Fulcrum Arts

Last Sunday was our first session for Cultural Landscapes II, a workshop by Jenny Yurshansky about identifying, working with, and understanding the history of native and invasive plant species. The next session is all about COOKING and FORAGING with wild plants, which you don't want to miss! $20 Single-Session Tickets still available -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultural-landscapes-ii-tickets

Celia Hollander's recent publication for Sequencing has us thinking about other long migrations and walkways in Southern California, like Lauren Bon's "Bending the River Back to the City," which addresses the LA Aqueduct and the long path mules took to carry water to the Los Angeles Basin. Trailer here, full length piece on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLjyDqt3f4 And make sure to check out Hollander's piece"LA Interval"now up --> www.fulcrumarts.org/la-interval

Please join us in welcoming a new Emerge Fiscal Sponsorship Project, Sick in Quarters (SiQ)! SiQ is a network of disabled and chronically ill artists and activists, connected to each other and working in collaboration through the internet. https://www.sickinquarters.com/

Back by popular demand: Cultural Landscapes II is a continuation of the hybrid hands-on/online workshop Fulcrum Arts presented in the Fall, led by artist and educator Jenny Yurshansky. Get tickets to individual sessions or all three now! www.fulcrumarts.org/cultural-landscapes-ii These sessions will be an opportunity to focus on the histories of the plants present in California, considering them as sites that mirror migration history and migrant stories. Each workshop in this... three-part series offers a learning experience that incorporates sensory projects, moving away from reliance on our screens and into connection with Southern California’s landscape by way of its botany. Activities and presentations also address the historical context of the landscape using Yurshansky’s research, which deals with these themes. The workshops will combine presentations, active discussions, hands-on projects, and skill-sharing, including cooking, crafting, and writing. See more

In 2017, Richard Chartier presented his research into the Grand Tonometer, an organ of 670 tuning forks housed in the Smithsonian collection. Trailer for his full presentation below - full video on our Youtube channel, along with many other fascinating talks from artists, scientists, and everyone in-between. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_PAsWUsV9ikivAkMuQ31Q

Kite, aka Suzanne Kite, offers an intimate personal essay and audio/video triptych that weaves a speculative narrative across eras and locations in Los Angeles and the history of the U.S. "Three Diffractions of LA" sees the Indian Relocation Act, the formation of the LAPD, the DTLA rave scene, and the disappearance of relatives through a metonymic kaleidoscope, a collapsing neutron star. Her publication is part dream, part lullaby, part drone, and situates reality as somethin...g stretched beyond that which we can see at the horizon. Check out Three Diffractions of LA in the February edition of Sequencing on the Fulcrum Arts website: https://www.fulcrumarts.org/three-diffractions-of-la/ Kite, aka Suzanne Kite, is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in Music Composition, an MFA from Bard College, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University where she is a Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies which include nonhuman beings and the development of protocols and relations for stones, metals, and Artificial Intelligence, through art-making, research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has developed Machine Learning body and hair interfaces, carbon fiber sculptures, and immersive installations. Kite has also published in several journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), where the award winning article, Making Kin with Machines, co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis, was featured. kitekitekitekite.com #fulcrumarts #arts #sciences #socialchange #artscience #sequencing #LAPD #neutronstar #speculative #autotheory #oglalalakota #suzannekite #rave #drone

Remember October 2020? We barely do. But the Scary Thoughts Podcast version of our viewing party for The Vast of Night is finally live! Give it a listen this weekend for chatter about sound design, scifi, aliens, etc Avail wherever you get your pods http://scarythoughts.org/scary-thoughts-87-the-vast-of-nigh

We are thrilled to announce that Fulcrum Arts has been awarded $45,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop "Procession," a major public artwork conceived and led by artist Debra Scacco. Procession is a civic action that traces geographic and social memory of Los Angeles. The project activates the history of the Los Angeles River by inviting a number of communities that live where water once flowed to physically trace her previous courses on foot. The processio...ns will unite in Los Angeles State Historic Park: a former flood plain referred to as The Cradle of Los Angeles where water once flowed year-round. At this site, a free public festival will celebrate the critical, shared resource that is water. Procession creates a platform for education, dialogue, and access to public resources through ongoing activities. Specifically, Procession begins with collaboration with members of the Tongva community, the original inhabitants and stewards of the river and this land. Although the procession itself is a single occurrence, its goal lies in lasting impact. From engagement with school groups to the collection of oral histories, this is an opportunity for diverse Angelenos to share time and space with one another, reinforce collective memory and build a direct relationship to civic history and stewardship. Procession is currently planned for Summer 2023. Image: Julia Bogany and Marissa Aronda, "The Journey of Visibility," 2018 Part of Defining Line: Co-curated by Nancy Baker Cahill and Debra Scacco, presented on 4th Wall AR Public Art app

Perfect weekend viewing: Artist and educator Colleen Hargaden brings us an intimate view of a very particular rock collection in "Anthropogenic Mineral Collection"all products of human-engineered extraction and mining. On #Sequencing:... A

The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable. The phytoplankton present in the sea produces half of the oxygen on the planet. During spring, this zone is the most important CO2 sink in our biosphere. In @Jana Winderen's work "Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone," the sounds of the living creatures become a voice in the current political debate concerning the official definition of the location of the ice edge. Winderen's full talk and performance is on the Fulcrum Arts Youtube channel, along with many other fantastic panels and presentations. Subscribe to stay in the loop: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_PAsWUsV9ikivAkMuQ31Q

New Workshop! GRANT WRITING WITH KAREN LOFGREN Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:00pm - 6:30pm... Online RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grant-writing-workshop-with-ka Artist and seasoned grant writer Karen Lofgren will take you through a major government grant application, to take the fear and mystery out of the process and demonstrate how to access these opportunities. We will use the California Arts Council’s Arts & Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief application as a model and go through the questions and how to answer them for your projects. Project directors and staff can ask questions as we go along, and I’ll explain what it takes to get you through the process. ABOUT KAREN Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based visual artist and freelance grant writer who has worked on major government and foundation grants for organizations including LAND; LACE; Fulcrum Arts; MOCA; CSUDH Arts Department; Vincent Price Museum; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Occidental College Art Gallery; VOLUME; and more, for capacity building, program support, audience development initiatives, and general operating funds. She was a 2019 Pollock-Krasner grant recipient; a 2018-2020 Canada Council grantee; and was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018. http://www.karenlofgren.net

Brittany Ransom’s work involves photographing, scanning, and casting 3D sculpturesin this case, of icebergs at the very end of their life. View her full talk on the Fulcrum Arts Youtube channel, along with many others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhC4dBA-nQ