ARTNIGHT {A Free Event}
Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

PARKING will be AVAILABLE at Les Kelley Medical Center on Colorado between 19th & 20th

OUTDOOR STAGE:

Join us for another amazing night of art! In the parking lot throughout the evening we will have VICC Entertainment who will light up the evening with video screens and projections of our very own present and past artists.

Outdoor Area:
6-8pm - RISING STARS YOUTH SLAM
Highways’ FIRST-EVER YOUTH SLAM!  A fantastic slam for those 21 and under!  Open pre-registration required, first come, first serve (visit www.highwaysperformance.org to sign up).  The winner will go on to be part of the ALL-STAR SLAM later that night!
Plus DJ and Musical Guest!
 
8.30-10.30pm – ALL-STAR SLAM
A good old-fashioned POETRY SLAM featuring a sensational line-up of spectacular spoken wordsmiths battling it out on the mic!  Seasoned performers plus the winner of the RISING STARS YOUTH SLAM will compete for bragging rights and a CA$H PRIZE!
Plus DJ and Musical Guest!

MAIN GALLERY:
CARLA HERRERA-PRATS
I Overheard Two People Striking Up A Conversation About The Injustice of Working Together

April 1 – June 25, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

Artists Carla Herrera-Prats and Matthias Merkel Hess elevate 18th Street’s vision for an interactive arts laboratory to the next level. On May 1, 2010 Pratts and Hess will welcome the public into their projects that foster experimentation and investigation tied to 18th Street’s Status Report: Creative Economy theme.

Herrera-Prats' project explores the role creative processes play in pairing standardized education and democracy. Herrera-Prats looks closely at the history, design and fabrication of the first standardized test-scoring machines.

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PROJECT ROOM:
MATTHIAS MERKEL HESS
Fine Art 626-394-3963

April 1 – June 25, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

Hess’ approach to his project will consist of him contracting out his artistic services to the public. Merkel Hess services will include expertise in a variety of media, which will be advertised around Los Angeles through bandit signs; the same type of guerilla marketing used for many fly-by-night businesses. The project’s overall goal is to comment on the economic status of artists and how our society values artistic labor, and at the same time bring Merkel Hess recognition as an artist.

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JAMES ROJAS
2010 Santa Monica Latino Community Access Participation Project Grant Recipient

and his class from Pico youth and Family Center will present

Design Based Urban Planning (DBUP) , inter active, mixed media urban plan, 2010

Rojas’ Design Urban Planning Workshop (DBUP) is a project supported by 18th Street’s Latino Community Access and Participation Grant to engage local teens in Santa Monica in the urban planning process.
The workshops occurred every Tuesday and Wednesday evening for two hours from January 19, 2010 through April 28, 2010. Throughout the 16 weeks of the workshops the participants created their own interpretation of the City of Santa Monica; each student tackling a different section of the city and tapping into their own diverse backgrounds as their source of creativity. Throughout the process Rojas taught the teens how to translate conceptual planning into physical forms and explore the rich history of Santa Monica.

Now that the workshop has ended, the model will be a visual expression of what they learned over the last six weeks.

This workshop is funded (in part) by the City of Santa Monica Community Access and Participation (CAP) Grant Program and the Santa Monica Arts Commission

Visiting & International Artists
Open Studios

2009 Open Studios New and recent works by 18th Street Artists-In-Residence: Luciana Abait, Lita Albuqurque, Karl Doerrer-Attaway, Michael W. Barnard, Continuum Studio, Electronic Cafe International, EZTV, Marina Day Forstmann, Bernadette Fox, Yvette Gellis, Ichiro Irie, Arzu Arda Kosar, Dan Kwong, David McDonald, and

International Artists include:

Australia
Chris Fox

Poland
Maciek Stepinski

18th Street Connect:
An opportunity to learn about Santa Monica based and greater Los Angeles organizations.

Organizations include: Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Pico Family Youth Center and Y.W.C.A. This year’s 18th Street Connect will also consist of a community of artisans whose handcrafted creations will be available to the public for purchase.  

Pasillos I
In celebration of the LA Opera's Spring 2010 production of Richard Wagner's 'The Ring Cycle', 18th Street will present's Clayton Campbell's Digital Wagner.
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Design Based Urban Planning
with James Rojas & Pico Youth & Family Center:

Pasillos I:

Clayton Campbell, from the Digital Wagner series

Bar Hosted by: IZZE sparkling juice, Pama Pomegranate Liqueur & HPNOTIQ

ArtNight is supported in part by the cultural funding initiatives of the City of Santa Monica.

18th Street Arts Center programs are generously funded (in part) by the City of Santa Monica Community Access and Participation (CAP) Grant Program and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the Getty Foundation.