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Joe Biel
Joe Biel is a visual artist working primarily in two dimensional media. He received an MFA in Painting from the University of Michigan and is currently on the faculty at California State University Fullerton. He has gallery affiliations with Goff and Rosenthal in New York and Galerie Kuckei/Kuckei in Berlin. He has been awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE and at the Ballingllen Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. In 2003 he was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. He lives and works in Los Angeles. |
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CARS
In the spirit of community building and galvanizing the arts in Los Angeles, Community Arts Resources / CARS creates an outstanding array of focal events and festivals in the cultural and community calendar - events that Angelenos eagerly look forward to year after year. Through arts and culture, CARS events provide common ground in a city as diverse as Los Angeles. Top-quality music and dance, storytelling, interactive workshops for children and adults, fabulous food representing the spectrum of world flavors, strolling musicians, stiltwalkers, community groups, and diverse crowds - this is just some of the programming that we do for museums, city agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and others. CARS events, characterized by a sense of spectacle and play, leave audiences feeling they have experienced something special, something different - unlike any other happenings in the Southern California area. |
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Cornerstone Theater Company
Cornerstone Theater Company is a multi-ethnic, ensemble-based theater company. We commission and produce new plays, both original works and contemporary adaptations of classics, which combine the artistry of professional and community collaborators. By making theater with and for people of many ages, cultures and levels of theatrical experience, Cornerstone builds bridges between and within diverse communities in our home city of Los Angeles and nationwide. |
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Crazy Space
Crazy Space - Originally founded by Lauren Hartman and Lisa Adams and further organized and curated by numerous artist-curators for six years, Crazy Space was one of Los Angeles's leading non-commercial artspaces, presenting hundreds of emerging and alternative visual, media, and performance artists from Southern California, the USA, and beyond.
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Alex Donis
Alex Donis is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media including illustration, video, spoken word, works on paper, painting and performance. His recent project "beauty happenings" are sculptural plastic flowers creating drive-by fantasies from our ubiquitous Los Angeles landscape. Recently his work was part of the survey exhibition "Made in California" at the Los Angeles County Museum of art.
He performed in "Subtext", a spoken word invitational at the Getty Center.
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The Empowerment Project
The Empowerment Project produces and distributes its own documentary films and videos, and provides facilities, training and other support for independent producers, artists, activists and organizations working in video and other electronic media. Its purpose is to work towards democratizing access to the media, and to provide the resources necessary to put the power of media in the hands of individuals and organizations working to further important social, political and artistic purposes. EP coordinates and supports progressive organizing efforts, conducts media training workshops, and operates a media center with low-cost access to video and computer facilities in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Empowerment Project founder and Oscar®-winning documentarian, Barbara Trent, speaks at universities and other institutions throughout the country in an effort to help people become more critical consumers of the media and to shed new light on the social and political issues facing us today. |
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Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Fusco’s recent art projects combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Fusco's works have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil. Her 1993 documentary about her caged Amerindian performance with Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a, The Couple in the Cage, has been screened in over two hundred venues around the world. Her latest video, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, was selected for the 2004 Shanghai Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight in 2005. Her video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10, received an honorable mention from the 2003 Transmediale in Berlin. The exhibition that she curated for the International Center of Photography on racial taxonomy in American photography, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, is currently touring the U.S. |
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Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Guillermo Gomez-Pena is a performance artist and writer who resides in San Francisco, where he is artistic director of the performance and art collective, La Pocha Nostra. Born in 1955 and raised in mexico City, he came to the US in 1978 to study Post-Studio Art at California Institute of the Arts. His pioneering work in performance, video, installation, poetry, journalism, cultural theory, and radical pedagogy, explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, and the politics of language, "extreme culture," and new technologies. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, a writer for newspapers and magazines in the USA, Mexico, and Europe, and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). For 25 years, Gomez-Pena has been exploring intercultural issues and border culture with the use of mixed genres and experimental languages. Continually developing multi-centric narratives and large-scale performance projects from a border perspective, Gomez-Pena creates what critics have termed "Chicano cyber-punk performances" and "ethno-techno art." |
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Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario is contributor to the LA WEEKLY, one of the Founding Artists of 18th Street Arts Center, Highways Performance Space and Clean Needles Now (a street based harm reduction program), former co director of Crazy Space Gallery, co producer of Max10 performance laboratory, curator and producer of the critically acclaimed (and over a decade old) performance series Pop Tarts. A seasoned street outreach worker and health educator MKN has been confuting and confusing his art life and lived life to the consternation and appreciation of audiences everywhere. His performance works have been featured in Los Angeles Times, LA WEEKLY, Los Angeles Magazine,Life and Times (Los Angeles PBS affiliate), High Performance Magazine, Frontiers, IN magazine, Hoy, The Advocate and Traffic Report.
