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Home News Alternative Exposure
Monday, 03 December 2012 15:05
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE AWARDS $65,000
TO BAY AREA VISUAL ARTS GROUPS
IN ROUND 6 OF ALTERNATIVE EXPOSURE GRANT PROGRAM
16 Alternative Exposure Grant Recipients Announced
San Francisco, CA, November 26, 2012
- Southern Exposure is proud to announce grants totaling $65,000 to 16
groups in Round 6 of its Alternative Exposure grant program. Alternative
Exposure recognizes and supports the independent and self-organized
work of artists and small groups that plays a critical and significant
role in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. Alternative Exposure
is made possible with major leadership support from The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts with additional support by Grants for the
Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
In Round 6 of the program, 146 groups applied and sixteen recipients
were selected to receive grants of up to $5,000 each. This year's grant
recipients are Art Poem Performance Discourse, Canyon Cinemazine,
Colpa Press- Edicola, Et Al., Hacking for Artists, In the Make, The
Lecturers, Mission Mini Comix, n/a, Oakland Nights...Live!, Other
Cinema, Real Time and Space, San Quentin Prison Report, S.H.E.D.
Projects, Sunday Soup, and Will Brown. Full descriptions of the funded projects are listed below.
Since launching the program in 2007, Southern Exposure has awarded
$351,000 in direct funds to 104 Bay Area projects. Alternative Exposure
was created to serve as a catalyst towards sustaining a vital artist
community. This significant investment of support stimulates increased
activity and growth, promotes the important and critical work of these
ambitious projects, and publically recognizes the important role they
play in the existence of a vibrant culture in the Bay Area.
Alternative Exposure awards funds to groups or individuals that create
frameworks of support for Bay Area artists. Grants provide direct and
accessible contributions to a range of locally grown artist-centered
projects, extending SoEx's reach to as many new artists and audiences as
possible. Alternative Exposure supports the work of unincorporated
groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites,
collectives, events, and independent, artist-centered projects that fall
outside the traditional frameworks of support.
Southern Exposure is committed to serving as a resource for the vibrant
independent visual arts community through this and its other programs.
The Alternative Exposure grant program, launched in 2007, was the first
in a national network of regional re-granting programs supported by the
Warhol Foundation. Modeled on Southern Exposure's initiative, additional
re-granting programs are now facilitated by organizations in Houston,
TX; Chicago, IL; and Kansas City, MO.
Full Descriptions of Round 6 2012 Alternative Exposure Grantees:
Art Poem Performance Discourse is an artist-run exhibition space
and studio in Oakland. The space fosters a collaborative environment for
artists working in poetry, installation, painting, and performance.
Upcoming projects include bamboo mazes grown in the gallery, and a dance
re-enactment of Occupy protests. http://zachhouston.com/
Canyon Cinemazine commemorates Canyon Cinema's 50th anniversary
as the pinnacle of Bay Area experimental film distribution through the
creation of a new newsletter. Harkening back to the typewritten
correspondence among avant-garde artists of the 1960s, Canyon
Cinemazine, distributed quarterly beginning January 2013, seeks to
reignite the discussion of underground and independent film media
practice and theory. http://canyoncinema.com/
Colpa Press's Edicola is a repurposed Market Street newsstand
selling independently produced artists' books, prints, and albums. Colpa
Press will continue to support independent publishing by creating a new
residency in which commissioned artists will install work in Edicola
and adjacent newspaper dispensers, design, print, and distribute
publications, create limited edition prints, and continue production of
their monthly newspaper Gazzetta. http://colpapress.com/
Et Al. Materials Library was founded in 2012 as a resource for
artists in the Bay Area. The library functions as a support to artists'
practices, from the research and conceptual stages through the
exhibition. Starting with a collection of books, VHS, and vinyl, the
library will expand with this grant to include tools to allow artists to
produce risky, ambitious, and high quality works and exhibitions. http://et-al-projects.tumblr.com/
Hacking for Artists is a series of collaborative workshops
designed to introduce artists to the basics of computer programming and
electronics. The workshops will employ a hands-on approach as artists
develop their own projects while learning about open source programming
and electronics tools. The program will explore various hacking research
methodologies that will allow participants to continue to develop their
programming skills after the workshops. http://www.nicklally.com/
In the Make is a San Francisco-based online arts journal that
offers an intimate look at current art practice by publishing weekly
studio visits with Bay Area artists. A collaboration between
photographer Klea McKenna and writer Nikki Grattan, the visits reveal
the richness and challenges of creative work and provide exposure to
emerging Bay Area artists. http://inthemake.com/
The Lecturers is a series of commissioned online seminars and
presentations. Focusing on the visual arts as a platform, the seminars
and presentations will foster the production and consumption of
knowledge. Through a series of online videos, The Lecturers will address
aesthetic, social-historical, and cultural issues. All content will be
translated into Spanish. http://www.pabloguardiola.com/
Mission Mini Comix is a San Francisco-based cartoonist
collective/organization that self-publishes mini comics, both for
amusement and as a vehicle for social justice. MMC has been publishing
and distributing its work for 15 years in the Bay Area and beyond, and
this grant will be used to increase capacity. They will use their grant
to increase distribution of hundreds of titles, add work to the website,
and pay contributors. http://www.missionminicomix.com/
n/a is a new arts space in North Oakland/Temescal. Its goal is to
bring together a community of culturally engaged queers through
critical, creative, and casual conversations, and to encourage the
queering of the art community at large. The programming will consist of a
series of open conversations pairing visual and non-visual artists, and
will culminate in new work, exhibitions, events, and catalogs. http://nicksung.com/
Oakland Nights...Live!, a free monthly late-night talk show,
features performance, interviews, and spontaneous audience interaction.
