Cuentos
is pleased to facilitate participatory community projects and
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Cuentos Foundation Summer
Film Series
Hosted by Calles y Sueños, 1900 S. Carpenter,
Chicago
Saturday May 19, 7:30 pm
Film: "Sin Nombre" (2009)
Summary: Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an
opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life
in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey
of unexpected events.
Please join Cuentos Foundation for the first film in our summer
film series, "Sin Nombre"
Film screening begins at 7:30, followed by a group discussion
Cuentos Spring Celebration
Please join Cuentos Foundation at Calles y Sueños
(1900 S. Carpenter, Chicago)
on Sunday March 4th from 2-5 pm.
We will be having a reception and send-off for Michele Feder-Nadoff
as she heads off to Mexico to begin a PhD program. We will also
be welcoming Jennifer Smith as the new Executive Director of Cuentos,
and Michael Huft as the new Cuentos President.
There will be a special live performance by Laura
Crotte, and fair trade art from Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan
and Oaxaca for sale.
This is an exciting time for Cuentos as we reorganize
and usher in a new phase! Please join us and celebrate!
Cuentos Holiday Open House
Sale
Cuentos Holiday Trunk Show
and Open House
Come see new Fair Trade from Santa Clara del Cobre and Puech Ikots
Collective/ Oaxaca Carved and Painted wonders!
Unique Art and Jewelry
Cuentos Holiday Trunk Show and Open House
Come see new Fair Trade from Santa Clara del Cobre and Puech
Ikots Collective/ Oaxaca Carved and Painted wonders! Unique
Art and Jewelry
December 11th, 2011
12-5pm
1118 West Loyola Avenue, #3
Chicago, IL 60626
773 412 9838
Loyola Redline stop, 155, 147, 151 bus stops
Come by and toast the season!
More information Contact Cuentos: 773 412 9838
Cuentos will be offering new fair
trade copper art and jewelery from Santa Clara del Cobre
Chicago Waldorf Holiday Fair
Chicago Waldorf Holiday Fair
Vendor Marketplace - unique holiday gifts and treasures
December 3, 2011
9 am - 5 pm
The Chicago Waldorf School
1300 West Loyola Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone: 773.465.2662
Fax: 773.465.6648
More information Contact Cuentos: 773 412 9838
CWS Holiday Fair
Saturday, December 4
9am-5pm $5 admission for adults, students and children
admitted free
Join us in celebrating the winter season with a visit to the annual
Holiday Fair at the Chicago Waldorf School. Featuring vendors
from around the country as well as local favorites, this event
has built a reputation for unique hand-crafted items, a special
“children-only” shopping room and activities for all
ages ranging from jump rope making to candle dipping. There is
also plenty of food and live entertainment to bring out the holiday
cheer for you and your family. Join us and see for yourself why
the Holiday Fair has become a tradition for so many families in
the Chicago area. Check out our live entertainment schedule is
below:
10:00- Miss Aimee Leigh
Kid participatory dancing, tail wagging and jumping around while
Miss Aimee Leigh plays and strolls troubadour-like amongst you,
all while strumming guitar and singing about youthful anti-ennui.
A talented guitar player with a beautiful voice, Miss Aimee plays
a huge repertoire of traditional, original and contemporary children’s
music.
Miss Aimee Leigh provides high energy, interactive musical adventure
with loads of participation in kid-friendly songs. Her CD, Can
You Come Out and Play? features Waldorf students, Zoe & Eli
Miller, in conversation and as chorus accompaniment on some songs.
To read her reviews (and purchase her CD!!) please visit http://www.MissAimeeLeigh.com
11:00- The Licorice Sticks Clarinet
Orchestra
"thinking outside the music box"
This all-clarinet ensemble plays expert renditions of Jazz, classical,
Dixieland, show tunes, pop, old holiday chestnuts, and maybe a
few new surprises too. They use all members of the clarinet family
from the very bottom of the BBb Contra Bass to the sopranino range
of the "baby" Eb Piccolo Clarinet. Directed by Rick
"lil Ricki" Kissinger, (private woodwinds instructor
at Waldorf), the ensemble also includes Waldorf associate musical
director,Jeff Spade, and early childhood teacher, Susan Bruck.
