Valley Art Share's Posts - Valley Art Share2024-03-28T12:57:16ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartsharehttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1545600269?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.valleyartshare.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=09nz6gn7hjk6n&xn_auth=noSaveArtSpace -- Billboards for artiststag:www.valleyartshare.com,2018-06-14:2537144:BlogPost:1172412018-06-14T22:15:34.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<div><a href="http://saveartspace.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SaveArtSpace</a> is a nonprofit organization for Public Art and Community Activism.</div>
<div><span>Since 2015, we</span><span> have exhibited </span><b>84</b><span> artists on </span><i><b>100 </b></i><span>billboards or similar advertising spaces, in 8 major US cities. </span>We are excited to offer this new opportunity to your community and would be honored to invite you and your organization to be involved in our public…</div>
<div><a href="http://saveartspace.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SaveArtSpace</a> is a nonprofit organization for Public Art and Community Activism.</div>
<div><span>Since 2015, we</span><span> have exhibited </span><b>84</b><span> artists on </span><i><b>100 </b></i><span>billboards or similar advertising spaces, in 8 major US cities. </span>We are excited to offer this new opportunity to your community and would be honored to invite you and your organization to be involved in our public art programing. </div>
<div><span>Our current open call for art ends June 30. Providing artists nationwide the opportunity to have their artwork displayed on billboards in their local community. Submit at </span><a href="http://saveartspace.org/submit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saveartspace.org/submit</a><span>. Here's the flyer - <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560642542?profile=original" target="_self">About-SaveArtSpace.pdf</a></span></div>
<div><div>SaveArtSpace<span> </span>has open calls ending every month, with multiple opportunities to have artwork displayed in New York City, other large US cities, or in your own neighborhood. <span>We aim to transform advertisement space into public art, in all 50 states, by and for the local artists of each community. </span></div>
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<div><div><div>We invite you share our open calls with your artists and art communities. We look forward to saving space for art in<span> </span><span>Pioneer Valley</span><span> </span>and across Massachusetts!</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">Travis Rix, co-founder of <a href="http://saveartspace.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SaveArtSpace</a></div>
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</div>Valley Art Share Seeks New Stewardtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2015-04-27:2537144:BlogPost:1004752015-04-27T14:17:17.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
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<p>It's been wonderful to be at the helm of creating and maintaining Valley Art Share for the last 7 years and the time has come for me to pass it on to someone else. I'm looking for someone who is excited to take on full responsibility for the site and steward it into the…</p>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h2>It's time for a change. </h2>
<p>It's been wonderful to be at the helm of creating and maintaining Valley Art Share for the last 7 years and the time has come for me to pass it on to someone else. I'm looking for someone who is excited to take on full responsibility for the site and steward it into the future.<strong> </strong>This could be an individual or a collective of folks. </p>
<p>This is an unpaid position: I am not paid to manage Valley Art Share however there is potential for fundraising and income streams should you want to be monetarily compensated.</p>
<p>It is especially important that the calendar on Valley Art Share remain free and open. Ideally every effort would be made for the site to continue to be free to it's members. </p>
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<li>Founded in 2008 in direct response to the need for a free community arts calendar and desire for building connections between artists in Western Mass</li>
<li>Currently has over 1000 members</li>
<li>Has gone through periods of increased activity in response to direct projects and organizing. In the past it has received over 2000 unique visits a month</li>
<li>Based on a pre-designed social network service called <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=b4c2c2e426&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">Ning.com</a></li>
<li>Provides a platform that offers a <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=7002609e0e&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">community arts calendar</a>, <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=da1e833b2b&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">photo galleries</a> and <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=89d03d852c&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">blogging</a> to it's members</li>
<li>Minimal monthly fee to keep it alive ($25)</li>
<li>Potential for growth in revenue through ads and pay walls</li>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h3><strong>At a minimum being the steward of Valley Art Share means managing it in its current form:</strong></h3>
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<li>Managing the community calendar by featuring events to the main page </li>
<li>Responding to member issues and questions</li>
<li>Authorizing new members</li>
<li>Paying the $25/month fee to keep it alive</li>
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<p><strong>Ideally the VAS steward would grow it into something that you are excited about and invested in.</strong> </p>
<h3><strong>VAS nascent projects:</strong></h3>
<em>Over the years I've started and stopped various parts of Valley Art Share, all or some of which could be picked back up by the new steward. I'm happy to share what I've learned about what made each of these projects tick.</em><br />
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<li><a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=3c22ee6648&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">Online exhibitions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=02a517cb52&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">Micro grants</a></li>
<li>Advertising</li>
<li>Residencies/opportunities to collaborate</li>
<li>Local outreach and organizing to increase site engagement, conversation and calendar use</li>
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<h3><strong>Some ideas I've had over the years:</strong></h3>
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<li>Publishing arts and culture reviews and criticism (maybe making it more like <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=e03db7434d&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">Big Red and Shiny</a>)</li>
<li>Collaborating with local community access television stations to produce videos</li>
<li>Collaborating with area organizations that support creatives</li>
<li>Building more regional connections to arts and culture publications and support organizations in the Northeast</li>
<li>Creating opportunities for folks to gather in person</li>
<li>Designing print materials to market the site</li>
<li>Publishing an annual catalog of Valley Art Share member work</li>
<li>Organizing town or county VAS collaborators to help with organizing and member engagement</li>
<li>Rebuilding the network using an open source free platform such as <a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=d3b72e1a18&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">BuddyPress</a></li>
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<h3><strong>Necessary skills:</strong></h3>
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<li>Project management</li>
<li>Strong verbal and written communication</li>
<li>Emailing Marketing (MailChimp)</li>
<li>Familiar with Western Mass and it's arts and culture</li>
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<h3><strong>Helpful skills:</strong></h3>
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<li>Web and print design</li>
<li>Marketing </li>
<li>Community organizing</li>
<li>Budget Management</li>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h2><strong>Are you interested in being the VAS Steward?</strong></h2>
<p><span>Please send a letter of interest to <a href="mailto:valleyartshare@gmail.com" target="_blank">valleyartshare@gmail.com</a> by <span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">Friday, May 22nd at 5pm</span></span>. You are welcome to send questions to the same address.<br/> <br/> Please also help me to spread the word about this transition and the search for a new steward. I look forward to hearing from you.<br/> Sincerely,</span></p>
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</table>New Deadlines for the 3rd (and final) Micro Granttag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-10-01:2537144:BlogPost:927332013-10-01T02:30:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span>Hello Fine Folk, </span><br></br> <br></br> <span>I hope this early Autumn email finds you well. I had some family things come up this Summer that kept me away from Valley Art Share and thus missed the proper slew of emails associated with the Micro Grants. </span><br></br> <br></br> <span>We've got a good little sum of cash in the kitty ($817.35 to be exact) to fund a project of your choosing. See below for the line-up of new deadlines. </span><br></br> <br></br> <span>I've decided to stop the micro…</span></p>
<p><span>Hello Fine Folk, </span><br/> <br/> <span>I hope this early Autumn email finds you well. I had some family things come up this Summer that kept me away from Valley Art Share and thus missed the proper slew of emails associated with the Micro Grants. </span><br/> <br/> <span>We've got a good little sum of cash in the kitty ($817.35 to be exact) to fund a project of your choosing. See below for the line-up of new deadlines. </span><br/> <br/> <span>I've decided to stop the micro grants after this round so that I can focus on other things. If you're interested in them continuing in the future drop me a line and let me know. Thanks to all the folks who have pitched in to make it work this past year. I look forward to seeing what you propose this round.</span></p>
<div><br/> Warmly,<br/> Julia</div>
<p><br/> <span>Julia Handschuh</span><br/> <span>Valley Art Share</span><br/> <span>valleyartshare@gmail.com</span></p>
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<h2 class="null">The 3rd (and last) cycle for the micro grants is coming to an end. </h2>
<p><span><span>All Valley Art Share members are invited to participate*. </span></span></p>
<h3 class="null">Here are the new deadlines:</h3>
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<li>October 15th Proposals are due (two weeks to rally!)</li>
<li>October 21st Deadline to participate in the selection process</li>
<li>October 25th Votes are cast</li>
<li>November 1st Selected Project is announced</li>
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<p><span><br/> <span>*If you haven't been giving to the Collective Fund for the past 6 months </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWEK8K865VBF2" target="_self">please make a minimum donation of $18</a><span> (equivalent to $3/month for 6 months). </span></span></p>Announcing Place [Maker] Space: a 3-day convergence to explore notions of placetag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-05-08:2537144:BlogPost:860192013-05-08T00:42:26.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span>Hallo Hello!</span><br></br><br></br><span>I'm really excited to announce </span><a href="http://www.placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank">Place [Maker] Space</a><span>: an interdisciplinary residency that I'm helping to curate and produce with Melinda Buckwalter and Lailye Weidman. Inspired by eco-hacks and maker faires, this 3-day convergence is designed as open forum to share practices and research that address notions of place.</span><br></br><br></br><span>Place [Maker] Space will…</span></p>
<p><span>Hallo Hello!</span><br/><br/><span>I'm really excited to announce </span><a href="http://www.placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank">Place [Maker] Space</a><span>: an interdisciplinary residency that I'm helping to curate and produce with Melinda Buckwalter and Lailye Weidman. Inspired by eco-hacks and maker faires, this 3-day convergence is designed as open forum to share practices and research that address notions of place.</span><br/><br/><span>Place [Maker] Space will happen </span><span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">September 19-22</span></span><span> at Earthdance, in Plainfield, Mass and </span><a href="http://placemakerspace.com/2013/03/open-call/" target="_blank">the deadline to apply is <span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">June 1st</span></span></a><span>. We're hoping to gather a small group of 10-25 participants that will complement, challenge, and engage each other’s perspectives and practices. Folks from all disciplines and skills levels (art or otherwise!) are invited to apply. Please help us spread the word far and wide, and invite people you are interested in collaborating with to apply.</span><br/><br/><span>We're committed to making this residency accessible and will be able to offer need based scholarships once we have 10 participants confirmed. Read below for the details and check out</span><a href="http://placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank">placemakerspace.com</a><span> for more information. </span></p>
<div><br/>Warmly,<br/>Julia</div>
<p><br/><span>Julia Handschuh</span><br/><span>Valley Art Share</span><br/><a href="mailto:valleyartshare@gmail.com" target="_blank">valleyartshare@gmail.com</a></p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank">Place [Maker] Space</a> is a 3-day interdisciplinary convergence for makers and researchers to dialogue and exchange practices that address notions of place.<br/> </h1>
<p><a href="http://www.placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank"><img align="none" height="334" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472/images/GOPR23302_690x462940c63.jpg" width="500"/></a></p>
