Showing posts with label Compass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compass. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Upcoming Highlights: Best Bets for March 16-24


Akrylika Magenta to host events at Rolando Chang Barrero March 19-20, 2016

Upcoming Highlights: Best Bets for March 16-24
facebook event picks

Wednesday March 16, 2016


Compass: "We are so excited to have our March mixer at this beautiful location during Pride Week! #PalmBeachPride is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday 3/19-20, and we exepct a record breaking turn-out to this business networking event. Please pre-register for this event at http://www.compassglcc.com/events/business-mixers/ "




Thursday and Friday, March 17-18, 2016




Art Synergy / Art Forms at Art Boca Raton

ART FORMS
Jurors:
Jamnea Finlayson, Jane Grandusky and Liza Niles

Ilene Gruber Adams,
Vice President of Art Synergy and Curator of ArtForms

Artists Showing:
Adriano Ficarelli
Adriana Ficarelli
Amauri Torezan
Anthony Burks
Brian Cattelle
Erika Cespedes
Elayna Toby Singer
Tristan Bustamonte
Craig McInnis
Erin Fromkes
Gail Erickson
Gary Kronan
John Rachell
Nicole Gallucio
Rolando Chang Barrero
Sandy Lerman
James Rabidoux
Tanya Witzel
William Finlayson
Elle Schorr

Art Synergy is a countywide movement to unify and promote the diverse culture of Palm Beach County’s vibrant arts community. “ART FORMS” will expose international art patrons at Art Boca Raton, to regional artists through the Art Synergy organization.

Lee Ann and David Lester, organizers and founders of Art Boca Raton, have invited Art Synergy artists to participate. The public is invited to the International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches on the grounds of the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University from March 18-21, 2016.

Art Boca Raton Art Week offers an extraordinary line-up of lectures, events, interactive demonstrations, local artists at work and off-site events in conjunction with the inaugural art fair.

All programming takes place at Art Boca Raton in the International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches located at the Research Park on the ground of Florida Atlantic University (3450 NW 8th Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33431), unless otherwise noted.

Admission to programming is included with the ticket unless otherwise indicated. The Rickie Report shares the details, some sneak peeks and urges you to stop by Booth 106.


Saturday, March 19, 2016



Akrylika Magenta to host, DJ Frankie Fox at Rolando Chang Barrero March 19-20, 2016





Sunday March, 20, 2016


Akrylika Magenta to host, DJ Frankie Fox at Rolando Chang Barrero March 19-20, 2016




Monday, March 21, 2016


Art Boca Raton: Contemporary art, sculpture, and photography: A major new International Cultural Event for Boca Raton. Galleries from around the world will exhibit a the inaugural international art fair held at the International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches, at the Research Park on the campus of Florida Atlantic University, 3450 NW 8th Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33431. I have FREE TICKETS to this $15 one-day pass ($20 at door) event. http://www.artbocaraton.com/ Check out the website. We can also meet at my place in pompano and car pool together. We can also decide on an exact time we all wish to meet. feel free to contact me 954-nine-77-474-zero .

David and Lee Ann Lester of Next Level Fairs announce the launch of Art Boca Raton Contemporary Art Fair, March 17-21, 2016 to be held in the International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches in cooperation with Florida Atlantic University. Showcasing contemporary, modern and emerging art, sculpture, photography, works on paper and installations, the fair will offer a broad range of art to both beginning and seasoned collectors. Art Boca Raton will encompass 45 dealers carefully selected by a curatorial committee in order to assure dealer quality and exclusivity.

The opening gala preview will benefit the Boca Raton Museum and Art School on March 17th lead by a prestigious Collectors and Connoisseurs Committee.

Sponsored daily “After Dark” evening events will be held Boca Raton Museum for collectors to enhance their knowledge and appreciation of collecting contemporary art. The fair will sponsor a full collector lecture series on current trends in collecting including a special presentation on the museum’s exhibition “Andy Warhol Vinyl’s and Warhol Prints from the Mark Bell Collection”.

The International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches will include a 65,000 sq. ft. /6,100 sq. meter exhibition hall, a full service restaurant, sculpture garden and lecture hall facility. Ample parking and valet service will be available to fair attendees. Floorplan


Thursday, March 24, 2016


RSVP HERE
TINYworks at ActivistArtistA Gallery March 24, 2016

and

Boynton Beach Art District Art Walk









Tuesday, December 8, 2015

World AIDS Day Exhibit Continues!! Exhibition Spolighted in Current South Florida Gay News!




