Sentences with phrase «earliest alternative arts spaces»

As explained on the website of the present - day Studio One, «Steen's Studio One was one of the earliest alternative arts spaces in the city, presenting exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, musicians, and performances [and] inspired Charles Gallagher to open DiverseWorks in 1982.»

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Organized by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center founder, Alanna Heiss, FORTY features work by over 40 artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art spaces movement and the early years of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art CentArt Center founder, Alanna Heiss, FORTY features work by over 40 artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art spaces movement and the early years of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Centart spaces movement and the early years of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art CentArt Center.

About The Artist: Judith Braun has been involved in the New York art world since the early 1980s and her longstanding participation in the city's emerging network of alternative art spaces is notable.

Colab was dependent on grants, too, starting with an encouraging sum of $ 6,000 received by the National Endowment for the Arts but, as David E. Little put it in an article on its early activities, the group also «developed a concept of an anti-hierarchical, artists - only organization that would serve as a hothouse for cultivating collaborative projects and would seek out flexible and multiple distribution outlets to reach audiences, from bars and movie houses to cable television and even alternative spaces.»

Between the late 1980s and early»90s, says Matthew Higgs, director of White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space, «artists like Pierre Huyghe and Rirkrit Tiravanija rethought conceptual practice, and artists like Elizabeth Peyton and Peter Doig rethought traditional painting.

These artists came together at a particular time and place in the early»90s in the Mission neighborhood, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and in alternative art spaces such as Four Walls, The Luggage Store, Victoria Room, The LAB, New Langton Arts, and Adobe BooArt Institute, and in alternative art spaces such as Four Walls, The Luggage Store, Victoria Room, The LAB, New Langton Arts, and Adobe Booart spaces such as Four Walls, The Luggage Store, Victoria Room, The LAB, New Langton Arts, and Adobe Books.

In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and best - known generation of alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such as the Hyde Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.

They have played an exemplary role in supporting artists by purchasing art early in their careers, exhibiting their work at their alternative space, Girls» Club in Fort Lauderdale and supporting exhibitions and programs in art institutions throughout the region.»

Only two years earlier, Wilson had opened the alternative art space Franklin Furnace where I met her for a talk about identities, feminisms, collaborations — and aging.

The White Night of the Galleries in Cluj marked one of the first more consistent art events of early autumn, comprising a series of exhibition projects at The Paintbrush Factory and an incognito artist open studio type exhibition announced at the last minute, at the Launloc alternative space.