In this Month's
18th Street News:

• LA MARATHON
• GETTY SUPPORT
• 20TH ANNIVERSARY
• SKATE DECK of the MONTH
• ARTISTS RFP
• STUDIO RENTAL
• MAIN GALLERY: CULTS
• 2009 ARTIST FELLOW
• ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
  Robin Adsit
• VISITING INT'L ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE- Joaquin Segura
• NEWS FROM FORMER RESIDENTS
• LINKS

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Welcome to News From 18th Street, the email newsletter of
18th Street Arts Center.

18TH STREET RUNS THE LA MARATHON

Dear 18th Street Friends & Fans,
This weekend our whole staff is participating in the LA Marathon 5K Run/Walk to benefit 18th Street. A crew of artists, board members and friends are joining us.

We would be so honored if you could make a small but meaningful gift to this place that has nurtured and advocated on the behalf of thousands of artists over the past 20 years.

Here is the link to sponsor our run: http://www.18thstreet.org/donatenow.html
*Please put ‘Artists Rule’ in the ‘note to the seller’ box at the bottom of the preview your donation page.

The marathon is this Monday morning May 25th, Memorial Day.
Thank you for your friendship, your positive vibes and support over the years for 18th Street.

Warm regards from all of us,

Jan, Clayton, Ronald & Ramla

18TH STREET RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM
THE GETTY FOUNDATION

18th Street Arts Center receives Major Grant from the Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation announced a $132,000 to 18th Street Arts Center for Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement. 18th Street will be conducting research and planning over a 15 month period culminating in early 2012 with an exhibition and catalogue that is part of “Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-80,” an unprecedented series of concurrent exhibitions at museums throughout Southern California highlighting the post-World War II Los Angeles art scene.

Collaboration Labs will examine how some Los Angeles time-based work (focused on performance/video) in the 1970s grew out of and fed into the California artists’ space movement.  The political claims of ephemeral, time-based art – so often, by necessity, collaborative—were forged in mutual dialogue with the alternative artists-run spaces that increasingly shaped the landscape of post-war LA art.  In addition, these practices, and the spaces that hosted and fostered them, were intimately related to the politics of the time (i.e. gay liberation, civil rights, freedom of information, and feminism). Collaboration Labs will reference the social and economic conditions in California in the 1970’s and research how the artists’ work reflected and investigated these conditions, which further informed the alternative cultural infrastructures they developed to support their contemporary practices.

Getty Foundation

18TH CELEBRATED IT'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH TWO AMAZING EVENTS!

BENEFIT DINNER WITH GUEST SPEAKER SIR KEN ROBINSON
(See Sir Ken Robinson's Video Here)

1.) Our guest of Honor and speaker for the evening Sir Ken Robinson
2.) Our 20th Anniversary cake made by Jeseca Creations
3.) The gallery was converted into a fabulous dinner salon (pictured here Jan Williamson, Alex Donis, Angel Figueroa
All photos by Aleksandra Ajdukovic

On Saturday, April 11, 2009 18th Street celebrated it's 20th Anniversary with a Benefit Dinner that was well attended by our friends, artists, community leaders, and art supporter's.

Sir Ken Robinson, a visionary cultural leader and author of, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, was our guest of honor for the event. Sir Ken reminded us all of the significance of art and the role it plays on society and what 18th Street means to the country.

Please take a look at a short segment of his speech here.

20TH BIRTHDAY BASH AT ARTNIGHT (Check out the video here)

1.) Raul Baltazar & Teens of Virginia Ave Park, It Takes More Than Balls, a Santa Monica Latino CAP Project
2.) Bede Murphy/Unarius, Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science, Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning
3.) Marcus Keiland-Nazario, The High Performance (C)Art
All photos by Aleksandra Ajdukovic

18th Street Art Center Celebrated it's 20th Anniversary during ArtNight held on Saturday, May 2, 2009. With 500 plus in attendance we celebrated with lots of great art and great vibes. Many thanks to all the artists, volunteers, sponsors, organizations that took part in 18th Street Connect, and to all of our funders. Check out the video here.
Thank You!

