Lambastic (Last Supper Salon)

"A is for Artist" Group Show Celebrating Artists in Food Service Friday the 18th

2011-11-10T15:59:00.000-08:00

How many artists do you know who double as your local Barista? Ever consider the Waiter being the photographer? How many Bartenders have you met who scheme about their next big art project? This is the group that celebrates the Cafe Creatives!

The West Brooklyn, a Beer, Wine, & Coffee Bar in Williamsburg is holding a its first group show on November 18th. "A is for Artist" has one simple goal, and that is to celebrate artists who work in the food industry.

It just so happens, that TLS Alum are all over this event. Curated by Douglas Turner (TLS Visual Arts), Lili Trenkova (Design), and Chef Lundquist. And also Maya Edelman of our beloved BLANKS!

more info: www.thewestbrooklyn.com

About The Show

On November 18th The West will hold its first group art show for artists who work in the food industry.

The Challenge for the artist remains the same: how to sustain and produce in a Marquee City. “A is for Artist” has one simple goal. We want to embrace the community that makes the art, that makes and serves the food. This will be a multimedia event—a show of art, film, words, food and latte art.

The West is Located at 379 Union Ave. (Where Union meets Hope & Powers) L or G Trains to Lorimer/Metropolitan
The West is an artist owned establishment in Williamsburg. The proprietor, Esther Bell, is an award winning film director. An important aspect of her business plan is to serve the NYC Artist’s community that she is an active member of. The West offers up its space to support music, film, poetry and art events. We are home and creators of the month NYC Director's Speakeasy—A film industry meet-up party.

The Iraqi Seed Project by Emma — Kickstarter

2011-05-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

Our friend Emma just launched her Kickstarter campaign. Let's help her raise awareness and funding for sustainable agriculture in Iraq!

The Iraqi Seed Project wants to start a conversation about sustainable agriculture in Iraq. We are getting ready to go to Iraqi Kurdistan for a 3 week filming trip. On two previous trips we met with many Kurdish and Iraqi farmers and agricultural officials. We learned a lot on these visits and now we are ready to start filming so that we can share the stories of Iraqi agriculture with all of you!

Once complete The Iraqi Seed Project will be a film, interactive online media experience, and real life exchange. Together these three elements explore the history and current trials of agriculture in Iraq, seeking innovative solutions to restoring Iraq’s farmland after 30 years of war and bringing Iraqi farmers into the global dialogue about sustainable food production.

We are seeking $8,000 to help fund our trip. Anything beyond that will go to editing the film and working on the website when we return, so the more the merrier!

To learn more about The Iraqi Seed Project: Visit our website!

http://kck.st/kQJJIl

Read:

Renewing Agriculture in Iraq, The Solutions Journal May/June 2011

Planting Seeds for Change in Iraq, Malibu Grange October 2010

Listen:

Seed Stories, Splendid Table August 2010

TLS Family taking part in Festival of Ideas For The New City...

2011-05-06T11:50:00.000-07:00

Past TLS farm curator Derek Denkla and TLS food artist Chloe Bass will both be taking part!

And here's a backlink to our previous "Apparu and the Festival!" post from April...

Chautauqua: Storied Foods

On Saturday May 7, 2011, 11 AM - 6PM, Farm City Chautauqua will present a day of programming drawing from all of the creative energy of the artists participating in our multi-month series.

Communal Table, Community Cooking Club, Chloe Bass, People's Champs and Tracing Trash have come together to present one collective, monumental performance work that creates a circus of stories inspired by food.

Location: Sara Delano Roosevelt Park

Chrystie Street at Stanton Street

Tent at rear of the basketball court

Map of StreetFest

In Brief: At an outdoor kitchen, a team of artists will share foods with passersby that elicit narrative. Participants will be invited to join in one-on-one chats delving into intimate food stories, some recorded for online posting. Each performance cycle will end/begin with a hootenanny led by the live band, The People’s Champs. Through discussion and communal effort, participants share & understand food in new ways.

Storied Foods: Communal Table will concoct "Essential Oils," a sampling of flavored oils savored by denizens of the Lower East Side of Manhattan: Chinese Chili Oil, Puerto Rican (pan-Latin) Sofrito, and a vegetarian Jewish caramelized onion "schmaltz". Each of these three types of oils form part of a distinct ethnic palette. Participants will be invited to taste each of these condiments on bread as an appetizer to spark dialogue with the artists about their ethnicities and the flavors of their cultures. The artists will give each guest a card to record background info and their own essential ethnic recipes. The artists will display the cards and some will be selected to be posted online. Communal Table is a project of Deena Lebow and Ame Gilbert, hosting host salon suppers highlighting art and craft of food narratives.

