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Hurry Up and Wait
A juried exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia
Curated by Adriel Luis

Exhibition: September 1 – December 15, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 10, 2017

CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Migration can seem like a single, bold act – the crossing over a border, the trip across an ocean, the transport from point A to point B. But the process is actually a series of steps that include correspondences, forms and often a whole lot of waiting – these individual tasks can be their own bureaucracies, each shrouded in mystery and inconsistency, despite the millions of people throughout the world who navigate them.

Recently, immigration in the United States has become even more convoluted, with ad-hoc travel bans, stop-and-go deportation policies and hearsay visa requirements all adding confusion to an already-complex experience.

Hurry Up and Wait is an exhibition featuring art that explores these moments within a moment. Hidden between the drama and debate of immigration are nuances, glitches, errors and fineprint that can be frustrating, mundane, anti-climactic – and sometimes even surprisingly simple. Here we encounter the tensions where policy and humanity meet – the range of emotions, wonder, assumptions and discoveries that make migration much more than simply a political issue.

CALL FOR ARTWORKS

Submission Deadline: Monday, July 10, 2017
Exhibition: September 1 – December 15, 2017

ELIGIBILITY
We invite professional and emerging artists (including recent graduates of matriculated programs) working in any medium (visual artists, writers & poets, musicians, performers) to submit one (1) to three (3) original artworks that explore the theme of immigration. Works will be selected by the Adriel Luis, the curator of this exhibition.

TIMELINE
Monday, July 10 All applications due
Mid-July Notifications Sent
Aug 28-31 Drop-off for selected artworks at Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine Street
Aug 31 Final Day to receive shipped artworks
Friday, Sept 8 Opening Reception

ENTRIES
Entry forms must be complete and submitted online only. There is no entry fee.
All submissions must be received by Monday, July 10 at 11:59pm EST.

Please complete the Entry Form here: “Hurry up and Wait” Submission Form
Please send additional images and artist resume to [email protected].

SUBMISSIONS
Application Specifications
Support material can include images of your artwork, Microsoft Word files, and/or a list of links to video/audio files.
Images must be saved as JPG files at 72dpi and must be no larger than 2000 pixels in any direction.
Each file name should correspond with the entry form. For example, Jane Doe’s image should be titled “DoeJ1 Untitled.” You may include up to 3 additional details of each work.
Video and Audio files should not exceed 3 minutes (excerpts will be accepted) and should be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud.

DELIVERY AND PICK-UP:
Accepted artworks must be dropped off at Asian Arts Initiative between Monday August 28 and Thursday August 31. All work dropped off must be delivered in a reusable container. Asian Arts Initiative is located at 1219 Vine Street, and is open from 10a to 5pm, Monday through Friday.

Asian Arts Initiative is able to provide limited support for shipping selected artworks to/from the gallery. All shipped artworks must arrive in a reusable container, and be received at 1219 Vine Street by Thursday, August 31.

HONORARIA
Selected artists will receive a modest honorarium for their participation in the exhibition.

LIABILITY
Each accepted artist will receive a loan agreement. All Artwork(s) will be insured once received by Asian Arts Initiative, as well as for the duration of the exhibition, installation, and de-installation periods.

QUESTIONS
Please email [email protected] with any questions.

ABOUT ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE
Located in Philadelphia’s burgeoning Chinatown North neighborhood, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center where all people — across experience and skill levels, age, race, and class backgrounds — can view and create art that reflects our lives, as well as think critically and creatively about the future we want to build for our communities. For more information: http://www.asianartsinitiative.org

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Adriel Luis is a musician, poet, visual artist, curator and coder from the California Bay Area. Adriel is currently based in Washington DC as the Curator of Digital and Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where his team has been developing a series of “culture labs” as community-created alternatives to traditional museum exhibitions. He is also a founding member of the psychedelic spoken word collective iLL-Literacy, and moonlights on design projects with artists and non-profits. Adriel frequently travels, with particular interest in how digital space shapes global communities. Adriel can be found across online platforms as @DRZZL. http://drzzl.com

Source: Call for Artists – Hurry Up and Wait — Asian Arts Initiative

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People:Power:Place: is a cultural planning process that will create a shared vision of Chinatown North/Callowhill.

This cultural plan will encourage people’s participation to strengthen the neighborhood’s standing as a vibrant hub of cultural production. This cultural plan will offer recommendations that support and advance the equitable growth and sustainable development of the neighborhood.

Built on a strong foundation of creativity and innovation, and a history of political struggle and community organizing, the community-driven process, the cultural planning process is an opportunity to strengthen the social networks of residents, businesses, cultural institutions, outside stakeholders, and others that are committed to the just growth of the neighborhood. Additionally, the cultural planning process can begin to reconnect the neighborhood to Chinatown and repair divisions created during the construction of the Vine Street Expressway.

Current Partners:

Friends of the Rail Park

Asian Americans United

Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School

Chinese Christian Church + Center

Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission

Foo Kitchen

Philadelphia Police Department, 6th District

Arts + Crafts Holdings

Trestle Inn

Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission

Callowhill Neighborhood Association

Interface Studios

Philly FixList

Marginal Utility

Department of Places

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Want to get involved?

Have a question about the process? A tip about the neighborhood?

Please email [email protected] to receive updates about events!

