Monday, December 11, 2017

A thisopenspace Black Lives Matter Art Show































And so I find myself signing into this blog again to blog that "Last month, actually a few months ago already, thisopenspace launched their $30,000 Space Fund in New York City, pledging to fuel 30 projects from their community of brand builders and ideamakers with sponsored space."  And thisopenspace gave me, or I was the recipient of a $500 space fund marketplace credit to use to book one of their spaces from their website to do a Black Lives Matter Art Show, as one of the things that Black Lives Matter Art Show usually needs to do those Black Lives Matter Art Shows is space.  And so I used that marketplace credit to book a space at Dacia Gallery. And according to Bedford + Bowery, Black Lives Matter Art Show found a new life at Dacia Gallery Saturday evening, December 9th. Thanks for mentioning Black Lives Matter Art Show Bedford + Bowery. And so Black Lives Matter Art Show went to Dacia Gallery this past weekend, that Contemporary gallery showcasing a variety of local established & emerging artists in that neighborhood of Soho or Lower East Side in New York City.  And Steve from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network spoke about The Stop Mass Incarceration Network and handed out posters and literature.  And Dawn from #TaketheStands hung her really big "THIS IS US TAKING A KNEE BLACK LIVES MATTER" banner on the wall, that she uses to drop from stadiums at sports events and other places. And Ras played his horn and there was music, music and more music, and there were more thoughts written on those Your Thoughts On Black Lives Matter banners on what was a freezing cold snowstorm evening with SantaCon events abounding and SantaCon Clausers on the streets everywhere in NYC on this day. And so I posted photos and videos from this event that find themselves posted above. And thanks simply_me_kandeeleigh for instagraming one of those photos from this event that finds itself posted above also.  And that facebook event invite read something like:

Black Lives Matter | Carla Cubit of Occupy Art

Opening Reception & Performances: December 9th, 5-8pm at Dacia Gallery.
A performance by Ras Moshe Burnett and open jam session and open mic and a speaker from Take the Stands and The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, followed by an Artist Talk & Discussion. 

Free posters will be available from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the one day pop up Black Lives Matter Art Show features Carla Cubit's Black Lives Matter artwork and posters, accompanied by her photographs from Black Lives Matter protests throughout the NYC area and banners from Take the Stands. .

"Expand scope, perspective, and inspiration towards an ongoing series of future culture jams and events around this theme and time." During Open Hours, all are encouraged to come talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and are invited to view Your Thoughts On Black Lives Matter banners and create their own posters/Black Lives Matter inspired artwork (art materials and supplies provided).

Handmade Black Lives Matter necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins will be on sale for $1 during the Opening Reception.


About Occupy Art
"We are the 99%." Visit Occupy Art to learn more about past Occupy Art and Black Lives Matter Art Shows.
http://occupyart.org/

About Take the Stands
#TaketheStands
What if people across America found bold, visible ways to show support for racial justice and black lives. Take a sign to a sporting event or your town center. Take a picture, use #TaketheStands. Join our activist chain letter.#takeaknee

About The Stop Mass Incarceration Network
"Rise up to Stop Mass Incarceration & Police Terror. We are initiating an effort to accelerate the movement to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality; the racially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system; and to support the human rights of prisoners and of the formerly incarcerated. We call on all to join us." Learn more and get involved, at Stop Mass Incarceration Network.


Thanks thisopenspace.
"Last month, we launched our $30,000 Space Fund in New York City, pledging to fuel 30 projects from our community of brand builders and ideamakers with sponsored space."
https://blog.thisopenspace.com/space-fund-winners/

View the event on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-lives-matter-art-show-tickets-39567083211?aff=erelexpmlt

Food and refreshments will be provided

FREE


And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street day one thousand and something, or two thousand and something, I think.  And those global revolution Occupy Wall Street and all things police brutality and beyond Black Lives Matter movements are still moving fast, I think.  Have a great Occupy Art, Occupy Wall Street Worldwide, Black Lives Matter day and more.


Thursday, September 21, 2017

Black Lives Matter Art Show Went To The Living Gallery Outpost



























Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blog. The Living Gallery has a new space in New York's Lower East Side or East Village you can call it for real estate marketing purposes maybe. And Black Lives Matter Art Show went to The Living Gallery's new space, The Living Gallery Outpost this past week. And thanks again Nyssa for giving me the opportunity to get that Black Lives Matter artwork out of the closet again to continue those culture jams and events around this theme and time, as I haven't had the opportunity to do another one of those art shows since Black Lives Matter Art Show Went To The Living Gallery. And every picture tells a story, I think, about how this art show went as in those photos and videos that find themselves posted above. And thanks Paper Magazine for mentioning Black Lives Matter Art Show as THE 10 MUST-SEE ART SHOWS OPENING THIS WEEK, which was actually last week by now. And that Facebook event invite for this event read something like:

Black Lives Matter | Carla Cubit of Occupy Art
Join us for this special one night only event!

