Move the Crowd Presents: The True.Paid.Good. Denver Event Series

The True.Paid.Good. Denver Event Series is designed to introduce participants
to the principles of conscious entrepreneurship and create a vibrant space
to examine what it really takes to achieve triple bottom line success -
People + Planet + Profit = True.Paid.Good.

The Wild Frontiers of Urban Food

Date: Saturday, June 9, 2012

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Location: RedLine

Cost: Free, Register here

The question of "fair food" has grown from a grassroots, fringe issue to top-of-mind movement. In this roundtable dialogue, cutting-edge food entrepreneurs, activists and artists discuss critical topics - from food sourcing and fair treatment to equal access, urban farimng and health - and share solutions to the toughest food challenges facing every community on the planet. Roundtable guests include: Faatma Mehrmanesh, Artist, mother, farmer, vegetable nerd, mudslinger and guerrilla nutritionist and Adam Brock, The GrowHaus, Denver native and practitioner of urban permaculture.

One Day Intensive: Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Date: Sunday, June 10, 2012

Time: 9:00am - 5:30pm

Location: RedLine

Cost: $99, Purchase tickets here

A collaborative all-day workshop introducing the core principles of consious entrepreneurship. With an innovative, multi-disciplinary curriculum, engaging experts and awesome, like-minded peers, participants learn how to leverage their unique creativity, strengths and passion to achieve their own flavor of success. Led by Move The Crowd's Founder and CEO, Rha Goddess - artist, activist and social entrepreneur.

On Friday June 8, from 6:30 - 9:00pm, Move the Crowd will host a VIP Reception and program at Green Spaces Colorado, located at 1368 26th Street, Denver, CO 80205.  Tickets are $75, Combo Packages for VIP Reception and One Day Intensive are available for $150 here. Visit Greenroute.com for more details.

Notes On Violence

June 15 - Poetry Reading with Serena Chopra (7-9PM) 

Poet & RedLine Artist Serena Chopra will read from her new manuscript Blood Ache and Blue Bird with the award-winning poet Julie Carr, whose book 100 Notes on Violence was an inspiration for the exhibition Notes on Feeling and Off The Beaten Path. Program will be held in RedLine's project space and will begin with a light reception. 

About Serena Chopra

Serena Chopra is a 2009 graduate of the University of Colorado's MFA program. She taught undergraduate Creative Writing workshop for three years and has also participated in elementary school poetry outreach where she worked with young children in an interactive workshop-like setting. She has recently completed an internship with The New Press in New York City where she was given first-hand experience in rights, editorial, and publicity and marketing fields. She has also been an editor for Subito Press, CU's book prize competition, and has worked as the assistant to Julie Carr at her annual Small Press Festival. Ms. Chopra has recently been accepted as a 2010 fellow at the Kundiman Retreat at Fordham University. In the past she has received the 2008 Zora Neale Hurston Award, a full-ride scholarship to the Naropa Summer Writing Program, has been a finalist for the Black Ocean Press book competition for her manuscript, "Penumbra," and received the Javanovich Award for Creative Writing in 2009. At the 2010 AWP conference in Denver, Ms. Chopra was a panelist on two panels: “Ecopoetics on Colorado's Front Range: Intersections and Ecotones” and “The Evolution of the MFA: The 21st Century Student". Along with being a writer, Ms. Chopra is a visual artist and a dancer. She has recent publications in the Denver Quarterly, Fact-Simile, Pax Americana, Monkey Puzzle, Spine Road, Umbrella Factory, and Pilgrimage.

June 8 - Reading & Reception with Aishah Shahidah Simmons (7PM) 

Reading & Reception with Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist. Ms. Simmons will read and discuss a selection from her published work. Admission is free, but donations are welcome and gratefully accepted.  

