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Allison Smith (2008 Grantee)
January 16 - May 31
SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service
Combining her research on a variety of wartime textile, ceramic and metalwork traditions, Smith organizes a series of skill-sharing events that reflect upon contemporary conflicts and the ways we envision ourselves in relation to "the war effort" today. The program includes screenings, an immersive sound and light installation and hands-on demonstrations.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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January 7 – February 7
Elevator Repair Service
2009 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Gatz
Elevator Repair Service’s performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby,” which stages the entire text of the novel.
The American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA
http://elevator.org/shows/gatz/art/
Through January 10
Kimsooja
2007 Grantee, Visual Arts
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama (Group exhibition)
The result of a collaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL
http://thefrost.fiu.edu/exhibitions.htm
January 11
Michael Pisaro
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance of Pisaro’s The Collection by the Dog Star Orchestra.
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA
www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/events/011110.html
January 13
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Cranks and Cactus Needles
Inspired by deteriorating 78 records, this work is performed by The Pearls Before Swine Experience.
House of Sweden (Swedish Embassy), Washington, DC
www.houseofsweden.com
January 13 – 14, 16
Jin Hi Kim
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Monk Dance (for Orchestra and Korean Barrel Drums)
Kim performs as part of the Key West Symphony Orchestra’s Master Concerts Series II.
January 13-14: Tennessee Williams Theater, Key West, FL
January 16: Broward County for Performing Arts Amaturo Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL
www.keywestsymphony.com/events/
January 16 – May 31
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service (Solo Project/Public Programs)
Combining her research on a variety of wartime textile, ceramic and metalwork traditions, Smith organizes a series of skill-sharing events for civilians and soldiers that reflect upon contemporary conflicts and the ways we envision ourselves in relation to “the war effort” today. The program includes film screenings, lectures and hands-on demonstrations and culminates with a presentation of objects and activities at the War Memorial Veterans Building over Memorial Day weekend.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1325
January 20
Elizabeth Robinson
2008 Grantee, Poetry
Group poetry reading as part of the Yellow Pine Reading Series.
Wild Sage Community House, Boulder, CO
January 21
Rae Armantrout
2007 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Readings
Walker Museum Room, University of Chicago, IL
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
January 22 – March 21
Kimsooja – 2007 Grantee, Visual Arts
Bill Morrison – 2003 Grantee, Visual Arts
Guido van der Werve – 2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
Cue: Artists’ Videos (Group exhibition)
Several FCA Grantees’ videos are presented on the gallery’s street façade, coinciding with the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Vancouver Art Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_cue.html
January 23, 29-30
Mikel Rouse
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Gravity Radio
A performance in support of Rouse’s new album of the same name.
January 23: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA - www.cacno.org
January 29-30: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL - http://krannertcenter.com/performance.aspx?id=200962918581388875414467
January 28
Elizabeth Robinson
2008 Grantee, Poetry
Participant in the 35th Anniversary Celebration Reading for Kelsey St. Press.
Bay Area, exact location TBD
February 5 – April 19
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
Needle Work (Solo exhibition)
Smith’s work draws on “living history” museums, battlegrounds and most recently the Internet to explore gendered conventions of craft, constructions of national identity, and experiences of violence. Smith is the inaugural Visiting Artist of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/NeedleWork
Through February 10
Bill Morrison
2003 Grantee, Visual Arts
Remote Viewing: The Best Loop (Group exhibition)
Morrison presents his award-winning short "Light Is Calling," edited to Michael Gordon's original composition.
MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
http://pacificdesigncenter.com/#/programs-events/
February 10
John Bischoff
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
Bischoff performs new electronic solo works and the interactive duet, "Bell Field" with Kenneth Atchley.
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
www.meridiangallery.org
February 10 – 14
Young Jean Lee
2006 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
The Shipment
A journey through the discomforts that arise whenever people start trying to talk about the black experience in America.
UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
February 10 – 21
Kate Valk (with the Wooster Group)
2003 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
North Atlantic
The Wooster Group’s newest production takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance.
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), Los Angeles, CA
www.redcat.org/event/wooster-group-1
February 12 – 13
Mikel Rouse
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Ulysses Dove
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company performs choreography set to Rouse’s, “Quorum.”
Oakland University, Oakland, CA
www.dcdc.org/schedule
Through February 14
Kimsooja
2007 Grantee, Visual Arts
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea (Group exhibition)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
http://www.mfah.org
February – April, exact dates below
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Music performance for piano and live electronics performed by Keith Kirchoff. Gosfield is an artist in residence at all of the following institutions with the exception of her California dates.
