Crit Clusters are Side Street Projects’ new professional practices program for visual artists in LA County. Crit Clusters are mobile, moderated critique groups that combine studio visit and business skill seminar. Clusters launch mid-March, 2010. Tuition is $180 for 8 weeks and includes the textbook plus a one year artist membership to Side Street Projects. Sign up on-line below, or call (626) 798-7774.

- EAST SIDE CLUSTER - 8 Weeknights, 7pm-10pm (Starts mid-March, Dates TBD) - WEST SIDE CLUSTER - 8 Weeknights, 7pm-10pm (Starts mid-March, Dates TBD) - VALLEY CLUSTER - 8 Saturdays, 10am-1pm March 20 - May 8th

Tom Lawson is a Los Angeles based painter, writer, Dean of the School of Art at CalArts, and—for the past 8 years—the co-editor of Afterall. He is now starting a new website and publishing venture called East of Borneo.  Most recently he had solo exhibitions at Participant Inc in New York, and in Los Angeles at LAXART;‘The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984′ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY and is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.

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.

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

Did you know that Mark has the most beautiful handwriting we’ve ever seen? You’ve got to see it to believe it… it’s like 18th century penmanship. Crazy. Mark contributed a copy of “Black Like You,” a history of blackface & whiteface in American history. Included is a hand-written note by Mark with beautiful doodle drawings in the margins. We love you, Mark… thanks!

Mary Kelly is a Los Angeles based artist and seminal figure of the feminist art movement. She is known for her project-based work, addressing questions of sexuality, identity, psychoanalysis, feminist politics, and historical memory in the form of large-scale narrative installations.  Since 1996, Kelly has been Professor of Art and Critical Theory Art in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA, where she has established an Interdisciplinary Studio area for graduate students engaged in site-specific, collective and project-based practices. She is represented by Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Postmasters in NY.

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.

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

Shana Lutker is a Los Angeles based artist whose work focuses on the psychological affects of history and politics. Using a combination of photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance, she presents spare and economical objects, images, and situations. She has had solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and was included in the 2008 & 2006 California Biennial.  She finds time to be the Managing Editor of X-TRA magazine based in Los Angeles. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles.

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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.

Mark Allen is the owner and director of the non-profit Machine Project, which exists to “encourage heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious.” They provide educational resources to people working with technology, collaborate with artists to produce site-specific works, and promote conversations between scientists, poets, technicians, performers, and the community of Los Angeles as a whole.

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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.

Steve Hurd is a Los Angeles based painter whose most recent paintings brings his monumental frustrations and skepticism with the art world, mass media, the Iraq War, and the medium of painting into stunning view.  He is represented by Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.