Screening: Saving Face by Alice Wu

June 7 - An Evening of Art, Film and Inspiration (6-9pm) 

 In celebration of courageous women and human rights activists in the developing world, please join American Jewish World Service in partnership with Redline Gallery and the Jewish Women's Fund of Colorado

Featured Guest Speaker AJWS President 
Ruth Messinger 
and personal appearance by "Saving Face" director and producer 
Daniel Junge

Hosted cocktails and hors d'oeuvres by AJWS 
Catering by Three Tomatoes

Featuring a private screening of the Academy Award winning documentary 
"SAVING FACE"

Private docent tour of 
"OFF THE BEATEN PATH: VIOLENCE, WOMEN AND ART"

Every year in Pakistan, many people — the majority of them women — are known to be victimized by brutal acid attacks, while numerous other cases go unreported. SAVING FACE chronicles the lives of Zakia and Rukhsana as they attempt to bring their assailants to justice and move on with their lives. The women are supported by NGOs, sympathetic policymakers, and skilled doctors.

AJWS has partnered with grassroots organizations in Pakistan since 2005. In addition to providing emergency relief to women, religious and sexual minorities affected by the 2005 earthquake and 2010 floods, AJWS has worked to promote women's rights and land rights. Our partners have empowered women to organize and access employment, built youth leadership and campaigned for land ownership.

Register here or reserve seats in advance by contacting Matt Balaban at mbalaban@ajws.org or 415.593.3298.

ArtMecca Live Artist Showcase

Date: Friday, April 27, 2012

Time: Doors 7pm/ Show 8-10pm

Cost: $5 program admission

Non-Instructive Figure Drawing Workshop

Dates: Wednesday, April 4 & 18, May 2 & 16,  June 6 & 20, July 18, August 1, 2012. 

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

Cost: Program admission $5, members $3

RedLine is proud to introduce a twice monthly non-instructive figure workshop that is open to all media. From 6:30-8:30 pm on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month RedLine will provide a live model for attendees to work from. RedLine artists will be present to monitor and assist with each sessions. 

Please bring your own supplies. For more information please contact Louise at lmartorano@redlineart.org.

Click HERE to learn more about this summer's marquis international contemporary art exhibition

Read Recent Articles: http://www.mutualart.com/openArticle/MutualArt/1E33ED169C449E6F/ 

Artist Talk with Floyd Tunson

Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Cost: Program admission $5, members are always free

Tunson's show-and-tell will introduce recurring themes in his work and their interconnectedness. The audience is encouraged to participate with questions and observations.

Please join RedLine and the Colorado Yale Association on Wednesday, April 11th for a fascinating insiders' discussion among Denver's leading museum curators and directors.

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

Location: RedLine

Buffetted by changes in the economy, in patronage, in audiences and in the consumption of culture, how do museums position themselves in their communities? What are their biggest challenges and how do they envision the future? Who is the audience they serve and to whom are they accountable? How do they measure success?

Panelists:

Cynthia Hessin (Moderator), Executive Producer of Rocky Mountain PBS

Nancy Blomberg, Chief Curator and Curator of Native Arts at Denver Art Museum

Bridget C. Coughlin PhD, Vice President of Strategic Programs and Curator of Human Health at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Kathryn Hill, Chief Operating Officer of History Colorado

Sarah A. Hunt, Director of The American Museum of Western Art, The Anschutz Collection

Adam Lerner, Director of Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Dean Sobel, Director of Clyfford Still Museum

Photograph of "It's About Ya" by Wang Gongxin (2010)

Let us know your thoughts about Wang Gongxin's first solo exhibition in The United States at RedLine Denver. 

RedLine Young Artists classes offer children (ages 2-5) and a caregiver the opportunity to explore making art together in RedLine's new Community Studio. Art projects will be based on children's books and monthly themes. Kids will use paints, collage items, drawing and other exiting materials. Children will take home a finished art project each class. We'll read books all about snow and create artworks using snow as our theme.

Register Now For Our Upcoming February and March Classes:

3 Saturdays: February 25, March 10 & 17, 9:30-10:30am: OR 11am-Noon

*3 Week Session: $30 per child ages 2-5 + $10 materials fee

Or Try Out One Class:  

One Tuesday: February 28, 9:30-10:30am; or 11am-Noon

*1 Tuesday Class: $12 per child

Reserve a spot for your child by Feb 20 with Melinda (Please indicate time/session, child name & age). melinda@melindalaz.com or 303.522.9694  Payment due on first day of class.

