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Stringfellow to teach “Art, Environment, and Place,” SDSU Honors Fall 2010

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:31:12 +0000

Art, Environment, and Place (HONORS 413 Section 02) is a SDSU undergraduate honors course scheduled for fall of 2010. Stringfellow’s new course focuses on the work of contemporary artists who integrate various field and research strategies borrowed from the natural sciences, geography, and other disciplines within their practice.

The course will be centered around focused readings, discussions, presentations, screenings, and field trips. Students will conceive and execute a final project proposal that may take the form of a hybrid documentary, temporary site-specific artwork or installation, digital multimedia feature, performance, text, or other work that addresses social, cultural, environmental, geographical, and/or political issues of a local or regional ecology, site, or subject. Special emphasis will be placed on projects that are collaborative, incorporate sustainable design strategies, promote environmental awareness through education, and/or directly encourage audience participation. Projects, possibly collaborative in nature, will be distilled, executed, and documented at the conclusion of the course. A background in art is not required to take this course. Students from all academic and disciplinary areas are encouraged to apply.

The course will culminate in an immersive three-day weekend field study workshop at the Salton Sea scheduled for the weekend of November 19 – 21, 2010. During this workshop students will be able to directly experience and respond to place over an embedded field research period. Visiting artist/architect, Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, will join the student group for this weekend field experience. Students will be prepared before embarking on the field trip through readings and presentations on diverse topics related to the site including but not limited to regional water politics, agricultural/real estate economies, local ecologies, military presence, tourism, outsider art, fringe subcultures among others. A culminating art exhibit and publication will be organized to document student interdisciplinary projects resulting from this course and workshop.

Visit the course Web site and blog at: http://kimstringfellow.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Kim Stringfellow awarded Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) “Investing in Artists” grant

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:59:30 +0000

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) today announced twenty?six artists who received funding in the fifth round of funding under its Investing in Artists grants program, which is designed to build the personal and creative capacity of California’s artists working in all disciplines. Kim Stringfellow received an Investing in Artists grant in the Round V Artistic Equipment and Tools category.

The Investing in Artists grants program was established by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) in 2007 to enhance the working lives and strengthen the creative support system for California artists working in all disciplines. Following three initial rounds of funding made to 54 artists in 2007 and 2008, CCI was able to expand the program which will now make $1 million in new grants to artists from 2009-2011, supported by The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Round V of the Investing in Artists grants program specifically provided support to working artists in the Visual Arts, Craft and Literary Arts in two categories: 1) for the acquisition of Artistic Equipment & Tools; and 2) for Artistic Innovation. New grant awards to California artists for Round V of the Investing in Artists grants program totaled $200,000. For more information about the program or to read the Round V press release, please visit: www.cciarts.org/.

JRHS Lecture at Portola Community Center in Palm Desert

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:01:07 +0000

Kim Stringfellow will give a lecture on the history of jackrabbit homesteading on Friday, March 26th at 7 to 8 pm for the Desert Institute Lecture Series at the Portola Community Center in Palm Desert located at 45-480 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260. Event is $5 at the door.

JRHS Signing at Mt. Fuji General Store in Joshua Tree

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:45 +0000

Mt. Fuji General Store will host a book signing for Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008 on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 from 4 to 8 PM. Mt. Fuji is located in the Starlite Courtyard in downtown Joshua Tree at 61740 29 Palms Hwy., Joshua Tree, CA 92252.

http://web.mac.com/chandoyle/Site/Mt.Fuji.html

JRHS Exhibit & Book Signing at Michael Dawson Books/Gallery

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:00:57 +0000

Michael Dawson Gallery is pleased to host a book signing and exhibition featuring photographs from Kim Stringfellow’s recent publication, Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938-2008. Published by the Center for American Places, this 136-page hard cover book with dust jacket features sixty-one color photographs by the artist with an accompanying text. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase for those unable to attend the event.

Twenty-four photographic images from the book will be on display in the gallery from February 20th until April 3rd, 2010. Historical documents and photos related to the jackrabbit homesteading experience will also be on display.

Opening reception: Saturday, February 20th, 2010 from 2 to 4 pm.

Dawson Books/Michael Dawson Gallery
535 No. Larchmont Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90004
PH: 323.469.2186

www.michaeldawsongallery.com

Hours: Thursday – Saturday 11am-5pm
And by appointment.

Big City Forum #11 with Rebeca Mendez

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:00:41 +0000

I will be participating in Big City Forum #11 round table conversation with Rebeca Mendez on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm. The conversation will concern our relationship to nature, issues of perception, land use and the built environment. For more information and location, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=246702116614. Please note that BCF events are by invitation only.

JRHS reading for Desert Stories III at Joshua Tree Playhouse

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:00:30 +0000

Kim Stringfellow will give a reading from JRHS for Desert Stories III at the Joshua Tree Playhouse on Saturday, January 23rd, 2009. The pre-show cocktail party starts at 7 pm with the performance program beginning at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 (suggested donation) with a cash bar. For more information and a list of other performers please visit: http://www.hidesertculturalcenter.com/00.2009-2010/DesertStories/DesertStories01-07-10.html.

JRHS Audio Tour featured in Sunset Magazine

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:00:21 +0000

The JRHS audio tour is featured in Sunset Magazine’s Southern California Day Trip: Joshua Tree article by Jenny Price. See page 22 of the January 2010 issue.

www.sunset.com/magazine/

JRHS lecture: Joshua Tree National Park Association’s Old Schoolhouse Lecture Series

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:00:45 +0000

Kim Stringfellow will give a lecture on the history of jackrabbit homesteading on Friday, December 11th at 7 pm for the Joshua Tree National Park Association’s Old Schoolhouse Lecture Series at the 29 Palms Old Schoolhouse Museum located at 6760 National Park Drive, 29 Palms, Ca. The lecture is $5 at the door.

If you would like to join the group for the 5 pm dinner with the speaker before the lecture at the 29 Palms Inn, please R.S.V.P. to Marion at (760) 361-1202 or at desert29palms@yahoo.com.

Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthrough for New Topographics @ LACMA

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:00:45 +0000

I will be leading an artist-led exhibition walkthrough for the New Topographics exhibit at LACMA on Sunday, December 6th at 2 pm. Please meet at the front of the exhibit in BCAM on the 2nd floor if you would like to attend. The event is free with paid admission, tickets required (available one hour before the program).

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape is “a restaging of the landmark exhibition first seen in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. “New Topographics” signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field. More than two-thirds of the photographs by the original ten participants—Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr.—are displayed.”

View the video interview conducted by LACMA curator, Edward Robinson with Kim Stringfellow on LACMA’s blog:

http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/tour-new-topographics-with-kim-stringfellow/

For more information on this exhibit and for related events, please visit the LACMA’s Web site at:

www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx

The exhibit runs from October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010.