In this video, Travelgoat speaks with Gallery Owner Steven Kasher and Artist-in-Residence Mehdi Matin.  Kasher discusses his plan to preserve and document the living, growing art collection while Matin explains his connection to this strange but inspiring place he calls home.

The Uranian Phalanstery, a utopian organization and communal house of worship for artists, purchased the two-building compound in 1974 and utilized the space as a church, printing press, Tibetan tattoo parlor, studio, and a home to Richard Tyler’s widow, Dorothea Tyler, and her protegee, Mehdi Matin. The dilapidated buildings contain art of infinite media including floor-to-ceiling paintings, prints and publications from the in-house press, sculptures by Richard Tyler’s host of famous artist friends like Claes Oldenburg, and a temple that functions as a large scale piece of installation art.

“The Uranian Phalanstery is an important component to the rich artistic heritage of Downtown New York City,” said Zach Aarons, Travelgoat CEO.  “Not only does the organization strongly reference the past, it moves the discussion about the relationship between art and mysticism forward in a productive and compelling way.”

To view the short film, please click here http://travelgoat.com/new-york-city/326-east-4th-street/ ….  To view additional Travelgoat offerings, please visit www.travelgoat.com.

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“There is something so powerful and emotional in each of her masterpieces, bringing anyone’s mind to some sort of fantasy world. Working with Aoife is going to be a fantastic adventure that we are really looking forward to”, stated Denis Carre, founder of DiCi Productions.
Aoife Joyce is an Irish artist. She has already proven her real talent on several exhibitions through her art. Aoife was recently selected to exhibit her paintings at the prestigious Sigvardson Gallery in Denmark.

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    According to Porterfield’s President Lance J. Klass, “Anne Mortimer has an  enviable international reputation as an artist and illustrator.  In addition to her impressive collection of over 300 cat paintings, Anne is also an accomplished painter of birds and botanicals, bunnies and ducks, Christmas and florals.  We are endeavoring to make her portfolio of over 450 lovely images available for licensing onto a wide variety of fine consumer products.”

    The artist’s work has been reproduced as home decor products including fabrics, china, collector plates, tinware, needlecraft and stationary.  Her licensees in the United Kingdom have included Wedgwood, The Danbury Mint, Coverleaf, R.S.P.B, W. H. Smith, Marks & Spencer, and DMC.  In the United States, licensees have included such companies as Sunrise Greetings, Leanin’ Tree, SunsOut, AMIA, Crown Point Graphics, Santa Barbara Ceramic Design, C. R. Gibson, Evergreen Enterprises,  Dayspring, JCA, Ravensburger, and many others.

    The artist has exhibited with the Society of Illustrators U.S.A., Best Children’s Books of the Year 2002/2003 Bonhams Auction House London, The Royal Miniature Society (R.M.S.) and the Society of Botanical Artists.

    Since 1990 Anne has worked with Harper Collins book publishers & Hyperion Walt Disney children’s books U.S.A.

    Her most notable books include:

        “A Pussycats Christmas” – Margaret Wise Brown
        “Sneakers the Seaside Cat” – Margaret Wise Brown
        “Cats Sleep Anywhere” – Elenor Farjeon
        “A Kittens Year” – Nancy Raines Day
        “Cat & Bear” – Carol Greene
        “Kittycat & Lullaby” – Eileen Spinelli
        “Santa’s Snow cat” – Sue Stainton
        “The Lighthouse Cat” – Sue Stainton

    Among her most recent books are “The Chocolate Cat” by Sue Stainton and the “Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear.

    Her love of cats & nature is obvious, the attention to detail is extraordinary. Her talent shines through in all her works of art.

    “Anne Mortimer’s illustrations are a magical 
    companion to Edwards Lear’s immortal whimsy.”
     - Roger Ebert, film critic & author

    “Excellent super realist illustrations” 
    – The Sunday Times

    Porterfield’s is extremely delighted to be able to represent the extraordinary, charming and diverse artwork of Anne Mortimer to all fields of art licensing on an exclusive basis in North America.  

   The artist’s work may be viewed on Porterfield’s #1-rated art licensing agency site. 

    For more information about licensing Anne Mortimer’s artistic works for your products, please contact Lance Klass, President of Porterfield’s, at (800) 660-8345 or email art@porterfieldsfineart.com.  Color copies, contact sheets or low-res scans on disk are available upon request.