The Licorice Sticks perform at festivals and private venues in
Chicago throughout the year, incorporating dance, theatre, vocalists
and guest soloists to each of its individually themed concerts.
To learn about their next event (or contact the group) please
visit http://www.ChicagoLicoriceSticks.com or call Rick at 407-616-4599
12:00- The Jeff Weisfeld Band
The ukulele is a small four-stringed guitar of Hawaiian origin.
In Hawaiian, it literally means ‘jumping flea.’ Watch
masterful tickling of the ukulele strings, lilting flute, a mean
rockin’ sousaphone and more. Hear this seven-person-band
tease sublime tunes from their instruments and sing exotic, artful
lyrics. Their roster includes Waldorf parents and all local Chicago
musicians.
Catch more of the Jeff Weisfeld Band at the Chicago Ukulele Cabaret.
This open-mic style night of music takes place bi-monthly at Silvie’s
Lounge on Irving Park Road. For more info see the Chicago Ukulele
Cabaret on Facebook.
1:00- Marlon and Abby St. John
A Daddy/Daughter duet. Abigail St. John is a 6th grade student
in Carol Triggiano’s class. She has been making music with
her father, Marlon—a singer/songwriter—since she was
two. Marlon St. John frequently performs in and around Chicago.
2:00- All Star Dad’s Band:
The Sequel
The All-Star Dad’s Band was formed last year by an experienced
group of musical Dads from the first grade class. This year they
have returned with the addition of a horn section (well, a horn
anyway!). They will be performing an eclectic repertoire of holiday
tunes, rock favorites, jazz and blues. Watch our dads rock your
socks off!
The All Start Dads Band is:
Joe Dennis – Vocals & Keyboard
Heath Jansen - Drums
Adam King - Bass
Tom McCarthy - Guitar
Mark Miller - Trombone
Michael Rowe – Guitar & Vocals
3:00- CircEsteem: Chicago’s
Premier Youth Circus
See kid circus performers take to our stage. Watch juggling, unicycle,
diablo, tumbling acrobatics—maybe a clown or two—and
children expertly spinning on the gym wheel. (Supervised audience
participation allowed onstage after the CircEsteem performance.)
CircEsteem is a non profit youth circus with a mission of uniting
youth from diverse backgrounds and building self-esteem and confidence
through the practice of circus arts. CircEsteem offers circus
classes, interactive workshops, and performances for children
of all ages. All are invited to see CircEsteem's winter circus
on December 18th and 19th. More information can be found at http://www.CircEsteem.org
or by calling 312 731 HAHA.
4:00- Holiday Fair Raffle
Enjoy the suspense. Who will walk away with this year’s
raffle prizes? Come find out if its you!
Holiday Raffle drawing and prize presentations will take place
starting at 4:15. Bring your tickets and you might possibly walk
home with the next best thing since sliced bread.
Globalfest Latin America
Globalfest Latin America
Chicago Fair Trade’s annual gala featuring fair trade wine
and cocktails, appetizers, silent auction and Latin music will
celebrate the growing consumers support for products that guarantee
social benefits to workers and the environment. Stories of Latin
American producers of Fair Trade coffee, wine, chocolate, fashions
and jewelry will be included. Tsi-Tsi Felix of Telemundo Chicago
will emcee. Includes access to Day of the Dead exhibit from 5:30-
7:30pm (http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org)
WHEN: Friday, October 28, 6:00-9:30 pm
WHERE: National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago
CTA Pink Line: 18th Street or Damen Stop
Tickets: $50 advance, ($60 door) can be purchased at www.chicagofairtrade.org
More info call 312-212-1760 or njones@chicagofairtrade.org
Canto de los Martillos:
Santa Clara del Cobre
[Song of the Hammers: Santa Clara del Cobre]
“Canto de los Martillos: Santa Clara del
Cobre ” opens Friday May 6, 2011 at the
Centro Cultural Colegio Ex-Jesuita and runs through June
7, 2011.
