KickStartLove - Artworking: Connecting ideas and makers

Tagged as "Speed Networking for Artists" the idea is rather simple.  Try to get two groups of people together. Those that want to make stuff but don't know how and those that know how to make stuff but are looking for fun projects to invest their time and you get the idea behind ARTworking.

The first meeting is happening TONIGHT.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Light Bistro

2801 Bridge Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

7-10pm

$15 a ticket (proceeds benefit the Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival @ Dobama)

Artworking website (where you can purchase your tickets)

"Have a great project idea?

Looking for the perfect partner to pull it off?

Bring your best idea, and come meet that writer you need for your film, artist you need for your album cover, or the perfect musician for your performance art piece.

Any and every idea welcome!

Cash prize awarded for the evening's favorite as voted by your fellow artists. Break out that idea you've been sitting on and make it happen!"

Its 2012 already? For you maybe.

I realize that it is the fourth month of 2012 already but recently it feels like the beginning of the new year.  Perhaps just some new beginnings.  I am not good at self promoting (although my close friends will tell you that the topic of "me" is probably my favorite subject) which is a horrible trait for someone who is attempting to be a professional designer.  Flying under the radar is not really an option.  I used to think that hard work in an of itself would be the best and most surefire way to get noticed and by getting noticed some, get more work or the opportunity to work with people and projects that would be more interesting to me.  Hard Work may be very important, but I doubt it is more then 60% of the equation.  The rest boils down to either dumb luck or the self promoting component I am so poor at.  2011 has gone down in the books as one of the worst years ever and I am not looking to repeat that in any way.  In fact, 2012 has surpassed my expectations to the point where I am almost optimistic.  Almost.

I could say that I discovered the live/work balance, but that would be a lie.  I could mention that enough projects have fallen into my lap that I find so incredible that I will forever be doing the nerdy, crafty, stuff that I would love to do for a living, but that is only partially true.  I will say that I am realizing that going 120mph in one direction for too long burns you out, to the point that a hard reset is necessary to get you back on track.

None of this is terribly exciting or important, but I am just getting it out there.

The [good] news is that I am currently developing the balance, between what I have to do (work for a living) and what I want to do (make/design weird stuff) and have found a place that allows that.  Maybe even expects that.  Hopefully the days (and nights) of staring at CAD screens will just go down to weekdays and the nights and weekends can be making things, testing things, seeing things and writing about things.  Which is what I want to do anyway.  Don't get me wrong, buildings fascinate me still, but I enjoy so much more about architecture then what people consider architecture and I have personally sorted that just because I may be an "architect" [still testing for license] it doesn't mean I have to be what most think of as an Architect.  I can self define some.  Some may still lump me in with the asshats and douchebags that love to go around exclaiming how they can architize everything with their archstounding archimental powers but I don't have to accept it.  And that right there is the one thing that will finally allow me to not hate myself for taking the tests.  I guess I have just finally grown up enough to ignore the judgement of others for doing what I love and not have to wear it like a scarlet "A" on my chest.  Finally.  After a third of a century.  I wonder if some rocket scientists or lawyers finally get to that point too.

I will admit that I much rather be in on the ground floor of anything then tag along after it has been established, I still have that personality deficiency so don't expect the snarky, you shoulda been there back in the day, sort of comments to go away.  Cause they won't.  I will still want to know where you were, back in the day, when you couldn't pitch in to help regardless.  You know who I am writing about.

So, this is what?  TOIstudio relaunch v3?  Once every 2 years or so I need another kick in the butt?  Yeah, that sounds about right.

Oh, and self promoting?  Get ready.  You are going to see some stuff.  Finally.

Pop Up Rockwell (this Saturday + public input wanted)

The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is using a 5 week graduate urban design studio to develop, install and evaluate temporary interventions along Rockwell Avenue (Northeast of Public Square).  The Rockwell installation study attempts to develop the "Cleveland Complete and Green Streets" initiative which was approved by Cleveland City Council way back in September 2011.

