The Hope Business: Bill Strickland

The Hope Business: Bill Strickland

trailer shot and edited by ben hernstrom

For the last several months, I've had the great fortune to work with the amazing Israeli filmmaker Dana Goren on a documentary about Bill Strickland...

from the Post-Gazette:

JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum served as host for Ms. Goren's residency. When organizers pitched a new residency to the Schusterman Foundation, they had an additional component in mind: They wanted to give a filmmaker the opportunity to practice his/her craft in Pittsburgh.

...Ms. Goren discovered Bill Strickland and the Manchester Bidwell Corp., which are currently in the very early stages of establishing a center in Israel. Ms. Goren had found that "catch."

Mr. Strickland says that, although they are just at the beginning of the process, they are aiming for a comprehensive program. "The idea is that we're going to try to build a center that reflects vocational education as we practice it here at Bidwell, and a real focus on arts education. To use this as a strategy to bring the Arab-Muslim community and the Jewish community together."

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11007/1116120-60.stm#ixzz1JLwWMrTz

image above not related to the trailer- ie found via google images.

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Call for Artists: Streetscape Planters for Lawrenceville

CALL FOR ARTISTS:
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS:
DESIGNED STREETSCAPE PLANTERS
FOR LAWRENCEVILLE
BUSINESS DISTRICT
Application Deadline: May 31, 2010

pdf here

from Lawrenceville Corp:

May 4, 2010 - In September of 2008 the Urban Redevelopment Authority hired the Studio for Spatial Practice to develop a community supported vision for the Lower Lawrenceville Business District; the area between Doughboy Square (34nd Street) to 40th Street. During the planning process, two public meetings were held and a steering committee of community stakeholders was formed to help shape the planning process. Based on input received during the first public meeting as well as the steering committee, the LoLa Plan, which was completed by the Studio for Spatial Practice in July of 2009, stated that artist –designed planters at merchant locations should be implemented in the commercial corridor.

The Lawrenceville Corporation (LC) is the lead agency implementing the near‐term improvements as described in the LoLa Plan, including the artist‐designed streetscape planters. Through funding from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County the Lawrenceville Corporation will work with an artist to place streetscape planters throughout Lawrenceville’s Mainstreets Pittsburgh Districts – Butler Street between 34th – 55th and Penn Avenue between 40th and 45th Streets.

The planter design should be of the highest artistic quality. The planters must be durable enough to withstand placement in the main business corridors and when filled should be heavy enough so that they cannot be removed without substantial effort. Due to limited budget and longevity of the project, the LC would prefer that the artist use concrete as the primary medium for this project.

The artist should be familiar enough with the medium and processes to not only conceptualize the project but be able to oversee the management of the fabrication of the planters as well. The LC can assist in finding volunteers and other support for the artist but will not be responsible for the fabrication of the planters.

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

pittsburgh galleries is reborn anew as The Pittsburgh Art Blog. the blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com. the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.

Artforum on Takashi Murakami and the Art of Business CMU Pittsburgh Wed April 23, 2008

COMPANY MAN: TAKASHI MURAKAMI AND THE ART OF 'BUSINESS ART' Scott Rothkopf Senior Editor Artforum International Wednesday, April 23 at 6-7:30pm in Kresge Hall (CFA) CMU in Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)

THE ART OF BUSINESS/BUSINESS AS ART: A DISCUSSION ON BUSINESS AND ART WITH SCOTT ROTHKOPF, SENIOR EDITOR OF ARTFORUM

Delegation, agency, team production, monitoring, group entrepreneurship tic invention? "Business art is the step that comes after Art," Andy Warhol famously opined in 1975. Yet despite the recent explosion of the international art market and the crossover superstardom of figures such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, perhaps only one artist has truly taken Warhol at his word: Takashi Murakami.

This lecture will explore Murakami's far-flung "business art" endeavors and their relationship to his painting and sculpture, within the context of precedents including Dalí, Warhol, and Haring. A household name in his native Japan, Murakami (b. 1963) first gained international celebrity in 2002 with his series of Louis Vuitton handbags, which grossed more than three-hundred million dollars in their first year of sales alone. Although this corporate collaboration may be his most well-known foray into the world of commerce, it is but one point in a constellation of activities that dwarfs his gallery-bound paintings and sculpture in administrative scope and market reach.

In addition to churning out finely crafted artworks coveted by collectors, he is busy producing related mass-market merchandise; running his own art fair; managing the careers of young Japanese artists; planning group exhibitions; hosting a radio show; and pursuing commercial "collaborations" in the form of advertising and branding projects with the likes of rapper Kanye West Scott Rothkopf is a senior editor of Artforum, as well as an arthistorian and critic. He has been a guest curator at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, where he most recently co-organized "This Is Not a Time for Dreaming" (2004), a site-specific installation and film by the French artist Pierre Huyghe made in response to Le Corbusier's only North American building, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. At the Fogg, he was also curator and catalogue author for the exhibition "Mel Bochner Photographs 1966¬1969" (2002), which traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

As a frequent contributor to Artforum, Rothkopf has written on major exhibitions, including the Venice and Whitney biennials, and on artists such asJeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, Diller+Scofidio, Carroll Dunham, Josiah McElheny, T. J. Willcox, and Karen Kilimnik, who was the subject of his 2007 book, Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik's Fancy Pictures, co-authored with Meredith Martin. His other museum and gallery catalogue contributions include monographic essays on Wade Guyton, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Kelley Walker, and Terry Winters, as well as text on Takashi Murakami for his current traveling retrospective, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Rothkopf has chaired public panels, including "Photography and Conceptual Art" with Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Jan Dibbets, and "Transatlantic," a College Art Association session devoted to the interchange between American and European artists in the 1960s and'70s. His essay on Surrealism in American art of the 1960s appeared in 2005 in the catalogue of "Surrealism USA," organized by the National Academy Museum, and a book length version of this text is currently under contract with Yale University Press.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, The School of Art, and the New Minor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development. Contact person: Melissa Ragona, Assistant Professor of Art, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, mragona@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 779-9257

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