All Blog Posts Tagged 'Don' - Artists Unite2024-03-29T11:31:27Zhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=Don&xn_auth=nohello this is my first honest attempt at righting a short story in years. please let me know what you think.tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2021-12-06:2048539:BlogPost:1123592021-12-06T17:47:09.000Zkaleb pennohttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/kalebpenno
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We begin with a boy who is only 13 years of age but is wise beyond his years, like no other before him. He is able to hold a conversation with just about any one despite his mental quarks or disabilities. He fits in everywhere and also nowhere. A boy like this with some friends but none very close must feel very lonely. Lonely he is and a deep thinker no less. He longs for a friendship as close as siblings, for he is an only child. He feels as though he…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We begin with a boy who is only 13 years of age but is wise beyond his years, like no other before him. He is able to hold a conversation with just about any one despite his mental quarks or disabilities. He fits in everywhere and also nowhere. A boy like this with some friends but none very close must feel very lonely. Lonely he is and a deep thinker no less. He longs for a friendship as close as siblings, for he is an only child. He feels as though he can not even love himself for his parents do not love each other. A broken but brilliant boy with no close companionship is destined for something but what might that something be…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> One day after school as the boy is walking home, he finds himself completely alone. Silence fills the air. It's eerie enough to catch his attention, so he stops in his tracks. Something feels off. Then he hears it, a wearing sound. All of a sudden he sees it, a flying saucer! It comes to a stop right above him when a small door at the bottom of the ship opens up and out comes a platform that begins to descend and land right in front of him. On the platform is what looks like a man covered in a long black cloak from head to toe. The boy can't see what the man or women or whatever this might be at all because they are completely covered by this cloak. Stunned and unsure what to do, the boy just stands there in fear of what might happen next. The figure sticks out a hand and ushers him on to the platform. The hand was human but it was only bone! Now the boy understood, the figure before him is the entity known as death.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The boy steps on the platform because in that moment he truly believed he had died. The platform rose into the sky and entered the flying saucer. Once inside the boy took in everything around him as death led him down a hallway. The ship seemed devoid of anything, the walls were a dull gray metallic color that looks smooth to the touch. There were some doors that were built into the walls with no door handle or any real way to open them. There's no telling what’s on the other side of those doors but just thinking about it frightened the boy. This fear snapped the boy out of his shocked state and all of a sudden he was full of questions. He tried to ask death why he was here and what had happened to him. He had no idea how he died, from his perspective he was just walking home and then everything just stopped. It didn't feel like he died, it didn't feel like anything at all. Unfortunately death just kept on walking, never even acknowledging the boy. Disappointed the boy figured that was normal, didn't really think that death would be the chatty type anyway. More and more questions began to flow through the boy's head. Did this happen to every person who died? How would that be possible? Was he special? Where is he taking me? But with no one to answer his questions all he could hope for was that wherever he was going there would be someone who could answer some of these questions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Finally death stops at a door, it opens without any input. Just opens all on its own. The boy assumed this was his stop and walked in. He wasn't sure what he was expecting but he for sure wasn't expecting an almost empty room. It looked like a hospital room or a prison cell just a lot more comfortable. With no time at all let alone time to turn around and get out the door shut. No window, no door handle, it basically just turned into another wall. As the boy began to panic he noticed that there was a small television in the room with a message on it. It read “do not panic, relax, we will be with you shortly. The boy sat down and tried to do just that, relax. Figuring he had died he wasn't too concerned with his life, he figured that was over now and this is the next chapter, the next life. He lied down and began to think about what his new existence would be like. Maybe it was the mental exhaustion from everything that just happened or maybe they pumped in some kind of gas but the boy fell asleep.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> When he awoke some time later he found that he wasn't alone. He saw a man and a woman both in lab coats. They introduced themselves as part of the hiring committee. Confused, the boy went to ask what they meant by that, but before he could utter a single syllable they began to speak in unison. “We here on the other side are those who watch over the human race. We help those in need when we can and we collect the soles of those who have passed on. Humans are extremely unique because of their souls. No other species in the entire known universe is able to contain the soles that humans do. After someone dies we collect their soul, study it and send it back to earth where it will insert itself into a new body. Human souls have this distinct creative ability and are able to make beautiful art in so many different ways. But most interesting of all, if a human is born without a soul they will grow one of their own.” stunned once more the boy is struck with silence. The two continue to explain why he is here. “You are here because we have watched you for some time now and it is our belief that you are the best person to receive this information and go on to tell the world”.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> After a moment the boy has finally grasped it and understands everything. He has a hard time believing it at first and thinks he may have had a mental breakdown and he's currently in a coma. But the pair assure him this is not the case. Reluctantly he takes their word for it and begins to ask questions. He asks how they expect him, a 13 year old boy to tell the world all of this. Let alone get anyone to believe him. Their answer surprises him. They say that they don't expect everyone to believe him but they know that if he writes a book or starts a vlog or does something to get his story out that some will believe him. And over the years if he keeps telling his story and studies hard and spreads the word on how special humans truly are that he can in turn not only help thousands of people to see themselves as something more but that maybe he can change some hateful minds into open ones. They tell the boy that if he starts now at the age of 13 that by the age of 31 he will have already saved countless lives and changed even more minds.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The boy feels a sense of pride and honor. He tells the beings in front of him that he will accept this as his reason for life and he will devote himself to changing and enriching the lives of others. Not with religion and the promise of an afterlife but with knowledge. The knowledge that we are all special, that we are all connected and that we are not alone. Not on this planet, not in this life and certainly we are never when we feel lonely.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The boy asks a few more questions about what they do and what he can do for them but truly he already knew all that he needed to get started. With that they led him back to the platform he had arrived on and waved goodbye. As soon as the ship was out of sight he found himself back where this all had started. He checked his watch and saw that no time had passed. It was like he was taken to a place outside of time. He felt enriched, he finally had a purpose and he was sure to make many connections along the way of his new path. He felt that even if he never makes a deep and meaningful connection with one person he now knows that with every small connection he makes is a chance to change and enrich someone's life or outlook on life. He figures that's more than enough for him. Plus now and forever he knows he's never truly alone.</span></p>Influencing the Space: If AI Could Playtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2020-07-27:2048539:BlogPost:699672020-07-27T03:00:00.000ZWilly Richardsonhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/WillyRichardson
<p>For my first blog post I'd like to share an article that first appeared in <a href="https://thinkjarcollective.com/articles/influencing-the-space-if-ai-could-meet-buddha/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ThinkJar Collective</a>. I reworded it a bit to the title <a href="https://willyborichardson.com/projects/peter-saul-influencing-space-if-ai-play/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Influencing the Space: If AI Could</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Play on my site. <br></br> <br></br> And here it is…</span></p>
<p>For my first blog post I'd like to share an article that first appeared in <a href="https://thinkjarcollective.com/articles/influencing-the-space-if-ai-could-meet-buddha/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ThinkJar Collective</a>. I reworded it a bit to the title <a href="https://willyborichardson.com/projects/peter-saul-influencing-space-if-ai-play/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Influencing the Space: If AI Could</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Play on my site. <br/> <br/> And here it is on Artists Unite!</span></p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Influencing the Space: If AI Could Play</h1>
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<div class="entry-content"><img class="wp-image-6759 size-full" src="https://willyborichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/willy-bo-richardson-New-Studio-7052.jpg" alt="willy-bo-richardson-in-the-studio" width="2400" height="1600"/><p>Peter Saul, one of my painting teachers at <a href="https://willyborichardson.com/press/the-end-of-being-painting-doritos-color-theory-katy-crocker/">UT Austin</a>, said that he was a boring suburban middle class family man… and posed the question of how to stay fascinating, or stay fascinated with one’s work. At the time I thought my life was fascinating enough, so I could simply make art and it would be enough. That was back when I was living a dangerous adventure, with big unknowns. Imagine what it’s like to choose the path of an artist, and to have nobody care who you are, and to not know if you have anything worthwhile to share.</p>
<p>There may be hidden treasure for AI (artificial intelligence) if researchers dive into the creative process. For now, big money wants AI to sift through massive data to better understand consumers to better manipulate and sell products. Cost effective answers to quick questions take priority, but this will hit a wall, because machines have not been taught to think. At some point big money will be forced to ask really big questions like “what is thinking?”.<span id="more-6758"></span></p>
<h2><strong>Enter the Artist</strong></h2>
<img class="size-large wp-image-6762" src="https://willyborichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/shamar-rinpoche-stupa-virginia-1200x901.jpg" alt="shamar-rinpoche-stupa-virginia" width="525" height="394"/><br/> Shamar Rinpoche inaugurating a Stupa. June 17, 2001, Natural Bridge, Virginia. photo credit: Kim Richardson<br/> <br/>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7V4GyEuXA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John Baldessari’s</a> irreverent work “<strong>I Will Not Make</strong> Any More <strong>Boring Art</strong>” is an open ended question, one that allows for possibilities. To linger in this neither here nor there moment is called liminal space. The great Shamar Rinpoche felt comfortable letting things remain open and unanswered, having the luxury to gather information and wait until the last moment to make a decision… or not. He was embroiled in Indian court battles, and had a splitting lineage to piece together, but saw it as a passing dream. Complexity theory and the study of animal behavior in groups, tells us sometimes making no decision at all is the best decision. For example, a school of fish hanging out in a coral reef with no decision about when to forage for food may be the safest protocol. Until further notice.</p>