The project hosts a launch event:

Saturday, April 21st

5-9pm

Currently there is a public survey open for some input of which any would probably be appreciated.

You can find more information at the Pop Up Rockwell web page including some facebook page stuff, a studio syllabus and list of sponsers (as well as exactly what the Complete & Green Streets Ordinance is).

Respect the Bike - historical exhibit and bicycle presentation 2012.04.27

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Greenhouse Tavern

2038 E 4th, Cleveland, OH 44115

Reception begins at 7pm

Blazing Saddle Cycle has put together a "bicycle presentation and historical exhibit" called "Respect the Bike" which is meant to showcase bikes that have been manufactured locally (in Ohio) from 1897 to present.

Spirits donated by Fahrenheit and Momocho

Food by The Greenhouse Tavern

Music: Heelsplitter, The Dreadful Yanws and Scoliosis Jones.

Includes bicycles from:

Rustbelt Welding
Cicli Polito
Carmen Gambino
Century Cycles
Fridrich Bicycle
Blazing Saddle Cycle

Also, April 27th is the last Friday of the month so ride on over after Cleveland Critical Mass.

Creating a Sense of Place Lecture: CWRU

Creating a Sense of Place: University Circle -- Where the Arts have Created a Life-Enhancing Environment

Nina Gibans, Jesse Epstein, Chris Roynane

Date:	04-19-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

Producers Jesse Epstein and Nina Gibans, along with University Circle Inc. President Chris Roynane, discuss this multi-layered project on the history, public art, and architecture in University Circle. University Circle is the core of Cleveland's powerful history and embodies the civic dream of the Cleveland industrialists who donated the land, lived there, and envisioned and endowed its institutions. This program will include video clips and commentary on the project.

Cleveland Sculpture Center: 2 Summer internships available

2 SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE The Sculpture Center is seeking two summer interns interested in working closely with the Executive Director as Curatorial Assistants to assist directly with the installation of the summer exchange exhibition and planning and preparation for four Sept - Dec 2012 exhibitions. Click Here to read a full description of the internship and how to apply.

Sculpture Center interns are usually college level or graduate school students seeking practical, highly varied, working experience in a small, fast paced arts organization or post-graduate people wishing to develop additional marketable skills. A background in the arts or art history is not required, but is preferred. Interns must have excellent analytical writing skills or skills in art production, be highly motivated and able to work independently and accurately, and be comfortable interacting with the public and providing verbal interpretations of exhibitions. A good understanding of digital photography and a photo editing program is a plus.

Internships are geared to the skill sets and interests of each intern and may include registrarial work, writing for exhibitions, updating the website, corresponding with and working directly with artists to install their exhibitions, preparing databases of exhibition information, photographically documenting exhibitions and preparing “slideshows” for the website and PowerPoint presentations, educational outreach, marketing including preparing Evites and press releases, and updating of our social networks.

Interns are expected to assist at openings and other events and manage the galleries on Saturday afternoons for 4 hours. A commitment of between 10 and 15 hours a week, at least, is required.

KSU CAED Spring Lecture Series 2012 - finalizedish finally

KSU CAED 2012 Spring Lecture Series

Thursday, March 1 @ 7 pm Cartwright Hall

Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA

Principal, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture

Ms. Drake's firm, dlandstudio, is currently planning a massive project in Brooklyn to bridge communities that have been separated since the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The new park would connect existing parks on either side of the BQE and introduce plant life to create a new green space.

"Rising Currents: A New Urban Ground" is a partnership by dlandstudio and Architecture Research Office (ARO), in exhibition at MoMA. The plan takes into account the projections of rising sea levels over the course of the next century, and creates a striking re-imagining of the Manhattan waterfront with designs to protect the land from erosion. Other smart water-management design includes a street that is made of porous material that absorbs rainwater, preventing runoff.

