ANNUAL DIRECTORY - National Performance Network

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612.874.2813 fax 612.871.6927
info@intermediaarts.org
www.intermediaarts.org
Theresa Sweetland
E XECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRE C TO R
theresa@intermediaarts.org
Intermedia Arts is Minnesota’s premier
multi-disciplinary, multicultural arts
organization serving more than 40,000
people each year. Our mission is to be a
catalyst that builds understanding among
people through art. Since 1973, we have
been a place where an innovative approach
to the arts has inspired communities
toward social change. We thrive on
pushing the boundaries and definitions of
artistic excellence. We have a dynamic
and solid reputation as a current and highly
relevant organization that champions
under-represented artists and art forms.
From graffiti art to performance art to
digital technology, we are working onthe-ground,
at street-level to unearth and
enliven new and emerging art forms and
artists. By providing a creative environment
that encourages risk-taking and
experimentation, we cultivate the freshest
ideas and visions. As a multidisciplinary
organization focusing on Media Arts,
Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literary
Arts, we develop programs and artworks
through extensive workshops, dialogues,
and residencies in the community,
encouraging dynamic participation by a
wide range of people and giving voice
to often-disenfranchised populations.
The connections established through
our programs stimulate creativity, bridge
cultural gaps, and broaden the foundation
of our community.
Lady Pink in process
Digital photo
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LACE (Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323.957.1777 fax 323.957.9025
info@welcometolace.org
www.welcometolace.org
Carol Stakenas
E XECUTIVE DIRE C TO R
carol@welcometolace.org
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions) fosters artists who innovate,
experiment, explore, and risk. We move
within and beyond our four walls to
provide opportunities for diverse publics
to engage deeply with contemporary art.
In doing so, we further dialogue between
and participation among artists and those
audiences. Since 1978, LACE has nurtured
several generations of young and underrecognized
artists, and championed newly
emerging art forms such as installationbased
work, performance art and video art.
LACE programs reflect the organization’s
abiding interest in the creative process
as much as the product. We believe
this transforms the art experience from
passive to active. LACE understands the
importance of making time for artists to
encounter each other and work together in
a peer-to-peer setting. This environment
allows for discovery and collaboration. For
creative practices ranging from non-object
oriented work to highly developed new
media projects, there must be time and
space within an art context that brings
together artists and audiences to create the
work, or else it would not exist.
Allan Kaprow
18 Happenings in 6 Parts (installation shot)
Steve Roden with Rae Shao-Lan Blum,
Michael Ned Holte and Stephanie Smith.
Joined by performers Simone Forti, Steve
Irvin and Flora Wiegmann. Environmental
elements by Elonda Billera and Skylar
Haskard. April 2008.
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MACLA/Movimiento de Arte
Cultura Latino Americana
510 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408.998.2783 fax 408.998.2817
info@maclaarte.org
www.maclaarte.org
Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez
E XECUTIVE DIRE C TO R
anjee@maclaarte.org
MACLA is an energizing contemporary
arts space where Latino artists create
and showcase new work in the visual,
literary, and performance arts to help
define, interpret, and transform society.
As a “hybrid urban arts space” rooted
in the Chicano/Latino experience, but
inclusive of broader critical positions,
MACLA intersects many communities,
cultures, and aesthetic approaches.
Gallery exhibitions feature innovative and
experimental work by artists in various
points of their careers, in a range of media
from installation and video to paintings,
drawing, photography and sculpture.
Thematically, MACLA’s exhibitions deal
with issues of particular societal urgency:
labor, politics, gender, identity, sexuality,
globalization and immigration.
Since 2003, MACLA has made it a priority
to commission new work in the visual
arts annually. MACLA’s commissions
include providing financial support for the
artists to create new work, an exhibition
at our gallery and publishing a catalogue
to further the lifespan of the exhibition
and contribute to the larger field of
contemporary art. Highlights of past
commissions include Securitree, new
work dealing with issues of surveillance
and safety by the Tijuana-based new
media collective Torolab; Tortillas, Chiles
& Other Border Things, by established
fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood,
and recently, El Laboratorio, featuring new
work by Ruben Ortiz Torres and Favianna
Rodriguez in collaboration with 01SJ: a
global festival of art on the edge.
Ruben Ortiz Torres
High n’ Low Rider
(installation view)
2008
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