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WORKSHOP•SEMINARS
March 16 and 21, 2010 |
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Beyond Print: Using New Media to Reach the Global Art Market |
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Multi-media Storytelling – Narrative and Conceptual Art |
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DIALOGUES WITH CURATORS
and Open Portfolio Nights
March 14, 19, 26 and 31, 2010 |
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Unlike in the online world, most art work we see in museums, galleries and print publications doesn’t come to audiences directly. The intermediaries are curators, editors and, increasingly, private collectors. Among these intermediaries, the role of the curator is the least understood. Get an intimate look into the curatorial process behind the FotoFest 2010 Biennial Exhibitions. |
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SYMPOSIA - From Museums To The Internet
Curating In The Contemporary Art World |
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Two symposia look at curatorial practices today. Panelists for the symposia are nationally known museum and online curators, collectors and commercial gallery owners.
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The dates of the seminars are coordinated with dates of the
2010 International Meeting Place portfolio reviews.
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POKE! is a new FotoFest exhibition featuring technologically savvy artists who explore online social media and its evolving relationship with the public, the media, and art.
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Christopher Baker (Minneapolis, MN), Curtis Mann (Chicago, IL), David Oresick (Chicago, IL), Marivi Ortiz (Chicago, IL), Brian Piana (Houston, TX), Jon Rafman(Montreal, Quebec), Penelope Umbrico (New York, NY), and Lee Walton (Greensboro, NC) |
In online parlance a poke is a virtual gesture usually interpreted as “hello.”
POKE! explores the inter-personal intentions of social media technology and the nature of modern internet-mediated relationships with work that references and uses source material from popular online social media websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Craigslist, and YouTube.
POKE! is an original exhibition conceived and organized by FotoFest. |
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Credits (from top):
Curtis Mann
Jon Rafman
Brian Piana |
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| Literacy Through Photography at Project Row Houses |
photo by Emily Neal
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Literacy Through Photography (LTP) is an integral part of Project Row Houses 2009 Summer Arts and Education Program. Students in kindergarten through eighth grade are following the LTP program, Project Discover - From My Hands to My Shadow which prompts students to develop self awareness and honor their friends and neighbors.
At the LTP house on the Project Row Houses campus, children are immersed in the exciting visual and performing arts-based program running through August 15, 2009. The focus of the project is Building Community – Community as Social Sculpture. Students learn to understand and respect the many cultures of their neighbors while enjoying and appreciating their own culture.
The students are installing their photography and writing projects in the LTP house at Project Row Houses. An open house for the LTP project is this Friday, August 14, 2009 from 5:00 - 6:30pm at 2519 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77004. There will be a reception that evening at 7pm celebrating all Summer 2009 Arts and Education students and their work.
The LTP house is a part of the Project Row Houses Summer Studio series, opening Saturday, August 15, 5-8pm and on view Wednesday - Sundays, noon-5pm, through September 13.
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| Project Row Houses is a nonprofit arts organization, established by African-American artists and community activists to create a positive presence in Houston’s Northern Third Ward community.
Founded by artist Rick Lowe in 1993, Project Row Houses believes that art—and the community it creates—can be the foundation for revitalizing depressed inner-city neighborhoods. |
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