In addition to her work at dlandstudio, Ms Drake is Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union, and Adjunct Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an M. Architecture & M. Landscape Architecture.

Press

Imagining a More Watery New York

Going Green: North Brooklyn Locals, Activists Want More Open Space

Monday, March 5 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall

Alberto Perez-Gomez

Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University

Dr. Alberto Perez-Gomez has written extensively, and his work has been published in journals, pre-publication reports, exhibitions and reviews. His recent research includes an annotated bibliography on theatrical space 17th - 20th century; "New paradigms for architectural education: historical sources during the Enlightenment and the early 19th century;" and work on a book entitledArchitecture and Love, about the confluence of ethics and poetics in architectural praxis. 

Books

Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

Polyphilo or the Dark Forest Revisited: an Erotic Epiphany of Architecture 

Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

Dr. Perez-Gomez has received numerous research awards and grants; most recently he won the Research/Creation Grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to develop projects generated from Polyphilo in order to test digital media on problems of architecural representation.

Dr. Perez-Gomez is a native of Mexico City, Mexico. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Art (Ph.D.), History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Essex in Colchester England. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and has knowledge in 3 other languages. He resides in Canada.

Thursday, March 15 @ 7 pm in KIVA

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series

George H. Miller, FAIA

Principal & Managing Partner; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

George H. Miller is a past president of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural League of new York, Municipal Arts Society, Society of Architectural Historians and is director of the New York Building Congress.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners are known for such projects as the Grand Louvre (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Palazo Lombardia (Milan) and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington).

Thursday, March 29 @ 7 pm in KIVA

Panel discussion: Fantastic Futures in Design Education

Wednesday, April 11 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall Auditorium

Film screening: Urbanized

Gary Hustwit, acclaimed film maker

LEAF Annual Open House - March 4 2012

LEAF Annual Open House

March 4, 2012 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Lakewood Public Library, multipurpose room

LEAF Community coordinates with several farms and programs that provide fresh, locally produced products weekly at LEAF Nights. These Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs serve over six hundred families in Lakewood each year.  The Open House will host several CSA programs that will be offered in Lakewood in 2012.  Representatives from the various programs will be available to answer questions and talk about their farm or program, and sign up members.

LEAF CSA members will be promoting the "LEAF CSA Payment Plan" at the Open House.  This is a payment plan offered to limited income individuals who are interested in participating in a CSA, but are deterred by the lump sum payment required. An application is required. LEAF will pay the upfront cost of joining the CSA, and then the member will pay LEAF back weekly.   The member participating with the "payment plan" will receive all of the same benefits from the CSA program as other members.

LEAF Community coordinates community gardens at four of Lakewood's public parks, and at The Westerly. Several representatives from the LEAF Community Garden leadership will be available to discuss the community gardening program and register gardeners.  Information will also be available about the Learning Garden, which is located at Madison Library and maintained by LEAF Community volunteers.

At the LEAF Community table, representatives will be available to discuss the many initiatives and opportunities that will are planned for 2012, and provide an overview of what LEAF is all about. This includes the various volunteer, educational and fundraising opportunities available in numerous committees.

New this year at the Open House will be a seed swap!  Bring sealed (such as taped envelopes) packages of seeds, and trade with fellow gardeners. Please include important information on the label, such as variety, year produced, etc.  If you don't have seeds to swap, but are interested in getting some seeds, unswapped seeds will be available for a small donation.

Wang Shu named 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner

straight from the horse's (Pritzker Prize) mouth:

Announcement

Wang Shu of The People’s Republic of China Is the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Los Angeles, CA—Wang Shu, a 48 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Hangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, will be the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be in Beijing on May 25.

In announcing the jury’s choice, Pritzker elaborated, “The fact that an architect from China has been selected by the jury, represents a significant step in acknowledging the role that China will play in the development of architectural ideals. In addition, over the coming decades China’s success at urbanization will be important to China and to the world. This urbanization, like urbanization around the world, needs to be in harmony with local needs and culture. China’s unprecedented opportunities for urban planning and design will want to be in harmony with both its long and unique traditions of the past and with its future needs for sustainable development.”

