GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO THE REPUBLICANS?
This September, the Republicans are meeting in Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 1-4, 2008, to nominate candidates for president and vice-president of the United States and to create their political platform.
The Republicans, as you may remember, are the ones that brought the citizens of the United States (and the citizens of the world) such delights as the war in Iraq, the current economic recession, flagrantly increased national debt, and a lack of timely response to global warming. They are also creators of the current impasse with national healthcare, the debacle in New Orleans and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, the stalemate with NAFTA reform, decreasing immigrant rights, tax cuts for the rich, and blatant, far-reaching government corruption.
So how do you feel about all that? Want to express yourselves? Well, we want to help you.
Grupo Soap del Corazón is a Latino artists’ group based out of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. We have a nine-year history of cultural and social activism here in Minnesota and in North and South America. Our work has been seen by thousands of people in galleries, museums, non-profits, and alternative art spaces as well as on the walls and telephone poles of many communities. (For more on the history of Grupo Soap, see our website: www.myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon). We are organizing an international poster project, to take place on the streets of your town (wherever you are) and on the streets of our town. As you may know, political posters have a long and varied international history (www.politicalgraphics.org) and have been an effective way for artists to effect change. We are hoping to inspire posters and postering throughout the world… in Spain, Chile, Ireland, Norway, India, Mexico, Germany, etc – and also throughout the U.S. Here’s how you can be a part of our efforts:
1. MAKE A POSTER. Anything expressing your viewpoint on the coming U.S. election, the Republican convention, the state of the United States, it’s role in the world, and the state of that world.
2. CREATE THE POSTER ANY WAY YOU WANT.
3. MINIMUM SIZE FOR THE POSTER is 11”x17”.
4. You must print a MINIMUM RUN of 8 posters. The posters must be multi-run prints: one-of-a-kind works of art will not be accepted. A minimum of 5 must be placed out in your community, on walls, on telephone poles, in windows, etc.
5. A minimum of 3 OF THE POSTERS MUST BE SENT TO GRUPO SOAP DEL CORAZON and arrive by August 30th, 2008. 1 poster will be in an art exhibit that we create and, later, our archive. 1 poster will be sent to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. The rest will be used to poster the streets of the Twin Cities before, during, and after the Republican convention.
6. To be part of this effort, you must also SEND US AT LEAST ONE DIGITAL IMAGE OF YOUR POSTER on walls, telephone poles, etc in YOUR community. Send them to artjones@bitstream.net.
7. Digital of all posters posted out in your community will be put up on our website: myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon.
8. There will be an EXHIBITION of ALL the posters, most likely opening in October for the end of the campaign season. Right now we are in negotiations with the California Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. We will announce the show on our myspace site by September 15th, 2008.
9. SEND YOUR POSTERS TO:
Grafica Politica #2
Grupo Soap del Corazon
c/o Douglas Padilla
304 2nd Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
10. Please SPREAD THE WORD. Email around to other artists and encourage them to participate. We especially urge you to encourage artists in countries outside the U.S.A. – we want the world’s voices to be heard here.
11. We will pay SPECIAL ATTENTION to anyone who organizes a group of artists and sends in digital and posters as a group. Additionally, groups will get extra acknowledgement in the exhibition.
So, poster your town with your thoughts and feelings – and we’ll help you poster ours.
Douglas Padilla
Xavier Tavera
Grupo Soap del Corazon
www.myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon
artjones@bitstream.net
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¿TIENES ALGO QUE DECIRLES A LOS REPUBLICANOS?
Este septiembre, los Republicanos tendrán una convención en St. Paul, Minnesota, (del 1 al 4 de septiembre del 2008), para nominar a los candidatos para la presidencia y la vicepresidencia de los Estados Unidos y para crear su plataforma política.
Los Republicanos, como recordarás, son los que han brindado a los ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos (y a los ciudadanos del mundo) la guerra contra Irak, la actual resección económica, el incremento de la deuda interna nacional y la falta de una respuesta al calentamiento global. Ellos, también son los creadores del estancamiento del sistema nacional de salud y de la reforma con el TLC (NAFTA), el deterioro de los derechos de los inmigrantes, cortes de impuestos para los ricos y una inminente corrupción en el gobierno.
