Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Aurora Curator Mary Magsamen Receives TFPF Grant for Hillerbrand and Magsamen project
Congratulations are in order to Aurora curator Mary Magsamen and her husband Stephan Hillerbrand. The artist duo received one of thirty-three grants awarded by the Austin Film Society's Texas Filmmaker's Production Fund for their latest video work "Four Place Setting." The fund that began in 1996 has given away over 1.1 million over the years and this year gave away a total of $111,000 in cash and goods to Texas filmmakers. If you missed the recent exhibit of "Four Place Setting" in Houston, you'll hopefully have another chance soon as the artist duo will be using funds to distribute the work to festivals around the country. So look for it at a festival near you!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Not short of a good time at Extremely Shorts
As June comes to a close, another Aurora anniversary passes (13 years and counting) and Aurora staff put away the karaoke mics, picnic tablecloths, and voting ballots for our annual Extremely Shorts festival. We'd like to send out a special thanks to our juror Donald Harrison from Ann Arbor Film Festival who endured the sauna-like Houston weather, a surprisingly loud visitor at 1 a.m. Saturday, and sing-a-long peer pressure (resulting in a great rendition of "Common People") for this year's fest. All that and he still left the Aurora staff brownies. And congratulations to this year's Audience Choice Winners of Extremely Shorts: (1) La Pinata by Manuel Arija, (2) Short Stitched by Jenalia Moreno (2) and (3) Bulldozer by Melissa Hung (who also happens to the curator behind Aurora's annual Slant Film Festival). Your checks are already in the mail. Thanks to Aurora's ever-kind sponsors for the event including Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Ruggles Green, Whole Foods Market Houston, Tony Mandola's, Brasil, Carlos Lama, Molly Gochman, and Aztec Rentals. See you all next year - we are already plotting for more shorts, more songs, and more beer, naturally.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Meet our Summer Interns
Each semester, Aurora Picture Show recruits aspiring media arts leaders through our internship program. Interns are integral to the Aurora team and provide much needed support for the many programs that we host. In exchange, Aurora offers hands-on experience and guidance for their ambitions beyond the time in our office.
This Summer, we invited three interns to join our ranks and they have already proven themselves worthy by helping us with all kinds of projects ranging from administrative duties to curatorial assistance. Come and meet Ariana Reyes, Ashley Powell and Tara Roach at an upcoming event where they will be learning the "nomadic-cinema ropes."
ARIAN
A REYES
Ari Reyes is a quirky writer and digital media artist. She roams the halls of the School of Art at the University of Houston as a Photography/Digital Media student. When not laboriously designing sets for her films, she is found chasing neighborhood cats and hunting down new coffee and tea houses around town. She spends her working days as an academic advisor at Lonestar College and can always be found awake, at the hour that most choose to sleep, catching up on the latest bestsellers. Her work in stop motion animation is her excuse for why she must watch cartoons; her addiction to cereal is just inexplicable. When she heard about the Aurora Picture Show, she quickly grew an attachment and was encouraged by many to apply for an internship, which she was thankfully awarded.
ASHLEY POWELL
My name is Ashley Powell, and I am a Senior at the University of Houston at Clear Lake. My major is Public Service Leadership, which is a fancy name for Non-Profit and Governmental Agency Management. The choice to study under this program has given me many wonderful opportunities, like getting the chance to work as an intern here at the Aurora Picture Show. I absolutely love working here! My skills within the areas of management, marketing, and interpersonal relations are flourishing! I also get to learn a lot of awesome things about the film industry from our awesome staff members! I feel so lucky to have this internship with such an amazing organization with a sush a strong mission and dedication!!
TARA ROACH
Having spent the majority of her childhood in such diverse locations as Scotland and Virginia, Tara recently came to rest in Houston, which is warmer than the other places she has called “home”. She is in her senior year at the University of Houston, studying Photography and Digital Media, and she has a deep and abiding love for video art. When she is not assisting Aurora with sorting, cataloging, and other vital tasks, she loves to cook, swim, hike and take photos. Her dream is to one day run a bunny rescue.
This Summer, we invited three interns to join our ranks and they have already proven themselves worthy by helping us with all kinds of projects ranging from administrative duties to curatorial assistance. Come and meet Ariana Reyes, Ashley Powell and Tara Roach at an upcoming event where they will be learning the "nomadic-cinema ropes."
ARIAN
A REYESAri Reyes is a quirky writer and digital media artist. She roams the halls of the School of Art at the University of Houston as a Photography/Digital Media student. When not laboriously designing sets for her films, she is found chasing neighborhood cats and hunting down new coffee and tea houses around town. She spends her working days as an academic advisor at Lonestar College and can always be found awake, at the hour that most choose to sleep, catching up on the latest bestsellers. Her work in stop motion animation is her excuse for why she must watch cartoons; her addiction to cereal is just inexplicable. When she heard about the Aurora Picture Show, she quickly grew an attachment and was encouraged by many to apply for an internship, which she was thankfully awarded.
ASHLEY POWELL
My name is Ashley Powell, and I am a Senior at the University of Houston at Clear Lake. My major is Public Service Leadership, which is a fancy name for Non-Profit and Governmental Agency Management. The choice to study under this program has given me many wonderful opportunities, like getting the chance to work as an intern here at the Aurora Picture Show. I absolutely love working here! My skills within the areas of management, marketing, and interpersonal relations are flourishing! I also get to learn a lot of awesome things about the film industry from our awesome staff members! I feel so lucky to have this internship with such an amazing organization with a sush a strong mission and dedication!!
TARA ROACH
Having spent the majority of her childhood in such diverse locations as Scotland and Virginia, Tara recently came to rest in Houston, which is warmer than the other places she has called “home”. She is in her senior year at the University of Houston, studying Photography and Digital Media, and she has a deep and abiding love for video art. When she is not assisting Aurora with sorting, cataloging, and other vital tasks, she loves to cook, swim, hike and take photos. Her dream is to one day run a bunny rescue.