The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was founded in 1979 by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The laureates receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.

- there is more, check out the announcement on the Pritzker website (link above).

Call for Artists - Utrecht "all the small things: Cleveland"

All the Small Things: Cleveland

Utrecht Cleveland Heights presents

“All the Small Things: Cleveland”

Art Show & Contest 

From February 6th through March 18^th customers may submit 6”x6” two-dimensional works for entry into our juried small show. 6”x6” works must be submitted on any of the following: 

Utrecht Artist Wood Panel                  
Utrecht Contemporary Canvas
Ampersand Cradled Gesso Board       Ampersand Cradled Clay Board

So that we have enough room on our wall, we will limit the amount of participants to 100, and the number of personal entries to three.  All artists will be asked to submit small works centered on the theme of
Cleveland.  
Artists will be asked to drop off their finished piece(s) before March 18th at 5pm. 

Voting will take place in store from March 19^th through April 1^st, and prizes will be announced and awarded during our Artist Reception on Saturday, April 7^th, from 5pm to 7pm. 

1st Place Winner - $150 ArtSmart Card

2nd Place Winner - $75 ArtSmart Card

3rd Place Winner - $25 ArtSmart Card

Staff Awarded Prize - $50 Utrecht Gift Bag

Utrecht Art Supplies
2768 Mayfield Rd Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106

Tel: 216-371-3500 / Fax: 216-371-3580 
store30@utrecht.com  www.utrecht.com

George H. Miller Lecture - KSU CAED

George H. Miller, Architect Lecture

Principal and Managing Partner

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Thursday, March 15, 2012

7pm

Kiva Auditorium

Kent State University

Kent Student Center

1065 Risman Drive, Kent, Ohio

George H. Miller is a past president of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural league of New York, Municipal Arts Society, Society of Architectural Historians and is director of the New York Building Congress.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners are known for such projects as the Grand Louvre (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland), Palazzo Lombardia (Milan) and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), just to name a few.

The lecture is free and open to the public.  Space is limited.  To ensure a seat, please call 330.672.2760 or email collegeofthearts@kent.edu.  Nonreserved seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Presented by:

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series and School of Architecture and Environmental Design.

Susannah Drake Lecture - spring lecture series coming to kent campus

spring lecture series coming to kent campus

Thursday, March 1 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall Auditorium

Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA

Principal, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture

We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural event of the 2012 Spring Lecture Series at the College of Architecture & Environmental Design, featuring architect Susannah Drake. Ms Drake's firm, dlandstudio, is currently planning for a massive project in Brooklyn to bridge communities that have been separated since the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The new park would connect existing parks on either side of the BQE and introduce vegetation, creating a much-needed green space.

"Rising Currents: a New Urban Ground" is a partnership by dlandstudio and Architecture Research Office (ARO), and is currently an exhibition at MoMA. The plan takes into account the projections of rising sea levels over the course of the next century, and creates a striking re-imagining of the Manhattan waterfront, designed to protect land from erosion. Other smart water-management design includes a street that is made of porous material that absorbs rainwater, preventing runoff.

In addition to her work at dlandstudio, Ms Drake also holds the position of Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union, and is Adjunct Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an M. Architecture and M. Landscape Architecture.