Contact information:
Lance Klass, President
Porterfield’s Fine Art Licensing
8437 Tuttle Avenue, Suite 410, Sarasota, Florida 34243 USA
Phone (941) 487-8581, fax (941) 487-8582
On the internet at http://www.porterfieldsfineart.com 
Email lance@porterfieldsfineart.com.
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Now celebrating our 15th anniversary as an art licensing agency.

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Vermont Performance Lab brings together two Native American Artists from Alaska and Vermont for Artist Exchange and Fish Skin Sewing Workshop

Guilford, Vermont—  On January 11 Vermont Performance Lab welcomes the return of Alaska-born, Minneapolis-based choreographer Emily Johnson to Guilford for a week-long residency to continue the development of her newest performance work, “Niicugni” (Listen). Johnson will host a workshop, participate in an artist-to-artist exchange, visit community schools and lead a discussion at Brattleboro’s public library.

The focus of the residency will be on engaging various members of the community in the craft of fish skin sewing, a practice Johnson is employing to create an installation of lanterns made from the skin of salmon.  Johnson will be joined by Judy Dow, an Abenaki artist who has been making baskets for 40 years. Johnson is also inviting sewers from the community to be part of a fish skin sewing workshop.  

“Niicugni” is the second in a trilogy of works related to Johnson’s native Yup’ik heritage and represents the confluence of personal experience, cultural tradition and contemporary performance work. It brings to life the very real issues around displacement of native people and, through performance, invites audiences into the dialogue.

Johnson began working on the fish skin installation earlier this summer in Alaska while learning the Athabaskan craft of fish skin sewing. Fish skin sewing is an Alaskan native art form whereby the skin is prepared, dried, and sewn to create clothing, functional vessels, and art. The installation/set design for “Niicugni” will be made of transparent fish-skin lanterns with audio speakers inside. In the final presentation of the work, the fish-skin vessels will hang from the ceiling in a pattern covering the entire stage area and will have the capability to lift and lower during the performance. Audience members will walk through the installation as they enter and exit the theater.

As part of the week-long residency in Guilford, Vermont Performance Lab has organized a number of activities to engage the community in Johnson’s work.  Activities include a Lab Talk with Johnson, Dow and cultural anthropologist and Marlboro College professor Carol Hendrickson at the Brooks Memorial Library, artist visits to the Marlboro Elementary School and the Guilford Central School and a fish skin workshop and sewing bee.

January 12: Lab Talk:

“Embodying Native Culture: The Dance of Tradition and the Contemporary,”

A discussion co-presented by Brooks Memorial Library and Vermont Performance Lab.  Emily Johnson, a native Alaskan choreographer, and Judy Dow, a master basket maker of Abenaki descent, will join Carol Hendrickson, Marlboro College Professor of Anthropology to explore the challenges, rewards and politics facing Native American artists who draw on traditional themes to make contemporary work.

7PM @ Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT

free and open to the public

January 12-15: Artist-to-Artist Exchange

Two Native American art makers, Emily Johnson of Yup’ik heritage and Judy Dow of Abenaki heritage, will come together in the studios of Guilford Sound for a 4-day artist exchange to share practices around basket making and fish skin sewing.

January 13-17: Fish Skin Sewing Workshop & Sewing Bee

For her newest work Emily Johnson has learned the art of fish skin sewing in order to make an installation of salmon-skin lanterns.  She will teach the traditional Alaskan craft, and community members will help make lanterns.  There is no workshop fee. Participants must commit to making one lantern for “Niicugni” and in exchange will get to take home some salmon. Advance registration required and space is limited.

Please contact Sara Coffey by January 3 at 802-579-3766 or sara@vermontperformancelab.com

January 13 & 14: in-school residencies at Marlboro Elementary School and Guilford Central School  

During a week-long residency in Guilford with Vermont Performance Lab, Judy Dow and Emily Johnson will put the fish skin sewing aside for a morning to make visits to two community schools to share their knowledge and expertise of Abenaki and Native Alaskan handcrafts.  Emily will focus on the craft of fish skin sewing, a Native Alaskan activity while Judy Dow will make a presentation and lead a hands-on workshop on Native Technology in the context of the Abenaki.

The residency activities are made possible in part through grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts Native Arts Program.

For event updates visit www.vermontperformancelab.com

About Vermont Performance Lab
Working with the notion that the rural communities of Southern Vermont can be a fertile laboratory for incubating new contemporary performance works, Vermont Performance Lab founded its Lab Program in 2006. Since then, each year VPL partners up with other organizations, schools and programs in the region to share resources and promote a two-way exchange between visiting artists and the community.