Monday, May 03, 2010
The Story Pirates Were Here
The Aurora staff are rejuvinated after a truly exhilirating weekend with The Striking Viking Story Pirates. This talented team of New York actors and performers make it their mission to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, and they do so by working with kids in public schools and at special events to create original stories that the Pirates then perform for the young authors, and young writers across the nation. Aurora's action-packed Pirate weekend included a public performance Saturday afternoon, a one-on-one workshop with the Pirates and twelve 6-10 year olds on Sunday, and two performances at Woodrow Wilson Montessori on Monday morning. In a special collaboration with Writers in the Schools, students enrolled in the WITS after school program at Wilson Elementary wrote a story, "Puppies in the Pound" in preparation for their visit and sent it to the Pirates in advance of their performance. The students then got to see it their own story performed by the Pirates at their school. Two other Wilson Montessori classes also participated with stories that came to life on stage before their eyes. Aurora Picture Show would like to thank Woodrow Wilson Montessori, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and Writers in the Schools for making the Story Pirates' Houston visit such a huge success. For videos from these inspiring kids and adults, click here.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Aurora's Curator Featured at Fusebox
As Austin's annual contemporary art and performance festival, Fusebox, gears up for its week-long set of performances, installations and more (April 21-May 2), Aurora's stellar curator Mary Magsamen packs her bags and prepares for her own performance as part of Blender Love, with her husband and collaborative partner Stephan Hillerbrand and collaborator Kirk Lynn of the Rude Mechs. Hillerbrand and Magsamen take Austin by storm with their "modern day séance for cell phones using interactive performance and live cinema" next Thursday night, April 22. If you live anywhere near Austin, or just need an excuse to go to Austin, be sure to see this extraordinary performance.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Glasstire Interview with Aurora's Visiting Artists
Aurora founder Andrea Grover interviews artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy for Glasstire in anticipation of Aurora's screening tomorrow night entitled Co-Existing and Co-llaborating. Read the full article here and come to the show!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
David Waddell's Recent Salon at Aurora
For those of you who did not make the Menil Community Art Festival, Aurora hosted a salon with local artist, David Waddell on stop motion animation. Waddell is also one of the instructors for Aurora's Summer Boot Camp. Click here for a quick clip from the salon.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Reports from the SXSW front
The Aurora gals are fresh from their pilgrimage to Austin and the SXSW Film Festival with news and new friends to report on. Great to meet and see in Austin were fellow jurors (for the Time Warner Cable and Ovation TV Young Filmmaker Award) Bart Weiss (who has screened his Dallas VideoFest at Aurora numerous times), Marcy Garriot (accomplished documentary filmmaker behind the film Inside the Circle), our favorite East Coast organizational crush, Rootop Films, and our favorite West Coast friends, Wholphin, not to mention several of our Houston neighbors including artist Kelly Sears, Microcinema International, SWAMP, and Houston Film Commission, and the filmmakers behind the Anderson Fair documentary For the Sake of the Song. A highlight of the trip was Aurora founder Andrea Grover's panel on Indirect Collaboration: Collective Creativity on the Web, and though we missed these, we wish we had been able to see Matt McCormick's (who appeared at Aurora with the You Are Here seminar curated by Bree Edwards) film Some Days Are Better Than Others, and our Texas Filmmaker Production Fund Workshop Host Bryan Poyser's (of Austin Film Society) new film Lovers of Hate. If any of our readers are Austin-bound, you still have opportunities to catch some of these films in their final screenings. See the full schedule here.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Aurora at Fotofest
If you didn't know already, Aurora's talented curator, Mary Magsamen, is a well known artist in her own right. Her and her husband, Stephan Hillerbrand, form the video art duo Hillerbrand and Magsamen and have a nation-wide exhibition history including exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia and being accepted into the Ann Arbor Film Festival multiple times. They are currently presenting four new videos in the Houston FotoFest exhibition titled, "4 Place Setting." The show runs from March 12-April 10 and the opening reception is April 1st from 6-8pm at the Spacetaker Gallery, 2101 Winter Street.
Magsamen is doing double duty for Fotofest as she has also curated the Aurora Fotofest Screening entitled "Co-Existing and Co-llaborating," featuring six collaborative teams of media artists including Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu, Potter Belmar Labs, Duke and Battersby, Voshart and Humphries and Dana and Travis Hanmer. More on these artists and this event here
Hope you'll join both Mary and Aurora on the Fotofest tour and stop by both events if you can!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Works by Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge and Pipilotti Rist added to the Aurora Video Library
The Aurora staff are very excited about our new library acquisition, Point Of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image. Come to our library at 1524 Sul Ross to see these amazing works that you can't see anywhere else in Houston!
Point Of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image is a DVD series that features eleven leading artists from different generations and cultural perspectives, who are among the most important artists working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys , David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala.
The anthology includes eleven separate DVDs in a boxed set. Each DVD features a newly-commissioned work; an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Dan Cameron, senior curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, or Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California; an image library of the artist's previous work; and bibliographical material.
If you or your school would like to arrange a special viewing, please make a reservation with our lovely, learned Media and Education Library Guru, Camilo Gonzalez (gonzalez@aurorapictureshow.org). Special thanks to the Brown Foundation for their support of our Video Library.
Point Of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image is a DVD series that features eleven leading artists from different generations and cultural perspectives, who are among the most important artists working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys , David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala.
The anthology includes eleven separate DVDs in a boxed set. Each DVD features a newly-commissioned work; an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Dan Cameron, senior curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, or Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California; an image library of the artist's previous work; and bibliographical material.