<p>Combining the tactics of <a href="http://www.ecohacknyc.org/" target="_blank">eco-hacks</a> and <a href="http://makerfaire.com/" target="_blank">maker faires</a>, Place [Maker] Space is a new interdisciplinary residency happening at <a href="http://earthdance.net/" target="_blank">Earthdance</a> this Fall. Do you address notions of PLACE in your work? Do you crave dialogue with others who are drawn to the land? We are looking for makers and researchers; artists, scientists, social scientists, activists; thinkers and tinkerers to populate our convergence. We will combine technologies from dance, performance, visual art, ecology, geography, community organizing, architecture, and—surprise us!</p>
<p><strong>Over the equinox weekend this fall—<span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">September 19 to 22</span></span></strong>—Place [Maker] Space participants will invent practices, adapt technologies, analyze problems, devise experiments, and craft performances as a means of proposing “solutions” to place that privilege the embodied or experiential. Our first morning, we will pitch projects and directions of inquiry for the following days. The subsequent time will be filled with work and shared research. We will enjoy a consistent morning movement practice and shared mealtimes.</p>
<p><strong>Would you like to dig deeper into your research? </strong><span>We are looking for a small group of 10-25 participants that will complement, challenge, and engage each other’s perspectives and practices. Please propose YOUR participation on our </span><a href="http://placemakerspace.com/apply" target="_blank">online application</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>Applicants are invited to propose specific concepts and approaches they would like to investigate which will help to guide the content and form of the weekend. Participants will be expected to:</p>
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<li>Present briefly on their work</li>
<li>Come with an open mind and desire to engage with others</li>
<li>Assist with meal preparation and cleaning</li>
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<p>Other activities could include leading a specific workshop, skill share, or conversation; screening a film; making a presentation or short performance; blogging throughout the residency at <a href="http://placemakerspace.com/" target="_blank">placemakerspace.com</a>; or helping with documentation.</p>
<h2>Deadline to apply is <span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">June 1st 2013</span></span><br/>Apply at: <a href="http://www.placemakerspace.com/apply" target="_blank">www.placemakerspace.com/apply</a></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Questions?</strong><br/>Write to <a href="mailto:placemakerspace@gmail.com" target="_blank">placemakerspace@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We look forward to hearing from you,<br/>Melinda, Lailye & Julia</p>Micro Grant Cycle #3: April 1st - September 30thtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-05-06:2537144:BlogPost:857402013-05-06T18:52:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<h2>The next 6 month grant cycle is now underway</h2>
<p>Last cycle <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profiles/blogs/micro-grant-cycle-2-the-results-are-in" target="_blank">we collectively raised $768</a> through small monthly donations by 35 Valley Art Share members. Some incredible proposals were made and I'm looking forward to seeing what ya'll have up your sleeves for this cycle. </p>
<p><strong>Here's how the deadlines are shaking down this time…</strong></p>
<h2>The next 6 month grant cycle is now underway</h2>
<p>Last cycle <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profiles/blogs/micro-grant-cycle-2-the-results-are-in" target="_blank">we collectively raised $768</a> through small monthly donations by 35 Valley Art Share members. Some incredible proposals were made and I'm looking forward to seeing what ya'll have up your sleeves for this cycle. </p>
<p><strong>Here's how the deadlines are shaking down this time 'round:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>August 1st:</strong> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle3" target="_blank">Project proposals are due</a></li>
<li><strong>August 15th:</strong> Deadline to sign up to participate in the selection process (<a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants/membership" target="_blank">sign up to contribute to the collective fund here</a>)</li>
<li><strong>September 15th:</strong> Votes are collected (I'll send out an email to all the folks who have signed up)</li>
<li><strong>September 30th:</strong> Grant recipient is announced.</li>
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<p>You've got almost the whole summer ahead of you to prepare and recruit your friends. I'm hoping we can double the number of folks who are currently giving the collective fund over the next 6 months. If we do this it will make more sense to have shorter grant rounds, allowing us to give about $700 to a project every 4 months.</p>
<p>I'll send out reminders when we get closer to the deadlines. In the meantime I hope you're getting a chance to hop off the computer and into a sunny spot by some water.</p>
<p>Til next time,</p>
<p>Julia</p>
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<p>Julia Handschuh</p>
<p>Valley Art Share Creator</p>
<p>valleyartshare@gmail.com</p>Pioneer Valley Zine Fest and Ladyfest Rises Again: April 26-28 2013tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-04-24:2537144:BlogPost:852402013-04-24T18:00:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
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<p><span class="font-size-2">A three day music and arts festival, with hands-on workshops, vendors, and performances at Flywheel arts collective and Food For Thought Books, our mission is to celebrate and support all musicians and artists in…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>About Pioneer Valley Zine Fest and Ladyfest Easthampton: </strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">A three day music and arts festival, with hands-on workshops, vendors, and performances at Flywheel arts collective and Food For Thought Books, our mission is to celebrate and support all musicians and artists in the DIY underground, specifically whose identity falls outside of the dominant cultural mainstream, including but not limited to women. We strive to to bring accessibility to DIY zine-making as well as supporting radical independent publishing and hope to bring writers, activists, artists and community members together through sharing, connecting and collaborating.<br/> <br/> Zines, which are written in a variety of formats, strive to set importance on bringing literature, art, and politics out of a profit oriented industry. This lets information that is often exclusive to academic or privileged spheres available to a more general public. Zines offer a founding basis of Do-it-yourself “DIY” communities and encourage anyone to write or read theory, art, personal journals, or anything else without the need of a publisher.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>About Flywheel Arts Collective:</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Founded in 1999 by two local women, the Flywheel Arts collective is an all-ages, all-volunteer, community-run space in Easthampton, Massachusetts.Flywheel, a collectively run, not-for-profit space, aims to build community and give artists of all types the opportunity to craft, practice, and perform their work in an environment where creativity is valued over profit. Volunteer-run and governed by consensus, Flywheel believes that art and information should be equally accessible and affordable to all people. Flywheel is a volunteer collective of artists, musicians, parents, videographers, community members and other good people dedicated to running a space that is created and controlled by the people who use it. Anyone can participate in Flywheel's decisions by joining the collective. In the collective, every member has an equal vote.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>About Food For Thought Books Collective:</strong></span><br/> <span class="font-size-2">Food For Thought Books Collective is an independent, not-for-profit, workers' collective project dedicated to the dissemination of radical & progressive media in all its various forms. Food For Thought Books Collective stands in solidarity with all struggles for justice, peace and equality and allies itself with all peoples resisting violence and oppression. We believe in media as a means toward the realization of social justice and liberation. We seek to provide a space where voices, people and ideas silenced and ignored by the mainstream media are given room to be heard, to be seen, to be supported and to be realized. We see ourselves as a hub for radical and progressive exchange and aim to provide a physical space in the community that is grounded in liberation for all.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560629825?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="226" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560629825?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="226" class="align-left"/></a></span><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:</strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Friday, April 26th:</strong></span><br/> <strong>-art opening(5:30pm) and benefit show (6pm)</strong> <br/> <strong>@ FLYWHEEL ARTS</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Bands playing include -<br/> FUNSUCK<br/> TOMBOY (Boston)<br/> PEEPLE WATCHIN (boston)<br/> FACIALS (Montreal)<br/> JUNIPER RISING (NYC)<br/> HABIBI (NYC)<br/> POTTY MOUTH<br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Saturday, April 27th:</strong></span><br/> <strong>-Zine exhibition and workshops 11am to 5pm <br/> @ FOOD FOR THOUGHT</strong><br/> <br/> 11:30-12:45 Responses to Sexual Violence with Smith Students Against Sexual<br/> Assault<br/> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">1:00- 2:15 Incarcerated Realities with Tranzmission Prison Project</span><br/> 2:30-3:45 White Privilege Workshop<br/> 4:00 Queering Anarchism/AK Press Book Reading<br/> <br/> <strong>-benefit show 2 5:30pm <br/> @ FLYWHEEL ARTS</strong><br/> Bands playing include-<br/> HIRS (PA)<br/> GROKE (RI)<br/> NERVOUS CONDITION (Boston)<br/> SECOND WAVE MOM (Montreal)<br/> CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN<br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Sunday april 28th</strong></span><br/> <strong>-Record Fair 10am to 3pm @ FLYWHEEL ARTS</strong><br/></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><strong>-benefit show 3 530pm @ FLYWHEEL ARTS</strong><br/> bands playing include<br/> RABBIT RABBIT<br/> BOYTOY (NYC)<br/> Moms/Limbs Bin Duo<br/> SPEEDY ORTIZ<br/> OVAture<br/> SAD4LYFE<br/> <br/> <strong>Each music show is $ 7-10 sliding scale! No one will be turned away for</strong><br/> <strong>lack of funds.</strong></span></p>Micro Grant Cycle #2: The Results are in!tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-04-01:2537144:BlogPost:858302013-04-01T18:00:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<h2>And the grant goes to...</h2>
<p><br></br>Seven hundred and sixty eight gargantuan dollars, thirty five supportive people, six long months, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">six better-than-real-life proposals</a>, all leading to one selected proposal. Ready? This round's winner is (bum bah da dum da dum!!!):…<br></br><br></br></p>
<h2>And the grant goes to...</h2>
<p><br/>Seven hundred and sixty eight gargantuan dollars, thirty five supportive people, six long months, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">six better-than-real-life proposals</a>, all leading to one selected proposal. Ready? This round's winner is (bum bah da dum da dum!!!):<br/><br/><a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=83629c7a9e&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank"><img align="none" height="136" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1271170882?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="400"/></a><br/><br/><a href="http://valleyartshare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71143d55c5c24efe1b7b0b472&id=611576911c&e=f29a0d9567" target="_blank">Carolyn Clayton</a><span>!!! *applause*;*more applause*;*fireworks and other explosions*</span><br/><br/><span>Her project HOARD is a performance installation that </span><span>draws parallels between human accumulation and natural processes associated with the creation of the earth’s surfaces, mountains and sedimentary rock. Over the course of the exhibition (it'll be on view at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#13dc8cbae0fb4dfa_reach">REACH</a>) she'll be excavating her sculpture and cataloging the findings.</span><br/><br/><span>Hats off to all of you: for the proposals, for the donations, for making great work and supporting this experiment in community funding. Thank you.</span><br/><br/><span>My hope is that these grants —while they cannot fund every project proposal— will serve as a way to raise the profile of work being creating in our communities and neighborhoods. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">Check out the other proposals</a>, and if you like what these artists are up to reach out to them! Maybe there are other ways you can engage in supporting their work, even a simple message with your thoughts can go a long way in the creative process. And keep those gorgeous proposals coming —a new round starts....</span><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle3" target="_blank">NOW</a><span>! </span></p>
<div class="im"><div><br/>Happy Spring,<br/>Julia</div>
<br/>Julia Handschuh<br/>Valley Art Share<br/><a href="mailto:valleyartshare@gmail.com" target="_blank">valleyartshare@gmail.com</a></div>
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<div class="im"></div>TIME TO VOTE: Join the Micro Mutual Aid Grants and participate in rating the proposalstag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-03-15:2537144:BlogPost:838422013-03-15T04:30:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p>I've been in correspondance with some of you about how to recruit more folks to the micro grants. This phase, once <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">the proposals are submitted</a> and prior to voting (deadline is March 25th), seems like an excellent time to encourage folks to support the collective fund. Up to this point I've been requiring that folks give for at least a month prior to voting because I think it's important that folks are signing on to…</p>
