People's Joy Parade, 5/8 1:11pm

Hear Ye! Oye!  Please join us for the 2nd Annual “People’s Joy Parade”: An Art Processional Celebrating the Diversity of  Zocalo Cherokee.  You are very invited to participate and /or watch this Wowzer of a feel-good street celebration.   On the heels of our exceedingly successful grassroots fund-raising campaign, we are energized to share the home made costumes, gigantes, and songs, grow out of our workshops! Don’t hold back from getting involved you can show up in costume the day of, help us carry Gigante puppets, be a facepainter, or volunteer.


Saturday May 8th 2010 starting at 1:11pm as a part of the Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo Celebration.


Meet at the Black Forest Parking Lot at Noon to march. We will be walking on and around Cherokee Street.   Parade Route is online at http://cincodemayostl.com/parade.html  .


Including:

• Aeriality of the Bumbershoot School
• Augratin Press
• C.A.M.P. Costume Shop Kids
• Carver Motor Scooters
• The Carmen Mirandas
• Celestial Theater
• Cherokee Real Garden
• Cinco de Volvo
• Footbeat Choir led by Celia Shacklett
• Fort Gondo Float
• Grace Space Girls
• Gigantes of Wesley Fordyce
• Harris Stowe Drumline
• IRE Moped Crew
• Luchador Collab-O-Mask Artists
• March of Femicides led by Amanda Madoux
• Members of the Banana Bike Brigade
• Roosevelt Marching Band
• Show Me Rhythms
• St. Cecilia’s Dancers
• St. Louis Language Immersion School

And The Procession of Artists Featuring

• Lauren Adams
• Artica Founders Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips
• Melissa Breed
• Irene Compadre
• Digger Blaque
• Bob Hartzell
• Emily Hemeyer
• Bill Krantz
• Deanna Kiel
• Minerva Lopez
• Laura Mart
• Katie Mac
• Ariane Moore
• Mark Pagano
• Mike Pagano
• Sarah Paulsen
• Billy Paulsen
• Jake Petersen
• Rebecca Rivas
• Bill Russell
• Travis Russell
• Eric and Mina Repice
• Lyndsey Scott
• Jenny Shriner
• Mike Stasny
• Amy Van Donsel
• Ann-Maree and Jason Walker
• Ben West
• Peat and Kris Wollaeger
• Davide Wolk
• Willy Zep

Why:  Because… parades recognize the importance of the people who make up a community and it’s sort of like the Music Man come to life.

Contact  ***TO PARTICIPATE: If you want to march in the parade, please contact coordinator Sarah Paulsen at pintorasp(at)hotmail(dot)com or visit http://stlcamp.org/peoples_joy_parade_2010

C.A.M.P. = The Community Arts and Movement Project 3026 Cherokee Street

Luchador Collab-o-mask - Cinco De Mayo 3

Start Time:	Friday, May 7, 2010 at 3:00pm
End Time:	Monday, June 7, 2010 at 6:00pm
Location:	All Along Press
Street:	2712 Cherokee Street
City/Town:	Saint Louis, MO
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Description

Stencil Artist Peat Wollaeger (stenSOUL.com) collaborates with 15+ Cherokee Street Artists for this years Luchador Collab-o-mask featuring all new masks by Sleepy Kitty, Casey Miller, All Along Press, Cranky Yellow, Phil Jarvis, Chris Sabatino (art monster), Bryan Walsh, Robert Tapley Bustamante, Langley, Lyndsey Scott with the GraceSpace Girls, Amy Van Donsel, Anchovy, Keith A. Buchholz, the boys from Firecracker Press and more!!!

Peat has distributed blank wooden mexican wrestler masks to over 125 artists to date and asked them to paint their style in to the background. Once painted they returned them to Peat and he stenciled in the details of the face.

This event takes place
OPENS: Friday May 7
All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
7pm - 10pm

Featuring live Wrestlers and drinks.
BE SURE TO WEAR YOUR LUCHA MASKS TO THE OPENING!!!

Also open after the Parade on Saturday during the Cherokee Street celebration of Cinco de Mayo on May 8th.