Location: RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver - in the Community Studio

Note: Children must be accompanied by a caregiver. Children younger than 24 months may attend with a sibling at no charge, but must be supervised at all times.

Going Green, Living Bling & Y.E.Z. Present: 

Roots, Beans and Green Carpet Mixer - A Fundraiser for the 2012 Brown Suga Youth Festival

Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012.

Time: 6:00-9:00pm

Cost: $20 Suggested Donation...but no one turned away.
All donations go toward to Brown Suga Youth Festival on April 28, 2012.

Hybrid

An International Contemporary Art Exhibition

Exhibition curated by Rian Kerrane

August 11 – September 30, 2012

Initiated by Rian Kerrane, a native of Ireland, Hybrid asks fourteen artists to “cross over”. The artists’ work examines the experience of crossing the Atlantic in the current political climate while acknowledging historic influences from each artist’s perspective; identifying experiences of (dis)placement and immersion in cultural and social surroundings from either side of the Atlantic. RedLine provides the first venue for a pair of exhibitions, the second of which will take place in Ireland, allowing each artist to engage both with “local” proximity and “foreign” distance in turn.

The wide range of included media and the diverse origins of the participants are intended to incite a stimulating translation and critical examination of ongoing cultural conversations and personal experiences of the hybridization of our lives, expectations, ancestral backgrounds, geology, perceptions, identities, of immigration, and of both the geographic distance and human commonality of the artists.

Shaped by Kerrane’s personal ties with the included artists, Hybrid emerges from a reflective process of curatorial matchmaking. Working in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, film and installation, the works of these two groups of artists both mirror and confront one another. Hybrid acknowledges and pays tribute to complex local experiences in a common global culture, reflecting Kerrane’s eighteen years of continually (re)crossing the Atlantic.

The seven artists from Ireland are Lizzie Kinsella, Mark Joyce, James Hayes, Sara Lewtas, Ian Gordon, Aisling O’ Beirn, and Deirdre O’ Mahony. Seven Artists from the United States are Rian Kerrane, Eric Waldemar, Viviane LeCourtois, Christopher R. Perez, Homare Ikeda, Lee Lee, and Melissa Borman.

It’s About Relating- It’s About China
Featuring Video Installations By Wang Gongxin
Exhibition: January 28 - March 11, 2012

Member's Reception: January 28, 6-7pm

Public Reception: January 28, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: February 17, 6-8pm

Known as the godfather of Chinese video art, WANG Gongxin's first solo exhibition in the United States will be on display at RedLine this January. WANG Gongxin is one of China’s earliest and most influential video artists and his innovative conceptual videos reveal a deeply personal critique of contemporary life in China today. Organized by the Asian Art Coordinating Council and curated by Dr. Julie Seagraves, this exhibitoin will feature four video installations by Wang - My Sun, Always Welcome, Forward, and It's About Ya. Ranging from 2-18 screens per piece, this vanguard exhibition will bring visitors through an immersive video experience that explores the artist's reflections on contemporary and past chinese culture. Seagraves explains, "Wang’s featured exhibit pieces are mid career examples as well as recent work. All are intense video installations, flawless in execution, and compelling in presentation. Each video installation has a different emotive quality, and the exhibit takes the viewer though a wide range of emotions. Although Wang’s videos are personal statements about China, in reality they deal with universal issues that all viewers can relate to and have their own personal interpretations."