<p>I've been in correspondance with some of you about how to recruit more folks to the micro grants. This phase, once <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">the proposals are submitted</a> and prior to voting (deadline is March 25th), seems like an excellent time to encourage folks to support the collective fund. Up to this point I've been requiring that folks give for at least a month prior to voting because I think it's important that folks are signing on to support the fund in general and not just for one month to swoop in, vote for a friend, and be gone. That said, I'd like to give it a try and see if by encouraging friends and supporters to join the fund now, we can build a stronger base together for the next cycle. So....</p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Please join us in this grant cycle and help to rate the proposals by March 25th! </strong></span></p>
<p>Contributing to the collective fund is a simple way and direct way to financially support artist-etceteras in the Pioneer Valley. Simply <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants/membership" target="_blank">follow the guidelines to become a member</a>, select a monthly contribution to the collective fund and then I will send you an email with the rating system for this grant cycle. You will be able to participate in the rating of proposals and your contribution will be added to the next grant cycle.</p>
<p>The Mutual Aid Micro Grants are a way to support creative work in the Pioneer Valley, these small contributions can add up to make a big difference for someone leading to the creation of new work, process and research. In this cycle we are granting $700+ to a selected proposal. Through its micro-grants Valley Art Share strives to foster mutual aid and a high level of community accountability and transparency by creating an accessible funding platform in which the entire granting process —from application and review, to voting and distribution of funds— is available to all its members. You can read more about it at: <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants" target="_blank">www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants</a></p>
<p>This is a work in progress, an experimentation in small-scale community-based funding. As always I welcome your feedback and questions so please do be in touch if you have any.<br/> All the best,<br/> Julia<br/> Julia Handschuh<br/> Valley Art Share<br/> <a href="mailto:valleyartshare@gmail.com" target="_blank">valleyartshare@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p>p.s. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">check out this cycles proposal here</a>.</p>Six New Project Proposals for Grant Cycle #2tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2013-03-09:2537144:BlogPost:829492013-03-09T03:00:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" height="183" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1438046452?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="183"></img></a> This second <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants" target="_blank">Mutual Aid Micro Grant</a> cycle began in October and will finish up this month after the grant members select one of the following proposals. You can see all of the proposals in their glorious detail <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">here</a>, or simply scroll down and…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank"><img width="171" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1438046452?profile=RESIZE_180x180" class="align-left" width="183" height="183"/></a>This second <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants" target="_blank">Mutual Aid Micro Grant</a> cycle began in October and will finish up this month after the grant members select one of the following proposals. You can see all of the proposals in their glorious detail <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2" target="_blank">here</a>, or simply scroll down and follow the links to those that strike your fancy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">I'm very impressed by the thought and care that folks put into the design of their proposals. Thanks so much to the artists for your work and the Mutual Aid Grant members who are supporting this experiment in community funding.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">If you'd like to support the collective fund in this cycle <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants/membership" target="_blank">you can sign up here</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Feedback, thoughts or questions?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">email me at: valleyartshare@gmail.com.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">- <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh" target="_blank">Julia Handschuh</a></span></p>
<hr/><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/sacred-tattooing" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1271170918?profile=original" class="align-center" width="180" height="247"/></a></h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">SACRED TATTOOING</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">by <a class="nolink"></a><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/LeahPrescott">Leah Prescott</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A proposal for fully functional and licensed space for cultivating spiritual experiences surrounding the act of tattooing. The client, through consultation and collaboration with me, will design their own ceremony to receive the most from their tattoo.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/sacred-tattooing" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here.</a></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">FLANEUR WALKS - NORTHAMPTON</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/MariaWilliamsRussell">Maria Williams-Russell</a> of Shape&Nature Press</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Flaneur Walks Northampton</strong><span> is a poetic/conceptual walking tour series dreamt up by Shape&Nature Press. We have asked two writers from Northampton, </span><strong>Connolly Ryan</strong><span>and </span><strong>Betsy Wheeler</strong><span>, to each write a poetic/conceptual walking tour that guides readers through a re-exploration, re-</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>habitation and re-experiencing of the town through the writer's eyes. Readers will then be able to buy the pamphlets and take the walks on their own as the writers instruct. These are not your usual walking tours filled with historical tid-bits and local lore. Instead, expect to be taken on a poetic journey that investigates the psychic nature of the city.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/flaneur-walks-northampton" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here.</a></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">MOTION</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/MarleneRye">Marlene Rye</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">"Motion" is a an exciting collaborative piece conceptualized by painter Marlene Rye that will include a public dance performance at the Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, as well as the creation of a body of paintings inspired by, and created in conjunction with, a series of dance performances.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Over the next four months they will be exploring space and motion as interpreted through two seemingly opposite mediums dance and painting, while exploring the interaction between those two forms of art.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/motion" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here.</a></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">RX 4 HEALTH :<br/> A PUBLIC ART APOTHECARY AND ARTIST BOOK</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/PhyllisLabanowski">Phyllis Labanowski</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rx 4 HEALth</i></b> is a <b>public art apothecary</b> and <b>artist book</b> about health, healing, and well-being from the hilltowns of western MA. The project explores how creativity affects our health and how the creative process can deepen our community’s dialogue about social, political, and environmental health concerns.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/rx-4-health-a-public-art-apothecary-and-artist-book" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here.</a></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">HOARD</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"> by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/CarolynClayton" target="_blank">Carolyn Clayton</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In April 2013 I will be exhibiting a new site-specific installation, hoard, in space #140 on the groundfloor of the Eastworks building. Hoard will be installed as part of the REACH, a multi-city contemporary art festival, which will take place in Easthampton and Holyoke during the month of April.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i><br/></i> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/hoard" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here.</a></p>
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<p><img width="483" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1271170988?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="483" class="align-center"/></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">VALLEY DANCES OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE SERIES</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"> by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/TerreParker" target="_blank">Terre Parker</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/valley-dances-outdoor-performance-series" target="_blank">Valley Dances</a> is a series of free outdoor dance performances created by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/TerreParker" target="_blank">Terre Parker</a> with a non-traditional, intergenerational cast and performed in Pioneer Valley cities in the Spring, Summer and Fall of 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle2/forum/topics/valley-dances-outdoor-performance-series" target="_blank">Check out the full proposal here</a></p>
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<hr/><h1 style="text-align: center;">Learn more about the <br/> Mutual Aid Micro Grants <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants" target="_blank">here</a>.</h1>A CITYWIDE CHARETTE ON THE FUTURE OF PERFORMING ARTS IN EASTHAMPTONtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-10-30:2537144:BlogPost:794422012-10-30T15:44:12.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><strong>Calling all Performing Artists! Calling all Citizens who love the Performing Art!</strong><br></br></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Join performing arts stakeholders for a presentation, public discussion, and brainstorming session.<br></br>Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.<br></br>at<br></br>St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Hall<br></br>128 Main St., Easthampton, MA</p>
<p><br></br><strong>and here is the Press release from CitySpace, Inc.</strong><br></br> <br></br><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE…</strong></p>
<p><strong>Calling all Performing Artists! Calling all Citizens who love the Performing Art!</strong><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Join performing arts stakeholders for a presentation, public discussion, and brainstorming session.<br/>Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.<br/>at<br/>St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Hall<br/>128 Main St., Easthampton, MA</p>
<p><br/><strong>and here is the Press release from CitySpace, Inc.</strong><br/> <br/><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</strong><br/>October 20, 2012<br/>Matthew Dube<br/>CitySpace,Inc.<br/>oldtownhalleasthampton@gmail.com<br/> <br/><strong>A CITYWIDE CHARETTE ON THE FUTURE OF PERFORMING ARTS IN EASTHAMPTON</strong><br/> <br/>Easthampton, MA, November 3, 2012 – CitySpace, Inc., Easthampton City Arts+, Eastmont Custom Framing, Flywheel Arts Collective, and Metacomet Stage invite performing arts organizations, organizational leaders, performers, musicians, artists, and interested community members to attend a citywide charette on the Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton. The event will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Hall located at 128 Main St., Easthampton, MA from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.<br/> <br/>Join performing arts stakeholders for a presentation, public discussion, and brainstorming session. The discussion will offer an opportunity for the Easthampton community to assess the current state of the performing arts in Easthampton, develop a vision for the next step, and imagine the potential of a permanent performance arts space in the city.<br/> <br/>Jess Dods, a professional executive and organizational coach, will facilitate the Charette. Dods earned an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and he has held senior management consulting positions with Arthur D. Little and Navigant Consulting, working in several industries and governments across the globe.<br/> <br/>The Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton Charette is free and open to the public. For further information contact CitySpace at oldtownhalleasthampton@gmail.com.</p>
<p>and on facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/506495866029957/">http://www.facebook.com/events/506495866029957/</a></p>
<p></p>Collective Fund Update: Grant Cycle #1tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-09-04:2537144:BlogPost:778432012-09-04T20:52:50.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<div><span class="font-size-2">We're in the midst of the very first grant cycle for the Mutual Aid Micro Grants.</span></div>
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<div><strong><span class="font-size-2">Here's how the numbers are shaking down thus far:</span></strong></div>