A Day Without Art Revisited Exhibition and Auction 
continues until December 11, 2015

"I would like to express my gratitude to the arts community for an outstanding show of support."
-Rolando Chang Barrero, Curator 

Our first exhibition which is currently on display in conjunction with the
Names Project Memorial Quilt will be open until December 11, 2015."
You can purchase of the works on display through the silent auction process, or
buy now. Please visit:

COMPASS COMMUNITY CENTER
201 N. Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, FL 33460 
The work donated by the following artists to Compass Community Center
will be available for purchase and auction from 

December 2-11, 2015

List of Artists:

Allison Kotzig, Marilyn Mendez, Maxine Spector, Nicole Galluccio, Ali Miranda,
Rolando Chang Barrero, Blond Jenny, Freddy and Nickie Hennevelt, Samantha Perez, Ed Burnette,
Adrianna Ficarelli, Cesca Veo, Michael Moore, Thomas McAvoy, Debra Robert,
Petrina Easton, Craig McInnis, Ray Gross, Frances Lynn, Robert Catapano, Ana Rossi,
Beverly Caparella, Joanne Urban, Rosalia Curbello, Doreen Grasso, Bud Parker,
Durga Garcia, Tracy Cunningham, Sharon Koskoff, Robert Turtle Rosa, Erin Fromkes,
Diane Arrieta, Jenny Love, Jacqueline Kern, and Wayne Lekowitz.


Special Thanks to Steve Ellman for the Exhibition Essay.
A Day With(out) Art Revisited
It was an age of exploration, the '70s, in our lives and in our art. Idols lay shattered in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, and flowers bloomed in the rubble. In our innocence, sex seemed like a gift without price, and maybe it was, for a time. Inevitably, artists, whose job it is to “make it new,” drank deep of those pleasures. And in the '80s, when the plague arrived, artists swelled the ranks of the doomed. (Continue Here)

Go to: SFGN


Related stories:

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

In Today's New Times! World AIDS Day...and Exhibition Essay



VisualAIDS.org

TUESDAY, December 1, 2015

WEDNESDAY, December 2, 2015


COMPASS Community Center
    Address: 201 N Dixie Hwy, Lake Worth, FL 33460

Exhibition Essay by Steve Ellman

A Day With(out) Art Revisited

It was an age of exploration, the '70s, in our lives and in our art. Idols lay shattered in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, and flowers bloomed in the rubble. In our innocence, sex seemed like a gift without price, and maybe it was, for a time. Inevitably, artists, whose job it is to “make it new,” drank deep of those pleasures. And in the '80s, when the plague arrived, artists swelled the ranks of the doomed.

The art world’s fallen include just a few major names, for AIDs was a disease of the young and one of its peculiar cruelties was to cut careers short. What riches might have been will never be known, but the works of the virus’s best-known prey point to a lost bounty of beauty and innovation. 

Maybe the most emblematic of those darkened stars were Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, fixtures of the age’s night life — the clubs, the drugs, the erotomania —  which energy fueled their visions: Mapplethorpe with photography of severe and unflinching grace, Haring with a language of uniquely radiant hieroglyphs.

Others gone too soon were less well-known but of signal aesthetic importance. Photographer Peter Hujar left indelible portraits of art world comrades and luminaries like Susan Sontag and Diana Vreeland; Hujar’s lover, David Wojnarowicz, brought a blazing surrealism to film and other media, often in the cause of AIDS activism; Félix González-Torres was similarly driven, building on the methods of Minimalism and Conceptual Art to create sculpture and installations around themes of love and death. In Canada, the collective known as General Idea found subversive beauty and humor in pieces drawn on the materials of mass culture and, toward the end, the images and objects of medical treatment itself.

There are others, of course, too many to describe here, the greater part of that lost generation well-catalogued at the visual AIDS artist registry at visualaids.org.  AIDS is, by some accounts, now conquered, though to the extent that is so, it was not without a mighty struggle not just against a virus, but against ignorance and fear. As we mourn our losses, and the art that might have been, let us honor the dead with continued resistance to those evils of the spirit.

-Steve Ellman


In Today's New Times:

Curator, Rolando Chang Barrero, will be working with Compass Community Center this year on the A Day With(out) art Revisited Exhibition. The exhibit will run concurrently during the yearly presentation of the NAMES Project Quilt Installation. Each year, Compass Community Center hosts the largest display of rotating panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of World AIDS Day in South Florida. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest folk art exhibit in the world. 

