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Mark Vallen's
Website for
Art Activism & Social Change. ART FOR A CHANGE March update, 2003. www.art-for-a-change.com _/
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IN
THIS UPDATE....
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- MARK VALLEN'S "PUNK PORTRAITS" 2)
- THE "READY FOR WAR" EXHIBITION 3)
- GUERNICA AND CENSORSHIP 4)
- "WE ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED" _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ MARK
VALLEN'S "PUNK PORTRAITS" The Giclée Prints being
offered are the very same Limited Edition Prints now showing at the
Kantor. There are five different Prints in all, two of which are reproductions
of the famous cover illustrations Vallen created for the legendary SLASH
Magazine. Each Print is hand signed and numbered by the Artist. To view
the Giclée Prints, check here.
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THE "READY FOR WAR" EXHIBITION
Illinois State University mounts anti war show 
READY FOR WAR is an Art exhibit now taking place at the University
Galleries of Illinois State University. Gallery Director Barry
Blinderman said the non-juried exhibition is "our way of acting
locally, offering as many Artists as possible a forum for expressing
their sentiments about the grave state our country is in at the moment."
Nearly 100 Artists have contributed works to the exhibition, including
Mark Vallen, Martha Rosler, Mike Cockrill, and
Joy Garnett.The international exhibition
consists of Paintings, Drawings, Collages, Prints, Sculptures, Cartoons,
Installations, Poems, Videotapes, Digital Animation, and Websites created
by Artists from all around the world. The exhibit runs until March 18th,
2003. For more information, visit the University Galleries at the following
URL:
www.arts.ilstu.edu/galleries/ready4war/catalog/index.html _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ GUERNICA AND CENSORSHIP 
On Feb. 21st. 2003, Mark Vallen was a guest on KPFZ Radio
to discuss the censorship of Picasso's Guernica mural. Progammer Jackie
Barshak, of the community supported station in Lucerne California,
invited Vallen and UC Berkeley Art History Professor Ann Wagner
to participate in a live phone interview on the subject of Art censorship.
Professor Wagner spoke about the history of Picasso's antiwar mural,
while Vallen addressed the implications of its censorship for Artists
living in a time of war.And while on the subject of the censored mural... On
Feb. 15th, 2003, over 10 million people demonstrated in coordinated
worldwide protests against a war with Iraq. From Great Britain to Australia,
from Hollywood to New York, hundreds of people carried reproductions
of Pablo Picasso's Guernica. At the Reina Sofia (Spain's national
museum of Modern Art where the original Guernica mural is housed), museum
staff gathered at the museum's entrance to display antiwar placards
along with a large reproduction of the world renown mural.
Mark
Vallen's original essay on the censorship of Picasso's mural can be
found at the following URL:
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"WE
ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED"
The College Art Association adopts antiwar resolutiony The College
Art Association (CAA) was founded in 1911 as a professional organization
dedicated to the visual arts and humanities. The CAA currently has
13,000 members who are Artists, Art Historians, Curators, Educators,
Art Publishers, Scholars, and Collectors. Another 2,000 individuals
from University Art & History Departments, Museums, and Libraries
hold membership. The CAA has adopted the following resolution regarding
a war against Iraq...
Adopted
by the CAA Board of Directors,
February 23, 2003, New York City: We artists, art historians, and art professionals of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association are deeply concerned about the threat to human life, cultural heritage, and freedom of expression in the name of patriotism and the war on terrorism, particularly as the prospect of war in Iraq gains momentum. The
curtailment of civil liberties and human rights at home and abroad
has a direct impact on our members and our ability to achieve
CAA's core values and goals to create open forums that encourage
international dialogue and open exchange of different points of
view.
In addition, current policies also have serious implications for government funding for the arts and humanities, higher education, philanthropy, freedom of expression, and conditions in the university, museum, and other workplace environments of CAA members. Visit the College Art Association's website, at: _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
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The ART FOR A
CHANGE (AFC) Web site serves as a
resource center for Art Activism. It encourages and promotes the creation of Artworks that envision a just, peaceful world. Please inform others of this site, and forward this notice to all appropriate lists and individuals. If you wish to be added or removed from the AFC mailing list, just send an e-mail request. Mark
Vallen
ART FOR A CHANGE! www.art-for-a-change.com "Art is
on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic
dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art
is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"
~ Nadine Gordimer. AFC (C) 2003. All rights
reserved.
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(If you're not able to attend the ongoing ART OF PUNK exhibit
at the brand new Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles, you can still
acquire Vallen's historic artworks documenting L.A.'s Punk underground
at the close of the 20th century. High quality Giclée Prints of Vallen's
Punk Portraits are now availble for purchase directly off the Art
For A Change website!
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