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		<title>1440: Moan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 4, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Taking inspiration from a sound that straddles pleasure and pain, Moan features art work in a variety of media by UCCS Visual Art faculty and students as a part of the City Dionysia Festival.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table class="ec3_schedule"><tr><td colspan="3">March 4, 2010</td></tr><tr><td class="ec3_start">6:00 pm</td><td class="ec3_to">to</td><td class="ec3_end">9:00 pm</td></tr></table><p>Taking inspiration from a sound that straddles pleasure and pain, Moan features art work in a variety of media by UCCS Visual Art faculty and students as a part of the City Dionysia Festival. A maelstrom of violence, The Bacchae is a potent source for examining the heart of revelry, intoxication, and vengeance. Opening reception: March 4, 6 &#8211; 9 pm. Closing reception (with a live performance of excerpts from the Bacchae score): April 2, 6 &#8211; 9 pm.</p>
<p>COMPLIMENTARY PARKING IN LOT 3 PROVIDED BY UCCS PARKING SERVICES.</p>
<p>Featuring work by:</p>
<p>Carol Dass<br />
Aaron Graves<br />
Claire Rau<br />
Kim Lovelace<br />
Corey Drieth<br />
Laura Bearl<br />
Erik Schubert<br />
Taylor Stamp<br />
Mariya Zvonkovich<br />
Amber Marchlowska<br />
Matt Barton<br />
Courtney Matthews<br />
Olivia Lundberg<br />
Elizabeth Raitz<br />
Pauline Foss<br />
Brett Wilson<br />
Valerie Brodar<br />
Dom Puleo<br />
Erin Elder<br />
Lisa Cross </p>
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		<title>AWOL: Rotozaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ February 6, 2010; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] The Gallery of Contemporary Art and THEATREWORKS are proud to host the world premier of the ENTIRE <em>Autoteatro Series</em> by Rotozaza, a UK-based performance group. Three works make up the series: ETIQUETTE, GURUGURU and WONDERMART. Tickets available soon...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table class="ec3_schedule"><tr><td colspan="3">February 6, 2010</td></tr><tr><td class="ec3_start">4:00 pm</td><td class="ec3_to">to</td><td class="ec3_end">7:00 pm</td></tr></table><p>The Gallery of Contemporary Art and THEATREWORKS are proud to host the world premier of the ENTIRE <em>Autoteatro Series</em> by Rotozaza, a UK-based performance group. Three works make up the series: ETIQUETTE, GURUGURU and WONDERMART. </p>
<p><a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=thw&#038;event=12MEN,VALENTIN,ETIQ,GURU,WONDER">BUY TICKETS</a> or call 719.255.3232 to make reservations.</p>
<p><strong>ETIQUETTE</strong> by Ant Hampton and Silvia Mercuriali<br />
<em>Etiquette</em> is a half-hour experience for two people in a public space. There is no-one watching &#8211; other people in the cafe or bar are not aware of it. You wear headphones which tell you what to say to each other, or to use one of the objects positioned to the side. There is a kind of magic involved &#8211; for it to work you just need to listen and respond accordingly. Etiquette is theatre at its most raw; it is live, insightful, philosophical and incredibly unique. The participants are both the actors and the audience, and the show offers the fantasy of being able to speak without having to think what to say.</p>
<p><strong>GURUGURU</strong> by Ant Hampton with Joji Koyama and Isambard Khroustaliov<br />
<em>You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones has understood who you are and gives instructions which mirror what you&#8217;d be doing anyway. A life free of dither and uncertainty! In your job, this voice is a career-saver&#8230; but the day has come when you need to come &#8216;off the headphones&#8217;. You need help.</em></p>
<p>Five audience-participants enter a brightly lit room and discover chairs positioned for them around a screen. As they each follow different instructions via headphones, they find themselves at the centre of an oddly familiar dystopia, and that they&#8217;re wearing headphones permanently, &#8216;for their own good&#8217;. Proceedings are led by an on-screen, animated character whose twin roles of marketing and spiritual Guru are confused by his reliance on untested and accident-prone technologies. The overproduced, digital sheen of this focus-group world begins to crack, as the group edge towards the dangerous situation of having to think for themselves. In true Rotozaza style, a beautifully orchestrated chaos develops, exposing today&#8217;s consumer-mad inability to distinguish between what we want, and what we need.</p>
<p><strong>WONDERMART</strong> by Silvia Mercuriali with Tommaso Perego and Matt Rudkin<br />
<em>Wondermart</em> takes a mischievous swipe at the dominance of supermarket culture and consumerism. This interactive audio tour takes you on a journey of rediscovery through the familiar surroundings of the supermarket. Wearing headphones and anonymous behind your trolley, you are guided around the aisles immersed in a private world, as the carefully constructed soundscape overlays a fictional world that blurs the real with the imaginary.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what the press has to say:</strong><br />