¿Cómo se hace sentir todo esto? ¿Quiere expresarlo? Nosotros le queremos ayudar.
El Grupo Soap del Corazón es un grupo de artistas latinos con base en las ciudades gemelas de Minneapolis y St. Paul. Tenemos un historial de nueve años de activismo cultural y social en Minnesota, en Norteamérica y Sudamérica. Nuestro trabajo ha alcanzado a miles de personas en galerías, museos, instituciones sin fines de lucro y en espacios alternativos, así como en paredes y postes de teléfono en las calles de muchas comunidades. (Para más información acerca del grupo, visite nuestra página Web: www.myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon). Actualmente estamos organizando un proyecto internacional de cartel, que se llevará a cabo en las calles de su ciudad (dondequiera que te encuentres) y en las calles de nuestra ciudad. Como tal ves sabrá el cartel político tiene una larga historia internacional (www.politicalgraphics.org) y ha sido un elemento fundamental para los artistas que buscan un cambio. Esperamos inspirar a los artistas a crear carteles y a pegarlos por todo el mundo… España, Chile, Irlanda, Noruega, India, México, Alemania, etc. y también en los Estados Unidos. Debajo le diremos cómo participar:
1. Diseña un cartel. Cualquier pensamiento que exprese tu punto de vista para las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos, la convención republicana, la situación política de los Estados Unidos y su implicación en el mundo y la situación actual de mundo.
2. Crea un cartel en la manera que te sea posible.
3. Tamaño mínimo del cartel será 11”X17”.
4. Deberás imprimir al menos 8 carteles. El cartel tendrá que ser reproducible: carteles únicos, originales no serán aceptados. Un mínimo de cinco carteles deberán pegarse en tu comunidad: paredes públicas, postes telefónicos, ventanas. etc.
5. Deberás mandar un mínimo de 3 carteles al Grupo Soap del Corazón para el 30 de agosto de 2008. Uno de estos tres carteles será enviado al Center for the Study of Political Graphics. El resto se colocarán en las calles de la Ciudades Gemelas, antes, durante y después de la convención republicana.
6. Para ser parte de este esfuerzo tendrás que mandar una imagen digital de tu cartel colocado en las calles de tu ciudad o en tu comunidad. Favor de enviarla a artjones@bitsream.net.
7. Las imágenes digitales de tu cartel en la calle, tendrán vida en nuestra página Web: myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon.
8. En octubre de 2008 tendremos una exhibición de todos los carteles. En este momento estamos en pláticas con la galería California en el noreste de Minneapolis. Anunciaremos la exhibición en myspace el 15 de septiembre de 2008.
9. Manda tus carteles a:
Grafica Política #2
Grupo Soap del Corazón
c/o Douglas Padilla
304 2nd Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
10. Corre la voz al mundo entero. Envía correos electrónicos a otros artistas y anímalos a participar. Especialmente a los artistas que residan fuera de los Estados Unidos. Queremos que esas voces se escuchen aquí.
11. Pondremos atención especial a cualquiera que pueda organizar un grupo de artistas y que mande su trabajo como grupo. Estos grupos tendrán reconocimiento especial durante la exhibición.
Así que a trabajar, empapela tu ciudad con tus pensamientos y tus sentimientos y nosotros te ayudaremos a empapelar nuestra ciudad.
