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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Call for Submissions; Art Events Thursday and Friday

This is going to be one of those art entries, in this case focusing on some calls for submissions from various art institutions in Newark and New Jersey more generally, plus a couple of art events this week. So if you're not artsy-fartsy (I just barely am myself), you might just look at the pictures.

Today's fotos are of some ambient art, murals on Three Star Beef Co. and Carlos Flat Services on Orange Street opposite the site of the demolition of the Westinghouse Building. I first did not see a way past the chain-link fence that surrounds the space between the two buildings, but later found one.

Filmideo. Filmmakers and videografers have an opportunity to have their works displayed on one or another of the Fridays next month, but must get their submissions in by Friday, March 28th, little more than three weeks from today.

This first mural was apparently finished only recently, if the tarp at the side is any indication.

REDSAW gallery presents "FILMIDEO" film and video screenings
-work should be no longer than 30 minutes.
-works on film should be transferred to mini DV, DVD or other high quality media.
-media submitted should be high quality format--mini DV, DVD, Hi 8, etc...
-if you need your media back please supply SASE, or it will be available at the gallery.

This close view shows that some disrespectful slimeball has defaced the mural that someone went to so much trouble to create.

Please include:
1) your name
2) full contact info
3) title, length of work, and genre
4) brief paragraph describing the work.
-Deadline is March 28, 2008
-screenings will run every Friday in April, 6 to 9 PM -- (different screening each week)
REDSAW / FILMIDEO
585 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
http://www.redsawart.com/
redsawart@gmail.com

This cartoon kid appears in the brown area to the left of the main mural.

I am unclear as to whether it is "Redsaw", one word, as in the quote from that gallery itself, or "Red Saw", as appears on the opening screen of their website (you click on the circular saw to go further). Or RedSaw. Hm.

Three sides of the beef building are covered in murals. Here you see the back and west side.

NJSOA Show Reopens. The current joint show between the NJIT art gallery and the Rutgers Robeson Galleries was interrupted at NJIT for a couple of weeks, "due to an accredidation review which the architecture school [NJSOA] has to go through every 5 years". Student work was displayed where the show, "Neo-Constructivism — Art, Architecture & Activism", had been and will again be starting tomorrow.

Here's a wide view of the west mural on the beef building.

The NJSOA Gallery is open 9am-4:30pm Monday thru Friday ...even during Spring Break. ... There will be a closing reception (6-8pm) on Thursday, April 10 with a panel discussion at the NJSOA Gallery (begins at 6:30pm). Full color catalogs of the exhibition will also be available.

This next foto shows an overview of the mural on the tire building.

The show is described at the website of the Robeson Galleries on the campus of Rutgers-Newark, where half the exhibition resides. That gallery is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10am-5pm, and Wednesday 12 noon to 7pm.

The following five fotos show portions of the tire-company mural, right to left.

Festive Friday. There are three art events on Friday, mere blocks apart, Downtown. Newark Art Supply's is first, from 4-7pm:

a warm closing reception for Artist Papa Gora Tall. Crossing our fingers for good weather, the night promises to be an exciting series of events.
That same night, head over to one or more of these venues for more downtown nightlife entertainment:
RED SAW Gallery
585 Broad Street
"Two Crackers From The Same Box" Sculpture and Drawing by Stephen & David Shingler
Time: 6 - 9pm
Photographs by Dave Long in the reception room
Paintings by Marco Munoz at 27 Mix

VERBAL LIBERATION
Hosted By: Liberation In Truth
When: Friday Mar 07, 2008
at 8:00 PM
Where: LIT Youth Space
11 Halsey Street
Newark, New Jersey

And over in Jersey City, support local Newark Artist Kevin Darmanie at:
LEX LEONARD GALLERY
"A Fool in the Eyes of GOD" - One man Show!
Curated by Nyugen Smith
Time: 7-11pm
143 Christopher Columbus Drive
Suite 2
Jersey City, NJ 07302

Busy, busy.

The next day is the Newark Museum's "Adults-Only Members Morning"

Two sessions: 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Refreshments will be served.
Take a free mini-course in the Museum’s Art Workshops.
No prior experience, supplies or special talent required! Just come, have fun, and take home your own creation.
As with all of our Members Mornings, registration is limited. The 60 available spaces will be filled on a first-come basis.
How to register: Call 973-596-6699 or e-mail isantos@newarkmuseum.org to let us know which session you would like to attend. Please include your name, telephone number and membership ID number.

I called to see if there is anything about fotografy, but the contact person is out today. I sent email instead. Actually, it's just as well I didn't reach her by phone, because I have laryngitis! something that almost never happens. I hope to be over it by Friday, but if not, the two friends I hope will join me can just jabber away without having to worry about me putting my two cents in. I'll be defenseless.

The last foto today shows a wide view of the tire mural in context, as seen past the chain-link fence between the beef and tire buildings. There is nothing but dirt and a bit of rubble between them now. I hope that the city's accelerating development won't obliterate these two artworks for a while. Maybe a parking lot could hold the open space awhile. I don't think a vest-pocket park would be appropriate for that area, unless it is to be a playground for the kids that might live in the projects to be built on the sites of the Lincoln Motel (already completely demolished) and Westinghouse Building (in process of demolition). Murals can make a difference in the urban landscape. Someone on the Newark Arts Council should contact Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program to learn how to emulate their wonderful achievements:

The Mural Arts Program has produced over 2,700 murals throughout Philadelphia--more murals than any other city in the world. These murals have become a cherished part of the civic landscape and a great source of pride and motivation to the millions of residents and visitors who encounter them each year.

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