“<em>Wondermart</em> is an absorbing journey into the heart of modern consumerism.” <strong>The List</strong> (Wondermart)</p>
<p>“The concept is clever and the result an altered engagement with the commonplace.” <strong>Irish Times</strong> (Wondermart)</p>
<p>&#8220;gripping&#8230; If the line between audience and performer seems blurred, Rotozaza’s <em>Etiquette</em> erases it entirely.&#8221; <strong>New York Times/Herald Tribune </strong> (Etiquette)</p>
<p>“This is a magical, unthreatening experience… the act of relinquishing responsibility for thought, word and action is unique and the effect is unmissable.” <strong>British Theatre Guide</strong> (Etiquette)</p>
<p>“Hugely entertaining… This smart, mysterious exercise in programmed thinking and collective chaos is strange but exhilarating.” <strong>The Times</strong> (GuruGuru)</p>
<p>“You may find yourself frantically looking for yourself again in the moments after the performance has finished.” <strong>The Guardian</strong> (GuruGuru)</p>
<p>MORE INFORMATION ON ROTOZAZA CAN BE FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE: www.rotozaza.uk</p>
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		<title>Winterim Course in LONDON!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interdisciplinary course is designed to create an opportunity for students to explore and experience visual and performing arts in London and to form critical responses to select exhibitions and performances. Course work will be completed in galleries, theaters and museums across London. This course is an all access to pass to the arts in one of the most fabulous cities in the world. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This interdisciplinary course is designed to create an opportunity for students to explore and experience visual and performing arts in London and to form critical responses to select exhibitions and performances. Course work will be completed in galleries, theaters and museums across London. This course is an all access to pass to the arts in one of the most fabulous cities in the world. All students, including extended studies students, are welcome to enroll. </p>
<p>$2165*<br />
Includes roundtrip flight from Colorado, lodging, daily breakfast, guided excursions, theatre performances, art events and one amazing way to earn college credit!</p>
<p>You can register for this course with SPRING 2010 registration in November, a $500 deposit is dur on November 30. ROLE OF THE VIEW will be led by Gallery of Contemporary Art director Caitlin Green &#038; THEATREWORKS executive director Drew Martorella. More info on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/UCCS-Winterim-Class-in-London/325963205200">FACEBOOK PAGE</a>.</p>
<p>Questions? Call 255.3232 or email cgreen@uccs.edu.</p>
<p>*Does not include airport taxes and fees or tuition</p>
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		<title>Interview with Fernando Llanos {DELICIOUS.COM}</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one dons the moustache like Fernando Llanos. He&#8217;s a video artist, a musician, a writer, a blogger, a curator, he makes drawings, he&#8217;s the über macho-looking Mexican guy who walks around the city with a chihuahua in his bag. He also produces tv shows, a competition of animation movies, and the moto of his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one dons the moustache like Fernando Llanos. He&#8217;s a video artist, a musician, a writer, a blogger, a curator, he makes drawings, he&#8217;s the über macho-looking Mexican guy who walks around the city with a chihuahua in his bag. He also produces tv shows, a competition of animation movies, and the moto of his own radio programme is &#8220;There&#8217;s no need to talk about art in order to talk about art&#8221;. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/10/-hope-youre-having.php" target="blank">Read full article</a> at wemakemoneynotart.com</p>
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		<title>This Clown Had an Art Exhibition (And Why You Should Care) {About.com}</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.apocalypticnightmare.com/
The gent in the pink jumpsuit and clown mask is known as Shawn Crahan on his driver&#8217;s license. To metal fans, he is known as &#8220;Clown&#8221; (or sometimes &#8220;#6&#8243;), a percussionist in the Grammy winning band Slipknot. Three days ago, Crahan turned 40&#8211;a milestone for all of us, but especially so for a heavy metal [...]]]></description>