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<li><span class="font-size-2">23 folks are contributing to the fund</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Monthly contributions total $120.21</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">The current collective fund balance is…</span></li>
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<div><span class="font-size-2">We're in the midst of the very first grant cycle for the Mutual Aid Micro Grants.</span></div>
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<div><strong><span class="font-size-2">Here's how the numbers are shaking down thus far:</span></strong></div>
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<div><ul>
<li><span class="font-size-2">23 folks are contributing to the fund</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Monthly contributions total $120.21</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">The current collective fund balance is 294.08</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">We've received a one time donation of $100 which I propose we break up over the year in $25 installments</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">We have <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/group/cycle1/forum" target="_blank">one proposal</a> so far.</span></li>
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<div><span class="font-size-2">These totals also account for the 9% processing fee that Paypal takes from every transaction. In the future I'll look into using Fractured Atlas which I'm pretty sure takes less money + they aren't a big corporation. </span></div>
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<div><span class="font-size-2">We're going to extend the deadline for signing up and making a proposal. So if you'd still like to join in, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants/membership" target="_blank">do it here</a>. And if you're not a member of Valley Art Share but would like to contribute to the collective fund you can <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/support" target="_blank">support it here</a>.</span></div>
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<div><span class="font-size-2"><span>My summer has been hectic but I'm hoping this fall we can convene a meeting about the micro grants to get more folks involved in organizing and thinking through this mutual aid granting process.</span></span></div>
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<div><span class="font-size-2"><span>Thanks to all the folks who have sign up thus far.</span></span></div>
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<div><span class="font-size-2"><span>Happy Autumn,</span></span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-2">Julia</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-2">valleyartshare@gmail.com</span></div>
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</div>VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS: Imagining the Familiar, an online exhibition curated by Anna Rottytag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-07-30:2537144:BlogPost:756692012-07-30T17:19:35.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/imagining-the-familiar" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560628156?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="600"></img></a></p>
<p><strong>Imagining the Familiar</strong> features work by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/chelseairisgranger" target="_self">Chelsea Granger</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_29z65un4vag90" target="_self">Bruce Kahn</a>, <a class="fn url" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_2pn016kmkmx7m">David Drew Longey</a>, …</p>
<p><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/imagining-the-familiar" target="_blank"><img width="600" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560628156?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Imagining the Familiar</strong> features work by <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/chelseairisgranger" target="_self">Chelsea Granger</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_29z65un4vag90" target="_self">Bruce Kahn</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_2pn016kmkmx7m" class="fn url">David Drew Longey</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_3r46cuc1jn83a" class="fn url">Zachary James Pinson</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/u_2eqk7ggk89nbk" class="fn url">Andrea Lynn Santos</a> and <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/ScottTulay" class="fn url">Scott Tulay</a>.</p>
<p><em>“Imagining the Familiar” is a collection of images that utilize layering and compositing. Each work has elements that we can recognize, but are combined together to create new and imaginary spaces. Zachary Pinson and Andrea Lynn Santos’ paintings are reminiscent of a familiar world turned into chaos. They inhabit a reality that has become too far gone to make rational sense of. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/imagining-the-familiar" target="_self">read more...</a></em></p>Solidarity NYCtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-07-29:2537144:BlogPost:757462012-07-29T02:47:41.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span><a href="http://solidaritynyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flower1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://solidaritynyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flower1.jpg?width=450" width="450"></img></a></span> <span class="font-size-2">When designing the microgrant system I was thinking a lot about alternative economies, <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_End_Of_Capitalism_As_We_Knew_It.html?id=Ei-8RHkKIxUC" target="_blank">other capitalisms</a> and the potential of building a solidarity economy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Some friends of mine in New York…</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://solidaritynyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flower1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://solidaritynyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flower1.jpg?width=450" width="450" class="align-left"/></a></span><span class="font-size-2">When designing the microgrant system I was thinking a lot about alternative economies, <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_End_Of_Capitalism_As_We_Knew_It.html?id=Ei-8RHkKIxUC" target="_blank">other capitalisms</a> and the potential of building a solidarity economy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Some friends of mine in New York City have been thinking a lot about this and are involved in this thing called <a href="http://solidaritynyc.org/" target="_blank">Solidarity NYC</a> that maps out and helps to support those things which build an economy that relies on solidarity.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><em>"The solidarity economy meets our needs (everything from financial services to food) by utilizing values of justice, sustainability, cooperation, and democracy. Together we can build an economy worth occupying."</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Read more at <a href="http://solidaritynyc.org" target="_blank">solidaritynyc.org</a></span></p>inCUBATE: Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everydaytag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-07-17:2537144:BlogPost:751092012-07-17T20:00:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/about/" target="_blank">inCUBATE</a> was inspiration for the new <a href="http://www.valleyartshare/microgrants" target="_blank">mutual aid micro grants</a> on Valley Art Share.…<br></br> <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Sunday-Soup-logo-725x342.jpg" target="_blank"><br></br></a> <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/406054293_ae7b919c5d_o-265x300.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/406054293_ae7b919c5d_o-265x300.jpg"></img></a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/about/" target="_blank">inCUBATE</a> was inspiration for the new <a href="http://www.valleyartshare/microgrants" target="_blank">mutual aid micro grants</a> on Valley Art Share.<br/> <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Sunday-Soup-logo-725x342.jpg" target="_blank"><br/></a> <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/406054293_ae7b919c5d_o-265x300.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/406054293_ae7b919c5d_o-265x300.jpg" class="align-left"/></a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"> </span>From their website:</p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">InCUBATE is a research group dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding. We at InCUBATE act as curators, researchers and co-producers of artists projects. These activities have manifested in a series traveling exhibitions called <em>Other Options</em>, an artist residency program, and various other projects such as Sunday Soup (a monthly meal that generates funding for a creative project grant). We don’t have non-profit status, instead we are interested in what kinds of organizational strategies could provide more direct support to critical and socially-engaged art and culture beyond for-profit or non-profit structures. Our core organizational principle is to treat art administration as a creative practice. By doing so, we hope to generate and share a new vocabulary of practical solutions to the everyday problems of producing under-the-radar culture. Currently we do not have a physical location and we work together on an ongoing project basis. <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/" target="_blank">http://incubate-chicago.org/</a></span></p>Valley Art Share Launches Micro-Grants for Artist-Etceterastag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-07-17:2537144:BlogPost:749292012-07-17T19:12:48.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560627874?profile=RESIZE_320x320" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560627874?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300"></img></a> <span class="font-size-2">This summer Valley Art Share is launching a series of micro grants for artist-etceteras as a means to build a grassroots sustainable infrastructure for creative projects. Valley Art Share will source funds from its member-base and the community-at-large in small monthly installments that will contribute to a collective…</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a width="300" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560627874?profile=RESIZE_320x320" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560627874?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left"/></a><span class="font-size-2">This summer Valley Art Share is launching a series of micro grants for artist-etceteras as a means to build a grassroots sustainable infrastructure for creative projects. Valley Art Share will source funds from its member-base and the community-at-large in small monthly installments that will contribute to a collective fund. This collective fund will be redistributed back to Valley Art Share members through a proposal process and a member-based voting system. </span></p>
<p><br/><span class="font-size-2">The Valley Art Share micro-grants are inspired by alternative funding strategies such as F.E.A.S.T, Sunday Soups and Tandas, that create ways for a community to support each others’ creative projects and daily needs rather than relying on outside funding sources and institutions such as foundations, banks and wealthy patrons. <a href="http://feastinbklyn.org/">F.E.A.S.T</a> (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) and <a href="http://sundaysoup.org/">Sunday Soup</a>, a project of <a href="http://incubate-chicago.org/">inCUBATE</a> are two models that invite people to an affordable dinner whose proceeds are democratically granted to creative projects proposed over the course of the evening. F.E.A.S.T has been used locally by <a href="http://nowforart.blogspot.com/">Now for Art</a> to support Northampton area artists. A Tanda is an alternative economy practice familiar in chican@ communities that functions as a rotating credit association in which members pool resources each week and receive funds from the collective savings on a rotating basis. </span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">Through its micro-grants Valley Art Share strives to foster mutual aid and a high level of community accountability and transparency by creating an accessible funding platform in which the entire granting process —from application and review, to voting and distribution of funds— is available to all its members. </span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">Valley Art Share membership is open to anyone living and/or working in the Pioneer Valley. The first grant round is now open for proposals. Valley Art Share members are invited to post proposals to the website by September 1st; voting for proposals will commence Monday September 3rd for two weeks, and grant recipients will be announced the last week in September. To sign up to become a Valley Art Share member and participate in the micro-grants visit <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants" target="_blank">www.valleyartshare.com/microgrants</a>.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">Valley Art Share (VAS) is a free online resource for creative exchange in the Pioneer Valley.</span><br/><span class="font-size-2">It was born out of the need for local artist-etceteras to have a shared calendar of events, connect with one another and be seen by the public —as a means to build a broader base of support and discourse for creative practice in our communities. Created by <a href="http://www.juliashoe.com/">Julia Handschuh</a> while working with <a href="http://www.c3northampton.org/">C3</a> in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.nohoarts.org/">Northampton Center for the Arts</a>, Valley Art Share continues to grow as an online hub and resource for creative exchange in the Pioneer Valley, hosting a <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events">community arts calendar</a>, <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive">archive of local artists’ work</a> and a series of online exhibitions curated by VAS members. </span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">For more information visit <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/">www.valleyartshare.com</a> or email Julia Handschuh at <a href="mailto:valleyartshare@gmail.com">valleyartshare@gmail.com</a>. </span></p>LIBERTY SQUARED *Correction*tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-05-12:2537144:BlogPost:728632012-05-12T20:19:40.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p class="p1"><em><span class="s1">This article from Liberty Squared by Jill Turner was printed out of order in the original version. It is now corrected in the version you can download here at VAS and here it is in it's entirety below.</span></em></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">An Occupy Wall Street Blog Post </span></strong></p>
