Coming Again Soon!
The Art Lab Annex – 237 Linden Street
Where you really can put your money where your mouth is.
Tickets for Supper Club Now on Sale!
Casserole with a goal.
Kick in: your $15 ticket ($20 at the door) gets you a heaping helping of delicious food and fun with friends
Chow down: on a delicious food, made with love
Listen up: as artists present creative concepts that just need a little funding to really get cookin’
Then go with your gut and cast a vote for your favorite idea, with the winning artist taking home 100% of the evening’s proceeds to put toward their project.
Democracy meets dining, with a dash of imagination. What could be more American? Maybe we’ll even serve up a slice of apple pie from time to time.
A Recipe for Reciprocity.
You eat. Someone else gains. It’s like a dream come true!
Join us for Art Lab Supper Club. Walk away with a full belly and a warm heart.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
6:00 – 9:00p
237 Linden St. (the Art Lab Annex)
Thanks to Fiddletown Bakery for providing delicious, fresh bread to Supper Club!
And thanks to Austin’s American Grill for the yummy, yummy chili.
These fine local artists will be presenting at this month’s Supper Club:
Gale Frances
I am a multi-media artist and would like to create a public art, piece, specifically for this venue, a piece for the new library addition, children’s area. My thought is a 5-6” long dragon with a look of wonder on its face, reading a book. I am a children’s advocate and any representation that will support the wonder of reading is what I would like to promote. My last series was of mermaids, three dimensional, some wall mounted, some suspended from the ceiling for the effect of swimming. They appear to have abalone like translucence and have either a whimsical (mermaid fashioned like an antique masthead, sipping an espresso from a fine china cup) to a elegant “elusive lady of the sea” (swimming to the bottom of the ocean.) I would use the funds from this dinner to support space for a place to work, materials and creating another mermaid and the dragon mentioned. If those in charge of the library would prefer another sculpture to represent the children’s area, I am more than willing to work with design ideas. I will bring a mermaid to the dinner to share with diners so people will have an idea of my work. The mermaid series was born from a dream where I was able to view mermaids at the bottom of the sea and one in particular was so strikingly beautiful in her movement that the series was begun to develop the skill to replicate her ethereal and lyric movement. The series sold within days of its debut which was very exciting. I will bring the same passion and artistry to my work here.
Dianne Andrejasich
As the visual arts teacher at the T.R. Paul Academy of Arts and Knowledge since its beginning 5 years ago students have discovered the absolute joy of finding their own magnificent talents so often locked , hidden or trapped within one’s self. Our art students have excelled, winning national awards based on their individual styles facilitated through the teaching of media techniques and principles of design. My standards are high so students are challenged to create their best work. This is based in part by helping students to raise their personal standards by contemplating a quote by Michelangelo, “Our greatest danger is not that we aim so high and we miss it but that we aim too low and reach it.”
At a First Friday walk promotional display for our school a woman asked if I taught adults too because she found that many artists may be talented but are unable to teach others. I have thought of this repeatedly since that inquiry and would like to set up affordable art classes for all ages. My vision is small numbered student classes focused on individual student artistic styles not necessarily only technique based unless that was their need. These needs may include several art mediums used in one class from drawing to painting and three dimensional pieces for a less intimidating atmosphere to build ones confidence working at their pace. I want to share my own discovered talent which is the “key” to unlocking people’s hidden talents in the visual arts through discussion, critique and my professional knowledge of design.
The money would be used for start up costs, advertising and supplies to introduce as well as run my classes at senior centers, schools and neighborhoods for affordable student fees including scholarships.
Teal Jandrain
I am a film maker and screenwriter with a nearly completed film that I wrote, directed, acted in, and did much of the shooting for using local actors, locations, and resources. I have only a few very key scenes left to shoot in my little opus. The story follows two young girls in their persuit of a legendary local ghost, and the strange obsession they develop surrounding her mysterious drowning. Their friendship is strained by the fine lines between reality and “the other side.” I obtained underwater cameras, exciting backdrops, and fantastic performers all for free by being persistant, but now the editing and marketing of the project are looming with no funding to complete this three year adventure in film making. I have obtained permission to use amazing local singer/cello genius Ian Cooke’s music for the soundtrack which adds a beautiful haunting energy to the film. There has been so much effort put into my debut film, and I would hate to see it end here. If I could find minimal backing for this great story, I really think it could go places and perhaps represent Fort Collins at a film festival- it’s simply lacking a bit of support.