VIEW MASKS FROM PAST SHOWS HERE!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=60278&id=634701273

GraceSpace -- a safe place for girls to create

via Cherokee Street News:

Beginning March 17, GRACESPACE will meet weekly at C.A.M.P. to gather a small group of neighborhood teenage and pre-teen neighborhood girls together with two co-teachers (Lyndsey Scott and Cayree Dobsch) and visiting mentors to celebrate feminine leadership, self-worth, creative expression, and healthy bodies.  Exploring a toolkit that includes dance, acroyoga, journaling, self portraits, and women’s history,  GRACESPACE connects young women to resources that  promote self-nurture and kindle intuition.  The culminating project will be a performance during the People’s Joy Parade!
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm, from March 17-June 2
For 11-15 year old Girls
$25 for 12 weeks/ No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds – Barter Negotiable

Class applications are due March 8, and are available at Foam, The Cherokee Rec Center, The Marquette Rec Center, and Carpenter Branch Library.
For more information, to volunteer , or to make a donation, call Lyndsey Scott: 217.898.3777

BRICALEUR-ing: All Lady Art Show & Public Art Lab @ Fort Gondo

via Cherokee Street News:

BRICALEUR-ing: An inquiry into the profundity & resourcefulness of Female Transformateurs

During this March all-lady art show, curated by Sarah Paulsen and Lyndsey Scott, the Fort Gondo gallery space will also serve as a creative laboratory– hosting a sound portal, movie night, womens’ circle, and workshop for a Cherokee Street public art installation …. All powered by community connection and female ingenuity.

A bricaleur “describes the style of approach exemplified by a tinkerer or a jack of all trades…comfortable in unfamiliar realms of learning and experience because they learn best by using indirect connections to known information…They try things out until they figure out how to do something.”  We celebrate the way women gather, nurture, and shape space!

When: MARCH 13-28, 2010
Where: Fort Gondo, Cherokee Street, STL, USA
Who:
Gina Alvarez, Catherine Cathers, Katherine Gastler, Sarah Brunjes Hall, Emily Hemeyer, Kara Clark Holland, Jamie Kreher, Christy LeMaster, Jenny Murphy,  Lisa Payne, Sarah Paulsen, Lyndsey Scott, Amy Thompson, Amy VonDonsel, Autumn Wiggins, Ann-Maree Walker

Calendar of public events:
** denotes an event exclusively “For women!”
* denotes an event for all genders, so long as your feminine side’s leading

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 13 / 5pm-9pm/ Meet the artists and make your mark on the WonderJardin!   Feel free to bring fabrics or fabric paint for the quilt
**NEW MOON CIRCLE & Potluck: Monday, March 15 / 7:30pm – 10pm /  Share food, dreams, and intentions with other women, facilitated by Cayree Dobsch
*MAKE NIGHT: Monday, March 22 / 6pm – 10pm / Powerhouse community quilting bee –women and girls of all ages welcome!
*SOUND PORTAL : Thursday, March 25 / 8pm/ Ghosts I Have Been, Larva, and Annah of Bangerang each play short sets, and then play hostesses-with-the-mostesses to an interactive jam that traipses thru found city sound recordings, wields noisey ‘lekky toys, pulses refreshlingly ambient, or cackles funky folky. All ya’lls inner banshees welcome!
“Broad Shoulders” FILM SCREENING : Friday, March 26 / 8pm/ Christy LeMaster of Nightengale Microcinema presents a curated line-up of Chicago-bred eclectic shorts all with “a prettiness built out of utility.”
WONDERJARDIN INSTALLATION : Sunday, March 28 /  Meet @ 11am / Show up at the gallery with your picnic basket to find out the locale and let’s head out to inaugurate the World-St. Louis’ Biggest Picnic Blanket ever!
For more information, please email Lyndsey Scott -- seehere AT seehere dot info -- or  Sarah Paulsen -- pintorasp AT hotmail dot com.

DIY Prints at the Finder's Hive at CAMP

From Cherokee Street News:

Calling all crafters, kids, and kids-at-heart: Stop by the Community Arts and Media Project during the Cherokee Street Print League Open House to preview the soon-coming “Finder’s Hive”!

The “Finder’s Hive” is an all-new treasure trove that will host UPCYCLE – a crafters’ post-consumer goods redistribution interface – as well hopes to host “Make Space” art programs including a Kids Street Art collective, knitting circle, and drawing nights. Come find out more, and how you can fit!