Emily Johnson is a director/choreographer/curator, originally from Alaska and currently based in Minneapolis. Since 1998 she has created work about the experience of sensing AND seeing performance; her pieces often function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment – sights, sounds, smells – as well as a place’s architecture, history, and role in community. She works to blur distinctions between performance and daily life and to create work that reveals and respects multiple perspectives. This allows for the possibility of multiple meanings – with a goal of stimulating reflection and emotional empathy between performer and audience, and between audience members. Her work has toured across the USA and in Montreal and Russia. She is a 2010 McKnight Fellow and was a 2009 MANCC Choreographer Fellow.

Emily grew up in her native Alaska playing basketball and running long distance. At 18 she left rural living, moved to Minneapolis, and quite by accident, learned to become a choreographer and performer. For the past 16 years, city living has swirled around her, dragging her, literally, away from the physical space of Alaska and the summer and fall family rituals of hunting and fishing, then smoking, drying, canning and freezing food. She is pulled back, conceptually, when Midwesterners and others ask her if she lived in an igloo (myth), if she has an Eskimo name (no), and if it is OK to say the word “Eskimo” (it is, but only sometimes). She is of Yup’ik descent, though she does not speak the language – yet. Emotionally, she is tied to the landscape of South Central Alaska where she was born and to the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta, where her father’s family is from.

Judy Dow resides in Essex Junction and is a professional artist who has been making baskets for 40 years. Her baskets are currently on a three-year national museum tour. Dow holds a bachelor’s degree in American Indian Studies and received the 2004 Governor’s Heritage Award for Outstanding Educator for her work in teaching educators and children about the science, math, history and art of Native American people through workshops and artist-in-residence programs. She has served on a number of boards, including the American Indian Scouting Association, Gedakina, an organization dedicated to strengthening the cultural knowledge and identity of eastern Native Americans, and is a past director of the Dawnland Center. A deep love of the land has led her into developing programs that are both experiential and interactive. Judy is of Abenaki and French Canadian descent, and has made Vermont her life-long home.

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Fallbrook, Calif., Oct. 28, 2010 – Tony Radcliffe, a Redlands, Calif., artist has won Brandon Gallery’s Best of Show award in the annual Small Works Contest and Exhibition, the gallery announced today.
   According to Jill Jones, Brandon’s curator and chair for the event, Radcliffe was one of 12 award winners who participated from Riverside and San Diego counties.  Others in the top tier overall include: r. mike nichols (sic), first place; Diane Adams, second place; and Noreen Ring, third place.  Honorable mentions in the overall excellence category went to Lorraine Dawson and Carol Perko.
   Jones also said that Richard Freund, 3D sculpture; Mark Disney, photography and digital arts; Lisa Mozzini-McDill, oils; Beth Taft, watercolor and gouache; Jill Jones, mixed media; and Ray Fedorchak, pastels received awards of merit in several media categories,
   Winners will receive their awards during a public reception at Brandon Gallery, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, from 6-9PM.  The juror, noted regional arts leader and past  Riverside Art Museum director, Daniel Foster, will be on hand to discuss the judging process.
   More than 120 pieces of art representing 67 artists that made it into the final round of judging will be on display at Brandon Gallery from Nov. 3-28, 2010.
Fallbrook Brandon Gallery (www.fallbrookbrandongallery.org) 105 N Main St., one door off Alvarado in the Village of Fallbrook, is a non-profit artists’ co-operative with 29 members representing many major creative disciplines.   Each month member and guest artists from San Diego and Riverside counties display hundreds of pieces of art that include textiles and sculpture, jewelry and gourd art, oil and acrylic paintings, watercolors and pastels, greeting cards, printmaking, photography and digital media.  Brandon Gallery  is open from 10AM to 5PM Tuesday through Saturday and 11AM to 4PM on Sundays.

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The two newest official releases are numbers 6 and 7 in the planned 50 image series. So far 23 women from all over the United States and as far away as Australia have come to South Florida to be painted and photographed for this inspiring project.

The project aims to include women of all ages, backgrounds, sizes, and shapes as well as various stages of their journey be it pre, post or non-reconstructive.

Each image is custom designed and tailored to the participating survivor. Their design symbolizes something important to them or their personality and relates to the larger story of a breast cancer survivor. Many of the images have layers of details and symbolism but you’ll have to buy the book (when it’s done) to get the most details, behind the scenes images and most importantly the survivor stories and bios.

