Greta Herron
Cover: $15.00
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March 31, 2011   Women in Arts Networking Event
6:30pm
Shetler Studios 244 West 54th Street    Penthouse #1
Guest Speaker:  Janet Foster-Casting Director, Charm Peake-Entertainment,
Renee Myvett, Esq. and more....
Donation: $15.00
Refreshments will be served

When April Happens digital archival print 9.5 x 7.5" framed 11 x 14" and larger
Edition of 50 with excerpt from artist's poem "Aprilling Away"

Member Spotlight: Maura McGurk, painter, first solo exhibition: Pride and Prejudice: An Exhibition on Gay Bullying, Feb 22nd

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International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce that Salon member Maura McGurk has her first solo exhibition in NYC at Sapphire Lounge, with an artist reception on February 22nd. Congratulations Maura!

Pride and Prejudice: An Exhibition on Gay Bullying
by Maura McGurk

Opening Reception:
February 22, 6:30 - 8 pm

Sapphire Lounge (http://www.sapphirenyc.com/)
249 Eldridge (at Houston)
NYC

Directions: F to 2nd Avenue

$5 includes appetizers, drink specials and entrance to fashion show at 8:00

Encounter
24" x 24", Acrylic and pencil on panel

Maura McGurk
Maura has exhibited her paintings at various venues in New York, Boston, Providence, and Italy. One of her sketchbooks toured the United States and can be seen as part of the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Art Library.
She received a grant from the Vermont Studio Center for a residency in 2010, was chosen as one of the Boston Young Contemporaries, and was a recipient of an AHA! Grant from the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her work is held in over forty private collections in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and is displayed at various Boston-area corporations. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Maura has taught art at various universities and colleges in the Northeast, as well as in summer programs in Italy and Sicily.

Believing in art’s power to change the world, Maura is hard at work on the “Lavender Menace” series of works in support of gay rights. In the past, she has organized an art sale to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, and donated artwork to causes such as the Gloria Steinem Art Auction, led by Ms. Steinem, in support of the Women’s Studies Program at UMass Dartmouth.

Lavender Menace
12" x 12", Acrylic and colored pencil on panel

Artist’s Statement
I have come to believe that declarations of love, particularly those involving same-sex relationships, are simultaneously personal, public, and political statements. At a time of incremental victories for gay rights but significant losses—fighting and tensions over gay marriage, gays in the military, even the notion of gays going to the prom—I wish to bring myself and my work into the discussion. By doing so, I ask to be named and counted, engaging in the debate because the personal is political.

The abstract paintings in this body of work have been inspired in part by recent news regarding the struggle for civil rights. The color lavender, and its associations with gay rights and protest groups in the wake of the Stonewall Rebellion, features prominently. Through this color palette and the organic shapes and lines that interact with each other, the paintings maintain a contemplative but lyrical quality.

I work in a process of layers which in some places creates a textured, clotted surface that alludes to activities beneath it; in other places, the surface gives way to transparencies which provide glimpses to the layers below. In addition to working with paint, I draw intuitively and reactively in bursts of expression; these line drawings lay a groundwork for additional layers and painted shapes.

Fragile
6" x 12", Acrylic on panel

Untitled (Vermont 1)
36" x 48", Acrylic and mixed media on panel

http://mauramcgurk.com
http://www.twitter.com/Maura_McGurk

Member Spotlight: Nuria Rabanillo-de la Fuente Exhibition at " New World Stages" in Manhattan January 19, 2011‏

2011-01-16T06:40:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce that Salon member Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente is participating in a two-woman exhibition at New World Stages, NYC through February 27th, with an artist reception on Wednesday, January 19th. Congratulations Nuria!

More info can be found at http://www.hangingart.org

Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente was born in Zamor, Spain. She received her degree in Applied Arts and Crafts from C / Marqués de Cubas in Madrid, Spain in 1991.

Ms. Rabanillo de la Fuente received a grant from the Ministry of Industry of the Board of Castile Mancha (Toledo Project) to study in Milan, Italy with the Istituto Europeo di Design (Centro

Ricerche), where she received her Master of Design degree in 1994. Her works have been exhibited in Spain and New York.

Ms. Rabanillo de la Fuente currently lives and works in New York City.

More of her work can be viewed on her website at: www.rabanillodelafuente.com

Member Spotlight: Marietta Fica, painter and fiber artist, first solo exhibition in NYC thru January 29th, reception January 6th‏

2011-01-04T19:59:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce that Salon member Marietta Fica has her first solo exhibition in NYC at Manhattan Theatre Source through January 29th, with an artist reception on Thursday, January 6th. Congratulations Marietta!

