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May 10

Ikue Mori

2006 Grantee, Music/Sound

Mori gives a solo performance at the CCRMA Stage at Stanford University.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ikue-mori-solo-concert 

through October 6

Guido van der Werve

2009 Grantee, Visual Arts

Global Navigators (Group show)

This group show is part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival and features van der Werve’s video art piece nummer acht.

Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA

http://dutchfestival.pgharts.org/fest_event/global-navigators/

 

May 1

Michael Pisaro

2006 Grantee, Music/Sound

Transparent Cities

Sound and image combine with music to create a vivid portrait of the light, movement, sound and silence that occur during a single day in Los Angeles.

REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.redcat.org/event/transparent-cities

 

May 2

Bill Morrison

2003 Grantee, Visual Arts

Films by Bill Morrison

The International House screens Morrison’s The Miners’ Hymns, as well as three short films.

International House Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

http://ihousephilly.org/events/archive-fever-3-0-films-by-bill-morrison/

 

May 2-6

Young Jean Lee

2005 Grantee, Theater/Performance

We’re Gonna Die

Lee premieres the Obie Award winning, We’re Gonna Die.

Theatre Junction, Calgary, Canada

http://www.theatrejunction.com/2011-2012-season/were-gonna-die/

 

May 5

Mary Jane Leach

1995 Grantee, Music/Sound

An Evening with Mary Jane Leach

Leach presents a video and gives a lecture.

The Red Room at Normals Books and Records, Baltimore, MD

http://redroom.org

 

May 9-12

Young Jean Lee

2005 Grantee, Theater/Performance

The Shipment

Lee performs The Shipment at the Harbourfront Centre.

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/theatre.cfm?id=3549

  

May 10

Pauline Oliveros

2012 John Cage Award Recipient

Oliveros at 80 and Open Studio

A discussion with Oliveros and aural architect Jonas Braasch precedes an evening performance.

EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/oliveros/

 

May 13; May 15

Okkyung Lee

2010 Grantee, Music/Sound

Lee performs a solo cello concert.

May 13: El Nicho Aural Festival, Mexico City, Mexico

May 15: Cha’ak’ab Paaxil, Merida, Mexico

http://okkyung.wordpress.com/where-and-when/

 

May 18-June 23

Samuel Reveles

1994 Grantee, Visual Arts

At the Pale, New Paintings and Drawings (Solo show)

An exhibition features Reveles new work from a residency in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland.

James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

www.jameskelly.com

 

May 19

Marc Mellits

2004 Grantee, Music/Sound

Rhythm Unleashed: The Music of Marc Mellits

The artist attends a performance of his own work by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

Redstone Room, River Music Experience, Davenport, IA

www.qcsymphony.com/calendar.html?id=15

 

May 25-October 28

Allison Smith

2008 Grantee, Visual Arts

International Orange (Group show)

Smith presents work in an exhibition in honor of the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th anniversary that offers new perspectives on the landmark.

Fort Point National Historic Site, San Francisco, CA

http://www.international-orange.org/artist/allison-smith/

 

May 30- June 1

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

2010 Grantee, Theater/Performance

Life and Times- Episode 1

This performance by the experimental theater group focuses on a phone conversation in which theater member Kristin Worrall discusses her life story.

Festival Trans Ameriques, Montreal, Canada

http://www.fta.qc.ca/en

 

June 1-August 31

Kate Millett

2012 Grantee, Visual Arts

Millett’s sculpture and drawings are on display at the Blue Barn Studio and her silkscreens, drawings and posters will be on sale.

Millett Center for the Arts, LaGrange, NY

www.millettcenterforthearts.org

 

June 7-10; June 14-17

Molissa Fenley

2000 Grantee, Dance

The Vessel Stories

Fenley choreographs The Vessel Stories, which is performed by Robert Moses’ Kin.

ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

http://www.robertmoseskin.org

 

June 15-16

Stephen Petronio

1999 Grantee, Dance

Underland

For their Durham Arts Center debut, Stephen Petronio presents Underland, originally created in 2003 for the Sydney Dance Company.

Durham Arts Center, Durham, NC

http://www.dpacnc.com/events/detail/stephen-petronio-company

 

June 16-17

Bill Morrison

2003 Grantee, Visual Arts

Recent Work at the National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art presents three programs of Morrison’s work, each showing a different film.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/BMorrison.shtm

June 16: Program 1, The Miners’ Hymns

June 16: Program 2, Tributes- Pulse

June 17: Program 3, Spark of Being with two short films

 

June 28-September

Steven Roden

2011 Grantee, Music/Sound

Shells, Bells, Steps and Silence (Solo show)

Roden presents a newly commissioned video and sound installation related to a group of seashells belonging to Martha Graham.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.welcometolace.org/

 

June 29-August 26

Kimsooja

2007 Grantee, Visual Arts

A Needle Woman

Kimsooja exhibits a large-scale, multi-channel video installation.

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

June 30-October 7

http://www.miamiartmuseum.org/

 

June 30-October 7

Kimsooja

2007 Grantee, Visual Arts

Where Do We Migrate To? (Group show)

This exhibition explores contemporary manifestation of required mobility as well as experiences of displacement and exile.

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

www.cacno.org

www.umbc.edu/cadvc/exhibitions/migrate.php  

 

July 6-July 15

Martin Acosta

1999 Grantee, Theater/Performance

Timboctou

This play brings a humorous light to the violence currently happening in Mexico.

