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Girls’ Club x Untitled: Changing Room
December 4-9, 2018 Changing Room is an installation and performance presented by Girls’ Club featuring dancer/choreographer Jenny Larsson in collaboration with visual artists Lucinda Linderman, Michelle Weinberg and Natalie Zlamalova. Inspired by the compulsive “impersonation” required in today’s selfie-obsessed environment, Changing Room addresses the pressures on women to attract and/or repel based on their appearance.…
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On Loan: Remember to React at NSU Art Museum
On View: September 9, 2018 – October 30, 2019 Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting On view: June 15 – September 29, 2019 Remember to React II: Drawings and Prints from the NSU Art Museum Collection at NSU Museum of Art Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting is the first comprehensive installation…
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BEAUTY CON(SCIOUS) at Girls’ Club Warehouse
On View July 21 – September 28, 2018 Girls’ Club Warehouse presents Beauty Con(scious): A group exhibition exploring the nature of beauty culture and its manifestations within the self, curated by Angie Victoria Garcia. Beauty, a subjective, sometimes elusive concept or entity, realizes itself in many different ways. Beauty can speak of trends that change…
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On Loan: Dual Roles at Art and Culture Center / Hollywood
On View June 8 – August 19, 2018 Dual Roles Opening Reception: June 8 | 6 – 9 pm Dual Roles brings together well-known artists such as Sally Mann and Julie Mehretu, courtesy of the Girl’s Club Collection, with local artists such as Francie Bishop Good and Peggy Levison Nolan to focus on a community…
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Bark Walk, a dog-friendly artwalk event
Saturday, May 26, 5-8pm Adoptable Dog Parade at 6pm Girls’ Club Collection presents block-wide Bark Walk to benefit Pets Broward, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving shelter pets and creating a community where all pets and people are valued and treated with respect, kindness, and compassion. The Bark Walk will feature dog-themed art exhibitions from…
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Fågelbo Residency at Girls’ Club Warehouse
Fågelbo Residency is a collaborative residency from Wild Beast Collective, which aims to elevate as well as educate the performance art field of south Florida. It seeks to establish a much needed program platform for an under-served art field through an original residency opportunity. Collaborating artist teams will consist of a visual/interdisciplinary artist and a…
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On Loan: Stories of Self-Reflection at Gund Gallery, Kenyon College
March 19, 2018–August 5, 2018 Stories of Self-Reflection: Portraiture by Women Photographers “I really like the capacity of pictures to tell stories and raise questions about people, about the way we live, about the conditions in which we live our lives. And so I think for me, portraiture is about all those things. It’s about…
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Behind the Scenes Tours of Girls’ Club Warehouse
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 6-9pm Join us during Artwalk Night in Fort Lauderdale for behind the scenes tours of the new Girls’ Club Warehouse. Tours are approx. 15 minutes and will take small groups through the gallery and the back end of Girls’ Club. Registration for tours will take place at the gallery, starting at…
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On Loan: Dangerous Women at Frost Museum
On View February 17, 2018 – May 20, 2018 Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art The Old and New Testaments are replete with female characters-good and bad wives, courageous heroines, and deceptive femme fatales. While some women saved their people, were paragons of wifely virtue, or repented their…
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In The Moment / Moving Currents
Saturday, March 31, 6-9pm Performance begins at 8pm Girls’ Club presents In the Moment / Moving Currents, an interactive performance by choreographer and dancer Jenny Larsson taking place during last Saturday Artwalk in Flagler Village, Fort Lauderdale. This event is free and open to the public. All ages welcomed, well-behaved pets too. In the…
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Artist Development Workshops with Susan Caraballo
Professional Development Workshops for Artists led by Susan Caraballo Two Fridays, February 16 and March 16, 1-5pm Join us for a two-part workshop series for artists, writers, and other creatives led by Susan Caraballo. Participants may register for one workshop or both workshops. Workshops are open to the public, to all ages, genders and…
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Offsite Performances at Girls’ Club
Offsite Performances from local, multi-disciplinary artists In a series of four multi-disciplinary public performances, Girls’ Club brings unique experiences outside the walls of the gallery space and into the world’s stage. In collaboration with performance/video artist Jen Clay, author/visual artist Vanessa Garcia, choreographer/dancer Jenny Larsson and visual/performance artist Christina Pettersson, Girls’ Club has commissioned these…
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Girls’ Club opens at the Warehouse
New Hours: Fridays, 1-5pm and by appointment Girls’ Club is excited to announce the opening of the Girls’ Club Warehouse, in Flagler Village. Located in a rapidly growing block just north of downtown Fort Lauderdale, Girls’ Club’s new home takes over a 4,000 sq ft facility in the Flagler Uptown area. This new multi-functional space…
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A Girls’ Guide to ABMB 2017
Events by Day *artists from Girls’ Club Collection Monday, December 4 6 – 10pm | 4 Solo Shows Facing West – Responsible Inclusive Violence by Sinisa Kukec, Stranger by Naama Tsabar, Comestica by Agustina Woodgate and Control by Antonia Wright. The multimedia projects feature kinetic performance, sound, sculpture, installation, and video. Performances start at 7pm.…
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On Loan: Discrimination and Disparity at Spady Cultural Heritage Museum
On View November 30, 2017 – January 3, 2018 Discrimination and Disparity: Relentlessly Persisting How does an artist reflect on and process today’s conversations, arguments and clashes on race and identification? While some opt to kneel on a nationally televised stage and others take to social media with hashtag’d commentary, how do the photographers, painters,…
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ConFab: a one day practicum on how to make things happen in the arts
