Upcoming Events

Margaret ‘Quica” Alarcon, Nao Bustamante, Kathy Mas-Gallegos, Suzanne Jackson, Alma Lopez, Felicia “Fe” Montes, Amitis Motevelli, Noni Olabisi, Patricia Rodriguez, Linda Vallejo, Diana Wong, Seeroon Yeretzian, Nancy Uyemura

No two women artists follow the same path through an art career. These remarkable artists have found unique ways to break through the layers of obstacles that laid before them.

This exhibition is part of the Women’s Caucus for Art’s 40^th Anniversary celebration and the 2012 National Conference in Los Angeles

A catalog will accompany this exhibition.

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"From a Whisper to a Roar", companion panel of the exhibiting artists at the College Art Association Conference, will occur on February 23, 2012 at 10:00 am in the Santa Anita Sea Room at the Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. This panel is free and open to the public.

February 11 through March 4, 2012

And the Annex Presents:

Here is My Heart

50 Artists, 50 Hearts for Sale

A silent auction fundraiser for the Avenue 50 Studio

Help us raise money to build new walls! Starting bid on all works is $100.

Cafe Cupid - Joe Bravo

See More Images and Bid on Hearts

Opening Night Reception, Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 7-10 pm

Sam Baray, David Botello, Joseph Botello, Billy Burgos, Yreina Cervantez, Martin Charlot, Mita Cuaron, Raoul De la Sota, Ruth De Nicola, Val Echavarria, Don Ferguson, Emilia Garcia, Rosie Getz, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mark Greenfield, Dolores Guerrero, Tina Gulotta-Miller, Frank Gutierrez, Roberto Gutierrez, Peter Harris, Cidne Hart, Kevin Hass, Peter Hess, Mavis Leahy, Ronald Llanos, Jose Lopes, Pola Lopez, Jose Lozano, Poli Marichal, Isabel Martinez, Paul Martinez, Kathy Mas-Gallegos, Sarah Meachem, Lara Medina, Stephanie Mercado, Daisuke Okamoko, Robert Palacios, Chris Perez, Beth Peterson, Skip Ralls, Nancy Romero, Marianne Sadowski, Suzanne Siegel, Joseph Sims, Richard Valdes, Val Zavala, Suzanne Siegel, John Valadez, Sergio Vasquez

February 11 through March 4, 2012

Sunday, February 12 at 2 pm

presents

Paloma Room poets

Hosted By Rolando Ortiz

Featuring:

D. Black

Kate Durbin
Peter J. Harris

Diego Robles

Maria A. Ruiz

Sunday, February 12 at 2 pm

open reading sign up at 2 pm
2 poems or 5 minutes

Avenue 50 Studio

131 N. Avenue 50
Highland Park

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E! Entertainment (Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), the conceptual fashion magazine The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming). She also written five chapbooks, including FASHIONWHORE (Legacy Pictures) and Kept Women (Insert Press, forthcoming). Her projects have been featured in Spex, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, Specs, Salon.com, AOL, Poets and Writers, Poets.org, VLAK, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Black Warrior Review, Joyland, SUPERMACHINE, Drunken Boat, NPR, Bookslut, Fanzine, and The American Scholar, among others. She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, an online arts and criticism journal about Lady Gaga, which will be published as a book from Zg Press in 2012.

Peter J. Harris, founder and Artistic Director of Inspiration House, is an African American cultural worker who has since the 1970s published his poetry, essays, and fiction in a wide range of national publications; worked as a publisher, journalist, editor and broadcaster; and been an educator, and workshop leader for adults and adolescents. His work has often explored the lives of Black men. In 2011, he was a Contributor-Collaborator with his daughter Adenike Harris on her Creative Thesis: Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse, Georgia State University. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/23 <http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/23> . He is co-writing the adaptation of the Creative Thesis, which is called Ghost on the Door: A Father and Daughter’s Healing Conversations After Sexual Abuse, a candid, ethical, loving dialogue between a Black father and a Black daughter confronting, surviving, and transcending her rape by a Black step father. Harris co-edited Relive Everything & Live the Same: VoiceMusic from Avenue 50’s Black-Brown Dialogues Project, an anthology published by Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles (2011). He wrote the forward to New Wine and Black Men’s Feet by Keith Antar Mason (2010, Red Hen Press). His essay, “1,000 O’clock: Johnson Time,” was published in the 2009 anthology, The Black Body, edited by Meri Danquah (Seven Stories Press). Harris is author of The Johnson Chronicles: Truth & Tall Tales about My Penis and Safe Arms: 20 Love/Erotic Poems (and One Ooh Baby Baby Moan). His magazine, “Genetic Dancers: The Artistry Within African/American Fathers,” published during the 1980s, was the first magazine of its kind and asserted that African American fathers become artists through the frictions of conscientious parenting. His book Hand Me My Griot Clothes: The Autobiography of Junior Baby, featured a philosophical elder Black man ruminating on life, love, and ethics, and won the PEN Oakland award for multicultural literature in 1993. His personal essays about manhood and masculinity have been published in several anthologies, including Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories; Black Men Speaking; Fathersongs; I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love; and What Makes a Man: Twenty-two Writers Imagine the Future.

Maria A. Ruiz is the current President of Surfwriters, a writing organization in the South Bay of Southern California since 1958. She has served as President three terms. She received a Masters in English Literature with Poetry Emphasis from CSULA. She is one of four founders of the Palos Verdes Readers Theater. Maria co-facilitates The Play Reading Group for Manhattan Beach Parks and Recreation Department. She directs and produces two yearly performances for the public from that group. Some of her directing and producing credits include Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, Arthur Miller's All My Sons and After The Fall, Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, Eugene O'Neill's, Anna Christie. Maria was the poet at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in The Artist-In- Residence Program for seven years, 2001 to 2007.

Avenue 50 Studio is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the California Community Foundation; the California Council for the Humanities; the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; and The James Irvine Foundation