Calypso, acrylic on canvas, 24x24, $1500

Please join us in celebrating with Marietta Thursday, January 6th, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Manhattan Theatre Source

177 MacDougal Street

(bet. 8th St & Waverly Pl.)

Business: 212-260-4698

http://www.theatresource.org/home.php

Stop in anytime The Source is open to view Marietta's fabulous multi media works of art now through January 29th...

manhattantheatresource is open  Sun - Tue, Noon to 10pm;
Wed - Sat, 3pm - 10pm* 

*or when the theatre show is over.

To arrange a personal tour with Marietta of her work on exhibit, please contact Heidi Russell at heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com.

White, acrylic on canvas, 36x36, $1800

Artist Statement:
My creative process starts with my own observations and my life experiences. I keep an open mind to understand the various cultures and behaviors of people. For this reason my work goes through different stages, but always keeping the emphasis in color and textures. I work in mixed media, acrylics and fiber art; I feel passionate about the line and play with it, working with material like paper, burlap, wire mesh, etc. I collect different materials and in choosing them I have to ensure they relate to each other on the canvas. It’s about the rational and the random melting together.

Grey , acrylic on canvas, 36x36, $1800

Marietta Fica holds a B.A. degree in Business and Economics from Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile. Ms. Fica started her artistic career in Chile in 1994, working mainly in ceramics. In 1997, Marietta moved to New York City, and in 2002 she took lessons at Art Student League, focusing exclusively in painting. Chilean teacher and textile designer, Jorge Fredes, introduced Ms. Fica to fiber arts while studying with him during 2006.

Periwinkle, acrylic on canvas, 40x60, $2800

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Saturday Art Walk - December 11th, 2010‏

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International Women Artists’ Salon announces a self-guided art walk for December 11th, 2010.

We invite you along to see...

"bull"

oil and pencils on wood

32in x 35in

ZOFIA BOGUSZ at CERES GALLERY

Closing December 11th 547 West 27th St Suite 201 New York, NY 10001  212-947-6100

http://ceresgallery.org/

Saturday 12-6

"Founded in 1983, as a program of the New York Feminist Art Institute, Ceres is a not-for-profit artist run organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. The gallery exhibits a broad spectrum of high quality work each year within a community of women artists that includes national and international members."
website:

http://zofiaart.com

blog:

http://zofiaart.blogspot.com

JUDY NEGRON at JMC FRAMING AND GALLERY

On exhibit through end of December

674 9th Ave 2nd Floor New York, NY 10036

http://www.jmccustomframinginc.com/ (212) 977-8877

Monday - Friday 10 am – 7 pm

Saturday 10 am – 6 pm Sunday 10 am – 4 pm

www.judynegron.com

TANTAS RAZONES
ACRYLIC AN GOUACHE ON CANVAS

NURIA RABANILLO de la FUENTE at MANHATTAN THEATRE SOURCE

Through December 19th

177 MacDougal Street

New York, NY 10011

(bet. 8th St & Waverly Pl.)

Reservations: 866-811-4111

Business: 212-260-4698

http://www.theatresource.org/home.php

manhattantheatresource is open Sun - Tue, Noon to 10pm, Wed - Sat, 3pm - 10pm* *or when the show is over.

www.rabanillodelafuente.com

Heidi Russell:

untitled, NYC

HEIDI RUSSELL and DOROTHY KRAKAUER at CENTRO ESPANOL GALLERY

Through December 17th

239 West 14th Street (btwn 7/8th Aves)

Gallery Hours: Sat/Sun 1-4pm, Mon/Tues/Wed 6-8:30 pm, Thurs/Fri by appt. 212.380.3626 or email paulcabezas7@yahoo.com

www.heidirussell.com

www.dorothykrakauer.com

Prinny Alaví at 30 East 35th Street

Artist’s Reception:
Saturday, Dec. 11th, 4 - 6pm

30 East 35th Street

Between Park and Madison Ave.

Member Spotlight: Edie Nadelhaft, visual artist presenting at MIA MI | CIELO Art Expo and SCOPE MIAMI‏

2010-12-03T11:35:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce that Salon member Edie Nadelhaft is participating in two exhibitions during Art Basel Miami Beach, MIA MI | CIELO Art Expo and SCOPE MIAMI through Decemeber 5th.