Douglas Padilla
Xavier Tavera
Grupo Soap del Corazon
www.myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon
artjones@bitstream.net
grupo soap del corazon Grupo Soap is putting together "Grafica Politica #2" - a response to the Republican Convention here in Minnesota Posted at 2:26 AM Jun 14, 2008 view more
GRUPO SOAP DEL CORAZON was founded in 2000 by Xavier Tavera and Douglas Padilla to celebrate Latino artists and culture and the Latinization of Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. Grupo Soap started it’s efforts with an inaugural exhibition at Gus Lucky’s Gallery on Lake Street in Minneapolis entitled “Soap del Corazón”. In that show each artist addressed, visually, the questions: What is “soap of the heart? What cleans the heart?” A year later the group went on to create a major exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program, “Frontera Lake Street”, which showcased the works of six local Latino artists. A highly attended exhibit, “Frontera Lake Street”, generated both publicity and critical acclaim. And it brought color and passion, politics and spirit to the Minnesota art world. In 2002, Grupo Soap created a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibition and celebration, “Un Dia con los Muertos en Lake Street“. The exhibit focused on nine 8’x12’ murals on the Lake Street side of the empty Minneapolis Sears building, an ofrenda for the dead nearby, performance/ritual by local Aztec dancers, and a party/celebration at alternative Latino institution ArTrujillo Gallery/Studios. For Dia de los Muertos 2003, Grupo Soap spotlighted the 370 plus disappeared and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico, with an exhibit and installation, “Ni Una Mas” (“Not One More”). It again added performance, music and food to the show, which took place at Mira Gallery/El Instituto de Cultura y Educación at El Colegio in south Minneapolis. In 2004, the artists of Grupo Soap del Corazón joined forces with Highpoint Center for Printmaking to create a workshop on silk-screening and an exhibition, “Gráfica Politica”, that exhibited both Minneapolis and Chicago artists. The prints made in “Gráfica Politica” were later entered in a community wide group show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, entitled “The Art of Democracy”. In 2005, Grupo Soap mounted two exhibitions in Valparaiso, Chile. The first show, “El Otro Americano” (“The Other American”), took place at El Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura and described the Latino–American experience. The second show, “Politica Ex-Carcel”, took place at Centro Cultural Ex-Carcel, a former prison under the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. In that exhibit, Grupo Soap del Corazón artists joined the long history of Latino political artists by stenciling / photographing posters on the walls of neighborhoods and barrios in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Valparaiso, Chile. In 2006 Grupo Soap del Corazón created “Artsourcing, An International Consortium of Outsourcing Artists” at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. In that exhibit Grupo Soap, by publicly outsourcing the labor for all the individual projects, confronted issues of globalization and capitalism as they pertain to Latin America and the United States. By highlighting the work of those that actually do the manufacturing, Grupo Soap brought a measure of honor, recognition and profit to the almost 100 workers, from Tijuana, Mexico, to West Saint Paul, Minnesota, that participated. Then, in the fall of 2006, Grupo Soap del Corazon joined with ArtOrg, a Northfield, Minnesota based arts non-profit, to create “Northfield Dia de los Muertos”, celebration that joined together the resident anglo community of this college town with recent Mexican immigrant factory workers. The event evolved around a 104’ banner printed with a steamroller on 4’x8’ woodblock prints created with Day of the Dead themes by a group of 14 latino artists from Northfield and the Twin Cities. Finally, Grupo Soap mounted an exhibition, "Nuestra Frida", in response to a major Frida Kahlo show at the Walker Art Center here in Minneapolis. Done in conjunction with Art Jones Gallery, the show featured the work of 14 artists and addressed Frida from myriad directions, political, devotional, pop cultural, deconstructionist - all to a major response from the Twin Cities community. In it’s seven year existence Grupo Soap del Corazón has stayed true to it’s purpose: to encourage and exhibit “Soap del Corazón”, art that cleans the heart. It has showcased the work of 40 artists. Well over 100,000 people have seen its art. It has pulled the people of Minneapolis – St. Paul and Minnesota into deeper community.
