I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
— Carl Sandburg

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
— George Sand

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
— Pamela Anderson

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
— Dale Carnegie

Eight Days and Counting

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and glean, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost forever...
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Take the money you're NOT spending on subscribing to this blog and come support Hallwalls by roaming around the early summer semi-dark to discover what's lurking here, there, and everywhere. 28 artists' installations, viewer-participatory pieces, peformative works, sculptures, live bands, dj's, libations and refreshments, Ike's Barbecue, and even a few models thrown in the mix. $12 advance $15 at the door. It's June 2, the perfect night to kick summer in the ass so hard the glow lasts til September...

Buffalo Rising on Nocturminal
Here's an interview with participating artist Sean McGarry:
Sean McGarry
Here's a podcast from when Mollie Atkinson of articulate dropped by to talk about Artists & Models past and Nocturminal pending with myself, Polly Little, participating artist David Butler, Larry Griffis III, Sandy Bartz, and Dave Derner. Thanks to everyone for this engaging chat.
Buffalo Rising podcast

For additional information on upcoming Hallwalls programs and events, go to
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Hallwalls Exhibitions EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 1
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1—4pm, by appointment

JOAN LINDER • The Pink

Joan Linder Homepage

RUBEN OCHOA • Clastic Rupture


Opening Elsewhere
• MIchael Vincent McLean at St. Luke's United Church (Richmond/Utica) opening Sat June 2 6-9pm (thru June 30
• Coni Minneci: A-z Women Artists; My Artistic Interpretation of Their Lives Using the Pear as a Metaphor at partners in Art Gallery (Tonawanda) opening Sat June 2 4-7pm (thru June 22)
• Gruppen Werks 002 at Cosmopolitan Gallery (928 Main) opening Sat May 26 8pm

Exhibition Title of the Week


Continuing Elsewhere
(last week/see em now)
• Francis Bacon at the Albright-Knox through July 29
• Starlight Studio's Spring Break Show thru Aug 3
• Buffalo Society of Artists 2007, gut-renovation plans for BAS and the 15 South Putnam Project opening at Buffalo Arts Studio thru July 14
• Carl Lee and Brendan Bannon at the BPAC thru July 8
• John Mielcarek at the BPAC thru July 8
• Amanda Besl at Artspace Witzenhausen thru June 16.
• Kyle Kaczmarek, Greg Wlosinski, Jess Trankle, Tom Terzian, Dan Jay in the Medaille College Senior Exhibition at CEPA thru May 30
• Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show at Buffalo Art Studio thru July 14
• Joshua Marks at the Tang Museum in Sarasota Springs thru August 12
• Assembling the Best: Nancy Belfer, Joyce Hill, Gerald Mead, Russell Ram at the Carnegie Art Center through June 9
• Polly Little, Mark Lavatelli, Monica Angle, Sam Magavern, Jackie Felix, AE Felix, Barbara Rowe, Peter Sowiski, Olga Bajusova, Josef Bajus, Kathi Roussel, Peter Fowler, Bonnie Gordon, John Pfahl, Linda Collingnon, Robert Collingnon, Ilania Kaplan, Christopher Stangler, Trudy Stern, Michael Morgulis at Insite Gallery thru June 17
• Catherine Parker opening at Meibohm Fine Arts (East Aurora) thru June 2
• William Koch at Artsphere thru June 2
• Patricia Carter, Juan Gomez, Fernando Colón Gonzalez, Jane Hammond, Mike Herbold, Warren Isensee, Margrit Lewczuk, Kathryn Lynch, Giles Lyon, Suzanne McClelland, Steve Miller, Stephen Mueller, Carolanna Parlato, Cordy Ryman, Sean Scherer, Peter Stephens, Jill Weber at Nina Freudenheim thru June 2
• Peter Fowler at Kepa3 thru June 15
• Robert John Holland opening at the JCC Amherst and on Delaware thru June 25
• Impact Artists Gallery annual members' show thru June 15
• Nancy Treherne Craig, Lawrence Kinney, Alejandro Gutierrez at Art Dialogue thru June 1
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16
• Ann Shier and Robert Schulman at Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora thru June 2
• Mary Begley at Delish on Elmwood thru May and Brodo Restaurant thru July
• Carol Vacanti at Flickinger/Nichols School through June 15
• Selections from the Ann Cravens ceramics collection (thru June 22), Adele Cohen (thru Aug 2), all at the Burchfield
• Milton Rogovin at the Castellani though June 24
• Dave Buck at Betty’s thru June 10
• Insoon Ha: The Island at Big Orbit thru July 1

Uhh, here's a hellish little art story...
New York Times

Francis Bacon on Life, Death, and Gambling


Something I listened to this week...

Official Website


Faker

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
— Seneca

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
— Emo Phillips

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
— W. C. Fields

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
— Alice Walker

Time is the longest distance between two places.
— Tennessee Williams

No, Jimmy's still kicking

Not exactly a funny story—I felt some regret and a twinge of sadness. I was lying in bed this week when the radio came on and informed me that Jerry Falwell had passed away. I thought, well, he was as full of snake oil as the rest of them, but he had a sort of crazy panache. Cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gillery, author of a fantastic tear-streaked public humiliation....then I actually woke up and realized I was, in fact, mourning Jimmy Swaggart! So far as I know, Jimmy is still alive, but Jerry is now likely in a netherworld filled to the brim with purple Teletubbies. In case you've forgotten, the Jermeister served up some very tough love following the September 11 attacks:

And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."

Now, Jerry did qualify his statements a little later and even apologized:

"I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says 'living by God's principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame...I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812..."I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize."