If you or your school would like to arrange a special viewing, please make a reservation with our lovely, learned Media and Education Library Guru, Camilo Gonzalez (gonzalez@aurorapictureshow.org). Special thanks to the Brown Foundation for their support of our Video Library.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Ten Best Latin American Films of the Decade
This weekend we had a great video salon discussion with curator and film critic Margarita De La Vega-Hurtado at our office where we explored the history and diversity of Latin American Cinema. At the conclusion of the salon, Margarita mentioned that Cinema Tropical had compiled a list of the Top Ten Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009), based on a survey of distinguished critics, scholars and film professionals based in the New York City area.
In all, 124 films representing 14 Latin American countries were nominated for the distinction of being Best of the Decade, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of films from the region.
Therefore here is the TOP 10 and the link to the rest of the films:
1)La Ciénaga (2001) Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
2)Amores Perros (2000) Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico
3)Luz Silenciosa / Silent Light (2007), Carlos Reygadas, Mexico
4)Cidade de Deus / City of God (2002), Fernando Meirelles, Brazil
5)Ônibus 174 / Bus 174 (2002), Jose Padilha, Felipe Lacerda, Brazil
6)Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico
7)Whisky (2004), Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, Uruguay
8)La mujer sin cabeza / The Headless Woman (2008), Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
9)La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004), Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
10)El laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Guillermo del Toro, Mexico
In all, 124 films representing 14 Latin American countries were nominated for the distinction of being Best of the Decade, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of films from the region.
Therefore here is the TOP 10 and the link to the rest of the films:
1)La Ciénaga (2001) Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
2)Amores Perros (2000) Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico
3)Luz Silenciosa / Silent Light (2007), Carlos Reygadas, Mexico
4)Cidade de Deus / City of God (2002), Fernando Meirelles, Brazil
5)Ônibus 174 / Bus 174 (2002), Jose Padilha, Felipe Lacerda, Brazil
6)Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico
7)Whisky (2004), Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, Uruguay
8)La mujer sin cabeza / The Headless Woman (2008), Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
9)La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004), Lucrecia Martel, Argentina
10)El laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Guillermo del Toro, Mexico
To see more images of the salon visit our Flickr page.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Rich in Love
While Aurora's recent burglaries at our Library location have left us poor in equipment, it has reminded us just how rich we are in LOVE. Love from Aurora patrons, fans, tweeters and facebookers. We wanted to thank all of those people who have stepped forward in one form or another to support Aurora since the burglaries.
Thank you to the following Aurora supporters:
David Brown & Christa Forster, Dan O'Shea, Lillian & Bob Warren, Chris Wilcha, Andrew Lampert, Marisa Avelar & Scott Howard, Emily Todd, Fumiko Chino, Marcy & Douglas Newman, Sorcha Landau, Molly Gochman, Gabriela Trzebinski & Carlisle Vandervoort, Gina & Major Miller, Martha & Richard Finger, Steve Seid, Nicole Laurent & Joey Romano, Joe Cooper, Laura Harrison, Joanna Spitzner, Caroline Gallay, Kelly Sears, Julie Shapiro, Casey Williams, Jenny Stark, Josephine Grover, Joanna Grover-Watson, Patrick Brooks, Emily Sloan, Michelle Engelman Berns, Monica Kressman, Lucy Anderson, copy.com, Jenni Stephenson, Cathy Power, Sara Cotner, Jordan Biren, Roxanne Claire, Hazuki Chino, Chris Wilcha, Paul and Elizabeth Nelson, Steve Seid, Michael Zilkha and Helen Fosdick, Frances Miller, AE Broyles Breier, Leigh Smith, Dmitry Bazykin, Kathryn Blackney, Donna Blackney, Richard Blackney, Leigh Molano, Judy Golden, Heather Harvey, Clemencia Reyes
And thank you to Aurora members:
Elizabeth Abraham, Sam Ackerman, Alex & Mark Adshead, Surain Adyanthaya, Lisa Albracht, Ana Maria Alvarez, Anne Amis, M. Lucille Anderson, Cameron Armstrong, Bill Arning, Marisa Avelar, Marilynn Barber, Regine Basha, Enid Baxter Blader, Dmitry Bazykin, Jayne Bellyk, Michelle Berns, Barbara Best, Jordan Biren, Lulu Black, Donna Blackney, Kathryn Blackney, Richard Blackney, Jaques Bluett, Duane Bradley, Camille Breaux, Patrick Brooks, Catherine Brown, Melissa Brown, David Buck, Genevieve Buentello, Amy Camarillo, Bob Camp, Claire Cardwell, Alfred Cervantes, Jereann Chaney, Fumiko Chino, Hazuki Chino, Craig & Holly Cieslikowski, Lisa Cohen, Catherine Colangelo, Meade Collard, Barbara Cowart, Ella Craig, Molly Cumming, Kevin Curry, Stewart N. Davis, Kate & Jonathan Day, Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, Alison de Lima Greene, Jason Dibley, Sicily Dickenson, Mary Dickson, Jim and Sandy D'Imperio, Cindy Bishop, East Sunset