<img class="wp-image-6760" src="https://willyborichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Baldessari.-I-will-not-make-any-more-boring-art.jpg" alt="John Baldessari" width="525" height="392"/><br/> John Baldessari, “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art,” 1971 Lithograph, composition: 22 3/8 x 29 9/16″<br/> <br/>
<p>So at this moment of giving up, this moment of liminal space – that is the moment the artist wishes to capitalize. I know this sounds silly, but have you ever looked at a work of art and said to yourself, “how did they do that, what is it made of?” And rather than shift your position to look closer, get a better angle or figure it out, you just let it be magic? Neither here nor there. And how long can you let it be magic for? The point when we acknowledge our personal and perceptual limitations, with awareness there is a chance to open up to space. The moment, the materials, the thing happening in space, is so much greater than figuring it out so you can get on to the next thing. It is our birthright. The great Mahamudra masters can hang on this space in the battle field. The novice may have a glimpse during meditation. The artist may attempt to practice in a rarified environment called “studio”.</p>
<h2><strong>Back to AI</strong></h2>
<p>Some 2550 odd years ago, the historical Buddha taught the brain is more like a receiver not a producer. Just as a young child is mistaken in thinking the TV has inside it a tiny stage with actors performing, our great misconception is that the brain, through more and more subtle distilling of matter, makes the leap from synapses firing to production of thought. This is out of step with contemporary physics. Wouldn’t mind producing brain, fit better?</p>
<p>The AI topic is beyond my understanding, so I’ll simply restate what I recently heard <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/melanie-mitchell" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Melanie Mitchell</a>of Santa Fe Institute say in a podcast interview. In order for AI to really think for itself, not simply replicate thought, it will need a “body”. As we first put our fingers in our mouths, and hear the beating heart of our mother in utero, we piece together what will later be abstract thoughts. Though industries that want to see results with their money won’t want to finance a robot that drools for a few years, it may in fact be a requirement. Asking little questions like, how can we cull data from billions of people and turn that into a profit only yields little answers… Asking big questions like, “what is mind?” yields great crops… in the form of infinite universes and constellations. The drooling baby.</p>
<h2><strong>Back to Peter Saul</strong></h2>
<a href="https://willyborichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/peter-saul-saigon.jpeg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://willyborichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/peter-saul-saigon.jpeg?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="843" class="align-full"/></a><br/> Peter Saul, “Saigon,” 1967 Acrylic, oil, enamel, and fiber-tipped pen on canvas<br/> <br/>
<p>Perhaps humans, like institutions go through phases of radical regeneration (avant-garde) and institutional settling and back-log (kitsch). As our lives become commonplace we either need a shock from outside, or a wake-up call from within. The contemplation of mortality is an obvious choice, and perhaps a silver lining with our current situation (covid-19). Though unpleasant, the process of innovation and creativity are the pains necessary for growth. The first steps of a new series or artistic project is both a mourning process and requires a surge of momentum. This process is the slow motion, blow by blow play of a single thought, drawn out into real time. Peter Saul didn’t just give me a problem to solve. He gave me clues… especially through his paintings. They are radical in content, but their surface and sheen is orderly and consistent. They are quite lovely to look at from the vantage point of plasticity, paint on canvas, and yet wildly humorous and subversive in content.</p>
<p>If AI doesn’t learn to stick its fingers in its mouth, or fart or play a practical joke, it also won’t be able to come up with an original idea, or get to the level of our science fiction wishes (and nightmares).</p>
</div>Hello:tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2019-11-10:2048539:BlogPost:689612019-11-10T18:30:08.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Hello Everyone, yes, I still exist although way behind the veil and still director of Artists Unite. Apologies for being so invisible. I check in on all of us all of the time and things seem to be running well providing a site for diverse art forms and artists from around our world. As always you can contact me by writing rosa@artistunite-ny.org. When we first began, this site served as a website for those who did not yet have their own. Now, of course, many of you do. Still. this serves as…</p>
<p>Hello Everyone, yes, I still exist although way behind the veil and still director of Artists Unite. Apologies for being so invisible. I check in on all of us all of the time and things seem to be running well providing a site for diverse art forms and artists from around our world. As always you can contact me by writing rosa@artistunite-ny.org. When we first began, this site served as a website for those who did not yet have their own. Now, of course, many of you do. Still. this serves as a good link and as a link among us. However, I have been remiss and missing from this online presence because the political un-realities of our present time have led me to become more active in face-to-face community building.</p>
<p>Thank you all for being here, those from the beginning and new members. Please avail yourself of what this site offers. Upload your images, ideas, download your thoughts, "talk amongst yourselves" And let's keep our he/arts flowing".</p>
<p><br/>Warm regards,<br/>Rosa, Director</p>
<p>Artists Unite,</p>Keeping Up with Nancytag:artistsunite.ning.com,2018-05-27:2048539:BlogPost:635742018-05-27T19:57:03.000ZNancy Bruninghttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/NancyBruning
<p>So much has happened since my last post. I've been awarded two artist residencies from LMCC--in their Su-Casa program, working with seniors. The first, in 2016, I conducted workshops in two Senior Centers, one in Washington Heights, and the other in Harlem. These were called "Stretch & Sketch" and incorporated gentle stretching movements with simple sketches of the human body, using each other as models. These culminated in exhibits and receptions included in the Uptown Art Stroll for…</p>
<p>So much has happened since my last post. I've been awarded two artist residencies from LMCC--in their Su-Casa program, working with seniors. The first, in 2016, I conducted workshops in two Senior Centers, one in Washington Heights, and the other in Harlem. These were called "Stretch & Sketch" and incorporated gentle stretching movements with simple sketches of the human body, using each other as models. These culminated in exhibits and receptions included in the Uptown Art Stroll for that year. This year, my residency is also in Harlem, but the title is "Save our Stories: Writing from Life." The goal is to encourage Harlem seniors to express themselves in writing, documenting and exploring their past, present, and what they envision for the future. For this program, I was inspired by the African saying, "Every time an old person dies, it's as if a library has burned down." So, I hope to save their stories before it's too late. This, too, will have a public event where seniors read their work out loud to the the public, with a grand finale of the audience participating in a quick, fun writing project of their own. I started working with seniors about 5 years ago, providing guided walks and Yoga classes outdoors in northern Manhattan Parks, enriching their social lives as well as their environments with group forays into nature.<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203569?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203569?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-full"/></a></p>Exhibit Review/ Currents: Abortion January 4-February 4, 2018 A.I.R. Gallery Brooklyn, NYtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2018-01-31:2048539:BlogPost:636592018-01-31T16:30:00.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203032?profile=original" target="_self"></a>Currents: <em>Abortion</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A.I.R. Brooklyn January 4-February 4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don't miss this important timely exhibit, which has been timely for much too long in our history, our lives. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you, Rosa…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203032?profile=original" target="_self"></a>Currents: <em>Abortion</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A.I.R. Brooklyn January 4-February 4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don't miss this important timely exhibit, which has been timely for much too long in our history, our lives. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you, Rosa Naparstek</span></p>
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<p><a width="750" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203201?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" target="_self"><img width="500" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203201?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="500" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Rachel Lindsay</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Abortion is our country’s Scarlet Letter, an impassioned “A” writ large on our conscience. We shame, blame and deny women their right to self-determination to live, love and when to have or not have children. Although this January is the 45th year anniversary of the Supreme Court Ruling legalizing abortion, there have been, as of last count, 401 rollbacks across the country making it very difficult, and in many cases impossible for women to elect this choice. What can we do about this?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We can march, write articles, sign petitions, hold direct actions. We can invent related hashtags like #MeToo--what greater sexual harassment is there than defining what a woman can do with her body? And, we can make art. But what might art about abortion look like? What might it accomplish? These are the questions Barbara Zucker explores in “Currents: <em>Abortion</em>” an ambitious exhibit she curated at the A.I.R. Gallery.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Barbara Zucker, artist, writer and activist, is a co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">established in 1972 as the first not-for-profit, artist-directed and maintained gallery for women artists in the United States.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In my interview with her, Zucker said, “Abortion is talked and written about, but there’s not much art about it. It almost seems taboo. Several artists I approached to do an artwork said “’No’.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This exhibit is a visual compendium and unfolding of the issues, stories, meanings, and history embedded in one word: Abortion. The 70 works, selected from the over 160 submissions, are the artists' response to a series of questions posed by Zucker.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In selecting the works, Zucker said that “I didn’t know what I was looking for but I knew I didn’t want the usual tropes of hangers, nor large amounts of blood. Nothing specific.” She wanted works that were “thought provoking, reflecting different states of mind, speaking in different voices.