Brent Green at Lunch on Tuesday and then Cinematheque!

Brent Green - Sept. 21

Brent Green
Nervous Films
Tuesday,
September 21
12:15
JMC M323
(IME Video Lab)

Brent Green’s lunchtime talk is co-sponsored by the Visual Arts and Technologies and Integrated Media Environments pizza will be served.

On Tuesday, September 21, at 12:15, students will have a rare opportunity to attend an intimate artist’s talk with one of the most innovative artists working today, Brent Green.

Later that evening through Cinematheque there will a full screening of his film “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” with a more formal talk from the artist. Presented by Cinematheque at 7 pm in Aitken. CIA ID holders and Cinematheque members get in for $7. Cinematheque Schedule


Green is a self-taught filmmaker and animator whose work spans a variety of disciplines including music, drawing, sculpture, animation and film. His presence on the art scene has become increasingly prominent with exhibitions, screenings and live performances through such venues as: Sundance Film Festival; the Andy Warhol Museum; Bellwether Gallery in New York; the London-based Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Houston-based Aurora Picture Show; and New York MoMA.

Pay attention! you might miss something!

Degrees of Separation

Thursday, Sept. 2nd –
Faculty Opening (6 pm) + Emit! (8 pm)

Party!

Come to The Cleveland Institute of Art on Thursday, September 2 for a blockbuster evening! First, the Faculty Exhibition opens with a free, public reception. Then CIA student work is shown on the Cinematheque’s silver screen at the free EMIT film festival. And finally, following the festival is a late-night student after-party.

The 2010 Faculty Exhibition Reception (6pm, Reinberger Galleries)
CIA’s new president Grafton Nunes introduces the Faculty Exhibition, which will be on view until October 9. A tradition that spans over eight decades, the Faculty Exhibition is a celebration of art and its makers and an opportunity for the public to view new, original, and innovative works from our world-renowned art and design faculty. The public is invited to this free opening reception with music on September 2 at 6pm.

EMIT Student Film Festival (8pm, Aitken Auditorium) 
CIA students from all disciplines contribute innovative and original short videos and animation in this one-night screening event, which immediately follows the Faculty Exhibition reception. The innovative and original short videos and animations will delight, amaze, and shock filmgoers. EMIT features student pieces in all genres, from 3D animation to experimental video. The public is invited to this free event on September 2 at 8pm.

College Student After-Party (10pm, Gund Building lobby)
Following EMIT will be a special late-night student party with music and refreshments. Cleveland college students can show ID to get in free.

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Thursday, September 9, 6 to 9 pm,
“Degrees of Separation”
CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

Five young artists and CIA alums come together for an exhibition to see how they relate, and create in the new environment of a professional life. Themes of interaction, and connectivity run strong, whether it be through performance, bringing people together, or questioning the social construct of materialism - these artists are interested in sparking more than just thoughts, but conversations.

Featuring the work of:

Karl Anderson, Drawing, 2009
- Forum Artspace Blog
- Karl is a locally based artist and gallerist and is one of the founders and co-directors of Forum Artspace frequently acting as curator.
Jerry Birchfield, Photography, 2009
- Jerry Birchfield's website
- Jerry is a locally based artist who has exhibited widely including the Toledo
Museum of Art and the Print Center in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been included in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Clinic, Dealer Tire, LLC and the Avery Denison Corporation.
Noah Hrbek, Sculpture, 2007
- Laughter League, Noah Hrbek
- Noah is a locally based artist and improvisational comedian and talented musican
Ben Kinsley, TIME, 2005
- Ben Kinsley's website
- Ben is currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. He received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.
Shoko Yamamura, Painting, 2008
-Shoko Yamamura on CCA's 2010 MFA website
- Originally from Japan, Shoko is an artist based in San Francisco. Her career has previously been marked by a questioning of the lines between art, “non-art” and life. Today she has moved beyond “what is art?” to “How can an artist be?” She received her MFA in Studio Art this past spring from the California College of the Arts.
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Cinematheque presents:
Tuesday, September 21, at 7:00 pm
Filmmaker Brent Green in Person!
GRAVITY WAS EVERYWHERE BACK THEN
USA, 2010, Brent Green
Brent Green, Nervous Films
11141 East Blvd.
CIA – the Gund Building
Cleveland, OH

The first feature by sculptor, folk artist, and self-taught animator Brent Green was inspired by the true story of Leonard Wood, a Kentucky hardware clerk who turned his house into a ramshackle “healing machine” after his wife got cancer. Meticulously re-creating Wood’s dwelling on his Pennsylvania farm, Green employs live actors, stop-motion, music, and voiceover to tell his touching, poetic tale.