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<p>The gent in the pink jumpsuit and clown mask is known as Shawn Crahan on his driver&#8217;s license. To metal fans, he is known as &#8220;Clown&#8221; (or sometimes &#8220;#6&#8243;), a percussionist in the Grammy winning band Slipknot. Three days ago, Crahan turned 40&#8211;a milestone for all of us, but especially so for a heavy metal musician. He celebrated &#8220;art, music and growing old&#8221; by staging a free, one-night exhibition of his photography and paintings at the Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. As you have doubtless guessed, I think everyone should make art, so would like to offer both an &#8220;Atta boy&#8221; and a &#8220;Many happy returns&#8221; to Mr. Crahan.</p>
<p><a href="http://arthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/27/this-clown-had-an-art-exhibition-and-why-you-should-care.htm?nl=1" target="blank">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Intersections Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ October 16, 2009 to October 18, 2009. ] IFF seeks to engage the Colorado Springs and Front Range communities in an exploration of women's lives and experiences both in major urban centers as well as provincial contexts. The films represent a diverse range of issues that document contemporary realities of the Middle East from honor killings to drug addiction and sexual abuse, from sharing intimate stories and frustrations in a beauty parlor to waiting for the return of one's migrant working spouse. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table class="ec3_schedule"><tr><td class="ec3_start">October 16, 2009</td><td class="ec3_to">to</td><td class="ec3_end">October 18, 2009</td></tr></table><p>IFF 2009 features award winning films and documentaries from Turkey, Iran, the Arab Middle East, and North Africa which explore the theme of women’s lives and experiences. The films document contemporary realities of the Middle East from honor killings to drug addiction and sexual abuse, from sharing intimate stories and frustrations in a beauty parlor to waiting for the return of one’s migrant working spouse. Experiences further include the challenges of pursuing one’s film studies in a war-torn city and getting married in a zone of conflict.  Post-screening discussions/Q&#038;As follow five out of the seven featured films and documentaries.</p>
<p>IFF 2009 is part of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) support of cultural programming along the Front Range expanding an already vibrant fall film festival line-up. <strong><a href="http://www.uccs.edu/iff">MORE INFORMATION.</a></strong></p>
<p>We are pleased to be working with:</p>
<p>- ArteEast, a New York-based, international, non-profit organization supporting artists from the Middle East and North Africa<br />
- Moon and Stars Project, a non-profit organization promoting Turkish culture and arts<br />
- Fictionville Studio, LLC, a Brooklyn-based independent film production company<br />
- Arab Film Distribution and Typecast Films, Seattle-based<br />
- ANS International, Abdullah Oguz&#8217;s Istanbul-based production company </p>
<p><strong>The SCHEDULE</strong><br />
<strong><br />
 Opening Night, Friday, October 16th at UCCS Dwire 121</strong></p>
<p><strong>6 PM</strong><br />
Opening Reception<br />
<strong>6:45 PM</strong><br />
Welcome Statement &#8211; Dr. Carole Woodall, IFF Executive Curator<br />
<strong>7 PM</strong><br />
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (France 2007), 95 minutes<br />
Discussion with Dr. Rashna Singh, Department of English / WEST at UCCS</p>
<p><strong><br />
Saturday, October 17th at UCCS Dwire 121</strong><br />
<strong><br />
10:30 AM</strong><br />
Hiba Bassem’s Baghdad Days (Iraq/UK 2005), 35 minutes<br />
Discussion with Dr. Aditi Mitra, Department of Sociology / WEST at UCCS<br />
Screening held in conjunction with the 4th annual Woman-to-Woman Dialogue Series &#8220;Women&#8217;s Experiences: Surviving and Thriving&#8221; sponsored by the American Association of University Women and the Matrix Center.<br />
<strong>Noon</strong><br />
Yasmine Kassari’s L’enfant Endormi [The Sleeping Child] (Morocco/Belgium 2004), 95 minutes<br />
<strong>3 PM</strong><br />
Abdullah O?uz’s Mutluluk [Bliss] (Turkey/Greece 2007) 126 minutes<br />
Discussion with Dr. Sölen Sanli, Department of Sociology at Metro State<br />
<strong>6 PM</strong><br />
Hamid Rahmanian’s The Glass House (USA/Iran 2008), 92 minutes<br />
Q&#038;A with director, Hamid Rahmanian, and producer, Melissa Hibbard</p>
<p><strong>Sunday, October 18th at the fine arts center</strong></p>
<p><strong>4:30 PM in the Music Room</strong><br />
Hany Abu-Assad&#8217;s Rana&#8217;s Wedding (Palestine 2002), 90 minutes<br />
Discussion with Dr. Livia Alexander, Executive Director of ArteEast<br />
<strong>6:30 PM in the Lobby</strong><br />
Closing Reception<br />
<strong>7:30 PM in the Upper Gallery</strong><br />
Nadine Labaki’s Caramel (Lebanon/France 2007), 95 minutes</p>
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		<title>Next milestone in Christo project expected in June {CS Gazette}</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAÑON CITY — A draft statement of environmental impacts of two artists&#8217; proposal to suspend miles of fabric over the Arkansas River should be available for public review in June.
