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Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos

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Upcoming event

Thursday, May 24, 2012 (7:00-9:00pm)

Main Gallery

Film Screening of Pam Sporn’s Cuban Roots

(56 minutes) followed by a brief Q&A.

The film highlights the experience of a black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. This documentary traces the tangled paths and multi-faceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx. It explores the various experiences that each family member had in dealing with the realities of life as black Cuban-Americans in the Bronx. The experiences of this one family speak to the larger issues of race, social class, and nation that help to shape the identities of everyday people.

Pam Sporn is an award-winning, documentary filmmaker whose work interweaves historical narratives and personal storytelling. She has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College where she’s taught in the Department of Film and Media Studies. Currently teaching at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, she and her students have developed “Fannie Lou TV,” an internal, on-line monthly news show. A two-time BCA BRIO award winner, Pam’s “Con El Toque De La Chaveta/With a Stroke of the Chaveta” (2007) traces the tradition of “el lector” reading to cigar makers while they work, and, of course, “Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories” (2000), which looks at immigration, racial identity, and US-Cuban relations through the lens of one black Cuban-American family.

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Current Exhibition

April 4, 2012 - June 6, 2012

Main Gallery

Home is Where the Bronx Is

Credit: Hrvoje Slovenc, Untitled I (October Bliss), 2010, pigment ink print.

Home Is Where the Bronx Is presents recent work by 2010 and 2011 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Awards in visual arts and media featuring the works of Justin Allen, Benton Bainbridge, Gerardo Ciprian, Vidal Centeno, Michael Cuomo, Donna Diamond, Darnell Edwards, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Michael Ferris, Jr., Xavier Figueroa, Nadia Hallgren, Skowmon Hastanan, Lisa Lebofsky, Ebony Lewis, Ira Merritt, Josh Millis, Ronny Quevedo, Diana Rivera, Hrvoje Slovenc, Christy Speakman, and Pam Sporn. The title is inspired on the phrase “home is where the heart is” and in what the notion of home; the exhibition focuses on the notion of home, cultural and political assimilation, personal narratives and histories, the construction of identity, the environment, the natural and urban landscape, and subjective spaces. These notions of home are represented in drawings, mix media work, painting, photography, sculpture and video.

40.85 ºN x 73.86 ºW: Home is Where the Bronx Is is BCA's third artists biennial and is co-curated by Juanita Lanzo, Edwin Ramoran and Kimberly Rose.

Recent Exhibition

December 7, 2011 - March 7, 2012

Main Gallery

Toys & Games with a Twist

Toys & Games with a Twist is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and board and video games that investigates and comments on issues of construction of gender roles and stereotypes, consumerism, hierarchies of power, globalization, migration, memory and loss, fantasy, the environment, love, war, violence, urban and popular culture.

Artists include: Jennifer Bakalar, daniel Baltzer, Amir Bey, Chris Bors, Peter A. Brinson & Kurosh ValaNejad, Nick Black, Mark Blackshear, Anton Cabaleiro, Melissa A. Calderon, Hector Canonge, Gigi Chen, William Corwin, Regina Farrell, Susan Finch, Orlando Franco, Terri Gold, Rory Golden, Andra Gunraj, Christopher Hart Chambers, Meredith Hedges, Jessica Kaire, Zoe Keramea, nancy koan, Reiko Kawahara, Sujin Lee, Zaun Lee, Cecilia Mandrile, Lawrence Mascia & Clay Ewing, Nao Matsumoto, Ashley McClennon, John Meza, Ira Merritt & Aaron Olshan, Niu Miao & Don Wei Lei, Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga, Chalice Mitchell, Alfonso Muñoz, Shervone Neckles, Douglas Newton, Erika Pettersen, Dave Rittinger, Margaret Roleke, Peter Rywelski, Miriam Schaer, Jamel Shabazz, StatusHoe Collective, Fred Stesney, Tattfoo Tan, Monica Velez, Jose A. Vicenty, Bree Westphal, and Mary Wharmby. This exhibition was curated by Longwood Gallery Director Juanita Lanzo and Vanessa Gonzalez.

For Toys and Games with a Twist, Longwood is partnering with Curate NYC, a juried exhibition and online marketplace that exists to heighten exposure and opportunities for New York City visual artists. The project also helps promote New York City’s image as a vital cultural hub. Launched in 2010 by Full Spectrum Experience, Inc. and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Curate NYC provides a free online platform for curators, collectors, and art lovers everywhere to discover work by hundreds of local artists.

Last year, Curate NYC attracted 1,200 entries in three weeks. The project generated 600,000 website hits in three weeks, and positive news in The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The L Magazine, and on The Brian Lehrer Show. In 2011, one art gallery per borough will curate and exhibit their own shows of actual works by Curate NYC artists. After the call-for-entries, we will open the Curate NYC E-Marketplace, allowing artists to upload more than one entry and to sell the work from their website.

Project Room

Stations of the Lost

A Mixed Media-Installation by Sean Paul Gallegos

Stations of the Lost explores the growing disconnect from traditional religious iconography and belief systems in modern culture.

Inspired by the biblical Stations of the Cross, Gallegos' fourteen stations become interactive meditations on our obsessions with material goods and commercial icons. He explores and unpacks how the traditional 'sacred' is being replaced with kitsch, toys and profit icons elevating them as objects of adoration and desire.

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Location:

On the campus of
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse

(at 149th Street)
Bronx, NY 10451

Phone: 718-518-6728

E-mail:

longwood@bronxarts.org

Hours:

Please be advised the gallery's hours are Monday to Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm

Directions:

Hostos is easily accessible by the 2, 4, and 5 IRT Trains.

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Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos is wheelchair accessible

Longwood Arts Project is the contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts with the mission to support artists and their work, especially emerging artists and those from under-represented groups such as people of color and women. Longwood Arts Project hosts exhibits and programs such as Digital Matrix and public programs that provide opportunities for free and open dialogue on arts and culture.

Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos presents solo and group exhibitions of art produced in various media and through interdisciplinary practices that connect artists, communities, and ideas within and beyond the Bronx. Longwood's Project Room was created in 1991 to focus on Bronx and Bronx-based artists who present solo and experimental projects that aim to address issues of politics of identity, class, gender and urban and popular culture.

Benefactors

A program of the Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Arts Project is funded, in part, by National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts' Visual Arts Program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Krasdale Foods, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and the Bronx Delegation of the City Council of New York and the member ship of the BCA. Longwood Arts Project is a member of the National Association of Artists Organizations, the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, and Media Channel, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Scherman Foundation, The Bronx Empowerment Zone, Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo. Special thanks to Hostos Community College and the Center for Arts & Culture for their generous support of the exhibition program.

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