Lessons Learned With Fists - Goodchildren Gallery - Sat., July 11th

SATURDAY, July 11TH - 6-9 p.m.



LESSONS LEARNED WITH FISTS
Daphne Loney & Dan Tague

GoodChildren Gallery Opening
4037 St. Claude
Saturday, July 11th

Priest Comes to New Orleans

Priest has come to New Orleans to add to the commentary on the Grey Ghost and give a little personal flare to our abandoned and run-down buildings that have long been neglected by the owners.





For those who are unaware, the Grey Ghost is a "buffer" who illegally takes it upon himself to "buff" graffiti (consequently making himself a tagger). Despite the police protection he has and uses with impunity to assault the culture of New Orleans, it still doesn't seem to deter street artists from commenting. Many business owners have finally taken notice of his totalitarian attitude and realized that his extreme philosophy (that of Broken Windows which has since been widely disputed), actually causes more graffiti.



Spot Team crouching on urban patrol...


Priest...

Your Life is Art by Ann Voskamp

"And I nearly grabbed a pen right there, to, quick, write you back, asking if you knew about the grime edged around the lining of the dishwasher, the layer of dust atop of my stackable dryer? The way my mudroom closet insists on being a kiltered disarray of failed (but zealous) organizational attempts, the way my oven burns at the craters of igneous rock littered across its belly. I wanted to tell you, for all our washed floors and sparkly toilets, I know some corners, some crannies, that you might not deem art.

But perhaps you, wise friend, would. Maybe it's just me who is still learning that it's not perfection that makes one's life a work of art. It's how one sees. It's taking me a lifetime to wrap the corners of my heart around it: beauty isn't a product to be be found in the material world. It's a function of the way the eye and soul work together.

Therein is the making of art.

So somedays I remember and my eyes frame my basket of mismatched socks, my soul frames the legos that breed like rabbits. Somedays I remember that in the working out of a one-piece life, this weaving of my life, a cloth of seamless avodah, the whole of life becomes beauty.

Parts of a life can't be cut up or amputated in the framing. When you frame a life as art, frame the whole of it. Really, all lives are art when rightly seen.

All lives become masterful still lifes when we still to see the moments as beauty.
Artists once only deemed the noble, the laces and velvets, the grand, worthy of luscious paint strokes. It was radically revolutionary to lay down rich colors for a bowl fruit, a woman pouring out milk. But the masters discovered that the essence of art isn't subject-matter. (Frame the legos! the dust bunnies!) Subject-matter is secondary to seeing all matter with fresh eyes, seeing and feeling in this moment.

Life becomes art when we attend to the colors of now.

So, you too, my exuberant writing friend, pick up your moments. They're all frameable!

Life only paints exquisite brushstrokes."

New Stickers // A Sunday Night // And a Quote

New Stickers // A Sunday Night // And a Quote
Originally uploaded by dingler1109

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Burlesque 101 :: Featuring the Students of Bella Blue

NoLA Rising will be headed out on Thursday July 9th @ 9pm to see the students of Burlesque 101 who will take the stage for the very first time in the Burlesque 101 Student Showcase. The students are those of our illustrious Bella Blue

Come see the hottest new burlesque acts in the city and support a great cause! Half of the proceeds will be donate to Le Petit Theatre New Orleans. $5 at the door.

Host: Bella Blue and the students of Burlesque 101
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Allways Lounge
Street: 2240 St. Claude Ave
City/Town: New Orleans, LA

For more information: See this FB Group

Street Styles - A Young Audiences visual arts workshop by Holly Combs

Our brother Chris at Robots Will Kill recently put up a post about Holly Combs from PEEL Magazine and her program Street Styles. Chris says:

"The program aims to teach kids the basics of visual art using graffiti and street art as a jumping off point. The program also teaches respect for other artists, and their school and community. In the workshop the students learn about the history of graffiti and get to make their own stickers. Holly has taught two workshops in Indianapolis schools so far, and the kids are seriously diggin' it."

Holly's website, Street Styles, explains: "The Street Styles workshop was begun by street artist Dave Warnke in San Francisco. Dave has worked with Holly Combs to bring the program to Indianapolis through Young Audiences. The Street Styles workshop teaches students the basics of art: line, composition, balance, flow, color theory, rhythm, contrast, value, depth, perspective, etc. using street art and graffiti as the foundation for exploring these basics. It also teaches students important social values with an emphasis on respect for themselves, their teachers, and their community."

To see more about Street Styles or schedule a workshop, check out her WEBSITE

Also, If you want to send some stickers for Holly to give to her students, or donations of markers, labels, and other art supplies, you can send them to:

Holly Combs
3404 B Oliver Ave
Indianapolis IN 46241 USA

A Ride to Jerusalem

Inspire takes us for a ride "between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...a view of the border fence, watchtowers, and wall seen along the way..."