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Performance, discussion and release party for LAND AND SEA issues 15-19 January 12, 2013 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM FifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteenPerformances and discussion by Greg Stimac, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Pavle Levi, Collin McKelvey, and Chris Duncan. Drink recipes by Aaron HarbourSaturday, January 12, 2013, 6:00 – 10:00 pm Southern Exposure presents an evening of performance and discussion to...   [more]

Engage with the exhibition The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951 through this contemporary reenactment of the Photo League’s Photo Hunt and Ball.  After an afternoon of collecting images, return to the CJM for snacks and to listen to a conversation between two famous street photographers, one who uses Instagram and then other who develops his pictures in a darkroom.  Then...   [more]

A workshop tutorial about artists’ rights to creative work, led by intellectual property lawyer Inder Comar.  Learn how law affects the art world through practical resources and discussion: (1) how to copyright a body of creative work; (2) tips for protecting one’s work and policing one’s own intellectual property; and (3) issues of fair use, public domain, and open source copyright licensing...   [more]

In conjunction with Lindsey White's current solo exhibition, Matter of Fact, Eli Ridgway Gallery presents Comedy Drawing School, a one-night event that combines the artist's love of stand-up comedy with her ambitions in the field of life drawing. The first iteration of CDS took place last January at Will Brown, the experimental exhibition space White operates alongside Jordan Stein and David Kasprza...   [more]

Dennis Parlante & Matt Gonzalez will discuss the practice, theory, concept, history, and materials of collage in a casual conversation.  Dennis Parlante creates mixed media collages using vintage papers, documents, postal envelopes, tags, ephemera of all kinds and combines them with abstract marks, shapes, and lines of acrylic paint. In using these materials he tries to go beyond the nostalgia of...   [more]

Renowned photographer Jim Goldberg joins photographer Gabriele Stabile and journalist Juliet Linderman in a discussion about the Voice of Witness newest title, The Refugee Hotel.   The artists will engage such topics as the exploration of the human condition in art, notions of transience and belonging, and the role of marginalized voices in their work. Conversation will be moderated by CJM’s writer...   [more]

January's ConVerge will feature the directors of Firehouse Art Collective, Tom Franco and Julia Lazar, who will present their signature social art event that brings interdisciplinary artists from the Bay Area to create connective live events combining people, art, music and food into an experience. The evening will feature a triclinium-seating community feast table of homemade elixirs and organic foods alo...   [more]