recent projects
Sometimes your things are my things (the great exchange), 2013 An installation and site-specific project with Kerry Phillips at Pulse Art Fair at The Ice Palace 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136 www.pulse-art.com/miami/visitors/ Artist Kerry Phillips invites fair goers to partake in a great exchange by offering select objects for barter with things or…
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Friday, November 22, 2013 Doors open at 7pm, Performance starts promptly at 7:30pm Space limited RSVP is now closed Drifting: A Theatrical Exquisite Corpse draws from the surrealist tradition of the exquisite corpse, a collaborative exercise using words and images to construct a figure or phrase. Girls’ Club writer in residence, Vanessa Garcia, brings you…
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Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, Sue Scott, the authors of After the Revolution return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that “The battles may not all have been won . . . but barricades are gradually coming down, and work proceeds on…
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Girls’ Club’s Spring 2013 intern Sofia Bastidas interviews collection artist Jorge Pantoja, featured in the 2012-2013 Girls’ Club exhibition Following the Line: contemporary drawings from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, curated by Carol Jazzar, on view November 2, 2012- Sept 27, 2013. about his artistic background, creative process and the relevance of…
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October 5, 2013 marked the Art fallout’s forth year highlighting the hotbed of creative production in downtown Fort Lauderdale and brought record numbers of artists, families and community members to the area’s contemporary art venues. Art fallout 2013, by the numbers For 1 day in October, Art Fallout saw 700+ visitors at 15 contemporary art…
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To celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in the United States, Girls’ Club is hosting the fourth annual Art Fallout, a day for contemporary art in downtown Fort Lauderdale. 2013 Participating Venues Girls’ Club Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale 1310 Gallery at Sailboat Bend Artist…
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by Vanessa Garcia As I start my year as writer in residence at Girls’ Club, I’m sitting here thinking about feminism. I’m thinking about what feminism means today. Whose contributing to it; whose writing about it; whose pushing buttons, and starting important conversations? Here are five “texts” I’m considering as my “top five feminist…
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Vanessa Garcia, local writer and visual artist, has been selected as Girls’ Club 2013/2014 writer-in-residence. Garcia will work collaboratively with Girls’ Club to present various public programs and contribute writings in conjunction with the exhibition I think it’s in my head, curated by TM Sisters. Vanessa Garcia is an multi-media and cross-genre artist, writer, and…
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GIRLS’ CLUB Girls’ Club is an alternative, non-profit art collection and exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art by women. We exhibit curated annual exhibitions from the private collection and present a year-round program of public events including art talks, workshops, community events, outreach programs, film screenings and more. Now approaching our 7th year, Girls’ Club…
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Thursday, August 8, 2013, Noon Girls’ Club invites artists, arts venues and creative entrepreneurs to attend this information session and brown bag lunch talk, Thursday, August 8 at Noon. Hear about South Florida’s artist residency programs/studio centers and learn about opportunities for studio space, facility usage and available support that can help further your artistic…
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CALL TO ARTISTS Application Deadline: November 15, 2013 Exhibition Dates: Friday & Saturday, April 4 – 5, 2014 8 -11 pm OUTSIDE THE BOX2, curated by Lisa Rockford, is the second biennial exhibition of outdoor, site-specific art in Palm Beach County, FL. This unique and alternative format, situated at the uniquely prestigious Whitespace – The…
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Fort Lauderdale’s second Revel on the Block community celebration will take place on July 27, 2013 from 2-11 p.m. Organized by Cadence, C&I Studios and helium creative, the biannual event aims to build a stronger sense of connection in the local creative community, and will feature live music, art exhibits and various activities, food and…
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2013 – 2014
Girls’ Club has engaged Miami artist team TM Sisters – sisters Monica and Natasha Lopez de Victoria – to collaborate with the collection of contemporary art by women amassed by Fort Lauderdale collectors Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, and curate the 2013/2014 exhibition, selecting works which spoke to the mysterious attraction the girls felt to each piece.