Green, whom The Village Voice has called “an emerging Orson Welles of handmade experimental cinema,” will answer audience questions after the screening, along with the film’s co-writer and star, Donna K. “Critics’ Pick…A tinkerer’s ode to a tinkerer, and a romantic’s tribute to a romantic…Radiates an oddball homemade charm.” –The NY Times. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 75 min. site.nervousfilms.com Special admission $10, members and CIA students & staff $7; no passes, radio winners, or twofers.

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Thurday, October 7, 6 to 9 pm, “Self-Initiated” an exhibition curated by Senior Industrial Design students exploring the intersection between art and self-initiated design. Under the direction of CIA Industrial Design faculty Matt Beckwith. Closes Sunday, October 24.

CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

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Thursday, October 28 – Realtime Animation with sound and light artist’s Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … doors open at 6 pm … performance at 7 pm

AMAZING – MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED!

Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department

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Thursday, November 18, 6 to 9 pm – “Creative Resistance”
CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

Through the guidance of faculty and multi-media artist Sarah Paul, CIA students will present a semester culminating media installation employing strategies integrating social change with media art and performance designed to operate as social commentary and critique. Show closes Friday, December 10.

first week in Feb - Sam Bower, Cinematheque and Shannon Stratton

Just to note ... I have so many great colleagues who really push my own level of professionalism. I have to give shout outs to everyone and am looking to (if i find the time lol) writing something here on all there great accomplishments. In the meantime here are some things happening at the Cleveland Institute of Art that you really should know about....

Sam Bower is an artist, Executive Director of the Green Museum as well as a founding member of the organization. Through his work he advocates for positive change for humans and their environment. He is pro-nature and pro-people.
Bower will speak in The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Aitken Auditorium to introduce the SEEDs project.

The SEEDS project will offer a collaborative base for artists, curators,
producers (of all ages,) and presenters for the production and distribution
of - artistic, cultural, social, political projects that will serve the
environment and the community, as well as sparking the imagination and
challenging existent practices in the cultural field.

Consequently, we are asking artists, designers, and activists to submit
plans and instructions for works focusing on the public sphere and in
particular on issues of sustainability. These projects should be do-able
anywhere and by anyone for a budget of 300 dollars or less. The first
compilation will be published as a PDF publication, which will be available
for free from greenmuseum.org's website. There will also be an archive
documenting executed projects, a social network, and real world exhibitions
and publications, which should serve as a resource to participants, curators
and presenters interested in organizing projects based on the SEEDS project.




Sam Bower
and
the launch of the SEEDS project

February 1, 2010
7:00 pm
in CIA's Aitken Auditorium

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Show Cinematheque the love! Come ...

Tuesday, Feb. 2 ... 7 to 9 pm

Be among the “first responders” to this year’s Oscar nominations during this special event on Tuesday, February 2, from 7-9 p.m. in the Institute’s Aitken Auditorium. “Oscars 2010: Cleveland Reacts” will take place only ten hours after this year’s nominees are announced.

Co-sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, CIA’s Office of Continuing Education, and CINEMA Cleveland, this event is an interactive first look at the 2010 Academy Award nominations by a panel of local film experts. Cinematheque Director John Ewing will serve as the panel’s moderator.

The panelists
Eric Swinderman, executive director of CINEMA Cleveland
Clint O’Connor, film critic for The Plain Dealer
David Huffman, marketing director of Cleveland Cinemas
Kim Neuendorf, film studies professor at Cleveland State University

(this entry is a repost of an entry by Julie Mason on the CIA blog ...

be sure to check out the Cinematheque film schedule

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LOF
Shannon Stratton
Friday, Feb. 5
12:15 - Ohio Bell Auditorium


Shannon Stratton is a Canadian born cultural worker living in Chicago. She is a co-founder of threewalls where she remains Director and Curator. Stratton curates independently and with colleagues Jeff M. Ward and Judith Leemann, current projects including Ps & Qs with Ward at the Hyde Park Art Center and Gestures of Resistance with Leemann at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, both in 2010. She teaches in Art History and Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Cleveland Institute of Art ... LOF and some wednesdays...

CIA is rockin' ... all term long.

We've got some amazing Lunch on Fridays talks coming up and we're busy at work for the spring. Put it on your calendars and be there. Also make note... Wednesdays are starting to crank as well with "Some Wednesdays" now providing additional opportunities to hear people talk about the things you love. And... of course... there's Cinematheque. John Ewing and Tim Harry keep us entertained when no one else can. (Did you see the NY Times Travel section on Cleveland. So True.) Check out Cinematheque.