This year, we invite you to join us in honoring World AIDS Day during our two week celebration beginning December 1st, with A Day Without Art, the International Day of Mourning and Action in response to the AIDS crisis. Arts organizations, museums, and galleries participate in this international movement by shrouding pieces of art and replacing them with information about HIV prevention and local resources. For more information about this campaign and the origins of Day With(out) Art, please visit www.visuala ids.org. 

World AIDS Day serves as a platform to increase awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to inspire positive action through education, testing, and standing in solidarity with those affected by the virus. HIV/AIDS has had a major impact locally and globally: 35 Million people worldwide are currently living with HIV/AIDS Over 1.2 Million people in the U .S. are living with HIV; almost 1 in 8 are unaware of their infection 8,197 people are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Palm Beach County 5,897 newly diagnosed HIV infections in Florida in 2014.
We look forward to collaborating with local artists, arts organizations, museums, galleries, art enthusiasts, and our community to commemorate World AIDS Day like never before. 
Con't.....WORLD AIDS DAY 

For complete details go to Compass World AIDS Day

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Friday, November 27, 2015

Artists Donate in record numbers for AIDS Exhibition at Compass!



World AIDS Day is December 1st all across the globe.

Here in South Florida people will gather to mourn and recall the many live of loved ones lost to the dreaded pandemic that took too many lives- too soon.
As organizer of this exhibition I would like to thank all the artists for their extraordinary show of support. The local arts community has donated in record numbers for the auction that will help Compass continue with the vital role they play in our community" -Rolando Chang Barrero, curator 

The work donated by the following artists to Compass Community Center
will be available for purchase and auction from 
December 2-11, 2015

List of Artists:

Allison Kotzig, Marilyn Mendez, Maxine Spector, Nicole Galluccio, Ali Miranda,
Rolando Chang Barrero, Blond Jenny, Freddy and Nickie Hennevelt, Samantha Perez, Ed Burnette,
Adrianna Ficarelli, Cesca Veo, Michael Moore, Thomas McAvoy, Debra Robert,
Petrina Easton, Craig McInnis, Ray Gross, Frances Lynn, Robert Catapano, Ana Rossi,
Beverly Caparella, Joanne Urban, Rosalia Curbello, Doreen Grasso, Bud Parker,
Durga Garcia, Tracy Cunningham, Sharon Koskoff, Robert Turtle Rosa, Erin Fromkes,
Diane Arrieta, Jenny Love, Jacqueline Kern, and Wayne Lekowitz.


DECEMBER 1, 2015 6:30-8 PM
A DayWith(out) Art / World AIDS Day

On December 1st, the Compass Community Center, located at 201 North Dixie Hwy., Lake Worth, Florida, will be open at 6:30-8 PM to a musical performance by VOICES of Pride and a solemn echo of the the traditional Calling of the Names and the Names Project Quilt Panel Induction of community members we have lost. All are invited to join.

Over 40 works of art donated by local artists and a selection of painting by Brad Jernigan which were donated by the City of Boynton Beach will be shrouded during the evening. the unveiling will take place on December 2, 2015, at a reception to be held from 7- 9 PM.

"Special thank you to our sponsors for this event:  Gilead, New Beginnings Recovery Center, Viiv Healthcare, State of Florida Department of Health, Penny’s at the Duke, Voices of PRide, Rolando Chang Barrero Art Studio, Palm Beach Opera." -Compass Community Center

DECEMBER 2, 2015 7-9 PM
Unveil: The Stigma, The Truth, The Art
 
Exhibition Reception and Names Project Quilt 

Wednesday, December 2nd
Time: 7-9pm
Overview of the event: Unveiling of Artwork and Opening Ceremony for The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Showcasing artwork that displays emotionally charged, personal perspectives from moments in the public history of HIV/AIDS. Donated artwork will be available for silent auction and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Compass.
Performance by Palm Beach Opera.
Group exhibition curated by Rolando Chang Barrero.








Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Palm Beach Post Today and more...



The Nobel-Prize-nominated piece of folk art, created in 1987 by a group of strangers, will be on display Dec. 1-11 at the LGBT center on North Dixie Highway.