Heights Ass., Alice Epley, Ethan Epley, Susan Epley, Mark Everleth, Marion Fairbanks, Mark Fehrs-Haukohl, Sara & Carlos Fernandez, Kristin and William Flanagan, Kevin Flores, Christopher French, Arianna Garcia, Jennifer Garza, Molly Gochman, Adam Goldberg, Michael Gonzales, Mario Gonzalez, Liz Gorman, Holly Gracey, Donna Graham, Rob Greenstein, Nonya & Jonathan Grenader, Josephine Grover, Andrea Grover & Carlos Lama, Joanna Grover-Watson, Donald Harrison, Guy Harrison, Heather Harvey, Rachel Hecker, Mary & Jim Henderson, Patricia Hernandez, Douglas Hoffman, Vinod Hopson, Scott Howard, Robert Hughes, Fredericka Hunter, Alice Suzanne Ivey, Dawn Jackie Madison, Jan Johnson, Blackburn Jones, Toby Kamps, Patrick Keegan, Tracey Keegan, Brian Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner, Carol Jean Kern, Kalyn Kimmel, Mike & Maria Kirby, Jeanne & Michael Klein, Katy Kleinhans, Kay Knippa, Julia Kovacs, Judy Kwon, Robin La Belle, David Lake, Lisa & James Lamb, Sorcha Landau, Leticia Loya, Mary Magsamen, Terry Mahaffey, Merrick Mainster, Nick Mann, Lorena Martinez, Benjamin Mason, Marie Masterson, Eileen Maxson, Connie McAllister, Robert McClain, Carol/Herman McDavid/Kluge, Jodi McLaughlin, Deborah McNulty, Adan Medrano, David Miller, Amelia Molina, Michelle Mower, Eric Mun, David Nelson, Lauri Nelson, Paul Nelson, Susan Nichols, Jessica Ninci, Alicia Nuzzie, Susan Osterberg, Nieros Oyegun, Sharad Patel, Steve Patlan, Nic Philips, Douglas Pickett, Archie Pizzini, Troy Powell, Heather Pray, Ian Price, David Purdie, Kelly Quarles, Lee Raymond, Leslie Raymond, Joey Jr. Romano, Nancy Sarnoff, Alice Savage, Leslie Scates, Lane and Robert Schultz, Kelly Sears, Beth Secor, Julie Shapiro, Jeff Shell, Maria Sicardi, Anton Sinkewich, Emily Sloan, Jane Smith, Margaret Smith, Scott Sparvero, Sharman Speed, Joanna Spitzner, Jenny Stark, Rand Steven, Shannon Stiles, Mary Lou Swift, Deborah Thomas, Emily Todd, Ttweak, Aaron Valdez, Audie Valls, Robert & Lillian Warren, Christine West, Michelle White, Whitten and Proctor Fine Art Conservatory, Allison Wiese, Gail & Jim Wiese, Casey Williams, Cary Wolfe, Amy Wright, Kyle Wright, Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre,
And thanks for the following mentions and sponsors:
Media Mentions:
CultureMap, The Houston Chronicle, SwampLot, Bad Lit, ESPN 97.5
Sponsors:
SXSW, Hotel Sorella, Cyclone Anaya's, Shade Restaurant, Canopy Restaurant, Kiehls at Highland Village, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Crave Cupcakes, Block 7 Wine Company, 13 Celsius, Whole Foods Market, DiverseWorks, Cinema Bomar, Saint Arnold Brewery, Stockholm Vodka, treebeards Restaurant, Tacos A-Go-go, Worldfest Film Festival, Carnegie Mellon, Picture Me Perfect, Sinapps, CopyDotCom, Copy Craft Printers, Sharp Egg Design, Marisa Avelar Design, Judith Uzcategui design
Thank you all for your continued support.
Thank you to the following Aurora supporters:
David Brown & Christa Forster, Dan O'Shea, Lillian & Bob Warren, Chris Wilcha, Andrew Lampert, Marisa Avelar & Scott Howard, Emily Todd, Fumiko Chino, Marcy & Douglas Newman, Sorcha Landau, Molly Gochman, Gabriela Trzebinski & Carlisle Vandervoort, Gina & Major Miller, Martha & Richard Finger, Steve Seid, Nicole Laurent & Joey Romano, Joe Cooper, Laura Harrison, Joanna Spitzner, Caroline Gallay, Kelly Sears, Julie Shapiro, Casey Williams, Jenny Stark, Josephine Grover, Joanna Grover-Watson, Patrick Brooks, Emily Sloan, Michelle Engelman Berns, Monica Kressman, Lucy Anderson, copy.com, Jenni Stephenson, Cathy Power, Sara Cotner, Jordan Biren, Roxanne Claire, Hazuki Chino, Chris Wilcha, Paul and Elizabeth Nelson, Steve Seid, Michael Zilkha and Helen Fosdick, Frances Miller, AE Broyles Breier, Leigh Smith, Dmitry Bazykin, Kathryn Blackney, Donna Blackney, Richard Blackney, Leigh Molano, Judy Golden, Heather Harvey, Clemencia Reyes
And thank you to Aurora members:
Elizabeth Abraham, Sam Ackerman, Alex & Mark Adshead, Surain Adyanthaya, Lisa Albracht, Ana Maria Alvarez, Anne Amis, M. Lucille Anderson, Cameron Armstrong, Bill Arning, Marisa Avelar, Marilynn Barber, Regine Basha, Enid Baxter Blader, Dmitry Bazykin, Jayne Bellyk, Michelle Berns, Barbara Best, Jordan Biren, Lulu Black, Donna Blackney, Kathryn Blackney, Richard Blackney, Jaques Bluett, Duane Bradley, Camille Breaux, Patrick Brooks, Catherine Brown, Melissa Brown, David Buck, Genevieve Buentello, Amy Camarillo, Bob Camp, Claire Cardwell, Alfred Cervantes, Jereann Chaney, Fumiko Chino, Hazuki Chino, Craig & Holly Cieslikowski, Lisa Cohen, Catherine Colangelo, Meade Collard, Barbara Cowart, Ella Craig, Molly Cumming, Kevin Curry, Stewart N. Davis, Kate & Jonathan Day, Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, Alison de Lima Greene, Jason Dibley, Sicily Dickenson, Mary Dickson, Jim and Sandy D'Imperio, Cindy Bishop, East Sunset Heights Ass., Alice Epley, Ethan Epley, Susan Epley, Mark Everleth, Marion Fairbanks, Mark Fehrs-Haukohl, Sara & Carlos Fernandez, Kristin and William Flanagan, Kevin Flores, Christopher French, Arianna Garcia, Jennifer Garza, Molly Gochman, Adam Goldberg, Michael Gonzales, Mario Gonzalez, Liz Gorman, Holly Gracey, Donna Graham, Rob Greenstein, Nonya & Jonathan Grenader, Josephine Grover, Andrea Grover & Carlos Lama, Joanna Grover-Watson, Donald Harrison, Guy Harrison, Heather Harvey, Rachel