To kick off the Wednesdays... This Wednesday, September 30, 5 pm ... Cuban Contemporary Art Specialist Helmo Hernandez will be speaking in Aitken. This is a great chance to really see some edgy work and there will be a reception to follow. This amazing event is being made possible by The Cleveland Foundation. If you're at all interested in Cuban OR Contemporary Art you should definitely come.

One of our focuses for the fall LOF talks has been the professional activities of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty. Royden Watson speaks tomorrow and he's shown all over the place including Berlin... and then on October 2 we will have the opportunity to hear Photography Head Barry Underwood speak. Both artists are amazing and Underwood has been instrumental in blazing the residency trail. He has had a number of residencies, including one at The Banff Centre, and more recently at the Headlands in California. I personally find his work intriguing and beautiful and am looking forward to his talk.

As many of you may know Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker were the organizers of The Banff Centre's Spring Residency "Analogous Fields." A perfect artist fit for this investigatory look into the overlaps between art and science was the Institute's own Amanda Almon. As a residency participant she spent the spring in the Canadian Rockies pursuing her own work. Almon, the Head of CIA's remarkable Biomedical Arts program, works in an overlap of her own exploring the intersects of studio art through the skills and knowledge of her applied field. The results of her explorations are currently on view as part of CIA's faculty exhibit and the public can hear her speak about her work on Friday, October 9.

LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith -- Industrial Design's up and coming young faculty member is one of Cleveland's hottest talents. He is also notable for his abilities in connecting with his students and his outreach work ... including his current engagement with the students of Design Lab, located at Jane Addams High School.


LOF, October 23 – Megan Ehrhart

Like her colleague Amanda Almon, Ehrhart is another young and exciting artist crossing boundaries in her digital media-based work. Over the course of the summer she lived and worked in the remote French countryside while an Artist in Residence at Camac Centre D'Art in Marnay-Sur-Seine. While there she generated the piece, "Echoes of Abandonment", a facet of a larger media installation entitled "Grounded."

While in France, Ehrhart has said the remote location forced her to slow down and look to innovation and self-reflection to generate her work. Consequently, while there, her worked thrived. Another talk I'm really looking forward to...

Really one of my favorite things about being in Cleveland is getting to meet so many truly interesting people who are as into what they do as I am.

a great week - Steve Kurtz; Benjy Davies and Jenny Mendes

This past week The Cleveland Institute of Art played host to a ceramicist, Jenny Mendes; a printmaker, Benjy Davies; and the Bickford Visiting Artist, Steve Kurtz. In addition Cinematheque screened the film “Strange Culture” and the Painting Department conducted a panel featuring the artists from “Light of Day” – an exhibition currently on view at William Busta Gallery here in Cleveland.

(Weeks like this remind me what an amazing environment I have the privilege to work and teach in. There is such an abundance of energy and so many creative minds.)

All of these events received high marks from those in attendance. Steve Kurtz gave a particularly powerful talk. With great wit, he spoke about his career and the difficulties his encountered through the course of his work.

Kurtz, for those of you who weren’t able to attend, is, along with his late wife Hope, a founding member of the “tactical media” protest and performance artist collective, the Critical Art Ensemble. The group’s work has dealt with, among other subjects, issues of biotechnology. The Ensemble has authored several books including “Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media” and “Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas.” The groups’ work has been presented at such prestigious venues as The Whitney Museum, The New Museum in New York, The Corcoran, The ICA in London, the MCA in Chicago, the Musee d’art de la Ville de Paris and the London Museum of Natural History.

As detailed in the film “Strange Culture” by Lynn Hershman Leeson, from 2004 to 2008, Kurtz had hanging over him the threat of a 20 year prison sentence. These charges came about as the result of an investigation relating to the death of his wife Hope due to heart failure and were the product of a gross and rather sinister misinterpretation of the work he and his wife were doing. Over the course of those four years, and in the shadow of his tragic personal loss, Kurtz has persevered in the defense of his own civil liberties and by extension in defense of the rights of all other artists and free thinkers. It has only been since late May of 2008 that the Buffalo Prosecutor’s Office declined to reopen the case which had been dismissed. Steve Kurtz is now free.

** Special thanks to Sarah Paul for acting as liaison with Steve Kurtz.

http://www.critical-art.net

http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/sra/SRAweb/index.html

http://www.strangeculture.net/

http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=upcoming