AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE :: GREECE EDITION, with ORGANIZER NANA NESTOROS
Last week, we inaugurated our weekly AWESOME CREATOR series in celebratory collaboration with 100,000 Poets for Change, with a special Editorial "Rendering The Old Model Obsolete," in which we sought to introduce the community not only to this terrific organization
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY VI :: SANTELLA, VELLETRI, PAVLOU, KOHN
We've grown accustomed to having the incredible OPENINGS collective grace our friday edition
SPECIAL EDITORIAL / AWESOME CREATORS EDITION:: "RENDERING THE OLD MODEL OBSOLETE" : 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE
"history is a living weapon in yr hand & you have imagined it, it is thus that you "find out for yourself" history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination what you find out for
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY V : BERARDI, BARTELT, SANTELLA, WALKER, MERHIGE
If you're in or near New York City, we highly recommend you take a trip to to see the work of the inspiring OPENINGS collective in a truly incredible venue, the church of St. Paul the Apostle. For the enjoyment of our
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY IV : BARNES, MACK-VALENCIA, VANDERBERG, KNOUSE, AITCHISON
Frenzy into Folly continues! What a terrific run this show is enjoying. Exit Strata is so pleased to note that OPENINGS artists have been receiving well deserved attention, both from an actively engaged public, who continue to flock to St.
AWESOME CREATORS :: OPENINGS : THRIVING AT THE LIMEN OF CREATIVITY AND TRANSCENDENCE
li·men; n. pl. li·mens or lim·i·na 1. The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. 2. The external opening of a canal; an entrance. limi·nal adj. [line] I consider it a really good sign that my gut impulse on starting to write up this introduction to OPENINGS is to begin with the word,
AWESOME CREATORS: The Poetry Society of New York Builds a Festival (and a Dream)
The poetry landscape in New York City can be confusing to navigate, especially given its ever growing diaspora of splinter cells.
Despite the density and scale of creative energy feeding this array, the experience of this fragmentation is often that of participation in one or a number of small groups, working in isolation. Sustaining these communities takes constant effort and commitment on the part of not only those who choose to plant the seed of reading series, magazine, or so on, but also from those who support and participate in these efforts -- and in many cases there is a fine line between success and utter exhaustion, the point at which sustenance seems too dear a price, and in which community feels like a utopian fantasy.
Sometimes, it takes a certain kind of vision -- one that steps back, out away from these stands of trees, to see the verdant, expansive forest -- to help empower a return to joy and belief in our work, and in the strength of our creative community.
If you're here, you know this is a mission near and dear to our hearts. That we exist primarily as a creators community, a network, and a platform for mutual expression, appreciation, collaboration, dialogue, interdisciplinary exploration. Our work is, ultimately, an exercise in the self-actualization of a viable cooperative for growing value. But we know we cannot do this alone, and so we are always searching for allies, comrades in the fight for viable abundance....
AWESOME CREATOR: Legacy Russell, Brooklyn NY: Wayward Ceremonies for Our Times
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WHO:
Legacy Russell
Legacy asks of her work, "Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"
She creates "tangible constructions inspired by the often intangible landscapes of memory and identity, the objects that rise to the surface have escaped their original owners and serve the function of participating in wayward ceremonies of remembrance, iconography, and idolatry."
And we are thankful that she does. Legacy's critical, playful, artful examinations are the work of a committed woman whose production across a range of mediums is at once is intimate and universal, searing and comforting, ephemeral and concrete. Here is someone who has continuously engaged in the public sphere, creating and enabling community and connection, questioning and interrupting our visual and verbal culture -- yet who never ceases to turn the lens on herself, writing fiction and poetry with the deft quietude of the best hermits.
Every inch the model of the AWESOME CREATOR, Legacy is tireless in her efforts, and has been very rightly been recognized as a force to be reckoned with (but also well loved and appreciated) by her peers -- one comes quickly to realize the great humility, kindness, and generosity of spirit in this young artist, one that is rare in someone on whom such accolades have been showered. Just this year she was recognized as one of the "10 Most Inspiring Young Artists in NYC Right Now" by Refinery 29, who had previously profiled her site specific, interactive piece, OPEN CEREMONY, begun in association with Trust Art in 2011.
THIS WEEKEND IN NYC: FOKUS presents The Flock 2012 “Arts Party on the Plaza”
Exit Strata is pleased to invite you to an exciting event celebrating art, collaboration, and community in Brooklyn this coming sunday.
F.O.K.U.S. [Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success] is an arts organization founded at UMich in 2003 by art students committed to promoting and creating opportunities for creative individuals and communities -- it now has chapters in New York and Ann Arbor, and is a fully fledged 501c3 nonprofit, which has been organizing public events like this one ever since!
Awesome Creator Anna Barsan, of the Signified Project [in collaboration with Jessie Levandov] started working with FOKUS in Ann Arbor, and is now a member of the NYC chapter; along with Gio(vanna) Fischer, Anna was instrumental in bringing this event into being... and to our attention! The focus of FOKUS is right in line with our own, and we could not be more thrilled to introduce our communities to each other. Without further ado, THE FLOCK:
AWESOME CREATOR: Peter Jay Shippy, Poet/Educator
Amid all the excitement around Exit Strata’s Print! Launch, I have been thinking about the previous launchings that have brought me to this project. One of the most important launches for me was being set off on my journey into
