ARTumnal Gathering “video”
Check out this fabulous video about the ARTumnal and the Black Rock Arts Foundation:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7806049&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Untitled from rajeshwari on Vimeo.
ARTumnal Gathering Photos #3
David Best, BRAF Board Member and Harley Dubois, founding member of the Burning Man board and the Black Rock Arts Foundation, raising money for the Black Rock Arts Foundation
photos: D’Milo aka deemiloh
photos: Robin Russell Ford
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Exact Lee aka Joe Olivier, BRAF Board Member
Troubador aka Flaming Tuba Guy aka David Silverman, BRAF Advisory Board Member, with one of the Trees
affinity, your BRAF blogger
Exact Lee aka Joe Olivier, BRAF Board Member
Troubador aka Flaming Tuba Guy aka David Silverman, BRAF Advisory Board Member, with one of the Treesto see more photos:
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photos: Timothy Foster
ARTumnal Gathering “The Blight”
ARTumnal Gathering Photos #1
The Black Rock Arts Foundation created the grandest annual celebration of our ommunity’s vital spirit and extraordinary artists. We gathered in the majestic Bently Reserve to revel in support of BRAF’s mission to inspire art, community and civic participation worldwide.
It was an enchanted world of abundant art, captivating entertainment, participatory interactive art experiences created by community visionaries and tempting libations.
Over the next week we will be bringing you a variety of photographers, from mobile uploads to professional photographers, with a link to more of their photos. So keep checking back, the next photo could be of you.
Mara Jeffress and Rachel Carpenter, BRAF Board Member
Laura Kimpton, obviously having a great time
Chris Paine, Brian Herman, Melissa Alexander and Dr. Deb (both BRAF Advisory Board Members)
Photos: Rachel Carpenter
The ARTumnal Gathering is SOLD OUT!!!
That means there are not tickets to be sold at the door!!
ARTumnal Update: Tickets Selling Fast
Here’s an update on the ARTumnal — quickly coming together as the event of the year.
New performers, artists, DJs, fashion designers, and other creatives are joining in every day. Alchemy is curating astonishing interactive artwork. Shrine’s central installation will be unlike anything the Great Banking Hall of the Bently Reserve has ever seen. Live painting by Android Jones. Live bands, individual performers and top DJs will keep you enthralled until way too late in the evening.
Check out the BRAF ARTumnal Site for more information
Dinner tickets will SELL OUT in the next couple days. If you’ve been thinking about attending the dinner, get that ticket today. Tickets for the main event are also selling fast. Although we have more room than last year, we still have limited capacity. We’ve kept the price low because we want you all there.
photos from the ARTumnal 2008
More photos from the ARTumnal 2008
And even more photos from the ARTumnal 2008
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW
Auction Items: http://www.bmbraf.local/events/artumnal09auction
We can’t wait to see you there!
Artwork by Cory and Catska Ench
Carmel Dunlap, BRAF Advisory Board Member and Tomas McCabe BRAF Executive Director, Burning Man 2009
Carmel Dunlap is the youngest member of the Black Rock Arts Foundation Advisory Board. She is an innovative, creative activist. In 2008 Carmel and Ayeen Telopa organized TRASH to TREASURES, a recycled fashion show featuring clothes they created. They raised hundreds of dollars for the Rock Papers Scissors Collective in Oakland. For their creativity and effectiveness, Carmel & Ayeen received the Innovation Award for 2008.
This summer Carmel went to South America, interning with an environmental group in Quito that is involved in representing indigenous people in the Amazon. This is what Derek Sabori, the Volcom V.Co-Logical Society, Environmental Affairs Division, General Manager had to say about Carmel.
Carmel was a V.co-logical Ambassador for us last summer – Traveling, experiencing, learning and sharing. Carmel is in her last year of high school and sets the standard for youth activists, getting out there, getting involved and doing something about it. Check out Carmel’s blog and get inspired. Share this with as many youngsters as possible; we need more Carmel’s out there…
photo: affinity
Grant Applications Now Being Accepted!
Cardboardia one of our 2009 Grantees!
Artists! The Black Rock Arts Foundation is now accepting grant applications for community-based, interactive art projects around the world. Apply now!
Our grant recipients represent a range of ideas and interactions worth celebrating. Some of our grantees set out to create highly interactive, publicly engaging work in the spirit of the art experienced at Burning Man. Others extend existing collective art projects, continuing the momentum and reach of their works. Others still employ a valuable connection with the emerging Burning Man Regional Network, expanding our geographic reach, while nurturing individual artists’ capacity to create works in and with their own local communities. Seed and challenge grants given in this cycle help artists obtain further support.
“The Work Office”
One of our 2009 Grantees, “The Work Office”, a participatory performance inspired by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression caught the attention of Boing Boing this week. Check it out!
Installing the “Tree Spire” in Reno
Tabasco, T-Bone, Dave Moore, Maria Partridge, Richard Johnson, Crimson Rose and Stacey Spain
Sunday, finishing the details photos: Crimson Rose
And then the sunset came signalling the end of this day of installation
Saturday installation photos: Crimson Rose
Installation of the Tree Spire in Whitaker Park, Reno, NV photos: Maria Partridge
RENO, NV – Previously exhibited at Burning Man in 2007, and then in Reno last fall as part of “The Mangrove”, the 15-foot steel tree called “Tree Spire” is now a permanent sculpture in Whitaker Park in old northwest Reno.
“Tree Spire” was designed by David “Tabasco” Mills and the Iron Monkeys out of Seattle.
The Black Rock Arts Foundation received a $5,000 public art challenge grant, which they had to double, to pay for the artwork and installation. City Councilman Dave Aiazzi gave $1,000 and his ward’s 5 neighborhood advisory boards gave $4,000.
They have installed the Tree Spire, and we have a few photos so you can see the process. First the concrete was poured, the tree base was leveled and then Erika a Controlled Burn stilt walker balanced on a 2×4 that was laid across and above the concrete. Councilman Dave Aiazzi was there…his wife, daughter in law and grandkids came by to play in the park during one morning!
Richard says that an art installation is like a “building marathon”.
Saturday dawned and more welding was done, fitting the bench and securing the bench around the tree, then the branches were secured and the electricity went into place. The final day was spent finishing attaching the final branches and lanterns. As the sun set on the beautiful fall day the Tree Spire stood tall and complete in the Reno sun.
Crew:
Tabasco
T-Bone aka Anthony Moulton
Dave Moore
Maria Partridge
Crimson Rose
Stacey Spain
Richard Johnson
Bill Schultz
Dave Kaul
Dave Aiazzi
Erika Wesnousky
See Celtic Forest Soon!
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If you have not been by to experience the Celtic Forest in Reno lately, now is the time. Watch the video clip above to get a better feel for how fabulous it is. Maria Partridge, Black Rock Arts Foundation Advisory Board Member, who keeps Celtic Forest running, sent us the following:
Celtic Forest in downtown Reno is still going strong with the art walk on fire Tuesday and Friday nights. Controlled Burn spins fire to world music from 7-9:30 pm on Tuesday nights. There is live music on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons. Be sure to check out the Zombie Crawl on Friday Oct. 30 starting at 7 pm …Music and “Thriller” dance is scheduled at 9pm. Celtic Forest is due to be removed late Novmber so see it while you can.
photo: Mark Hammon http://www.truckeerivergallery.com/