Hecker, Mary & Jim Henderson, Patricia Hernandez, Douglas Hoffman, Vinod Hopson, Scott Howard, Robert Hughes, Fredericka Hunter, Alice Suzanne Ivey, Dawn Jackie Madison, Jan Johnson, Blackburn Jones, Toby Kamps, Patrick Keegan, Tracey Keegan, Brian Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner, Carol Jean Kern, Kalyn Kimmel, Mike & Maria Kirby, Jeanne & Michael Klein, Katy Kleinhans, Kay Knippa, Julia Kovacs, Judy Kwon, Robin La Belle, David Lake, Lisa & James Lamb, Sorcha Landau, Leticia Loya, Mary Magsamen, Terry Mahaffey, Merrick Mainster, Nick Mann, Lorena Martinez, Benjamin Mason, Marie Masterson, Eileen Maxson, Connie McAllister, Robert McClain, Carol/Herman McDavid/Kluge, Jodi McLaughlin, Deborah McNulty, Adan Medrano, David Miller, Amelia Molina, Michelle Mower, Eric Mun, David Nelson, Lauri Nelson, Paul Nelson, Susan Nichols, Jessica Ninci, Alicia Nuzzie, Susan Osterberg, Nieros Oyegun, Sharad Patel, Steve Patlan, Nic Philips, Douglas Pickett, Archie Pizzini, Troy Powell, Heather Pray, Ian Price, David Purdie, Kelly Quarles, Lee Raymond, Leslie Raymond, Joey Jr. Romano, Nancy Sarnoff, Alice Savage, Leslie Scates, Lane and Robert Schultz, Kelly Sears, Beth Secor, Julie Shapiro, Jeff Shell, Maria Sicardi, Anton Sinkewich, Emily Sloan, Jane Smith, Margaret Smith, Scott Sparvero, Sharman Speed, Joanna Spitzner, Jenny Stark, Rand Steven, Shannon Stiles, Mary Lou Swift, Deborah Thomas, Emily Todd, Ttweak, Aaron Valdez, Audie Valls, Robert & Lillian Warren, Christine West, Michelle White, Whitten and Proctor Fine Art Conservatory, Allison Wiese, Gail & Jim Wiese, Casey Williams, Cary Wolfe, Amy Wright, Kyle Wright, Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre,
And thanks for the following mentions and sponsors:
Media Mentions:
CultureMap, The Houston Chronicle, SwampLot, Bad Lit, ESPN 97.5
Sponsors:
SXSW, Hotel Sorella, Cyclone Anaya's, Shade Restaurant, Canopy Restaurant, Kiehls at Highland Village, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Crave Cupcakes, Block 7 Wine Company, 13 Celsius, Whole Foods Market, DiverseWorks, Cinema Bomar, Saint Arnold Brewery, Stockholm Vodka, treebeards Restaurant, Tacos A-Go-go, Worldfest Film Festival, Carnegie Mellon, Picture Me Perfect, Sinapps, CopyDotCom, Copy Craft Printers, Sharp Egg Design, Marisa Avelar Design, Judith Uzcategui design
Thank you all for your continued support.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Top Ten Ways to Support Aurora
By now, you have probably heard that Aurora Picture Show is in the midst of a rough patch due to decreased grant funding, underwriting and our unfortunate break-ins. Despite an amazing year with stellar programming, innovative partnerships, and our best attendance, we have been hit.
You may be thinking that you would like to help, and are not sure how you can do it with your limited resources, but there are so many ways to support Aurora right now. We wanted to take a moment and give you the top ten ways you can help Aurora bounce back in 2010.
1. Make a general donation
2. Attend our shows and bring a friend
3. If you know a company or foundation or patron that might be interested in supporting Aurora, let us know. We are always looking for in-kind donations or new friends to help us grow.
4. Purchase a raffle ticket
5. Vote for us with the Chase Community Giving program
6. Buy gift memberships for your friends for the holidays
7. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and spread the word to your friends. Invite them to be fans and RT our posts. We also love to hear your reactions online!
8. Check if your employer gives matching gifts
9. Forward this blog article to friends
10. Shop for Aurora Purchase holiday gifts using Aurora's Amazon link
Monday, November 16, 2009
I am thankful for @AuroraPicture because...
This holiday season Aurora Picture Show has partnered with several amazing companies for a holiday raffle and un-office party extravaganza that will get your holiday sweaters out of the closet and onto the dance floor. We hope that you will consider supporting Aurora by purchasing a raffle ticket or becoming an Aurora member today. For that, we would be very appreciative!
As a friend to the Muses, we want to know what arts inspired you in 2009 and what you are thankful for this holiday season. We know it has been a tough year, but even in gloomy times there is still inspiration and beauty. Show your gratitude and let us know what you are thankful for to be entered for a chance to win one free raffle ticket!
Help us spread the word about the Aurora Holiday Raffle by letting us know "@AuroraPicture, I am thankful for..."
Submit your entry to @AuroraPicture via Twitter, on the Aurora Facebook page, or here in the comments section of the Aurora blog anytime between 11/16 and 11/26. We will giveaway five (5) raffle tickets to the best responses. Just let us know what you are thankful for!
Aurora is thankful for our Holiday Party and Raffle Sponsors, including SXSW, Hotel Sorella, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Shade Restaurant, Canopy Restaurant, Kiehl's in Highland Village, Cyclone Anaya's, DiverseWorks, Block 7 Wine Company, Crave Cupcakes, 13 Celsius, Whole Foods Market, Tacos A G0-Go, Treebeards Restaurant, Cinema Bomar, Saint Arnold Brewery, WorldFest Film Festival and Stockholm Vodka.