In Morelia, “Canto de los Martillos” will open May
12 at the galleries of Centro Cultural Comunatario de
la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas Hidalgo and runs through
May 26, 2011.
The artist/artisans of this exhibition “Canto de los Martillos”
unify the fields of “art” and “artesania/crafts”
through their ingenuity, creativity, sincerity, and deliberate
technical excellence.
These exhibitions are part of “Cuentos en Cobre: Santa Clara
del Cobre - Arte Comunal e Individual”, a series of educational,
intercultural and artistic programs organized by Cuentos
Foundation in Michoacán. The exhibitions consist of
select examples of the arts in copper from leading studios of
Santa Clara; prints, autobiographical texts, and silver engraved
plates created by the Santa
Clara Women’s collective during the Taller de Mujeres;
and a homage to Santa Clara by Cuentos Director, Fulbright Scholar,
Michele Feder-Nadoff.
An upcoming seminar on Santa Clara organized in conjunction with
the Group Kw’anis takes place 10 AM - 3 PM May 28th, 2011
in La Ex-Jesuita in Patzcauro.
Hacemos un cordial invitación,
para que asista a las inauguraciónes por las dos exposiciónes
“Canto de los Martillos: Santa Clara del Cobre” que
se llevaran acabo el 6 de Mayo, 2011, a las 18:00 PM horas en
la Sala Alvarado Lang, en el Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita,
Patzcuaro, Michoacán y el 12 de Mayo, 2011 a las 17:00
PM en el Centro Cultural Universitario U.M.S.N.H., Morelia, Michoacán.
La exposición en Patzcuaro durara hasta el 6 de Junio 2011
y la exposición en Morelia durara hasta el 27 de Mayo 2011.
Tambien, un sesion sobre Santa Clara del Cobre esta organizado
con el grupo Kw’anis que va reunir en Centro Cultural Antiguo
Colegio Jesuita, Patzcuaro, Michoacán por 28 de Mayo, 10
AM -3PM. Esperamos contar con su apreciable presencía a
estos eventos.
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2011 World Fair Trade Day
at Daley Plaza!
Celebrate Chicago as a
trade city
Daley Plaza
50 W. Washington
May 6, 2011
9am - 6pm
LUCHA Y CULTURA Vs. El
Desastre! 2011
Lucha y Cultura contre el Desastre 2011 (Wrestling
and Culture Against Disaster 2011) is a family-oriented event
to benefit the children of Tlacoltapan, Veracruz, a community
that was devastated by hurricanes in 2010. Resistencia, a "luchador"
(Mexican wrestler) who works in the community, has organized this
event with the support of Larry Dominick (president of the town
of Cicero), the Clyde Park District, and his luchador colleagues
and artist friends.
The event will take place at Cicero Stadium, 1900 S. Laramie Ave.,
on Saturday April 30th from 2 pm – 10 pm. Lucha y Cultura
conra el Desastre 2011 is an event in which luchadores, artists,
and musicians will collaborate to show their support for this
community in Veracruz by sharing their artistic and musical talents
as well as their talent in the wrestling ring!
The goal of the event is to collect a donation throughpurchasing
or donating books and toys (non-violent), and sporting equipment
for the kids attending the event. All attendees are asked to purchase
a toy or book at the event to donate to the children of the community
of Tlacoltapan. Organizers are working directly with community
organizations in Tlacoltapan, the Mexican Consulate of Chicago,
and the Union of Radio Education (the radio station of the Secretary
of Public Education of Mexico) to distribute the donation.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES
• Town of Cicero, Larry Dominick, Presidente
• Clyde Park District – Cicero Stadium
• Radio Educación (SEP; Del. Sindical D-III-57-SNTE)
• Chicago Teachers’ Center (Northeastern Illinois
University)
• Girón Books
• Tonantzin Store
• The Cuentos Foundation NFP
• Gladiadores Lucha Libre Internacional
• Extreme Soccer
• Gala Boutique: Little Shoes with sound, articles for kids
• Resistencia en Lucha (Luchador; organizer of event)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
• Artistas del Chicago Teachers’ Center -NEIU
• Diana Solís (painter)
• Diana Hinojosa (writer and singer)
• Benjamín Anaya & Los Extraños Unidos
(musician)
• Azul de Noche (musician)
• Real Fantasies Books and Arts (promoción cultural)
• Meztli Cultural Organization
• Puech Ikots
• Rockotitlán Chicago (Media Sponsor)
• Benjamín Anaya (cultural promoter and organizer)
WHEN: Saturday April 30th, 2011, from
2 to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Cicero Stadium, 1909 S. Laramie, Cicero, IL
•Entrance to the event is free with the purchase or donation
of a toy or book. All donations will be donated to the children
of Tlacotalpan, Veracruz. Parking is free. Clyde Park District
and Cicero Stadium are donating the use of their space, and are
officially supporting the event on behalf of Larry Dominick, the
mayor of Cicero
• All donations must be purchased at event (no outside items)
per the request of the Mexican consulate. The prices offered for
books and toys at the event will be discounted.
