Artists in Action! 2012
Artists in Action!, now in its third year at Girls’ Club, presents a series of artist talks held on Friday evenings beginning March 23rd. This year, a workshop led by each artist, inspired by her creative process is offered on the Saturday afternoon following each talk. Saturday workshops are open to artists of all levels of experience. Participants will receive personalized instruction and feedback. Workshop registration is limited. A registration fee of $30 applies, all materials included unless otherwise noted.
Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.
Past Workshops
Marina Font
Artist Talk | 7pm, Friday, March 23, 2012 | free and open to the public
Workshop | 1pm, Saturday, March 24, 2012 | $30
Marina will lead participants in the creation of a mixed-media photo panel. Participants are invited to send an image, 5 x 7 inches of at least 300 dpi (pixel resolution), for reproduction to [email protected]. Images may be scanned work, digital creations, collages, photographs – get creative! All other materials will be provided.
Marina Font was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1970. Her work explores issues of identity and concepts of memory and tradition through photography and installation. Often presenting objects, trinkets and furniture that pull the nostalgic chords of our collective memory, her work speaks to the spirit of family and cultural confrontations. Marina studied design, sculpture, and photography at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin A. Malharro, Mar del Plata, Argentina. In 1996 she moved to Boston and studied sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts School and then traveled through India as a photographer. She spent the summer of 1998 studying photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris, and continued working as a freelance photographer. She earned an MFA in Photography from Barry University, Miami in 2009.
For more information about Marina and her work visit www.marinafont.com.
Marina Font
Just a Memory, 2012
End of Innocence, 2012
Limited edition mixed media photo panels
Edition of 20
$80 each
Available at the Girls’ Club shop.
Peggy Levison Nolan
Artist Talk | 7pm Friday, April 13, 2012 | free and open to the public
Workshop | 1pm, Saturday, April 14, 2012 | $30
Peggy will lead participants in the creation of a spontaneous narrative using imagery from cell phone cameras. Participants should bring their camera phones, or digital cameras and a storage device. All other materials will be provided.
Peggy Levison Nolan’s approach to art is to dissolve all boundaries between daily life and artistic practice, Glimpses of everyday events, places, people, her children, her kitchen – all are rendered precisely in her camera lens. Peggy Levison Nolan is a mostly self-taught photographer and single mother of seven working in South Florida. She is a full time staff member of the Art and Art History Department of Florida International University where she received both a BFA and MFA. Her work is collected by major institutions including New York’s MOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MOCA, Norton Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Light Work Permanent Collection and the Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Peggy was selected for Light Work’s artist-in-residence program in 2005 has twice won the South Florida Consortium Individual Artist Grant in 2004 and 1994.
For more information about Peggy and her work visit www.dinamitranigallery.com
Peggy Levison Nolan
Stay, 2012
Limited edition book of photography and poetry
Edition of 50
$75
sold out
Odalis Valdivieso
Artist Talk | 7pm, Friday, May 18, 2012 | free and open to the publi
Workshop | 1-4pm, Saturday, May 19, 2012 | $30
Odalis will lead participants in the creation of a collage workshop using magazine clippings, illustrations and other source material.
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 25
$50
Available at the Girls’ Club shop.
Ania Moussawel
Artist Talk | 7pm, Friday, June 1, 2012 | free and open to the public
Workshop | 1-4pm, Saturday, June 2, 2012 | $30
Ania will lead participants in the creation of traditional cyanotypes or “blueprints” and will experiment with this process by making photograms and photographic prints using digital negatives. Participants should bring small objects that have interesting, recognizable shapes and textures such as lace or netting for making photograms. Varying opacities in the objects/textures will help create a range of tones. To make photographic cyanotypes, participants can use prepared digital negatives that will be available at the workshop. Participants can also use their own images by emailing 4-5 images ahead of time to [email protected] Images should be full resolution jpegs. For the best results, the images chosen for cyanotypes should have a range of tones from light to dark.
Ania Moussawel is a Miami-born artist working in photography with an emphasis on contemporary portraiture. Her work is profoundly influenced by her cultural background and how culture regards feminine identity. Working predominately in portraiture, her work deals with an exploration of identity, self-image and gender roes influenced by her personal upbringing and expectations imposed from contemporary media. 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.
Ania Moussawel
Remembrances (Raw Kibbi), 2012
Limited edition of video still and recipe card
edition of 15
$50
Available at the Girls’ Club shop.