<p class="p2"><strong>by Jill Turner</strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">January…</span></p>
<p class="p1"><em><span class="s1">This article from Liberty Squared by Jill Turner was printed out of order in the original version. It is now corrected in the version you can download here at VAS and here it is in it's entirety below.</span></em></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">An Occupy Wall Street Blog Post </span></strong></p>
<p class="p2"><strong>by Jill Turner</strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">January 21, 2012</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b><br/></b> It is an emotional time. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Yesterday at the Occupy the Courts rally in Springfield, MA our big fix it man, W, strawberry blonde with cheery rosacea cheeks, was first in the line of people holding signs up - “Honk if you’re not a billionaire”. I swear most people were honking! And each time people honked, hooted and hollered, waving wildly down State Street, a look of puzzlement seemed to fleet across the faces of the special police brought in from Washington D.C. - sent out of D.C., one cop said, “Because this was happening all around the country”, at all the federal courts. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Billions: either you got ‘em or you don’t. And, damn it, not having ‘em might mean you live on SSI – Social Security Disability, at $812 a month now, like this petite woman I know here, wearing cheapo sneakers on a snow day and a coat so enormous it could fit her big guy friend. This cup of coffee at Starbucks is likely all the entertainment they can afford. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Shit food, shit shelter, indecent clothing —like jeans slipping off someone’s butt not because it’s the style, and the frayed edge of thermals stained with who-knows-what getting the edge on ragged sweater cuffs. It’s not fair, not to be able to afford education, walking around stunned because you never thought it would be your mind that got atrophied. No money for transportation either. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">We are all in denial to some degree. If we were suddenly aware of the suffering around the world and here at home we’d crack. Yesterday at the rally, R told me she thinks shame is not a real emotion. This was a follow up to an incident the other night when a bunch of middle class revolutionaries made a promo video for the Occupy the Courts rally at R’s Studio. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">I thought they were clever cutting out a bunch of paper heads and drawing corporate logos on them —Monsanto, McDonald’s, Walmart, Shell, etc.—and pinning them up on the wall with torso and feet from some Renaissance art cards. The young kid there asked, “Like an art gallery?” And someone else said, “the Hall of Fame” and I offered, “the Hall of Shame!”</span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">At first R was delighted and called it out to the group with glee: “Hall of Shame!” But a good-looking dancer guy in his 40’s nixed it with a look of disdain bleeding through his well-wishing smile. He muffled some comment about shame being a bad thing and without comment my contribution was vetoed. I let it go because I have a history with these people from the dance community and the last thing I want is to lower any revolutionary fervor. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">With our signs held high, R and I crossed to the other side of State St. How much influence can 1.5 million copies of John Bradshaw’s “Healing The Shame That Binds You” have? Regarding shame as an entirely personal experience, born out of the past, without an interpersonal present context seems bizarre to me.</span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Surely Bradshaw didn’t intend to breed a new age culture devoid of this particular emotion, unknowingly complicit in the demise of human kind. He specifically refers to “toxic shame”. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">In my Buddhist studies I ran across a reading about shame – that there are 7 kinds of shame, three wholesome and four unwholesome. But, according to social science, confrontation can be for better or worse, and saying “shame on you” is never necessary. Revolution is tricky business. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Hug master, D, with his catchy smile, headed up the Occupy the Courts effort, putting in endless hours. Unbelievable how organized they were! He went in advance and measured the fancy new courthouse on 300 State Street next to St. Michael’s Church and the Quadrangle in Springfield. D went around to each mammoth planter, drilled a hole in the frozen dirt, and we plugged in metal poles with wire-fortified vertical banners reading: “We are the 99%”. We got permission from the building manager and, with heavy-duty clamp belts, we slipped the sturdy loop of the huge “<i>Our Country – Not For Sale</i>” banner onto metal extension poles and secured them.</span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">D MC’d. An estimated 100 people gathered around in the full sun. We danced and sang. There was a long line of speakers using a red megaphone. The courthouse building—a giant glass golden mean spiral ending in some stairs to nowhere—sits kitty-corner to the Catholic Church. And right behind it are buildings and an old school all boarded up. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">I caused a ruckus when I went to use the toilet in the courthouse. I’m not sure how it happened. I resented the over kill high tech security at the entrance, the bunch of black suited punitive gentleman hovering there. I rapped something about the corporations they were protecting and then a beady-eyed guard told me I couldn’t use the bathroom because I used the f word. The library was closed. So I walked around to the back of the rectory and left a yellow hole in the snow there. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">I was so happy to celebrate after the rally at C and D’s lovely Northampton house. These people have it so together! C is a psychotherapist artist from my dance community; I remember her vagina photo portraits show. She brought homemade soup. There were breads and cheeses. D brought a huge bag of Bruegger’s bagels. This was opulence to me. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">The poor have been protesting all along. Surviving poverty and living on the streets. Surviving insanity is a protest!! Now the middle class has been driven over the edge. They are ready to rebel, are suiting up for the revolution, and we watch to see what all that ingenuity can bring. </span></p>Pioneer Valley Soundscapestag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-05-06:2537144:BlogPost:729522012-05-06T15:54:34.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><a href="http://www.pioneervalleysoundscapes.org/" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560636103?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400"></img></a> <span class="font-size-2">Pioneer Valley Soundscapes is a project that explores the connection between sound and place by documenting the musical communities and acoustic terrain of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The films, recordings, and images here are produced by students at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pioneervalleysoundscapes.org/" target="_blank"><img width="400" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560636103?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400" class="align-left"/></a><span class="font-size-2">Pioneer Valley Soundscapes is a project that explores the connection between sound and place by documenting the musical communities and acoustic terrain of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The films, recordings, and images here are produced by students at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst through semester-long collaborations with local musicians and partnerships with area communities.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The goal of Pioneer Valley Soundscapes is to share these sounds, images, and stories with others in the Pioneer Valley and beyond and to serve as a resource for ongoing learning and exchange.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-2">Pioneer Valley Soundscapes is taught at Amherst College by Professors Jeffers Engelhardt and Jason Robinson and supported by the Department of Music, the Center for Community Engagement, and Information Technology at Amherst College.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Check it out at: <a href="http://www.pioneervalleysoundscapes.org/" target="_blank">www.pioneervalleysoundscapes.org</a></span></p>LIBERTY SQUARED: A Multiplicity of Voices from the Occupy Movementtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-04-28:2537144:BlogPost:726522012-04-28T14:14:52.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span class="font-size-2">We're pleased to introduce to you a zine compiled by local folks who have been engaged in and thinking about the occupy movement. Pick up a paper edition at <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/FoodForThoughtBooks" target="_blank">Food for Thought Books</a> or <a href="http://valleyartshare.com/press/liberty-squared" target="_self">download one here at Valley Art Share</a>. …</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">We're pleased to introduce to you a zine compiled by local folks who have been engaged in and thinking about the occupy movement. Pick up a paper edition at <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/FoodForThoughtBooks" target="_blank">Food for Thought Books</a> or <a href="http://valleyartshare.com/press/liberty-squared" target="_self">download one here at Valley Art Share</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>INTRODUCTION<br/></strong></span> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Hot Topic sells Che Guevara underwear. You can get a beaded curtain with Frida Khalo’s face on it at the mall. Again and again, when radicals get singled out as leaders, capitalism finds a way to suck them back into the fold, selling their dissent back to us.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Capitalist logic goes: if you can’t beat ‘em, turn ‘em into heroes.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">American media is obsessed with cranking out heroes -- super heroes, action heroes, war heroes, revolutionary heroes -- because heroes are perfectly sellable. They can be individually wrapped and sold separately. They can be isolated and confined. They can be used to knock whole movements down, in that they come to represent the movement in society’s eyes -- and an individual, no matter how glorious, is much easier to bring down than a mass of people working together. Heroes are tragic.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Unsurprisingly, the media has tried to make heroes out of Occupy. Local media in the valley hasn’t been an exception, with left-leaning publications such as...<br/><br/><a href="http://valleyartshare.com/press/liberty-squared" target="_self">READ MORE..</a>.</span></p>
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<p>Here's another rap from a zinester who will be presenting at the <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/pioneer-valley-zine-fest" target="_blank">Zine Fest</a> this weekend. </p>
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<p><strong>Introducing RACHEL of HOAX....</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560635655?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560635655?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="250"></img></a> <em>I am a twenty five year old displaced New Yorker who is currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. I was introduced to…</em></p>
<p>Here's another rap from a zinester who will be presenting at the <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/pioneer-valley-zine-fest" target="_blank">Zine Fest</a> this weekend. </p>
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<p><strong>Introducing RACHEL of HOAX....</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560635655?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="250" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560635655?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="250" class="align-left"/></a><em>I am a twenty five year old displaced New Yorker who is currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. I was introduced to zines through the remnants of riot grrl culture in the early 2000s and began working on my first zine in spring of 2009. I write for and co-edit <a href="http://hoaxzine.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Hoax</a>, a feminist compilation zine which attempts to bring feminism into everyday life and find the connections between us despite our differences. I am currently compiling submissions for the seventh issue of this series, which will be about feminisms and change. </em></p>
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<p><em>I also collaborate on “Shit ‘Progressives Don’t Want to Hear: A Journal of Unpopular Opinions,” and have written the perzines “A Tale of Two Cities: Baltimore VS. NYC,” </em></p>
<p><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560638249?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-right"/><em>“Reimagining Queer Community,” and “Not Queer as in Radical but Lesbian as in Fuck You.” These zines explore topics related to community building, feminism, challenging hegemonic structures within activist spaces, and radical approaches to health and illness.</em></p>