Uhh...I looked up Proverbs 14:23 and it doesn't seem to say anything about promoting a nation to greatness or bringing it to shame. What it says is:

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Were Jerry still here, I would throw out a single Dylan line to rebut this God/nation paradigm:

With God "on our side," He'll stop the next war...

Our best wishes to Jimmy Swaggart. Peace out.

15 Days and Counting




For additional information on upcoming Hallwalls programs and events, go to
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Hallwalls Exhibitions EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 1
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1—4pm, by appointment

JOAN LINDER • The Pink

Joan Linder Homepage

RUBEN OCHOA • Clastic Rupture


Opening Elsewhere
• Wyatt Design & Design May Fair and Sidewalk Sale Sat & Sun noon-4pm
• Barbara Sternberg screening at Squeaky Wheel Fri May 18, 8pm
• Rick Kleinsmith at Stuyvesant Gallery opening Fri May 18 6pm Moving Ahead
• MIchael Vincent McLean at St. Luke's United Church (Richmond/Utica) opening Sat June 2 6-9pm (thru June 30
• Starlight Studio's Spring Break Show(below) opens Fri May 18 6-9pm (thru Aug 3)


Bruce Jackson a Roma

Bruce Jackson

Continuing Elsewhere
(last week/see em now)
• Francis Bacon at the Albright-Knox through July 29
• Buffalo Society of Artists 2007, gut-renovation plans for BAS and the 15 South Putnam Project opening at Buffalo Arts Studio thru July 14
• Carl Lee and Brendan Bannon at the BPAC thru July 8
• John Mielcarek at the BPAC thru July 8
• Amanda Besl at Artspace Witzenhausen thru June 16.
• Kyle Kaczmarek, Greg Wlosinski, Jess Trankle, Tom Terzian, Dan Jay in the Medaille College Senior Exhibition at CEPA thru May 30
• Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show at Buffalo Art Studio thru July 14
• Joshua Marks at the Tang Museum in Sarasota Springs thru August 12
• Assembling the Best: Nancy Belfer, Joyce Hill, Gerald Mead, Russell Ram at the Carnegie Art Center through June 9
• Polly Little, Mark Lavatelli, Monica Angle, Sam Magavern, Jackie Felix, AE Felix, Barbara Rowe, Peter Sowiski, Olga Bajusova, Josef Bajus, Kathi Roussel, Peter Fowler, Bonnie Gordon, John Pfahl, Linda Collingnon, Robert Collingnon, Ilania Kaplan, Christopher Stangler, Trudy Stern, Michael Morgulis at Insite Gallery thru June 17
• Catherine Parker opening at Meibohm Fine Arts (East Aurora) thru June 2
• William Koch at Artsphere thru June 2
• Patricia Carter, Juan Gomez, Fernando Colón Gonzalez, Jane Hammond, Mike Herbold, Warren Isensee, Margrit Lewczuk, Kathryn Lynch, Giles Lyon, Suzanne McClelland, Steve Miller, Stephen Mueller, Carolanna Parlato, Cordy Ryman, Sean Scherer, Peter Stephens, Jill Weber at Nina Freudenheim thru June 2
• Peter Fowler at Kepa3 thru June 15
• Robert John Holland opening at the JCC Amherst and on Delaware thru June 25
• Impact Artists Gallery annual members' show thru June 15
• Nancy Treherne Craig, Lawrence Kinney, Alejandro Gutierrez at Art Dialogue thru June 1
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16
• Ann Shier and Robert Schulman at Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora thru June 2
• Carolee Schneeman at CEPA thru May 26
• Haunted Screens at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Bingyi at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Mary Begley at Delish on Elmwood thru May and Brodo Restaurant thru July
• Kenn Morgan at Karpeles Manuscript Museum thru May 23
• Carol Vacanti at Flickinger/Nichols School through June 15
• Andrea Cote, Sarah Hutt, Wendy Kawabata, Marie Kennedy, Tara Parsons, Daniela Rumpf, Penelope Stewart at RoCo through May 20
• Adam Nowicki and Sandra Bartz at Burchfield Nature & Art Center (West Seneca) thru May 25
• Jeff Freier at the Arts Council thru May 18
• Sung Hee Yoon and Nathaniel Infante at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 20
• Bingyi: The Dawns Here are Quiet at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 19
• Gary L. Wolfe: An Interactive Commentary on IS53 at BT Roberts Memorial Gallery, Rochester thru May 19
• Selections from the Ann Cravens ceramics collection (thru June 22), Adele Cohen (thru Aug 2), all at the Burchfield
• Frances Crohn at Wilcox Mansion thru May 20th
• Milton Rogovin at the Castellani though June 24
• Dave Buck at Betty’s thru June 10
• William Storrs at the Kenan Center thru May 20
• Insoon Ha: The Island at Big Orbit thru July 1

The International House of Sunshine
It's no cake walk to be a drummer/minimalist, but Carlo Cesta typically makes it look easy. Cesta, featured in Hallwalls 2005 Beyond/In Western New York exhibition (alongside the also great Al Volo and Allen Topolski) currently has a show up at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, thru June 23. Though I've known Carlo and his work for several years now, I am routinely awestruck when Carlo shows me something new. I never tire of his particular brand of elegance, humor, rococo flourishes, industrial materials, quotidian elements, and rock solid minimalism. Someone get this guy to Venice to represent Canada—that's long overdue.


Something I listened to this week...


Claire Schneider talks about Beyond/In Western New York

Why does Claire look so happy here? Because she and I and Tammy McGovern and Anna Kaplan were in Syracuse meeting with Simone Mantellasi, some of whose works you can see behind Claire. It was near the end of a day of lots of studio visits and it was like someone suddenly threw us a surprise party. Rapturous work. We were all pretty happy curators by the time we left. You'll see Simone's work at the Albright in September.
Beyond/In podcast

$5.9 million? Alright, new Artemis-shaped ivory backscratchers for the whole staff!