Community Cooking Club, an interactive program led by Tracy Candido, will present ”Food Tarot,” inviting participants to imbibe blueberry iced tea (blueberries are known to impart mental clarity) and then reading their tarot cards. According to Candido, “the individual and I will be sharing a story that we are writing together, fueled by this elixir of mental clarity, as we look at their recent past, present and future.” Community Cooking Club engages the public in making and eating food together to empower the lives of people in urban environments.

Chloë Bass will create a "Community Spice Rack" of scents and secrets. Participants will make a message in a bottle for New York City. Chloë Bass creates interactive works, such as “Process Dinner,” where food is shared as a social experience, transforming guests into observed performers.

Tracing Trash What is your food flow? Discover the long and winding path of your food while sipping a special elixir derived from discarded citrus rinds. Tracing Trash (a Culture Push project) is an arts collective led by Elliott Maltby and Clarinda MacLow, sparking dialogue about food justice and urban land use by focusing on food waste.

People's Champs' will perform original compositions, including titles from their latest EP, BandCamp, released on May 6, 2011.

Storied Foods is presented as part of Streetfest, a component of The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it.

It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.

Festival Information: festivalofideasnyc.com.

StreetFest Brochure: http://issuu.com/newmuseum/docs/festival_of_ideas_program

TLS Digest—Alumni News, Wassaic Project's Eve + Jeff

2011-05-05T11:39:00.000-07:00

Wassaic Project News! Eve and Jeff, both have "huge-big-deal-super-cool art happenings this weekend!" Eve and Bowie, and the Wassaic crew are among our favorite TLS Alumni... both 2008 and 2009!

Wassaic Project co-director Jeff Barnett-Winsby

will be signing his BOOK,

Mark West & Molly Rose,

at the ICP Book Store.

Friday, May 6, 6pm - 7:30pm
1133 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

Buy the book

Read the awesome review in La Lettre

Check out the new website

Wassaic Project co-director Eve Biddle along with Joshua Frankel and Shana Siegel just designed and painted a brand-spakin-new public mural, BLAST OFF. Come celebrate!

An opening with milk and cookies
Saturday May 7th, 3pm - 4pm
in the schoolyard of MS 131 on Eldridge just below Hester in Manhattan.

Watch a time-lapse of the making-of by Tom Starkweather HERE.

Joshua's next film, PLAN OF THE CITY, also tells a story about water towers blasting off into space! Premiers May 6 at Le Poisson Rouge. Read the huff-po preview HERE.

Like that wasn't enough? Save the date, May 28th, for Impermanent Record : True Stories, a small group show with Eve Biddle and Bowie Zunino (and their collaborative:Bowie + Eve), Joel Schapira and Lenny Ragouzeos at the reInstitute in Millerton, NY.

And May 14th for an incredible showcase of our 2011 Artists in Residence at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon, NY, curated by John Gilvey and Jennifer Mackiewicz.

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The Wassaic Project is an artist run organization and we believe that this perspective is essential for running the Wassaic Project in a compassionate and artist-friendly way. Because it's integral to the project that we are artists, we think that it's good for you all to know that, too! So, when BIG moments in our art-lives come up, we'll let you know about them. Enjoy!

- Bowie, Eve, + Jeff

TLS Digest—Alumni News, Suko Presseau at Freight + Volume exhibition

2011-05-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

TLS2009 Food Artist Suko Pressau will be exhibiting new + old work at Freight + Volume...

Suko Presseau “Love and Ceremony” in the video room, at FREIGHT+VOLUME,

May 12th – June 18th, 2011.
Public reception Thursday, May 12th, 6-8pm.

SUKO PRESSEAU

TLS Digest— Alumni News, Jennifer Grimyser at The Bronx Art Space

2011-05-05T10:54:00.000-07:00

TLS2008 Artist Jennifer Grimyser will take part in the next Synthetic Zero and {SONiK} Fest at the Bronx Art Space!

JENNIFER GRIMYSER

The next Synthetic Zero and {SØNiK}Fest events will be on Wednesday, May 4th, 6pm - 9pm, and Saturday, May 7th, 7pm - 10pm at the BronxArtSpace at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi and Seyhan Musaoglu. We will have video installations, experimental film/video, art, dance, multimedia performance, music, and noise. The event will be free (donations accepted) and will also be part of the Bronx Culture Trolley on Wednesday. Note: the art exhibit will also be open Thursday 2:30-6:30pm, and Friday and Saturday noon-6:30pm through the 21st.

Bronx Art Center
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
www.bronxartspace.com

The Bronx Art Center is about 20 minutes from Union Square. Take the 4/5/6 train to 138th street.

Note: These events are made possible in part with public funds from the Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund Regrants Program, Bronx Borough President Aldolfo Carrion and the Bronx delegation of the City Council.