February 13: Palo Alto, CA
February 14: University of California, Santa Barbara, CA http://www.music.utah.edu/
March 2: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT http://www.music.utah.edu
March 5: Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT http://www.music.utah.edu/
March 19: University of Missouri, Kansas City, KS http://conservatory.umkc.edu/calendarofevents.aspx
March 24: Clark University, Worcester, MA http://www.socialweb.net/Clients/Clark/perfarts.lasso
March 30: University of Tulsa, Sharp Memorial Chapel, Tulsa http://www.utulsa.edu/
April 5: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud http://www.stcloudstate.edu/
April 14: Elmhurst College, Elmhurst IL http://public.elmhurst.edu/
February 27, 28
Michael Pisaro
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
As guest composer, Pisaro performs new work A wave and waves as well as
July Mountain.
Ceremony Hall, Austin, TX
www.newmusiccoop.org
February 27 – May 23
Gedi Sibony
2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
Abstract Resistance (Group exhibition)
Multiple generations of artists who revolted against the aesthetic orthodoxies of their time.
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4670
March 1, 10
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch
Performed by Oni Buchanan.
March 1: Hofheimer Theater, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA - www.vwc.edu
March 10: National Gallery of Art Concert Series, Washington, DC - www.nga.gov/programs/music/
March 6
Molissa Fenley
2000 Grantee, Dance
Mass Balance
Fenley’s work is performed by Hope Mohr Dance Company, with music by Cenk Ergun and design by Todd Richmond.
Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
www.molissafenley.com/calendar.php
March 6
Carl Stone
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound
Carl Stone at Berkeley Art Museum
Solo performance as part of the L@TE Series.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/late
March 11 – 14
Elevator Repair Service
2009 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)
The company’s Lortel-nominated adaptation of the Benjy section of William Faulkner's eponymous novel.
Adelaide Festival, Sarasota, FL
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
March 14 – November 30
Bill Morrison
2003 Grantee, Visual Arts
Release
Site specific video installation in a cell at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
www.easternstate.org/exhibits/index.php#art
March 16
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Broken Nails and Metal Tails
Performed by Jennifer Hymer.
Goethe Institute, Boston, MA
www.anniegosfield.com/concerts09.html
March 17
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch
Performed by Oni Buchanan.
Newton Hall, Mercer University, Macon, GA
www.mercer.edu
March 18 – 20
Mikel Rouse
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Ulysses Dove
Pacific Northwest Ballet performs choreography set to Rouse’s, “Quorum.”
Marion Olive McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA
www.pnb.org/Season/09-10/Dove/
March 20, 23
Mikel Rouse
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Ulysses Dove
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company performs choreography set to Rouse’s, “Quorum.”
March 20: PCA Great Performance, Portland, Maine
March 23: Redfern Arts Center, Kenna, NH
www.dcdc.org/schedule/
Through March 21
Charles Atlas
2006 John Cage Award Recipient
Dance with the Camera (Group exhibition/screening)
Atlas’ films are included in this exhibition and screening program that explores the crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera.
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/dance.php
March 23 – 29
Young Jean Lee
2006 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
The Shipment
A journey through the discomforts that arise whenever people start trying to talk about the black experience in America.
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
www.mcachicago.org/performances/perf_detail.php?id=506
March 23 – 29
Young Jean Lee
2006 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
The Shipment
A journey through the discomforts that arise whenever people start trying to talk about the black experience in America.
Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
www.warhol.org
April 8
Norma Cole
2006 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
MIT, Cambridge, MA
http://writing.mit.edu/news/poetry-at-mit
April 8
Maureen Owen
1998 Grantee, Poetry
Colorado Writers Group Reading for The Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO
http://www.mercurycafe.com/
April 9, 13, 18
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch
Performed by Oni Buchanan.
April 9: Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA -
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/
April 13: Caldwell College Concert Series, Caldwell, NJ - www.caldwell.edu/academics/music/caldwell_college_concert_series.aspx
April 18: The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) Natick, MA - www.natickarts.org/index.php
April 18: Smyrna Opera House Smyrna, DE - www.smyrnaoperahouse.org/
April 10
Maureen Owen
1998 Grantee, Poetry
Owen will participate in a group reading at Naropa University.
Naropa University Performing Arts Center, Boulder, CO
http://www.naropa.edu/
April 14
Rae Armantrout
2007 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
www.richmond.edu
April 24
Bill Morrison
2003 Grantee, Visual Arts
Spark of Being
Morrison and composer Dave Douglas unveil a new interpretation of the Frankenstein myth, combining a concert with a film.
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, CA
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=FRAN