Saturday, November 18, 2017, Noon-8pm Join Girls’ Club and the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood for a one-day practicum for artists, writers and creatives in conjunction with the exhibition Change Agents, on view November 10, 2017 – January 7, 2018. ConFab is a series workshops and discussions designed to inspire innovative strategies for producing and presenting…
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SPF’17: Small Press Fair Fort Lauderdale
Saturday, November 11, 2017, Noon-6pm Girls’ Club and IS Projects present the second edition of SPF Fort Lauderdale, the area’s only Small Press Fair. SPF Fort Lauderdale is a Small Press Fair where artists, independent publishers and small presses can exhibit and sell their creations and the general public can learn about the world…
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Artist Workshop: Watercolor Wanderlust with Harumi Abe at MDC
Saturday, June 24, 2017, 11am-2pm Join artist Harumi Abe for a hands-on painting workshop, creating small scale landscapes with watercolor. Harumi will lead a demonstration on basic watercolor elements, techniques, practices and alternative methods. Working with the ongoing theme of artist as historical explorer, the workshop invites participants to travel via Instagram to source…
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Offsite: Jenny Larsson Performance
Saturday, June 17, 7:30 – 9:00pm Girls’ Club presents Offsite Performance by Jenny Larsson: Searching for Arctic Winter, a poetic performance in search of winter and wilderness in Florida’ summer heat, at Projects South, FATVillage. Searching for Arctic Winter Artist, choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Wild Beast Collective Jenny Larsson and company embark on…
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Offsite: Jen Clay Performance
Saturday, June 3, 2017, 6-9pm Girls’ Club presents Offsite Performance: Nearing, an elaborate, multi-media performance from the Fort Lauderdale-based artist Jen Clay on Saturday, June 3, 2017, 6-9pm, at ArtServe, 1350 E Sunrise Blvd, in Fort Lauderdale. First seating begins promptly at 6:30, the second at 7:30pm, with an interactive prologue and intermission. Nearing is…
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Offsite: Vanessa Garcia Performance
Saturday, May 6, 2017, 7:30-9:00pm Girls’ Club presents Offsite Performance by Vanessa Garcia: Temple Fade, a theatrical production set in the neighborhood barber shop, Monarchs Cut & Shave, in FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale. Temple Fade Three haircuts, three stories, and the butterfly effect walk into a barbershop… Created by Vanessa Garcia. Performed and Co-directed by Ashley…
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On Loan: Virginia Fifield at Coral Spring Museum of Art
On View March 11, – May 20, 2017 Pneumatikos – A Spiritual Gift Broward County resident Virginia Fifield’s seemingly familiar subjects in her charcoal drawings encourage a deeper contemplation about man’s relationship with nature. Her work is deliberately devoid of context and color to strip away all stylized associations to her subjects. Coral Springs Museum…
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Pink Noise Closing Reception
Saturday, February 25, 2017, 6-9pm Join the Facebook Event Join Girls’ Club for the closing of Pink Noise: Flexing the Frequency, the last exhibition on view at the iconic 117 Girls’ Club building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and performance by Jen Clay. Downstairs, enjoy the exhibit and chat with exhibition curator Sarah Michelle Rupert, Girls’…
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On Loan: Nina Chanel Abney, Royal Flush at Multiple Venues
On View February 16 – July 16, 2017 at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush The Nasher Museum presents Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, the first solo exhibition in a museum for the Chicago-born artist. The exhibition was a 10-year survey of approximately 30 of the artist’s paintings,…
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Pink Noise: Perspectives, an independent project by Tayina Deravile
Pink Noise Perspectives is an independent, web-based project by Winter/Spring 2017 Fellow, Tayina Deravile. The project exists as a podcast series exploring the effects of the social constructs of the color pink to various individuals working in differing vocations. A teacher, a DJ, a noise artist, a producer, an optometrist, and a marriage and family…
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Offsite: Christina Pettersson Performance
Thursday, March 9, 2017, 6-8pm Girls’ Club presents Offsite Performance by Christina Pettersson: Along the Shadow of the River, a multi-disciplinary public performance set along the banks of the historic New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Taking place on the riverside grounds of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society at 219 SW 2nd Ave, Fort Lauderdale,…
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Gritty in Pink Art Talk with Lisa Rockford
Saturday, Febeurary 4, 2017, 3pm Join the Facebook Event Artist and curator Lisa Rockford host this lecture and discussion highlighting the history of the color pink and exposing contemporary artists who have used the color pink ironically or subversively to draw attention to cultural issues. Artists featured in the Girls’ Club current exhibit, Pink Noise:…
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Lop-Off Sessions at Pink Noise
Saturday, January 28, 2017, 4-9pm Join the Facebook Event Lop-Off Sessions are a series of one-day, site-specific performances organized by Maitejosune Urrechaga & Tony Kapel of Pocket of Lollipops. The rock duo will present their 5th edition, creating compilation #5 with an all female line-up and their first Lop-Off Session in Broward County. Invited musicians…
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Art Talk: History of Girls’ Club, at NSU Art Museum
Sunday, January 22, 2017, 2pm In conjunction with our current exhibition Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, Bonnie Clearwater will conduct a conversation on the history of the renowned Fort Lauderdale art space Girls’ Club alongside Francie Bishop Good, Michelle Weinberg, and Sarah Michelle Rupert. Established by Francie…
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Now Be Here #3 at PAMM in Miami
Saturday, December 10, 9:30am – 11am at Pérez art Museum Miami Artist Jane Hart, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Girls’ Club are partnering with Los Angeles-based artist Kim Schoenstadt to organize a historic event – Now Be Here #3 – a gathering and photograph of South Florida female and female identifying contemporary artists. This…
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