“This quilt means something different to everyone,” said Ryanmarie Rice, Compass’ chief of staff. “It’s deeply personal and is hard to put into words.”
Continue to story: Palm Beach Post Today 

Location:

COMPASS COMMUNITY CENTER
201 N. Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, FL 33460

RSVP on Facebook, or email: Julia 

December 1, 2015 

World AIDS Day/Day with(out) Art and candlelight vigil. 



There will be performances by Voices of Pride. 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Theme:
Day With(out) Art - Call to Action for community artist, galleries, and museums. 
Overview of the event: All artwork will be covered with black cloths. Voices of Pride musical performance, Candlelight Vigil, Calling of the Names , and Quilt Panel Induction of community members that we have lost.

December 2, 2015

 World AIDS Day -

Unveil: The Stigma, The Truth, The Art Unveil 2015


unveiling of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, performance by the Palm Beach Opera and opening art exhibition. 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Theme: 
Let's Stop HIV Together Time: 7-9pm

Overview of the event: Unveiling of Art and Opening Ceremony for The Quilt Display . Showcasing artwork that displays emotionally charged, personal perspectives from moments in the public history of HIV/AIDS. Artwork will be donated and auctioned off. Performance by Palm Beach Opera.

RSVP on Facebook, or email: Julia 

“We want to raise awareness of the continuing pandemic that is now largely being disregarded because of current treatments which are mistakenly perceived as cures,” Barrero said. “Of all my friends that I came out with in the early ’80s, less than a handful are alive today." - Rolando Chang Barrero

Excerpt from: Palm Beach Post Today 

Introduction: Essay for the Exhibition

"It was an age of exploration, the '70s, in our lives and in our art. Idols lay shattered in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, and flowers bloomed in the rubble. In our innocence, sex seemed like a gift without price, and maybe it was, for a time. Inevitably, artists, whose job it is to “make it new,” drank deep of those pleasures. And in the '80s, when the plague arrived, artists swelled the ranks of the doomed."

Links: 

VISUAL AIDS

COMPASS COMMUNITY CENTER

Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery





Saturday, February 28, 2015

Rolando Chang Barrero's ActivistArtistA Gallery presents "Girls' School: A Political Disregard of A Gender" 3-26-15





Girls' School: A Political Disregard of a Gender is a multimedia exhibition.
ActivistArtistA Gallery/Studio in Boynton Beach which will feature the work of Allison Kotzig, Alana DaCosta, Dianne RosenbergNiki Lopez Creative, and Abby Funk.
March 26, 2015 | 6-10 pm


ActivistArtistA Gallery
Boynton Beach Art District
422 West Industrial Ave
Boynton Beach, Florida 33426
786-521-1199
curator: Rolando Chang Barrero

http://tiny.cc/GirlsSchool

The Girls' School is a multimedia fine art exhibition exploring the aggregate experiences of 5 artists.A four part interdisciplinary curriculum which included visual art, spoken work, music, and open mic, is an invitationto the community to look beneath the surface of what is called "gender politics" and to actively engage in the dialogue.
Curator, Rolando Chang Barrero of ActivistArtistA Gallery, provides the platform for featured artists include Alana DaCosta, Allison Kotzig, Dianne Rosenberg, Niki Lopez and Abby Funk to to share their collective experiences as women, as artists, as powerful advocates against the disregard of genders, but more importantly as human beings.
This event will mark the first of it's kind in the arts, the inclusion of trans-gender individuals and explores their challenges for visibility in the arts and in our community.


Gender is not just a biological definition: it also encompasses the idea of roles and identity in the community.The question that runs through this exhibit is, "Are we are still falling short of the goal of true equality in today’s politically charged climate?"The exhibition which sets the stage for this dialogue will provide an "open mic," for all to participate.

RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1602552106625291/
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/girlsschoolexhibition


Special educational presentation by Katherine Murphy of the www.CompassGLCC.com of Palm Beach County.
www.compassglcc.com

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Don't miss this either!!

EROTICA 2015
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery
711 Lucernce Ave., Lake Worth, Florida 33460
786-521-1199



Erotica 2015 at Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery in Lake Worth which will feature the works of Joanne UrbanAli X Miranda, and Orlando Chiang!
This exhibition which opens inconjunction with the PRIDE Business Alliance mixer which is co-sponsored the Bruce Webber Gallery and www.CompassGLCC.com on March 25, 2015 at 6 PM.
https://www.facebook.com/events/706557926128988

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