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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.
Odalis Valdivieso
Artist Talk – Friday, May 18, 7pm
Workshop – Saturday,may 19, 1pm – Click here to register
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Odalis Valdivieso is a Miami-based artist who experiments with photography to go beyond its own discourse to a broader notion of the medium in the expanded field, focusing on the points of intersection between urban landscapes and spatial analysis. Her current system explores ideas of materiality and moments of process, questioning at what point is a moment a moment.
Odalis received an MA in Photography from The RCA, London, UK and was a winner of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant in 2004. She was part of Talking Head Transmitters, an experimental low – frequency radio, airing at 88.3 MHz FM from 2005 until 2010. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections and has recently been featured in the exhibitions as Practices Remain, Norwegian Wood Building, Miami, FL, SET, Bridge Red Studios – Project Space, North Miami, FL, Noise Field, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, and New Work Miami, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. She is currently part of the project The Nightclub, an art project, that fosters a network of artists and cultural producers in a one night art venue.
In conjunction with each artist’s presentation, Girls’ Club will release and affordably priced artist multiple for sale to the public. This is an opportunity for budding art collectors to own one copy of a signed, limited edition work, published by Girls’ Club.
Odalis Valdivieso
4.2010, 2012
Limited edition set of 12 postcards with texts by curator Rene Morales and artist Diego Singh. Edition of 30
$50
Available for pre-order.
Ania Moussawel
Artist Talk – Friday, June 1, 7pm
Workshop – Saturday, June 2, 1pm
Ania Moussawel is a Miami-born artist working in photography with an emphasis on portraiture. Her work is profoundly influenced by her cultural background and how culture regards feminine identity. Using photography and video, Moussawel also explores the nature of memory and nostalgia, while making observations about the everyday.
Ania received her BFA in photography from Barry University in Miami Shores and is currently pursuing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York and lived between Miami and New York. For more information visit www.aniamoussawel.com.
In conjunction with each artist’s presentation, Girls’ Club will release and affordably priced artist multiple for sale to the public. This is an opportunity for budding art collectors to own one copy of a signed, limited edition work, published by Girls’ Club.
Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.
Funding is also supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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.
Submit your video for Chicks Flicks Finale, deadline Wednesday, May 9th
Girls’ Club is seeking film and video submissions from local female artists. Submissions will be reviewed by a jury of artists and art professionals, which include Jillian Mayer, Samantha Salzinger and Antonia Wright. Selected films will be screened at Girls’ Club on Saturday, May 26, 2012 during the season’s final presentation of Chick Flicks featuring the documentary film Our City Dreams, 2010. For submission form and details visit: http://girlsclubcollection.org/chick-flick-submissions-2012.
Saturday, May 26, 7pm
Our City Dreams (2010)
Selections from local artist film submissions – Apply now, Deadline May 9th
Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five women artists, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, and Swoon, each of whom possesses her own energy, drive and passion. These women, who span different decades and represent diverse cultures, have one thing in common beyond making art: the city to which they have journeyed and now call home – New York.
Girls’ Club is seeking short film and video submissions from female artists in South Florida to be juried by local filmmakers. The winning entries to be screened at Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale during the final Chick Flicks presentation. For details, guidelines and submission form visit www.girlsclubcollection.org/chick-flick-submissions-2012
