The Bronx Museum's Book Signing Event For Former AIM Program Leader Jackie Battenfield

Book Signing - “The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
5:30 - 7:30pm

North Wing Entrance
FREE!

Hop on BCA’s Culture Trolley* and take a ride to The Bronx Museum of the Arts for its book signing event featuring “The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love” – a book by Jackie Battenfield.
“The Artist’s Guide” is a comprehensive handbook that provides the tools and techniques for developing and sustaining a successful art career. Jackie Battenfield provides answers to the challenges artists face everyday and includes real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, and bulleted lists that allow readers to dive in and begin working immediately.

Jackie Battenfield maintains her own career as a visual artist and teaches professional development classes at Columbia University and the Creative Capital Foundation. She was also The Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program Leader for 15 years.

Visitors will also be able to view the Museum's current exhibit Living and Dreaming, the 29th annual AIM exhibition featuring the works of 36 emerging artists.

*The Culture Trolley picks passengers up at Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos (near the 149 St-Grand Concourse station) at 5:30pm.

Book Launch Party For Photographer Lisa Kahane @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Join the Bronx Museum of the Arts for a launch party for photographer Lisa Kahane to celebrate her photo-anthology Do Not Give Way to Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979–1987.

Wednesday, October 1st
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Bronx Museum of the Arts
North Building, Second Floor
Free Admission

Opening Today: Street Art Street Life

Street Art, Street Life at the Bronx Museum opens today in conjunction with an open house from 12-6 pm.

"Organized by guest curator Lydia Yee, Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present.

This far ranging exhibition, one of the largest to consider the subject, includes street photography; documentation of performance, events, and artworks presented in the street; works using material from the street; and examples of street culture by more than thirty artists including William Klein, Lee Friedlander, Raymond Hains, Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler, Sophie Calle, David Hammons, Jamel Shabazz, and Francis Alÿs, among others."

1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th St. Bronx NY 10456 Check out the website for directions and info. On view through Jan. 25, 2009.

AIM 28- How Soon is Now?

On View: June 1- August 18, 2008

Open House: Sunday, June 1, 2008 2 to 6 pm

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York 10456

How Soon Is Now? features an array of work by 36 artists from Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country.

Organized by Erin Riley-Lopez, Assistant Curator

Negar Ahkami, Blanka Amezkua, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Daniel Bejar, Charles Beronio, Matthew Burcaw, Si Jae Byun, Brendan Carroll, Vidal Centeno, Margarida Correia, Rä di Martino, Emcee C.M., Master of None, Jason Falchook, Michelle Frick, David Gilbert, Kyung Woo Han, Cosme Herrera, Catherine Kunkemueller, Luke Lamborn, Sujin Lee, Bill Lohre, Rebecca Loyche, Giuseppe Luciani, Brian Lund, Kelli Miller, Laura Napier, Dulce Pinzon, Christy Powers, Risa Puno, Ronny Quevedo, Sa’dia Rehman, John Richey, Irys Schenker, Mark Stafford, Jeanne Verdoux, and Angie Waller

A Day of Collaborative Performance at the Bronx Museum

Saturday, May 17, 2008
12 - 6pm

A live component to The Bronx Museum's current exhibition, "Making It Together", this day long event features continuous carnival-like performances by contemporary and historic collectives.

With The Brainstormers, Guerrilla Girls, Inc., Spiderwoman Theater, Ridykeulous, Broadband, Christal Brown and INSPIRIT, 6+ and The Waitresses.

Making It Together @ The Bronx Museum

Making It Together: Women's Collaborative Art & Community
@ The Bronx Museum
Through August 4, 2008
Guest -curated by Carey Lovelace

(via The Bronx Museum) Making It Together explores an important chapter in recent history when women artists, inspired by the 1970s Feminist Movement,
worked collectively in new ways to engage communities and address social issues.

Find out more here: www.bronxmuseum.org