• Invited institutions who want to join in the effort can
make a donation of books or toys.
• Cash donations will be used for the production of the
event and for the transportation of the donated toys and books
received to Veracruz. These donations will be accepted by the
Cuentos Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit, and are tax deductable.
• Businesses and community organizations who participate
with a booth can donate 25% of their profits from sales to the
production costs and transportation costs of the donations.
• No alcoholic beverages or illicit substances will be permitted
during the event. Smoking is not permitted in the building.
TIMETABLE:
Doors open at 1:45 pm
Sale of books and toys from 2 pm to 8 pm
Educational workshops from the Chicago Teachers Center, Diana
Solis and more TBA from 2 to 5 pm
Diana Hinojosa book presentation at 4:30 pm
Live lucha libre matches from 5 to 8 pm (with live music intermissions)
Live music from 5:30 pm to 9 pm
Event ends at 10 pm
CHILDREN’S PERFORMANCES
2:30 pm Children’s choir
3:30 pm Mimes
4:30 pm Urban Indigenous Kidz Comedy-Improv
Grupo Desvelo may also perform
Winter Warmer Fundraiser
& Dance Party!
Warm up with us in January for our Winter
Fundraiser & Dance Party!
Come and support Cuentos Foundation as we dance the night away
at Wicker Well in Wicker Park!
Live Music with DJ Jimmy James
Bake Sale
Fair Trade Art from Santa Clara del Cobre and Oaxaca Mexico
$5 drink tickets (proceeds go to Cuentos)
Dance Party All Night!-bar is open til 2 AM!
Your Support Helps Cuentos to:
Provide Cultural Programming Promoting Diversity
Promote the Fair Trade Copper Intiative in Santa Clara del Cobre
Michoacan Mexico.
Fiscally Sponsor Numerous Cultural Organizations (Chiapas Media
Project, Puech Ikots, Radios Populares)
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 7:00pm - Friday, January
14, 2011 at 2:00am
Wicker Well Bar
1637 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL
Holiday celebration in
support of artists in Mexico
Holiday art sales:
Sat. Dec. 4th, Waldorf Holiday Fair, 1300 W.
Loyola Ave, 9 am - 4 pm
Sun. Dec. 5th, Gallery B1E, 6902 N. Glenwood,
9 am - 4 pm
Sat. Dec. 11, Calles y Sueños
Art Gallery, 1901 S. Carpenter, 6 pm - 11pm:
-Live performance by Benjamín Anaya y los Extraños
Unidos
-DJ Sarvelio spins Cuban classics
- Videos of artists at work
- Complimentary food and cash bar
- Art from Oaxaca (Puech Ikots) and Michoacan (Cuentos Foundation)
for
purchase
- $10 donation to enter
The Cuentos Foundation
and The Art School / Gallery G
presents: Footprints Along
The Journey
October 22, 2010 through October 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:00 pm -
8:00 pm
Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served
Free and open to the public, suggested donation $5
The Art School / Gallery G
348 Tudor Court
Glencoe, IL 60022
847.242.0104
www.theartschoolgallery.com
Come celebrate Chicago Artists Month during the
month of October by
supporting the work of Alfred Li Tsao and Dayanara Garcia involved
with the Cuentos Foundation community.
