Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Cuentos Y Memoria: "Dia de los Muertos ofrenda installation"


Opening: Thursday, October 15 at 5:00pm

Event: Cuentos Y Memoria
"Dia de los Muertos ofrenda installation"
What: Exhibit
Where: Metropolitan Community College Elkhorn Valley Campus
829 North 204th Street
Omaha NE

Description:
A Dia de Los Muertos ofrenda (Day of the Dead offering/altar) installation by Ramiro Rodriguez with accompanying ofrendas by community members as well.

http://www.mccneb.edu/campuslocations/evc.asp

Watch Taller Boricua & G4 on Channel 34


There will be an final showing: Tuesday, October 13th at 8:30 pm on channel 34

Manhattan Neighborhood Network will air a previously recorded interview between Marcos Dimas, Artistic Director / Founder of the Taller Boricua, and the artists of the collective G4: Vicente Fabré, Luis Leonor, Moses Ros, Renaldo García Pantaleón.

Check MNN schedule for future air dates.

For additional information about G4: Vicente Fabré, Luis Leonor, Moses Ros and Reynaldo García Pantaleón please contact the Taller Boricua: tallerboricua@yahoo.com

Taller Boricua / The Puerto Rican Workshop is a 40-year old artist-run nonprofit art gallery and multi-disciplinary cultural space in El Barrio. Our mission is to be a proactive institution for the community in East Harlem by offering programs that stimulate its social, cultural and economic development through the promotion of the arts.

About MNN:
Manhattan Neighborhood Network is responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services in Manhattan. Our purpose is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. In providing services, we seek to involve the diverse racial, ethnic and geographic communities of Manhattan in the electronic communication of their varied interests, needs, concerns and identities.

Public Access Television is supported by TimeWarner Cable and RCN Cable, under a franchise agreement with the City of New York. MNN is made possible by the work and support of thousands of individuals and groups in New York City

Surveillance & Spirituality: A survey of works by Gabriel Villa


Date:
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time:
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Visual Arts Gallery/ E-Lounge, College of Arts & Sciences
Street:
Governors State University, One University Parkway
City/Town:
University Park, IL

http://gsuvisualartsgallery.blogspot.com/
www.gabrielvilla.net

"Like alchemists, academics, graffiti artists, poets, rebels and paratroopers aflame, the art of Gabriel Villa is anything but a stationary traveler; like Ulysses under the double concaveness of a lake and the sky, his gaze is the site of visions: The most beautiful and loneliest woman, the inverse area of the umbra that rises inversely and proportional to the greatness of the city, the modern Metropolis like a Leviathan...Knowing how to carefully place everything, it all fits in a gaze: The light of a candle, a neon light, dust and snow, chalk and ashes; los inabarcable filos de la vida,great heights and the great cavities of the earth: This is what makes the work of Gabriel Villa a search where a discovery is what the classic teachers understood it to be: Thousands of mixtures and hard work fail to transfigure the immutable nature of matter: The Transfiguration, the only true change into another state occurs in the innermost part of nature, the mass of the shadows, titillating lights, a variable fogginess that lives in the heart of the Alchemist." - excerpted from "Gaze as Hunger: The Art of Gabriel Villa" by Alejandro Perez Cervantes

September 30 through October 23, 2009