To learn more about the raffle and purchase tickets, CLICK HERE
To join Aurora Picture Show, CLICK HERE
To visit the Aurora Picture Show Twitter Page, CLICK HERE
To visit the Aurora Picture Show Facebook Page, CLICK HERE
As a friend to the Muses, we want to know what arts inspired you in 2009 and what you are thankful for this holiday season. We know it has been a tough year, but even in gloomy times there is still inspiration and beauty. Show your gratitude and let us know what you are thankful for to be entered for a chance to win one free raffle ticket!
Help us spread the word about the Aurora Holiday Raffle by letting us know "@AuroraPicture, I am thankful for..."
Submit your entry to @AuroraPicture via Twitter, on the Aurora Facebook page, or here in the comments section of the Aurora blog anytime between 11/16 and 11/26. We will giveaway five (5) raffle tickets to the best responses. Just let us know what you are thankful for!
Aurora is thankful for our Holiday Party and Raffle Sponsors, including SXSW, Hotel Sorella, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Shade Restaurant, Canopy Restaurant, Kiehl's in Highland Village, Cyclone Anaya's, DiverseWorks, Block 7 Wine Company, Crave Cupcakes, 13 Celsius, Whole Foods Market, Tacos A G0-Go, Treebeards Restaurant, Cinema Bomar, Saint Arnold Brewery, WorldFest Film Festival and Stockholm Vodka.
To learn more about the raffle and purchase tickets, CLICK HERE
To join Aurora Picture Show, CLICK HERE
To visit the Aurora Picture Show Twitter Page, CLICK HERE
To visit the Aurora Picture Show Facebook Page, CLICK HERE
CONTEST RULES
- Contest is from Monday, November 16, 2009 and will end on or around 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 26, 2009.
- Aurora is not responsible for technological difficulties that may prevent an individual from completing an entry.
- To participate in the Contest, you may enter via the following method: Submit what you are thankful for via Aurora Picture Show Twitter account @AuroraPicture. All entries submitted become the sole property of Aurora Picture Show and will not be acknowledged. Use of any device to automate entry is prohibited. Proof of submission of an entry shall not be deemed proof of receipt by Aurora Picture Show.
- One entry per person.
- The contest is open to all persons who are 21 years of age or older.
- Only one winner per household is permitted.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Aurora Artists and Co-presentations at Cinema Arts Festival Houston
Aurora Picture Show is delighted to have been among the arts organizations that helped shape and define Houston’s newest film festival, Cinema Arts Festival Houston. Running November 11-15, 2009, Cinema Arts Festival highlights contemporary art and artists through feature films, panels, workshops, and special events. Listed below are screenings co-presented with Aurora, and events that feature past Aurora Artists who will be in attendance.
Be sure to check out the Cinema Arts Festival website for a full schedule and ticketing info. Aurora will also be hosting ticket give-aways to some festival events, so stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages for chances to win!
What if, Why Not? Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Thursday, November 12 at 7PM, UH College of Architecture Auditorium
Presented with Aurora Picture Show
What If, Why Not is the first film to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive work that questioned everything by posing a set of creative and comedic alternatives. Combining futuristic notions gleaned from Buckminster Fuller and NASA with lo-fi production methods; utopian visions with a love of trashy backyard Americana; and a respect for "high" intellectual ideas with an irreverent, often crass sense of humor, Ant Farm's work was quintessential American in its ethos and methodology and emblematic of a period in American history that continues to captivate and shape modern culture.
Aurora Connections:
Laura Harrison: Co-director, Aurora Advisory Board member, and past Aurora artist
Beth Federici: Co-director, former Aurora Advisory Board member, and past Aurora artist
Chip Lord: Art Farm member, recipient of Aurora Award 2004, past Aurora artist
Curtis Schreier: Art Farm member, recipient of Aurora Award 2004, past Aurora artist
Experimental Film and Visual Arts: Holly Fisher and Jennifer Reeves
Moderated by Andrea Grover
Friday, November 13 at 1PM, Alabama Theater
The moving image, as manipulated in striking, painterly ways by experimental filmmakers Jennifer Reeves and Holly Fisher, will be explored in relation to painting, sculpture and photography.
Aurora Connections:
Andrea Grover: Founder, Aurora Picture Show
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD.
Pictures from a Revolution
Friday, November 13 at 4PM, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
No one captured more powerfully the suffering, sacrifice, and finally celebration that accompanied the Sandinista victory than Susan Meiselas, the award-winning photojournalist who covered the Nicaraguan revolution for the New York Times and London Times. In Pictures from a Revolution, Meiselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later with codirectors Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti to track down the people—soldiers, revolutionaries, and ordinary people—pictured in her original photographs and their previous film, Living at Risk (screening Saturday at the Cinema Arts Festival Houston). Pictures from a Revolution is not a sequel to the previous work, which explored the life of a Nicaraguan family; rather, it is a deeper and wider analysis of a country and its people.
Aurora Connection:
Alfred Guzzetti: Past Aurora artist
When it was Blue
Friday, November 13 at 7PM, Rice Media Center
Cine artist, Jennifer Reeves is again showcased in a screening night that includes a double-projector performance with live musical accompaniment by Skúli Sverrisson. When It Was Blue is an ode to nature and 16mm film as they rapidly vanish. This double-projection 16mm film rejoices in the splendor of seasons, landscapes, and wildlife as we traverse land and ocean.
