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Axis @ Verge!
Join us this Second Saturday, October 8th, for the reception of our latest exhibition! Verge Center for the Arts has invited Axis Gallery's 13 artist members to exhibit works at Verge Center for the Arts in October and November 2011. Each artist will exhibit a piece, which they have created in their individual media.
Artists: Phil Amrhein, Sandra Beard, Karen Bearson, Joy Bertinuson, Richard Gilles, Cherie Hacker, Shirley Hazlett, Dixie Laws, Birgitta Franzen McCarthy, Janice Nakashima, Cherilyn Naughton, Ron Peetz and Jiayi Young
Show Dates and Events:
October 6, 6-8pm - Artists' Preview Reception
October 8, 6-10pm - Second Saturday Opening
November 10, 6-10pm - Open House
November 12, 6-10pm - Second Saturday Opening
Axis Gallery is a cooperative gallery featuring leading edge art from local, national and international artists. Axis, an artist-run space in Sacramento, has been together since 1986 and takes pride in building a reputation for exhibiting challenging contemporary artwork. Axis members invite the public to visit their website is at http://www.axisgallery... to learn more information about artist members and Axis Gallery.
Verge Celebrates Southern Foodways!
Join us on Thursday, September 29, for an evening of delicious food, music, and short films promoting Southern food and culture. Space is limited, so get your tickets now! We are SOLD OUT!!!
Doors will open at 6:30pm for cocktails and live music followed by a Southern food tasting menu created by Jaymes Luu of Fat Face. After dinner Verge Movie Night Co-curator Becky Grunewald will present a shorts program of Southern Foodways Alliance films promoting Southern food culture. This will be a fantastic night of food, music, films, and fun! Read on for more about the Southern Foodways Alliance and we'll see you at dinner!
The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor -- all who gather -- may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.
A member-supported non-profit, based at the University of Mississippi, we stage symposia on food culture, produce documentary films, collect oral histories, and publish compendiums of great writing. In the Atlantic Monthly, Corby Kummer dubbed the SFA "this country's most intellectually engaged (and probably most engaging) food society."
http://southernfoodways.org/index.html
Space is limited, please purchase tickets early for $47 at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/195414
On the menu (Vegan/Vegetarian option forthcoming):
- Salad of babydoll watermelon, lemon cucumber, cherry tomatoes, buttermilk vinaigrette
- Mesquite smoked bledsoe pork shoulder served with rolls and cabbage green bean slaw
- Cache creek chicken and andouille sausage jambalaya with grilled corn and smokey heirloom tomatoes
- "Red velvet" popsicle
- Fat Face popcorn during the films
CAST IS COMING!!!!!!!
Don't miss Verge on the Capital Area Studio Tour, a city-wide event sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento. The tour takes place on Saturday, September 10 from 10am-4pm and Sunday, September 11 from noon-4pm. That Saturday Verge will have our temporary exhibition space open for our first 2nd Saturday receptionin the new building!!!
For more info about the weekend and to learn more about other studios in the region go to: www.ccas.org
In the meantime write down these dates and times and we'll see you in September!!!
CAST
Saturday, September 10, 10am-4pm
Sunday, September 11, noon-4pm
2nd Saturday reception, 6-10pm
Verge's 2nd Annual Jumble Sale & Preview Party!!!
Our Jumble Sale is coming up fast! Don't miss out on our Preview Party, which will include open studios and a look at our temporary gallery.
Thursday, August 4th, 6pm - 10pm
$15
- First crack at all those Jumble Sale treasures. We've got a ton of great vintage clothing that'll be snapped up quickly for sure!
- Pizza courtesy of Luigi's Slice!
- Drinks including refreshing white wines and beer!
- Artist studios open for previewing!
- Art for sale by Verge artists!
- DJ Scott Soriano spinning records! AND...
- A sneak peek at our new temporary exhibition space featuring work by Verge resident artists! This will be our first show in the new space!!!!!
BLANK CITY
With a pre-lecture by Jenny Stark, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Film at CSUS
July 15, 7:30
Students $12
Adults $15
The Crest Theatre will be teaming up once more with Verge Center for the Arts on July 15, at 7:30 for the next installment of our quarterly film screening. This time around we'll be featuring Blank City, a raw, and exhilarating romp through the late 70s/early 80s New York avant garde film scene. Prior to the film, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Film at CSUS, Jenny Stark, will be presenting a pre-lecture and screening some of her own work. Some may remember Stark's outstanding pre-lecture for John Waters last summer as part of the California Lecture Series which made her the perfect compliment to this program. Please read on for more about the film and Jenny Stark.
See you at the movies!
BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970's through the mid 80's, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.
Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, BLANK CITY weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all. Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, photographer Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more.
JENNY STARK was born in Bellaire, Texas. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Houston and went on to receive an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. She is an Associate Professor of Communications and Film as well as the Film Coordinator at Sacramento State. Her films and videos have shown at South by Southwest, The New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Viennale, Vienna, LA Film Forum, The Aurora Picture Show Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, IMT London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City.