10:00 am - 4:00 pm December 5 — @ CAMP, 3022 Cherokee Street
Stroll into phase one of the "junk shop co-op" to peruse the stockpiled goodies and participate in FREE interactive printmaking activities. Experiment with DIY, low-fi printmaking techniques topped off with collage to custom create your own holiday gift cards and wrapping paper — perfect for packaging up your Print League goodies for under the tree! Tie a ribbon ’round it.

If you’re interested in volunteering to lead art activities or finding out more about the Hive, contact Lyndsey @ 217.898.3777!

VISIT —– upXChange.com —- for more info on the nuts & bolts of the redistribution process.

Both Ends and the Middle: the Cherokee Street All Community Co-Lab Art Showcase

Where: Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
3151 Cherokee St.
St Louis MO, 63118

When: This Friday night, October 30, from 6-10pm

What It Is: We're showing off drawings and photos workshopped at the Chatillon-DeMenil House located at the eastern end of Cherokee Street and work made during the all-community "Love Letters to Cherokee Workshop" at CAMP on the western end. The exhibition also includes individual works by Lyndsey Scott, Sarah Paulsen, Bill Russell, Maria Guadalupe Massey, Timothy Wagner, All Along Press, St Louis Style and more. Photos of the Peoples' Joy Parade, Eleanore Balson's community-painted box truck and architectural drawings from the Community Hub Project are also included.

The Story: A few short weeks ago Lynn Josse and Emily Hemeyer embarked on a Why Not? quest with only 3-weeks to gather, plan and promote this show. We were astounded at the amount of work we were able to pull together as well as all of the community support. Thank you Cherokee Street neighbors, artists, businesses and friends. It's all for you.

One night only. Costumes welcome.

Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: a convergence of art, ideas and history

superfun art/play workshop this Sunday

From your friends at the Chatillon-DeMenil House and the wonder-artist Lyndsey Scott:

Our October "Arts Then and Now" events are on the road, exploring how our neighbors on Cherokee Street are inspired to mingle art and architecture. First, we'll meet inside CAMP to draw and brainstorm together. Taking cues from old photographs and advertisements together with current photos, fliers, and news clippings -- we'll let our imaginations explore what the street has been and can be. Then we'll make copies of our sketches and stroll around the neighborhood affixing these images and messages with magnets where people can interact with them. No worries if you're not an 'artist' -- if you've got attentive eyes, willing hands, and a sense of humor you're well equipped to play this game!

Sunday, October 18
1pm
Community Arts and Media Project
3022 Cherokee Street

questions? 229-0793

This free workshop is made possible with support from the Regional Arts Commission.

Cranky Yellow tonight: masked human photo paintings, crap glued to crap, a plastic projection soundscape room and a free exchange

CRANKY YELLOW TONIGHT!!!!
May 8th, 7-11pm
2847 Cherokee St

Carolyn Slonim's opening for "I Feel" an eerily surrealistic collection of hand painted traditionally processed photographs of masked humans interaction with space.

"Crap Glued to Crap" is celebrating its new window view. A delightful multi-media explosion for all the world to see as channeled through David Wolk, Sam Kertz, Brett Marren and Lyndsey Scott.

Emily Hemeyer is performing at 9pm as GHOSTS I HAVE BEEN inside a plastic projection room with bones of the past created with Grace Woodard of KDHX who will be DJing throughout.

In addition Cranky Yellow is inviting local anyone to participate in a FREE EXCHANGE of crap. So please bring anything you don't want and leave it on the tables provided for someone else to deal with. Oh and if you bring something. You have to take something.

A link you love...

Cranky Yellow: http://www.crankyyellow.com

Chautauqua Art Lab: Day 4

Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
3151 Cherokee St
St Louis MO
6:30- 10:30?
Artist Viewpoints: Innovations and Boundaries in Community Art Practice. Followed by Q & A.

Cindy Tower- East St. Louis Painter, New York Installation Artist, once Red Groom's studio assistant, trained by Allan Kaprow, and an off the wall community collaborator.


Keith Buchholz- The St. Louis Fluxus Artist and winner of "individual who sends greatest quantity of personal mail via Grand post office". A sort of king of mailed collaborations, he's even got mail from Yoko Ono.