The project intends to create a community of engaged artists,
performers, and audience members, and exposes Oakland-based artists to
new audiences. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oakland-Nights-Live/162889770462069
Other Cinema is a weekly microcinema exhibiting experimental and
underground film, video, and performance. The all-volunteer run project
has been showcasing contemporary fine-art films, essay, documentary, and
other marginalized film genres for 27 years at Artists Television
Access in San Francisco's Mission District. http://www.othercinema.com/
Real Time and Space is a residency whose mission is to support
emerging artists by providing them with time and space. The RTS
residency offers a free space for 1-2 months to artists, designers, and
art thinkers of the Bay Area and beyond. Along with studio space,
residents receive access to printmaking facilities, a woodshop, and an
engaged group of artists. Each resident is commissioned to produce an
original document or multiple, and is given the opportunity to present
their work to the public during the monthly RTS Talks program.. http://www.realtimeandspace.org/
San Quentin Prison Report expands on two years of artist Nigel
Poor working with incarcerated men at San Quentin Prison on photography
and radio projects. Through access to an unexplored archive of historic
negatives taken at and housed inside San Quentin, selected negatives
will be printed and, through collaboration with the members of the San
Quentin Prison Report photography group, used to create a new body of
work. The work created will be exhibited both inside and outside the
prison. http://www.nigelpoor.com/
S.H.E.D. Projects, located in West Oakland, is a temporary
workspace for emerging artists and an exhibition/event space for
installations, performances, and other visual arts projects
headquartered in an outdoor storage bay. S.H.E.D. Projects aims to
provide a non-traditional workspace that challenges artists to make work
outside of their normal practices, as well as offering an alternative
to more traditional gallery settings. Starting in December 2012,
S.H.E.D. will begin to accept exhibition and event proposals. http://shedprojects.org/
Sunday Soup is a large micro granting organization that has 80
groups worldwide. This project will start a Sunday Soup chapter in
Oakland called "Stock," serving soup and facilitating democratically
selected grants to Oakland-based artists, while building community in
the Oakland Art Scene. http://lexawalsh.tumblr.com/
Will Brown, a collaborative project that currently takes form as
an experimental exhibition and program space in San Francisco's Mission
District, will use the grant to produce a new exhibition inspired by the
life and work of James Lee Byars, a related public program, and Henry
Hopkins' Rolodex, a publication containing the contents of former SFMoMA
Director Henry Hopkins' rolodex. http://www.wearewillbrown.com/
An outside panel selected the 2012 grantees. Panelists included Kristan
Kennedy, Visual Arts Curator, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art;
Joyce Grimm, curator, consultant and an educator teaching in the MFA
program at California College of the Arts; and Eleanor Hanson Wise, the
co-founder and director of The Present Group and Arts Micro-Patronage.
Generous lead support for Alternative Exposure is provided by the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is
provided by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
ABOUT SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered non-profit organization
that is committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive
and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and
further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and
forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission
District space and off-site, in the public realm. Southern Exposure
supports artists through three main program areas including the
Exhibitions and Projects Program, Artists in Education Program and
Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA
94110. Office Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 am to 6 pm and
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 pm. Admission is
always free. Learn more at www.soex.org.
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John Felix Arnold III on the Road to NYC
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FRENCH in Melbourne
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Henry Gunderson at Ever Gold, SF
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Mario Wagner @Hashimoto
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Serge Gay Jr. @Spoke Art
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
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NYCHOS Mural on Ashbury and Haight
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Sun Milk in Vienna
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"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle
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Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works
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Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
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The Albatross and the Shipping Container
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
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The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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