Buffalo News

Aye Carumba!

New York Times

A blast from the Sabres past...
Was he the best player to ever wear a Sabres' uniform? Probably. Who else? In the 1970s, we were fortunate in Toronto that we got to see a lot of Sabres' games on Buffalo tv. Most hockey fans elsewhere, years before digital cable and satellite, never got to see much of Gilbert Perreault. Buffalo was a small-market expansion team and, at that time, you wouldn't hear much about those teams outside of their markets. It sounds like hyperbole, but Perreault was almost never less than great. He was the player who would regularly do astounding things, make defensemen look foolish and flat-footed, and made his teammates and linemates look better. Along with Rick Martin and Rene Robert, Perreault formed the routinely awesome line known as The French Connection, during a time when teams could hold on to players easier and longer and nick-naming lines was a regular part of the hockey vernacular. Here's a segment on Perreault from the great Legends of Hockey documentary series.


Archive Pic

Filmmakers Brian Springer & Paul Sharits, June 19, 1993 (less than three weeks before Sharits’s death on July 8) photo by Cheryl Jackson

Coolamundo
As is probably the case in many gallery offices, we at Hallwalls are always perusing incoming mail regarding exhibitions and we always take note of artists who have exhibited here and what they're doing...elsewhere. Noted this week are two recent Hallwalls exhibiting artists who are included in the upcoming Venice Biennale. Rainer Ganahl of New York was in the 2005 group exhibition Leaves of Crab Grass. Ganahl exhibited a series of postcard works featuring fake stamps—designated with monikers such as Al Qaeda, 9/11, etc—which all made it through the postal system unencumbered.


Shaun Gladwell of Australia exhibited here in April 2006, alongside paintings by Laurel Farrin. We exhibited a selection of Shaun's staggeringly beautiful video works—it's the show I never want to take down.

Venice Biennale Artists List
Rainer Ganahl
Shaun Gladwell/Sherman Galleries

Who was John K. Lattimer?

What would compel you to read an obituary? Well, the phrase "Urologist of Varied Expertise" in the title might be alluring. I came to know of John K. Lattimer because he wrote a book of forensic patholgy called Lincoln and Kennedy: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations. Lattimer was the first non-governmental doctor to examine the JFK autopsy photographs and x-rays, which is his main claim to fame. But he was also one of the doctors who treated Nazi defendants during the Nuremberg trials and he wrote a conroversial book about illnesses of the Nazi leaders, including the notion that Hitler suffered from Parkinson's. And if none of that piques your interest, how about this:
"And although there is some dispute about its authenticity, Dr. Lattimer also had in his collection what is said to be Napoleon’s penis, which a long tradition holds was removed by the priest who administered the last rites. Dr. Lattimer bought it at an auction in 1969. Asked about its authenticity, his daughter said: “Of course, the French don’t want it here. But there’s ironclad provenance.”
John Lattimer obit

Bugliosi on the JFK Assassination

I was pretty intrigued to read this week that prosecutor/writer Vincent Bugliosi (the man who managed to lock up Charles Manson) has written a book on the JFK assassination. I'm buoyed by the length of the book (1612 pages, roughly three times as long as War and Peace) and the 10,000 citations, not to mention the 1,000 pages of endnotes apparently included on a cd-rom. When I called Talking Leaves this week to ask if they had it in stock and how much it was, the gal on the phone said, "Hold on, it's a real door stop." I got it yesterday and it's literally 5lbs.
Vincent Bugliosi

DEADLINE May 24 • Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS)
Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS), a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, working in collaboration with arts councils and cultural organizations across New York State, are designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development. Literary, media, visual, music and performing artists may request support ranging from $100 to $600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress.
How To Apply: SOS Grant


Giant Socks Are Awesome

intro image at top: drawing by Alfonso Volo

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
— George Carlin

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
— Gilda Radner

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
— Joe Theismann

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
— Millicent Fenwick


First Things First

So the Sabres went down to the Ottawa Senators last night 5-2 in the first game of the Eastern Conference Final. Some folks here presume all Canadians root for all Canadian teams. Well, sort of. It’d be a lot easier to root for Vancouver or Edmonton than the Senators, upstart nemesis to our beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. Our blood runs true Leaf blue and it’ll be somewhat of a killer to see the Sens win a Stanley Cup before the Leafs capture it again.

Not to mention that Torontonians have always been ready and willing to root for the Bills (those Superbowl losses broke our regional hearts too) and the Sabres. Not to mention that in 2000, up and coming Leafs superstar defenseman Bryan Berard was taken out, seemingly-permanently, when the Senators’ Marion Hossa accidentally clipped him in the right eye. It was one of those blood-chilling sports moments. Berard had been selected first overall in 1995, won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s best rookie for the Islanders two years later, and looked to be the anchor to a bright future for the Leafs until the unnerving accident. Berard, astonishingly, came back to play for the NHL.

Suffice to say no love lost between the Leafs and Sens, so…go Sabres! Though last night’s loss was not particularly suprising. No matter how good the team, their standing during the year,home ice advantage, yada yada, it OFTEN plays out exactly as Don Cherry predicts it. For whatever reason (nerves, trying too hard, lack of focus because you’re in the middle of home-town Cup fever), visiting teams often manage to steal that first game. No matter, the Sabres will be twice as good in Game 2.

But there will likely be no cakewalking in this Series, for either team. Ottawa’s about as good as they’ve ever been, captain Daniel Alfredsson is playing a physical game he’s never played in the playoffs before, the Sens are desperate to shake off their playoff-loser persona, and Ray Emery’s no slouch. I would predict a seven game series, but I can’t call a winner.


