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| | MasterPeaces: Exhibition Tour/Symposium and Poetry Presentation June 20 2-4pm |  In conjunction with MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose CSPG presents an Exhibition Tour/Symposium with Otis College Art & Design faculty and students, and poetry by the Get Lit Players!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
2-4pm
Da Vinci Gallery
Los Angeles City College
855 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90029
Free Parking for MasterPeaces on Saturdays, Lot 4, Heliotrope Drive on Western side of LACC
Carol Wells and students and faculty from Otis College of Art and Design will discuss the relationship between the original art seen in MasterPeaces and the contemporary protest poster.
"Get Lit Players bring poetry's emotions to other L.A. teenagers."--Los Angeles Times. The troupe performs original works, compares Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, and recites lively versions of Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Edgar Allan Poe. Get Lit's mission is to help underserved Southern California high school students discover their own voice, using literature, writing and performance as tools. |
| MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose |  June 6 - 27, 2009
Da Vinci Gallery
Los Angeles City College
855 N. Vermont Avenue (North of Melrose)
Los Angeles, California 90029
323.953.4000
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday · 12 - 4 pm
Free Parking for MasterPeaces on Saturdays, Lot 4, Heliotrope Drive on Western side of LACC
Nearly 60 years of protest posters in MasterPeaces-High Art for Higher Purpose appropriate art by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Picasso and many others to focus on contemporary issues, including anti-war, ecology, women's rights, anti-nuclear, disabled rights, HIV/AIDS, sexism and homophobia.
The alteration can be simple, such as in a Brazilian safe sex poster which places a condom into God's hand as he is about to touch Adam from Michelangelo's Creation. Art can also be completely reworked as in Evolve or Dissolve (1991) where the single figure in Munch's The Scream (1893), has been multiplied into countless terrified and ethnically diverse people, screaming as they run from burning oil wells during the first Gulf War. The Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous female portrait of all time, promotes abortion rights in a 1980s Spanish poster, and disabled rights in a 1990s German poster. The participants in Leonardo's Last Supper are replaced with Chicano heroes in one poster, and feminist artists in another. MasterPeaces is funded in part by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, The James Irvine Foundation, and the The Andy Warhol Foundation. |
| Prison Nation at the c.a.f.e. infoshop in Fresno |  Selections from: Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex
June 7 - 28, 2009
c.a.f.e. infoshop
935 F Street
Fresno, CA 93706
559-367-6020
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world-over 2.3 million inmates. Since the 1970s, the rate of most serious crimes has dropped, yet prisons have been filled at double capacity. People of color, the poor, the illiterate, the mentally ill, youth, and women are the primary occupants. This growth is due to mandatory drug sentencing laws, conspiracy provisions, a dysfunctional parole system, inadequate legal representation, and huge profits made by the multinational corporations servicing the prisons. The posters in Prison Nation cover issues surrounding the system of mass incarceration including: racial disparity in sentencing, the death penalty, the Three Strikes law, women's right to self defense, access to education and health care, the growing rate of incarceration, slave labor, divestment, privatization, torture, and re-entry into the community. They show the power of art to educate and inspire people to action.
Many of the selections on display at the info shop will be available for sale.
For more information contact the California Prison Moratorium Project at www.calipmp.org or www.myspace.com/capmp |
| Call for Poster Entries! CSPG 20th Anniversary Portfolio | | To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, CSPG will produce a limited edition portfolio with 3-5 silkscreen posters.
We are calling for poster design entries that address a critical issue facing our communities today such as global warming, the economy, healthcare, immigration, the Prison Industrial Complex, violence against women, war, etc.
Winning designs will be reproduced in an edition of 125 silkscreen prints. Winning artists will receive 20% of the print run and a complete portfolio.
Paper or digital submissions will be accepted and multiple entries are welcome. There are no geographic limitations.
Winning artists will need to provide color separations or prepare a digital file for color separations. Please keep designs to 3-4 colors. All entries will become a permanent part of CSPG's archives.
Posters will be printed on 20 X 26 paper.
Submission Deadline:
June 30, 2009
Please label submissions:
20th Anniversary Portfolio
Send posters/designs to:
CSPG
8124 West Third Street, Suite 211
Los Angeles, CA 90048-4309
or
cspg@politicalgraphics.org |
| CALL FOR VOLUNTEER INTERNS! | | CSPG is looking for volunteers interns to assist staff with archival and exhibition projects.
To begin as soon as possible!
Please contact Mary or Joy at 323.653.4662 |
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