May 2004 Newsletter
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:: Reneé A. Fox :: May 2004 Diva of the Month ::

Congratulations to Reneé A. Fox, of Los Angeles, our "Diva of the Month" for May 2004! Reneé went to school at Corcoran College of Art and Design received her BFA from Otis College of Art and design. Check out Reneé's interview to discover her obsessive drawing behavior, well rounded education, and truly artistic family. Also find out how Reneé decided to become a professional artist.Read her bio, an learn about her need for warm climates, as well as an LA based mural painting and artist resource company, RAFKHO Studios. Her work can also bee seen at www.laaa.org. Visit Reneé’s gallery and see beautifully rendered organism like pods, flowers and bright colorful paintings. With a recent spot on Extreme Makover Home Edition There is nothing faux with this extreme diva!

:: Diva News


:: Searching for an Intern for United Divas!!!

:: Are you interested in helping out with United Divas?
We need all kinds of people to help us continue to expand our growing organization! Please email us with a statement of intent or why you are interested in becoming part of United Divas to referrals@uniteddivas.com. Samples of your artwork are welcomed as well if you are interested in helping us maintain our website.


:: Meg Cranston's was mentioned in the Continuing and Reccommended Exhibitions section of the May issue of ArtScene in regards to a piece in a group show at Gallery C.
She also has a new published book "100 Artists See God", which is a part of a currently touring gallery show, listed in the events section below. http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0916365689
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=35230425&loc=18111


:: Events Featuring Divas in May :: New York | Los Angeles | San Francisco | Laguna Beach, CA | Moss, Norway | Hermosa Beach, CA | West Hollywood, CA | Beverly Hills, CA

Date/Time

Artist/Event/Venue
Cost
Thursday
May 6, 2004

United Divas presents
Dig
@ the Derby, 4500 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles
United Divas presents Dig @ the Derby, Thursday, May 6, 2004.This fundraiser will be the first of three multi-media events in this summer’s Garden Series. Dig, Sprout, & Blossom will not only feature artists from our organization, but several other talented individuals and groups as well.

The first event, Dig, establishes our roots with djs Michele Bass (Tree) and Ms E, violist Christen McArdle, and the trip-hop-rock-breakbeat band Indicia. Live visuals provided by VJ Visual Borealis with sound reinforced by Whump TurboSound.

From 10pm to 12am, the Parlor will be home to spoken word performances by Alissa Walker, Betsy Ullery, Middlepoet and Clifford Chen with melodic interludes by dj Lady Jay and video art by Sara Cembalisty and Jan Tompkins. There will also be special artisan merchandise for sale, including glass jewels from Karmakulture and jewelry from t.flynn designs. For artist bios, please visit http://www.uniteddivas.com/events/dig_050604.html.

The Divas will be selling United Divas t-shirts and raffle tickets. They’ll also be available to answer any questions about the organization. All proceeds from the event will go towards continued promotion and expansion of United Divas.

Main Room
Djs/Performers/Bands: Michele Bass (Tree) featuring violist Christen McArdle, Ms E, Indicia
VJ: Visual Borealis
Parlor Room
Spoken Word Poets/Performers: Alissa Walker, Betsy Ullery, Middlepoet, Clifford Chen
DJ for interludes: Lady Jay
Video: Sara Cembalisty, Jan Tompkins
Jewelry Vendors: Karmakulture & t.flynn designs
United Divas baby tees will be for sale as well!
Door Cover: $5 before 10pm / $10 after
RAFFLE for 2 special prizes…
Be sure to check out the Dig Artist Bios...

For more information, please review thefull press release or contact Alissa Walker at 310.452.0019.


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May 8th Second Saturday Art Walk, 6pm to 9pm
May 8 - 22 by appointment
Susan Joseph
Everybody and Their Mother

5IFTYBUCKS Gallery Pomona
256 S. Main St., Pomona Arts Colony
(formerly the Latino Art Museum)
Description:
exhibition
Contact/More Info:
Rolo at 909-629-0051
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Thursday
May 13, 2004
8pm-late

Lady Jay
Jezebel - a night of Women Artists
@ Pianos - 158 Ludlow at Stanton (Manhattan, Lower East Side)
Singers, Dancers, Comics, Spoken Word, Bands, and of course, VJs! Gear Goddesses and Sonic Sirens! Women take back the night in a whole new way - Jezebel is sexy, talented and sparkling with wit! Voter registration at Jezebel!
For more info:
http://www.jezebelnyc.com

NO COVER

One Day Only! Book Signing Event
May 22
11 - 2:00PM

Sara Cembalisty recommends:
Sandow Birk: Dante's Inferno Book Signing, May 22 from 11 - 2:00PM

464 N. Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048
310-657-9843


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March 3 - June 27
July 24 - Oct 3
May 22 - June 27

Meg Cranston
"100 artists See God",
curated by Johan Baldessari & Meg Cranston, ICI (Independent Curators International)
T ouring exhibition in the USA,
The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, March 3 - June 27
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, July 24 - Oct 3
"Momentum 04", Moss, Norway, May 22 - June 27
It is about contemporary artists view of god. Artists include Bruce Nauman, Diana Thater, William Wegman, Rachel Lachowicz , Mike Kelley, Liz Larner and many many more.