22 Days and Counting...


For additional information on upcoming Hallwalls programs and events, go to
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Hallwalls Exhibitions continuing thru May 26
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1—4pm, by appointment

JOAN LINDER • The Pink

Joan Linder Homepage

RUBEN OCHOA • Clastic Rupture



INTERKOSMOS • tonight 8pm @ HW

(2006, 71min)
Director and HARP artist Jim Finn in person

During the early 1970s, East German cosmonauts and their allies attempted to establish socialist colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Jim Finn uses a variety of strategies to tell the story of this secret project in his debut feature: from mockumentary, complete with faked archival footage and beautifully reconstructed miniature sets, to retro musical dance sequences set to a German pop soundtrack by Jim Becker (Califone) and Colleen Burke (We Ragazzi). The cast, which includes guinea pigs, features the filmmaker himself.

ABOUT JIM FINN • We welcome Jim Finn to Buffalo as part of our 2007-08 Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. Born in St. Louis in 1968, Finn currently resides in Troy, New York. His films and videos have screened at festivals and venues as diverse as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Harvard Film Archive. His first feature-length film Interkosmos premiered at the 2006 Rotterdam film festival and is currently distributed by Thrill Jockey. La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is his most recent work, which had its premier at the 2007 New York Underground Film Festival.

To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant...

Thurs., May 17, 7:30 pm

Hallwalls & Talking Leaves Books present Mark Nowak

Poet, playwright, scholar, critic, labor activist reading from his essay "'To Commit Suicide in Buffalo is Redundant': Music & Death in Zero City, 1982-1984," featured in the forthcoming critical anthology Goth: Undead Subculture

Plus special live music performance by David Kane & Donald Kinsman, reuniting two-thirds of the original Nullstadt! Plus excerpts from early '80s vintage Nullstadt video! Talking Leaves will have books for sale & signing by author Admission $10 (Refunded with purchase of Goth at event) This event is a must-see for forty-something fans of Nullstadt, aging denizens of the pre-Chippewa Strip Continental, Goths not even born yet when Nullstadt was a local favorite at The Continental (let alone old enough to go there!), punks, post-punks, neo-punks, and anyone of any age interested in rock criticism, contemporary cultural anthropology, Marxism, organized labor, or the post-industrial history of Buffalo.

Opening Elsewhere
• Carl Lee (below) and Brendan Bannon opening at the BPAC Fri May 11 5:30-7:30pm (thru July 8)

• Buffalo Society of Artists 2007, gut-renovation plans for BAS and the 15 South Putnam Project opening at Buffalo Arts Studio Sat May 12 7-10pm Real-life design>
• Almost Famous: Up and Coming Artists at Clifton Hall opens Fri May 11 5-10pm
• John Mielcarek at the BPAC opening Fri May 11 5:30-7:30 (thru July 8)
• Kyle Kaczmarek, Greg Wlosinski, Jess Trankle, Tom Terzian, Dan Jay in the Medaille College Senior Exhibition at CEPA opening Fri May 11 6-9pm (thru May 30)
• Joshua Marks at the Tang Museum in Sarasota Springs opening May 17 (thru August 12)
• Starlight Studio's Spring Break Show opens Fri May 18 6-9pm (thru Aug 3)
• Buffalo Society of Artists opening at Buffalo Art Studio Sat May 12 7-10pm
• Don Paul Swain thesis show Ghost Train at the Central Terminal Fri and Sat may 11 & 12 7:30-11:30 pm
• Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show at Buffalo Art Studio opening Sat May 12 7-10pm (thru July 14)

College Street Gallery has a new show and new hours
Buffalo Photography: New Work by Michael Mulley opens Fri May 11 8-11pm (thru June 3)
New hours: W-F 5-9pm Sat 2-8pm Sun 2-5


CEPA and Studio Hart cordially invite you to meet artist Keith Johnson
Thursday, May 17, 2007 • 5:30-7 pm (Gallery talk at 6 pm) Studio Hart • 65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY


If you're in Amsterdam, bring Amanda some cake...

Buffalo artist Amanda Besl opens a show at Artspace Witzenhausen Sat May 12, 4-6pm, continuing through June 16.
Artspace Witzenhausen
Amanda Besl Homepage

If you're in Toronto, check this out...
Recent Hallwalls exhibiting artists Suzy Lake (2006) and Peter Bowyer (2001), both opening at Paul Petro Contemporary Art Fri, May 11 7-10pm (thru June 9)
Beauty at the End of the Season

Also in Toronto, Carlo Cesto opens his International House of Sunshine

Diaz Contemporary

If you're in Santa Monica...

May 19 - August 11, 2007
Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake, 1972-1978
Identity theft

Rosemary Lyons in Chelsea
Manu Scriptus: Illuminated Manscripts by Rosemary K. Lyons
opening Sat May 26 4-6pm, artist's talk 5pm (thru June 9)

