Many of you remember our What Do Curators Want? series that aired last year, featuring insider conversations with people like Lisa Melandri from the Santa Monica Museum and Jeff Poe of Blum & Poe. Over 10,000 artists from all over the world devoured and raved about this series. The complete archive can be found on iTunes and in our podcast archive.

Our new series— Shop Talk — debuts today and features frank conversations with your favorite contemporary artists. Hosted by artist Bari Ziperstein, you can think of Shop Talk like that “Inside the Actor’s Studio” show on Bravo, except for visual artists. What are some misconceptions about being a contemporary LA artist? How do you juggle deadlines, personal life, and your day job? Has your life suffered because of art? These are tough questions, and Bari gets some very honest answers from some of LA’s most celebrated and respected artists.

We’re thrilled to launch this series with Olga Koumoundouros — a Los Angeles based sculptor whose work looks back to the very roots of the “American Dream,” as a way to decipher how, exactly, did we end up moving backwards and calling it advancement. This past June, Olga’s solo exhibition Demand Management opened at REDCAT in Los Angeles (visit the link & see pics of her REDCAT show before you listen). She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles.

Tell us what you think! CLICK HERE to take a quick, on-line survey and you will be entered in a drawing to win signed, limited edition prints by some of today’s most important visual artists.

About The Host
Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree.  Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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This week, we’re thrilled to have to Alexandra Grant on board  — a Los Angeles based artist known for her dense and layered drawings that use layered text as painterly abstraction.  She is in the process of completing her first public sculpture for Watts House Project called Love House.  She is represented by Honor Fraser in Los Angeles.

Tell us what you think! CLICK HERE to take a survey about this series. You might win limited edition prints by today’s hottest artists.

About The Host
Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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This week, we’ve got Eve Fowler on tap. Eve is a Los Angeles based photographer. In 2008, Eve and Lucas Michael opened Artist Curated Projects, an artist run space in Fowler’s Los Angeles apartment.

Tell us what you think! CLICK HERE to take a survey about this series. You might win limited edition prints by today’s hottest artists.

About The Host: Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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Join us on Friday, October 9th for Pasadena Art Night!

Celebrate art + food by planting the winter lettuce crop on The Armadillo. Born from the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, The Armadillo is an actual FEMA trailer that MIT transformed into a vertical, sustainable, and mobile community garden.

Also, artists Charlie Hachadourian and Poorang Nori will perform a unique middle-east breadmaking tradition. Out of the remains of an old elevator car, Charlie and Poorang have created a “tonir” – a traditional lavash oven. Charlie and Poorang will be baking fresh lavash all night long… if you’re real good, maybe you’ll get to taste some!

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Pasadena ArtNight
@ Side Street Projects Mobile HQ
Friday, October 9th from 6pm-10pm
730 North Fair Oaks Avenue @ Orange Grove
Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 798-7774

Visit the ArtNight website for a complete list of participating institutions, activities, and shuttle route maps.

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ArtNight Restaurant Specials!

From 5:00 to 6:30pm ask for a FREE ArtNight dessert with purchase of an entree at these One Colorado restaurants: Akbar, Gordon Biersch, Il Fornaio, Johnny Rockets, Russell’s, or Sushi Roku.

Opening reception sponsored by Whole Foods Arroyo. Charile & Poorang’s performance made possible by an ArtNight Mini-Grant from the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission. On-site community programming at Side Street Projects’ Mobile HQ made possible by support from the Leonard I. Green Foundation and The Rowe and Gayle Giesen Family Trust.

Still can’t get over that this is even possible… we just milled this semester’s worth of lumber for the Woodworking Bus courtesy of that big yellow thing in the sky (and 12 panels and 4 batteries). For those of you not in the Pasadena area today… it be hot, like really hot. Somehow, we managed to run the AC and the table saw simultaneously. I think we’re breaking some laws of physics here or something. All in a day’s work @ Side Street Projects. See for yourself:

Join Jon & Emily tomorrow (Saturday the 12th) from 11:30am – 12:30pm on the northwest corner of Brookside Park (@ Arroyo Blvd. & Seco St.) to view the Armory’s Bruce Nauman skywriting project.

Click here for a map. The viewing is free. Oh, and we’ll be making plastic bottle planters. You can make one too! Just look for us in the Brookside Park parking lot. We’re in Lot “I” – look for the Side Street pick up and the orange canopies. Click here to view the Facebook event, with all the details.

Happy 20th birthday to the Armory!