The Bureau of Land Management says the final environmental impact statement for the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude is scheduled for release [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />
CAÑON CITY — A draft statement of environmental impacts of two artists&#8217; proposal to suspend miles of fabric over the Arkansas River should be available for public review in June.</p>
<p>The Bureau of Land Management says the final environmental impact statement for the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude is scheduled for release in January 2011.</p>
<p>The artists say that means the earliest their &#8220;Over the River&#8221; project could be installed is 2013. They want to suspend about six miles of fabric over sections of the river, between Salida and Cañon City.</p>
<p>The artists&#8217; previous projects include erecting thousands of fabric panels in Central Park in New York in 2005.</p>
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		<title>Art to Make You Laugh (and Cry) {IHT}</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WHEN it rains, geysers of water have been known to erupt from the floor drains of the art collective here known as Fluxspace, which makes its home in a mammoth former textile mill in the northern part of the city. The building has no air-conditioning, and on the harshest winter days its heating system [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> WHEN it rains, geysers of water have been known to erupt from the floor drains of the art collective here known as Fluxspace, which makes its home in a mammoth former textile mill in the northern part of the city. The building has no air-conditioning, and on the harshest winter days its heating system borders on notional. It’s also a bear to find: one morning this week a taxi driver on his way to it ended up taking several unintended detours down trash-filled alleys, cursing the calm voice issuing from his dashboard G.P.S.</p>
<p>But the three-year-old collective is becoming known in the Philadelphia art world for its monthly exhibitions of work by its members and other artists. And “we actually get awesome turnout for our shows, considering the location and everything,” said Danielle Ruttenberg, one of 25 young artists who either pay for raw studio space in the building or take on chores in exchange for it. (The current exhibition, of bird-centric prints and drawings by a local artist named Tory Franklin, continues through Sept. 13.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28philly.html?em" target="blank">Read entire story.</a></p>
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		<title>Art on the Streets organizers want you for People&#8217;s Choice Award {08.06.09 Colorado Springs Gazette}</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody’s a critic.
We all have opinions about the yellow ribbon thing on the median at Cascade Avenue, the giant red paperclips on Tejon Street and the other 11 entries in this year’s “Art on the Street” project.
Now it’s time to let those artists know what you think.
For the first time, project organizer Community Ventures, a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody’s a critic.</p>
<p>We all have opinions about the yellow ribbon thing on the median at Cascade Avenue, the giant red paperclips on Tejon Street and the other 11 entries in this year’s “Art on the Street” project.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to let those artists know what you think.</p>
<p>For the first time, project organizer Community Ventures, a branch of the Downtown Partnership, will give a People’s Choice Award.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gazette.com/articles/art-59738-streets-.html" target="blank">Read the entire article and see the pieces!</a></p>
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		<title>Art goes AWOL at UCCS {08.06.09 Colorado Springs Gazette}</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caitlin Green wants to bust art out of the gallery.
How far?
How about films projected on the walls, objects and trash of a downtown parking garage?
“Site specificity means taking film out of the black box, art out of the cube and theater off the stage,” said Green, director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caitlin Green wants to bust art out of the gallery.</p>
<p>How far?</p>
<p>How about films projected on the walls, objects and trash of a downtown parking garage?</p>
<p>“Site specificity means taking film out of the black box, art out of the cube and theater off the stage,” said Green, director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, which will present “Displacement: Cinema Out of Site,” a series of experimental cinema events today through Sunday. “There’s an element of discovery that I like, with that can come a conversation about the role of arts in the city.”</p>
<p>Her love of discovery is shared by Christopher May, director of The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, or TIE, a Denver-based nonprofit cinema group that’s collaborating with Green. May called the downtown parking garage at Nevada Avenue and Kiowa Street a perfect venue to explore expanded or displaced cinema, avant-garde films shot with 8- and 16-millimeter film.</p>
<p>“Expanded or displaced cinema is projected onto numerous surfaces from more than one projector,” he said. “The idea is three filmmakers projecting on whatever’s available. White concrete walls and broken glass will be creating new images and introducing new ways of viewing film,” Green said.</p>
<p>The subject of the films runs perfectly with that free-form theme: parkour.</p>
<p>Mainstream America glimpsed this free-form, running, vaulting thing in the movie “Casino Royale,” but it’s been a YouTube phenomenon for longer.</p>
<p>“Parkour is an athletic and spiritual practice of getting from Point A to Point B using urban obstacles,” Green said.</p>
<p>May said parkour is different from “freerunning,” a similar practice that highlights acrobatics.</p>
<p>“In parkour, you do everything to be useful; traceurs (parkour practitioners) emphasize the practice of becoming stronger to be useful to society. The practice is noncompetitive and community-based. There’s a firm belief in mentorship. The motto is ‘to be and to laugh.’”</p>
<p>In total, “Displacement” consists of a series of six lectures by filmmakers, theorists and traceurs, and a screening tonight that includes the work of three filmmakers.</p>