Viridian Artists

Continuing Elsewhere
• Francis Bacon at the Albright-Knox through July 29
• Assembling the Best: Nancy Belfer, Joyce Hill, Gerald Mead, Russell Ram at the Carnegie Art Center through June 9
• Polly Little, Mark Lavatelli, Monica Angle, Sam Magavern, Jackie Felix, AE Felix, Barbara Rowe, Peter Sowiski, Olga Bajusova, Josef Bajus, Kathi Roussel, Peter Fowler, Bonnie Gordon, John Pfahl, Linda Collingnon, Robert Collingnon, Ilania Kaplan, Christopher Stangler, Trudy Stern, Michael Morgulis at Insite Gallery thru June 17
• Catherine Parker opening at Meibohm Fine Arts (East Aurora) thru June 2
• William Koch at Artsphere thru
• Patricia Carter, Juan Gomez, Fernando Colón Gonzalez, Jane Hammond, Mike Herbold, Warren Isensee, Margrit Lewczuk, Kathryn Lynch, Giles Lyon, Suzanne McClelland, Steve Miller, Stephen Mueller, Carolanna Parlato, Cordy Ryman, Sean Scherer, Peter Stephens, Jill Weber at Nina Freudenheim thru June 2
• Steven Winiecki at College Street Gallery thru
• Peter Fowler at Kepa3 thru June 15
• Robert John Holland opening at the JCC Amherst and on Delaware thru June 25
• Impact Artists Gallery annual members' show thru
• Greg Kuppinger at Buffalo Big Print openign Fri May 4 7-9pm
• Nancy Treherne Craig, Lawrence Kinney, Alejandro Gutierrez at Art Dialogue thru June 1
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16
• Ann Shier and Robert Schulman at Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora thru June 2
• Carolee Schneeman at CEPA thru May 26
• Haunted Screens at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Bingyi at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Mary Begley at Delish on Elmwood thru May and Brodo Restaurant thru July
• Kenn Morgan at Karpeles Manuscript Museum thru May 23
• Carol Vacanti at Flickinger/Nichols School through June 15
• Andrea Cote, Sarah Hutt, Wendy Kawabata, Marie Kennedy, Tara Parsons, Daniela Rumpf, Penelope Stewart at RoCo through May 20
• Adam Nowicki and Sandra Bartz at Burchfield Nature & Art Center (West Seneca) thru May 25
• Jeff Freier at the Arts Council thru May 18
• Sung Hee Yoon and Nathaniel Infante at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 20
• Denis Moran, Steven Smaldone, Ardyth Van Scoy, Catherine Kwiatkowski at St. Bonaventure through May 12
• Bingyi: The Dawns Here are Quiet at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 19
• Lynn Sirades at El Museo through May 15
• Gary L. Wolfe: An Interactive Commentary on IS53 at BT Roberts Memorial Gallery, Rochester thru May 19
• Ben Perrone (thru May 6), BPAC 40th Anniversary Exhibition (thru May 13), and Selections from the Ann Cravens ceramics collection (thru June 22), Adele Cohen (thru Aug 2), all at the Burchfield
• Frances Crohn at Wilcox Mansion thru May 20th
• Milton Rogovin at the Castellani though June 24
• Dave Buck at Betty’s thru June 10
• William Storrs at the Kenan Center thru May 20
• Insoon Ha: The Island (below) at Big Orbit thru July 1


All Hail the Dark Lord

Here's Colin Dabkowski's Buffalo News piece about the new AKAG Francis Bacon show. Funnily, Colin juxtaposes the ever-freakish battle of the wedding parties that occurs weekly on the Albright's scenic steps with the darkly-themed Bacon works inside the gallery. Well okay, but given that about half of marriages crash and burn on the pyre of divorce, there's plenty o'darkness already frolicking on those steps.
The Dark Side
And here's Eric Jackson-Forsberg's Artvoice piece about the show. "The Organic Mr. Bacon" sounds like a delicious new breakfast food and that's apt since we always find Eric's too-seldom writings about art to be pretty fine brain food themselves. Here, Eric talks about how the tag-line of the show (Raw Human Emotion) may actually be applying too much logic to the Bacon equation:
Organic Mr. Bacon

All Hail the Prince of Pulp

A Prince of Pulp
Philip K Dick Official Site
Wikipedia

Something I listened to this week...

Noisettes Official Site
Noisettes MySpace

When that guy died on Dick Cavett...

No, not Jimi Hendrix. I just used the Jimi pic as a thanks to Jeff D for forwarding this rather unbelievable but true tale of talk show death. And not the kind of death where a comedian bombs in the face of a lousy performance or a hostile audience. No, actual death. Right there on the couch while columnist Pete Hamill was being interviewed.
Dying on Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett Wikipedia

LAST DAY: SPACES deadline of May 11, 2007 for applications
SPACES, Northeast Ohio’s artist-run, alternative art gallery, is accepting applications for its 2007/08 exhibition season. We are seeking visual artists in all media, including video, installation, traditional media, web art, as well as proposals for curated exhibitions. All selected artists and curators are paid honoraria.
SPACES

Art Bars Deadline July 27
Ithaca Fine Chocolates

Carnegie Art Center Professional Development Workshops for Artists • Spring 2007
The Carnegie Art Center presents a series of professional development workshops for individual artists designed to provide techniques and strategies for addressing current issues faced by contemporary artists. Each workshop has been designed to empower artists to strengthen and expand their resources as well as to provide professional networking opportunities.
Collage Party
Saturday, May 12, 2-5 pm
with presenting artists: Gerald Mead, Russell Ram, Joyce Hill
Fee: $30 Non-Members; $25 Members at the Carnegie Art Center
This is an opportunity for artists and non-artists to work together and share creative techniques through the art of assemblage. This event is inspired by the Collage Parties organized by artist Paul Butler at MoCA Geffen (Outpost for Contemporary Art) Los Angeles, Bergdorf Goodman (Scenic Group) New York, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Goldsmith's College in London, Plug In ICA in Winnipeg, Toronto International Art fair (The Power Plant. Whether you are interested in learning new creative techniques, a new artistic form of expression or would like to break through a creative block -while networking with other artists and professionals- this event will be especially beneficial for you.