MIA MI | CIELO

Art Expo will be presented on the 4th floor of the Cielo On The Bay luxury condominiums. Showcasing 40 artists from New York and the Miami area MIA | MI CIELO will transform the Cielo into a destination for contemporary art, performances and events. This exhibition will feature 8 boutique style solo installations in which artists will have a bedroom and bathroom to bedeck and bedazzle, Ms. Nadelhaft included.

http://www.miamicielo.com/exhibition.html

Ms. Nadelhaft will be featured in a digital display at Scope Art Fair by MyArtSpace in booth#A32.

http://www.scope-art.com/index.php/miami

Edie Nadelhaft is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She studied painting and art history at S.U.N.Y. at Purchase and received her BFA, with honors, from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1995. Since 1997, she has lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Her paintings and sculpture have been widely exhibited throughout the United States with solo shows at Kumukumu Gallery and Dance New Amsterdam in NYC, and the Affordable Art Fair NYC in September 2010. In 2008, Ms. Nadelhaft was awarded the Platte Clove Artist in Residence Grant by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. In her spare time, she enjoys riding her motorcycle and bad cop shows.

EDIE NADELHAFT 195 Chrystie Street, NYC 10002 | edie@edienadelhaft.com | www.edienadelhaft.com

Member Spotlight: Rica Takashima, public art artist and author - Aliens from New York in Japan exhibition recap‏

2010-12-01T07:09:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to report on a cross-cultural exhibition and workshop by Salon member Rica Takashima that took place in Japan November 6-20. Please see the recap of this engaging outreach-through-art experience.

I am from Brazil

Title of art show:

Aliens from New York

Nov. 6-20, 2010

12 stations and platforms of Tsugaru Railway in Aomori, northern Japan

Title of workshop:

The Sweets Train —Transformed with Candy!

Nov. 13 Special chartered train from Tugaru to Naksato

Nov. 16 Bishamon elementary school   

Visual artist Rica Takashima has created an interactive and cross-cultural exhibit along the route of the Tsugaru Railroad in Aomori, Japan. Appropriate for children and adults, the exhibit brings iconic New York experiences to the countryside of northern Japan. Rica’s plan was simple: create cardboard cutouts of the kinds of things New Yorkers see everywhere: the blue Greek coffee cups, the buildings, a hot dog vendor. But one of the things that makes New York City so amazing is the people. She therefore created human-size cardboard New Yorkers in all our diversity, and cut out a hole for the face, like old-timey tourist postcards, so that people visiting the railway exhibit could see their country from a slightly different perspective. A special workshop helped children draw their own New Yorkers who hailed from all over the world. Lastly, while a special train travelled a route between two stations so that everyone could see the length of the exhibit, Rica distributed exotic candies that she had gathered in New York, which had been imported from other countries. In the end, participants saw, created, and tasted little pieces of other cultures as they rode their Tsugaru railroad.

Rica invites you to explore this cultural exchange exhibition through pictures and stories on her website at http://www.aozoraart.com/

I am from Taiwan

Rica Takashima

Member Spotlight: Amanda Serrano, visual artist participates in Art Basel Miami Beach at CANDO Arts through January 10th, 2011‏

2010-11-28T14:07:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce that Salon member Amanda Serrano is participating in Art Basel Miami Beach, with her piece Wave featured in a group exhibition at CANDO Arts in Miami Beach, December 1st - 5th. Her work will stay on exhibit through January 10th, 2011 at CANDO Arts.

A message from Amanda:

"Art Basel is an entire season here in Miami. Artists gear up and art fairs pop up all over the city like so many mushrooms. As we local artists scramble to be seen (in case this is 'our year' to be discovered) and find an exhibition opportunity, it's easy to forget about The Reason for the Season: Art Basel itself and all the galleries and artists of acclaim (mostly from otherwhere than here)! If for no other reason, though, no local will forget...because of the traffic and flood of people from all over who descend on our Magic City; Culture Vultures, of the very best kind, we hope, who will explore not only The Fair, but also some of the numerous satellite fairs and local galleries!

It's an exciting time to be an artist in Miami, during Art Basel. A season that in my opinion seems to dwarf Christmas in these parts!"

Wave, 2010, natural sea glass, stainless steel, wire, 62x48x6 inches

Artist Statement for Wave, by Amanda Serrano

Using unlikely material—sea glass and jump rings—I create intricate and ambitious sculptures and installations. Weaving thousands of stainless steel jump rings into lacy chain maille and sea glass designs which are then suspended from the ceiling, giving it a floating, fluid, luminous quality suited for large spaces and a profusion of light.

The obsessive, additive process of weaving jump rings into chain maille is appealing to me as the most direct way to build a connective tissue that best complements the glowing, translucent quality of natural sea glass.

