Performance November 11th

Rain date scheduled for Tuesday Nov 17th, same time.
Here are links to two local newspapers that have featured the piece in an article:
http://eltiempohispano.com/
(last edition, #6)

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009910130303

LANGUAGE OF LINE - Opening - Nov 6th

To view photos from NWAA's November 6th NWAA opening of Language of Line, click here.

LANGUAGE OF LINE

LANGUAGE OF LINE
4 West 5th Street, Wilmington, DE
November 5 - 30, 2009
Opening: Nov 6th, 6-9pm
Closing: Nov 19th, 6-9pm

“A line is a child’s first instrument of depiction, the boundary where one thing ends and another begins.” Language of Line compiles 8 artists using a primitive sense of line to build a larger more intricate composition. Line is explored in a drawing practice, transfer of information, tracing, painting, cutting, bending, forming, and repetition of linear qualities, exploring a range of mediums and practices.






Stephanie Beck utilizes cut paper referencing the grids and lines of city plans, while also carefully composing large scale drawings of aerial two dimensional line patterns of Philadelphia and neighboring regions. Beck’s beautifully layered intricate cut paper carefully pinned to the walls form depth and shadow. Andrew Wapinski presents the grid subtlety with his mixed media resin paintings. Wapinski contrasts the man made grids of metal leaf squares or spray paint against visceral organic lines and layers of pigments and acrylic. His gold leaf squares speak to Yves Klein, while his line of coal becomes a material “zip”, reminiscent of Barnett Newman.


Three artists work in process based drawing. Martin Brief meticulously traces the edges of the form from the text on each page of the dictionary with his ink on paper ongoing Dictionary Series. Although hand drawn, Brief’s work appears to be digitally produced due to its super clean minimal quality. Brian Patrick Franklin marries the concepts of sports and art with his Game Day Series. Franklin watches sporting events and traces the path of the ball to generate digital drawings, appearing like a computer generated Jackson Pollock drip painting. Zach Chupa also combines athletics with a drawing practice. Chupa produces simple line compositions on paper by mapping various running paths with a GPS device, in his Drun Compilation Series. The result is a small, minimal, refined process driven composition.





Beyond drawing a reference, artists work with line sculpturally. Anthony Cervino produces large-scale versions of plastic die cast scraps from toys and model kits. Blurring the line between mass-produced and hand made objects, Cervino’s Fleet mirrors the sensibility of the “ray gun” collection of Claes Oldenburg. Stephen Ruszkowski uses perspective lines of historic architecture and maps of the Delaware Valley region to create wall installations consisting of yarn and nails. The lines of yarn float off the wall expressing a paradox of permanence, disappearance and remembrance of structures and landscapes. Abby Donovan creates installations using low-tech materials such as wire, sculpey, tape, and clay to develop temporary site-specific material constructions questioning the urgency and absurdity of spaces and materiality. Her installations use altered symbols of language such as letters of the alphabet and arrows, creating organic forms of the once rigid lines transforming geometric spaces.




In a culture ‘devoted to the ordering of space’, the artists simply forgo the use of representation via abstraction, being more concerned with what things are more than what they look like to the eye’s camera.

—Ron Longsdorf, Curator
November 2009

New Jam

Performance November 11th

Art Works: Address from the NEA Chair

Check out this inspiring address from the new Chair of the NEA, Rocco Landesman.

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=13#more-13

Philly artist wins $150,000 prize.

Imagine being awarded $150,000, at the age of 28! Read the article about a Philly artist who won the first Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20091023_Global_search_for_prizewinner_yields_a_young_Phila__artist.html

2 New Jams

psychedelic bear week, coming soon on the discovery channel.com

CHECK OUT THIS TIMES ARTICLE: Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty Storefronts

" Pop-up galleries" are taking hold in New York as development advocates and landlords are turning to artists with vivid imaginations and splashy exhibits.

Does this sound familiar?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/nyregion/13galleries.html?emc=eta1

Artist Networking Opportunity Friday, October 23rd at Deep Blue

LEARNING THE TRADE

Check out the article "Learning the Trade" in the Baltimore City paper. It is a review of the Seventh Annual Curator's Incubator Program at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore. Included is Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art curated by NWAA curator Margaret Winslow and including work by NWAA member's Ron Longsdorf, Janell Olah, and Stephen Ruszkowski.

