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///// Side Street Projects is temporarily located in a vacant lot in-between Church’s Fried Chicken & an abandoned victorian house that is slated for development. Our lot is 25,000 sq ft and has some wonderful features including a foundation of an old barbershop.

During our residency, we are hosting 4 on-site artistprojects annually that engage our community & incorporate into our free weekly Saturday community programming, Saturdays@SideSTREET, 11am-1pm.

For more info or to submit a proposal email: info(at)sidestreet(dot)org

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ON-SITE NOW–>

UPCOMING/PRESENT ONSITE

ARTIST PROJECTS 

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OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS

NEWTOWN & SIDE STREET PRESENT:

UNTAMED (PARKING) SPACES

Submission Deadline: FEB 15th

For more info & a full submission process visit:http://www.newtownarts.org/artistscall.php

 

Made possible by grants from the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and The Pasadena Arts Commission, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and NewTown Members’ donations.” 

 

 

 

 

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–>PAST ARTIST PROJECTS

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H(AIR): Lisa Mann’s Inflated Whimsical Installation

Artist Lisa Mann’s inflated, whimsical sculpture celebrates hair, culture, and identity in the past, present Northwest Pasadena. Refreshments from Whole Foods Arroyo. Performance by local musician. The sculptural installation will debut during Pasadena’s ArtNIGHT Oct 14th and a series of kids’ workshops will be offered. in conjunction with the project which is funded in part by the Pasadena Arts and Cultural Commission and City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division. 

 

The projections will incorporate faces of people who now live in the Northwest community, reframing and relocating them within a cultural and historical period spanning the the 1950s through mid-2000s, using popular hairstyles from each period to provide a context.

*Inflatables hand fabricated by the marvelous “InflataBill” – For more info visit http://inflatabill.com/

 

 

A Public Art Project by Survey West Collaborative:

This House has a Bright Future

Exhibition dates:May 20 – June 24, 10am -5pm M-F

Survey West Collaborative engages architecture and site symbolically as they collapse past, present and future in their large-scale outdoor installation, This House has a Bright Future. Engaging the metaphoric potential of Side Street Projects’ current headquarters in Pasadena, SWC will build a monumental, temporary, site-specific piece.

SWC’s installation will sit atop one of the on-site foundational ruins that include a neighborhood barbershop, an apartment building, and Maitza’s taquería. The site also boasts the Decker House, one of the oldest Victorian houses in Pasadena, now boarded-up, weathered and ghostly, yet protected for its historical significance. Each of these buildings, except for the Victorian relic, was torn down to make way for the Heritage Square Development; a project intended to revitalize the area. Neighborhood concerns threatened the development and the project came to a halt as the economic crisis made breaking the impasse impossible. An eyesore of a vacant lot remained and Side Street Projects, a completely mobile, artist-run nonprofit organization, moved in and transformed the space through education outreach and artist services.

The duo will represent the future through six sets of brightly painted scaffolding that form a new floor plan for the viewer to enter. This representation of the future will physically embrace its own past as Victorian embellishments, barbershop stripes, Maitza’s horseshoes, and local children’s portraits and ghost stories fill the structure’s grid-system. Here, shifting perspectives on need, success and desire will come into one dynamic vision as distinct moments in time become veils, screens and windows to another.

For more info visit: http://www.surveywestcollaborative.com/

 

 

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WALL TO WALL

A video installation/performance by Daphna Lapidot

Daphna Lapidot, visual artist, will present her new work “Wall to Wall”, a video installation and performance that explores the themes of motherhood/domesticity.It is a reflection on the issues that women encounter as new mothers inundated with the perpetual daily routine. Thank you to the Pasadena Department of Cultural Affairs.

4 Days in April 2011

 

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Pulse & Parcel: A Continuing Exhibition & Community Engagement

Presented by Artist Jamie Crooke February 5 – March 18, 2011 

The project “Pulse and Parcel” aims to create awareness of the space we live within and share with others. Through community participation and investigation, we will explore ways of dividing up space, creating community, and policy planning towards an imagined alternative future. Using the tools of Urban Planners, Policy Makers and Citizens, we will practice ways of engaging with the land around us in a democratic way, with a goal of creating conscientious citizens that engage in their community. You can participate in the project in person (dates below), online (www.GLADPAP.us) or by phone (#). All on-site activities are designed for persons of varying age, ability and art know-how.

 

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Driven by What’s Inside

An Outdoor Performance and Cinema Event at Side Street Projects Details: DRIVEN BY WHAT’S INSIDE October 2, 2010, 7-9pm Inspired by 10-day-long traffic jams in China, devastating oil spills in the gulf, the “end” of the Iraq war, and fatal off-road races in the Mojave desert, Driven by What’s Inside is an outdoor performance and cinema event that reconsiders the role of the automobile in contemporary society. The evening brings together recent performance and video work by Vera Brunner-Sung, Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Alexa Gerrity, Joseph Imhauser, Noah Klersfeld, Julie Lequin, Benjamin Love, Susan Mogul, and Carlin Wing. These artworks undermine the banality and brutality of the automobile by any means possible whether through psychedelic road-tripping, FM radio talk-shows, or love songs. Artist Elana Mann presents Driven by What’s Inside as a way to deepen explorations in her own work related to cars, driving, and war. This event is the second in a new series for Mann, in which she will be attempting to redress her grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan Project by creating a “peace bomb” with other artists. Drive-in, walk-in, cycle-in, but bring a blanket, folding chair or seatbelt, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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These projects are made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission & the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.

*For  info on more exciting art events & happenings in the Los Angeles area, visit our friends @ ExerienceLA