Last Chance for input into the NEA MICD

Hello Everybody!
It is time to wrap this up!
Time to stand up! Once more for what you want!

The National Endowment for the Arts
“Mayor’s Institute on City Design” grant cycle is ending!
So lets get this done!
We have one more chance to make comments and bring out your concerns!
If this plan is to have any meaning at all! and oh! We want this to be a great guide for us going forward!

But it will be on us!
So let”s have one last look at what we really want and tell the RPA what you think of what they have done so far!
Or forever hold your peace!

Remember this is our plan for our city!
And we are the creative force that will make it the unique and wonderful destination for the world!
And what an honor for us to be funded by the National Endowment of the Arts under the
Mayor’s Institute on City Design!

After this! It can be better!
After this! We will have the work to do!
After this! We should be a united front forging the foundations of an amazing plan for the arts in our deserving community!

All are welcomed!
Join us for the last meeting concerning this plan:
June 27th at 6pm
NJCDC, TOC Building
3rd Floor of 32 Spruce Street
Please RSVP so we know how many seats we need! and how much food to bring!
Call Christine at 973-800-9988

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Johnny Soap Vega

It develops and continues…

“Soap”

Washes his sorrows away.

At the Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic

It’s hard to forgive

Harder to forget.

My church is all churches

…all places of worship.

I look up to the heavens and have deep reverence for

My maker.

And I love Father Mark.

He is a lifelong figure of love and kindness in my life.  I was fortunate.

He was not like everyone.  Johnny has had his deep sorrows.

And he mentions it. And it is painful for everyone.

But he is able to recognize love and happiness.

His portraits are alive with the personalities of his loved ones. He shows his skill and his personality emerges.

Johnny ” Soap” Vega

Show “Shines”

At the Ivanhoe

June 4, 6pm-10pm


IAM so impressed with our hometown sweetheart Johnny Soap!
Oh he is clever and he has been through it, but he is squeeky clear about his views in this interesting show.
Johnny emerges as an graffiti artist blossomed into full fine art icon of his hometown, Paterson.

Please join us in welcoming Johnny to the Ivanhoe and celebrate his “re-entry” party as the worldly father juxtaposing the trendy graphics of graffiti and the inner sanctity of an artist as he lets it out.

Good Luck Johnny! You are very special to our scene.

Exhibiting June 3rd through June 30, 2011.
Reception June 4 6pm-10pm

See more on the Web:www.ivanhoeartists.org

www.facebook.com/IvanhoeArtists

And thank you Mohammed for a great show, thanks all for an amazing but grueling experience at the Paterson PM!
See the gorgeous murals painted on the spot by our friends and families:
Thank you all the MacCrackens!

 

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The IAM ” Closes Mo’s Show:( ” Show

Mo's 2011

This is the event we hate most. The closing of a beautiful show.

Anyone who knows Mo, knows that Mo’s stuff is always a sweet surprise. His medium lends to that found arts and crafts experience. But this show is especially sweet and the colors are truly an indication of a shift in Mohamed’s style. Lovely. We really enjoyed it and now we look forward to seeing more from Mohamed as he morphs into his next phase.

Our closing reception is

Wednesday  May 25Th 7pm. Join us for our closing show with Mohamed. Enjoy our “Open “Mike” and some refreshments!

Come say goodbye to Mohamed and watch us prepare for our next guest.

Mo's Color's

Now don’t leave us so fast! We have more announcements:

In cronological order:

The PatersonPM

May 28-30

1pm-8pm

Look for us at 225 Market Street

Rain or shine we are preparing an Art Bazaar

We will have fine arts and crafts for sale as we prepare other arts before your eyes.

Come and support the arts.

Make something, buy something and take something amazing away at the end live art auction on the web!

And lots more surprises and prizes!

To find out how to participate contact: patersonarts@gmail.com

This project is sponsored by the Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic Inc.,

the NEA MICD and the New Jersey Community Development Corporation.

And:

Paterson’s Son:

Johnny Soap!

at the

“Ivanhoe” Artistic Museum”

Opening Reception June 4th , 4pm-10pm

4 Spruce Street Paterson NJ 07501

Johnny Soap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Take Part in the 25th Anniversary “Mayor’s Institute on City Design” Planning Workshop. Create the plan for Arts in Paterson! NEA Awaits our Design!

This image is from a walking tour design created by a team of local and international artists funded by the New York State Council on the Arts* 2006. The design represents a proposed Monument! developed for the City of Paterson. It exemplifies our opportunity to create a vibrant destination for future generations.

Artists! This is a call to you and your community, for ideas! What are our resources and how can arts thrive and enhance the development of what can come.  

Please attend our last workshop. 9am Saturday, April 30 at the  Center City Mall. Bring your bio and count your self “in” as one of the many assets we have in and around the newest National Park. Get excited by our potential together! Tell us who you are, what you create, what you think, bring it along. Invite your friends to be a part of the ultimate design:

The Mayor’s Institute on City Design

We’re creating an action plan for the arts in Paterson. Live performances and interactive workshops, we will complete our collection phase of this process with the help of our team of regional and international experts.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Sat April 30th, 9am-3 pm at the Center City Art Galleries

Can we count on you? Please let us know

RSVP or contact: patersonarts@gmail.com or call: 973-800-9988.

Sponsored by

The National Endowment for the Arts, 25th Anniversary Mayor’s Institute on City Design.

New Jersey Community Development Corporation, Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic Inc., Jumpstart Community Training and Performing Arts Inc., Center City Galleries

Please write for the: questionnaire created by the fabulous RPA. Meet the Team: www.rpa.org or fill out the questionnaire and send it back to us as soon as possible in order that it can be a part of the many varied and wonderful possibilities for this community!

* fluxfactory.org 2006

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The 5 Caballero’s Show at the Ivanhoe

It’s the
“5 Caballero’s Show”

Our favorite “gentlemen” are exhibiting their talents
and we want you to be there when we celebrate and encourage them as they share their most recent works.
Let’s celebrate their comraderie and our admiration for the arts.
Let’s celebrate life with all of it’s losses and horror’s, struggles and sorrows
and stick with the hope filled dreams.
Let’s look from the eyes of the “crazy artists” to see what’s so great about it.
Don’t miss this special event!  Celebrating the evidence that genius remains even after the fire!

The story…

Painting by Hugo Munoz

Hugo Munoz lost a lifetime of journals and original artworks on January 14, 2011.
Of all people, we never imagined him being at such a loss, especially and ironically over his artworks and right when he was really starting to get out there with his works.
But that changed abruptly.
Unfortunately, we only had a fraction of his works in our computers and phones,
and so we will be exhibiting what remains:
…the evidence of his development… the nature of his thinking… the evidence of his genius! The proof that faith remains even after a fire.

Hugo is joined by his friends Ron Emolo, Frank “Pancho” Garcia, Don Kommit and Ken Create

ON March 9, we will welcome the musical talents of Sam Mealie and Special Guests: Muzzy and Friends.
Muzzy was moved by Hugo’s situation and he didn’t want to miss the chance to be here for him.

Our Opening was lovely! Stay Tuned for more at the

Ivanhoe
“Where Art Lives in Paterson”
With great affection,

IAM and Christine

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