DEADLINE May 24 • Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS)
Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS), a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, working in collaboration with arts councils and cultural organizations across New York State, are designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development. Literary, media, visual, music and performing artists may request support ranging from $100 to $600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress.
How To Apply: SOS Grant


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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
— Wally Lamb

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
— Ann Landers

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
— Butch Hancock

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
— Mario Andretti

First Things First
Mark your calendars: Saturday, June 2/07, 9pm—2am Hallwalls is presenting the 20th edition of the Artists&Models Affair: NOCTURMINAL, featuring artists' installations, live music, dj, drink, food, frivolity—all in the sexy environs of the Buffalo Central Terminal. Support Hallwalls, support your fellow exhibiting artists—it's cheaper than a 10 lb. turkey, a 20-pack of toilet paper, or a gallon of paint.
Nocturminal embraces things, entities, animals and situations that only occur at night.
Nocturminal blooms in darkness.
Nocturminal may lead us down the road to final demise—but what doesn’t?
Nocturminal houses those with undeniable conditions and ailments.
Nocturminal could be the extreme point or limit of….something.
Nocturminal only lasts for a limited duration.
Nocturminal constitutes the end—but of what?
Nocturminal is the dark locus for ambiguous transportation—to and from unknown realms.
Nocturminal is the shadowy conduit that transmits energy.


You Saw This Coming
Not surprisingly, when given the choice, a majority of hallwalls and elsewhere readers opted to support the deaccession of the email version in favor of the new web page. I was surprised that anyone voted to continue the emails. Apologies to the lone optimist who thought I could continue with both. A few remarks were posted on the web page, here are a few more from email responses.

Looks good. I’d vote for the blog simply because of the archival...ness. Ok, that’s not a word but it’s late and you know what I mean.

Is "either" a terrible response?

I like the blog a lot -- it looks good. And I think it's a great idea -- especially in terms of easy access to the H&E archives. Mmmmmm.....archives! As a grad student in Library Science at UB, that has become one of my favorite words lately. I definitely vote for the blog and have already saved it to "My Favorites", so really, there's no turning back now...

Its all good.

Seeing that I am not too adept on the computer and yet was able to read your blog, I would vote for either method, whichever you like and the majority vote.

blog!

I like the link, rather than a dense memory intensive email

I prefer the email although the blog looks good.

Do whatever is easier for you, but be warned that if you don't shove it into people's mailboxes it may not get read unless you mail out the link regularly. Please know that I for one tend to look forward to your links, so I'll protest mightily if you reformat in a way that cuts them out.

yes, i think that the blog that you are using now is much more efficient and better netiquette

My vote is stay with the email. Is it possible to do both? Could you make up a special listserv for email recipients who prefer it?

Love the new blog page. I think you're on to something good...

Send me the blog page links and I will happily click

The Gauntlet
In reference to this new verion of hallwalls and elswhere, Elizabeth Licata writes:

"I think Sean’s [Donaher, Artistic Director at Big Orbit/CEPA] emails have been getting more creative in response to the long-running practice of Hallwalls curator John Massier to send out weekly email newsletters filled with fun announcements, images, and witty commentary. And now—a MAJOR SHOUT OUT to Massier for finally converting these emails to what they pretty much were before: a blog….Sean? I would consider this a thrown gauntlet."

Haha, very generous, but I doubt that Sean is responding to me. The only gauntlet in my life is that pretty great Clint Eastwood film from 1977. Clint plays a cop named Ben Shockley who is assigned to escort a prostitute from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify in a mob trial. Lots of scurrilous folk place bets on whether the pair will make it, and Clint pimps out an old bus with ad hoc armor to run the final gauntlet. Good times.


The Gauntlet

Thanks to Elizabeth for her shout out and her blogger tips. Visit her Buffalo Spree blog here: Spree Blog

Hallwalls Exhibitions continuing thru May 26
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1—4pm, by appointment

JOAN LINDER • The Pink


See more of Joan's work here:
Joan Linder

RUBEN OCHOA • Clastic Rupture


What else has Ruben Ochoa done? Here's some information on his recent Creative Capital project:
http://channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_227.html>

for more information on any of the following Hallwalls’ events and programs, please visit
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

John Bacon Duos

@Soundlab, 110 Pearl St.
John Bacon (drums, percussion) Jan Williams (percussion) Bernard Woma (gyil, djembe) Jonathan Golove (electric cello) Joe Rozler (keyboards, guitar, voice) Steve Baczkowski (woodwinds)

Pecha Kucha Night
Hallwalls & WNY Book Arts Collective present
WNY TypoFest 2007: A celebration of the graphic & typographic arts
Buffalo: May 8-9 • Rochester: May 10-11
Tues., May 8, 7:00 pm
Featuring a host of Graphic Designers presenting their work
Hallwalls @ The Church (basement)
$4 general, $2 students, FREE for members of Hallwalls, WNYBAC, Ad Club of Buffalo, & AIGA
"The key to the success of the Pecha Kucha evenings springing up across the world over the last two years—they now exist in around 30 cities, from Bogota to Buffalo—is simplicity. Participants get a six-minute pitch in which they can show 20 slides, and talk for 20 seconds about each one." (Wired magazine).
Pecha Kucha

The Gray Hair Reading Series
Nita Penfold & Anne Elezabeth Pluto


@ Hallwalls presented by Earth's Daughters Collective
Wed., May 9 @ 7:30 pm • FREE

Helvetica: A Documentary Film

Wed., May 9, 7:00 pm
In-person Q&A with the Director Gary Huswit
Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre
639 Main St., Buffalo, NY
$8 general, $5 students, $4 Members of HW, WNYBAC, ACB, AIGA
Reception following in Hallwalls Gallery @ The Church.
Helvetica