Lyndsey Scott- Community Artist of Vacant lots and empty streets. Recent collaborator for the People's Joy Parade. Creator of the Belly Laugh under the arch.


Peat Wollaeger- International Graffiti artists and our own local advocate for the society of Luchadors. Recent exhibitions in Melbourne and Art Basel Miami.


Maya Escobar- You Tube artists extraordinaire, come hear how this woman's multiple identities has caused such controversy. Other projects include: "El es Frida Kahlo" and "Berlin's Eruv".


Ana Rockaway- Our own link to the Rockaway Armada legacy that some few years ago traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade boat bringing revelry and inspiration to all river folk.


Followed by music from Ana's band: BANGERANG


Calendar: http://www.tinyurl.com/constellate

Cherokee St Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL) series at Fort Gondo 5/3-5/8

Cherokee Street Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL)

Map the multi-verse with controversial artists/speakers, pots and pans music makers, and film bricoleurs constellating for the temporary art and technology project co-organized by artists Emily Hemeyer, Sarah Paulsen, and Eric Repice. The series of nightly collaborative educational gatherings is inspired by the historical Chautauqua adult education movement in the US and features participatory panels, music soundscapes, and video screenings.

May 3-7 each night, 6:30 PM -10:00 PM

Fort Gondo, 3151 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO, USA

Learn, Include, Collaborate, Constellate. “Chautauqua is the most American thing about America”-- Theodore Roosevelt


Calendar of Events

Sunday, May 3: “Sound Improvisation and the Collective Consciousness.” Guests include: Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius, Diminished Capacity (Anna Lum and Rich O’Donnell), Ghosts I Have Been w/ recordings by Ghost Ice, and MMMelt (Daniel Shown). Followed by a recorded improvisational collaboration. Bring electronics, toys, gadgets, found objects, organic instruments and make noise!


Monday, May 4: “Local Go-getters and How They Began.” Public Forum Q & A
with presentations by Matt Strauss (White Flag), BJ Vogt (MAPS), Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips (Artica), David Wolk (Cranky Yellow & Crammed Organisms), Eric Woods (Firecracker Press), Open Lot, Luminary Center, All Along Press, and APOP Records. Music by Nate Henricks and friends.


Tuesday, May 5: “Expanding Personal and Collective Practices that Investigate Notions of Space, History, and Public Goods.” A discussion highlighting mapping, tagging, blogging, virtual studios, and YouTube as art spaces featuring Eric and Michelle DeLair Repice (Wash U), Michael Allen (Ecology of Absence), Ben West (WASABINET), Jordan Hicks (Open Lot), and live animation by Sarah Paulsen.

Wednesday, May 6: “Artist Viewpoints: Innovations and Boundaries in Community Art Practice.” Works and commentary by Cindy Tower, Lyndsey Scott, Keith Bucholdz (Fluxus), Peat Wollager, Maya Escobar and Anna Fullproof (Miss Rockaway Armada). Music by Bangerang.

Thursday, May 7: ”Exploratory Film Night: Time based art/video shorts exploring the use of found/appropriated images, collage and archives.” Including films by Jodie Mack (Chicago), Emily Foster (San Francisco), Tom Bussmann/Ken Brown, Jeremy Kannapell, Mike Pagano, Emily Hemeyer and more. Music by Kevin Butterfield and -Flowers. All proceeds benefit CAMP-Community Arts and Media Project.

Calendar

New at City Art Supply

Update from City Art Supply, at 3215 Cherokee St.:

Stop by City Art Supply for new items including more gouache colors, gesso, larger quantities of Higgins ink, more Higgins colors, block ink, fabric paint and ink, Poster Paint Sharpies, more drawing pad sizes.

Not to mention more paint (oil and acrylic) canvases (panel, stretched and raw 10oz), paper, linoleum, adhesives, Flashe Paint, etc etc etc…

Also, sign up for All Along Press's summer classes and receive 10% discount on supplies for the class.

And you only have about two weeks more to see The Flow Show, an installation of underwater amazement created by Lyndsey Scott and Holly Gallaher. It comes down at the end of the month to make room for May’s artist – Josh Crow.

Thank you

City Art Supply
3215 Cherokee St
St. Louis, MO 63118
314-771-5375


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Sun
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