Each artwork created by the artist will narrate
the story of the artist's family background and culture and how
he/she grew into the person they are in the present. The artwork
will explain how everything is connected and inextricably linked,
the past, present, and future. It is important to envision how
these connections are made. You cannot arrive at the future without
understanding and learning from the past. Leaving our footprints
behind dictate where we will go.
Tree of Life
As part of a collaborative project, “The
Tree of Life,” individuals, artists, children, school and
social groups are invited to be part of our project.
Everyone is welcome to search the Cuentos Foundation website and
Cuento’s Facebook page to see when and what location in
the Chicago area you will be able to participate and create your
own “leaf “ to be added to the “tree“,
making you part of our journey and us part of yours.
The tree and leaves will then become a part of the Footprints
Along the Journey Exhibit on October 22-26 at
The Art School / Gallery G.
You can also send in your “leaf”, no larger than 8
x 10, in any medium to:
D. Garcia/ Footprints
7761 N. Sheridan 1A
Chicago, IL 60626
or call (773) 510-3100 for more information
locations:
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Oct. 1
Andersonville Galleria
5247 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
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Oct. 9
Andersonville Galleria
5247 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
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Oct. 16-17
Three Wishes Toys N More
Plaza Del Lago Shopping Center
1515 Sheridan Rd. Wilmette, IL 60091
3 pm-closing |
Cuentos invites you to
celebrate summer and say goodbye to its Creative Founder, Michele
Feder-Nadoff when she leaves for her Fulbright!
Come enjoy traditional Afro-Cuban music with DJ Leyva
and GRUPO TARIMA SON
Saturday August 7 @ 8 pm.
at Gallery Colibri
2032 W 18th St
(between Damen Ave & Hoyne Ave)
Chicago, IL 60608
Neighborhood: Pilsen
$10.00 donation at the door
includes food/ cash bar
or purchase of Cuentos Fair Trade copper art
from Santa Clara del Cobre!!
Afro-Cuban Music All night with DJ Leyva
Special Concert at 9 PM Tarima Son
For more information, contact Cuentos at 773-761-4165 or info@cuentosfoundation.org
Cuentos Summer Fundraiser and Fulbright Goodbye Party
Look out for Special Raffle of Santa Clara copper art mastery!
Purchase one $10 dollar Raffle Ticket OR 6 tickets
@ $50
for a chance to win a museum quality Santa Clara del Cobre
hammered copper art vessel!
Support Cuentos and Santa Clara traditional family
coppersmith studios!
This is the museum piece to be raffled. The dimensions
are (h)11 x 11 x 9.5 inches and it is made by the gifted and original
artist, Napoleón Pérez Pamatz, youngest son to Maestro
Jesus Perez Ornelas. It is a Phoenix Rising.
(312) 733-8431(This is the art studio of Montserrat Alsina and
Roberto Ferreyra, Venezeulan and Mexican respectively, both painters,
performance artists and activists. Between Harrison Park and a
tortilla factory, Montserrat's great vision of the world sticks
to a radical tradition. Ferreyra, himself in more than one traditional
Mexican band, also leads an Azteca dance troupe, training younger
Mexican-Americans in the dances, spirituality and customs of the
ancestors. The couple also graciously hosts lots of great events,
including a lot of concerts, political fundraisers, and documentary
showings.)
TARIMA SON was formed in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago in
January 2002 and is composed of 5 members all of them were born
in Mexico and now reside in Chicago. TARIMA SON concentrates its
efforts in researching and playing the music originating in the
coastal state of Veracruz, Guerrero, Michoacan, Hidalgo, Jalisco
and other states of Mexico. This music came about through the
culture created by the mixture of African slaves brought to this
coast by the Spanish (who also brought their own music with strong
influence of the Moors), and the indigenous peoples of Mexico
such as the Totonacas, Nahuas, Puhrepechas and many others. This
beautiful music reveals many aspects of these particular traditions
in and they come about to form a style known as “SON. ”
A very important and exciting part of the show is the zapateado
dance performed by members of the group.
