events
Thursday, February 23, Noon – 1pm
United States Artists Brown Bag Lunch Talk
with guest speaker USA Executive Director Katharine DeShaw
Noon – 1pm
Girls’ Club and Broward County Cultural Division invites artists, gallery owners and creative entrepreneurs to join Katharine DeShaw, executive director of United States Artists, for a brown bag lunch talk. Bring your own lunch and join us as we chat about USA’s artist opportunities and have an informal Q&A. Light refreshments provided.
United States Artists (USA) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to investing in America’s finest artists and to illuminating the value of artists to society. USA Projects is the first microphilanthropy site dedicated exclusively to artists living and working in the United States, where anyone can discover original projects from some of today’s most innovative artists and make tax-deductible donations to support their work.
With a funding success rate of 75 percent, USA Projects has raised more than $1.84 million in funded projects thanks to the pledges of more than 12,800 unique donors, who have helped hundreds of artists realize original projects with funding goals ranging from $2,500 to $50,000.
Through the USA Fellows program, which annually awards 50 unrestricted grants of $50,000 to outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists across the country, USA has put $15 million in the hands of artists in the six years since its founding. Through the USA Fellows program and USA Projects, USA continues the work of advocating for living artists and providing a community where the public can connect with, learn about, and support America’s greatest artists and their next creative breakthroughs. Learn more at www.unitedstatesartists.org.
Katharine DeShaw is the executive director for United States Artists and serves on its Board of Directors. She has enjoyed a long career in the nonprofit sector working as a consultant, philanthropic advisor, senior development officer, and teacher. DeShaw created and launched the Nimoy Foundation and designed their national program Visual Artist Residences. She spent 12 years in art museum management, leading development efforts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Early in her career, she led record-breaking fundraising campaigns for the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Twyla Tharp Dance based in New York City.
In conjunction with the photography exhibition Re-Framing the Feminine, Girls’ Club presents a new film series called Chick Flicks, spotlighting cinematic treatments of and by contemporary female photographers. Four Saturday evenings are scheduled in Spring 2012 to screen feature films and full-length documentaries in Girls’ Club’s main floor gallery space. A short film by a local artist will proceed each presentation. Each film in the Chick Flicks series references works currently on view in the exhibition, and other female artists in Girls’ Club collection.
Saturday, January 28, 7pm
Office Killer (1997), story and direction by Cindy Sherman
Scenic Jogging (2010), by Jillian Mayer
An acclaimed contemporary photographer, Cindy Sherman is best known for her game-changing series of black and white Untitled Film Stills made from 1977-1980. Reminiscent of a movie that our collective subconscious finds familiar, the Untitled Film Stills depict the artist inhabiting cliches of movie and publicity images of women. Her 1997 feature film, Office Killer, stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, Carol Kane and Molly Ringwald in a black comedy about a mousy office drone with a grudge.
Miami artist Jillian Mayer’s video projects use humor to tap into our shared collective memories. In 2010, her Scenic Jogging was one of 25 selections for the Guggenheim Museum’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. She is represented by the David Castillo Gallery in Miami.
Saturday, February 25, 7pm
The Woodmans (2010), documentary
Ascension (2011), by Samantha Salzinger
Emmy-Award winning director Scott Willis’ documentary The Woodmans (2010) follows artists Betty and George Woodman balancing the demands of artmaking with grief over their young photographer daughter’s suicide. Full of ambiguities and rich explorations of self-portraiture and the body, the small, intimate body of photographic work left behind by Francesca Woodman is revered in the art world. The documentary interweaves the young Francesca Woodman’s work (including experimental videos and diary passages) with interviews with the parents who have nurtured her professional reputation these past 30 years, while continuing to make art of their own in the face of tragedy.
Samantha Salzinger’s works explore fabricated environments where reality is as malleable as a simulation and a simulation as lifelike as reality. The metaphoric creation of the idyllic, sublime landscape, act as core unconscious escapism. Weaving together the awe of the grandeur of nature with science fiction, the viewer is dreamer in an imaginary world, optimistic of the future.
More titles and dates TBA.
Artists in Action! in its third year at Girls’ Club, invites the public to get to know local artists through a series of four informal evening artist talks and presentations.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at each artist’s process, and be the first to purchase an affordable, limited edition work produced by each artist. Collect them all!
On the Saturday following each presentation, from 1-4pm, join the artists as they lead a hands-on workshops involving photography-based creations. Participants will receive personalized instruction and feedback. Artists of all levels of experience are welcome.
Registration is limited. Call or email for more info or to register, 954-828-9151 or admin@girlsclubcollection.org
$30 registration fee applies, materials included.
Friday, March 23, 7pm
Marina Font
Friday, April 13, 7pm
Peggy Levison Nolan
Friday, May 18, 7pm
Odalis Valdivieso
Friday, June 1, 7pm
Ania Moussawel
Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.
