SPF’16: the launch of Fort Lauderdale’s first Small Press Fair
Saturday, November 12, 2016, Noon-6pm 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 of independent print making, book publishing and zine making. It is a fair where art-meets-literature, where musicians, poets, artists and…
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TJ Ahearn Jukebox Collages at Girls’ Club Annex
On View July 30, 2016 – October 14, 2016 Girls’ Club presents an exhibition of recent collages from T.J. Ahearn, inspired by and created on vintage LP vinyl record albums from the 60s and 70s, in the Annex Space. Gallery hours are by appointment only during August 2016. TJ Ahearn, the alia and alter ego…
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Live Reading with Writer in Residence Jan Becker and Local Authors
During the Catalog Launch event for Self-Proliferation, writer in residence Jan Becker invited a group of local authors to share their recent publications with Girls’ Club and its audience. South Florida is home not only to a growing visual art scene, but a dynamic, multi-faceted, multi-cultural, literary scene. Novelists, poets, historic writers and journalists have…
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Flip Out: Artists’ Sketchbooks, an indepdent project by Brooke Frank at Girls’ Club Annex
Flip Out is an exhibition of sketchbooks from local artists highlighting the honesty and vulnerability of the unfettered ideas that materialize in the pages of artists sketchbooks, curated by recent and current fellows Mariela Acuna and Brooke Frank. The exhibition is curated from local artists found in the Girls’ Club history of collection artists and…
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Writer to Writer: Ashley M. Jones
Writer to Writer is a guest blog project from Girls’ Club writer in residence Jan Becker that focuses on local writers and their perceptions of how femininity and self-proliferation figure into their work. Ashley M. Jones received an MFA from Florida International University. Her work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, pluck!,…
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Writer to Writer: Louis Lowy
Writer to Writer is a guest blog project from Girls’ Club writer in residence Jan Becker that focuses on local writers and their perceptions of how femininity and self-proliferation figure into their work. A former firefighter, Louis K. Lowy is the recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. His first published novel, Die…
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Writer to Writer: MJ Fievre
Writer to Writer is a guest blog project from Girls’ Club writer in residence Jan Becker that focuses on local writers and their perceptions of how femininity and self-proliferation figure into their work. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fièvre published her first mystery novel, Le Feu de la Vengeance, at the age of sixteen. Since then,…
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On Loan: Belief + Doubt at NSU Art Museum
On view August 26, 2016 – January 22, 2017 This exhibition provides a snapshot of contemporary art from the 1990s to the present with works by more than 60 artists from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. The couple is among South Florida’s most prominent and active arts advocates and philanthropists and…
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Writer to Writer: Cathleen Chambless
Writer to Writer is a guest blog project from Girls’ Club writer in residence Jan Becker that focuses on local writers and their perceptions of how femininity and self-proliferation figure into their work.. Cathleen Chambless is from Miami, Florida. Her debut collection of poetry is Nec (Romantic) (Gorilla Press; 2016). Poet Campbell McGrath calls this…
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Writer to Writer: Fabienne Josaphat
Writer to Writer is a guest blog project from Girls’ Club writer in residence Jan Becker that focuses on local writers and their perceptions of how femininity and self-proliferation figure into their work. Fabienne Josaphat was born and raised in Haiti. Her first novel, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow, published this year by Unnamed Press,…
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Frost Museum: The Summer of Women
Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum Florida International University May 11th, 2016 via Newsletter Upcoming Summer Season Exhibitions The Summer of Women begins on Saturday, May 14 and includes three original exhibitions featuring women artists. First-off is a fresh look at the artwork of rebel-nun and Pop art pioneer Corita Kent. In the Beginning was the…
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Now These: 2016 Opportunities for Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals
On April 20th, 2016, Florida Atlantic University’s Painter’s Forum and Girls’ Club hosted a panel discussion, Now What?, inviting recent FAU and Girls’ Club alumnae Mariela Acuna, Jeanie Ambrosio and Brooke Frank to share experiences, tips, and lessons learned upon graduating art school. The panel discussed various topics pertaining to the college and post-college experience…
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