A Composting Contraption sighting. Looks like it might be on a
road trip!
Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship
Ecstasy – a sculpture @ Patricia Green
Love this! Thank You!
Community Art Makers
This is one of the scenic backdrops they built that was used at
Art Outside. I
just love it!
“Community Art Makers” was one of the Black Rock Arts Foundation’s 2010
grant recipients. They are Austin, Texas based community leaders
offering work and meeting space, guidance and assistance to
artists endeavoring to engage their community.
Former notable projects have included recently showcasing the 32
foot tall fire tornado from the BRC ‘Fire of Fires’
Temple for a public audience of thousands, and the first public
burn night on NYE, 2009 of the Resolution Clock in the center of
Austin, Texas for 100,000 people.
BRAF’s infrastructure investment will allow the Community
Art Makers to build upon current resources and offer more
structured resources and work space for artists. Their upcoming
projects are focused on artist empowerment and community building.
Some of these projects for 2010 include partnerships with the City
of Austin Library, Parks and Art in Public Places Departments,
‘Art Outside’ and ‘First Night’ pieces
that showcase interactivity to a public audience and hands on
classes and training for trained and aspiring artists.
This is what their most recent blog post had to say:
Thanks to the continued generosity of the Black Rock Arts Foundation , we have nearly completed a 400 SF studio space renovation at our North Austin Compound. This weekend we should be finished renovating our very own glass studio! Our space will be equipped with tools for creating stained glass, fusing and also slumping glass. Need some space to create? Want to learn? Drop us a line and get involved!
Reflections of time
Another view of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship we have not seen.
What a fabulous shot. Thank you.
Capturing the Raygun Gothic Rocketship
Our very own Josie Schimke, Program Development Associate at the
Black Rock Arts Foundation was biking by the Raygun Gothic
Rocketship, as she does most days on the way to work, and she came
upon an artist painting the Rocketship. She stopped and chatted
and took this photo. The Rocketship continues to show up in new
and fun ways on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
Detroit Dream Project
Some new photos of the Detroit Dream Project, one of our 2007 Civic Arts installations.
Thanks for the great photo and giving us a peek at how the project looks today!
To read more about the temple:
Prior blog posts
Crazy rides rockets
I continue to be amazed that the Raygun Gothic Rocketship can be photographed in such a variety of ways. Thanks to Brandon Doran for this one.
Happy New Year!
Burning Man and BRAF Art Grant Workshop and Art Lounge
You must RSVP if you wish to attend. Email to: rsvp-specialevents @burningman.com (rsvp-specialevents @burningman.com)
Attention Artists:
You’ve asked, and we’ve listened! This year we are hosting our first art grants workshop. Come hear from those involved in both BRAF’s and Burning Man’s grant processes about what is needed to create a successful grant proposal. You’ll be given a chance to ask questions about the mandatory grant forms – why we ask certain questions, what information we are looking for and more. If you can’t make it to the event, don’t worry! Send in your question by Wednesday, January 12th and it will be answered during the workshop. The workshop will be recorded, and a video posted on the Burning Man website shortly after the event.
After the workshop, please join us for the Art Lounge. This event is a social mixer for the artists and volunteers who created work for Burning Man and BRAF last year and/or are planning art projects this coming year. Your creative spirit gives so much to the world. We want to thank you for your inventiveness and resourcefulness. We hope this will be an opportunity to meet one another and spark increased creative cross-pollination and collaboration.
We invite our community’s artists to join the BRAF and Burning Man staff, members of the Burning Man Art Department, and ARTery volunteers for a little reception – our yearly, intimate gathering in appreciation of the visionaries among us!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mission Rock Cafe
817 Terry Francois Blvd San Francisco, CA
Grant Workshop 5:30 to 7 pm
Art Lounge 7 pm to 9 pm
At approximately 7:30pm there will be brief introductions and a short talk about this years Burning Man theme: “Rites of Passage.”
To attend, please RSVP to rsvp-specialevents @burningman.com (rsvp-specialevents @burningman.com) .
It’s an intimate space, and we need an exact number to plan for. This is not the place to review specific art grant proposals with Burning Man or BRAF staff, though staff will be on hand who can answer basic questions regarding the process. Remember, the deadline to submit art grant proposals for BRAF is January 15th and for Burning Man this year is February 1st.
Hope to see you there!
Online Grant Applications due January 15th, 2011 at 5:00 pm, PST
Our online application for BRAF’s 2011 Grants is now live and will close on Saturday (yes, Saturday!) January 15, 2011, at 5:00 pm, sharp!
About our grants:
We fund highly interactive, community-driven works of art. We fund art that is accessible to the public, civic in scope and prompts the viewer to act. We like art that can be experienced in more ways than visually. We are fans of art that is meant to be touched, heard or experienced, as well as viewed. We prioritize funding art that involves the audience in its creation and presentation. Does this sound like your artwork?
Apply for a grant in 2011!
For more about our criteria, and for our online application, visit: Black Rock Arts Foundation Grants
We look forward to reading about your project!
Leo Villareal at the San Jose Museum of Art
This is the last weekend of the Leo Villareal show at the San Jose
Museum of Art. We will be there, Will You?
BRAF thanks you for another spectacular year!
As the year comes to a close, the Black Rock Arts Foundation was
pleased to be included with the
Raygun Gothic Rocketship
in the
San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook
piece on “Positive Changes around San Francisco and
it’s Environs in 2010”.
2010 saw many great achievements for BRAF that you can read about here in our blog and at The Black Rock Arts Foundation. Because of the support of folks like you, we were able to ensure that art and community building continue to serve as tools for civic engagement around the globe. We know that art can build community and bring people together, and we believe that all communities deserve art. More than ever, we are encouraged by our recent successes and invigorated to expand our programs and extend our reach into more communities worldwide.
2011 is already shaping up to be a banner BRAF year. We have been awarded our first-ever grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. An N.E.A. grant of $10,000 kicks off our newest endeavor, a Civic Arts project we’re calling The Bike Bridge. In January of 2011, BRAF begins a yearlong project in Oakland, CA, collaborating with young people, with qualified artists, and with local partner organizations to create a gateway sculpture made of reclaimed bike parts. As a work of art, The Bike Bridge will be the gateway to the City of Oakland’s new Uptown Merritt Art Park, to be located adjacent to the Fox Theater. This new art park was also recently awarded $200,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts, and will feature temporary exhibitions of large-scale works of art.
We are continually grateful for the extraordinary support and investment of our community. You and other supporters share BRAF’s vision of bringing people together and creating positive change through art. The Bike Bridge is testament to the evolution of our programs, and the broadening of our ventures. Because of your support, BRAF continues to pioneer new modalities of public art.
We hope that those of you who were able to participate in the activities of the three BRAF programs in 2010, or even in the festivities of our annual ARTumnal Gathering, will agree that BRAF has made great progress in bringing the Burning Man ethos of art, interaction, and community “to the rest of the world, the other 51 weeks of the year.” But, we need your help to continue to fund, support and enable community-building, civic-minded, interactive arts projects and expand our reach to new regions.
It is your donations that sustain us. Please consider showing your support once again by making an end-of-year contribution, so that we may bring even more innovative, interactive and community-building projects to cities worldwide in 2011.
Sincerely,
Tomas McCabe
Executive Director
Black Rock Arts
Foundation