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=19139

JANE CHESSON

www.janechesson.com

NWAA Artist member Brad Turner's new show at the Red Mohawk Gallery

Event details: The opening will take place on Friday Nov. 6th, from 6PM - 9PM at the Red Mohawk Gallery in Wilmington. It will be a great time and as always there will be beverages to consume. There also will be a band. I will have plenty of shirt for those who missed out on the last run... I know many of you will be there in spirit and cannot make it out. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future! - Hope to see you there. - Brad


Red Mohawk Gallery & Studio
228 West 9th St. Wilmington, DE 19801
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

SHIPLEY LOFTS! Available in March 2010

The roof will be on 701 Shipley by the end of October!

Check out the article in Spark weekly for further details about the affordable artists live/work spaces that will be available this spring!

http://www.sparkweekly.com/article/20091006/SPARK0101/910070309/1129/SPARK

Applications for Shipley Lofts can be downloaded by following this link: http://www.ingerman.com/pdf/rental_app.pdf


The Ingerman Group and the Shipley Village Community Development Organization will begin taking applications from artists immediately. The application will be a three-part process: the applicant must first qualify as a perspective renter, followed by an income and credit check, and lastly there will be a review of the applicant's artwork.

New Wilmington Art Association will continue to provide up-to-date information about Shipley Lofts. If you are interested in learning more about the live/work spaces contact Michael Kalmbach at new.wilmington.art@gmail.com

Art:21 screening at 312 N Market Street Thursday, October 15th from 6-9pm

At the October 15th closing reception for the exhibition Eclosion, New Wilmington Art Association is proud to present a screening of episodes 3 & 4 of Season 5 of art:21. This screening event is part of a national initiative titled Access '09 which aims to introduce the award winning PBS production, Art:21 Art in the Twenty-first century, to a larger audience.

Episode 3 Transformation


Episode 4 Systems

Ryan Jones

In-progress.

catharine maloney

www.catharinemaloney.com

Jerry Saltz takes us through the Chelsea shows on 24th Street...

Can you believe Jerry missed the Opening of Eclosion for this!

We need a Public Healthcare Option!

TAKE ACTION NOW!
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Annette Laszczkowska*

[*Las-kow-ska]

alaszczkowska.com

Benjamin Austin

Michael Kalmbach speaks to UDaily about NWAA

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2010/sep/kalmbach092209.html

Hexchange

I have a recently completed edition in this project:




October 9 - November 6, 2009: The Hexagon presents: Hexchange, an emerging artist printmaking portfolio with over 40 participants nationwide. Following the exhibition, Hexchange will become a part of the permanent collections at the International Printing Museum in Southern California, and Goya Contemporary and Nudashank Gallery in Baltimore. Hexchange will also travel to Philadelphia for satellite exhibition during the Southern Graphics Council in 2010. Individual prints and whole portfolios will be available for purchase for the duration of the show.

The Hexagon is a community-run gallery and performance space that embraces all media and is located in the Station North Arts District at 1825 N. Charles Street. The Hexagon features music performances, community outreach events, film screenings, art exhibitions, and many other creative events. For more information about the space, please visit http://www.hexagonspace.com.

(If you are in the area, you should come and check it out!)-Nikholis Planck

Southern Tier

In late August I took a trip to New York State's Southern Tier. I took some nature photos which can be seen on my Flickr page, www.Flickr.com/ahlenmoin. There are a couple other images: Mark Twain's headstone and Ernie Davis High School.

I recently blogged on the subject of Suburban Sprawl, based on my experiences during this trip.
That blog entry can be seen at http://peridotglow.blogspot.com/. I plan to do a couple more entries about the Southern Tier- look for them throughout October. -Ahlen Moin

Fringe Wilmington & the NWAA group exhibition, Eclosion, opens on Wednesday, September 30th at 312 N Market Street

Eclosion: New Work from New Wilmington Art Association

312 N. Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

Opening Reception
September 30, 5-8pm

Visual Fringe Gallery Hours:
October 1, 6-9pm
October 2, 6-9pm
October 3, 1-9pm
October 4, 12-4pm

Fringe Wilmington Additional Information:
October 1 - October 4
(check the Fringe Wilmington Website for additional perfromances, places, and times)

Closing Reception & Art:21 Season 5 premiere of episodes 3 & 4

October 15
6-9pm


Eclosion: New Work from NWAA

New Wilmington Art Association promotes exposure to contemporary art theory and practices through its unique guerrilla model. NWAA inhabits the raw storefront spaces on Market Street-literally on the "fringe" of Wilmington's commercial district. During the inaugural festival of Fringe Wilmington, NWAA continues its practice by presenting Eclosion. The theme of this group exhibition is transformation-the transformation of downtown Wilmington, NWAA's transformative activities, or the recent transformation in our political and economic atmospheres. This subject is evident in the work selected for the show and offers the opportunity to discuss the intriguing and thought-provoking art produced both locally and internationally today.

