In this Month's
18th Street News:

• NEA SUPPORT
• SKATE DECK of the MONTH
• NEWS on Status Report
• ARTNIGHT PRESENTS Francisco Aguabella
• MAIN GALLERY: Post-American L.A.
• 2009 ARTIST FELLOW
• ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
  Bernadette Fox
• VISITING INT'L ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE- Matt Hinkley
• NEWS FROM RESIDENTS
• LINKS

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NEA AWARDS STIMULUS FUNDS TO 18TH STREET

18th Street Arts Center is proud to announce that we are 1 of the 631 arts organizations in the country to receive stimulus funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant that is intended specifically for the preservation of jobs in the arts received over 2,000 applications for amounts ranging from $25,000-$50,000.

The NEA was allotted a total of $50 million in the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5.’ The distribution for these funds was appropriated for 1% support of NEA administration and 40% re-granted to state arts agencies in the non-profit sector. The total amount for the stimulus fund was $29, 775, 000 and we received $50,000, the full amount that we applied for.

This is great news for 18th Street Arts Center, particularly after Oklahoma’s Republican Senator Tom Coburn introduced an amendment (with a 73-24 approval) that would prohibit the use of stimulus package money for any “casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, art center, and highway beautification project.” As the House and Senate reconciled two versions of the Stimulus Bill, some of the Coburn Amendment was omitted. As a result, theatres, museums, and art centers were allowed to compete for funds while zoos, aquariums, parks and others were still barred from competing for funds.

NEA & American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Full List

SKATE DECK OF THE MONTH

Marcos Castro & Marko Tadic
2008

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

Marcos Castro & Marko Tadic collaborated for our fourth deck in the Online Skate Deck Store. Please visit our store to learn more about Marcos Castro & Marko Tadic, click here!

ARTISTS PROPOSALS for
Status Report: The Creative Economy

We have received a considerable amount of proposals from artists, teams of artists, and curators which address our exhibition theme in 2010, The Status of Our Creative Economy. Over the next few months a panel will convene, make their recommendations and announce the 6 selected artists, teams of artists and curators.

Francisco Aguabello Courtesy galeria artist

"Aguabella is the John Coltrane of the Conga Drums.”
Dizzy Gillespie

Learn more about ArtNight

Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, Photograph, 2007 Courtesy galeria francesca kaufman

Post-American L.A. features artists that question the scope and impact of American predominance, from the international stage to municipal politics... Read More

Sandra de la Loza (2009 Artist Fellow), The Revolution Will..., vinyl sticker, 2009 Courtesy of the artist

Sandra de la Loza, will host a series of encounters and discussions in the Project Room (1629 18th Street, Studio #2) entitled The Revolution Will... bringing together individuals from diverse sectors to interface on topics such as environmentalism, labor and alternative economies, and the future of cultural production.
Click here for more info

Sandra's Upcoming Event

Wednesday, August, 26th, 2009 7:30 pm -9:30pm

Film screening with filmmaker, Elias Serna for her work Footprints on the Asphalt as well as a discussion for the following films:

Films: Footprints on the Asphalt, (44min. 2002). A documentary essay on Chicano/Raza struggles over public space since the Chicano Movement. Reel Polemic: The Visual Rhetoric of Medium Cool, Year of the Pig and 3rd Cinema, (12min, 2009) A short film that explores political violence in 1960’s film. Decolonize (4 min., 2008) Music video for the band, Aztlan Underground.

Bernadette Fox, Untitled, house intervention, life-size, 2007 Courtesy of the artist

Bernadette Fox experiments with art and architecture exploring the relationship between space, boundaries, infinity and limits. She is fascinated by the transfomation of energy at its moment of release or change; the thin edge, surface as limit, and the consequences of breaking it. In her work, house roofs and walls, sound and movement are opened, thrust out and cantilevered, creating a collision of physical and space structures.

Matt Hinkley,Untitled, mixed media, 2008 Courtesy of the artist

Matt Hinkley's paper interventions or happenings explore the found printed materials as a world in themselves. He cuts, tears, writes and performs these interventions to ehance the articles or the newspapers he finds and in some cases completely omitting the entire paper with the exception of one image. While in Los Angeles, Hinkley intends to research many recently deceased artists’ works such as Bruce Conner, George Herms, George Wagner, Ed Bereal, and Wallace Berman.

Michael W.Barnard was recently honored at the Pico Youth and Family Center's 2nd Annual Hope and Unity Awards Ceremony with the "Hope and Unity Award for Excellence in Media" for the production of "90404 Changing" on June 6, 2009.

Joaquin Segura, visiting International Artist from Mexico from April-June, 2009 was selected to be a part of this year's of Detournement Venice 2009 | Markers VII, which is part of the official side program of the 53rd Venice Biennial.

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