Aurora Connection:
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD
Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family
Saturday, November 14 at 4PM, Rice Media Center
Filmed before Pictures From A Revolution, Alfred Guzzetti's Living at Risk is a snapshot of the life of a family during a period of civil war, uncertainty, and despair, five years after the Sandinistas gained power in Nicaragua, overthrowing the brutal and long reign of the Somoza family. The documentary centers on five brothers and sisters who commit themselves to work with the Sandinista revolutionary government and to contribute to the social changes in their professional and personal lives.
Aurora Connections:
Alfred Guzzetti: Past Aurora artist
What if, Why Not? Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Friday, November 13 at 9:45PM, Angelika Film Center
See description above.
The Time We Killed
Saturday, November 14 at 1PM, Rice Media Center
The Time We Killed is the first feature by avant-garde filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, who had been generally known for her formal experimentation with optical printing and painting directly on film (as in the extraordinary When It Was Blue, screening Friday) and her exploration of a range of topics including women’s sexuality, mental health and recovery, poetry, and dogs. The Time We Killed is a surprising departure, a remarkably assured narrative feature.
Aurora Connection:
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD
The Yes Men Fix The World
Saturday, November 14, 7PM, Rice Media Center
Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about the satirical activist team the Yes Men. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno’s theatrical performances take place on unusual stages. Dressed in thrift-store suits, posing as top executives of corporations they consider criminal, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in outrageous, yet strangely plausible ways.
Aurora Connection: The Yes Men: Past Aurora artists
H Box: A conversation with Banjamin Weil
Sunday, November 15 at 1pm, Alabama Theater
In Conversation with Toby Kamps and Mary Magsamen
The artistic director of H BOX, an innovative, mobile screening room presenting work by ten international artists, talks about commissioning original works of art and exhibiting them in this exciting new venue, on display in the Alabama Theatre through November 15.
Aurora Connection: Mary Magsamen: Current Aurora Artistic Director, past Aurora artist
The Yes Men Fix The World
Sunday, November 15, 1PM, Angelika
See description above
Be sure to check out the Cinema Arts Festival website for a full schedule and ticketing info. Aurora will also be hosting ticket give-aways to some festival events, so stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages for chances to win!
What if, Why Not? Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Thursday, November 12 at 7PM, UH College of Architecture Auditorium
Presented with Aurora Picture Show
What If, Why Not is the first film to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive work that questioned everything by posing a set of creative and comedic alternatives. Combining futuristic notions gleaned from Buckminster Fuller and NASA with lo-fi production methods; utopian visions with a love of trashy backyard Americana; and a respect for "high" intellectual ideas with an irreverent, often crass sense of humor, Ant Farm's work was quintessential American in its ethos and methodology and emblematic of a period in American history that continues to captivate and shape modern culture.
Aurora Connections:
Laura Harrison: Co-director, Aurora Advisory Board member, and past Aurora artist
Beth Federici: Co-director, former Aurora Advisory Board member, and past Aurora artist
Chip Lord: Art Farm member, recipient of Aurora Award 2004, past Aurora artist
Curtis Schreier: Art Farm member, recipient of Aurora Award 2004, past Aurora artist
Experimental Film and Visual Arts: Holly Fisher and Jennifer Reeves
Moderated by Andrea Grover
Friday, November 13 at 1PM, Alabama Theater
The moving image, as manipulated in striking, painterly ways by experimental filmmakers Jennifer Reeves and Holly Fisher, will be explored in relation to painting, sculpture and photography.
Aurora Connections:
Andrea Grover: Founder, Aurora Picture Show
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD.
Pictures from a Revolution
Friday, November 13 at 4PM, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
No one captured more powerfully the suffering, sacrifice, and finally celebration that accompanied the Sandinista victory than Susan Meiselas, the award-winning photojournalist who covered the Nicaraguan revolution for the New York Times and London Times. In Pictures from a Revolution, Meiselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later with codirectors Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti to track down the people—soldiers, revolutionaries, and ordinary people—pictured in her original photographs and their previous film, Living at Risk (screening Saturday at the Cinema Arts Festival Houston). Pictures from a Revolution is not a sequel to the previous work, which explored the life of a Nicaraguan family; rather, it is a deeper and wider analysis of a country and its people.
Aurora Connection:
Alfred Guzzetti: Past Aurora artist
When it was Blue
Friday, November 13 at 7PM, Rice Media Center
Cine artist, Jennifer Reeves is again showcased in a screening night that includes a double-projector performance with live musical accompaniment by Skúli Sverrisson. When It Was Blue is an ode to nature and 16mm film as they rapidly vanish. This double-projection 16mm film rejoices in the splendor of seasons, landscapes, and wildlife as we traverse land and ocean.
Aurora Connection:
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD
Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family
Saturday, November 14 at 4PM, Rice Media Center
Filmed before Pictures From A Revolution, Alfred Guzzetti's Living at Risk is a snapshot of the life of a family during a period of civil war, uncertainty, and despair, five years after the Sandinistas gained power in Nicaragua, overthrowing the brutal and long reign of the Somoza family. The documentary centers on five brothers and sisters who commit themselves to work with the Sandinista revolutionary government and to contribute to the social changes in their professional and personal lives.
Aurora Connections:
Alfred Guzzetti: Past Aurora artist
What if, Why Not? Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Friday, November 13 at 9:45PM, Angelika Film Center
See description above.
The Time We Killed
Saturday, November 14 at 1PM, Rice Media Center
The Time We Killed is the first feature by avant-garde filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, who had been generally known for her formal experimentation with optical printing and painting directly on film (as in the extraordinary When It Was Blue, screening Friday) and her exploration of a range of topics including women’s sexuality, mental health and recovery, poetry, and dogs. The Time We Killed is a surprising departure, a remarkably assured narrative feature.