Incorporating chain maille, a technique associated with medieval armor and battle, suggests battle for the environment against littering, pollution, dumping garbage in the ocean, and ultimately global warming. My work is intended to draw attention to the gravity of these issues, but my overall message is one of hope. The environment is capable of healing and cleansing itself of contamination that results from human activity. I am engaged in creating art that raises awareness about nature and it’s processes and the environmental problems we

face, focusing on the potential for rejuvenation of the ocean and Earth.

Nature’s formulation of sea glass from something discarded to something beautiful, speaks to the possibility of growth and transformation within each of us. Incorporating sea glass in sculpture presents an opportunity to evaluate my cultural perspective of disposable items, creating objects of beauty and celebration about hope and redemption, a reminder that the ocean is resilient and there is still time to save it.

Wave, detail

Amanda Serrano is a visual artist and sculptor. Born in the United States, she has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe, Mexico, as well as the U.S. She earned a bachelor of arts and a master's degree, and has studied at Academy of Art in San Francisco. Inspired by the ocean's ability to transform discarded glass into perfectly and uniquely formed sandblasted gems, she turned her attention to developing eco-friendly contemporary sculpture that celebrates transformation, redemption, and beauty in everyday objects that are commonly

thrown away.

Amanda's studio is in the Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL.

http://www.amandaserrano.com

CANDO Arts Co-op is an artist run gallery in Miami Beach

(about a block away from the Bass Art Museum)

Reception for WET: December 1, 7-11 PM

Group Exhibition runs through January 10, 2011

Juried and curated by Diane Camber

Address: 309 23rd St., Miami Beach, FL 33139

Hours: Thursday & Friday, 4-7 PM; Saturday & Sunday, 12-6 PM;

First Saturday of each month, 6-10 PM

http://www.candoartscoop.com/

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/

Member Spotlight: Dana Monagan, actor and producer‏

2010-11-23T07:55:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon congratulates Salon member Dana Monagan and her theater production company, BOO-Arts, on their grant and subsequent workshop production presentation of A Daughter of Israel, showcased November 11-21, 2010 in conjunction with The Looking Glass Space Grant Program.

Personal Message from Dana:
“I worked with a young woman named Adi Kurtchik in 2008 and she told me about this play based on her life in Israel. I read it and we did an initial play reading in 2008 for BOO. What struck me about the play was that it dealt with the fact that in Israel women are drafted into the military. I did not know this before, and I believe the idea that you will join the army is an idea that is foreign to most American women. I loved the play. I thought that it was a point of view worth exploring. As a rule I like to work with plays that have a point of view that is new to me, or that will provoke conversation among viewers.”

A Daughter of Israel
A Play by David Stallings
based on the true story of co-creator Adi Kurtchik
Directed by Kathleen O'Neill

Featured (in order of appearance) - Daniella Chai, Melanie Brook, Shira Kobren, Melissa Dougherty, Adi Kurtchik

Production Team - Blair Mielnik, Ryan Metzler, Sarah Bertolozzi, Dana Monagan, London Griffith, Sivan Adari, Lindsay Moore

Bootcamp Trainer - Kenny Wong

http://peacecore-ny.com

Engulfed within the backdrop of the never ending "situation" that affects the Middle East, four Israeli girls are forced to become instant women when drafted into a special unit that only their MP believes is viable and forces them to excel. Set in a boot camp in Israel, the story unfolds through the words and eyes of the four teenage girls. Laughter, tears, pride, song, sex and love weave their many colors to reveal a rich tapestry of life from these young voices tempered by the MP. A Daughter of Israel is based on the true stories of co-creator Adi Kurtchik.

DANA MONAGAN is an actor/director and producer, originally from Gordonsville, Virginia. Ms. Monagan moved to New York in 1992.

Ms. Monagan’s producer credits include last year's Midtown International Theater Festival favorite Penang, Sketch Comedy Group Controlled Chaos, and this year’s Ingenious festival at Manhattan Theatre Source and Mrs. Warren's Profession.

Ms. Monagan is a founding member of BOO-Arts, established with her producing partner Kathleen O'Neill, founded in 2007. She is the producer of BOO-Arts Multicultural Reading Series whose works so far have included Alice Childresse's The Wedding Band and David Hare's Fanshen and new works by David Stallings and Vickie Ramirez.