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two of A.I.R.’s three galleries, entrance and back hall, are richly filled with works in a breathtaking range of mediums: paintings, drawings, prints, etchings, photographs, collage, sculpture, mixed-media constructions, and a monitor showing several videos. Zucker doesn’t seem to impose any apparent “ordering” of the work. All media, all viewpoints, views and experiences are exhibited together, demanding equal attention--a sisterhood of Me Too. The effect is that of “a visual conversation” representing all the varied experiences women have and have had regarding abortion. This is not a quiet exhibit. It fairly shouts at you—you hear the different visual voices, experiences, stories, cries and whispers of defiance, anger, pain, sadness, longing, shame, regret, outrage--”the full catastrophe”.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Gallery 3</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Zucker believes this show is an opportunity for us to listen to artists who have chosen to give voice to their “emotions and perceptions about this subject. You will find depictions of choice, loss, and anger; of fecundity, of disease. There are images of helplessness and images of power. There is work that reaches into the past to demonstrate ways in which women used abortifacients. There is work that is pro-life as well as work that is religious.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She observes that those who are pro-choice are as passionate as those who are not. "I believe all of us are pro-life: it is the definition of the term that is not the same. Herein lies the dilemma. How do we ever bridge this divide?"</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though much has been written about abortion, there has not been much visual art. Through this exhibit, Zucker hopes to get people to see the visual and have it be as important as the words. Art, she believes, is a powerful bridge that can engender a kind of "visual dialogue."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Barbara Zucker’s introduction to the exhibit profoundly states that “Art is visual listening.” She continues with “We use all of our senses to listen and to understand. In this turbulent moment in history, the ability to listen to one another has become a matter of urgency.” “Currents: <em>Abortion</em>” reflects these complexities and is larger than pro and con, yes and no. It goes to the heart of who we are and how we want to be as individuals and as a nation. This exhibit shows us how the personal is political.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yael Ben-Zion Photo Detail 2017</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tombstone, Trinity Church NJ</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> “In Memory of All Victims of Abortion'</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em> </em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Indira Cesarine</span><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> ACT NOW </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">2017 </span> </em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em>Participating artists:</em></strong></span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Adrienne Jenkins, Alexander Bernon, Amy Cannestra, Amy Finkbeiner, Anne Ferrer, Audrey Anastasi, Bernadette Despujols, Cali Kurlan, Catherine Hall & Meg Lipke, Charlotte Woolf, Christophe Lima, Coco Hall, Cristin Millet, Cynthia Winika, d’Anne de Simone, Dani Sigler, Danielle Siegelbaum, Deborah Wasserman, Devra Fox, Divine Williams, Dottie Attie, Elaine Angelopoulos, Elke Solomon, Ellen Jong, Eugenia Pigassiou, Gina Randazzo , Grace Burney, Greta Young, Heather Saunders & Cassandra, Heather Weathers, Ilona Granet, Indira Cesarine, Irene Gennaro, Jane Zweibel, Jessica Nissen, Julia Kim Smith , Julia Buck, Justine Walker, Karen Meersohn, Kathy Grove, Katrina Majkut, Lannie Hart, Leslie Fry, Leslie Tucker, Megan Pickering, Marie Tomanova, Martha Edelheit, Martha Fleming-Ives, Maureen Connor, Mira Schor, Nadine Faraj, Nancy Hellebrand, Nancy Lasar, Nina Meledandri, Parastoo Ahoon, Pat Lasch, Perri Nerri, Rachel Lindsay, Rachel Portesi, Robin Adsit, Robin Jordan, Robin Tewes, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Ruth Owens, Sabra Moore, Sooyeon Yun, Susan Carr, Valerie Hallier, Virginia Carey, Yael Ben-Zion.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rosa Naparstek, Director</span></p>
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<p></p>Celebration: Artists Unite-MTA Subway Elevator Poster Projecttag:artistsunite.ning.com,2017-05-21:2048539:BlogPost:609712017-05-21T06:27:16.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p><span class="font-size-3">Artists Unite is celebrating it's decades long (in the making) poster project. This is our 9th year of posters in the elevator, although the process and project effort began in 2001. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Please join us for a three day event featuring an exhibit of the 40 Posters that have been displayed, and a group show of the participating artists. In addition there will be a video of the project's history, a "viewing" of the foot high…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Artists Unite is celebrating it's decades long (in the making) poster project. This is our 9th year of posters in the elevator, although the process and project effort began in 2001. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Please join us for a three day event featuring an exhibit of the 40 Posters that have been displayed, and a group show of the participating artists. In addition there will be a video of the project's history, a "viewing" of the foot high documents that went into this effort, and a slide show of hundreds of images submitted for the Poster Contest.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Join to us to help build community, have a good time and see great art. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-3">O<strong>pening Reception: </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><strong>Saturday, June 3, 5-9:30 PM: Video, Slide Show, Auction, Raffle</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><strong>Sunday, June 4, 12-5 PM: Video, Slide Show</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><strong>Friday, June 9: Closing Party, 6-9 PM Video, Slide Show<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348202324?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348202324?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-center"/></a></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Refreshments</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Looking forward to meeting some of you there.</em></span> Rosa</span></p>
<p></p>escritos de los años 80.tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2017-05-04:2048539:BlogPost:607842017-05-04T08:05:29.000Zgustavo vazquez kinghttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/gustavovazquezking
<p>Subiré al álbum mas escritos, poemas, cuentos reales, algunos surrealistas, un ensayo con mi filosofía y por último " un poeta sobre mi mesa ", éste lo comencé a escribir en el Forense Municipal, una " amiga " me pidió que le acompañara a una de sus clases de medicina, me llevé una bata blanca y me hice pasar por estudiante, una experiencia más.<br></br>Era en la calle Uruguayana de Montevideo, me acuerdo que cuando subí al ómnibus la gente se apartaba de mi, no por mi aspecto, mas bien por el…</p>
<p>Subiré al álbum mas escritos, poemas, cuentos reales, algunos surrealistas, un ensayo con mi filosofía y por último " un poeta sobre mi mesa ", éste lo comencé a escribir en el Forense Municipal, una " amiga " me pidió que le acompañara a una de sus clases de medicina, me llevé una bata blanca y me hice pasar por estudiante, una experiencia más.<br/>Era en la calle Uruguayana de Montevideo, me acuerdo que cuando subí al ómnibus la gente se apartaba de mi, no por mi aspecto, mas bien por el gedor impregnado de donde venía, ya en mi casa la vieja me miraba de lejos y con voz desafiante me preguntaba de dónde venía y le dije que del Forense, me dijo que estaba loco y le contesté que fuí a acompañar a "- - - a- - -e " y me puse a redactar mi cuerpo sobre una mesa metálica, " un poeta sobre mi mesa "., después mi viaje al amazonas y otros sueños surrealistas.<br/>Ahora les dejo con otra poesía en el muro, el resto irán directamente al álbum.</p>
<p>Ayer,<br/>en aquel sitio estabas,<br/>no alcancé a mirarte,<br/>estabas allí<br/>con tu gracia inmóvil<br/>y yo desorbitado,<br/>eras una terracota pálida<br/>hermosa y tibia,<br/>sentí calor<br/>de compañera<br/>ayer.<br/><a href="https://www.facebook.com/atomista">https://www.facebook.com/atomista</a></p>SUBWAY ELEVATOR POSTER CONTEST FOR UPPER MANHATTANtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-12-03:2048539:BlogPost:596792016-12-03T12:26:37.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
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<p align="center"><b>MTA –Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project</b></p>
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<p align="center"><b>CALL FOR…</b></p>
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<p align="center"><b>MTA –Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project</b></p>
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<p align="center"><b>CALL FOR ARTWORK</b></p>
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<p align="center"><b>Deadline:</b> <b> December 30, 2016, Midnight</b></p>
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<p align="center">Dear Artists, Friends and Community Members,</p>
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<p align="center">The MTA-Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project, a long standing effort by the community, is happy to announce the sixth call for artwork to be placed in the subway elevators at the A-Line 184<sup>th</sup> St. & 190<sup>th</sup> St. Subway Stations.</p>
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<p align="center">This collaborative project acknowledges the uniqueness of our community and fulfills</p>
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<p align="center">Artists Unite mission to bring art to the public in creative venues.</p>
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<p align="center">The last set of posters are still on exhibit in the elevators.</p>
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<p align="center">We are looking for seven (7) original artworks by artists residing in CB 12* to be produced as posters and placed in each of the 3 elevators per station. Work will be seen by thousands of residents and tourists en route to the Cloisters Museum.</p>
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<p align="center">The posters will be exhibited for a minimum of six months.</p>
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<p align="center"><b><u>* CB 12 covers</u></b> <b><u>Manhattan north of 155th street, river to river.</u></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b>For Submission guidelines go to <a href="http://www.artistsunite-ny.org">www.artistsunite-ny.org</a> “Opportunities” section in left menu</b></p>
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<p align="center">For More Information: contact rosa@artistsunite-ny.org or call: 212.740-9378</p>