In addition to the exhibition, RedLine & The Asian Art Coordinating Council will co-sponsor an artist talk with Wang on Friday, February 17th from 6-8pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

Julie Dugdale and Daliah Singer interview Laura Merage in the December 2011 issue of 5280 Magazine. Categorized as Game Changers, the article speaks to individuals in the Denver community whose "names may not often make headlines, but their power as catalysts for transformational work is indisputable."To read the full article click here

The primary inspirational source and content of my artwork has centered around gift economies and the cultural and biological methods by which we regulate and maintain our social relationships. Exploring as direct, as intimate a relationship to audience members as I can, I create sculptural installations, conceptual performances and evolving relational projects. Often these include such elements as those of gender-specific experiences: hand-knitting and needlework techniques, arduously created and intended expressly for the dedication to a loved person. I also employ natural media, such as pheromones, heat and electricity, which are intended to enact human intimate association. My intent is to explore the unique resonance between organisms and the manners in which they embody the concepts of distribution and networks. The flavor of the work is often manipulative and sentimental.

Au: Exchange
Closing Reception & Discussion
December 29, 2011 6-9PM

Join RedLine Resident Artists & curator Cortney Lane Stell for a final viewing and roundtable discussion about the current exhibition Au: Exchange. This event is to celebrate the final viewing days of this exhibition, feature the publication of the Au: Exhange catalog, and give visitors an opportunity to join in a lively discussion about our relationship as artists, consumers, and citizens, to gold. Their will be a light reception following the discussion. 
 
Featured Artists: 
Conor King, Bob Koons, Jaime Carrejo, Donald Fodness, Justin Beard, Laura Merage, Joel Swanson, Viviane Le Courtois, Virginia Folkstad, Gretchen Schaefer, Derrick Velasquez, Theresa Clowes, Beau Carey, Sarah Wallace Scott, Sterling Crispin and Alicia Ordal.

 Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art: An International Contemporary Art

Off The Beaten Path curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg from Art Works For Change

Notes on Feeling curated by Elissa Auther

Opening Reception June 1, 2012

Members Reception: 6-7pm includes curatorial walk-through guided by Randy Rosenberg

Public Reception:7-10pm with performance by Susan Plum of Luz y Solidaridad

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (Program Schedule Below)

RedLine is pleased to announce a traveling exhibition organized by Art Works For Change entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. This exhibit, which brings together the work of internationally known contemporary artists, fosters awareness of the problem of gender-based violence. Randy Rosenberg, curator of the Oakland-based organization Art Works for Change, will work in concert with Elissa Auther to coordinate the exhibit at RedLine. According to Rosenberg, the intent of the show is:

to promote awareness of gender-based violence; inspire the belief that communities can change a culture of violence; empower girls and women with respect to domestic violence, exploitation and discrimination; and address systems for broader social change.          

Twenty-six artists will be curated in RedLine’s main exhibition space, with the addition of two adjacent shows in RedLine’s Project Space. The first of the two adjacent shows, Notes on Feeling, will feature Denver-based artists, RedLine’s Resident and Resource Artists, as well as RedLine’s Founder Laura Merage. The second show will be a solo exhibition by New York-based photographer Corinne-May Botz. This exhibition will include works from her recent photographic series The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Haunted Houses. In these works, Botz explores the dark side of domestic space through alluring photographs of dollhouse crime scene dioramas and real homes shared by residents and ghostly spirits.

All three shows will be thematically and aesthetically braided together by five themes: Violence and the Individual; Violence and the Family; Violence and the Community; Violence and Culture; Violence and Politics. 

Participating Artists: Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art:

Marina Abramovic, Jane Alexander, Laylah Ali, Amnesty Sweden Campaign, Lise Bjorne Linnert, Louise Bourgeois, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Maimuna Ferozenana, Mona Hatoum, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung JungYeob, Amal Kenawy, Myung Jin Kim, Hung Liu, Gabriela Morawetz, Wangechi Mutu, Miri Nishri, Yoko Ono, Susan Plum, Cima Rahmankhah, Joyce J. Scott, Fatou Kande Senghor, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Miwa Yanagi.

Participating Artists: Notes on Feeling

Theresa Anderson, Serena Chopra, Lanny DeVuono, Françoise Duresse, Jennifer Jeannelle, Matt Jenkins, Bryan Leister, Laleh Mehran, Laura Merage, Gretchen-Marie Schaefer, Dylan Scholinski, Rebecca Vaughan, and Edie Winograde.

