Between January 6th and January 12th, conversations, songs, ambient sounds, beats, and interviews were recorded in South East DC and the ArtLab sound studios, and mixed to form a soundscape. These collaged raw documents serve as an ethnography, tribute, historiography, and self-portrait of a new generation of sound artists and residents of South East and North East Washington DC.

On January 10th, 2012, at 6:45 pm, Navarro “Moochie” Brown, a Native Stars contributing artist was shot to death in South East DC, shortly after leaving the Hirshhorn Art Lab. This work serves as a testament to his bright spirit and solid creativity that was ended far too early. Listen:

http://soundcloud.com/kc-rose

Created April 2011 in the public restroom of Elsewhere Living Museum, Greensboro NC.

The walls of the bathroom were repainted entirely with handmade chalkboard paint. Imagery references local phenomena of the objects, people, and spirits of the museum

flour, salt, pine, acrylic, baling wire

approx. 32″x 28″x 28″

April 2011, photo: Elsewhere Documentarian Norah Hoover

www.knowledgecommonsdc.org

core.mfah.org

http://www.ox-bow.org/

http://www.mildredslane.com/applications.php

http://www.haystack-mtn.org/

http://www.penland.org/programs/core_fellowship.html

Residencies

http://www.hub-bub.com/air/

http://www.yaddo.org/yaddo/ApplicationGuidelines.shtml

http://www.centrum.org/residencies/

http://www.sva.edu/residency

http://www.banffcentre.ca/va/programs/#thematic

http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/residencies/

http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/opportunities

http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/

http://www.re-title.com/

http://www.arrowmont.org/artists-in-residence

http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/application/index.html

http://www.three-walls.org/programs/threewallsresidencies/

Internships

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/info/page.asp?key=207&subkey=80

http://www.wsworkshop.org/_art_opp/internships.htm

http://www.pilchuck.com/summer_program/work_exchange_internships.aspx

http://www.andersonranch.org/about/employment/index.php?page=summer-internships

Professional Development

http://www.entrepreneurthearts.com/site/epage/75964_801.htm

http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/career-training

http://www.re-title.com/

Alternative School/Community Projects/Artist Collectives

http://www.e-flux.com/pages/about

http://www.re-title.com/

http://openengagement.info/

http://www.queerexplorersclub.org/

http://basekamp.com/

http://www.temporaryservices.org/

http://www.applied-aesthetics.org/

http://ourgoods.org/

http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/

http://www.provisionslibrary.org/

http://all.thepublicschool.org/

http://knowledgecommonsdc.org/

3.5′x7′

This series of sculpture references the traditional Easter craft, Panoramic sugar eggs.

These small, decorative sugar eggs have peepholes one can look through to mysterious and idealized worlds of Christian Easter and spring imagery. The artist learned the techniques and history of this craft by informally interviewing individuals still practicing the form, found via internet search.

sugar, pigment, egg whites, coyote pelt. Each egg: 14″x11″x13″

During the course of a month and a half, Kate Clark and Mio Ichinose overcame language barriers to design and create a 30-foot collaborative painting addressing themes of traditional and contemporary American and Japanese cultural identity.

As a member of The Floating Lab Collective, a collaboration was developed with local poets in Detroit, MI during the U.S. Social Forum. The poets performed pieces about the foreclosed and abandoned houses and public buildings within the city. FLC filmed and projected the poet’s live performances upon the buildings their work related to.