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the one day pop up Black Lives Matter Art Show features Carla Cubit's Black Lives Matter artwork and posters, accompanied by her photographs from Black Lives Matter protests throughout the NYC area.

A performance by Rude Mechanical OrchestraRas Moshe Burnett, The Black Lives Matter Band and open jam session and a speaker from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network and a #WhoisUncleTom talkback followed by an Artist Talk & Discussion. 

Free posters will be available from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network

"Expand scope, perspective, and inspiration towards an ongoing series of future culture jams and events around this theme and time." During Open Hours, all are encouraged to come talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and are invited to view Your Thoughts On Black Lives Matter banners and create their own posters/Black Lives Matter inspired artwork (art materials and supplies provided).

Handmade Black Lives Matter necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins will be on sale for $1 during the Opening Reception.

About Occupy Art
"We are the 99%." Visit Occupy Art, to learn more about past Occupy Art and Black Lives Matter Art Shows.
http://occupyart.org/

About The Stop Mass Incarceration Network
"Rise up to Stop Mass Incarceration & Police Terror. We are initiating an effort to accelerate the movement to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality; the racially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system; and to support the human rights of prisoners and of the formerly incarcerated. We call on all to join us." Learn more and get involved, at Stop Mass Incarceration Network.

About #WHOISUNCLETOM
Join the Conversation. Un-Masking: Stories and Truth. This workshop examines how media images, stereotypes and grotesque representations shape our ideas of race, class and culture. We all have a story.

Food and refreshments will be provided

FREE


Though in all honesty #WhoisUncleTom talkback cancelled their workshop at the last minute and that Black Lives Matter Band didn't really materialize. And much like The Living Gallery in Brooklyn, The Living Gallery Outpost are having community events seemingly every day and beyond. And if I must also mention in this blogger post, according to that Inaugural Space Fund announcement yesterday, Black Lives Matter Art Show is also looking forward to going to one of thisopenspace's spaces sometime later this year I guess, as one thing I think one needs to do those art shows is space. Thanks #thisopenspace.  And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street day one thousand or two thousand and something, I think.  And those protest for world revolution movements Occupy Wall Street and all things police brutality and beyond movements Black Lives Matter are still moving fast. We are the 99%. Have a great Occupy Art, Occupy Art NYC, Occupy Wall Street Worldwide day and more
.

Monday, June 12, 2017

Black Lives Matter Art Show at Northside Festival 2017










Photo by Caitlin Crews

















Everybody wants to get on the Van Gogh boat. I think, as in that Basquiat movie quote from that Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat mural that finds itself posted above that was found on the streets around 10th and Bedford Avenue during that BLOCK PARTY at Northside Festival in New York City this past weekend.  And Northside Festival gave me the opportunity to drag that Black Lives Matter artwork out of the closet again to do another one of those Black Lives Matter Went To Northside Festival art shows, or part of it, or some version of it as I did at their festival last year and to post on this blog that Black Lives Matter Art Show went to another event, or something like that. And the rain held off and the sun felt as if it was a thousand degrees on this Northside Festival 2017 weekend in New York City.
And this years BLOCK PARTY at Northside Festival read something like as follows:

June 10 - June 11
Bedford L Stop
1PM to 6PM

Northside Block Party // Williamsburg Walks 

On June 10th-11th, Williamsburg’s main drag - Bedford Avenue will transform into a public park (from Metropolitan Avenue to N.12th Street). Temporary wall units for live painting, interactive installations and workshops, and engaging sculptures will be staggered throughout the blocks for the community to enjoy! See you at the Block Party! 

Come see the work of these talented artists and exciiting business!

Nyssa Frank @nyssa_art

Black Lives Matter Art Show https://nopolicestategirl.net/

Chinon Maria Studio & Maven Murals @chinonmaria

Stickymonger and Andrea Kang @stickymonger & @harlow_bear

El Museo de Los Sures & Taiwanese American Arts Council
http://www.southsideunitedhdfc.org/museo.html
http://www.taac-us.org/

