Side Street Projects has been invited to participate in the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show at the LA Convention Center (January 21-24th). Your Side Street membership card gets you half-price admission tickets at the door (only $10…wow!).
Side Street will be offering free classes aboard the Woodworking Bus at the Art Show on Saturday the 23rd starting at 1pm. Email Emily at emily@sidestreet.org to reserve your child’s spot now, or sign up at the show.
The Los Angeles Art Show returns to the LA Convention Center in the revitalized downtown district. This year’s Show features over 100 national and international galleries, displaying a vibrant range of artwork, spanning artistic mediums across the centuries. Join an eclectic art-loving audience and be part of the creative magic at this internationally attended celebration of the arts. Visit their website at www.laartshow.com.
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.
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.
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 http://www.bariziperstein.com/home.
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.
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)
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 5 unique cyanotypes by LA’s very own Walead Beshty. These are the absolute last 5 Beshty cyanotypes available for sale. Each is unique and handmade by Walead. Proceeds from all print sales directly support Side Street Projects’ programs for kids and artists throughout LA County.
Walead Beshty Untitled (2009)
Cyanotype
6″ x 8″
Limited Edition of 100 Unique Cyanotypes
Hand-Indexed by the Artist
$1,000 each (only 5 available)
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)
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:
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.
What a fantastic evening! Good food, good drink, good friends, and a great cause. Bookmeat was a success on many levels. We’re so grateful for everyone that came out and showed their love for Side Street. For those who were “there in spirit,” here’s a little 2 minute video of what went down @ Bookmeat. Enjoy.