Source: People:Power:Place — Asian Arts Initiative

Thursday, June 15 at 6 PM – 11 PM

To support the ongoing growth of the Rail Park, we’re throwing a party at the brand new Roy Pitz Barrel House in Philadelphia.

Things will get started at 6 pm, with a VIP Cocktail Party—featuring craft cocktails, barrel-aged beer, light fare, and live entertainment. Then, at 8 PM, we’ll transition to a more casual after party, with a DJ and cash bar.

Source: Party for the Rail Park Tickets in Philadelphia, PA, United States

Source: 15th Anniversary Celebration at Willowstreams

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
50th Anniversary Tribute at Underground ArtsTickets: http://bit.ly/SgtPeppersTribute_Tix (ON SALE NOW!)Thursday, June 1st, 201721+ | Doors: 8PM | Show: 9PM

Performed by a group of Philadelphia musicians (listed below)***Joined by a string quartet and brass section***Two sets of Beatles music***First set will be a collection of songs from various albums***Second set will be Sgt. Pepper in it’s entirety

PERFORMERS: …
Ryan Tennis (Ryan Tennis Band)
Sammy Vile (Vilebred)
Rhett Tierney (Looseleaf)
Andrew Napoli (Looseleaf)
Emily Drinker
Kelvin Cochrane
Kyle Sparkman (Frequent Flyers )
Jake Hager
Mike Hoffman (Funky T)
Ken Kirsh
Ryan Lutz (Looseleaf)
Keith Boehm (Looseleaf)
Ahmed Bahgat
Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz
Jennifer Boorum
Eve Miller
Gail Hernandez Rosa
and more!

Source: Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Ann Tribute – Tickets – Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA, June 01, 2017 | Ticketfly

That’s right!! the code “eraserhood20” will get Eraserhood Denizens 20% off tickets for the FringeArts screening of David Lynch’s Philadelphia-inspired masterpiece Eraserhead, inclusive of a surrealist dish from the kitchens of La Peg. I suspect the offer is only good while seats last, of course, so grab them while you still can!

“What makes Eraserhead great—and still, perhaps the best of all Lynch’s films? Intensity. Nightmare clarity. And perhaps also it’s the single-mindedness of its vision.” –Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

David Lynch’s surreal and seminal feature-length film debut portrays Philadelphia as a desolate black-and-white industrial landscape, devoid of warmth. The film is at once a beautiful look into the mind of protagonist Harry (Jack Nance), a lost dreamer, and a haunting portrayal of marriage and responsibility.

$20 ($16 after entering discount code “eraserhood20”) / includes film and light meal (stay tuned for menu details)

Get your tickets here: Food/Film: Eraserhead – Fringe Arts

Vox Populi is accepting submissions for VOX XIII – our thirteenth annual juried exhibition of emerging artists, which will take place from July 7th – July 30th, 2017. This year’s distinguished jurors are Aria Dean and David Hartt.

This opportunity is particularly for emerging artists without commercial representation who push boundaries in terms of form and content, employ alternative methodologies and want to expose their practice to new audiences. Vox Populi is interested in highlighting work in all media that is ambitious, timely and risk-taking.

Applicants may submit up to five works in any media. The deadline for the open call is Sunday, May 7th, 2017. A new discounted submission fee will be extended to any early applications submitted before April 14th. Links to the Slideroom application and prospectus PDF can be found at the Vox Populi website here:
http://voxpopuligallery.org/news/vox-xiii/

ABOUT OUR JURORS:

Aria Dean

Dean is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. She currently holds the position of Assistant Curator of Net Art & Digital Culture at Rhizome. Her writing has been featured in Artforum, The New Inquiry, Real Life Magazine, Topical Cream Magazine, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Dean has shown at Arcadia Missa (London), The Knockdown Center (NYC), and Club Pro (Los Angeles). In September, she has a solo exhibition at American Medium (NYC). She also co-directs Los Angeles gallery and project space As It Stands LA. Currently, Dean’s research, writing, and visual work explore the relationship and resonances between blackness, media, and communication and information technologies. She works primarily through text and sculpture to hypothesize an apocalyptic blackness.

David Hartt

Hartt is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He has extensive experience using video and photography to carry out research related to vernacular cultures, anthropology, and architectural history. David is the recipient of a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, was named a United States Artists Cruz Fellow in 2012, and received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2011. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, LA><ART, Or Gallery in Vancouver, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Born in Montreal, he has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. David currently serves as Assistant Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fees:
April 5 – 14: $10*
April 15 – May 7: $35
*Applications received through Friday April 14th are offered at a discount to allow greater financial accessibility to our open call.

Submission Guidelines:
Applicants should submit a short statement, resume and up to five work samples (including images, audio files or short texts). Selected artists need to provide installation ready work complete with hardware. Vox Populi will exercise the same care in respect to loans as it does in safekeeping its own property. We urge you to consider the DIY and high traffic nature of Vox Populi’s exhibition and event environment.

To apply, download a prospectus here and follow the instructions. The application is on SlideRoom and can be accessed here.

Deadlines:
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 7th, 2017
Notification Date: Beginning June 2017
Artwork Drop-off: June 28th – 30th, 2017
Installation: July 1st – 7th, 2017
Exhibition: July 7th – 30th, 2017
Artwork Pick-up: July 31st – August 1st, 2017

Questions:
Write an email to [email protected]g – no phone calls please

Source: Vox Populi > VOX XIII – open call for applications