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<p align="center">We look forward to your entries!</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348202015?profile=original" target="_self"></a></p>"Music Confounds the Machines" (www.gerry.co.za/music-confounds-the-machines-a-re-blog/)tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-09-30:2048539:BlogPost:593842016-09-30T23:30:49.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Hi Everyone, I thought this was a wonderful article and gives us much to think about, and appreciate. Rosa, (director AU)</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">From the AmericanaFest yesterday September 22, 2016: <br></br></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">"Music Confounds the Machines"</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1"><i>Everyone's talking about the great speech T Bone Burnett gave as the keynote address to AmericanaFest…</i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Hi Everyone, I thought this was a wonderful article and gives us much to think about, and appreciate. Rosa, (director AU)</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">From the AmericanaFest yesterday September 22, 2016: <br/></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">"Music Confounds the Machines"</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1"><i>Everyone's talking about the great speech T Bone Burnett gave as the keynote address to AmericanaFest yesterday. If you missed it, here's the transcript (posted with permission from the Americana Music Association):</i></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">I have come here today first to bring you love. I have come here to express my deep gratitude to you for your love of music and of each other. And, I have come here to talk about the value of the artist, and the value of art.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">When Michaelangelo was painting the great fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, he came under intense criticism from various members of the church, particularly the Pope's Master of Ceremonies — a man named Cesena — who accused him of obscenity. Michaelangelo’s response was to paint Cesena into the fresco in the lowest circle of hell with donkey ears and a serpent coiled around him devouring, and covering, his nether regions, so to speak.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Cesena was incensed and went to the Pope demanding he censor Michaelangelo for this outrage, and the Pope said, “Well, let’s go have a look at it.” So, they went down to the chapel, and when the Pope stood in front of the fresco, he said to Cesena, “You know, that doesn’t look like you at all.”</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">See, the Pope didn’t want to jack around with Michaelangelo. Michaelangelo was making things that were going to last for hundreds of years. His stuff was going to outlive the Pope’s ability to do anything about it, so the Pope bowed to the inevitable. The Pope was afraid of a painter. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The painter could create another dimension between Heaven and Earth. Flat ceilings seemed to come down into the room in three dimensions. He painted rooms where priests and the church could sit and be transported to- and engulfed in- a higher realm, learning ancient stories- thoughts kept alive over centuries. And he did it by mixing together things he found laying around on the ground- sand and clay and plants. He was a fearsome alchemist.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Art is not a market to be conquered or to bow before.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Art is a holy pursuit.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Beneath the subatomic particle level, there are fibers that vibrate at different intensities. Different frequencies. Like violin strings. The physicists say that the particles we are able to see are the notes of the strings vibrating beneath them. If string theory is correct, then music is not only the way our brains work, as the neuroscientists have shown, but also, it is what we are made of, what everything is made of. These are the stakes musicians are playing for. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">I want to recommend a book to you — <i>The Technological Society </i>by Jacques Ellul.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">John Wilkinson, the translator, in his 1964 introduction, describes the book this way — “<i>The Technological Society</i> is a description of the way in which an autonomous technology is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and surpassing those values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all technological difference and variety is mere appearance.” This is the core of the dead serious challenge we face.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The first nuclear weapon was detonated on the morning of July 16, 1945, at 5:29 and 45 seconds.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">At that moment, technocrats took control of our culture.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Trinity was the code name of that explosion. It was an unholy trinity.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Technology does only one thing- it tends toward efficiency. It has no aesthetics. It has no ethics. It’s code is binary.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">But everything interesting in life- everything that makes life worth living- happens between the binary. Mercy is not binary. Love is not binary. Music and art are not binary. You and I are not binary.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Parenthetically, we have to remember that all this technology we use has been developed by the war machine- Turing was breaking codes for the spies, Oppenheimer was theorising and realising weapons. Many of the tools we use in the studio for recording- microphones and limiters and equalizers and all that- were developed for the military. It is our privilege to beat those swords into plowshares.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">We live in a time in which artists are being stampeded from one bad deal to another worse deal. No one asks the artists. We are told to get good at marketing. I have to say- and I think I probably speak for every musician here- that I didn’t start playing music because I sought, or thought it would lead to, a career in marketing. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">And, as we are being told that, our work is being commoditized — the price of music is being driven down to zero.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">I am working with a group called C3, the Content Creators Coalition run by Roseanne Cash and Jeffrey Boxer to develop an Artists Bill of Rights. Jeffrey is here today to meet afterward with anyone who wants to get into this. The first right artists have is the right to determine what medium they work in. The second is the right to set the price of their work. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Every person worthy of the name atist, from Rembrandt to Paul Cesanne to Picasso to Jackson Pollack</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">From William Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams to James Baldwin and Jack Kerouac</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">From Bach to Stravinski to Mahler to John Adams</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Every one of those artists made art that to be understood, the world had to change.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">They did not adapt to the world, the world had to adapt to them.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The technocrats suggest we crowd source.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">I suggest we not. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The very thing an artist does is figure out what he likes. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The technocrats — the digital tycoons, the iTopians — look down on artists. They have made all these tools and they think we should be grateful — subserviant even — and use their flimsy new tools happily to make them ever more powerful. But we can make art with any thing. We don’t need their tools. Music confounds the machines.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">So the iTopians have controlled the medium and the message for a generation now. And they are making a complete hash of things. The clearest and most pervasive proof of this is the psychedelic political season we are in, which we can see playing out in every election around the world. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Before the atom bomb, we had begun to project idealized versions of people up on screens, while the people whose images were projected would hide behind the screens, knowing they could never measure up.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">After the atom bomb, we have automated that process. On facebook, everybody is a star. The idealistic, lysergic promise of the 1960’s has been mechanized, allowing us to become ever more facile conterfeiters.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">The mask has become the face.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Malcolm Muggeridge said that the kingdom Satan offers a man is to the kingdom of God as a travel poster to the place it depicts. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">This internet technology that has been so wildly promoted as being the key, the final solution, to our freedom, has become our prison. What the false prophets of the internet said would replace governments and nation states and commerce, and create a free world of community and sharing, has led instead to a consolidation of wealth and power that makes the monopolies of the early 2oth Century- Morgan and Rockefeller and Carnegie- look weak and ineffective. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Ethan Zuckerman, the director of the MIT Media Lab has apologized for his part in creating what he calls a “fiasco”. Tim Berners Lee, who diagrammed the schematic for our current internet on a napkin, said at Davos last year that the internet needs to be rearchitected.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Our 21st Century communication network, regarded by its early adherents with a religious fervor, has been turned into a surveillance and advertising mecnanism. The World Wide Web is just that- a web that ensnares everyone who uses it. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Artists must not submit to the demands, or the definitions of, the iTopians.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Lastly, I am here to speak specifically about American music.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">This country has been led by artists from Thoreau and Emerson through Walt Whitman to Woody Guthrie, through Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, to Presley and Dylan to The Last Poets and Kendrick Lamar. The Arts have always led the Sciences. Einstein said that Picasso preceded him by twenty years. Jules Verne put a man on the moon a hundred years before a rocket scientist did. Medieval stained glass windows are examples of how nanotechnology was used in the pre-modern era. Those artists were high technologists, and many other things- they were aestheticians, ethicists, conjurers, and philosophers, to name a few.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">They took risks. Risks a technocrat could never take. Artists risk everything in everything they do. Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan. Art is not a career, it is a vocation, an inclination, a response to a summons.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">We, in this country, have defined ourselves through music from the beginning- from Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, to The Star Spangled Banner in the War of 1812, to John Brown’s Body and the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the Civil War, to the incredible explosion of music of the last century that was called Jazz, or Folk Music, or Rock and Roll, or Country Music- because although our music has taken many different paths, it is all of a piece and a most important part of our national identity- of US.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Music is to the United States as wine is to France. We have spread our culture all over the world with the soft power of American music. We both have regions- France has Champagne, we have the Mississippi Delta. France has Bordeaux, we have the Appalachian Mountains. France has Epernay, we have Nashville. Recorded music has been our best good will ambassador. The actual reason the Iron Curtain fell, is because the Russian kids wanted Beatles records. Louis Armstrong did more to spread our message of freedom and innovation than any single person in the last hundred years. Our history, our language, and our soul are recorded in our music. There is no deeper expression of the soul of this country than the profound archive of music we have recorded over the last century.