INTERKOSMOS

(2006, 71min)
Fri., May 11 @ 8:00 p.m. Director and HARP artist Jim Finn in person
During the early 1970s, East German cosmonauts and their allies attempted to establish socialist colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Jim Finn uses a variety of strategies to tell the story of this secret project in his debut feature: from mockumentary, complete with faked archival footage and beautifully reconstructed miniature sets, to retro musical dance sequences set to a German pop soundtrack by Jim Becker (Califone) and Colleen Burke (We Ragazzi). The cast, which includes guinea pigs, features the filmmaker himself.
Interkosmos

Opening Elsewhere
• Catherine Parker opening at Meibohm Fine Arts (East Aurora) Fri May 4, 6-9pm (thru June 2)
• William Koch at Artsphere opening Fri May 4 6:30-9pm
• Patricia Carter, Juan gomez, Fernando Colón Gonzalez, Jane Hammond, Mike Herbold, Warren Isensee, Margrit Lewczuk, Kathryn Lynch, Giles Lyon, Suzanne McClelland, Steve Miller, Stephen Mueller, Carolanna Parlato, Cordy Ryman, Sean Scherer, Peter Stephens, Jill Weber at Nina Freudenheim opening Sat May 5 6-8pm
• Buffalo Society of Artists opening at Buffalo Art Studio Sat May 12 7-10pm
• UB Architects proposals for Buffalo Arts Studio opening Sat May 12 7-10pm
• Steven Winiecki at College Street Gallery opening Thurs May 3 6-9pm
• Carl Lee and Brendan Bannon opening at the BPAC Fri May 11 5:30-7:30pm (thru July 8)
• Peter Fowler opening at Kepa3 Fri May 4 6-9pm
• Impact Artists Gallery annual members' show opening Sat May 5 6-8:30pm
• Greg Kuppinger at Buffalo Big Print openign Fri May 4 7-9pm
• Robert John Holland opening at the JCC Amherst (2640 North Forest Rd) Tues May 8, 7-9pm (thru June 25 in Amherst AND at the JCC Buffalo on Delaware)
• Don Paul Swain thesis show Ghost Train at the Central Terminal opening Fri May 4 7:30—11pm
• Frances Crohn at Wilcox Mansion, opening April 27th 5-9 pm (thru May 20th)
• Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show at Buffalo Art Studio opening Sat May 12 7-10pm (thru July 14)
• Nancy Treherne Craig, Lawrence Kinney, Alejandro Gutierrez at Art Dialogue opening Friday May 4 7:30-9:30pm (thru June 1)
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum opening Friday, May 4 5-8pm (thru Sept 16)
• Ann Shier and Robert Schulman at Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora, opening Fri May 4, 7-10pm (thru June 2)

Not the fatty slab from the underside of a pig...

Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Opening TONIGHT 3—10
(free to members, reg. admission for non-members)
Curator's Talk at 7pm
Francis Bacon Albright Knox

Rob Lynch at the Castellani opening tonight

Rob Lynch preview

This Minute and the Next

In 2003, Jennifer McMackon was a resident artist at Hallwalls and produced a series of new works, including some Buffalo-centric "now and next minute" reversal photographs, such as the one above, many of which will be showing this month at CSA Space in Vancouver. These works are among my favorite cheap tricks of recent years, as they appear to be identical images reversed against each other, yet they are actually images of the same spot taken a minute apart.
CSA Space
Jennifer McMackon’s studio
Simpleposie

Continuing Elsewhere
• Assembling the Best: Nancy Belfer, Joyce Hill, Gerald Mead, Russell Ram at the Carnegie Art Center through June 9
• Polly Little, Mark Lavatelli, Monica Angle, Sam Magavern, Jackie Felix, AE Felix, Barbara Rowe, Peter Sowiski, Olga Bajusova, Josef Bajus, Kathi Roussel, Peter Fowler, Bonnie Gordon, John Pfahl, Linda Collingnon, Robert Collingnon, Ilania Kaplan, Christopher Stangler, Trudy Stern, Michael Morgulis at Insite Gallery thru June 17
• Carolee Schneeman at CEPA thru May 26
• Haunted Screens at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Bingyi at UB Art Gallery thru May 19
• Mary Begley at Delish on Elmwood thru May and Brodo Restaurant thru July
• Bryan Hopkins whopping great dysfunctional/functional works at the BPAC through May 6
• Ted Miller at the BPAC through May 6
• Kenn Morgan at Karpeles Manuscript Museum thru May 23
• Insoon Ha: The Island at Big Orbit thru July 1
• Carol Vacanti at Flickinger/Nichols School through June 15
• Andrea Cote, Sarah Hutt, Wendy Kawabata, Marie Kennedy, Tara Parsons, Daniela Rumpf, Penelope Stewart at RoCo through May 20
• Adam Nowicki and Sandra Bartz at Burchfield Nature & Art Center (West Seneca) thru May 25
• Jeff Freier at the Arts Council thru May 18
• Sung Hee Yoon and Nathaniel Infante at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 20
• Denis Moran, Steven Smaldone, Ardyth Van Scoy, Catherine Kwiatkowski at St. Bonaventure through May 12
• Bingyi: The Dawns Here are Quiet at UB Anderson Gallery thru May 19
• Lynn Sirades at El Museo through May 15
• Gary L. Wolfe: An Interactive Commentary on IS53 at BT Roberts Memorial Gallery, Rochester thru May 19
• Cynnie Gaasch at Starlight Studio thru May 4
• Ben Perrone (thru May 6), BPAC 40th Anniversary Exhibition (thru May 13), and Selections from the Ann Cravens ceramics collection (thru June 22), Adele Cohen (thru Aug 2), all at the Burchfield
• Milton Rogovin at the Castellani though June 24
• Dave Buck at Betty’s thru June 10
• William Storrs at the Kenan Center thru May 20

The Morning After

Buffalo News

Monsters of Nature and Design on YouTube: "...this to be isn't art..."