Ms. Monagan has also assisted directed on Manhattan Theatre Source's House of Bernarda Alba in 2007 and 12 Angry Women in 2008.

http://www.boo-arts.com/

Member Spotlight: Kera MacKenzie presents Subluxation, a video and sound collaborative work, featured in Brooklyn's BETA Spaces, Nov. 14th‏

2010-11-13T09:01:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce Salon member Kera MacKenzie showcases her collaborative work with partner Eric Miller in Subluxation during Arts in Bushwick's BETA Spaces 2010.

Kera is currently in Berlin for an artist residency, but invites you to attend this showcase of artists in Buswick. She would love to hear your feedback.

Contact her at keramack@gmail.com

I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT

Sunday, November 14, 2010 12-7pm, Free  41 White Street  Brooklyn, NY

http://ifallflowmelt.tumblr.com/

I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT is a video art show featuring work that explores the idea of escape by means of psychological transportation or transformation. Some ideas that might be considered: to be immersed in a moment of hypnosis, magnificent visions, and dreams; flux and impermanence; to diminish, deteriorate, or disappear. Selected works by nine artists all capture the ephemerality of escape through visual representations, appropriations, anomalies, or abstractions using single or multi-channel, time-based media.

Participating artists:  Karen Y Chan Yoon Cho Elaine Despins Bat-Sheva Guez Jeremiah Jones Martyna Starosta Subluxation (Kera MacKenzie & Eric Miller) Jayoung Yoon Frank Zadlo

Curated by:  Karen Y Chan

Presented by:  Arts in Bushwick, BETA Spaces 2010

‪Link to the map of all the shows in the area:‬

http://artsinbushwick.org/beta2010/showdirectory/

Bio:

Subluxation was formed in 2008 as a collaborative project between sound artist Eric Miller and video artist Kera MacKenzie. They are focused on developing a dialogue between imagery and sound which denies a hierarchical structure, instead opting for an asynchronous or ambiguous relation between the two media. In previous works, they have employed iterative feedback, ((de)composition) paraconsistency, (Dislocation/Dislocation/Relocation) and substrate neutrality (Fragments). Their interest lies in instilling apophenia in their audience and pointing out the mutability of what constitutes the real.

Statement:

This three piece compilation, created by Subluxation from 2008-09, is an experiment with the effect of media anteriority. The first piece, Dislocation of Malpositioned Static Images, began as a sound composition with video added subsequently. The second piece, Dislocation of Annular Systemic Formations, followed a reciprocal process (video first, then sound). In the third piece, Relocation of Significant Structural Damage, the anteriority of the video or audio at any given point was blurred using real-time and offline processes in which sonic elements controlled visual elements and vice verse. This piece was assembled from the source material for the first two pieces which consisted of analog film, microscopic images, digitally synthesized imagery/sounds and modified acoustic instrument samples. Relocation of Significant Structural Damage has remained an open work that has been reconfigured on numerous occasions emphasizing the importance of context over content.

‪Check out their project at http://subluxationav.blogspot.com/p/dislocationdislocationrelocation.html‬

Member Spotlight: Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente, Solo exhibition of paintings Nov. 11th - December 12th, reception Thursday, Nov. 11th, 6-8pm‏

2010-11-11T14:21:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce Salon member Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente’s solo exhibition at Manhattan Theatre Source.

SILENCIOS (SILENCES)

Acrylic on Canvas

90 X 36 In

Solo exhibition of paintings by

Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente

Manhattan Theatre Source

November 11^th – December 12^th

Opening reception is Thursday, November 11^th, 6-8pm

Manhattan Theatre Source 177 MacDougal Street New York, NY 10011

Located on MacDougal Street between West 8th and Waverly (Washington Sq. Park North), on the West side of the street. Directions below.

http://www.theatresource.org/home.php

Play Reservations: 866-811-4111

Business: 212-260-4698

manhattantheatresource is openSun - Tue, Noon to 10pm, Wed - Sat, 3pm - 10pm**or when the play is over.  

For general manhattantheatresource questions email:
managersource@gmail.com

For exhibition questions email Heidi Russell, Curator:
heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com

ENTRETANTO

Acrylic on Canvas

54 x 36 in.

Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente was born in Zamor, Spain. She received her degree in Applied Arts and Crafts from C / Marqués de Cubas in Madrid, Spain in 1991.

Ms. Rabanillo de la Fuente received a grant from the Ministry of Industry of the Board of Castile Mancha (Toledo Project) to study in Milan, Italy with the Istituto Europeo di Design (Centro

Ricerche), where she received her Master of Design degree in 1994. Her works have been exhibited in Spain and New York.

Ms. Rabanillo de la Fuente currently lives and works in New York City.