Aurora Connection:
Jennifer Reeves: Featured artist on Aurora Video Label, Cinemad DVD
The Yes Men Fix The World
Saturday, November 14, 7PM, Rice Media Center
Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about the satirical activist team the Yes Men. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno’s theatrical performances take place on unusual stages. Dressed in thrift-store suits, posing as top executives of corporations they consider criminal, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in outrageous, yet strangely plausible ways.
Aurora Connection: The Yes Men: Past Aurora artists
H Box: A conversation with Banjamin Weil
Sunday, November 15 at 1pm, Alabama Theater
In Conversation with Toby Kamps and Mary Magsamen
The artistic director of H BOX, an innovative, mobile screening room presenting work by ten international artists, talks about commissioning original works of art and exhibiting them in this exciting new venue, on display in the Alabama Theatre through November 15.
Aurora Connection: Mary Magsamen: Current Aurora Artistic Director, past Aurora artist
The Yes Men Fix The World
Sunday, November 15, 1PM, Angelika
See description above
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
You Can Take Our Equipment But You Can't Take Our Passion
Stealing from a non-profit seems lower than low, right? Unfortunately, everyone's favorite microcinema was broken into last night (the thieves came through the back room window) and stole several pieces of Aurora equipment that we use for our salons and screenings -- including our LCD Monitor, Blue Ray Player, two DVD Players, our sound mixer, our PC Laptop, a DVD burner, and some other small items (Pint glasses - We always knew those were popular!). Here is the complete list.
We have filed a police report and will be following up with our insurance but wanted to make everyone aware of what has happened.
If anyone has any connections to equipment vendors or are getting rid of anything in the near future, let us know. Aurora fans can also help by purchasing tickets to our annual raffle fundraiser which will take place in December with two sought-after badges to SXSW as one of the many prizes.
Thanks for the support and be on the lookout for any pint-glass-carrying bad guys selling film and video equipment.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Sending Aurora Love to our Gala Sponsors
Just wanted to make sure that we send our love and appreciation to the Aurora Award sponsors, including:
Hotel Sorella
Saint Arnold Brewery
Stockholm Krystal Vodka
City Kitchen Catering
Along with all the supporters who came out in support of Aurora Picture Show and to see Doug Aitken.
THANK YOU!
Hotel Sorella
Saint Arnold Brewery
Stockholm Krystal Vodka
City Kitchen Catering
Along with all the supporters who came out in support of Aurora Picture Show and to see Doug Aitken.
THANK YOU!
A New Framework
Aurora friend Anne Pasternack of Creative Time is circulating a petition that calls on Congress and the Obama Administration to support art’s public purpose to mend our social fabric, promote freedom of expression and a vibrant, inclusive national dialogue, and revitalize both education and commerce with the creativity that has always been the wellspring of our energy and success. If you care about creativity, culture, public art and their role in our future, read the petition here.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Southern Exposure Gets Passive/Aggressive
If you are an artist in Northern California, don't miss an opportunity to enter your work in Southern Exposure's 2009 Series of Juried Projects (and get your work seen by Aurora's founder and nonstop curator/media arts wonder woman Andrea Grover) Here are the details:
PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE: SoEx's 2009 Series of Juried Projects
Juried Film/Video Screening
Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day
Of Works by Northern California Artists
SoEx is commited to creating a space for innovative, experimental, and risk-taking art and with this in mind, invites artists to submit public and film/video works in response to a theme that encourages as broad a range of artistic interpretation as possible. This year's theme, Passive/Aggressive, was chosen in response to our current cultural, economic and political climate and reflects on how decisions are made when faced with extreme challenges. We invite artists to submit work that responds to this idea in some way, shape or form.
DEADLINE:
SoEx must receive your submission by Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 6 pm.
EVENTS:
Public Art/Urban Interventions Day: Saturday, December 5, 11 am - 5 pm
Film/Video Screening: Sunday, December 6, 5 pm
Details to be announced in November!
2009 JURORS:
Film/Video Juror: Andrea Grover is a Houston-based independent curator, artist, writer and founder of Aurora Picture Show, a now recognized center for filmic art that began in Grover's living room as “the world's most public home theater.
Public Art/Urban Interventions Day Juror: Jeannene Przyblyski is an artist, historian, urban strategist and founder the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, a visual arts and urbanism think tank that incubates and promotes art and other public interventions in city life.
To obtain information about eligibility, rules, submission drop-off, jurors, jurying and to get a submission form, please download the Call for Entry form from the SoEx website.
PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE: SoEx's 2009 Series of Juried Projects
Juried Film/Video Screening
Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day
Of Works by Northern California Artists
SoEx is commited to creating a space for innovative, experimental, and risk-taking art and with this in mind, invites artists to submit public and film/video works in response to a theme that encourages as broad a range of artistic interpretation as possible. This year's theme, Passive/Aggressive, was chosen in response to our current cultural, economic and political climate and reflects on how decisions are made when faced with extreme challenges. We invite artists to submit work that responds to this idea in some way, shape or form.
DEADLINE:
SoEx must receive your submission by Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 6 pm.
EVENTS:
Public Art/Urban Interventions Day: Saturday, December 5, 11 am - 5 pm
Film/Video Screening: Sunday, December 6, 5 pm
Details to be announced in November!
2009 JURORS:
Film/Video Juror: Andrea Grover is a Houston-based independent curator, artist, writer and founder of Aurora Picture Show, a now recognized center for filmic art that began in Grover's living room as “the world's most public home theater.
Public Art/Urban Interventions Day Juror: Jeannene Przyblyski is an artist, historian, urban strategist and founder the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, a visual arts and urbanism think tank that incubates and promotes art and other public interventions in city life.
To obtain information about eligibility, rules, submission drop-off, jurors, jurying and to get a submission form, please download the Call for Entry form from the SoEx website.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Fletcher in Might Be Good
One of Aurora's favorite artists and earliest supporters, Harrell Fletcher , is featured in Fluent Collaborative's art e-journal Might Be Good this week. Read early and often.
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