18th Street’s long standing and popular ‘Art Nights’ opens the art center to the public with our gallery receptions, concerts, and open studios by current artists in residence. Supported by the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, these free events happen every three months and treats LA to one big art party. Without a doubt, Art Nights are not the usual On a given evening, you will see work by the brightest and best of LA’s visual arts scene, hear some hot Latin Jazz or progressive rock, watch a Butoh dancer, even rub shoulders with visiting artists from Australia, Taiwan, Poland, Mexico
and around the world!

 

Shannon

Artist: Shannon Spanhake

Saturday, July 12 , 2008

Opening Event: 6 –9:00pm

Free:

CITIZEN ARTISTS MAKING EMPHATIC ARGUMENTS

Curated by Adolfo V. Nodal

Regarding the complete body of work, Adolfo Nodal states, “Together they represent a great mix of ideas and approaches that are becoming a critical mass of activism and capturing the imagination of the world.… They all serve as emphatic arguments in the development of the discourse on the future of the planet.”


Artists include: Ala Plastica, Lauren Bon, BULBO, CoLabART (Lynn Small + Dennis Paul), Echo Park Film Center, Fallen Fruit, Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison, Invisible 5, NAtalie Jeremijenko, Tom Reddock, Shannon Spanhake, Kim Stringfellow, Robert Tannen, and

LOS ANIMISTAS

An Installation by Los Animistas, 2008 Artist Fellow
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2


Open Studios for International Artists
Michael Arcega (Visions from the New California Recipient), Peter Atkins (Australia), and Hui-Yu Su (Taiwan)

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ and IZZE sparkling juice

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