Tag: Kathleen Hudspeth

Congratulations Kathleen Hudspeth and the other winners.

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Knight Foundation announced the 20 winners of the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge.

Some of the winners:

Kathleen Hudspeth
To promote a culture of printmaking by creating a communal print shop serving the arts community.
Girls’ Club
To nurture the career of a South Florida artist by supporting an exhibit at an alternative gallery space dedicated to contemporary female artists.
The LightBox at the Goldman Warehouse
To create an incubator for the arts in Wynwood by opening an office, performance and gallery space for arts organizations.

The press release:

MIAMI (Nov. 30, 2009) – Emerging from 1,562 applications, 20 winners today received $3.7 million in the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to find the best ideas for the South Florida arts. The winners’ projects include:

  • Putting an orchestra back in the pit during Miami City Ballet’s 2010-2013 seasons;
  • Creating an incubator for arts groups in Wynwood by opening a communal office, performance and gallery space at The LightBox at Goldman Warehouse;
  • Launching an online site for selling locally-produced music and expanding community programming at Sweat Records, a store and center for independent music in Little Haiti.

Knight Foundation created the five-year annual contest in 2008 to help bring the South Florida community together through the arts.

“When art hits home, it needs no explanation. Art can move the individual and, when it’s a shared experience, can make the whole community better than it was, together,”  Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of Knight Foundation, said.  “We don’t prescribe what kind of art we will support.  We want artists in South Florida to tell us what moves them and by supporting them, we think we move the soul of the community.”

The 2009 winners include individual artists, small nonprofits, and some of the region’s largest and most venerable arts institutions.

The projects will help increase exposure to contemporary art through exhibits at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens; deepen appreciation for locally-produced classical, opera, gospel and steel band music with new outreach programs and performances; and create a new draw for Miami Beach’s Art Deco district by converting the Wolfsonian/FIU’s museum’s exterior facades into public exhibition spaces by projecting on them images of the collection and new works. (A complete list of winners follows.)

“These projects will help artists provide more opportunities for South Floridians to connect and build a sense of community,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation’s Miami program director.

The contest is part of Knight Foundation’s five-year, $40 million Knight Arts initiative, conceived to add to the impact of the arts on South Florida’s community. The first phase, announced in 2008, included $20 million in leadership endowments for the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the New World Symphony.

The endowments fund an art education program at Miami Art Museum in partnership with Miami-Dade schools that will welcome 40,000 students a year; a series of exhibitions by emerging artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art; and a new media program at New World Symphony that allows performers and audiences to share real-time experiences with other artists around the world through digital technology.

The Knight Arts Challenge will accept applications next year for the third round of its community grants contest. Because it is a matching grant program, winners must find funding to complement Knight Foundation’s investment. To find out more, or sign up for e-mail updates, visit www.knightarts.org.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote community engagement and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

Kathleen Hudspeth at BasFisherInvitational, June 13

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Bas Fisher Invitational will show Kathleen Hudspeth‘s You were always There with us.

Here is the press release.

June 13 – July 11, 2009

Opening reception: June 13, 7 – 10 PM

Closing reception: July 11, 7 – 10 PM

BFI is pleased to present the first solo show of works by Kathleen Hudspeth.  You Were Always there with Us is an exhibition of drawings and prints which addresses the seemingly contradictory ideas of oppression and inclusion.  The works use a language of visual symbology to refer to dominant and marginalized groups within the context of both art history and impossible situations.  Knives, bouquets, logs, flies and drips stand for actions, people and systems simultaneously.  The work is made from a feminist perspective, and re-imagines the narrative of the white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy at an individual, intimate scale.

The culture of printmaking is an important influence on the works in this exhibition.  Though many of the works are prints, none is part of an identical edition; Hudspeth exploits the possibilities of the multiple in such a way as to rephrase and reframe visual statements in order to better build an internal language of meaning.  Engraving, lithography, mezzotint, etching and silkscreen are used together with collage to both evoke and undermine art-historical traditions.  Methods are combined, artifacts from the printmaking process, such as pin and registration holes, remain in the works, the contemporary photo-litho technique is used to reproduce hand-drawn imagery—intentionally without the assistance of digital processes, and media which are static and sticky are used to depict fluid, painterly marks.