<p><em>At</em> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/pioneer-valley-zine-fest" target="_blank">Pioneer Valley Zine Fest</a><em>, I will be facilitating a workshop with my friend / co-conspirator Jamie called “</em><strong>Zines and Ethics</strong><em>.” The workshop goes from 12:30pm – 1:30pm. Here’s the description:</em></p>
<p><br/>This “Zines and Ethics” workshop will focus on how the ethics of zine writing & how zine format influences how and what we choose to write about. We will collectively explore the following topics: navigating personal disclosures, call outs, censorship & trigger warnings, how privilege impacts what we choose to write about, protecting the anonymity of third parties, crediting other people's work & much more. Please come prepared with a writing utensil and a critical mind.</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560641410?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="500" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560641410?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="500" class="align-left"/></a></p>Chelsea Dirck at the Pioneer Valley Zine Festtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2012-04-24:2537144:BlogPost:725542012-04-24T19:36:07.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><i><br></br></i>This weekend Food for Thought Books in Amherst will host the annual <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/pioneer-valley-zine-fest" target="_blank">Pioneer Valley Zine Fest</a>. Chelsea Dirck will be there, will you? </p>
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<p><em>I have been making zines for the past four years or so, mostly from my personal…</em></p>
<p><i><br/></i>This weekend Food for Thought Books in Amherst will host the annual <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/pioneer-valley-zine-fest" target="_blank">Pioneer Valley Zine Fest</a>. Chelsea Dirck will be there, will you? </p>
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<p><em>I have been making zines for the past four years or so, mostly from my personal journals. Rather than releasing the zines under one title with many issues, they usually are all named something different: Last Year, Trying Really Trying, Leaving/Gone. Most of my stuff is about growing up, moving away, being homesick, falling in love, and just trying to figure out what the hell to do with yourself. The images below are from my most recent zine Last Year. This zine documents my entire relationship with my partner at the time, falling in and out of love over the course of a year or so. —</em>CD</p>
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<p><i style="text-align: right;">You can find other creations by Chelsea at these places: </i></p>
<div><a href="http://flickr.com/cdirck" target="_blank">Flickr.com/cdirck</a></div>
<div><a href="http://chelseadirck.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">chelseadirck.tumblr.com</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.chelseadirck.com/" target="_blank">www.chelseadirck.com</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/chelseadirck" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/chelseadirck</a></div>
<p><i><br/></i></p>Where Art Lives Out of Boundstag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-11-03:2537144:BlogPost:638622011-11-03T21:36:19.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/connected-and-consequential" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560628376?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="617"></img></a></p>
<p><em>Artists working at the intersections of art and life,</em><br></br> <em>Artists addressing real-world issues: what we eat, how we live, what we buy,<br></br>how</em> <em>we govern, and our care for each other and the environment.</em><br></br> <em>Working in the gaps between definitions and…</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/connected-and-consequential"><img width="617" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560628376?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="617"/></a></p>
<p><em>Artists working at the intersections of art and life,</em><br/> <em>Artists addressing real-world issues: what we eat, how we live, what we buy,<br/>how</em> <em>we govern, and our care for each other and the environment.</em><br/> <em>Working in the gaps between definitions and disciplines,</em><br/> <em>Using collaboration, research, technology, performance methods, spatial</em> <em>understanding, <br/>creative community engagement, process, improvisation, and</em> <em>action—</em><br/> <em>What are the possibilities?</em><br/> <em>Artists: connected and consequential.</em></p>
<p><strong>Connected and Consequential > generating new art ecologies</strong> features work by: <a href="http://valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh" target="_self">Julia Handschuh</a>, <a href="../../profile/SethGregory" target="_blank">Seth Gregory</a>, <a href="../../profile/MaggieNowinski" target="_blank">Maggie Nowinksi</a>, <a href="../../profile/CarsonPoe" target="_blank">Carson Poe</a>, <a href="../../profile/PerryHuntoon" target="_blank">Perry Huntoon</a>, <a href="../../profile/SitaMagnuson" target="_blank">Sita Magnuson</a>, <a href="../../profile/NancyWinshipMilliken" target="_blank">Nancy Winship Millekin</a>, <a href="../../profile/CarolynClayton" target="_blank">Carolyn Clayton</a>, <a href="../../profile/HenryWhite" target="_blank">Henry White</a>, Linda Bond, <a href="../../profile/HarrietDiamond" target="_blank">Harriet Diamond</a>, <a href="../../profile/KristaDeNio" target="_blank">Krista DeNio</a>, <a href="../../profile/HaleyMorgan" target="_blank">Haley Morgan</a> & <a href="../../profile/PhyllisLabanowski" target="_blank">Phyllis Labanowski</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="../../profile/ArtistsinContext" target="_blank">Artists in Context</a></strong> is a flexible organizational framework designed to assemble artists and other creative thinkers to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting on the critical issues of our time.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>CONNECTED AND CONSEQUENTIAL <span style="color: #008080;">[the conference]</span></strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/connected-and-consequential"><img style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560628784?profile=original" align="left" height="194" width="194"/></a><strong>Saturday November 12th 9-5pm <span style="color: #000000;">**FREE</span></strong>**</p>
<p>Now, more than ever, artists are working collaboratively across disciplines to find creative, equitable and intelligent ways of transitioning to a more sustainable and just future. We see art that connects to and deals with real-life situations, work that is research-based and action-based, an art that focuses on the design of new conditions to live, think and act differently.</p>
<p>Session 1: Art at Work; Police, Nurses, Clerks and Politicians<br/>Session 2: What Difference? <br/>Session 3: Hybrid Practice; Case Studies in Creative Spatial Engagement<br/>Session 4: Hands-On Research Methods in Alt-Mapping</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Check it out at <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/connected-and-consequential">www.valleyartshare.com/connected-and-consequential</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>OPEN CALL for E|MERGE <span style="color: #008000;">[Deadline Nov. 7th]</span><br/></strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/open-call-e-merge-interdisciplinary-artist-residency"><img width="70" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560631693?profile=RESIZE_180x180" align="left" height="81" width="81"/></a><strong>E|MERGE is an interdisciplinary artist residency at Earthdance February 14-26, 2012</strong></p>
<p>E|MERGE encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration toward forging new creative relationships, that bridge known and unknown territories. This residency is ideal for those interested in collaborating and cross-pollinating ideas with artists from other disciplines and backgrounds. Many of the collaborations begun during this residency have continued to develop into rich & ongoing artistic relationships. E|MERGE is a residency that has grown into an organically developing network of highly skilled artists. <a href="http://www.earthdance.net/programs/emerge12.htm" target="_blank">APPLY NOW!</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PSYCHEDELIC OPEN CALL for the next VAS PRESENTS <span style="color: #800080;">[deadline Nov. 25th]</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p>Calling all artists who use color to create psychedelic, hypnotic, optically magnificent work for an online exhibition on Valley Art Share. Overwhelming use of pattern, bright colors, and bizarre imagery are all welcome. Please look to the first definition of "Psychedelic":</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.</em></p>
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<p>Upload images of your work to VAS and then send <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/PerryBaronHuntoon" target="_blank">Perry</a> an email with the URL to: pbhuntoon@c3northampton.org</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ARTISTS FEED THE MOVEMENT<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://feedthemovement.wordpress.com/"><img width="80" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560631909?profile=RESIZE_180x180" align="left" width="80"/></a>Farmers and food advocates are mobilizing to support the Occupy Movement through the donation of local food to occupations in New York and New England. Valley Art Share members <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/ChrisLandry" target="_blank">Chris Landry</a> and <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/LeahMaeDyjak" target="_blank">Leah Mae Dyjak</a> along with others are hoping on board to document the process and help creatively message how local food security and sustainability is important to this growing movement for change. Stay tuned to feedthemovement.wordpress.com for featured video profiles and portraits or contact feedthemovement@googlegroups.com if you'd like to get involved.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">WARM WISHES</span></strong></p>
<p>I hope ya'll are safe and sound after the storm this past week and the absence of heat and electricity incited an abundance of candlelit puppet shows, wood fires and cozy gatherings.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-2">in creative solidarity,</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh"><img width="100" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560632092?profile=RESIZE_180x180" align="left" height="73" width="73"/></a><br/></span></p>
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<p>P.S. Do you want to curate an VAS collection from the archive? email valleyartshare@gmail.com or drop me a line on <a href="http://valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh" target="_self">my VAS profile</a>.</p>Occupy The Edge of The World!tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-10-04:2537144:BlogPost:603282011-10-04T20:31:03.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/at-the-edge-of-the-world" target="_blank"><img alt="13:At the Edge of the World, a collection curated by Burns Maxey" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620026?profile=original" width="617"></img></a></p>
<p><em>At the Edge of the World is a place where both chaos and calmness exist. The works selected manifest a struggle of dualities existing in one space.</em></p>
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<p><strong>13: At the Edge of the World features work by</strong>: <a href="../../profile/MichaelVanWinkle">Michael…</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/at-the-edge-of-the-world"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620026?profile=original" alt="13:At the Edge of the World, a collection curated by Burns Maxey" width="617"/></a></p>
<p><em>At the Edge of the World is a place where both chaos and calmness exist. The works selected manifest a struggle of dualities existing in one space.</em></p>
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<p><strong>13: At the Edge of the World features work by</strong>: <a href="../../profile/MichaelVanWinkle">Michael Van Winkle</a>, <a href="../../profile/NancyWinshipMilliken">Nancy Winship Milliken,</a> <a href="../../profile/EbenezerArcherKling">Eben Archer Kling</a>, <a href="../../profile/DianeTravis">Diane Travis,</a> <a href="../../profile/annaslezak">Anna Slezak</a>, <a href="../../profile/SamuelRowlett">Samuel Rowlett</a>, <a href="../../profile/aliciarenadette">Alicia Renadette,</a> <a href="../../profile/BonnieRogers">Bonnie Rogers, Carolyn Clayton,</a> <a href="../../profile/VictorSignore">Victor Signore,</a> <a href="../../profile/RachelKing">Rachel King</a>, <a href="../../profile/CarrieBergman">Carrie Bergman</a>, <a href="../../profile/YouthActionCoalition" target="_blank">Youth Action Coalition</a></p>
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<p><a href="../../profile/BurnsMaxey" target="_blank">Burns Maxey</a> is a multi-media artist based in Easthampton, MA and the new director of <a href="../../profile/2dvplfsrlo3oy" target="_blank">Easthampton City Arts</a>. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.burnsmaxey.com/">http://www.burnsmaxey.com</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>OCCUPY EVERYTHING</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://occupywallst.org/"><img style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620255?profile=original" align="left" height="162" width="162"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.occupytogether.org/"><img style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620277?profile=original" align="left" height="168" width="168"/></a>The occupations spreading across the United States inspired by Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring are treading another edge as the peaceful perseverance of this leaderless resistance movement meets the hierarchised powers of corporations and The State.</p>