<p>There also will be an audio experimentalist who creates rhythm and melody with recordings of traceurs’ hands and feet slapping concrete.</p>
<p>“Displacement” is one of six projects under the gallery’s umbrella program “AWOL: Art Without Limits,” created by Green to bring art into the community.</p>
<p>“Community-based projects create a forum for discussion on public process and they invite participation from diverse audiences, expanding the population that interacts with the art,” Green said.</p>
<p>All of the “AWOL” projects invite discourse and rely on collaboration with other organizations, as well.</p>
<p>For “Flaunt: Evolution,” Green worked with Amber Coté, director of FutureSelf, and Drew Martorella, executive director of TheatreWorks, to create a multimedia fashion show with video art.</p>
<p>While dates have been set for “Displacement” and “Flaunt,” Green is still working to solidify details on the four remaining projects including “Etiquette,” an interactive project in which the participants follow directions from a pair of headsets, all within a public restaurant (Green has been talking to the owners of Shugas).</p>
<p>Green sees “AWOL” as an opportunity to break the barriers between gallery space and public gathering. “This program expands our mission to outside the gallery walls.</p>
<p> It has the opportunity to grow an interest in the arts and to facilitate a dialogue in the arts about community.”</p>
<p>Displacement:<br />
cinema out of site<br />
When: After dusk today<br />
Where: Parking garage at Nevada Avenue and Kiowa Street<br />
Admission: Free<br />
Something else: Reception and lectures at City Hall, 6:30 p.m. today-Sunday</p>
<p>Flaunt: Evolution<br />
When: 7-11 p.m. Sept. 12<br />
Where: under Colorado Avenue Bridge<br />
Admission: $30</p>
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		<title>New Endowment Chairman Sees Arts as Economic Engine {08.07.09 IHT}</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman is officially chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts — he was confirmed on Friday — his straight-talking style, Missouri roots and affinity for baseball and country music are expected to give him a leg up with many legislators.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman is officially chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts — he was confirmed on Friday — his straight-talking style, Missouri roots and affinity for baseball and country music are expected to give him a leg up with many legislators.</p>
<p>But in his first sit-down interview since his nomination by President Obama, Mr. Landesman’s comments suggested that he may nevertheless raise hackles on Capitol Hill after he is sworn in in the next few days. Speaking recently in his office above the St. James Theater on West 44th Street, where Tony Awards abut baseball trophies — testament to his prowess as a producer and as a pitcher in the Broadway Show League — Mr. Landesman, 62, made clear that he has little patience for the disdain with which some politicians still seem to view the endowment, more than a decade after the culture wars that nearly destroyed it.<br />
He was particularly angered, he said, by parts of the debate over whether to include $50 million for the agency in the federal stimulus bill, citing the comment by Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in February, that arts money did not belong in the bill. That kind of thinking suggests that “artists don’t have kids to send to college,” Mr. Landesman said, “or food to put on the table, or medical bills to pay.”<br />
In American politics generally, he added: “The arts are a little bit of a target. The subtext is that it is elitist, left wing, maybe even a little gay.”</p>
<p>And while he praised the way recent endowment chairmen have carefully rebuilt the agency’s political standing, Mr. Landesman — who is known more as an independent entrepreneur than as a diplomatic company man — said he was not planning to follow too closely in their footsteps. While Dana Gioia, his immediate predecessor, made a point of spreading endowment funds to every Congressional district, for example, Mr. Landesman said he expected to focus on financing the best art, regardless of location.<br />
“I don’t know if there’s a theater in Peoria, but I would bet that it’s not as good as Steppenwolf or the Goodman,” he said, referring to two of Chicago’s most prominent theater companies. “There is going to be some push-back from me about democratizing arts grants to the point where you really have to answer some questions about artistic merit.”<br />
“And frankly,” he added, “there are some institutions on the precipice that should go over it. We might be overbuilt in some cases.”</p>
<p>Mr. Landesman does believe that the agency should be “perceived as being everywhere,” he said. “But I don’t know that we have to be everywhere if the only reason for supporting an institution is its geography.”<br />
On the subject of the endowment’s budget, too, Mr. Landesman did not hold back. Though he would not put a dollar figure on his own fiscal goals, he called the current appropriation of $155 million “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” And he seemed to imply dissatisfaction with increases proposed by Congress and by the president, which both fall short of the agency’s 1992 budget of $176 million.</p>
<p>“We’re going to be looking for funding increases that are more than incremental,” he said.<br />
As for grants to individual artists — which were eliminated in 1996 after years of complaints from conservative legislators about the financing of controversial art — Mr. Landesman said he would reinstate them “tomorrow” if it were up to him. (It’s up to Congress.)<br />
Mr. Landesman said that as chairman he will focus on the potential of the arts to help in the country’s economic recovery.<br />
“I wouldn’t have come to the N.E.A. if it was just about padding around in the agency,” he said, and worrying about which nonprofits deserve more funds. “We need to have a seat at the big table with the grown-ups. Art should be part of the plans to come out of this recession.”<br />
“If we’re going to have any traction at all,” he added, “there has to be a place for us in domestic policy.”<br />
He was less clear about the details of this ambitious agenda, though he talked about starting a program that he called “Our Town,” which would provide home equity loans and rent subsidies for living and working spaces to encourage artists to move to downtown areas.<br />