Teatro Experimental de Jalisco Calzada Independencia, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

http://www.tokinrecords.com/ap/teatro_experimental/cartelera/

 

July 7-October 8

Charles Atlas

2006 John Cage Award Recipient

Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media

Atlas’s work is included in this group exhibition, which explores the fine line between fine arts and performing arts.

SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/457

 

July 12-September 23

Leslie Hewitt

2003 Grantee, Visual Arts

International Artist in Residence-New Works 12.2 (Solo show)

The exhibit displays work Hewitt created during a two-month residency at Artpace, documented and accompanied by an exhibition brochure.

Artpace, San Antonio, TX

http://artpace.org/about-the-exhibition/?axid=409

 

July 15-21

Carla Harryman

2004 Grantee, Poetry

Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin: 11th Annual OutSound Music Festival

The festival features new verbal scores by Carla Harryman performed by Carla Harryman, Jon Raskin and Gino Robair.

The Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

http://www.outsound.org/summit/index.html

 

July 27-October 21

Steve Roden

2011 Grantee, Music/Sound

Silence (Group show)

Roden shows paintings, sculpture and a text-based work relating to the show’s theme of silence.

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

http://www.menil.org/exhibitions/Silence.php

 

August 17

Molissa Fenley

2000 Grantee, Dance

Credo in Us and The Vessel Stories

Fenley and her dancers perform Credo in Us, with music by John Cage and The Vessel Stories, with music by Phillip Glass at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA

www.jacobspillow.org

Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
FILTER and REPLICA
Choreographer and media artist Bokaer presents the culmination of a year-long dance residency program, ARTech, with the performance of two pieces: FILTER, a new work created during the residency, and REPLICA, a piece that examines memory loss, pattern recognition and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body.
Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/plugins/shows/index.php?id=26

April 5 – May 21
Jin Hi Kim
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Pyongyang
Kim’s sound mix accompanies David Chung’s multimedia installation.  
Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Link here

April 7
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
Waldrop reads her poems as part of the New Writing Series’ Milton Ellis Memorial Event.
University of Maine, Orono, ME
http://english.umaine.edu/current-events/

April 8
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
STACKS
Bokaer presents STACKS, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with poet Anne Carson and sculptor Peter Cole, which explores the nature of collapse as manifested in human anatomy, written language and everyday objects. The project challenges traditional expectations of what a dance, poem or sculpture can be.
The Moore Building, Miami, FL
http://www.bridgehouseevents.com/venues_moore.php

April 10
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Rhode Island Voices
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop open the 2011 Rhode Island Voices series by reading their work.
North Kingstown Free Library, North Kingstown, RI
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=NKFL

April 15 – 16
Elevator Repair Service
2009 Grantee, Performance Art/Theater
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
ERS performs the company’s acclaimed staging of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.”
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/

April 16 – 29
Zoe Beloff
1997 Grantee, Visual Arts
Zoe Beloff: The Somnambulists
In The Somnambulists, Beloff focuses on the idea of "staging the unconscious,” presenting five different hysterical dramas.  These include “History of a Fixed Idea” and “A Modern Case of Possession” in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song. A talk with Beloff will open the exhibit on April 16.
Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.panoramaonview.org/index.html

April 18
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading/Recording
As a part of Lamont Library’s 80th anniversary season, poet and award-winning translator Waldrop and her husband Keith participate in a WPR recording session duet.  A Q&A and book signing will follow.
Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/#poetry_room_events

April 20
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
Poet and translator Waldrop will present a poetry reading alongside her husband Keith Waldrop.
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
http://prod.campuscruiser.com/q?pg=home_calendar&tg=Calendar-monthly&cmd=load&dt=20110425&cx=22.161&ts=1301067990850

Through April 24
Paul Sietsema
2002 Grantee, Visual Arts
All of this and nothing (group exhibition)
Sietsema’s work is included in the first major exhibition at the Hammer to be curated jointly by the museum’s chief curator, Douglas Fogle and senior curator Anne Ellegood. The exhibition explores fundamental questions about our experiences of existing in the world and in the potential for art to reveal the mysterious and the magical.
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/197

Through April 30
Kimsooja
2001 Grantee, Visual Arts
Where Do We Migrate To? (group exhibition)
Kimsooja is included in this exhibit that explores contemporary manifestations of required mobility as well as experiences of displacement and exile, and examines how intensified situations of transition undermine our cultural and personal notions of settlement and belonging.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
http://www.umbc.edu/NewsEvents/Arts/Calendar/

May 19 – July 17
Ishmael Randall Weeks
Grantee 2006, Visual Arts
Contain, Maintain, Sustain (group exhibition)
Curated by Welmoed Laanstra, Sara Reisman and Ernesto Santalla, Contain features Weeks and other artists who work with time-based and static artworks that explore sustainability.
Artisphere, Arlington, VA
http://www.artisphere.com/calendar/event-details/Visual-Arts/Contain-Maintain-Sustain.aspx

May 20 – July 2
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
The Cries of San Francisco (solo exhibition)
Smith, along with 50 participants, creates a temporary public art project that takes as its inspiration the historic tradition of street peddling as an alternative economy and a form of sculptural drag. An accompanying exhibition also serves as a public house and market hall where participants gather to perform and record their cries and to trade and peddle their wares to the public.
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
http://soex.org/criesofsf.html

Through May 29
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
Piece of Work (solo show)
In Piece of Work, Smith presents sculptures and works on paper that refer to different American decorative arts and craft traditions, creating a space for both contemplation and activity.  In addition to this installation, the exhibition features a suite of programs inviting local artists, craftsmen and visitors to create work in the museum.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/exhibitions/Allison_Smith:_Piece_Work



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