Program Schedule

June 1 - Opening Reception (6-10pm): Members reception kicks off at 6pm with walk-through by curator Randy Rosenberg, which is soon followed by the public reception at 7pm with performance by Susan Plum of Luz y Solidaridad.  

June 7 - An Evening of Art, Film and Inspiration 6-9pm: In celebration of courageous women and human rights activists in the developing world, please join American Jewish World Service in partnership with Redline Gallery and the Jewish Women's Fund of Colorado

Featured Guest Speaker AJWS President 
Ruth Messinger 
and personal appearance by "Saving Face" director and producer 
Daniel Junge

Hosted cocktails and hors d'oeuvres by AJWS 
Catering by Three Tomatoes

Featuring a private screening of the Academy Award winning documentary 
"SAVING FACE"

Private docent tour of 
"OFF THE BEATEN PATH: VIOLENCE, WOMEN AND ART"

Every year in Pakistan, many people — the majority of them women — are known to be victimized by brutal acid attacks, while numerous other cases go unreported. SAVING FACE chronicles the lives of Zakia and Rukhsana as they attempt to bring their assailants to justice and move on with their lives. The women are supported by NGOs, sympathetic policymakers, and skilled doctors.

AJWS has partnered with grassroots organizations in Pakistan since 2005. In addition to providing emergency relief to women, religious and sexual minorities affected by the 2005 earthquake and 2010 floods, AJWS has worked to promote women's rights and land rights. Our partners have empowered women to organize and access employment, built youth leadership and campaigned for land ownership.

Register here or reserve seats in advance by contacting Matt Balaban at mbalaban@ajws.org or 415.593.3298.

June 8 - Reading & Reception with Aishah Shahidah Simmons (7pm): Award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist. Ms. Simmons will read and discuss a selection from her published work. Admission is free, but donations are welcome and gratefully accepted.  

June 15 - Public Poetry Reading (7-9pm): Poet Serena Chopra will read from her new manuscript Blood Ache and Blue Bird with the award-winning poet Julie Carr, whose book 100 Notes on Violence was an inspiration for the exhibition Notes on Feeling and Off The Beaten Path

See Full List of Programs

About Art Works For Change

 Art Works for Change produces contemporary art exhibitions to address social and environmental issues such as social justice, human rights, gender equity, and environmental sustainability. It uses the transformative power of art as a vehicle to promote dialogue and awareness; inspire action and thought; and address systems for social change. Art Works for Change is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. Learn more about Art Works for Change by visiting artworksforchange.org or contacting info@artworksforchange.org.

This exhibition would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors: Mile High United Way, Women’s College at The University of Denver, Gill Foundation, American Jewish World Service, Colorado Women’s Foundation, David & Laura Merage Foundation, Dean Prina, Three Tomatoes Catering, Street’s Hope, Philanthropiece, the Oak Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. 

                            PRESENTING SPONSORS

                                    ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

 GoFish        Dean Prina       Colorado Women's Bar Association

EPIC Arts Fall 2011 Student Exhibition
Featuring works by students attending AXL Academy, Fairmont Elementary and Whittier ECE-8 and RedLine Resident Artists Justin Beard, Sarah Wallace Scott, and Derrick Velasquez

 December 9 - 31

Opening Reception: December 10, 2-4pm

RedLine’s Educational Partnership Initiative for the Creative (EPIC) Arts program provides a platform for RedLine Resident Artists to work in collaboration with educators from Denver area K-12 schools to implement an experiential curriculum that creates a body of artwork through a lens of contemporary social justice.  Through the partnership, artist and educator team up to create a new way of delivering instruction that combines artistic practice with the instructional and learning needs of the teacher and her/his students.  EPIC Arts empowers young people to become active interpreters within their own unique art practice alongside a professional artist both in and outside of the classroom.  The art making process and resulting artwork becomes a medium through which young people can hone their critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills and express their unique perspective and ideas about today’s world.