Art:21 Access '09

For October's third Thursday closing event, NWAA will participate in Art:21 Access '09-- an international screening initiative of Season 5 of Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century. On October 15th from 6-9pm, NWAA will screen Episode 3: Transformation and Episode 4: Systems. Transformation includes interviews with Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy. Each of these three artists observe, satirize, or reinvent characters from literature, history, art history, science, and popular culture. Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum are included in Systems, which examines work that conveys networks, structures, mapping, or information exchange today.


NWAA member artists featured in Eclosion:

Benjamin Austin, Brookes Britcher, Breck Brunson, Alexander Chassey, Hunter Clarke, Jennifer Dillner-Vincent, William Fields, Francine Fox, Ryan Jones, Michael Kalmbach, Amanda Kamen, James Lipovac, Ronald Longsdorf, Chris Marrero, Jared Mimm, Gregg Morris, Eric Napier, Ashley John Pigford, Nikholis Planck, Michael Podolak, Dan Rios, Phillip Scarpone, Chuck Schultz, SquareWell, Brad Turner, and Eddie Whelan.

All for One closing reception to be held this Thursday, September 17th, Special Performance by Drew...

Drew, of Drew and the Medicinal Pen, will be performing at the closing reception of All for One, this Thursday, Sepetmber 17th at 4 West 5th Street, Wilmington, DE. The reception begins at 6pm and the music will start sometime after 8... see you there...

NWAA "Straight Outta LOMA" T-shirts FREE with your 25 dollar donation...

Colors & Sizes

Medium (White) $25.00 Large (White) $25.00 XLarge ( White) $25.00 Medium (Red) $25.00 Large (Red) $25.00 XLarge (Red) $25.00

Colors & Sizes

Medium (Gray) $25.00 Large (Gray) $25.00 XLarge ( Gray) $25.00 Medium (Black) $25.00 Large (Black) $25.00 XLarge (Black) $25.00

Michael Kalmbach featured on Delaware Arts Info...

The Delaware College of Art & Design's 13th annual Faculty & Staff exhibition is on view until October 15th.

http://deartsinfo.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-through-image-september.html

Boxed Water is Better

"The Arts As Prevention"

In 1983, when I arrived to settle in Wilmington, one of my first and most lasting observance was the sign at the entrance to a park in my new communitiy, which read, "Welcome to Wilmington...A Place to Be Somebody." After 26 years, I still feel that Wilmington is indeed "A Place to Be Somebody." Since 2001, I have collaborated with the "Stop the Violence Coalition." In my many workshops with young children, we participated in art activities. Most memorable, was a project in which I worked with over 40 children in the Tubman Garret Park, to paint a Banner, which we titled, "A Peaceful World Begins With Me." Many studies indicate that children who are involved in the arts at an early age, are less likely to be involved in violence and crimes.There is an ongoing need to provide a forum to engage children and adults on the street corners, in the arts. I am issuing the challenge to the NWAA, of which I recently became a member, to plan community projects in the Arts, to involve 'At Promise Youth" City youth. It should be noted that the term "At Risk Youth" is obsolete. They are not at risk, but "at promise." It is the "society" that places them at risk, by not engaging them in creative activities. It is my goal to see a program titled "The Arts As Prevention" come ALIVE in the City of Wilmington. We can do it! I already created a painting on the title "Arts As Prevention."
Eunice LaFate

Artist As Citizen

Artist As Citizen is a great way for students to get involved with major world issues via an art practice.

Check out the NY Times Article

Artist As Citizen

Artists fill a void in downtown Wilmington

NWAA article in the Community news:
http://www.communitypub.com/arts/x939031745/Artists-fill-a-void-in-downtown-Wilmington

Fostering Diversity in Art Awareness

As a folk artist and educator, I see a great need to encourage awareness of diversity in art appreciation in the Wilmington Community. There is a perspective of art in the traditional context, i.e. the Brandywine painters. Most people tend to gravitate towards traditional art. However, there is a vast arry of art in our community that speak to life stories and issues, We need to educate art consumers to patronize the diversity in the art forms. -Eunice LaFate

Esteban Pilonieta

http://sefuepalnorte.blogspot.com/

NWAA DIRECTOR TO RECEIVE 2009 CHRISTI AWARD!