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Girls’ Club recently teamed up with TVM Productions to shoot an episode of the A&E television show The Glades on-site at Girls’ Club and the adjacent Francie Bishop Good Studio. Over 100 crew members came together to transform the space and prep Girls’ Club for a prime time premiere. Watch out for a guest cameo…
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Thursday, July 18, 2013, Noon Girls’ Club invites artists, arts venues and creative entrepreneurs to attend this information session and brown bag lunch talk with Broward Cultural Division. Hear tips, ask questions and de-mystify the application process while learning more about furthering your artistic career and exposure. Guest speakers from the Broward Cultural Division…
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Rough-and-Tumble: 1. characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles. 2. given to such action. 3. rough and unrestrained activity 4. Characterized by roughness and disregard for order, rules, or conventional systems SUBMISSION INFO: Open to all media. Sculpture, Installation art, Video art, Mixed media, Use of found objects, and/or non-traditional media are preferred. Larger…
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A series of intensive one and two-day workshops for artists to learn new techniques and knowledge to expand their practice, presented at Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale. Workshops will only commence if there is enough interest. So, share! And tell your friends and colleagues! 1-day workshops: $50, 2-day workshops: $80 Amalia Caputo: Photo Journaling with…
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In episode 113 of art loft, host, Kalyn James and the art loft crew took over Girls’ Club, shooting footage with of our current exhibition Following the Line, curated by Miami gallerist Carol Jazzar. You can see Girls’ Club’s unique architectural elements, designed Margi Nothard principle of the local Glavovic Studio in Fort Lauderdale, as…
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Working with sources like xeroxed patterns, taro cards, vintage map snapshots, embossed and textured papers, and other material, a group of 8 artists assembled and created Venetian Exploding Boxes with drawing and video artist Lou Anne Colodny. Participants combined hand drawn elements with appropriated imagery and found objects, create small worlds of folding paper. Once…
Read MoreEvolutionary Study, 2007* Color copy, graph paper (tryptich) 11 x 8 1/2 inches, each panel acquired 2013 www.felicegrodin.com Biography Born in Bologna, Italy. Grodin currently lives and works in Miami Beach. She holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University School of Design, Cambridge, MA, awarded in 1997 and a Bachelor of…
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DIANE ARBUS AND THE EXTRAORDINARY Saturday April 27, 2013 2:00PM–3:00PM Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Horvitz Auditorium Free for museum members; Free with paid museum admission for non-members What makes Diane Arbus’s photographs so enthralling? Is it subject matter or creative style, or a combination of both? George Slade, consulting curator of photography at…
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Lou Anne Colodny Artist Talk | 7pm, Friday, May 17 | free and open to the public Workshop | 1-4pm, Saturday, May 18 | $30, student discount available Lou Anne Colodny’s experiences in dance, theater and museum administration have greatly informed her art. She was a recipient of the 2008 Cultural Consortium Fellowship in the…
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 7:30pm PACE will be hosting a screening of Girl Rising Muvico Parisian 20 in City Place PACE needs to reach 100 reservations to make the screening happen! Tickets are $10 and benefit 10 x 10, a global campaign to educate and empower girls. Please reserve your seat visit Girl Rising…
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:30 PM – 11:00 PM Where? Tap 42 1411 S Andrews Ave Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316 Craft beer has become a local South Florida phenomenon. With recent openings of craft/micro breweries opening up in ft lauderdale, miami, and wynwood, there is a growing interest in beer varieties. In addition, passionate groups…
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Friday, April 26 12 noon – Box lunch, presentation and discussion 1:30 pm – Optional sneak peek at the TMP rehearsal at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Avenue register here John Michael Schert, Executive Director of Trey McIntyre Project (TMP), discusses how arts organizations can be relevant, cultural assets…
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With the help of artist Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, The Creators, a group of emerging artists from our PACE Workshop series created this short film by hand manipulating found 16mm footage. Artists scratched, marked, inked and colored, appropriated and blank 16mm film to create this group project: About PACE PACE Center for Girls, Inc. is…
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Project Launch: Wednesday, April 3, 5pm www.drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org The Drawing Project at the Frost Art Museum is a collaborative investigation curated by artist/educator and FIU graduate Emmy Mathis. The on-line exhibition/project space consists of an on-line exhibition where pieces from the Frost’s permanent collection, many of which have never been exhibited in the museum, are…
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Join the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and Girls’ Club for hands-on workshops and presentations of innovative scholarship, including round table discussions and film screenings during this 3-day symposium for scholars, artists, educators, activists, therapists and other professionals who work with girls. Register for Girls Summit 2013 (3 days) Educators: $30, Students: Free! Wednesday,…
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Armed with the usual suspects of drafting and architecture planning, a group of 5 artists took on the challenge presented by Artists in Action! artist instructor Felice Grodin to map a body sequence and change the way we see movement, gestural expression and transition. Using tracing paper, acetate sheets, T-squares, drafting dots, triangles and a…
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Ana Albertina Delgado Artist Talk | 7pm, Friday, April 19 | free and open to the public Workshop | 1-4pm, Saturday, April 20, $30 Hear Ana Albertina Delgado speak about her work, creative inspirations and recent projects. Ana’s drawings relay a world of magical elements and surreal revelations which complement real motivations and explorations. Her…
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