More of her work can be viewed on her website at: www.rabanillodelafuente.com

PASION DE VIVIR (THE PASSION TO LIVE)

Oil & Acrylic on Canvas

56 x 38 In

SUBWAY, DRIVING & PARKING DIRECTIONS to MANHATTAN THEATRE SOURCE

Subway:

Take the A, B, C, D, E, F, or V to the West 4th St. station. From 6th Avenue, walk one block east on West 8th and turn right onto MacDougal Street. The theatre is immediately on your right.

Driving:

From 6th Avenue, turn right onto West 8th. At the next corner, turn right onto MacDougal Street. The theatre is immediately on your right. On-street parking and local garages are readily available. Be sure to check signs and observe all parking regulations.

Parking:

2 5th Avenue Garage From 6th Ave/Avenue of the Americas, turn right onto W 8th St., turn right onto 5th Ave.  2 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011 (212) 254-7786 MUNY free parking on weekends

Member Spotlight: Caren Jo Shapiro, painter, participates in group exhibition "Body Image" at virtual and physical Pen and Brush Galleries through Dec. 11th‏

2010-11-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce Salon member Caren Jo Shapiro is exhibiting three paintings in Pen and Brush’s exhibition Body Images, on view in their physical gallery as well as in their online virtual gallery.

“Ballerina”

Body Image - Physical Exhibition

November 11^th – December 5^th

Artist Opening Reception: Thursday, November 11^th, 4 - 7pm

Pen and Brush

www.penandbrush.org

Gallery Hours: Thurs/Fri 4-7pm, Sat/Sun 1-5pm, Closed on Thurs. Nov. 25th in observance of holiday

Body Image Virtual Exhibition

November 11^th – December 5^th

Thurs., Nov. 11th 4-7pm

On View at www.penandbrush.org

“Women on Red”

Body Image presents a diverse exploration of female and male forms as reflected in our minds, imagination, media, and culture.

Body Image is a two-part all media event, comprising an online gallery accessible through www.penandbrush.org and a physical gallery in our Manhattan building. Each gallery will exhibit distinct work.

Pen and Brush

16 East 10th Street New York, NY 10003 between 5th Ave. and University Place Subways: L,N,Q,R,W,4,5,6 (Union Square)Buses: M1, M3, M6  

212-475-3669

“Devilish Queen”

CAREN JO SHAPIRO- ARTIST STATEMENT/BIO

Grappling with issues of abuse, gender, femininity, masculinity, and sexuality my paintings confront the overly consumed, idealized and oppressive values inherent in society. Through psychological, expressionist portrayals of ‘real’ human beings, my work exposes the impact of, and adaptations to a society which frequently denies the oppression and abuse inherent within it.

Defined by expressive, broad strokes of unapologetic color, the subjects of my work demand that the covert truths behind their existence be laid bare. Grappling with emotional and physical survival, conveyed through scale, color, brushstroke and occasionally text, are flawed yet remarkable individuals.

In addition to painting I am a licensed psychotherapist, who provides counseling services on the Lower East Side primarily to women and members of the LGBT community.

http://www.myartspace.com/artistInfo.do?populatinglist=home&subscriberid=llgeileufa19wze1 or at www.myartspace.com (Caren Shapiro) / cjart@aol.com / (917-439-9103)

Member Spotlight: Crystal Gregory - public art commission, Foot Traffic in Lefferts Gardens, Prospect Park, Brooklyn - On View for One Year!! - Artist Talk/Opening Nov. 4th‏

2010-11-04T12:46:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce the opening of a commissioned public work by Salon member Crystal Gregory, Foot Traffic in Lefferts Gardens, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Please join her tonight for her artist talk on location. Follow along her installation process and life of this public work via the LinRoFORMA blog at http://linroforma.wordpress.com/

Her invitation and details below…

Dear Friends,

I am so excited to invite you to an artist talk and the opening reception of Foot Traffic, a public art work in Lefferts Gardens. I was asked by the Lincoln Road Block Association and given a grant from the New York City Department of Transportation to install a public art piece on the foot bridge on Lincoln Road in Lefferts Gardens. I hope you can join me tomorrow night for a short artist talk and reception at the project.

Always,
Crystal
www.crystalgregory.org

Foot Traffic

Artist Talk on the bridge
6:00 pm
Lincoln Road Foot Bridge (between Ocean Ave and Flatbush)
At the B Q Prospect Park Metro Stop

Reception
Please join us after the talk for a reception at K Dog and Dunebuggy Cafe, 43 Lincoln Road

Foot Traffic
By Crystal Irene Gregory

For years, a “chandelier” of shoes flung by neighborhood youth dangled from wires over the Lincoln Road bridge. The Foot Traffic installation was inspired by this urban image and the shoelace material. The overall piece combines ideas of movement, comfort and reclaiming community.