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">This is the story of the United States: a kid walks out of his home with a song and nothing else, and conquers the world. We have replicated that phenomenon over and over. We could start with Elvis Presley, but we could add in names for hours- Jimmie Rodgers, Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, Howlin Wolf, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Loretta Lynn, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Aretha Franklin, Jack White, Dr. Dre. That is the American Character. That is Johnny Appleseed. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">At last year’s MusicCares tribute to Bob Dylan, Jimmy Carter said, “There’s no doubt that his words of peace and human rights are much more incisive and much more powerful and much more permanent than any president of the United States.” I believe that is undeniable.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">That’s who the artists are. We can’t forget that.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">So, in conclusion, there is this sense that the technocrats are saying, “Look, we’re just going to go ahead and do this, and we’ll sort it all out later.” As they did with the atom bomb.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">As artists, it is our responsibility to sort it out now.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Barnett Newman said, “Time passes over the tip of the pyramid.” By that he meant that there is a lot of room at the bottom of the pyramid to put things, but that as time passes, gravity washes them down into the sand. But if you put something right on the tip of the pyramid, it stays there.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">We aspire to put things on the tip of the pyramid. That is our preference- our prefered medium.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Digital is not an archival medium.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Technology is turning over every ten years. Their technologies don’t and won’t last.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Our art — if we do it right — will.</span></p>RE:Artists Unite Websitetag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-09-16:2048539:BlogPost:593782016-09-16T19:52:56.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>The Artists Unite Website has been shut down for a couple of weeks due to errant maleware, and we just had it fixed. Apologies to those of you who tried to log on via the website and could not do so. However the Ning Membership Network was still open, therefore many of you may not have even noticed. If this should happen again, just go to artistsunite.ning.com. Thank you, Rosa (director AU)</p>
<p>The Artists Unite Website has been shut down for a couple of weeks due to errant maleware, and we just had it fixed. Apologies to those of you who tried to log on via the website and could not do so. However the Ning Membership Network was still open, therefore many of you may not have even noticed. If this should happen again, just go to artistsunite.ning.com. Thank you, Rosa (director AU)</p>My Missiontag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-07-12:2048539:BlogPost:592672016-07-12T13:28:41.000ZF. Christopher Reynoldshttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/FChristopherReynolds
<p><span>My mission is to help individuals, families and communities to de-colonize (de-authoritarianism) and to re-indigenize (re-democratism) through music, ritual, house concerts and workshops where we ‘wage creativity’. Ours is an Age of Magnification, a time between world views, between the late-modern world view and the emerging participatory world view. It is a crucial time because to collectively and unconsciously continue in the late-modern world view is to degrade the life-sustaining…</span></p>
<p><span>My mission is to help individuals, families and communities to de-colonize (de-authoritarianism) and to re-indigenize (re-democratism) through music, ritual, house concerts and workshops where we ‘wage creativity’. Ours is an Age of Magnification, a time between world views, between the late-modern world view and the emerging participatory world view. It is a crucial time because to collectively and unconsciously continue in the late-modern world view is to degrade the life-sustaining capacity of the Earth for future generations.</span></p>Toast Unplugged: Works for Harrytag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-07-02:2048539:BlogPost:590642016-07-02T23:00:00.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Due to a scheduling conflict, this exhibit at Rio II Gallery (where Harry and I got married) is falling on the heels of <i>“…what is my function?”</i> which just closed. Though its been a lot of fond objects, I am happy to have this opportunity and invite you to a wholly new exhibit: <i>Toast Unplugged: Works for Harry</i>, opening Sunday, July 10, 3-6pm at Rio II Gallery. Although it’s a short stay, closing Friday, July 15, 6-9pm, there’s ample time to see the work and enjoy the beautiful…</p>
<p>Due to a scheduling conflict, this exhibit at Rio II Gallery (where Harry and I got married) is falling on the heels of <i>“…what is my function?”</i> which just closed. Though its been a lot of fond objects, I am happy to have this opportunity and invite you to a wholly new exhibit: <i>Toast Unplugged: Works for Harry</i>, opening Sunday, July 10, 3-6pm at Rio II Gallery. Although it’s a short stay, closing Friday, July 15, 6-9pm, there’s ample time to see the work and enjoy the beautiful terrace overlooking the Hudson. Pick afternoon or evening, or come to both for great views.</p>
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<h4>This is a review of my current exhibit, "...what is my function?" and I am grateful to Ruth Lilenstein-Gatton, the reviewer for so perfectly capturing what I consider my function. Although the word "function" is somewhat technological, and my preference would have been "meaning/purpose" I use it as part of a direct quote that appears in the installation. …</h4>
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<h4>This is a review of my current exhibit, "...what is my function?" and I am grateful to Ruth Lilenstein-Gatton, the reviewer for so perfectly capturing what I consider my function. Although the word "function" is somewhat technological, and my preference would have been "meaning/purpose" I use it as part of a direct quote that appears in the installation. </h4>
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<h4><strong>Rosa at the Rio (gallery) <a href="http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/rosa-at-riorosa-en-rio/http://" target="_blank">http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/rosa-at-riorosa-en-rio/http://</a><br/></strong></h4>
<h4><strong>By Ruth Lilienstein-Gatton</strong></h4>
<p><strong><em>Heightsites.com</em></strong></p>
<p>Where spirituality and political activism intersect, there is also a place for visual art.</p>
<p>Rosa Naparstek’s newest exhibition “what is your function…?” is on display through the end of June at the Rio Penthouse Gallery. The artist has built a set of arresting visual works around personally transformative texts. Running the lengths of the inner gallery walls, sheets of type are orderly set side-by- side. The sheets contain text from <em>The Pathwork Lectures</em> (the famously “channeled” work of Eva Pierrakos); writings by Rumi, a 13<sup>th</sup>-century Persian poet and mystic; and essays by civil rights leader Grace Lee Boggs– all which have contributed essentially to the artist’s spiritual evolution.</p>
<p>Across the printed pages, larger and hand-written by the artist, run well-known quotes by Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky, again invoking social reform.</p>
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<p>Biographically, the text-over- text format can be seen to chart a journey through Naparstek’s lifetime involvement in social and political causes (in Detroit, California, and New York), interwoven with an embrace of metaphysical thinking that has critically informed her ideas about social and political change.</p>
<p>Naparstek wants to share a truth– that the change we seek on a global societal level is dependent on, if</p>
<p>not meaningless without, our personal transformation.</p>
<p>In another part of the installation, the artist shares these truths in a heap of crumpled pages on the gallery floor. More of the same texts, they are meant to be picked up and absorbed at random by observers, who are invited to take a seat around the pile. On a wall outside the gallery, more crumpled pages are affixed to the wall, mirroring the format of the smooth ones within, as though suggesting that the ideas contained in them can withstand physical transformation.</p>
<p>The ideas embedded in the texts can be “read” into Naparstek’s accompanying found-object sculptures, a sampling of newer and older works of this type for which the artist is known. Naparstek fabricates from collected natural and man-made items—animal horns, dolls, doorknobs, seashells, scrap metal-sometimes framing (as with reclaimed picture frames or canvases) and sometimes assembling the ordinary into the sacred, as when a doorknob set inside bicycle gears, mounted on a bicycle seat becomes a “Third Eye.” Objects worn through human or elemental use form assemblages that can evoke nostalgia, psychological urges, and sometimes humor (used teabags hang like genitals on a male dressmaker’s form); but the artist’s compassion, the same instinct which directs her search for the divine and desire for a just society, are present in each sculpture.</p>
<div id="attachment_33762" style="width: 310px;" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/web.jpg" title=""><img style="display: inline;" class="size-medium wp-image-33762" src="http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/web-300x131.jpg" alt="The exhibit is on through June’s end." height="131" width="300"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The exhibit is on through June’s end.</p>
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<p>“what is your function…?” connects individual self-actualization as part of the quest for a just society with abandoned objects remade into art. Naparstek asks us equally to question the function of a thing or a person as part of a narrative of meaning.</p>
<p><strong><em>The artist will be at the gallery this Sun., Jun. 26<sup>th</sup> from 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The Rio Penthouse Gallery is located at 10 Fort Washington Avenue, between 159<sup>th</sup> and 160<sup>th</sup> Streets.</em></strong></p>
<p></p>Film, An American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggstag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-06-13:2048539:BlogPost:593562016-06-13T15:13:07.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
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<p>Film Showing: Thursday, June 16, 6pm: The Penthouse Gallery, 10 Fort Washington Ave. between 159 & 160th.Sts.</p>
<p>Exhibit: June 5-June 30, same location. Contact: rosa@atistsunite-ny.org Thank you., Rosa</p>
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<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>I am showing the award winning documentary, <em>An American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee…</em></p>
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<p>Film Showing: Thursday, June 16, 6pm: The Penthouse Gallery, 10 Fort Washington Ave. between 159 & 160th.Sts.</p>
<p>Exhibit: June 5-June 30, same location. Contact: rosa@atistsunite-ny.org Thank you., Rosa</p>
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<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>I am showing the award winning documentary, <em>An American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs</em> in conjunction with my <em>"...what is my function?"</em> installation/exhibit. I have used texts from her on "we need to grow our souls", along with material from the Pathwork of Self-Transformation. For those of you, in the 'hood, city or country who missed the opening reception of the installation/exhibit, you can still see it and the film at the same venue this coming Thursday, June 16, at 6PM at the Rio Penthouse Gallery, 10 Fort Washington Ave. (tween 159/160 Sts.) NYC.<br/> (see the trailer at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JvyZtNA4CU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JvyZtNA4CU</a>) <br/><br/></p>
