2008/04/26

ArtiCulture

Art supply sale and swap
ArtiCulture, a 501(c)3 nonprofit is having a fundraising rummage sale. We will have: Kids stuff Clothing Household appliances Office furniture Coats, purses, bags Lots more stuff! We are also having an art supply sale and swap. Bring any art supplies you no longer use and swap them or sell them to other artists!

Saturday, April 26th 9am-5pm at ArtiCulture
3745 Minnehaha Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-729-5151
www.articulture.org
info@articulture.org

Have old stuff you would like to donate to a good cause? Please drop it by ArtiCulture on Thursday or Friday 10am-5pm. Or contact us to make other arrangements.

Lindsey Scott
Administrative and Marketing Coordinator
ArtiCulture

2008/04/25

F-Stop Swap April 26th & 27th

(I copied this from their site: f-stopswap.com)

F-Stop Swap is a Used Camera Equipment and

Collectable Image Show

6640 Lyndale Ave. S. #110-251
Richfield, Minnesota 55423
612-866-5811

Next Show, April 26th and 27th Inver Grove Heights Armory/Community Center 10-3pm

Renting a table at the show or bringing your equipment to the show, gives you a chance to get a higher price for your equipment, it allows you to present your items to a large number of photographic buyers. But, if you need or want to sell your equipment before the show, please feel free to contact Gordy at Village Camera.

Village Camera


WHAT IS F-STOP SWAP

F-Stop Swap is a used camera equipment and tech swap, held two times a year in the greater Minneapolis area. At the F-Stop Swap you can find anything from Alpa to Zeiss --collectables to professional equipment -- large format to digital. So, if you looking to buy, sell or trade almost anything in the way of photo equipment, movie, or special brands of gear, come check out our next show. NEWS FLASH: OUR NEXT SHOW IN OCTOBER WILL INCLUDE A LARGE SELECTION OF COLLECTABLE IMAGES.

The F-Stop Swap traces it's roots back to 1987, when the Doug Erickson, had his first show at the Knollwood Shopping center. Originally the shows were called P.W.U.C (People Who Use Cameras), but some people started to refer to it as the "PUKE" show. So, a contest was held, for a new show name. Walter Freugel was the winning of the naming contest. His idea of the F-Stop Swap has been used ever since. Now, in 2006 the show draws several hundred people, who can browse over 70 tables of New and Used Photo items. Sellers come from all over the US to buy, sell and trade equipment. Sellers range from the hobbyist to some of the largest used camera equipment dealers in the Midwest.

As of May 1st, 2006 Doug Erickson, has retired from promoting the show but will continue to be part of the show as a seller, selling a broad range of photo and tech equipment. Doug has sold to show to me.

2008/04/24

Fashioned

Fashioned + Curated by George Slade:
Linda Brooks, Michael Dvorak, Martine Fougeron, Nick Kline, Jessica Rowe, Ryan Wong

May 3 to July 13, 2008

Related Events

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3
5:30 p.m. Artist Panel
7 - 9 p.m. Opening Reception

MCP presents Fashioned, an examination of how fashion and identity interrelate. Do clothes make the man, or vice versa? The photographers in Fashioned make images in which costume and character weave together, posing subtle questions about the validity of first impressions, about the endurance of clothing as a marker of identity, and about the tensions that play out between one's self and one's daily appearance. Fashioned includes the work of six artists: Linda Brooks, Michael Dvorak, Martine Fougeron, Nick Kline, Jessica Rowe, and Ryan Wong.

Linda Brooks (St. Paul) has pursued a long series of straightforward, square color portraits of teens and adolescents. The images derive strength from both the ample self-possession apparent in her subjects and from the words that each has inscribed alongside themselves in the portrait.

Michael Dvorak (Minneapolis) has been working on a black-and-white portrait project in the neighborhoods near MCP in northeast Minneapolis and west from the Center, across interstate 94 on Broadway into north Minneapolis. His portraits of young people present a mix of urban and bohemian character.

Martine Fougeron (New York City) depicts the lives and milieus of her two teenage sons in her series Tete a Tete. The boys and their friends reveal surprising takes on fashion, blending prep school uniformity with thrift store chic. They also characterize themselves through their physical ease with each other.

Nick Kline (New York City), in his series Undercover, considers the fleeting nature of apparel as seen inside plastic wrap in drycleaning shops. These photographs dematerialize fashion as they zoom in on pattern and texture, rendered abstract and apart from bodies.

Jessica Rowe (Brooklyn) portrays clothes left behind by deceased women. The large color photographs in her Remnants series, identified with the name of their owner, depict apparel seemingly cast off, like a sloughed reptile's skin, onto furniture, there to be found in random shapes by the artist.

Ryan Wong (Seattle/Hong Kong) records his encounters with Chinese t-shirts (and their wearers). The slogans play with perceptions of language and culture; are these true statements, or even logical, and do they really mean what they say? How do the shirts relate to the faces they underscore?

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Rock & Raffle

Rock n' Raffle:
Benefit for MCP sponsored by MCTC students and staff

April 25, 2008 - 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM

MCP and MCTC announce the Rock n' Raffle Photoextravaganza! MCTC students and staff team up with four local bands to benefit the Minnesota Center for Photography through a live concert and raffle of 20+ photographs at Station 4 in St. Paul.


Admission: $2
Raffle Tickets: $1 each
All ages

Bands
The Nina! The Pinta!
Estate
The Malmbergs
Ambition Recliner

Location
Station 4
201 E 4th St.
St. Paul, MN 55101


Artists
Sheldon Christianson
Tim White
Laura Wilen
Tina Harchysen
Ryan Fedder
Andrea Cole
Jordan James
Daniel Guy
Sarah Jordet
Biruk Desta
Amy Marcus
Stephanie Hynes
Julie Runia
Gregory Johnsen
Robert Fraizer
Drew Burton
Ethan Confer
Marilyn Indyhal
Katie Scholtz
Jack Mader
Kristine Heykants
Craig McNitt
Mandi Harris
Tom Kemmer
Kyle Smyth

2008/04/04

FOUND! Images of wonder & mystery

"A series of FOUND FILM events that will dazzle the mind and agitate the soul."

Sunday 13 April/Parkview Theater/4814 Chicago Ave/7:30/5 bucks
SNEAK PREVIEW!

Craig Baldwin's mock up on MU
a radical hybrid of sci-fi, western, and horror, Mu masters the audacity
to take up the profoundly serious issue of the militarization of space.
legendary found footage filmmaker BALDWIN returns to the TC
to unveil this brand new work.

Monday 14 April/155 Nicholson Hall/U of M/3:30PM/Free

FOUND! ROUNDTABLE
what are we to do with found images? bakkom, baldwin, and friends discuss this and many
other themes-copyright, appropriation, film as trash/treasure-that pertain to found film and video.

ORGANIZED BY THE CSCL GRADUATE FILM COLLABORATIVE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA/CO-SPONSORED BY THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL CHANGE