New Wilmington Art Association is pleased to announce that Michael Kalmbach will receive the 2009 Christi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Advocacy & Community Service. The Christi Awards Gala will be held on Thursday, October 22nd at 6:00pm. This year's theme is " Hope, Inspiration, Knowledge, Passion - Unifying the Community Through the Arts." The awards program will take place at the Baby Grand Theatre followed by a reception at the Christina Cultural Arts Center.

" It's an honor to be recongnized by the Christina Cultural Arts Center. More importantly, the Christi Award will give New Wilmington Art Association a new platform to promote the needs of emerging artists in downtown Wilmington. As this new downtown begins to unfold, New Wilmington Art Association will continue to serve the needs of the young cultural workers who are largely responsible for the revitalization of our City." - Michael Kalmbach, Director of New Wilmington Art Association

For more information about the Christi Awards, visit: http://www.ccacde.org/event_christi.php

JIM ZESKE: MATERIALES NÓMADES

CHECK OUT http://jimzeske.blogspot.com
and http://residenciacorazon.blogspot.com for more photos.

Sculpture: Found Object Course at DCAD

If anyone is interested, see below:



Registration deadline is Monday, September 14, 2009.

Artist Highlight: RON LONGSDORF

Hi, everyone! Check out this month's issue of The Paper Machine's Artist Highlight: RON LONGSDORF.


RONLONGSDORF.COM

EDDIE WHELAN

GoldMedalMatch from eddie the wheel on Vimeo.

james_burke_001 from eddie the wheel on Vimeo.

Blog--> http://www.a-n-t-e-n-n-a-s.com/

http://www.eddiethewheel.com/

NWAA & Adaptation Present: All for One, Sept. 4th & Sept. 17th at 4 West 5th Street

Adaptation is pleased to partner with NWAA to present this unique body of work to the public for the first time in nearly 30 years. The receptions on September 4th & September 17th will be from 6:00 to 9:00pm. To view the exhibition by appointment, call Michael Kalmbach at 302-312-5493.

VIEW IMAGES FROM FRIDAY'S OPENING

Eclosion: New Work from NWAA, VISUAL FRINGE CALL FOR ENTRIES

Eclosion: New Work from NWAA
VISUAL FRINGE CALL FOR ENTRIES

New Wilmington Art Association has been selected to participate in this 2009 inaugural year of Fringe Wilmington—the city’s four-day celebration of contemporary and experimental art. The theme for this group exhibition is transformation—the transformation of downtown Wilmington, NWAA’s transformative activities, or the recent transformation of the political and economic atmosphere.

For October’s third Thursday closing event, NWAA will participate in Art21 Access ’09—an international screening initiative of the four episodes from season 5 of Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century. On October 15, from 6 – 9pm, NWAA will screen Episode 3:Transformation and Episode 4: Systems. Transformation includes interviews with Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy. Each of these three artists observe, satirize, or reinvent characters from literature, history, art history, science, and popular culture. Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum are included in Systems, which examines work that conveys networks, structures, mapping, or information exchange today.

The theme of transformation will be evident in the work selected for this juried show and will offer the opportunity to discuss the intriguing and thought-provoking art produced both locally and internationally today.

Submit images and a proposal to new.wilmington.art@gmail.com by Friday, September 4. Juried selections will be made in consideration of space and consistency.


This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month.
Visit art21.org for more information.

FALL 2009 SCHEDULE

ALL FOR ONE (PHOTOGRAPHS 1977-2009)
PETER CAPANO

September 4 - 17, 2009
4 West 5th Street, Wilmington, DE
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Cloing Reception & Meet the Artist: Thursday, September 17, 6 - 9pm


WILMINGTON FRINGE FESTIVAL

FRINGE WILMINGTON
October 1 - 4, 2009
Visual Art Component: 312 Market St, Wilmington, DE
Grand Opening: September 30, 2009, 6 - 9 pm



ECLOSION - NWAA GROUP SHOW

September 30 - October 15, 2009
312 Market St, Wilmington, DE
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Closing Reception and Art:21 Film Screening: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Art:21 Episodes: Transformation and Systems will be screened during Thursday's closing reception as part of the Art:21 Access '09 Program. Learn more about the PBS series, Art:21.


LANGUAGE OF LINE

November 5 - 30, 2009
4 West 5th Street, Wilmington, DE
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Closing Reception/Artist Talks: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Artists Include: Stephanie Beck, Martin Brief, Anthony Cervino, Zach Chupa, Abby Donovan, Brian Patrick Franklin, Stephen Ruszkowski, and Andrew Wapinski.