<p>I am taking this opportunity to include my Artist Statement and brief comments about Grace and the Pathwork Lectures.</p>
<p><b>Rio Penthouse Gallery, June 5-June 30, 2016, Film: Thursday, June 16 6pm<br/></b></p>
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<p><b>“…what is my function?” Rosa Naparstek</b></p>
<p>I work with found objects, the ordinary “things” of our daily lives thrown away or forgotten, placed with what we may hold dear to explore both the “ordering of things”—how we attach meaning to “random” juxtaposition of objects—and “the order of things”—looking at our inner landscapes for the emotional roots of the world we create personally and politically.</p>
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<p>I am interested in the connection between art (the aesthetic experience) and its Circles of Engagement, a community building process, to allow participants to explore their own feelings and deepen connections with one another. I consider myself an activist, although not in the usual sense of the word.</p>
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<p><b><i>“…what is my function?”</i></b> is a tribute to the integrity and unity of different spiritual and political paths. It is being held in conjunction with Mixed Metaphors exhibit to acknowledge the diverse parts of ourselves in the found and fond objects of our lives that seek personal and cultural expression.</p>
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<p><b>Grace Lee Boggs</b> is a writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement. She devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. She died last year at the age of 100.</p>
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<p><strong>The Pathwork</strong> <b>Lectures</b>, given by Eva Pierrakos, offer spiritual, psychological and philosophical wisdom into personal transformation and wholeness, down to the very core of our being, offering a voyage of discovery to the Real Self through the layers of our defenses, denial and fear.</p>
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<p>I met James and Grace Lee Boggs in 1974 and was introduced to the Pathwork Lectures in 1977.</p>
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<p>Although coming from two different perspectives, Grace from the political realm and the lectures, the personal, both challenge us to “Change Ourselves to Change the World.” I was fortunate to have been able to work with Grace for 10 years in Detroit. Both Grace and the Lectures inform my work in integrating and making real: “The Personal is Political and the Political is Personal.”</p>
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<p>We have to hold ourselves and each other with tenderness, for tenderness is the antidote to hate.</p>
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<p></p>Conceptual Installation: "...what is my function" and Mixed Metaphors, found object exhibit.tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-05-28:2048539:BlogPost:589572016-05-28T19:50:28.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that I am having two solo exhibits this summer and one group show.</p>
<p>"…what is my function?” is an installation integrating diverse political and spiritual texts on what it means to be human with an exhibit of found object artworks titled: Mixed Metaphors. This is being held in conjunction with the award winning documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” which poses the same question. The film will be shown June 16, 6 PM,…</p>
<p>Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that I am having two solo exhibits this summer and one group show.</p>
<p>"…what is my function?” is an installation integrating diverse political and spiritual texts on what it means to be human with an exhibit of found object artworks titled: Mixed Metaphors. This is being held in conjunction with the award winning documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” which poses the same question. The film will be shown June 16, 6 PM, at the same location. I will post more information about the film closer to the date.</p>
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<p></p>Hello Artist Unite Memberstag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-04-30:2048539:BlogPost:585412016-04-30T17:38:54.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Hi Everyone in "town" Good Luck with your Uptown Arts Stroll Events and make sure you get into the Print Guide, if you miss it, you can still get into the online guide. As you know this is a great one month opportunity to show your work.</p>
<p>And To All: I realize that I haven't written or posted or anything in a long time, and also realize that this website needs an UPDATE on many fronts. We have tried, but have been unsuccessful in getting funding to do this. I wonder if anyone out…</p>
<p>Hi Everyone in "town" Good Luck with your Uptown Arts Stroll Events and make sure you get into the Print Guide, if you miss it, you can still get into the online guide. As you know this is a great one month opportunity to show your work.</p>
<p>And To All: I realize that I haven't written or posted or anything in a long time, and also realize that this website needs an UPDATE on many fronts. We have tried, but have been unsuccessful in getting funding to do this. I wonder if anyone out there could be of help with web design? If so, Please, let me know. The site needs major streamlining and much needs to be either eliminated or archived since we now are basically focusing on art.<br/><br/>And for those of you who don't know, and of course, most of you "out of the 'hood" don't, my husband recently died of a sudden brain aneurysm after our first anniversary, thus, I have been particularly absent. <br/><br/>I am now working on two solo exhibits for this summer, which I will happily share and post here, and then look forward to some time to develop this site in furtherance of creating a community among us. Thank you for your interest and membership in Artists Unite. You can reach me directly via rosa@artistsunite-ny.org Thank you, Rosa, co-founder/director Artists Unite</p>Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide Deadline Extended to Friday, May 6 2016tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-04-30:2048539:BlogPost:588722016-04-30T17:03:32.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Dear Uptown Artists: Please Note that the deadline to be included in the Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide has been extended to Friday, May 6, 2016. If you are exhibiting/performing, you don't want to miss this opportunity.</p>
<p>see: <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/%C2%A0">http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/ </a>; and/or read below:</p>
<h3 id="artists">Artists</h3>
<p>Visual artists, singers, musicians, dancers, poets, theater groups, etc., in Washington…</p>
<p>Dear Uptown Artists: Please Note that the deadline to be included in the Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide has been extended to Friday, May 6, 2016. If you are exhibiting/performing, you don't want to miss this opportunity.</p>
<p>see: <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/%C2%A0">http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/ </a>; and/or read below:</p>
<h3 id="artists">Artists</h3>
<p>Visual artists, singers, musicians, dancers, poets, theater groups, etc., in Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem are invited to participate in the 2016 Uptown Arts Stroll. To do so, please follow these simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Identify <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2016-Arts-Stroll-Venues.pdf">potential venues</a> or find new venues on your own.</li>
<li>Contact the identified venue(s) and make arrangements to host your event or exhibition during the Uptown Arts Stroll or longer.</li>
<li>When you have booked a venue, let us know about the arrangements — send us the information using the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/submit-booking-info/">submission form</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>We will add your information to the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/venues-artists/">Exhibitions page</a> or the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/events-schedule/">Events Schedule</a>. <strong>Note:</strong> Let us know by the print deadline, <strong>Friday 6 May 2016</strong>, and your information will also appear in the Uptown Arts Stroll Guide, 20,000 copies, distributed by The Manhattan Times and NoMAA citywide.</p>
<p><em><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> For visual artists, you hang your work at your own risk — venues are NOT responsible for your artwork. For all participating artists, please ensure that your event details are clear with the venue. NoMAA is not responsible for booking venues.</em></p>
<h3 id="openstudios">Open Studios</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/open-studios/">Open Studios</a> are when local artists open their studios for an intimate glimpse into their creative process. Open studios were a huge success in 2014 with 25 participating studios! This year, Open Studios will take place in West Harlem on <strong>Saturday 25 June 2016, 1–6 p.m.</strong>, and in Washington Heights and Inwood on <strong>Sunday 26 June, 1–6 p.m.</strong></p>
<p>To include your studio for visits, please fill out and submit the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/open-studios/list-your-open-studio/">open studios listing form</a>. <strong>Note:</strong> Let us know by the print deadline, <strong>Friday 6 May 2016</strong>, and your information will also appear in the Uptown Arts Stroll Guide, 20,000 copies, distributed by The Manhattan Times and NoMAA citywide.</p>Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide Deadline Extended to Friday, May 6 2016tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2016-04-30:2048539:BlogPost:587812016-04-30T17:03:32.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Dear Uptown Artists: Please Note that the deadline to be included in the Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide has been extended to Friday, May 6, 2016. If you are exhibiting/performing, you don't want to miss this opportunity.</p>
<p>see: <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/%C2%A0">http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/ </a>; and/or read below:</p>
<h3 id="artists">Artists</h3>
<p>Visual artists, singers, musicians, dancers, poets, theater groups, etc., in Washington…</p>
<p>Dear Uptown Artists: Please Note that the deadline to be included in the Uptown Arts Stroll Print Guide has been extended to Friday, May 6, 2016. If you are exhibiting/performing, you don't want to miss this opportunity.</p>
<p>see: <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/%C2%A0">http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/ </a>; and/or read below:</p>
<h3 id="artists">Artists</h3>
<p>Visual artists, singers, musicians, dancers, poets, theater groups, etc., in Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem are invited to participate in the 2016 Uptown Arts Stroll. To do so, please follow these simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Identify <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2016-Arts-Stroll-Venues.pdf">potential venues</a> or find new venues on your own.</li>
<li>Contact the identified venue(s) and make arrangements to host your event or exhibition during the Uptown Arts Stroll or longer.</li>
<li>When you have booked a venue, let us know about the arrangements — send us the information using the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/how-to-participate/submit-booking-info/">submission form</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>We will add your information to the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/venues-artists/">Exhibitions page</a> or the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/events-schedule/">Events Schedule</a>. <strong>Note:</strong> Let us know by the print deadline, <strong>Friday 6 May 2016</strong>, and your information will also appear in the Uptown Arts Stroll Guide, 20,000 copies, distributed by The Manhattan Times and NoMAA citywide.</p>