<p>How does art and creative messaging play a role in this movement? There is an arts and culture committee organized on Wall St. Anyone planning to travel down there or plan an occupation here in the valley?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.occupywallst.org" target="_blank">www.occupywallst.org</a> | <a href="http://www.occupytogether.org" target="_blank">www.occupytogether.org</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>GET YOUR WORDS OUT</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/hearing-communities-speak-the-favorite-words-project-on"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620362?profile=original" align="left" height="72" width="72"/></a><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/hearing-communities-speak-the-favorite-words-project-on" target="_blank">Hearing Communities Speak: The Favorite Words Project</a></p>
<p>Shape&Nature Press, a local Greenfield-based small press, invites the local community to participate in The Favorite Words Project, an art/publishing installation which collects people’s favorite words and publishes them on bumper stickers and t-shirts as a living installation.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PERSPECTIVES ON WAR CONTINUES</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/2537144:Event:60500?xg_source=activity"><img width="300" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620650?profile=RESIZE_320x320" align="left" height="70" width="70"/></a></span></strong><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/2537144:Event:60500?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Extended Performance Dates for CONTACT</a> & 100 Faces of War Experience @ September 2011 at The Canal Gallery: Friday Oct. 14, 7pm | Saturday Oct. 15, 7pm | Sunday Oct. 16, 4pm</p>
<p>In the same vein: <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/vietnam-war" target="_blank">Forbes Library Hosts three authors to speak about the Vietnam War</a> Oct. 5th at 7pm.<br/>Doug Anderson, poet and memoirist | Tom Weiner, author | lê thi diem they, novelist and performance artist</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLING ALL WRITERS</span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/page/writers"><img style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560625083?profile=original" align="left" height="71" width="101"/></a><span class="font-size-2">I've got this idea that Valley Art Share could be a great place to publish and feature writing by folks in the Valley. Ultimately I hope to create a structure on the site that will generate some income which we can then support/pay for/commission and feature certain projects.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Before this happens I think it's important that Valley Art Share be a resource that is exciting and useful for people. That's where you (and <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/page/writers" target="_blank">this survey</a>) come in.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-2">in creative solidarity,</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh"><img width="100" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560632092?profile=RESIZE_180x180" align="left" height="73" width="73"/></a><br/></span></p>
<p> </p>In the same vein - Mike Gravel and the Citizens 9/11 Commissiontag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-09-19:2537144:BlogPost:588442011-09-19T16:43:31.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
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<p><a href="http://www.9-11cc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619881?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="682"></img></a> <span class="font-size-2">Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska is coming to town to speak on this project which seeks to establish a new 9/11 commission. He will be here tomorrow (September 20th) in <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/2537144:Event:58943?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Greenfield at GCTV</a> from 2-4 and at the…</span></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.9-11cc.org"><img width="682" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619881?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="682"/></a><span class="font-size-2">Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska is coming to town to speak on this project which seeks to establish a new 9/11 commission. He will be here tomorrow (September 20th) in <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/2537144:Event:58943?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Greenfield at GCTV</a> from 2-4 and at the <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/xn/detail/2537144:Event:59042?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Frances Crow Community Room</a> in Northampton from 7:30-9:30.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560623543?profile=original"><img class="align-left" style="padding: 5px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560623543?profile=original" height="113" width="104"/></a></em></span> </span><span class="font-size-2" style="font-size: small;"><em>Mike Gravel was a two-term Senator from Alaska (1969–1981), during which time he was best known for his lengthy filibuster that ended the draft, and for reading the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, the legality of which was confirmed in an historic Supreme Court case. Gravel later founded and served as president of the Democracy Foundation, Philadelphia II, and Direct Democracy, nonprofit corporations dedicated to the establishment of direct democracy in the United States through the enactment of the National Initiative for Democracy. Gravel founded the citizens’ 9/11 Commission Campaign in 2010.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>For more information visit</em> <em> </em><em><a href="http://9-11cc.org/">9-11cc.org</a></em></p>
<em>For local actions and more information, visit:</em> <a href="http://www.flybynews.com/">FlybyNews.com</a> or <a href="http://www.meetup.com/valley911truth/">Valley911truth.org</a><br/>
<p style="text-align: left;">Download information and spread the word,<a href="http://www.meetup.com/valley911truth/files/">check out Valley 9/11 Truthfiles</a></p>
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<p> </p>Perspectives on War — Online & In Person —tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-09-10:2537144:BlogPost:572682011-09-10T21:31:10.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<blockquote><p align="center"><span class="font-size-1">"<em>It is my feeling that people are drawn to wars culturally as much as, if not more than, politically; therefore, an understanding of how wars exist in human consciousness can only be reached through discourses that include cultural and creative expressions. Art, in all its forms, is the only way to access the most visceral human reactions to war."</em> - Tyler Boudreau, author "Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a…</span></p>
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<p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/perspectives-on-war"><strong><span class="font-size-4">THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS:</span></strong><img width="600" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619675?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="600"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br/>Using the exhibition <a href="../../events/september-2011-the-canal-gallery" target="_blank">September 2011 at The Canal Gallery</a>, as both a point of access and departure, this collection is meditation on 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the next weeks I will continue to add to this collection, images, videos and words that seem to reflect on, reference and grow out of the culture of war that has been in our midst for the past 10 years. September 2011 at The Canal Gallery features work by artists Mary Bernstein, Krista DeNio, Harriet Diamond and Matt Mitchell. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/perspectives-on-war" target="_blank">Read on...</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/100-faces-of-war-observing-a-decade-since-the-9-11-attacks-a"><img width="350" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619758?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350"/></a><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/ArtistsinContext" target="_blank">Artists in Context Presents:</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> </strong></span><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/100-faces-of-war-observing-a-decade-since-the-9-11-attacks-a" target="_blank"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Observing a Decade<br/>Since the 9/11 Attacks</strong></span></a><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/100-faces-of-war-observing-a-decade-since-the-9-11-attacks-a" target="_blank"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/100-faces-of-war-observing-a-decade-since-the-9-11-attacks-a" target="_blank"><span class="font-size-4"> </span>A Public Conversation following<br/>the performance of CONTACT</a> <strong><br/></strong><br/><span class="font-size-2"><strong>September 11, 2011 from 4pm to 7pm</strong></span><br/><span class="font-size-2">Tickets for CONTACT $10-$15 at the Door, reception and conversation is free and open to the public.</span><br/><span class="font-size-2">The Canal Gallery 280 Dwight St. Holyoke, Ma <a href="http://www.thecanalgallery.com">www.thecanalgallery.com</a></span> <br/><span class="font-size-1"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This interdisciplinary discussion moderated by Artists in Context will address the role that art and artists play in the commemoration of war and the new spaces that are being created for citizens, veterans and soldiers to traverse the complicated territory of war and its implications for society.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br/>The panel will include artists Matt Mitchell, Krista DeNio, and Susan Oetgen ; Carole Anne Meehan, founder·of Art at Main and a public art curator; Blake J. Ruehrwein, an Air Force veteran from Bridgewater, MA.; Tyler Boudreau, author and veteran of the war in Iraq; Nicholas Chavez, alumnus of Holyoke Community College and UMASS and sailor in the US Navy; and Dave Raymond, Director of Business Development at a Cambridge MA-based healthcare IT startup.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br/><strong>The conversation will occur after a performance of <em>CONTACT</em>, an interactive performance installation created in collaboration with Matt Mitchell’s <em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.100facesofwarexperience.org/">100 Faces of War Experience</a></em>.</strong> Directed by Krista DeNio, <em>Contact</em> includes performances by veteran and civilian performers. Mitchell's work, having already laid the groundwork for an evolving dialogue space between viewers and the portraits of veterans, becomes a powerful space for live action. <strong>CONTACT Premiers TONIGHT September 10th at 7pm</strong> and will continue tomorrow, September 11th at 4pm, September 16 & 17 at 7pm and September 18th at 4pm. Mitchell's work along with Mary Bernstein's and Harriet Diamond's is on view through October 31st at The Canal Gallery.<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>In the same vein:</strong></span> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/reception-for-ground-zero-photographs-by-elizabeth-burkhart" target="_blank">Ground Zero: Photographs by Elizabeth Burkhart</a>, on view at the Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library and <a href="http://www.apearts.org/current.html" target="_blank">Linda Bond: A Count</a> at A.P.E. <a href="http://vetsed.org/events-2/" target="_blank">War Veterans</a>, a project of the Veterans Education Project. <br/><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Calling Valley Art Share Writers:</strong></span> I'm interested in developing a writing/publishing component to Valley Art Share and would like to hear how you might like to participate in this endeavor. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/page/writers?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Please check out this survey</a> and let me know what you think.<br/><br/><strong>Stayed tuned in the coming days for more featured writing and events around the topic of Perspectives on War.</strong> <br/>If you are hosting a event or have some work you'd like to share related to this topic please drop me a line: valleyartshare@gmail.com</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br/><strong>with gusto,</strong><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh"><img width="100" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619855?profile=RESIZE_180x180" alt="julia" align="left" height="85" width="85"/></a></p>
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<p> </p>VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS: Perspectives on Wartag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-09-07:2537144:BlogPost:567742011-09-07T17:30:00.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/perspectives-on-war" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619589?profile=original" width="454"></img></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Featuring Artists: <a href="../../../profile/DeniseBeaudet">Denise Beaudet</a>, Mary Bernstein, <a href="../../../profile/KristaDeNio">Krista DeNio</a>, <a href="../../../profile/HarrietDiamond">Harriet Diamond</a>, <a href="../../../profile/SethGregory">Seth Gregory</a>, <a href="../../../profile/RaeMaltz">Rae Maltz</a>,…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/perspectives-on-war"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619589?profile=original" width="454"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Featuring Artists: <a href="../../../profile/DeniseBeaudet">Denise Beaudet</a>, Mary Bernstein, <a href="../../../profile/KristaDeNio">Krista DeNio</a>, <a href="../../../profile/HarrietDiamond">Harriet Diamond</a>, <a href="../../../profile/SethGregory">Seth Gregory</a>, <a href="../../../profile/RaeMaltz">Rae Maltz</a>, <a href="http://100facesofwarexperience.org/" target="_blank">Matt Mitchell</a>, <a href="../../../profile/KatiePetrone">Katie Petrone</a>, <a href="../../../profile/CarsonPoe">Carson Poe</a>, <a href="../../../profile/GeorgeNityaRamirez">George Nitya Ramirez</a>, <a href="../../../profile/ScottTulay">Scott Tulay</a>.</p>Creative Time Summit and Exhibition: Living As Formtag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-09-04:2537144:BlogPost:564522011-09-04T15:11:04.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><strong>This is something worth knowing about.</strong></p>