Brite Winter Fest 2012

Brite Winter 2012

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Bridge Ave. & West 26th

Ohio City, Cleveland

BRITE WINTER: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 5-10pm Ohio City (W26th and Bridge Ave)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BRITE WINTER: Cleveland’s Third Annual Winter, Art, and Music Celebration:

The community-organized BRITE WINTER festival takes place at West 26th    and Bridge Avenue, in Ohio City, on Saturday February 18th from 5-10pm. Entrance is free and open to the public.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (January 25th, 2012) For three years running, BRITE WINTER has gathered members of the Cleveland Arts community to create a glowing outdoor celebration of music, art, fire and light. The festival is free to the public, supported by in kind and cash donations from corporate sponsors, university student groups, and individuals who agree with the simple mission of celebrating winter. In 2012, the volunteer steering committee has chosen a new site in the Ohio City neighborhood, just west of downtown Cleveland. On Saturday, February 18th, a portion of Bridge Avenue, between West 26th and West 25th street, will be closed and occupied with an outdoor stage, bonfires, participatory art projects, light art installations, quirky games, and food vendors. With the move to Ohio City, neighborhood businesses have contributed their time, talent, space, and creativity for BRITE WINTER to extend to 5 venues for temporary art installations, an additional 8 venues for free music performances, and 10 venues with offers or special programming for festival goers.

Music: BRITE WINTER features an outdoor stage where bands (Bad Veins, Tom Evanchuck & the Old Money, Black Taxi, Lighthouse & the Whaler, Bethesda) will play a block party style concert to attendees huddled around bonfires in the heart of the city from 5-10pm. There will simultaneously be 8 other venues (Joy Machines Bike Shop, Bon Bon Pastry & Cafe, Garage Bar, Touch Supper Club, Great Lakes Brewing Company, Market Avenue Wine Bar, Dragonfly Lounge, and Franklin Circle Christian Church) where over 30 more music performances will be held during the festival. All of the music programming has been curated and organized by the Brite Winter Steering Committee with assistance from Bad Racket Recording Studio, The Grog Shop and The Beachland Ballroom.

Art and Games: These things exist in a category together because BRITE WINTER features participatory art and games as well as visual displays. Art and games are temporary installations of fun, like a box truck light and sound extravaganza, the smashdown game, giant skee-ball, giant snowflake, and bring-your-own lamp light sculpture. Kasumi, our featured artist, will display her video art, “Mid-winter’s Stereopticon”. More than a dozen artists, engineers, and creative groups are working together with support from General Electric Lighting, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art Department of Community Arts, IngenuityFest, and Vertical Sound to create these art/activity installations for public enjoyment.

Brite Winter Mugs and Ohio City Vouchers: Brite Winter Festival Mugs come with two Ohio City Vouchers and provide additional access to festival programming in the neighborhood. 14 venues will offer a discount between 10-20% during the festival, for simply holding a mug, and each Ohio City Vouchers can be redeemed for Beer, Coffee, Hot Chocolate, or a variety of other items at listed venues during the festival. A Mug and 2 Ohio City Vouchers can be purchased for $12 on kickstarter.com or $15 on the day of the event.

BRITE WINTER festival is run by a 100% volunteer steering committee, currently operated without grant funding, and is supported by in-kind donations and sponsorships from Cleveland businesses, organizations, and university student groups. Donations of all kinds are accepted through the Ohio City Inc. Development Corporation, the festival’s non-profit fiscal agent.

Contact:

BRITE WINTER FESTIVAL

Thomas Fox

(440) 941-6560

BriteWinter@gmail.com

http://www.britewintercleveland.com

Valley Art Center Call for Artists

 "Cleveland Rocks" in more ways than one!  This spring join us as we take a modern approach to the ageless art of sculpture.  Dating back to pre-historic times, this 3-dimensional art form has evolved over the centuries to include the traditional free-standing pieces and sound, light, kinetic, stacked art and environmental sculptures, just to name a few.  

The Valley Art Center invites you to an exhibit of traditional “in the round” pieces using conventional and contemporary materials.  Whether it’s molded, carved, cast, hewed, chiseled, shaped or cut--as long as we can view it “going ‘round”, the substances used to create the piece can be as modern as plastic or classic as stone.  

Any artist interested in submitting sculptures for consideration can CLICK HERE or contact Gallery Director, Bridget Roush at 440-247-7507 or gallerycom@valleyartcenter.org.  Deadline for artwork submissions:  Friday, March 2.