“When you bring artists into a town, it changes the character, attracts economic development, makes it more attractive to live in and renews the economics of that town,” he said. “There are ways to draw artists into the center of things that will attract other people.”<br />
The program would also help finance public art projects and performances and promote architectural preservation in downtown areas, Mr. Landesman added. “Every town has a public square or landmark buildings or places that have a special emotional significance,” he said. “The extent that art can address that pride will be great.”<br />
Given the agency’s “almost invisible” budget, he said, goals like these would require public-private partnerships that enlist developers, corporations and individual investors — largely by getting them “to understand the critical role of art in urban revitalization.”</p>
<p>Such arrangements — which he said will be a “signature part” of his chairmanship — will play “right into the president’s wheelhouse,” Mr. Landesman added, speaking of Mr. Obama’s concerns about cities and economic development.<br />
The new chairman said he already has a new slogan for his agency: “Art Works.” It’s “something muscular that says, ‘We matter.’ ” The words are meant to highlight both art’s role as an economic driver and the fact that people who work in the arts are themselves a critical part of the economy.</p>
<p>“Someone who works in the arts is every bit as gainfully employed as someone who works in an auto plant or a steel mill,” Mr. Landesman said. “We’re going to make the point till people are tired of hearing it.”<br />
As for the former agency slogan, “A Great Nation Deserves Great Art,” he said, “We might as well just apologize right off the bat.”<br />
Mr. Landesman said he realized he was not the obvious man for the job. “There are a lot of people whose résumés laid out a lot better than mine,” he said. “But I think the president is serious when he talks about change. I think he wanted to bring a new energy to this agency.”</p>
<p>Mr. Landesman’s own résumé starts with his upbringing in and around the cabaret theater his father and uncle ran in St. Louis, the Crystal Palace. Performers including the Smothers Brothers and Mike Nichols and Elaine May often headlined there during his childhood, some of them staying in the Landesman family’s basement apartment after their gigs.<br />
Mr. Landesman, who has a reddish beard and lanky physique, did a lot of acting as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, then went on to the Yale School of Drama, where he earned a Ph.D. in dramatic literature and criticism and stayed on as an assistant professor for four years, until 1978.<br />
After leaving Yale, Mr. Landesman started a mutual fund, bought racehorses until he had amassed a dozen — one successful horse would enable him to purchase another — and about three years ago, he said, “came within about five minutes of buying the Cincinnati Reds.” (He lost out to another bidder at the last minute, which he said was “painful.”)<br />
In 1985 he produced the Broadway musical “Big River,” which won that year’s Tony for best musical, at a theater owned by the Jujamcyn group, the third-largest of the big three New York theater companies, after Shubert and Nederlander. Two years later he was hired as the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, and in 2005 he bought the company; in his new position he will retain his ownership stake but will not participate in the company’s activities.</p>
<p>Jack Viertel, Jujamcyn’s creative director, described Mr. Landesman as smart, decisive and “a very entertaining person to be around,” but also “mercurial,” “unpredictable” and “an extraordinarily hardheaded businessman.”<br />
Paul Libin, the producing director at Jujamcyn, said he was at first “taken aback” by the idea of Mr. Landesman’s leading the endowment, but that he has come to believe that the job requires “someone who is a general,” and that his boss fits the bill.<br />
Mr. Landesman wasn’t tapped for the job. “I’d love to say the president drafted me, and I had to answer the call of duty, but no,” he said. “I put my hand up for this.”</p>
<p>“Everybody I talked to said, ‘This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard, put it out of your head immediately,’ ” Mr. Landesman said. “The idea of running a 170-person federal bureaucracy seemed crazy.”<br />
But it’s an unusual moment in history, he said, and he wanted to be part of it. President Obama was “the first candidate in my memory who made arts part of the campaign,” Mr. Landesman said. “He had an arts policy committee and an arts policy statement and arts advisers.”</p>
<p>Cultural mavens like himself feel they “have one of their own” in the White House, he added. “It makes the arts community feel finally, for the first time in a long time, there might be some wind at their back.”</p>
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		<title>UCCS Theatreworks &#8220;Return To Forbidden Planet&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fridays and Saturdays August 14th to September 5th.
A spaceship is wrecked on planet D&#8217;llyria, where lives the mad scientist Dr. Prospero, his lovely daughter, and his robot servant. Goofy magic is on display, and there is music in the air. Very loosely based on the movie loosely based on The Tempest, this is the Rocky [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Fridays and Saturdays August 14th to September 5th.</strong><br />
A spaceship is wrecked on planet D&#8217;llyria, where lives the mad scientist Dr. Prospero, his lovely daughter, and his robot servant. Goofy magic is on display, and there is music in the air. Very loosely based on the movie loosely based on The Tempest, this is the Rocky Mountain premiere of Shakespeare&#8217;s forgotten rock &#8216;n’ roll masterpiece, featuring a live band, blank verse and plenty of classic songs from the 1950&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a wild and unforgettable ride.</p>
<p><strong>Only seven performances!</strong> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128513136004&#038;ref=nf" target="blank">Click here for more information.</a></p>
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		<title>Roadkill Toys from the Art News Blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My warped sense of humor makes me think these plush toys would be great gifts for kids or PETA members. I&#8217;m an animal lover and I try to limit my meat consumption, but I also like to have a laugh. Life really isn&#8217;t as serious as some of us make it out to be.
