Peanut Gallery Artists | Art@Cole’s #23

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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit
featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves
On display through Mid-November
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.

  • Reception 
for Art@Cole’s #23
    featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
    7pm  |  front room
  • Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
    8pm  |  back room/stage

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The Peanut Gallery  |  A space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.

  • Traci Hercher  |  As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?
  • Brandon Howe  |  The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.
  • Charlie Megna  |  Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace.  In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy.  In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.
  • Kelly Reaves  |  My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions.I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.

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Photography by Ben Marth | Art@Handlebar

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Art@Handlebar
Featuring Photography by Ben Marth
On display through the end of October
Handlebar, 2311 West North Avenue, Chicago

Ben Marth was born of the north, a child of the long summer. Though he knew not the luxuries of the high borns, he was skilled at crafting fine art and dinosaur calls. He likes the loud screechy ones. Setting forth from the land some call Michigan, he traveled forth to a new, slightly less northern city, Chicago. Ben trained among the masters of Columbia College in the ancient arts, honing his craft for the coming winter. With his studies now completed, he sets forth on his long journey to do battle with the monsters of the first men. Remember, winter is coming, but it’s alright. We got a heater and some coco – stop by.
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Art-Starter | A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency

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Art-Starter
A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency
Monday, September 30, 10pm-?
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee

Get your drink on and be merry! Listen to some jams laid down by the AnySquared All-star DJ Crew! Featuring:

  • BSYES!
  • Strand Theory’s “Movie Mosh”
  • T.K.O.
  • Mike Bolsinga(tronic!)
  • Dj Ink jet and the Drum Scanner!

Join us at Cole’s: every drink sold helps support the Cinema Minima Residency: our project encourages writers and filmmakers to create new works of art and then shares the pieces with the wider community.

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Make something! Studio Day on Wednesdays!

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TOMORROW: Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Make something! Studio Day Wednesdays!

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Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Writers & Filmmakers We Want You!

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Cinema Minima Residency
CALL FOR WRITERS & FILMMAKERS
See submission rules for writing and rules for film.

The 2013 Cinema Minima residency challenges writers and filmmakers to develop short independent films based on the theme: The Decisive Moment. The residency promotes experimentation, supports emergent media, provides artists with networking opportunities, and encourages public participation.

The Decisive Moment
“The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Phase 1: Writers
The first installment is a special Writers Event on October 6th where writers submissions are presented to an audience. The audience chooses top 3 writers who each win $100 and their contribution made into film(s).
Writers Rules for Submission
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Phase 2: Filmmakers
In the second phase, the top 3 writing selections will be posted for the filmmakers to choose from. The filmmakers will have three weeks to submit a short film/video(s) based on the writing(s). November 3rd is the FILM Premiere of all films/video. Best in Show is chosen by the audience. Best in Show receives a future featured screening and $100+. Honorable mentions also chosen. (The + is a percentage of the bar take for the evening of the premiere).
Filmmakers Rules for Submission

Rules for Writing Submissions

Writers Event on Sun October 6, 2013 at 8pm: Special event where writers submissions presented to an audience. The audience chooses top 3 writers who win $100 prizes each and contribution made into film.

1. Sunday October 6: deadline for writers’ submissions. You must have you submission ready to read for the event. We also must receive you entry electronically by the end of the Writer’s Event or you will be disqualified. Email submissions to projects@anysquared.com with subject line “CM Writing Submission”

2. Writers must be present at the October 6 writers event in order to be eligible for prize money.

3. Submissions can be up to 1000 words. No Minimum.

4. No limit on format or style as long as submission reflects the theme: “The Decisive Moment”.

5. The top three spots will be selected by audience approval, so make sure you tell your friends to come in order to increase your chances.

6. Upon selection the top 3 writers will be paid $100 dollars for the work submitted.

7. Top 3 submissions will be passed along to filmmakers to be made into shorts films.

8. Writers are not allowed to collaborate directly with any filmmakers.

9. We will publish all submissions: Any submissions not chosen to be a part of the residency will be posted on the CM website after the filmmaker October 20 registration deadline.

Rules For Film Submission

Film Premiere on Sun November 3 at 8pm: All films screened. Audience selects Best in Show filmmaker As well as Honorable mentions. Best in Show receives a future featured screening and $100+. (The + is a percentage of the bar take for the evening of the premiere).

1. Top 3 selected writers submissions will be posted electronically by October 7th for use by filmmakers.

2. Suggested Registration for filmmakers so we can promote you as a participant! Send an email with the subject “CM Film Registration” to projects@anysquared.com include:

  • name
  • Let us know about your work: send a website link or video link.
  • your choice(s) of the 3 selected submissions you intend to interprete through a flm/video

3. Filmmakers can make 1-3 films: select one script or all three but must make a separate submission for each writing submission.

4. Filmmakers create an under 5-minute interpretation(s) of 1 or more of 3 selected writing submissions.

5. Films must be under 5 minutes. No Minimum.

6. Films should be in 1280X720. Acceptable formats include: DVD, Quicktime, or MPG4.

7. Sun October 27: deadline to Submit Finished Film(s). All Films must be received by 10/27 and can be dropped off or mailed to AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647.

6. Best in Show will be chosen by audience at the November 3 Film Premiere along with Honorable Mentions. Best in Show receives a future featured screening and $100+. (The + is a percentage of the bar take for the evening of the premiere)

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