San Francisco Bay Area curator and poet Renny Pritikin the first Director of New Langton Arts (in SF) shares some thoughts on what comprises a healthy art scene.
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Prescriptions for a Healthy Art Scene
San Francisco Bay Area curator and poet Renny Pritikin the first Director of New Langton Arts (in SF) shares some thoughts on what comprises a healthy art scene.
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Prescriptions for a Healthy Art Scene
I Heart Proximity Magazine
Folks - please check out Chicago-Based Proximity Magazine - an amazing resource for dialogues and articles on applied aesthetics. I love their mission so much it hurts: “revealing art worlds, real and imagined”. Magical…
Proximity is a magazine dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Our mission is to amplify discourse on local and global art ecologies. We hope to serve as a map of artists, collectives and alternative spaces to commercial galleries, museums and universities as means of connecting and cultivating sustainable creative communities.
Public School (Telic Art Exchange)
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
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FarmLab
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) has an excellent exhibition up right now called Broodwork : Creative Practice and Family Life. Outside the Center was a piece by Farmlab an amazing organization!
Farmlab is a short-term multi-disciplinary investigation of land use issues that are related to sustainability, livability, and health. Among much more, as a nascent think tank, art production studio, and cultural performance venue, Farmlab is exploring what role, if any, the team can and should play in matters related to lessons raised and learned from the Not A Cornfield project.
Continuing to serve as a catalyst for community involvement and change through the development of art actions, projects, and otherwise, Farmlab is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuity of all living things.
For a more complete answer, we invite you to check back again with us in the coming months — as the project team continues to learn, evaluate, reflect, brainstorm, tinker, and incubate.
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Public Matters
While in Los Angeles I got to see a documentary by an organization called Public Matters. They work with youth and develop media projects around a community issue. The group unveiled a new documentary about youth living in LA’s Historic Filipino Town - quite amazing!
Leaders need to be creative thinkers, capable of responding to situations that have few precedents. Public Matters, LLC is committed to developing a new generation of informed and engaged community leaders: innovative thinkers and problem solvers with a deep awareness and appreciation of their neighborhoods. We believe that art and new media have a tremendous capacity to portray community life and serve as a connective force across race, class and generations.
Public Matters is a multidisciplinary team with expertise in public art, education, new media, community building, capacity building, and leadership development. We also have experience in management, strategic planning, program development and assessment, community service and advocacy.
Public Matters generates innovative, artistic, place-based projects that build creative, civic and social capital in communities. Our projects develop creative community leaders. We engage residents in the creation of media-based neighborhood narratives that illuminate its history, character and conditions and integrate the results with broader civic processes, advocacy efforts and community initiatives. Our work addresses social issues through long-term educational projects. Our interdisciplinary approach is creative and analytical, left-brained and right-brained. We establish long-term sustainable programs that evolve beyond our initial involvement and are ultimately shaped by the community and its needs.
Our goals are to build social capital, bring forward unknown aspects of community life, and give future leaders a diverse and effective set of skills to work on behalf of their communities.
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WowHaus and Deepcraft
Wowhaus is located in Occidental, California. I had a chance to meet Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas Constable while visiting. They are some of the warmest individuals Ive met on my travels thus far. Their intention for space, ecology and community is beautiful and as immense as fungal infrastructures beneath or feet! Please check out Scott’s projects via DeepCraft - beautiful and sincere designs with ecological consideration. Soon to be a full artists residency space and incubation laboratory, Wowhaus is an emergent model for bringing interdisciplinary artists together through aesthetics, ecology and realms in-between.
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Echo Park Film Center
Echo Park Film Center is a non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. This place is amazing!
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826 Los Angeles
826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.
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Machine Project
Machine Project exists to encourage heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious. We provide educational resources to people working with technology, we collaborate with artists to produce site-specific works, and we promote conversations between scientists, poets, technicians, performers, and the community of Los Angeles as a whole.
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Studio for Urban Projects
Founded in 2006 the Studio for Urban Projects is a research and working group that perceives art as a means of advancing civic engagement and furthering public dialogue. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative, and research-based projects aim to provoke change by reframing our perceptions of the city and physically transforming elements of the built environment. The Studio’s core members; including Alison Sant, Marina McDougall, Richard Johnson, and Kirstin Bach; work collaboratively with individuals and institutions in the presentation of projects, public programs, and publications.
Our current projects include: Strange Weather, an interactive visualization that investigates the public discourse around climate change; and An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park, an audio tour that explores the layered visions of nature embodied in San Francisco’s great urban playground.
We recently opened the Studio for Urban Projects storefront in the San Francisco Mission District. It is best described as a “collective of collectives.” Here like-minded San Francisco art collaboratives share a space for the staging of talks, film screenings, workshops, discussions, and meals.
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