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March 26-May23 2004
Meg Cranston
L.A. Woman
Group Show @ Gallery C
1225 hermosa Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254

Meg Cranston, Lisa Adams, Jill Giegerich, Becky Guttin, Kim McCarty
T.310.798.0102 | F.310.798.0039 | http://www.galleryc.com

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Exhibition Dates: April 17th- May 29th, 2004
Tuesday-Friday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Saturday:
11:00am - 5:30pm
Sara Cembalisty recommends:
Ron Rizk
"Paintings"

464 N. Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048
310-657-9843
http://www.koplindelrio.com/rizk/rizk.html


FREE
Date/Time
Featured Weekly Events
Cost

EVERY Wednesday
9pm until 2:00 a.m.
DRC
DJFM SESSIONS @ LUDLOW BAR (NY)
165 Ludlow Street, NYC Btwn Houston & Stanton
with djs:
DRC & Diane Cheadle
(Undefined Musik) (BYASSN)

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Every Thursday
9.30 - 2am

Michele Bass (DJ Tree)
Thursdays: TARA ("star"; Buddhist goddess of Peace)
Sugar | clubsugar.com (814 Broadway @ Lincoln, Santa Monica) | 310.899.1989 |
Come celebrate our pre-party bash! Aboriginal Dub, Arab Electronica, Brazilian Breakbeats, AfroTech, and the Funk of All Nations, with your DJs Jason Saville (Piscean Lovefest), Derek Rath (Cosmik Barrio/KPFK), Gabe (didJital), DJ Tree/Michele Bass (MystikAlchemy), Moksha/Joshua Jacobs (Ambient Groove Temple) + special guests to be announced.

Special Events:
03.11.04: pre-party kickoff, Free
03.18.04: OPENING NIGHT
03.25.04: The Outernationalists "Ethnomixicology" CD Release (with free CDs from Six Degrees Records)
More info: http://www.taratribe.com | 310.710.8613 | 21+


Free before 10:30
$6 after
Starting Every Wednesday in June 2004

Junktion
@ The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles
NO COVER - DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT!!!

$2 - Bud, Bud Lite, Rolling Rock, & shots $4 Well Drinks
Hosted by :: United Divas :: LABA :: militantsexcouncil
5/2 - TBA...Event Grand Opening Party
5/9 - United Divas brings you Indicia & more TBA
5/16 - LABA Gemini Party
5/23 - militantsexcouncil & special guests to be announced
For more info also visit: labadj.com

NO CHARGE


Saturday
June 12, 2004

United Divas presents
Sprout
@
TIMBREspace
1706 1/2 Sunset Blvd.
(in Echo Park)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(Mezzanine Level of the Jensen's Recreation Center)
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Saturday, June 12, 2004. This fundraiser will be the second of three multi-media events in this summer’s Garden Series. Dig, Sprout, & Blossom will not only feature artists from our organization, but several other talented individuals and groups as well.

The second event, Sprout, will feature a silent auction with art from artists Reneé A. Fox, Holly Williams, Trang Chau..., a fashion performance by Morgan Olson, video by Sara Cembalisty, music by Saraih Storm and Ms. E.

The Divas will be selling United Divas t-shirts and raffle tickets. They’ll also be available to answer any questions about the organization. All proceeds from the event will go towards continued promotion and expansion of United Divas.

United Divas baby tees will be for sale as well!
Door Cover: $5 before 10pm / $10 after
RAFFLE for prizes…

Stay tuned for more info...

 


Fall of 2004

S. E. Barnet: New Dialogue: Los Angeles / Prague: Fall 2004

To coincide with the Athens Olympic Games in August 2004 and to open at the
Gazon Rouge Gallery Athens. The SNEEZE...............a Featured Film, 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes. A celebration of a new equation referring to Thomas Edison innovative kinograph film of a sneeze where Frederic P. Ott stood before the worlds first movie camera on January 7th 1894. This project pays homage to and refers to this epic event of early cinema, the creation of one of the first moving images.


In Los Angeles, several exhibiton spaces will host the exhibition across town, as a reference to the original "official" and "unofficial" spheres of 1989. The show will open in September of 2004 in L.A. The Prague curatorial team includes art historian and writer Sarah Brock, living in Prague since 1992, and Dr. Jana Ticha editor/publisher of Zlaty Rez journal, and former curator of the Plecnik Stairs Gallery at Prague Castle. The old "Lidovy Dum"(People‚s House) in Prague 10, which was a hotbed of artistic activity in the 1980‚s is to be restored in time for the November opening. Another "official" museum space for the exhibition will be announced in the spring.

 

:: 22 Divas and counting...

Shout out your support here! Or Click on a Diva to explore their online gallery!

   
Trang Chau
 Michele Bass (Tree)
Diane Farr
   
 
Erika Sass
 S.E. Barnet
Emily Griffin
(Ms. E)
Cristy Thom
 
Colette Marino
(DJ Colette)
Ramey Arnold
(ReelGrace)
Susan Joseph
Trace Palmer
Emily Wagner
Darcey Kearney
(DRC)
Tyler Stone
(Ms T)
Mahina Yuki Terauchi
Meg Cranston
Holly Williams
 
Jan Tompkins
(Lady Jay)
Sara Cembalisty
(Co-Founder)
Kathy Lajvardi
(Co-Founder)
Alissa Walker
(Editor/Writer)
 
:: More divas please! ::

We are always searching to find our next diva of the month. Each month we recognize a multi-disciplined female artist as diva of the month. Visit the United Divas website to see what divas receive for being chosen as "Diva of the Month" (http://www.uniteddivas.com/diva.html)

Are you someone who excels in their artistic profession? Do you utilize many types of skills to create your work? Are you a multi-disciplined artist? Check this link for submission suggestions if you would like to submit samples of your work:
(http://www.uniteddivas.com/dom_guidelines.html)

Do you know a woman who is super talented? Send us links to their work, or email us and tell us about what they do and how we can experience some of their creations. Tell us about a diva! (referrals@uniteddivas.com)

:: Quote of the Month ::

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
-Albert Camus