Image: Stephanie Beck, Dencity, charcoal and pigment on cut paper, pins, 2007.



REFIGURATION
December 4 - 31, 2009
4 West 5th Street, Wilmington, DE
Opening Reception: Friday, December 4th, 6 - 9 pm
Closing Reception: Thursday, December 17th, 6 - 9 pm

EXPOSED! - Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art

Exposed! — Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum

August 15, 2009 – October 4, 2009

Since the 1960s a wide range of artists—including Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Ellen Gallagher—have made pictures that reference specific works of art and popular culture. Displaying these paintings, prints, and photographs alongside images of their sources, Exposed! explores artistic strategies of quotation and appropriation. The featured works present various relationships to their sources, from respectful homage to cultural critique. The exhibition includes works of art by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Robert Colescott, Grace Hartigan, Ellen Gallagher, and Glenn Ligon, among others. Some pieces are from the Delaware Art Museum’s collection, and some are on loan from private collections.

http://www.delart.org/exhibitions/exposed.html

Exposed! Gallery Chat
Friday, September 11, 6:00 p.m. | Free

Exhibition curator Heather Campbell Coyle will lead a tour of the show and discuss the works as well as the sources from which the artists appropriated.

Heather Campbell Coyle, the curator for Exposed!, has created a blog about the exhibition. Check our her entries and leave your own comments at:

http://exposed-exhibition.blogspot.com/


Richard Prince, Runaway Nurse, 2006, Inkjet and acrylic on canvas

Downtown 81 on view at 4 West 5th Street, Thursday, August 20th

Join New Wilmington Art Association on Thursday, August 20th at 7pm for a free screening of Downtown 81.

Downtown 81 follows a young Basquiat throughout a post-punk Manhattan as he meets hipster artists, musicians, models, and dancers. It offers chance glimpses of Basquiat's early paintings, performances by new wave bands and early hip hop pioneers, and the milieu of New York in the early 1980s. Interestingly, the film was not released until 2000 when it premiered at Cannes, close to 20 years after it was shot.

For more information be sure to visit: http://www.downtown81.com

Artist Studio Available

Artist Studio Available For Rent:
The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts will have a 250 sq. ft. studio available for rent beginning August 1, 2009. Rent is $330/month. Each studio is equipped with a sink, temperature control (Heat/AC), and 24 hour access in a safe secure facility.

Submit a resume and portfolio for review to Helen Page, 200 S. Madison St, Wilmington, DE 19801.
For more information, contact Helen Page at 302-656-6466 ext. 7107, hpage@thedcca.org

http://www.thedcca.org/opportunities.html

Energy and Sustainability Conference

Don't miss the writer and director of "Who Killed The Electric Car" documentary, Chris Paine, Sunday, August 9th - 4:30 pm at Room 128, Clayton Hall, University of Delaware.

NWAA Film Screening on Friday, August 7th

New Wilmington Art Association Presents:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Friday, August 7th

at 4 West 5th Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

The film will start at 7pm.

The mad Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist, Cesare, mysteriously appear at the local carnival in a small German village. With their arrival comes a string of murders, all prophesized by Cesare himself. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is said to have been highly influential on film noir and early horror films.

The Recession Proof Artist

Alexander Conner / Senior Curator @ Adaptation

Brookes Britcher and Alexander Conner of Adaptation were interviewed by the New York Times about the state of the arts in the recent economic downturn. This is an enormous honor for the small Philadelphia-based curatorial outfit. Alexander Conner was the focus of the Times story resulting in a video documentary titled " The Recession-Proof Artist". As New Wilmington Art Association works to improve conditions for emerging artists in downtown Wilmington, Alexander's story is an important reminder of the kind of artist that will benefit from the affordable rents at Shipley Lofts & the employment opportunities at a revitalized Queen Theater.

The Recession Proof Artist- video by Jigar Mehta

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/05/19/arts/1194840314497/the-recession-proof-artist.html

New Wilmington Art Association will be the first venue to host the Adaptation exhibition titled, All for One (Photograps 1977-2009) by Peter Capano. Spanning over 30 years, this work offers an unparalleled visual document of a volatile period in Philadelphia history. From the vantage point of a member, Peter Capano beautifully charts the lives and exploits of the 10th & Oregon gang with a sense of compassion and immediacy.

For more information about All for One, visit the Adaptation website: http://adaptationart.wordpress.com/

Follow these links for more information on Shipley Lofts & the Queen Theater:

http://newwilmingtonart.blogspot.com/2009/01/artist-livework-space-coming-to.html

http://www.lightupthequeen.org/