The road [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My warped sense of humor makes me think these plush toys would be great gifts for kids or PETA members. I&#8217;m an animal lover and I try to limit my meat consumption, but I also like to have a laugh. Life really isn&#8217;t as serious as some of us make it out to be.</p>
<p>The road kill toys come with their own plastic bodybag, and some have an &#8220;I Love RoadKill&#8221; bumper sticker, death certificates and toe tags.</p>
<p>Read on: <a href="http://www.artnewsblog.com/2009/07/roadkill-toys.htm" target="blank">http://www.artnewsblog.com/2009/07/roadkill-toys.htm</a></p>
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		<title>MCA Denver has 3 exhibitions that close June 28, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Paul Slocum</strong> New Media Gallery <br /> <strong>Anthony Goicolea</strong> Photography Gallery<br /><strong>Shark's Ink</strong> Paper Works Gallery]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/exhibitions">Take a look</a> and make a plan to go see them!</p>
<p><strong>* CLOSES JUNE 28,2009 *</strong></p>
<p><strong>Paul Slocum</strong>, New Media Gallery<br />
<em>Curated by Petra Sertic</em></p>
<p>Paul Slocum’s video You’re Not My Father is comprised of several reenactments of a short scene from the American television show Full House (1987–1995). Slocum recruited amateur participants through ads posted on Internet message boards and Craigslist and provided instructions on how to reshoot the scene with special attention to dialog and gestures. A musician as well as a visual artist, he creates an ominous effect in the video using sound loops, based on the scene’s original music. The work explores issues of defiance against authority, as presented by the characters, D.J. and Joey, and their different impersonators.</p>
<p><strong>Anthony Goicolea</strong>, Photography Gallery<br />
<em>Curated by Cydney Payton</em></p>
<p>Related features the recent work of first-generation Cuban American Anthony Goicolea. Noted for his fantastic photographic narratives where he often acts out provocative charades and exploits, Goicolea now turns to inventing a conceptual family album. The exhibition is comprised of drawings and photographs that resemble portraiture from the mid-1800s, when the innovation of the tintype process transported image-making from the hand of the artist to the camera. </p>
<p><strong>Shark&#8217;s Ink</strong>, Paper Works Gallery<br />
<em>Curated by Cydney Payton</em></p>
<p>This group exhibition features 82 prints by ten artists who have created works on paper with Master Printer Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Colorado. The collection on view represents a survey of his studio since its inception in the mid-seventies. Shark has produced lithographs, monoprints, and woodcuts by renowned artists, largely from the US. The exhibition’s curator, Cydney Payton, has chosen to present artists who have worked with Shark for many years, engaging in a collaborative process that has resulted in works that are technically and visually innovative. The approach employed at Shark’s studio is unique to the creative process, as the artist and the printer work side-by-side to manifest beautiful works.</p>
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		<title>GOCA, FutureSelf &amp; THEATREWORKS present FLAUNT: Evolution CALL FOR PROPOSALS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installation: Beginning, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Event: 7 – 11 pm on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009
The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS, FutureSelf and THEATREWORKS are excited to announce the third presentation Flaunt, a joint public program supporting arts organizations in Colorado Springs. The event will be held under the Colorado Avenue bridge.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Installation: Beginning, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009<br />
Event: 7 – 11 pm on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009</p>
<p>The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS, FutureSelf and THEATREWORKS are excited to announce the third presentation Flaunt, a joint public program supporting arts organizations in Colorado Springs. The event will be held under the Colorado Avenue bridge.</p>
<p>The theme for this year’s event is Evolution. Flaunt is challenging artists to create works that emphasize life, growth and sustainability. From theme to materials, artists should explore economic / cultural / material relationships to vitality, adaptation, rehabilitation, survival and growth. Artists interested in submitting a project should indicate which of the following options is most appropriate for their work.</p>
<p>Formal Program<br />
An hour-long, high-energy, fast-paced production of primarily video and performance art<br />
or<br />
Event Environment<br />
Video/installation/conceptual/2D/3D art to create an immersive, thematically-relevant environment for the event</p>
<p>Submissions from individual artists and collectives are now being taken to participate in the program. Participation is open to regional artists. Transportation and lodging costs will be the responsibility of the artist(s).  Submissions must be complete and received by the deadline in order to be considered. Artists will be responsible for installation, de-installation, and all associated labor and costs. Installation begins at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 11 and must be completed by 3 PM on Saturday, Sept. 12.</p>
<p>Application and review process: Proposals will be reviewed by GOCA, FutureSelf and THEATREWORKS staff. A panel of jurors will award three cash prizes totaling $3000.</p>
<p>Please submit the following via email or postal mail by Friday, June 26, 2009.  Those selected for inclusion will be notified by Monday, July 17, 2009.<br />