Andrew Gingerich
I am one of a small group of filmmakers intent on developing a new business model for producing feature films: an organization we’re calling Region Zero.
Unfortunately, film as art (in America, anyway) is intrinsically tied to film as business. We humbly suggest that it’s time for a divorce. We need production companies as not-for-profit organizations, their goal being to make good movies that people like, rather than to turn a profit.That is exactly the niche that Region Zero aims to fill. Funds raised at the Supper Club would cover our (minimal) administrative startup costs and provide a percentage of the production budget on our first film.
Peggy Quinn
I am a volunteer Board Member at CoCOA (The Colorado Coalition of Artists). CoCOA is an all volunteer Non-Profit Arts Co-Operative that functions in the Fort Collins community to help emerging and established artists gain access to successful careers and arts education. We offer studio and gallery rentals at reasonable rates and take low commissions on sales in our gallery. We also offer free or low cost non-instructed life drawing and portrait sessions at our location. In addition, we offer a free lecture series the second Wednesday of most months. This coming lecture will be a round table discussion with two local gallery owners talking about how they prefer artist’s presentations, what they can do for artists, etc.
What I would like to have funding for is operating costs for our lecture series since our previous grant this year has been cut. And we are also in dire need of a video and slide projector to aid in lecture presentations so that CoCOA can further help the struggling artists in our community to learn more about art and the business it entails. If we had the proper projector, we could not only project slides but we could also project practical and art historical videos for educational purposes. I would also like to have a low cost art film night with discussions afterward for cultural entertainment.
Our web page is http://www.cocoaart.com
Kurt Yungeberg
Meridian Gate Kung Fu Center has been working to bring the art and diversity of Chinese Culture, to the community by working with various organizations around Fort Collins: Traut Elementary School, Lopez Elementary School, The Panda Club, The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair, Chinese New Year and we are slotted to present at this year’s Asian Fest at the downtown library in celebration of the Asian heritage month.
In past years we have borrowed a Lion and drum to show the art, rich history and music of Lion Dancing. MGKFC would like to purchase our own lion and drum to complement the kid’s lion that we posses; do more performances and be able continue to teach free ongoing classes in the art of Chinese Lion Dancing.
The grant from the Supper Club would allow us to share and demonstrate this rich art form of culture to the community through amazing performances, combing physical fitness and music while providing good strong adult role models for kids. Or vision is to create and offer Fort Collins an avenue where people of all skill levels and interests learn the ancient art of Lion Dancing and music, by following the progressive tradition of creating new forms.
I will be able to expand free instruction in Lion Dancing, music, and continue to work with both kids and adults.
Kathleen Willard
Since 2003, Dona Stein has been the host and producer of The Poetry Show on KRFC.FM giving Colorado poets a place to read their poetry. Poets include Colorado Poet Laureate and students from public schools, poets with books published and emerging poets. She has edited a 425 page anthology of the poets that have read on her show titled In the Named World. The anthology also includes a CD of poetry. Stein has tried to write grants to defray the costs of printing this anthology, but has been unable to secure funding for printing. A major fundraising campaign by poets and others is underway, as this is the most ambitious poetry project in Colorado. Funds raised at this event will help defray costs of printing the book, which will be published in the Fall of 2011. Help launch the most exciting poetry project in Colorado.
Julie Keith
As a local artist I have long envisioned an accessible, available and affordable printmaking studio for the community, and artists of all levels including youth, adults and special interest groups.
Having converted my living room into studio space for teaching printmaking, I am able to offer lessons in Intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut and bookmaking, with the blessing of a 40” x 60” print press, print supplies, a silkscreen set up and studio space to work in.
My intentions for the Art Lab money is to purchase art supplies for student use and create a fund in these economically sensitive times for those in need who have the desire to express and learn. I am also in talks with local nonprofits for youth, and community farms, to collaborate on creative projects to raise funding that sustains their organization, as well as local artists in Fort Collins, creating a connected community and growing the seeds toward Fort Collins first printmakers guild.