The traditional instruments played by TARIMA SON:
JARANA: guitar like instrument for strumming particular to this
region made of one piece of cedar wood. REQUINTO: guitar like
instrument for arpeggio same as above. QUIJADA DE BURRO: (actual
donkey jaw) percussive instrument particular of the region.TARIMA:
elevated wooden platform used for percussive dancing. CAJON: box
like wooden percussive instrument, it is also used amongst Peruvian
and flamenco musicians.The non-traditional instruments used by
TARIMA SON: Electric guitar and Electric Base, Violin, Harmonica,
Congas, Bells, Maracas, and anything that makes a percussive sound!.
For contracting TARIMA SON for your special events, educational
presentations and workshops, parties, festivals…etc. Please
contact ROBERTO FERREYRA 312/733 84 31 E-Mail: nahui_ollin@sbcglobal.net
Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival
July 17 & 18, 2010, 12 Noon to 7pm
Dawes Park, Sheridan Rd at Church
Free admission
The City of Evanston began its annual Ethnic Arts Festival in
1986. Each July, the Festival transforms the idyllic lakefront
Dawes Park, Sheridan Rd. at Church St., into a global village.
Surrounded by the flags of more than 100 nations honoring the
diversity of our planet, attendees experience the colors, sounds,
and aromas of world cultures. Every continent is represented in
song, dance, spoken word, visual arts and food.
There is live music, dance performances and art and craft work
of juried artists. People can also learn the folkdance of a far-away
country and explore the intriguing spices and seasonings of new
ethnic foods.
Join our online community for information and updates regarding
events presented by the Evanston Cultural Arts Division at www.myspace.com/noyesculturalarts
For detailed information on artists and performers (and more!)
connected with Evanston’s summer programs, visit www.summernoyes.blogspot.com
The Ethnic Arts Festival is sponsored by the City of Evanston
Cultural Arts Division and partially supported by the Illinois
Arts Council, a state agency. Additional support is provided by
the Homestead Hotel and Quince Restaurant, the Cherry Family Foundation,
ABC 7 Chicago, the Chicago Reader, and the Evanston RoundTable.
For more information, please call 847.448.8260
VISIT FARMER FRIDAY'S AT
UNCOMMON GROUND
Cuentos will be there this week!
July 9, 2010
1401 W Devon
at Glenwood
(just east of Clark)
from 4PM - 8PM
773 465 9801
Come pick up some Cuentos Fair Trade Art with
your organic greens and stay for music and dinner at Uncommon
Ground's Devon location this Friday.
We are setting up shop for the afternoon in the parking lot at
Uncommon Ground. Come visit the nation's first certified organic
rooftop farm, shop for unique copper art and jewelry and sample
some of the delicious offerings from various local companies.
Harvest Moon Organic produce & CSA will be there so stock
up on fresh farm raised veggies after grabbing dinner at the outdoor
patio.
Cuentos Fair Trade at Waldorf
May Fair Festival
Cuentos Fair Trade Spring Specials!
Saturday May 15, 2010
10 am - 4 pm
1300 West Loyola Avenue in Rogers Park
(between Lakewood and Glenwood in Rogers Park, one block west
of Loyola Red line Train)
Mother's Day Fair Trade Sale
Happy Mother's Day Special !
Cuentos is offering free shipping on any Mother's Day Purchase
from our Fair Trade Collection of art and jewelry from Santa Clara
del Cobre. Purchase your item on our etsy site or just reply to
this email to purchase one of the items featured below today!!!
visit our esty store
add us on facebook
visit our blog
Stop by and see us at World
Fair Trade Day
May 7th in Daley Plaza!
50 W. Washington
9am- 6pm
Cuentos Foundation
is proud to present new video documentary tryphon: three
sounds to accompany the retrospective exhibition opening
December 4 at the Brauer Museum of Art. tryphon
is available for purchase from Cuentos.
