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CMPBS is proud to announce the launch of our 2012 ecoBalance™ Presentation Series focusing on the ecoBalance life support systems of Air, Water, Food, Energy and Materials. As
with our prior presentation series, we look forward to providing a provocative context to explore these essential ecoBalance “cycles of life.” The kick off panel is focused on the ecoBalance life support system of Food.
Panel Speakers: Skip Connett and Erin Flynn of Green Gate Farms, Paige Hill of Urban Patchwork Neighborhood Farms, Daniela Ochoa of Austin's Zero Waste Goals and Home Composting Rebate Program, and Murph Willcott of Texas French Bread.
6:30 - 7:00 PM: Socializing and Generous Art
7 - 8:30 PM: Panel Discussion
8:30 - 9:00 PM: Q&A
ONLINE: February 24, 2012 - March 09, 2012
LIVE: March 02, 2012 from 6:30 PM until 9:00 PM
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems 8604 FM 969, Austin, Texas 78724 (MAP)
Hosted by: KLRU
Join us at The White Horse, the hottest new bar in East Austin at 5th and Comal for the screening of KLRU's Arts in Context episode reporting on GenerousArt.org. Produced by Ed Fuentes, the 30 minute episode will feature interviews of several Generous Artists including Jennifer Balkan, Wells Mason, Jennifer Chenoweth, Judith Simonds, Stella Alesi, and Virginia Fleck.
Get there at 7:00 p.m.; the screening will begin at 7:30 and will run until 8:00. Enjoy good drink prices, and stick around to hear Heystack Rodeo Happy Hour, Robert Banta, then Mike and the Moon Pies perform!
KLRU is one of Generous Art's new nonprofits. We are so excited they have produced this show about us! Thank you KLRU!
ONLINE: February 20, 2012 - February 29, 2012
LIVE: February 23, 2012 from 7:00 PM until 8:10 PM
The White Horse 500 Comal, Austin, TX 78702 (MAP)
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by Jackie Stone
It’s a rare artist who can make a living entirely off creating art. Most artists struggle to get their work sold through galleries, online or by pounding the pavement, while still having to pay for supplies in time to create new works.
And in Austin, where the high concentration of creativity is paralleled by a nonprofit and charitable scene that is one of the biggest in the country, artists are often asked to donate works to be sold at fundraisers around town. READ MORE
by Megan McIlwain
Virginia Fleck’s circular collages bring certain awareness to consumerism in our everyday lives. She layers recycled plastic bags and tablecloths with transparent tape to resemble mandalas, a visual tool used in meditation practices in Buddhism and Hinduism. As used, one would begin their focus on the outer parts of the diagram and move inward, as Virginia has done with brightly colored spokes of familiar consumer logos, such as Forever21 and H&M bags. She is subtly subversive in her use of flower patterns and nature on bags that, in normal circumstances, kill nature, a humorous reminder of our carbon footprint. As intended with the mandala tradition, Virginia’s work entrances the viewer in a representation of the unconscious self. Come see if you can resist assuming the lotus position before Virginia’s mandalas at the Citizen Generation’s Charity Bash or view her work online here.
Generous Art will be featuring Fleck, along with other Generous Artists including Karen Maness and Wells Mason, during the Citizen Generation’s Charity Bash Masquerade Ball tomorrow night at The Mansion. Support your community and local art in this Winter Wonderland benefiting Capital Area Food Bank of Texas.