The lastest issue is “The Year that Was” – an image designed to promote the importance of Early Detection. The image of a classic pocket watch etched with the saying “Every Second Counts” additionally speaks to the importance of appreciating life in general and not taking for granted the finite time we have. The second hand leaving a pink trail across her breast that had the cancer. As the hands fly around the face with the passing of time, the numbered days of the week and month that made up that fateful year explode out and drift around her body. Her sons birthdate is represented by month and day near her c-section scar as he was a BIG part of her motivation for cancer survival.

Next, is “Bamboo & Butterflies” – an image about strength, flexibility, growth and transformation. The image features several stages of the life of the butterfly – from eggs, to the caterpillar to the chrysalis and the final emergence of the beautiful butterfly. All set among a rich thriving tropical forrest of bamboo; which is know for its fast growth, strength and flexibility.

The images in the series are available as fine art prints and framed pieces with 15% of the profits being donated.

Additional products such as coffee mugs, mousepads, journal books, calendars and greeting cards just to name a few are available at http://www.cafepress.com/BCABPP with 100% of the profits of these products being donated to various Breast Cancer causes and foundations.

Follow the BCABPP on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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When: Saturday, December 4, 2010 between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m
            Sunday, December 5, 2010 between noon and 4:00 p.m.
Where: Community Presbyterian church of San Juan Capistrano
            32202 Del Obispo Street
           San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
          Phone: 949-493-1502

Special activities include:
Children’s hands-on craft center
Children’s music
Refreshments at Mrs. Claus’ Village Cafe

Jingles the Balloon Elf – Sunday December 5 between noon and 3:00 p.m.

Santa and Mrs. Claus – Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sunday noon – 1:30 p.m. and 2;00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

On Sunday afternoon at 3:00, we’ll announce the winners of our great raffle items. you need not be present to win.

Net proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to support the recently-completed build in San Juan Capistrano.

Come one. Come all. And enjoy the spirit of the holidays!

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Mr. Cornell Summrell, Owner and Master Loctician, of Tru Rootz Natural Hair Salon has joined forces with local businesses such as Faces of Virtue, Okrenda, Carl Mack, LAMIK Beauty Cosmetics, and the Cheffen Wilson Foundation for the 2nd year of natural hair artistry. This spectacular event is designed to bring awareness to the community on the holistic benefit of chemical free hair while embracing natural beauty.
This affair will feature: live model exhibits, music, hor d’oeuvres, wine, and entertainment. Everyone is invited to take part in what has become this city’s most intriguing event of the year.

For more information and to purchase tickets contact Tru Rootz Natural Hair Salon at (504) 433-8198 or to purchase tickets online, please visit: www.trurootzsalon.com.

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Her emotive and thoughtful coverage helps to paint a picture of the impact of the project both on the survivors who participate and those that view the images.

• To order a copy of ’round (Miami) or to read the online version please visit:
http://www.round-magazine.com/miami-beach/articles/83-br …

• The original online article and wonderful comments can be found here:
http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-fort-lauderdale/b …

The images in the series are available as fine art prints and framed pieces with 15% of the profits being donated.

Additional products such as coffee mugs, mousepads, journal books, calendars and greeting cards just to name a few are available at http://www.cafepress.com/BCABPP with 100% of the profits of these products being donated to various Breast Cancer causes and foundations.

Follow the BCABPP on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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The ArtStreet segment was produced by Shirley Ravachi a breast cancer survivor herself as well as a future participant in the project. Four women, all survivors with various circumstances, diagnosis and states of reconstruction come together over two days to participate in the project and be filmed and interviewed for this short PBS segment. Day one was Doris (Releasing the Spell) and Maria (Warrior) while day two was Melissa (Pink Cheshire) and Dawn (Tribute).

All the survivors provide short interviews and are covered in behind the scenes images of the body painting process and the actual photo shoots to create the images. Also interviewed are Michael D. Colanero – the project creator, designer, photographer and digital artist. (http://www.uncommonstock.net) as well as the project Lead Body Painter and creative collaborator Keegan Hitchcock (http://www.bodyartbykeegan.com). Lucianne “Luci” Ungerbuehler (http://www.twofacedart.com) also painted one of the survivors on day two (Tribute) though she’s new to the project and wasn’t interviewed this time.

The final print versions of these images are about to be officially released as well – with 15% of the profits being donated to various Breast Cancer causes.

The video can be viewed on the official YouTube Chanel for the Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project at the link below:

• Direct Video Link:

• Main Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/BCABPP

• View the Video on the Main ArtStreet Channel

segment producer: Shirley Ravachi
segment host: Meredith Porte
project shot and filmed on location at One Model Place Studios.

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