SKATE DECK OF THE MONTH

Pat Ngoho, 2008

Purchase a one of a kind skate deck to benefit 18th Street Arts Center

Pat Ngoho is our third artist in our Online Skate deck Store. Please visit our store to learn more about Pat Ngoho, click here!

REQUEST FOR ARTISTS PROPOSALS

Status Report: The Creative Economy

For our 2010 exhibition year, 18th Street Arts Center is seeking proposals from artists, teams of artists, and curators which addresses a common theme; the status of our creative economy.

For more information please click here

LIVE/WORK STUDIO FOR RENT JULY & AUGUST

For the months of July - August, be a part of 18th Street Arts Center! For Rent: an 800 sq. foot fully-furnished live/work studio (kitchen, 1-1/2 baths, loft bedroom, studio, cable tv, local phone, all utilities, and a Balcony!) with skylights and 16' high ceilings. You would also have the opportunity to showcase your work during our Fall ArtNight, Saturday, August 1, 6-10 pm. The space will be available for $1,700 a month from July 1 - August 31. Please contact Ronald Lopez at 310-453-3711, ext 103, or rlopez@18thstreet.org

Bede Murphy/Unarius,Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science, mixed media/site specific installation, 2009 photo by Aleksandra Ajdukovic

LA 2019: CULTS, COLLECTIVES & COCOONING suggests a destiny of collaborative and community based ventures that focus on the group rather than the individual experience.
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Upcoming Events Related to the Show

Gallery Walk Thru with Ciara Ennis & Nuttaphol Ma, 2009 Artist Fellow
Thursday, June 11, 6pm

Closing Party
Friday, June 26, 6-8pm

Nuttaphol Ma,longing and not BE longing site specific lemon grass tea room intervention, 2009 photos by Aleksandra Ajdukovic

Nuttaphol Ma, our 2009 Artist Fellow, will transform part of the main gallery into a lemongrass tearoom made from the lemongrass planted in and around 18 Street Art Center.
Click here for more info

Robin Adsit, Double Grimace, hierarchical topography oil, and ink on paper, 51” x 68”, 2009 courtesy of artist

I became interested in memory, aging and identity while caring for my mother with Alzheimer’s. My new work depicts figures that merge together and suggest replication and/or connection. The deliberate replication, or connection of figures suggests the flux of identity through aging, time, and our changing memories. I am interested in the role of lived experience on memory and our attempts to recover a moment in the past that is unrecoverable. Therefore, I became fascinated with the research of neuroscientist Gary Lynch at UC Irvine. He is looking at the biochemical mechanisms of memory. He has succeeded in visualizing a neural trace of an actual memory. I have started to include some of this research and the visual data in my paintings. The replication of the figure suggests cloning, which I use to investigate the multiple ways identity can be created, and changed through lived experience, genetics, and our memories..

Joaquin Segura , Inaugural Address, confederate knife & Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, 2009 photos by Aleksandra Ajdukovic

Joaquin Segura’s highly-diverse oeuvre meditates on violence as an omnipresent motif in contemporary life, reflecting as well on the crisis of cultural, social & political institutions. It deals with a need of questioning the existence of hypothetical ethical restraints within artistic practice, broadening the limits of what can be done in the name of art. Through his unpredictable works, Segura aims to reach an art of destabilization, elaborating a poetic of sabotage through random acts of gratuitous violence & provocation which actually talk about impotence, denial & deception, here and now.

Visiting International Artists in May

Paul Adair, Australia (Departing May 22)
Matt Hinkley, Australia (Arriving May 26)

Ana Devic's group "What, How & for Whom / WHW (Croatia), will by the next Curator for the 11th International Istanbul Biennial, opens September 12, 2009

Bruce Bauman, Winner of the C.O.L.A. 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship (literary arts)

Jane Castillo, Winner of the C.O.L.A. 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship (visual arts)

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