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<p><em><a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/index.htm" target="_blank">Living as Form</a></em> is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists' projects in a…</p>
<p><strong>This is something worth knowing about.</strong></p>
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<p><em><a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/index.htm" target="_blank">Living as Form</a></em> is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists' projects in a large-scale survey exhibition inside the historic Essex Street Market building (in NYC), features nine new commissions in the surrounding neighborhood, and provides a dynamic online archive of over 350 socially engaged projects. <a href="../../profile/aliya" target="_blank">Aliya Bonar</a> graduated from Hampshire a few years ago and has been working at <a href="http://www.creativetime.org/" target="_blank">Creative Time</a> helping to pull this exhibition together. If you'd like to volunteer at the exhibition email her at aliyab@creativetime.org</p>
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<p>Also check out the <a href="http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/summit/" target="_blank">Creative Time Summit</a>, September 23rd (tickets are selling fast!)</p>
<p>The Creative Time Summit is a conference that brings together cultural producers—including artists, critics, writers, and curators—to discuss how their work engages pressing issues affecting our world. Their international projects bring to the table a vast array of practices and methodologies that engage with the canvas of everyday life. The participants range from art world luminaries to those purposefully obscure, providing a glimpse into an evolving community concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art.</p>
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<p>NYC is only a few hours away and car pooling or <a href="http://us.megabus.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">megabus</a> makes it easy and cheap. </p>
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<a href="http://valleyartshare.com/archive/see-through-selves" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619328?profile=RESIZE_320x320" style="padding: 2px;" width="200"></img></a> <strong><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Virtually we've got the online…</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">RISE UP AND SHOUT OUT!</span></strong><br/><strong><span style="color: #000000;">
Bodies are brewing in creative formations all across the valley this week!</span></strong><br/>
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<a target="_self" href="http://valleyartshare.com/archive/see-through-selves"><img width="200" class="align-left" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619328?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200"/></a><strong><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Virtually we've got the online exhibition</span></strong> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/archive/see-through-selves" target="_blank">see.through.selves</a> curated by fellow VAS member <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/MaggieNowinski" target="_blank">Maggie Nowinski</a>. This collection focuses on the varied ways an artist's body functions as site, medium or sign across multiple creative disciplines.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-1" style="color: #999999;">my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people!</span><br/> <br/>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Parties are abundant this Saturday:</strong></span> Franklin's rocking out at the <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/creative-souls-art-and-music-festival" target="_blank">Creative Souls Art and Music Festival</a> in Greenfield, Hampshire's kicking it at the <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/4th-annual-chilifest-at-stone-soup-farm" target="_blank">4th Annual Chilifest</a> in Belchertown and Hamden's rallying at a <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/block-party-and-kennedy-middle-school-exhibit-reception" target="_blank">Block Party</a> in Springfield. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/NORTHAMPTONMOVINGPLANETPARADE?xg_source=profiles_memberList" target="_blank">Globally there are plans to parade through the streets!</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #999999;" class="font-size-1">my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people!</span></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/projectcollective"><img width="200" class="align-left" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560619377?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200"/></a><span class="font-size-2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Artist-etceteras are organizing!</strong></span> They're taking it into their own hands to ensure continued and sustainable access to radical creative space and community in post-gentrified Northampton. Jump on the bandwagon and help make this vision for affordable studio, performance and gallery space a reality. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/projectcollective" target="_blank">Check it out on Facebook</a> and if it speaks to you, fill out the survey.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-1" style="color: #999999;"><br/></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-1" style="color: #999999;">my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people! my body plus your body makes the body of the people!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Happy August everyone,</span></strong><br/> <br/>
<a target="_self" href="http://valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh"><img width="75" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560624105?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="75"/></a></p>
<p>------> Julia.<br/> valleyartshare@gmail.com</p>
<p>Find VAS on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Valley-Art-Share/200133672558" target="_blank">facebook</a> and always of course at <a href="http://valleyartshare.com" target="_self">valleyartshare.com</a><br/> <br/></p>I've put a new face on your facetag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-07-19:2537144:BlogPost:507692011-07-19T00:26:38.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><span class="font-size-2"><strong>Hey yo! Valley Art Share has got a new face!</strong> I've been picking away at new design ideas and seems like about time to make it live. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com" target="_blank">Check it out</a>.</span><span class="font-size-2"> In the coming days and weeks I'll be shifting things around a bit and tweaking the design. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/forum/topics/whatya-think-of-the-new-site-d?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Let…</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><strong>Hey yo! Valley Art Share has got a new face!</strong> I've been picking away at new design ideas and seems like about time to make it live. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com" target="_blank">Check it out</a>.</span><span class="font-size-2"> In the coming days and weeks I'll be shifting things around a bit and tweaking the design. <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/forum/topics/whatya-think-of-the-new-site-d?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Let me know if you love it or hate it.</a></span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">It's been great to come back to the Valley after a year away in New York City (graduate school). Time away has given me space to incubate some thoughts and ideals and it's a delight to come back to the Valley and explore with fresh eyes and energy.</span><br/><span class="font-size-2"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/FlyingObject"><img width="125" class="align-left" style="padding: 5px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560618329?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="125"/></a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">I just went to visit <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/FlyingObject" target="_blank">Flying Object</a> for the first time last week. It's a beautiful place in an old firehouse right on the Hadley commons. They've got a sunny open space that functions as a gallery, bookshop and classroom. Members of Flying Object get access the letterpress studio (really cool) and then publications made on their press can be sold in the shop. Guy, a local writer and founder of Flying Object has some great ideas for the future of the space including more workshops, a fellowship for print and book makers and an artist residency program. <a href="http://www.flying-object.org/?page_id=117" target="_blank">Check it out this week</a> when they host a book launch for Mark Leidner's Beauty was the Vase that They Gave Me, Thursday July 21st 8-10:30pm.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><a target="_blank" href="http://c3northampton.org/?p=390"><img width="120" class="align-left" style="padding: 5px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560620971?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="120"/></a>I've also been talking with <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/adelemattern" target="_blank">Adele Mattern</a> of <a href="http://www.artistsincontext.org/" target="_blank">Artists in Context</a> (AiC), an organization out in Cambridge that is starting to support some things out here in the Valley. They're interested in 'hybrid practices' that is, where the line of art, or being an artist blurs into other contexts and disciplines. I've been thinking about this a lot, what kind of artist am I and where do I want my work to live? What kinds of ways do I want to see creative practice live itself out in daily life here in the Valley?</span> <br/><br/><span class="font-size-2">Adele lives in the Valley and is helping AiC get a sense of what's shaking in our neck of the woods. AiC is offering some scholarships for people to attend the <a href="http://c3northampton.org/?p=390" target="_blank">Urban Homesteading workshop</a> at Montview Neighborhood Farm (co-produced with <a href="http://c3northampton.org/" target="_blank">C3</a>) and it looks like AiC and Valley Art Share will be collaborating in the near future.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">I've curated a small collection of images from the archive <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/photo/albums/the-vas-archive-presents-in" target="_blank">In Honor of Summer</a>.<br/>I hope you take a gander and then go swimming. : )<br/>I'm excited for your present and near future scheming and dreaming.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">yours truly,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/JuliaHandschuh" target="_blank">Julia Handschuh</a></span><br/><span class="font-size-2">Valley Art Share Creator<br/>valleyartshare@gmail.com</span></p>OPPORTUNITY: Creative Communities Exchangetag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-02-15:2537144:BlogPost:410712011-02-15T23:46:33.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
<p><a href="http://www.nefa.org/grants_services/creative_communities_exchange" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1560632110?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="537"></img></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>a New England Creative Economy WorkShare</strong></em> <strong>(n)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>a New England Creative Economy WorkShare</strong></em> <strong>(n)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Thirty-two workshops</strong> <strong>will focus on the implementation of successful</strong> <strong>creative economy work</strong> and presenters will provide participants with information and actionable tools that can be executed in their own communities. Two presenters will be recognized with NEFA’s first-ever creative economy award, which includes a cash prize.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">DETAILS HERE: <a href="http://www.nefa.org/grants_services/creative_communities_exchange">http://www.nefa.org/grants_services/creative_communities_exchange</a></p>
</div>Props to Valley Artists: Economy (an exhibition) and F.E.A.S.T.tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2011-01-21:2537144:BlogPost:377182011-01-21T13:34:29.000ZValley Art Sharehttp://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/valleyartshare
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<p><br></br><strong>We've pulled together our first online exhibition from the VAS Archive! </strong> Jackie and I have been in conversation about this for a while now and are very excited to present this collection of works to you from fellow Valley Art Share artists. We're hoping to do this more in the…</p>
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<p><br/><strong>We've pulled together our first online exhibition from the VAS Archive! </strong> Jackie and I have been in conversation about this for a while now and are very excited to present this collection of works to you from fellow Valley Art Share artists. We're hoping to do this more in the future and hope that it will inspire YOU to curate collections of work from valley artists as well.</p>
<p>Maybe at some point we can figure out a way to have events that correspond with these exhibitions but for now they will be solely contained in virtual space. Click <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/page/vas-archive-presents" target="_blank">HERE</a></strong></span> to check out the work and post comments or other images that relate to the theme.</p>
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<p><strong>Do you know about Valley F.E.A.S.T. yet?</strong> You should! It stands for '<em>Funding Emerging Artists through Sustainable Tactics</em>' and is an awesome event that Now.For.Art and Portal Arts Group are kickin' off at the Elevens this Saturday, January 22nd at 8pm. Learn more about the line up of artists bands and divine food at <a href="http://valleyfeast.wordpress.com">http://valleyfeast.wordpress.com</a></p>