<p><em><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> For visual artists, you hang your work at your own risk — venues are NOT responsible for your artwork. For all participating artists, please ensure that your event details are clear with the venue. NoMAA is not responsible for booking venues.</em></p>
<h3 id="openstudios">Open Studios</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/open-studios/">Open Studios</a> are when local artists open their studios for an intimate glimpse into their creative process. Open studios were a huge success in 2014 with 25 participating studios! This year, Open Studios will take place in West Harlem on <strong>Saturday 25 June 2016, 1–6 p.m.</strong>, and in Washington Heights and Inwood on <strong>Sunday 26 June, 1–6 p.m.</strong></p>
<p>To include your studio for visits, please fill out and submit the <a href="http://www.artstroll.com/open-studios/list-your-open-studio/">open studios listing form</a>. <strong>Note:</strong> Let us know by the print deadline, <strong>Friday 6 May 2016</strong>, and your information will also appear in the Uptown Arts Stroll Guide, 20,000 copies, distributed by The Manhattan Times and NoMAA citywide.</p>Artists Unite Exhibit Opening Reception: Tues. Aug 11, 5:30-7:30 PMtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2015-08-08:2048539:BlogPost:579172015-08-08T18:14:02.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
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<p>Hi...please join us and help cover a park bench with stuffed animals. I have gathered lost, forgotten, outgrown stuffed animals for years to compensate for not having had any as a child. And now, having too many, even some Beanie Babies, they need a new home. I will raffle them off at the end of the day starting (@ 3:30-4:00 PM. Tell your stuffed toy story...if you had one, or didn't have, or still have one. Come, this Saturday, June 20, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Music by Harry…</p>
<p>Hi...please join us and help cover a park bench with stuffed animals. I have gathered lost, forgotten, outgrown stuffed animals for years to compensate for not having had any as a child. And now, having too many, even some Beanie Babies, they need a new home. I will raffle them off at the end of the day starting (@ 3:30-4:00 PM. Tell your stuffed toy story...if you had one, or didn't have, or still have one. Come, this Saturday, June 20, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Music by Harry Ettling.</p>
<p>Meet at the intersection of Broadway and Thayer Ave. just a little south of Dyckman Street and the A-Train Dyckman street exit near the entrance to Ann Loftus Playground. See Ya.</p>
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<p></p>MTA –Artists Unite 5th Subway Elevator Posters Contest Winners
Dear Friends, the MTA-AU Subway Eevator Poster Project is unique to the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) system. We are one of the…tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2015-04-24:2048539:BlogPost:577582015-04-24T01:56:48.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
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<p>Dear Friends, the MTA-AU Subway Eevator Poster Project is unique to the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority)…</p>
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<p>Dear Friends, the MTA-AU Subway Eevator Poster Project is unique to the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) system. We are one of the city's only communities who have negotiated, after much community involvement and organizing, (full story to be told another time) a program where the MTA allows a local arts organization (Artists Unite) to select works of art by local artists to be placed in the public subway system.Here are the winning images from the 2015 contest that will be placed in the 190th and 184th streestations subway elevators. The posters will be up for about a year and viewed by thousands of people both from the community, city and tourists visiting the Cloisters).</p>
<p>We had over 200 interesting, varied and beautiful images and it was very hard to choose just seven.</p>
<p>Thank you all who submitted your work. Rosa</p>
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<p><strong>First 3 at 190th. Street Station on the A-Line; Last 4 at the 184t Street Station on the A-Line's 181st Street Stop</strong></p>
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<p></p>Laura Calhoun Aritists Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 5:30-7:30 PMtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2015-04-24:2048539:BlogPost:574312015-04-24T01:39:16.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Dear Friends, please join us for<br></br> Artists Unite 187th St. Project exhibit of <br></br> Passages: Paintings on Silk by Laura Calhoun<br></br> Opening Reception <br></br> Tuesday, April 28, 5:30-7:30 PM<br></br> at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space<br></br> 210 Pinehurst at the corner of 187th. St. and Pinehurst.<br></br> 5:30-7:30 PM. The exhibit will be up through June 30, concurrent with the UPtown Arts Stroll. Bank hours: 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri.<br></br> Thank you, Rosa (Director, Artists Unite)<br></br> <br></br> "Laura,…</p>
<p>Dear Friends, please join us for<br/> Artists Unite 187th St. Project exhibit of <br/> Passages: Paintings on Silk by Laura Calhoun<br/> Opening Reception <br/> Tuesday, April 28, 5:30-7:30 PM<br/> at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space<br/> 210 Pinehurst at the corner of 187th. St. and Pinehurst.<br/> 5:30-7:30 PM. The exhibit will be up through June 30, concurrent with the UPtown Arts Stroll. Bank hours: 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri.<br/> Thank you, Rosa (Director, Artists Unite)<br/> <br/> "Laura, raised in the Brazilian city of Belém do Para, located at the nexus of the Amazon basin and the Atlantic ocean, was deeply influenced by the aquatic labyrinth and laced network of rivers and motion. Later, her study of yoga and contemporary dance contributed to her fuller understanding of movement and how our sense of motion, arising from stimuli within the body itself, can anchor us in our selves and the world.<br/> <br/> Passages, a series of paintings focusing on the elements of earth, water, fire and space, integrate her aesthetic vision and bring a profound sense of wholeness to her work."</p>
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<p>Dear Friends, please join us for<br></br>Artists Unite 187th St. Project exhibit of <br></br>Passages: Paintings on Silk by Laura Calhoun<br></br>Opening Reception <br></br>Tuesday, April 28, 5:30-7:30 PM<br></br>at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space<br></br>210 Pinehurst at the corner of 187th. St. and Pinehurst.<br></br>5:30-7:30 PM. The exhibit will be up through June 30, concurrent with the UPtown Arts Stroll.</p>
<p>Bank hours: 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri.<br></br>Thank you, Rosa (Director, Artists Unite)<br></br><br></br>"Laura, raised…</p>
<p>Dear Friends, please join us for<br/>Artists Unite 187th St. Project exhibit of <br/>Passages: Paintings on Silk by Laura Calhoun<br/>Opening Reception <br/>Tuesday, April 28, 5:30-7:30 PM<br/>at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space<br/>210 Pinehurst at the corner of 187th. St. and Pinehurst.<br/>5:30-7:30 PM. The exhibit will be up through June 30, concurrent with the UPtown Arts Stroll.</p>
<p>Bank hours: 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri.<br/>Thank you, Rosa (Director, Artists Unite)<br/><br/>"Laura, raised in the Brazilian city of Belém do Para, located at the nexus of the Amazon basin and the Atlantic ocean, was deeply influenced by the aquatic labyrinth and laced network of rivers and motion. Later, her study of yoga and contemporary dance contributed to her fuller understanding of movement and how our sense of motion, arising from stimuli within the body itself, can anchor us in our selves and the world.<br/><br/>Passages, a series of paintings focusing on the elements of earth, water, fire and space, integrate her aesthetic vision and bring a profound sense of wholeness to her work."</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">Please join Artists Unite Tuesday, Dec. 2, 5:30-7:30 PM for the Opening Reception of Maggie Hernandez's colorful and joyous exhibit: Plus/Minus: Rhythm and Form at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space (corner of Pinehurst & 187th. St.). This is our gallery space in Uptown Manhattan and your presence is our support. Thank you, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosa.naparstek">Rosa</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">“My paintings are about honest, human…</p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Please join Artists Unite Tuesday, Dec. 2, 5:30-7:30 PM for the Opening Reception of Maggie Hernandez's colorful and joyous exhibit: Plus/Minus: Rhythm and Form at The Berkshire Bank Gallery Space (corner of Pinehurst & 187th. St.). This is our gallery space in Uptown Manhattan and your presence is our support. Thank you, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosa.naparstek">Rosa</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">“My paintings are about honest, human communication, what I consider a break from socially imposed neutrality. They offer us an opportunity to exclaim, rejoice, celebrate, and fight in a manner that may be received without judgment or fear of defensive reactions.”<a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203707?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203707?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>MTA –Artists Unite 5th Subway Elevator Poster Contest: 2015tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2014-11-10:2048539:BlogPost:565142014-11-10T15:37:29.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Hello Everyone, here is an other opportunity to submit your work for the Subway Elevators, one of the best opportunities for your work to be seen. Several of you have applied to previous contests, but please don't feel discouraged. Each time we have a different set of judges with different sensibilities, although I include myself as organizational memory, Unfortunately, we have added a small administrative fee to defray costs since in these economic times funding has diminished...after all,…</p>
<p>Hello Everyone, here is an other opportunity to submit your work for the Subway Elevators, one of the best opportunities for your work to be seen. Several of you have applied to previous contests, but please don't feel discouraged. Each time we have a different set of judges with different sensibilities, although I include myself as organizational memory, Unfortunately, we have added a small administrative fee to defray costs since in these economic times funding has diminished...after all, who needs art? Please feel free to contact me for more information, and to let me know if the fee presents a problem. Best regards, Rosa</p>
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<p>MTA –Artists Unite 5th Subway Elevator Poster Contest: 2015<br/> A great opportunity to have your work seen by thousands of residents and tourists en route to the Cloisters Museum.<br/> <br/> We are looking for six (6) original artworks by artists residing in CB 12* to be produced as posters and placed in the subway elevators at the A-Line 184th. St. (181st. Subway Stop) and the 190th. St. Subway Stations. One poster in each of the 6 elevators, 3 elevators per station. <br/> <br/> (* CB 12 covers Manhattan north of 155th street, river to river.)<br/> <br/> Deadline for submissions: Thursday, December 4, 12:00 PM Midnight<br/> Posters will be exhibited for a minimum of six months.<br/> <br/> For submission instructions go to: <a href="http://www.artistsunite-ny.org">www.artistsunite-ny.org</a> and select "opportunities" from the menu on the left.<br/> <br/> Contact: Rosa at 212.740-9378.<br/> Rosa Naparstek,<br/> Director, Artists Unite<br/> rosa@artistsunite-ny.org</p>
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<p><strong>Subject: Call to Artists: Arsenal Gallery Exhibition of Migration</strong></p>
<p><br></br><strong>Deadline:Sunday, November 23, 2014</strong></p>