The installation was sponsored by LinRoFORMA (Lincoln Road b/w Flatbush and Ocean Residents and Merchants Association) and funded by a pARTtners grant from the NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program.

For more information:
http://www.crystalgregory.org/
http://linroforma.wordpress.com/
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/sidewalks/urbanart_prgm.shtml

Crystal Gregory is a multi media artist creating works that focus on urban landscape, home, and handwork. Her materials are domestic, architectural, and organic. The art operates as both sculpture and site specific installation. Lace and cloth and their collective relationships to psychogeographies, domesticity, privacy and personal space are the tools she uses to communicate within her work. Her installations and component sculptures are hybridized spaces, fragile and distressed. Her practice is divided into community outreach projects, studio practice and public art.

Currently living and working in New York her work has been written about in ArtSlant and Kipton Art. PS 122 Gallery hosted Crystal for in a six week performative installation, On the Fence. Other shows include Art in Odd Places, Fair Folk & a Goat, as well as Giacobetti Paul Gallery Dumbo. She is currently working with an architectural firm (SL Designs) on permanent installations and is a recent recipient of a public art grant from the Department of Transit NYC. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon with a focus in Fiber Arts.

Member Spotlight: Cornelia Jensen, fine artist, featured in art.les.nyc studios: a retrospective‏

2010-10-27T08:00:00.000-07:00

International Women Artists’ Salon is pleased to announce Salon member Cornelia Jensen is a feature artist in art.les.nyc studios : a retrospective exhibition.

Close-up of Microstructures Styrofoam packing material,

plastic grass, LED and flourescent lights
(5' x 12' x 5')  2009

Come Join Culture fix and art.les.nyc studios for art.les.nyc studios : a retrospective on Wednesday October 27th, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm

WHAT: art.les.nyc studios: a retrospective
WHEN: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Culture Fix
9 Clinton Street (between Houston and Stanton Streets)
(646) 863-7171
www.culturefixny.com
www.artlesnyc.com

CONTACTS:
Aaron Thompson: artlesnyc@gmail.com
Lia Woertendyke : lia@culturefixny.com

Five Years of Keeping the Artistic Flame Alive: art.les.nyc studios: a retrospective

Since opening in 2005, art.les.nyc studios has been a progressive artistic force on the Lower East Side underground scene. From contemporary art installations to after-school student projects, promoting events combining performance, art, fashion, and design. art.les.nyc has striven to be a shining beacon representing the eternal independent artistic spirit of this neighborhood.

Now, after a five-year span featuring over 30 extravagant, large-sale multimedia shows, we are bidding farewell to our homestead at 202 Rivington Street due to the gentrification and uncontrollable homogenization of our beloved neighborhood of the Lower East Side. In partnership with Culture Fix on Clinton Street, we have decided to produce a retrospective and documentary showing of the most captivating work presented by resident artists and contributors through the first five years of art.les.nyc studios' existence.

The show focus on the main icons of art.les.nyc, including the Xanadu Moons Tree (created by founding artist Aaron Thompson for the HOWL Festival 2005), The World Famous Jamaican Lounge Tiki Bar (built in 2006), Twist her (created in 2006) and the festive brilliance of Candy Cane Lane (created in 2006). The retrospective will also present works by featured artists: Dianne Bowen and Heins Kim (Wire Tap, September 2008), Andrea Greco (Mothra from The Oragami that Ate NYC, August 2009), Dimtry Gubin and Sen One (collaborative painting from Mind-f-Art , August 2008), Pond Scum and John Czop (collaborative painting from Hallowseen I, October 2007) and Cornelia Jensen (Microstructures, June 2009). Plus a selection of art.les.nyc short films including performances by Jessica Delfino, Jigsaw Soul, Michelle Leona, GLOB, Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players, Actualities, Dethrace and many more Lower Manhattan performers.

Alongside its contribution to the Lower East Side underground arts scene, art.les.nyc studios has also offered art educational services to many New York after-school programs by producing and hosting many different kids' art projects. Through the studios' community partnerships with Beacon Highroad Center (Grand Street Settlement), LEAP Rave after school program in the Bronx, and East Village Home School group, art.les.nyc studios gave the children the freedom to express themselves to their fullest extent by offering them large sized canvases (9 feet by 12 feet) in an urban outdoor setting nestled in the heart of the Lower East Side.