Who I'd like to meet: Grupo Soap artist roster thru 2007
1. Xavier Tavera
2. Douglas Padilla
3. Alexa Horochowski
4. Amaru (Marcela Rodriguez Aguila)
5. Luis Fitch
6. Edith Garcia
7. Salvador Frijilito Espejo
8. Anselmo Cornejo
9. Patricia Mendoza
10. Verde
11. David Monson
12. Claudia Billy Baca
13. Diana Barillas
14. Gustavo Lira
15. Cristina Maria O’brien
16. Alejandro Trujillo
17. Elvia Rodriguez
18. Juan Compean
19. Ricardo Levins morales
20. Brian Sago
21. Pete Driessen
22. Bernadette Tomko
23. Ricardo Levins Morales
24. Carlos Villamar Tulcanaza
25. Gabriela Bertiller
26. Kendall Bohn
27. Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
28. Betto Limón
29. Steven Nuno Nuñez
30. Juan José Palacios
31. Christina Perez
32. Richard Swearer
33. Kari Alberg
34. Dave Machacek
35. Ana Lois Borzoi
36. Ruthann Godollei
37. Satyarthi
38. Melissa Stang
39. Nancy Robinson
40. Juanita Garciagodoy
41. Celeste Nelms
The Grain Belt Bottling House 79 13th Ave Ne Mpls 55413
The event will be held February. 6th-8th, 2009: "Art-Ache"
The opening will be held Friday February 6th from 6pm-11pm Sat: The 7th-12pm to 8pm Sun:The 8th-12pm to 4pm
WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Film Makers:
Animation:
Painters
Photographers
Sculptors
Furniture Makers
Performance Artists
Installation Artists
Experimental Theater
Please submit five images and a link to your work to grainbeltart@gmail.com Attn: Tom
All participating artists are asked to contribute $20.00 for food, beverages, advertising. There will not be a central sales check out so we encourage artists to be present during the show to handle their own sales and customer questions. All proceeds go directly to the participating artist. A credit card machine will be available for artists to use, but there will be a 15% charge added to the sale to cover bank charges.
Please add us to your MySpace Friend List (and look at our photos from our last event, the "Grain Belt Holiday Gala": http://www. myspace. com/grainbeltart
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANY ARTISTS YOU THINK MAY BE INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING ART.
Featuring: Kimber Gramont, Jose Guerra, Ivan Idland, Jackie Koury, Jake Sage (from asktheatheist. com), and Andy Sturdevant.
Thursdays, May 15th, 22nd, and 29th, 2008. Doors open at 6:00p, showtime 7:00p.
Admission $15 ($13 with Fringe button) Ticket reservation line 612.825. 8949 or at bryantlakebowl. com
Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater 810 W Lake Street Minneapolis, MN
About GODLESS:
A show about atheism from the point of view of someone raised in a strict conservative catholic environment who, at age 13, began to reject his own family's faith, organised religion in general, and eventually, the notion of god. Rarely discussing his atheism in youth for fear of the typical annoying attempts to "save" his soul, and gradually finding like-minded individuals and information, but finding most material on the subject too academic and a bit dull. In his second full stage show, Jaime Carrera addresses several hypocrisies of the church, from the convenience of god's forgiveness in confession, to love thy neighbor though god hates fags, equating atheists with satanists (who worship another imaginary entity), and the ever-popular "fear of god". Mixing humour and performance to create a pop art version of blasphemous fun!
"Anxiety Dreams Anxiety Dreams: How artists respond to the stresses of daily life through the filter of dreams."
exhibit opens on February 1, 2008, 7-10PM.
Location: Q.arma Building just outside Altered Esthetics gallery 1224 Quincy Street NE Minneapolis MN 55413
"Anxiety Dreams" exhibit opens on February 1, 2008, 7-10PM. There will be a performance piece at 8pm by Ellen Mueller.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Local artists, Tonja Togerson and Ellen Mueller, are organizing an exhibit, Anxiety Dreams, comprised of nine local artists’ works.
Anxiety Dreams will be on display February 1 – 28, Tuesdays & Thursdays 1pm – 7pm, and Saturdays 1pm – 5pm. Gallery Info: 612-378-888 or www.AlteredEsthetics.com
Anxiety Dreams includes a variety of media including screen printing, large-scale drawing, painted dishware, video, performance, photography, and painting. The exhibit’s artists are showing works relating to their personal experiences with, and interpretations of, anxiety dreams.
The artists included in this exhibit are J.M. Culver, Caitlin Karolczak, Noah Keesecker, Alex Kuno, Noelle McCleaf, Ellen Mueller, Lindsay Noble, Andy Sturdevant, and Tonja Torgerson.
I love watching your slideshow - events I remember, and events I missed. A very good and challenging cycle of work, presented with so much energìa y corazòn. ¡Viva el Grupo!
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