Every holiday season, we open up the vault and offer rare selections from our print archives for a very limited time. This year, we’re pleased to present the absolute last 3 signed Cathy Opie prints available for sale. This is the official “portrait” by Cathy of our Mobile Headquarters, commemorating Side Street Projects’ 16th Anniversary (aka, our SweetSixteen). Proceeds from all print sales directly support Side Street Projects’ programs for kids and artists throughout LA County.

Catherine Opie
Side Street Projects Sweet 16 Aniversary Print
Untitled – Side Street Projects’ Mobile HQ (2008)
Archival Pigment Print (From a Digital Photo)
Archival Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper (20″ x 16”)
Limited Edition of 50
Signed & Numbered by the Artist
$1,000 (only 3 available)

or call (626) 798-7774

Every holiday season, we open up the vault and offer rare selections from our print archives for a very limited time. This year, we’re pleased to present the absolute last 2 John Baldessari prints that will ever be made public again. John created this fabulous edition for us back in 1997 to commemorate Side Street Projects’ 5th Anniversary. These are the last two available, save for the 1 copy in Side Street’s permanent archive.

John Baldessari
Side Street Projects’ 5th Anniversary Print
I Saw It (1997)
Lithograph
16″ x 20 ”
Limited Edition of 100
Signed and Numbered by the Artist
$2,000 (only 1 left as of 12/17/09)

or call (626) 798-7774

Bookmeat has a meaty and marvelous name,
and a meaty and marvelous mission.”
- NBC Los Angeles

“This is something really special.”
- LA Weekly

For our friends who couldn’t make it out to Culver City for our Bookmeat fundraiser on November 21st, we’re having a showing & sale of some really interesting (and still available) Bookmeat books at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena:

Bookmeat Booksale: PASADENA
Saturday, December 19th, 1pm-4pm
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Ave, Pasdena

For as little as $75, you can walk away with a unique and affordable holiday gift for the art lover in your life— a signed and (in many cases) modified book from the personal collections of artists like Katie Grinnan, Sam Durant, Pae White, Elad Lassry, Hirsch Perlman, Mario Ybarra Jr., Olga Koumoundouros, Ry Rocklen, Tom Lawson, Alexis Smith, Christopher Russell, Jennifer Steinkamp, Kim MacConnel, Martin Kersels, Mel Chin, Alice Konitz, Nathan Mabry, and more!

All proceeds benefit Side Street’s education programs for kids and artists in LA County. Click here to download the pricelist. To arrange a private viewing, please contact Side Street Projects via email, or call (626) 798-7774.

We’d like to thank all the artist, writers, curators who contributed their time, treasure, and talent to help make Bookmeat such a success. We’d also like to thank our steering committee and all the volunteers who helped make it all happen. For a complete list of folks, please visit the Bookmeat page.

These are solar-powered contraptions designed and built by 3rd grade students in Los Angeles aboard Side Street Projects’ Woodworking Bus. Students were shown examples of historical & contemporary kinetic/contraption art, including Jean Tinguley, Alexander Calder, Tim Hawkinson, and Martin Kersels. The following footage is from the “group show” the students put on for their families and classmates.

The following are examples of student-designed projects built aboard Side Street Project’s Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops aboard renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. These are not “woodworking kits” mind you, these are unique designs that kids envisioned and fabricated by themselves from raw pine stock.