His performance works have been featured in both national and international festivals. Venue highlights include : L.A.C.E (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), The Mark Taper Forum, REDCAT at the Disney Concert Hall, USC, UCLA, HIghways, P.S.122, The 18th Street Arts Center, The Knitting Factory, ICA LONDON (twice), Platinum Oasis (curated by Ron Athey and Miss Vaginal Cream Davis) and the Rompeforma festival in San Juan Puerto Rico. He has taught at Otis College of Art and Design,
Highways Performance Space and Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation. |
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Side Street Projects
Side Street Projects - Founded by Karen Atkinson and Joe Luttrell, Side Street Projects is a visual arts organization whose mission is to give artists of all ages the ability and means to support their creative endeavors. Each year, we serve over 1,000 kids from diverse communities throughout LA County. We also provide support services designed to meet the needs of working artists, serving nearly 200 adult artists each year, most of whom go onto produce public exhibitions with a combined annual audience of approximately 5,000. |
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TeAda Productions
Under the direction of artist Leilani Chan, TeAda Productions exists to enrich the repertoire of contemporary works created and performed by people of color. Begun in 1994, TeAda Productions is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to empower underserved communities through the development and presentation of interdisciplinary theatrical performance pieces by, for and about people of color. By developing ground-breaking, high caliber, cross-disciplinary performances that incorporate cultural forms such as dance and music with experimental theatrical and performance art practices, TeAda Productions expands awareness, builds communities and educates the general public about the issues facing underserved communities. TeAda Productions achieves this mission by producing and touring innovative performances, both locally and nationally, in traditional and non-traditional venues and through residencies offering community-based workshops and new work development labs. |
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Denise Uyehara
Denise Uyehara is an interdisciplinary performance artist/writer/playwright whose work has been presented across the United States (the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space), and internationally (the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Dokkyo Performance Studies Conference and the Morishita Studio in Tokyo, the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, Women in View Festival in Vancouver). She was a founding member of the Sacred Naked Nature Girls. Her most recent work, "Big Head", links the U.S. government's incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II with treatment of those perceived as "the enemy" now, including Arab Americans, Muslims, and South Asian Americans. The recipient of numerous awards, Uyehara recently received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, a California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant, and was a Poets & Writers 'Writer on Site' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beyond Baroque Literary Center. Uyehara teaches workshops in the community and has taught performance for the Dept. of World Arts & Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and for the Depts. of Asian American Studies and Studio Arts at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). |
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The Virginia Avenue Project
The Virginia Avenue Project is a free, afterschool program that uses the performing arts in conjunction with long-term, one-on-one mentoring to help kids discover their full potential. Through a sequence of writing and performing programs, Project kids develop life skills and give voice to their creativity. The Project was founded fourteen years ago with support from The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Threshold Foundation, The Ann M. Martin Foundation, and The Educational Foundation of America. Our community partner is the Santa Monica Police Activities League (PAL) - where we offer year-long classes, workshops, and academic enrichment and tutoring. The Project provides programs that give kids the experience of success and the self-confidence it inspires. |