A catalogue of the exhibition is available from the Brauer
Museum of Art and the Corbett
vs. Dempsey Gallery
[
buy it now ]
Thomas H. Kapsalis: Artist's House
Paintings and Sculpture, 1947 - 2008
December 4, 2009 - March 21, 2010
Opening reception - Friday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m.
Brauer Museum of Art
Center for the Arts, Valparaiso University
1709 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383-6493
ghertzli@valpo.edu
Phone (219) 464-5365
Fax (219) 464-5244
http://www.valpo.edu/artmuseum
Curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, the exhibit
is accompanied by a biographical video produced by Michele Feder-Nadoff,
artistic director of Chicago’s Cuentos Foundation. The video
documentary entitled, tryphon: three sounds - the art
of thomas h. kapsalis - will be on display in the museum.
Cuentos Foundation is a nonprofit community organization that
promotes intercultural understanding and exchange through the
arts.
A full-color catalog also will be available for
purchase at the exhibition, and features an introduction by Hertzlieb
and scholarly essays by John Corbett and Michele Feder-Nadoff.
Brauer Museum Director, Gregg Hertzlieb says original research
by Corbett and Feder-Nadoff led to the catalog and video, which
together provide the most complete profile of the artist to date.
Kapsalis also will speak at two events that accompany the exhibition:
a coffee hour at the museum Jan. 13 at 7 p.m., and a gallery talk
Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. Hertzlieb also will present a coffee hour program
Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. to further explore the exhibition and biographical
video.
tryphon: three sounds is a candid
portrait of the artist Thomas H. Kapsalis (b. 1925) that also
provides an intimate glimpse into the history of the Chicago art
scene. Drawing upon personal conversations with Kapsalis, the
documentary incorporates extensive images spanning his sixty year
career, including paintings, sculptures, ephemera, family photos,
and archival footage. Kapsalis contributed to the Chicago artist
milieu through over fifty years as a professor at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago and continues to contribute through
his abstract paintings of impeccable resolution and presence.
These modernist-inspired works emanate a sensibility that combines
the Bauhaus aesthetic with a dadaist irony and humor, presented
with the modesty and directness of the Midwest. Kapsalis’s
art and character exude a hard-won calm tempered through his life
experiences, such as his survival as a prisoner of war during
World War II.
tryphon was produced by the Cuentos
Foundation to accompany the retrospective exhibition “Thomas
H. Kapsalis: Artist’s House, Paintings and Sculpture, 1947-2008,”
December 4, 2009 - March 21, 2010.This major exhibition celebrating
the life and art of this leading abstract Chicago artist was curated
by John Corbett & Jim Dempsey and was organized by the Brauer
Museum of Art, Valparaiso University. The video’s music
includes unique recordings - a sound-work by artist, Lou Mallozi;
traditional Greek and Turkish music by Eric Ederer and Andrea
Fishman; and flute improvisations by Corky Siegal and
tryphon’s video editor Sharon Karp/ Media Monster.
nwi.com
article - Chicago artist brings 'House' to VU
mosaic:
diverse interpretations of artistic expression
at La Casa de Arte y Cultura Calles y Sueños
Opening reception Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 6-9pm
1901 S. Carpenter, Chicago, IL 60608
enter mosaic
Codices
of Michoacán - Ancient Illuminated Manuscripts
Cuentos Foundation & Gallery Colibri
Invite you to attend a Lecture and Discussion
On the Codices of Michoacán - Ancient Illuminated Manuscripts
presented by visiting scholar/ historian
from Morelia, Michoacán
DR. CARLOS PAREDES MARTÍNEZ
followed by a cena/ dinner reception
Tuesday September 15, 2009 6:30 - 9:30 PM
at
Colibri Studio/Gallery
2032 W 18th St
Chicago, IL
suggested donation $5.00
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
OF CODICES
The towns of Pre-Hispanic Mexico developed a complex system of
communication through pictograms and phonetic signs that allowed
them to pass on the specialized knowledge through the generations.
These systems of writing nowadays are called codices and linen
clothes. In the case of Michoacán the Tarascos and Nahuas
towns knew about these pictographic expressions; however we have
never seen any codex of the pre-Hispanic time. Despite the fact
after 1522 at the colonial time, these same towns continued making
their codices, with new techniques, subjects and forms of expression
through images. This presentation will focus upon these codices
and linen clothes known in Michoacán, as a way to see the
past and culture of the indigenous towns of West Mexico.