Some edited documentation of our recent Monsters of Nature and Design presentation in Asbury Hall is available for viewing now on YouTube. Here's a comment from an unhappy YouTuber:
"Call me dumb, but im an artist, and this to be isnt art, this is just a waste of pianos. The pianos could have been donated to the musicans in katrina that need pianos. What a waste, I hope you art fags get you point across to someone else, cuz it didnt work with me! GO PAINT SOMETHING!"
Monsters Nature and Design

The Reverend Jen visits Chelsea

Artnet
Reverend Jen
Corporate Mofo

Artist Is Gone but 65 Feet of Protest Still Stands

New York Times

Walter Marty Schirra Jr. • March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007

"Mostly it's lousy out there [in space]...it's a hostile environment, and it's trying to kill you. The outside temperature goes from a minus 450 degrees to a plus 300 degrees. You sit in a flying Thermos bottle."
Walter Schirra obit
NASA bio

National Archivist Passes

Robert Warner obit

"When Bad Ideas Create Passable Shows"

Not Buying It

Earnest or Earnestly Full of It?

In the April 23/07 issue of The New Yorker, Calvin Tompkins wrote an excellent profile/survey of Jeff Koons in which, at one point, he addresses the speculation of falseness or insincerity that has always seemed to dangle over Koons head like a Sword of Damocles:

"Koons, whom I met around this time [mid 1980s], struck me as an odd, amorphous presence, someone who was either amazingly naive or slyly performative. In his soft-spoken way, he could sound like a motivational speaker; this made me (and a lot of other people) wonder if I was talking to the real Jeff Koons, or if there even was one. I decided that he was on the level, and that he had virtually no sense of humor, about his work or anything else. Nobody could figure out what he was up to. Was he satirizing the mass market culture that produced these tawdry souvenir shop items, or celebrating it? When the same question awas asked about Pop art in the sixties, there were similar uncertainties. Warhol said that Pop was about "liking things," but people tended to presume that everything Warhol did or said was in some sense a put-on. Pop harbored enough irony to give it the benefit of the doubt, at any rate, and only the mossback modernist critics condemned it as pandering to mass culture. Koons seemed to strive for art-world approval while reaching beyond it, to a mass audience whose tastes he shared. The formalist academic critics managed to avoid commenting on his work at all; to this day, it was been invisible to them. Yet there was no denying the fascination of his perfectly rendered objects. Casting them in stainless steel seemed both to glamorize and to dignify them. The bright-silver bunny, with its evocative carrot, really did look like a Brancusi."

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons Wikipedia

What I'm listening to this week...

Ladytron

SPACES announces deadline of May 11, 2007 for applications
SPACES, Northeast Ohio’s artist-run, alternative art gallery, is accepting applications for its 2007/08 exhibition season. We are seeking visual artists in all media, including video, installation, traditional media, web art, as well as proposals for curated exhibitions. All selected artists and curators are paid honoraria. For applications, go to SPACES or email info@SPACESgallery.org. SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113. Deadline: May 11, 2007.

Art Bars • Chocolate, that is • Deadline: July 27, 2007
Art Bars

Carnegie Art Center Professional Development Workshops for Artists • Spring 2007
The Carnegie Art Center presents a series of professional development workshops for individual artists designed to provide techniques and strategies for addressing current issues faced by contemporary artists. Each workshop has been designed to empower artists to strengthen and expand their resources as well as to provide professional networking opportunities.
Collage Party
Saturday, May 12, 2-5 pm
with presenting artists: Gerald Mead, Russell Ram, Joyce Hill
Fee: $30 Non-Members; $25 Members at the Carnegie Art Center
This is an opportunity for artists and non-artists to work together and share creative techniques through the art of assemblage. This event is inspired by the Collage Parties organized by artist Paul Butler at MoCA Geffen (Outpost for Contemporary Art) Los Angeles, Bergdorf Goodman (Scenic Group) New York, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Goldsmith's College in London, Plug In ICA in Winnipeg, Toronto International Art fair (The Power Plant. Whether you are interested in learning new creative techniques, a new artistic form of expression or would like to break through a creative block -while networking with other artists and professionals- this event will be especially beneficial for you.

DEADLINE May 24 • Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS)
Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS), a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, working in collaboration with arts councils and cultural organizations across New York State, are designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development. Literary, media, visual, music and performing artists may request support ranging from $100 to $600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress.
How To Apply: SOS Grant

Production workshops at CEPA
Graphic Design Theory & Production • Instructor: Wendy Lasker
Mondays, May 7 – June 18 (no class May 28), 6:00 to 8:00pm $150 member / $175 non-member
Pre-requisite: Basic InDesign & Basic Photoshop (CEPA or equivalent)
Learn industry standard rules & guidelines for effective graphic design & layout. Focus will be on page design & the creation of multiple types of print materials. Material covered: color theory; form & line; relationship of elements on the page with respect to style, form, size, color, positive-negative space. Programs used: Photoshop & InDesign.
Web Design Theory & Production • Instructor: Wendy Lasker
Thursdays, May 10 – June 14, 6:00 to 8:00pm $150 member / $175 non-member
Pre-requisite: Intermediate-Advanced Photoshop (CEPA or equivalent)
Learn the tools, techniques, rules & guidelines of Web page creation. Technical & aesthetic considerations will be addressed. Material covered: tables—the basic building block of web pages; file hierarchy; image file types; text; hyperlinks & navigation; appropriate layout, image & art creation; web-safe colors; image & screen resolution; browser considerations; making your site live: FTP (uploading files), Web hosts, ISP’s, domain names. Programs used: Photoshop, ImageReady & Dreamweaver.
CALL 716-856-2717 TO REGISTER CEPA


He’s got it going on

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
— Samuel Beckett