<p><br></br>Call To Artists<br></br>NYC Parks’ Ebony Society invites you to submit your work for the exhibition Migration in the Arsenal Gallery in celebration of Black History Month.<br></br>In the midst of tremendous upheaval—two world wars and the Great Depression—a vast movement of people, some 6 million African American descendants of the Antebellum…</p>
<p><strong>Subject: Call to Artists: Arsenal Gallery Exhibition of Migration</strong></p>
<p><br/><strong>Deadline:Sunday, November 23, 2014</strong></p>
<p><br/>Call To Artists<br/>NYC Parks’ Ebony Society invites you to submit your work for the exhibition Migration in the Arsenal Gallery in celebration of Black History Month.<br/>In the midst of tremendous upheaval—two world wars and the Great Depression—a vast movement of people, some 6 million African American descendants of the Antebellum South, fled the racial segregation and discrimination of Jim Crow laws for northern and western US cities. The "Great Migration" as it is commonly referred, caused a seismic societal demographic shift and left an indelible mark on the urbanization of America. NYC Parks' Ebony Society asks artists to share their interpretations of this historical epoch and its impact. <br/>Submission Deadline Sunday, November 23, 2014<br/>Exhibition Dates January 15 – February 24, 2015<br/>All submissions should include:<br/>A brief description of proposed artwork or artist’s statement<br/>Up to 15 slides, photos, or images on a cd of representative work. Do not send original work<br/>slide list, numbered to correspond to slides or photos with title, date, materials used and the dimensions of the work<br/>Artist’s resume<br/>Self-addressed, stamped envelope. (if you would like your submission returned to you)<br/>The work can be incomplete at the time of submission, but if so, please provide a summary or sketch<br/>Exhibition proposals will be reviewed and selected by the Ebony Society. All media are considered, but please note that the gallery has a very limited capacity for 3-dimensional work. Artwork may only be hung from moldings by use of monofilament and hooks.<br/>Incomplete proposals will not be considered. Applicants will be notified whether their work has been accepted for exhibition by December 5, 2014.<br/>Proposals can be sent to:<br/>artandantiquities@parks.nyc.gov<br/>or<br/>Arsenal Gallery, NYC Parks & Recreation<br/>The Arsenal, Central Park<br/>830 Fifth Avenue, Room 20<br/>New York, NY 10065<br/>Don't Forget<br/>Wreath Interpretations at the Arsenal Gallery<br/>Celebrate the holiday season with NYC Parks by crafting an original, handmade wreath for exhibition at Central Park’s historic Arsenal Gallery. This juried exhibition features artistic versions of the traditional holiday form in all varieties of material and subjects.<br/>Submit your proposal for consideration no later than November 2, 2014. Due to space constraints not all applications can be selected.<br/>Proposals can be sent to: artandantiquities@parks.nyc.gov.<br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></p>Artists Unite 187th. St. Gallery Project Exhibittag:artistsunite.ning.com,2014-09-03:2048539:BlogPost:563072014-09-03T17:48:56.000ZRosa Naparstekhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/RosaNaparstek
<p>Artists Unite installs @ 4 exhibits a year at this venue. Please join us this coming Tuesday for a very interesting show and also let me know if you are interested in exhibiting at this large, light filled space*. And, for those of you who have exhibited, please come and show your support. Thank you, Rosa, director Artists Unite </p>
<p>*(Due to our grant program, you must reside in Washington Heights/Inwood to exhibit).…</p>
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<p>Artists Unite installs @ 4 exhibits a year at this venue. Please join us this coming Tuesday for a very interesting show and also let me know if you are interested in exhibiting at this large, light filled space*. And, for those of you who have exhibited, please come and show your support. Thank you, Rosa, director Artists Unite </p>
<p>*(Due to our grant program, you must reside in Washington Heights/Inwood to exhibit).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">UNCHARTED: Paintings by Lisa Taliano</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font-size-3">Opening Reception this coming Tuesday, September 9, 5:30-7:30 PM</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Berkshire Bank Gallery Space</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">210 Pinehurst Ave. @ 187th. St.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">New York, NY. 10033 (A-Train to 181st.Stop, Take 184st. Exit)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(exhibit on through Friday, October 31, 2014)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">"Lisa is a very interesting artist whose work moves easily between many shapes and</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">forms, allowing feeling and mood to be expressed in surprising juxtapositions of color, space, line__geometry."</p>
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<p><span class="userContent">Please join Artists Unite for this Opening: May, Thursday 15.5:30-7:30 PM<br></br> Also, Part of the Uptown Arts Stroll: June 2-June 30. This exhibit at Berkshire Bank will definitely extend the boundary of what most bank clients understand as art. <br></br> <br></br> David is a mixed media artist, using whatever material he can find to express an idea or feeling. His work is bold, c<span class="text_exposed_show">olorful, immediate and as easily inspired by a cartoon,…</span></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent">Please join Artists Unite for this Opening: May, Thursday 15.5:30-7:30 PM<br/> Also, Part of the Uptown Arts Stroll: June 2-June 30. This exhibit at Berkshire Bank will definitely extend the boundary of what most bank clients understand as art. <br/> <br/> David is a mixed media artist, using whatever material he can find to express an idea or feeling. His work is bold, c<span class="text_exposed_show">olorful, immediate and as easily inspired by a cartoon, Renaissance painting or his life. He may appear as an "outsider" artist, however, he is very schooled and his seeming mistakes are the result of inspired chaos. He challenges us to see what we want to avoid and to have fun doing so. (David's influences have been: Philip Guston, Francis Bacon, Margaret Kilgalllen and...)</span></span><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203743?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348203743?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348204415?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3348204415?profile=original" width="714"/></a></p>
<p><span class="userContent">Hi...Please join us for the Opening: May, Thursday 15.5:30-7:30 PM<br/> Also, Part of the Uptown Arts Stroll: June 2-June 30.</span></p>PAMELA FLYNN, Forget-Me-Not, April 30-May 24, 2014tag:artistsunite.ning.com,2014-05-06:2048539:BlogPost:557752014-05-06T20:45:32.000ZLinda Handlerhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/LindaHandler
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">One knows that life is tenuous. Death is always the end product of life. To live is to die. All ponderings on death are done by the living. All fear of death is felt by the living. Death is what makes life precious.…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">One knows that life is tenuous. Death is always the end product of life. To live is to die. All ponderings on death are done by the living. All fear of death is felt by the living. Death is what makes life precious.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">This series of images</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">, Forget-Me-Not,</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">allows the viewer to slip into the memories of someone who has died and who has left an empty place in the viewer's life. Memories are what the living have of the dead. Memories are what enrich the lives of the living. These images are an exploration into empty spaces, empty spaces to be filled with memories. The images range in mood which reflects the nature of memories.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">This series evolved from the gun violence series Considering Harm. Considering the death of an individual leaves one to ponder the loss, the empty space that this individual has left for others-the living. The loss, the empty space, is what marks the death of the individual. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><cite><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.pamelaflynnart.com/"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">www.</span><b><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">pamelaflynnart</span></b><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">.com</span></a></span></cite></p>THE GIFTtag:artistsunite.ning.com,2014-05-06:2048539:BlogPost:517062014-05-06T19:30:00.000ZMARC SELSBYhttps://artistsunite.ning.com/profile/MARCSELSBY
<p>There is a mysterious cycle in human events.</p>
<p> To some generations much is given.</p>
<p> Of other generations much is expected.</p>
<p> This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.</p>
<p><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt </b> June 27, 1936</p>
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<p>ON A SUMMER DAY IN 1936</p>
<p>JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. GOT A CALL.</p>
<p>THOSE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hunt_of_the_Unicorn_-_the_Hunt_Begins.jpg" target="_blank">TAPESTRIES</a> ON YOUR OFFICE WALL…</p>
<p>There is a mysterious cycle in human events.</p>
<p> To some generations much is given.</p>
<p> Of other generations much is expected.</p>
<p> This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.</p>
<p><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt </b> June 27, 1936</p>
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<p>ON A SUMMER DAY IN 1936</p>
<p>JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. GOT A CALL.</p>
<p>THOSE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hunt_of_the_Unicorn_-_the_Hunt_Begins.jpg" target="_blank">TAPESTRIES</a> ON YOUR OFFICE WALL -</p>
<p>WE AT THE MET MUSEUM - WE WANT THEM ALL.</p>
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<p>NO. I'M AFRAID THAT CAN NOT BE.</p>
<p>THOSE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unicorn_Tapestry,_The_Unicorn_Leaps_the_Stream.jpg" target="_blank">ARTWORKS</a> ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS.</p>
<p>THEY GIVE ME MORE THAN WEALTH BRINGS.</p>
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<p>TAKE MY MONEY</p>
<p>THIS WILL TAKE MY LIFE</p>
<p>I COULD DONATE A MOUNTAIN</p>
<p>TRY ASKING MY WIFE.</p>
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<p>HE HUNG UP THE PHONE</p>
<p>PUT HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS</p>
<p>I KNOW THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL</p>
<p>BUT THEY BELONG TO OUR LAND.</p>
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<p>HE NODDED OFF AND HAD A DREAM</p>
<p>HE'D <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/cloistersentrance-1?context=user" target="_self">BUILT</a> A PARK</p>
<p>BEAUTIFUL TO <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/palisadeshawk?context=user" target="_self">SEE</a></p>
<p>BUT - WHAT- COULD IT BE ?</p>
<p>THAT UNICORN JUST WINKED AT ME !</p>
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<p>OK - I'LL GIVE YOU THE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_metmuseum_1495_Unicorn_captivity.jpg" target="_blank">TAPESTRIES</a></p>
<p>AND THE <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/palisadeslong1-1?context=user" target="_self">PALISADES</a> TOO</p>
<p>IF I CAN ADD A CAVEAT OR TWO</p>
<p>WE'LL BUILD A MUSEUM FOR THEM - ONE WORTHY OF THE <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/forttryonview1-3?context=user" target="_self">VIEW</a>.</p>
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<p>IT'S NOT A <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/cloisterscloseup-1?context=user" target="_self">MONASTERY</a></p>
<p>IT'S NOT A <a href="http://artistsunite.ning.com/photo/cloistertower2-1?context=user" target="_self">CHURCH</a></p>
<p>BUT THESE CLOISTERS FILL THE PARK WITH GRACE AND EASE</p>
<p>AND INSIDE YOU'LL FIND THE UNICORN TAPESTRIES. </p>