Dr. Carlos Paredes Martínez holds a Ph.D.
in history from the Unicersidad Autónoma de México.
He is a researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Social
Anthropology and guest researcher at the Universidad de Michoacán
de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. He is a member of the National
System of Researchers and the mexican Academy of Sciences. He
specializes in Colonial history, ethnohistory, and ancient history,
particularly from Puebla and Michoacán. He has published
articles, books, and has coordinated an edition of six anthologies
on the colonial history of Michoacán.
Glenwood
Avenue Arts Festival
August 21-23, 2009
Friday night kickoff party 6pm
Street Fest Sat & Sun Noon-8pm
Annual street festival and artists’ market along the cobblestone
streets of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District in Rogers Park.
Evanston
Ethnic Arts Festival
July 18 & 19, 2009
Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 7pm
Dawes Park, Sheridan Rd at Church in Evanston
Free admission
Thousands of people converge on Evanston’s
lake-front on the third weekend of July for the
annual Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival. The festival site offers
all the beauty and amenities of a natural, outdoor lakefront setting.
The festival is a celebration of cultural diversity featuring
art from every continent, continuous world music and dance, a
wide assortment of ethnic cuisines and join-in art activities
for all ages. Last year, participants brought art and culture
from over 80 regions of the world, from Alaska to Zimbabwe.
Shop
Cuentos! at our 6321 N Clark Street Studio/Gallery
This Sunday December 21, 2008, 12-3PM Fair Trade Reception and
exhibition new and wondrous copper art $2.00 - $2,000 from Santa
Clara. Or call us to visit anytime! 773.761.4165
In 2008 we were proud to present, support, and initiate:
- Pregonando: Voicing Community - A multidisciplinary exhibition
project organized by Giselle Mercier - transporting participants
to the exemplary community-based work done in Chicago, Panama
and Mexico. http://www.cuentosfoundation.org/pdf/PREGO.pdf
- “Outside the Indigenous Lens” - Video
Presentation, organized by Aasia Mohammad Castañeda, US
Coordinator, Chiapas Media Project/ Promedios
- AL SON QUE ME TOQUES, LORCA, a Mexican musical
based on Garcia Lorca's BLOOD WEDDING, Directed by Laura Crotte
/ La molecula artistica at Goodman Theatre and Raven Theatre.
www.moleculartistica.org/promo.html;
http://www.cuentosfoundation.org/pdf/Press-Release.pdf
- Santa Clara Fair Trade Art at Ethnic Arts Festival,
Evanston and “One World Under One Roof” at the World
Music Festival, Chicago Cultural Center
- Inside, Outside, & Across exhibit of work
by Cuentos Creative Founder, Feder-Nadoff w/ PANEL DISCUSSION-
ARTISTS WORKING (WITH) IN COMMUNITY, and performance by YVES FRONCOIS
ET ROCAMBU JAZZ and Cuentos in-house DJ LEYVA spins Afro-Cuban
Music
- New Ethnographic Video Documentary Project- Aquí
y Allá / that traces the circle of exchange between the
local and the global through the intimate story about here and
there, focusing upon Santa Clara (im)migration within the context
and perspective of Chicago-Michoacán immigrants and globalization.
- Thomas Kapsalis- An Artist's Journey - A New Documentary
Video Project to accompany his Retrospective opening at Brauer
Museum of Art, December 2009.
- Artisan Union Forum in Santa Clara del Cobre,
Michoacan, Mexico at the Museo Nacional del Cobre about urgent
concerns facing this unique artisan community.
- University presentations with screenings of Huele
de Noche/ Night-blooming Jasmine Video at locations including:
The School of the Art Institute, Kishwaukee Community College,
and University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Cuentos Foundation
Holiday Ice-Cream Social and Fair Trade Art Sale
This event partially sponsored by Joe & Ross Ice
Cream
Afro-Cuban Spins with DJ Leyva
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