This retrospective will discuss and explain how the ever-changing continual pace of the Lower East Side affects the community, its art and its culture. The goal: to create a living time capsule of what once was. A lasting footprint that has been transformed by history and time. The Future will be illuminated.

About Us:
Established in 2005, art.les.nyc studios is a project sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of art.les.nyc studios may be made payable to Fractured Atlas, and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity. art.les.nyc studios serve as an urban artist space, dedicated to education and the promotion of contemporary urban art. Our mission is to build an educational bridge between New York contemporary artists and the children of the Lower East Side. Our 2009 projects have been made possible by funding from the Puffin Foundation.

  
About Us:  
Established in 2005, art.les.nyc studios is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of art.les.nyc studios may be made payable to Fractured Atlas, and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Fractured Atlas is 501(c)(3) public charity. art.les.nyc studios serve as an urban artist space dedicated to education and the promotion of contemporary urban art. Our mission is to build an educational bridge between New York contemporary artists and the children of the Lower East Side. Funding for our 2009 projects have been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

CORNELIA JENSEN – “MICROSTRUCTURES”
www.corneliajensen.com

I have come to understand our ‘Culture’ as an expression of unconscious needs manifested in the objects we create.

Microstructures is an installation that depicts a cityscape made from discarded packing material, plastic grass and light. The form and scale of the materials draws a connection between the macrocosm that is the grand environment of the city and the microcosms in our personal daily environment.

My work ranges from figure-ground painting to stylized found-object assemblage often in a reliquary format. These ‘shrines’ compare the relationship of the ‘thing-in-itself’ to its surrounding world with the relationship between human beings and their environment. I integrate natural and recycled objects such as tin cans, circuit boards, ladybugs and milkweed. These juxtapositions extrapolate the objects’ formal qualities, severing the connection to their bygone purpose. This allows a new hierarchy of meaning to be determined between the objects, and leaves us to draw a connection between man-made environment and the human unconscious.

Inspired by light artist James Turrell, I decided to incorporate light as a medium into my sculptural pieces. These light-infused works can function as individual objects or can be conformed into larger installations. The element of illumination in combination with mundane materials transforms our conception of what is a normal avenue to the sublime.

Cornelia Jensen completed her MFA in 2009 from California College of the Arts. She received a BA in Philosophy from Haverford College in 1987 and attended the Syracuse Studio Art Program in Florence, Italy in 1986. She graduated with honors in Art from The Masters School in 1983 and received the Merriam Hewitt Art Award. Jensen’s work has been featured in ten solo exhibitions and over forty group exhibitions mostly in New York and San Francisco, as well as in Europe and Asia. She has curated and installed over twenty different exhibitions in galleries and museums including The Cooper-Hewitt Museum. In San Francisco Jensen participated in an artist residency while helping create the Lola Gallery. She also co-created the art and film venue called The Werepad, where she produced multi-media events, and independent films. Jensen grew up outside of New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn.

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For those who didn't make it to the vernissage of the  "202 Rivington
Five Year Retrospective"... Here's a Halloween party option at
the same venue!

Come join us at CULTUREfix 
in collaboration with  art.les.nyc studios  on

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 
from 7 p.m. till  The Witching Hour  for

!!!Halloween CarnEvil!!!

Welcome to the hellL.E.S. !!  

Renowned for their Hellish Haunted Halloween spectaculars, 
art.les.nyc studios 
has joined forces with CULTUREfix for Season 2010  to create

!!!Halloween CarnEvil!!!.  

Hellcome to a carnival of spookily wicked delights.  
This event opens at 7 p.m., 
with madcap performances  
from 9 p.m. till 11 p.m.  
The CarnEvil!!! of Freaks
include Jessica Delfino, Balls and Bloat, Michelle Leona and 
The Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band.   

We will also host
a crazy costume contest that starts at 10 p.m. 
with a most unusual group of
judges who will hand out a variety of Lower East Side prizes.  
So put your 
"worst" face on and scare 
up a Grand Prize!  

Where: CULTUREFix  

9 Clinton Street  
between Stanton and Houston 
Streets, LES, NYC 10002 
When: October 30th, 2010 8 p.m. 'till the Witching Hour 
Admission is free  

We will also be serving
The Sweet Delicious Nectar of the Lower East Side 
Grog-n-Scrod Sangria   

Come celebrate the Pagan High Holiday with your hosts the 
Pirates of the L.E.S. and CULTUREfix, for the final art.les.nyc event 
of this blockbuster 2010 season.