•    Project Proposal Description, 500 words maximum<br />
•    Resume/CV, artist biography and statement.<br />
•    Up to 5 digital images (jpg format only, up to 3 MB if emailing)<br />
•    Please save files as follows:  firstnamelastname1.jpg<br />
•    Include a numbered image list with title, medium, and dimensions, corresponding to the numbers in the file names.<br />
•    Up to one video if applicable.</p>
<p>Send all materials to:<br />
Gallery of Contemporary Art<br />
ATTN: Caitlin Green<br />
1420 Austin Bluffs Blvd<br />
Colorado Springs, CO 80918<br />
Email submissions to: cgreen@uccs.edu<br />
Questions: 719-255-3504</p>
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		<title>PBS&#8217; Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the artists at work, watch their process as they transform inspiration into art, and hear their thoughts as they grapple with the physical and visual challenges of achieving their artistic visions.<br />
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/">Go to the PBS site</a></p>
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		<title>Call for proposals: 1440 MINUTES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.galleryuccs.org/2009/i/1440_minutes_sm.jpg"/>The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS and IDEA @ Colorado College are excited to announce the second presentation 1440 Minutes, a joint public program supporting Colorado contemporary artists.  1440 Minutes is a twenty-four hour art installation and exhibition event, curated around the theme of “Economic Creativity”. ]]></description>
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<p>GOCA @ UCCS &#038; I.D.E.A. @ COLORADO COLLEGE </p>
<p><strong>Theme:  Economic Creativity<br />
Installation: Beginning, Thursday, June 18 at 5 PM<br />
Reception: Friday, June 19, 5 PM</strong></p>
<p>The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS and IDEA @ Colorado College are excited to announce the second presentation 1440 Minutes, a joint public program supporting Colorado contemporary artists.  1440 Minutes is a twenty-four hour art installation and exhibition event, curated around the theme of “Economic Creativity”.  Great innovations arise in times of crisis; these innovations drive future economic and cultural growth.  Economic Creativity invites artists to examine how, during this time of great change, we can – and should – use or re-use elements of our personal, cultural, and material past to re-envision a healthy, sustainable future.  </p>
<p>Submissions from individual artists and collectives are now being taken to participate in the exhibition. Selected projects, which may include 2D, 3D, video, performance, installation, or conceptual pieces, will be exhibited in the FAC Modern. Artists will be responsible for installation, de-installation, and all associated labor and costs.  Artworks must be able to be fully installed in under 24 hours.  Installations will begin at 5 PM on Thursday, June 18 and must be completed by 5 PM on Friday, June 19, 2009.  The reception will be held on Friday, June 19, 2009, 5-8 p.m.  </p>
<p>Three cash prizes of $500 will be awarded by a panel of jurors.</p>
<p>Application and review process:<br />
Proposals will be reviewed by curators of GOCA, and I.D.E.A. @ Colorado College, Caitlin Green and Jessica Hunter Larsen.<br />
Rules: Participation is open to regional artists; any transportation and lodging costs will be the responsibility of the artist(s).  Submissions must be complete and received by the deadline in order to be considered.<br />
Please submit the following via email or postal mail by Friday, April 10, 2009.  Those selected for inclusion will be notified by Monday, April 20, 2009.<br />
•	Project Proposal Description, 500 words maximum<br />
•	Resume/CV, artist biography and statement.<br />
•	Up to 5 digital images (jpeg format, up to 3 MB size if emailing)<br />
•	Please save files as follows:  firstnamelastname1.jpg<br />
•	Include a numbered image list with title, medium, and dimensions, corresponding to the numbers in the file names.<br />
•	Up to one video if applicable.</p>
<p>Send all materials to:<br />
I.D.E.A. @ Colorado College<br />
ATTN: Jessica Hunter Larsen<br />
14 E Cache La Poudre St.<br />
Colorado Springs, CO. 80903<br />
Email submissions to: jessica.larsen@coloradocollege.edu<br />
Jessica Hunter Larsen 719-227-8263 or Caitlin Green 719-255-3504</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://galleryuccs.org/2009/1440minprospectus2009.pdf">HERE</a> to download.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOCA now has a presence on Facebook. Wow, it only took us how long? 
Check us out for events, see who else shares your undying GOCA love, and join while you&#8217;re at it! See you in cyberspace&#8230;
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Check us out for events, see who else shares your undying GOCA love, and join while you&#8217;re at it! See you in cyberspace&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As controversy spiraled this week over the decision by the British reality-TV celebrity and cancer victim Jade Goody to have her last days documented on camera, a smaller debate was bubbling over who created the mural of Goody that appeared in North London on Wednesday night, and what it meant.
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<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/20/europe/20graffiti-434645.php">Read the whole story on IHT</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The social web is benefiting all kinds of creative people, including artists. There are now hundreds of places to share your work, get feedback and make money from selling it. Here are Mashable’s favorites.
Go to the site to learn more.
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