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pARTicipate!
pARTicipate is an event
enabling a loose community of friends to gather and celebrate art and
the creative process unlike anything else in SF.
An outgrowth from years of friendship and artistic collaboration between
Jim Shissler (DJ Shissla) and artist Stuart Sheldon, pARTicipate is
a celebration of art in many manifestations. It exposes affordable work
from emerging visual artists to adventurous collectors, introduces new
music and builds community among folks with unique sensibilities.
Most importantly, pARTicipate is predicated on a group art project every
guest is encouraged to contribute to in their own way...this project
later becomes a large mixed media installation we auction off for charity!
With your help, pARTicipate has raised thousands of dollars for great
charities like the Youth Arts Program programs at Artspan and 826 Valencia,
a children's literacy group.
Monkey Fresh Studios
San Francisco
530 Hampshire #401
(btw 18th & Mariposa)
$5 suggested donation
Shiny Happy People!
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Featuring Over a Dozen SF Open Studios Artists!
most work $100-$500
including:
stuart sheldon
michelle wilcove
aondrea maynard
melissa wagner
fernando reyes
barbara kleinhans
robin denevan
amber brookman
luis delgado
linda hughes
elizabeth tana
taj moore
Silent Art Auction for ArtSpan Youth Arts (bids start
at $50)
DJ Shissla (pARTicipate, House
of Lotus)
Ben Maybe
Sir Shvits (House of Lotus)
Jesse (Alameda Funk)
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What
is pARTicipate?
History
Since 2001, DJ Shissla and I have been throwing ART pARTies all
over the globe, anointing spaces with sound, spirits and artwork.
We called these stuART pARTies, since they started
with a small group of paintings in my Potrero Hill living room and
it sounded cute. The San Francisco Bay Guardian referred
to these cozy events as a "collective search for meaning."
pARTicipate is the next level, an ongoing event enabling a
loose community of friends to gather and celebrate the creative process
proactively. We continue to expose work from emerging visual
artists, facilitate an on-site art project, introduce new music, and
most importantly, encourage each guest to pARTicipate in their own
inimitably creative way.
The
(ongoing) ART Project
At each pARTicipate we provide a theme along with paper, stencils,
scissors and drawing implements. Your participation is entirely voluntary,
and you need no artistic skills – a simple wish written out is
fine. We do encourage you to bring photos, poems, etc to add to the
collage.
The pieces you create are collected, and Shissla and I then
assemble them into a new collaborative piece to be displayed and auctioned
off for charity (ArtSpan Arts for
City Youth this time) at the next pARTicipate event and
so on and so forth ad infinitim.
Recap
of the first three pARTies
At the 1st pARTicipate pARTy before the contentious 2004 election
every guest was invited to make a simple piece of art; the theme
was fish, a metaphor for a community moving in unison. Shissla
and I transformed these little fishes into a massive 17 piece installation
- 16 small panels and one large signature piece. Each of these were
sold at the 2nd pARTicipate event in Feb '05, raising $2000 for
ArtSpan's Art for City Youth.
At
the 2nd event legions of party-goers dug into the new art project
theme, hearts, in honor of Valentine's Day, and folks went crazy making
all kinds of nutty heart bits. We turned these into 25 12"x12" resined
panels which we displayed at the 3rd party in Aug 2005 as one giant
square. Each of the panels were each snatched up, raising over $2500
for Dave Egger's Children's Literacy Organization, 826 Valencia.
The 3rd art project was about simplicity - we had everyone make basic
2" paper squares infused with poems and wishes. We're adding hand-made
Japanese papers to your little gems to create 25 badass mosaic panels,
which will be auctioned off Oct 22 for ArtSpan's Art for City
Youth. You have only one shot to see these as an installation - Oct
22 at pARTicipate. Be there!
Oh,
and Shissla will have a special new pARTicipate chill-out mix CD available.
Make ART, not war!
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