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City Without Walls
- Newark, NJ US
- An Urban Artists Collective
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Don't miss City Without Wall's first Wall to Wall event to be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009, from 6-10pm at 77 Market Street, Newark, NJ. Ticket holders get to take home an original work of art, experience live avant-garde music, and enjoy fine food and refreshments from Newark’s best restaurants. There are only 200 tickets at $200 each, which includes an exciting evening of fun and an work of contemporary art that you select when your number is called. ..Please purchase a ticket here... Also: there's still time to donate artwork, so that you can join the party too. Apply here to donate a work of art.
Join now to be considered for these exciting opportunities...
Artists: Volunteer for City Murals Phase II [Deadline: ASAP]
Artists: Donate work to Wall to Wall fundraiser [Deadline: September 25]
Artists: Newark New Media residency program [Deadline: September 30]
Curators: Proposals for main gallery [Deadline: October 15]
Curators: Seton Hall Law large works [Deadline: Ongoing]
Volunteers: We need your help! [Deadline: Ongoing]
Curators + Artists: Proposals + Submissions [Deadline: Ongoing]
Artists: Volunteer for City Murals Phase II [Deadline: ASAP]
Artists: Donate work to Wall to Wall fundraiser [Deadline: September 25]
Artists: Newark New Media residency program [Deadline: September 30]
Curators: Proposals for main gallery [Deadline: October 15]
Curators: Seton Hall Law large works [Deadline: Ongoing]
Volunteers: We need your help! [Deadline: Ongoing]
Curators + Artists: Proposals + Submissions [Deadline: Ongoing]
tek’tänik, curated by Evonne M.Davis, is a multi-site show that begins at Seton Hall School of Law and travels to the Arts Guild of New Jersey in Rahway, NJ and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. tek’tänik features large scale works by five artists: Kyle Coniglio, Lisa Elmaleh, Dahlia Elsayed, Stephen Mishol, and K. Shelton. At Seton Hall University School of Law through December 27, 2009, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. Free and open to the public, daily 10am - 5pm. Directions.
"City Murals,” a new community-based program that integrates public art with youth employment and training, is now underway at two downtown locations in Newark, New Jersey, through a partnership among City Without Walls (cWOW), the City of Newark, Groundswell Community Mural Program, and Rutgers University –Transitional Education and Employment Management (TEEM) Gateway. Commissioned professional artists will create two murals alongside twenty Newark youth being trained during a summer employment program from July to August, 2009. This is the first phase of a citywide mural program that will continue to create public art in the Fall of 2009 and beyond. According to cWOW Executive Director Ben Goldman, “City Murals is a public art program that shows how urban youth can be made ready for the world of work." To see full program description read here.
What if artists were in charge of stimulating the economy as well as our minds? "Ready to Unveil," a collaborative project of City Without Walls (cWOW) and the Sculptors Guild, aims to launch a nationwide campaign for public art in America. "Ready to Unveil" takes one city—Newark, NJ—and re-imagine it as an art gallery. Ideas for public art in public spaces have been submitted and juried by leading public artists and art experts from Creative Capital, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and New Jersey Transit, Chakaia Booker, Willie Cole, Sean Elwood, Sheila McKoy and Tom Moran. "Ready to Unveil" has its opening reception on Thursday, October 15, 2008, 6-8pm at cWOW, 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ. Free and open to the public Thursdays - Saturdays 12-6pm through December 19, 2009. Directions
Please endorse Arts Plan NJ, a blueprint for a better New Jersey through and for the arts (www.artsplannj.org). This statewide agenda harnesses the power of the arts to enrich and inspire individuals, and to address civic challenges such as the economy, education, healthcare, community development and cross-cultural understanding. Almost 1,000 New Jerseyans were involved in a three-year process to create Arts Plan NJ, and the endorsement of thousands more is needed now to accomplish its goals.
Please endorse Arts Plan NJ here.
Watch an introductory video here.
The National Endowment for the Arts got 0.006% of the stimulus plan, two orders of magnitude less than the traditional notion of a percent for art. Here is a plan by cWOW Executive Director Ben Goldman that shows how to raise the bar--not only because of the historical precedents and what the arts can do to inspire hope during hard times, but also because innovation and creativity are the future of the U.S. economy. If the arts can’t teach us that, what can? Let’s build a movement! Send us comments on these ideas at info@cwow.org.
Buy affordable art from City Without Walls' new online shop at The New York Art Exchange. The cWOW store offers defEYE productions from United Visual Arts, LLC--certified hand-signed limited-edition prints and super-cool frames--as well as exhibition catalogs, dvds, and other fine stuff.
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JUNE 13 - AUGUST 5: ARTREACH XVII
ArtReach XVII, the seventeenth season of City Without Walls’ award-winning education and exhibition program, opens on Saturday, June 13, 2009 with a free public reception from 6-8 pm at City Without Walls (cWOW), 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102. Reception features live music by the Accidental Seabirds with ArtReach mentor Ibrahim Ahmed III. The exhibition is free and open to the public Thursdays - Saturdays 12-6pm through August 5, 2009. Directions
18 aspiring young artists • 15 professional artist mentors • 16 years of award-winning arts education programing.
ArtReach nurtures the next generation of artists and arts leaders. Visual artists from the Newark area mentor gifted high school students in their studios for a semester. Interns receive real-world gallery experience. Prominent artists lecture at Newark high schools. The program culminates with a professional exhibition.
ArtReach XVII student/mentor pairs include:
Rakim Alexander + Ibrahim Ahmed
Roberto Allende + Matthew Gosser
Ian Bates + Marco Muñoz
Danielle Bemis + Anonda Bell
Brodrick Brunson + Hiroshi Kumagai
Suzette Dorrielan + Mona Brody
Yazmine Graham + Kathryn Eddy
Markyse Joseph + Jay Seldin
Wahedaa Nasar + Kathleen Heron
Yanira Ramirez + Vikki Michalios
Amira Rogers + Kate Dowd
Tess Silverman + Vanessa Ramalho
Tania Sousa + Anne McKeown
Kenely Torres + Kevin Darmanie
ArtReach is funded in part by the U.S. Housing & Urban Development Community Block Grant administered by the City of Newark.
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Sep 5 2008 4:59 PM
Gallery Aferro
73 Market St Newark NJ
AFERRO. ORG
October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings are free. A print of the image is $10.
This portrait series is made with the wet plate collodion process, the leading mode of photography in the 1850's and 1860's. Tintypes are positive images exposed onto metal. This historic process has a different relationship to time than digital or film photography. The chemistry is hand-mixed and poured onto the plate in front of the sitter. As soon as the exposure is made in the wooden view camera, the plate must be taken to a portable dark box to be developed and fixed. The wet plate collodion image captures a pose held over several seconds or even minutes. This prolonged gaze creates a tension between the sitter and the camera. While a snapshot captures a moment about a 1/1000 of a second long, the tintype process allows for a portrait of a person or a couple to unfold over time; the image produced can then slow down our looking. A viewer sees the hard lines of bone structure, wrinkles and blemishes, but also sees bright, focused eyes staring back intently. This process allows the photographer and the viewer to stare, but it is not entirely voyeuristic, as the sitter stares back. The act of taking someone's portrait can once again be an event.
Keliy is hoping to meet and photograph as many people as possible while she is in Newark.
All are welcome!