Niizeki Hiromi @niizeki_hiromi www.niizekihiromi.com

Kelly Denato @nopunchbacks

J.H.S. 291 Roland Hayes

Brooklyn Draw Jam @ brooklyndrawjam

John P. Dessereau @johnsville.studio

Francesca Marguerite Maximé @francescamaxime

Jason Heuer @ jason_heuer
133 Design Collective @133designcollective

Williamsburg Charter Highschool www.thewcs.org

Seth Failla www.sethfailla.com

Scott Walker @scottliamwalker

James Orchard-Hays @jamesorchardhays,

Hiraku @Hirakunyc

Suerpchief Gallery NY @superchiefgallery

Mumbot @mumbot

Ian Ferguson @hydeon

Stephen Faillace @stephen_faillace

The Strangers Project @StrangersProj

Jacob Thomas jacobthomasart.com

Natalie Lucre @cultofshe

Christine Stoddard/The Collage Forest http://www.quailbell.com/

Zoey Hart www.zoeyahart.wordpress.com

Mad Gleam Press https://www.madgleampress.com/

Natalia Zamparini www.facebook.com/natybynature

Bown-Osborne Studio

Scott Chasse @scott__chasse

The Art Rising https://www.theartrising.com/

WTLMS www.wtlms.com

KPISS. FM www.kpiss.fm

Stage of Aces @StageOfAces

IncrediPole http://www.incredipole.com/

Hosh Yoga http://www.hoshyoga.org/

Brooklyn Fox Lingerie http://brooklynfoxlingerie.com/

Twenty Sided Store http://twentysidedstore.com/

Artists & Fleas https://www.artistsandfleas.com/

Turkey's Nest

Gibson http://thegibsonnyc.com/

Soft Spot Bar http://softspotbar.com/

Brooklyn Charm https://www.brooklyncharm.com/

Sweet Chick http://sweetchick.com/

The Meatball Shop https://www.themeatballshop.com/

HeadCount https://www.headcount.org/

Freelancers Union https://www.freelancersunion.org/

North Brooklyn Angels http://northbrooklynangels.nationbuilder.com/


And someone said to me on this day as they pondered those thoughts on Black Lives Matter, a particular thought that stuck in my mind, that "Black means evil and white means good", and that this thought has been instilled in us since the beginning of time and can this ever be changed?
And I seemed to have taken a photo of everything but those Your Thoughts on Black Lives Matter thoughts that were written on the banners themselves on this day, though some of those thoughts in addition to other Your Thoughts on Black Lives Matter thoughts written on banners on this day if I were to read them were:

1.  We are alive
2.  Yes, Black Lives Matter, sktop the diversity chatter!
3.  life is a gift, a black person life is just as important as anyone else!!!
4.  Beyond the race on life is on life.
5.  ALL Lives MATTER!!
6.  All lives can't possibly matter until Black Lives, animal lives are not being slaughtered every day.  Black lives, black justice are 5 times likely to a longer sentence that white & black women are in terms. Research!
7.  (In response to 6), America forgot what it stood for!  We will get this back! RESIST!
8.  It's a shame we even have to say it!
9.  Black lives Matters isn't just about black people. it represents every culture & every minority that is the underdog. - Vi2
10.  The Black Lives Matter Movement is the voice of the survivors - Wordsconnect
11.  We are FAMILY!!
12.  Let's all come together As All Lives Matter - Real people see all colors. Black Lives Matter....
13.  BLM = ALWAYS HERE NEVER LEFT BEHIND
14.  #Don't Be Horrible Love always wins!
15.  BLACK Lives Are Sacred
16.  All lives matter 
17.  RISE ABOVE!
18.  I matter, my brother matters, my son matters, my father matters, my uncles matter, my nephews matter, my black  family matters. 
19.  black people are beautiful, amazing, INCREDIBLE.  - Logic. PLD
20.  #BLM  Too much to say.  We all need to open up and create a community unafraid to face discomfort & stand up for another.
21,  Lets all come together as All Lives Matter - Real people see all colors. Black Lives Matter....
22.  POWERFUL
23.  Be Proud oF being BLACK - Ellie
24.  WE WANT EQUALITY YOU SONS OF A BITCHES!!!
25.  Equality by Force Dump Dump
26.  Equality for all
27.  we are not free with discrimination
28.  KIA KAHA
29.  should be a f*ckin no - brainer! LOVE U
30.  PEACE LOVE LIGHT CONQUERS ALL
31.  Brown & Black people should unite as one to defend racism together!  Together we will can be one.
32.  De Segregate the NYC schools Be TOGETHER! LEARN TOGETHER
33.  Black Lives Matter!
34.  Everyone deserves the same thing
35.  WE CAN MAKE GREAT CHANGE WALKING HAND IN HAND!
36.  Everyone should be treated like human
37.  No individual can be truly, fully happy, free and at peace until every single person is.  We are all more united, more unbreakably one than cultural systems would have us believe.  Thank you, thank you for your heart - ful work, BLM, for fighting the good fight.  for not just POC, but for the soul of humanity.
38.  I LOVE BLACK LIVES BLACK LIVES MATTER IN SOLIDARITY. JAY
39.  White people stop being afraid.  Your lives matter but you're not getting killed because of your skin tone!  This movement is important. NEEDED
40.  White silence is violence.  Madelinefiorio
41.  EQUALITY
42.  ALthough racism exists, so does LOVE, HONOR, Respect and acceptance.  We need more of this to conquer hatred!  #LOVE
43,  Maylin not racist
44.  My life, your life, our life.  We share the f*cking earth.  It's not your's.  It's -OURS-.
45.  Diversity is what makes the world wonderful.
46.  Close your eyes and you will see we are all humans.  One Love xx
47.  Yes!  THEY HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED (Peace, Justice, Love to all people!)
48.  Let there be peace on earth.  Let it begin with me.
49.  MISSY

And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street day one thousand and something, I think.  And those global revolution Occupy Wall Street and all things police brutality and beyond Black Lives Matter movements are still moving fast, I think.  Have a great Black Lives Matter Art Show @ Northside Festival day and more.