Kathleen Hudspeth is a Miami native with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and soon to receive a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami in Printmaking.  You Were Always there with Us is her Master’s thesis exhibition. Her work has been in numerous local and national venues, including the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Bass Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C.  Her critical writings have been published in Art Papers, The Sun Post, and her (now defunct) blog, The Next Few Hours. She has been a visiting critic and lecturer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and a volunteer docent for 8 years at the Miami Art Museum.   Recently, she was selected as one of 45 finalists for the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge for her idea to start a community print shop.

The BFI is an artist-run alternative space located in the Buena Vista Building in Miami’s Design District.  It was founded in July 2004 by artists Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher.  The space is currently run by Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Kathryn Marks and Agatha Wara.  Bas Fisher Invitational is open from 7 – 10 PM during events or by appointment.

Coupling

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Coupling, an exhibition organized by Kristen Thiele.

Trisha Brookbank / Brian Burkhardt
Robert Chambers / Mette Tommerup
Carlos de Villasante / Rebecca Guarda
Guerra de la Paz
Kathleen Hudspeth / Adler Guerrier
Alvaro Ilizarbe / Jen Stark
Mary Malm / Kerry Ware
Winston McCarthy / Addison Walz
Beatriz Monteavaro / Gavin Perry
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova / Frances Trombly
Claudia Scalise / Brian Reedy

February 14, 2009
Buena Vista Building
First Floor
180 NE 39th St.
MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT
ON VIEW FEB 14 – FEB 21

coupling - an exhibition

Girl who raised pigeons

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‘Girl who Raised Pigeons’ open tomorrow at Main Library.  We are all invited.

The Girl Who Raised Pigeons

October 9 – December 18, 2008

Main Library, Auditorium, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665

Reception and kick-off event for HEAL: A Place to Call Home

Thursday, October 9, 6 – 8:30p.m.

Gary L. Moore, Detail, Into the colors and sounds of the city’s morning, 2008, colored pencil on paper.

Courtesy of the artist.

This exhibition’s title comes from a short story with the same name by Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World. In the story, the relationship between a father and daughter, living in 1960’s Washington D.C., changes as a nearby railroad company buys up property and the neighborhood around them disappears. The story’s themes and images appear in the work: family, loss, displacement, community vigilance, changing landscapes. The show includes photography, drawing, and painting by Gary L. Moore, Kathleen Hudspeth, Ryan Holloway, Adler Guerrier, David Rohn, Vanessa Tomchik, Karla Turcios, Bayunga Kialeuka, and others. Curated by Library Curator Denise Delgado.

HEAL: A Place to Call Home in collaboration with Rhythmic Rapture

HEAL: A Place to Call Home is an arts-intervention program, initiated by arts group Rhythmic Rapture, which uses the arts to facilitate personal transformation for displaced and homeless populations.

The Library System has collaborated with Rhythmic Rapture to present the following series of programs to raise awareness and provoke discussion of the economic, health, cultural, and policy issues that contribute to homelessness and housing problems. The Girl Who Raised Pigeons is part of this program series.

Immigration and Home

A film screening is followed by a discussion of homelessness through the lens of immigration and the struggle to find work, housing, and community far from home.

Saturday, October 18, 1:00-3:00pm

Main Library, Auditorium, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami – 305-2665

The Economy of Home

Through a film screening and discussion, we take a look at how business, housing, and other economic factors contribute to homelessness.

Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 – 8:30pm

Miami Beach Regional, 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach – 305-535-4219

Homelessness and Mental Illness

A workshop in collaboration with the community artists of Rhythmic Rapture about the very real link between mental illness and homelessness.

Saturday, December 13, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Culmer/Overtown, 350 NW 13 Street, Miami – 305-579-5322

For more information about fall exhibitions and related programs at Main Library, check out http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp.