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Mark Vallen's
Website for
Art Activism & Social Change. ART FOR A CHANGE July update, 2003. www.art-for-a-change.com _/
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IN
THIS UPDATE....
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- REACHING TO EMBRACE ART
Working to save
Art in Los Angeles Schools
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- CHE Y QUE
Self
Help Graphics looks at Che in Pop Culture
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- JUST ANOTHER POSTER
Historic
Chicano Poster exhibit in Sacramento
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- THE CRY - LIBERATION OF THE SPIRIT!
Group
Exhibit celebrating Mexican Independence Day
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REACHING
TO EMBRACE ART
Working
to save Art in Los Angeles Schools
Reaching to Embrace Art (RtEA) is an important new philanthropy group in
Los Angeles that's dedicated to raising
funds for the dwindling
arts programs of the city's school
system. Founded by young
Art lovers with an activist approach
towards saving the arts...
RtEA believes that "Art and thinking
outside the box is essential
to learning." All funds raised by RtEA
will go to the L.A.
Unified School District and encompassing
programs that promote
youth arts education. RtEA will be
presenting it's first
benefit fundraising exhibition this coming
July 12th,
2003 at Inshallah Gallery in downtown
L.A.
Yours truly, Mark
Vallen, will be donating and exhibiting
artworks along with
Richard Duardo, Mear One,
John von
Hammersveld,
and dozens of others. The Artist's
Reception
will be from
7 to 9:30 pm, where serious Art buyers
will be able to purchase
the works on exhibit (admission $30.00).
After the Reception
and Art sale, a party will be held with live
music, Video Art
projections, Spoken Word, and Deejays
(admission $10.00).
Remember... ALL
monies are being donated
to School Arts programs!
You can contact RtEA
at elizabeth@rtea.org or reach
them by Fax/Voice mail,
at: (213) 596-5753. For more info
on
RtEA and their July 12th Benefit, visit their website,
at:
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CHE Y QUE
Self
Help Graphics looks at Che in Pop Culture
Che
Y Que is an Art event that focuses
on the image of
Che Guevara
in popular culture. The show, organized by
East L.A.'s Self
Help Graphics, is actually a grand festival
that will feature the
works of four Cuban Photographers, an
Art Exhibition,
Films, Cuban Music, and panel discussions
on the life of El Che.
The Che Festival and
Art show opens on Sat., August 9th,
and runs until August
28th, 2003. Yours
truly, Mark Vallen,
will be exhibiting
and selling a special edition, hand signed Print
made just for this occasion.
Dozens
of other local Artists will also be showing and selling
their
works at the Che Y Que exhibition. Sponsored by Pacifica
Radio's
L.A. station, KPFK, this festival is something you
won't
want
to miss. Self Help is located at, 3802 Cesar Chavez
Avenue
(East L.A.). Phone: 323-881-6444.
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JUST ANOTHER POSTER
Historic
Chicano Poster exhibit in Sacramento
Just
Another Poster: Chicano Graphic Arts in California
is an exhibit of Poster
Art created from the late 60's to the
present. Curated
by the University of California, Santa
Barbara,
in collaboration with the California Ethnic &
Multicultural
Archives (CEMA), the Posters deal with
issues like cultural
identity, war, repression, immigration,
human rights, and the
celebration of heritage.
The
works of yours truly, Mark Vallen, are included in
the
historic
exhibition, along with the Prints of Rupert Garcia,
Yreina
Cervantez, Richard Duardo, Royal Chicano
Airforce,
Self
Help Graphics, and many others. There are over 100 works
from
50 different Artists in this groundbreaking show.
The
exhibit is currently running at the Crocker Art Museum &
La
Raza/Galerķa Posada in Sacramento California. The exhibit
runs
until September 14th, 2003 (you can
purchase the exhibit
catalog
book for the show at the Art For A Change website).
For more information about the Just Another Poster exhibit, visit
the Crocker Museum website, at:
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THE
CRY - LIBERATION OF THE SPIRIT!
Group
Exhibit celebrating Mexican Independence Day
This
year the Lankershim Gallery in the NoHo Arts
District
of
Los Angeles will host a major exhibit honoring El
Grito, or
Mexican
Independence Day. The group show is the effort of
ARTINO,
L.A.'s premiere Latino Arts association. Calling the
exhibit
EL GRITO - ”LIBERACION DEL ESPIRITU! (THE CRY -
LIBERATION
OF THE SPIRIT!), the exhibition will focus on the
interplay
between Mexico and the United States, past and present
struggles
for liberty and democracy, cultural identity, immigration,
and the
celebration of heritage... all through the eyes of Latinos
living
in Los Angeles.
Yours
truly, Mark Vallen, will be presenting a number
of brand
new Oil
Paintings and Prints at the upcoming show.
Every
September 16th Mexicans celebrate El Grito.
However,
the
occasion also has great significance for Mexican Americans,
and
since it marks one of the world's great anti-colonial struggles
the day also impacts the global community. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ 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 at its most
significant is a distant early warning
system that
can always be relied on to tell the old
culture what
is beginning to happen."
~ Marshall
Mcluhan
AFC (C) 2003. All rights
reserved.
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