Thursday, September 2nd, 6:30 pm

BBQ & BLUES
with Howlin’ Henry & the Blues Express

Featuring:
Henry “Howlin Henry” Robinson
Danny Wilder
Millard Kennedy
Jason Kid

Admission:  $10 per person

Purchase food and drinks from the café @ artspace!

Family Fun Saturdays are JAZZY!!

with Hands-on Arts Learning & JAZZY ART
in the  Anderson Family FUN – A – TORIUM

Every Saturday through October 16th

Click here to go to our FAMILY FUN page to see the fun activities we have planned for all ages!

The cost to participate is $7 per person and includes all art supplies and materials.
YOU PROVIDE THE IMAGINATION!

CLUB DANTZIC:  LIFE IS JAZZ.  JAZZ IS LIFE.

The Photography of Jerry Dantzic

OPENING RECEPTION on August 13th, 5:30 pm

The Photography of JERRY DANTZIC

artspace will transform into a 1950’s Jazz Club for its latest exhibition showcasing the photography of international photographer, Jerry Dantzic, with never before seen photographs of Jazz legends from the 1950’s and 1960’s.

“ This is the most elegant and cool exhibit we have ever had.  The photos of Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa have a fantastic energy.  With this exhibition we’ve managed to transform artspace into the hippest place in town.” —–William Joyce

The exhibition will also include Jerry Dantzic’s Timex All Star Jazz Show on loan from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.

Entertainment for Opening Night will be Stan Hoffman Quartet.

Mark your calendars for the JOEL HARRISON TRIO on Thursday, September 23rd, 6:00-9:00 pm

EXHIBITION DATES:  AUGUST 14th – OCTOBER 16th, 2010

For Professionals and Students Alike

Every Other THURSDAY NIGHT

6:00 – 8:30 pm

6:00 pm             Arrival & Set Up
6:30-8:30 pm  Session

Cost:  $15 per session, $10 for students with ID. For reservations or more information call (318) 673-6535.

Artists will need to provide their own art supplies, but easels and tables will be provided as available.   A monitor will be on hand to guide the sessions, but there is no direct instruction given.

Drinks and Snacks may be purchased from the cafè @ artspace.

Tuesday, August 10th at 6:30 pm

Chef Michael O’Boyle

Chef Michael O’Boyle is best known to the community through his highly followed blog, www.chickenfriedgourmet.com where he shares interesting tidbits about food and the culinary arts.

MENU

Amuse of Tuna Tartare
pork,peach,chives

Chilled Yellow Tomato Soup with Grilled King Crab
cucumber,lemongrass,cilantro

Beer Braised Pork with Sweet Corn Gnocchi
popcorn, onion, bbq sauce

Cheese Course
brie, figs, toast

Chocolate Ganache
smoked oreo,cocoa nib,pudding, pistachio

Someone’s In The Kitchen is Shreveport-Bossier’s premiere culinary arts experience!  Guests dine at the Chef’s Table while receiving a full demonstration on preparing a multi-course meal that is enjoyed with a pairing from a selected wine tasting.

Enjoying our 3rd year of successful evenings, Someone’s In The Kitchen occurs the 2nd Tuesday of each month and features Culinary Artists from Shreveport-Bossier preparing unique and exotic meal selections to classic and traditional with their own special flair.

Thursday, August 5th, 6:30 pm

CERVANTES RECK & His RENAISSANCE RENEGADES
“The Bad Kids of Theatre”

Proudly Present…
An Evening of Hilarious Theatre and Dance Performance!

Theatre has never been this much FUN!!

Admission:  $10 per person,  Purchase food and drinks from the café @ artspace!

FEATURING:

David Ives’ One-Act Masterpiece: “DEGAS C’EST MOI”
A man (Ed) wakes up one morning and decides to be the “dead, French, impressionist painter” Edgar Degas for a day. Out of mere loneliness and an identity crisis he goes out into the world in search of meaning. Only to find out at the end what is truly important to him -Love. Featuring the talents of Greg Wallin, Lewis Elder, Mary Wallin, Alexis McLeaish, Jane Ryder, John McLeaish, Kathe McMullan, Rachal Bouriaque, Trey Love, Rodger Jackson, Marchello Stewart, Timothy Miller, Cervantes Reck, and some interesting Cameo appearances (maybe you!).

Also, “THEY CALL ME PATSY” – by Cervantes Reck
Let a young girl’s singing (“a la Patsy Cline”) take you through the events that shaped our lives in the year 1963 (in a very peculiar way…). Featuring music of the times and starring Rachal Bouriaque.  Also co-starring: Kathe McMullan, Mary Wallin, John McLeaish, Greg Wallin and Foster Kawaler (as the radio announcer).

Dancing performed by “The Dance Renegades”

Producer/Director/Art Direction by Cervantes Reck  •  Graphics/Photo Stills by Jason Lammons • Musical Direction by Jason Lammons •  Wardrobe Mistress/Costume Designs by Jane Ryder, www.janeryderdesigns.com

Most original artwork displayed on stage, including original paintings, and costumes will be for sale at the end of the show.

For more information on Cervantes Reck and his RENAISSANCE RENEGADES -THE BAD KIDS OF THEATER

*DEGAS C’EST MOI will be performed with permission from
Dramatists Play Service, inc.
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016

More information on Cervantes Reck at the IMDB, facebook and MySpace.
Talent Contact Information:  Acclaim Talent 504.267.1634, 504.303.8632

“ This is the most elegant and cool exhibit we have ever had.  The photos of Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa have a fantastic energy.  With this exhibition we’ve managed to transform artspace into the hippest place in town.” —–William Joyce

Dizzy Gillespie, 2nd NY Jazz Festival, Randall's Island, 1957, photo by Jerry Dantzic

artspace has been transformed into a 1950’s Jazz Club setting for the CLUB DANTZIC Exhibition that includes never-before-seen photos of 1950’s and 60’s Jazz Legends by Jerry Dantzic and a collection from the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans. During the 1950s, Dantzic captured the essence of New York: the musicians, showgirls, boxers, and the habitués of Coney Island, Chinatown, Broadway and other neighborhoods, as well as the city’s glamour.   Jerry Dantzic’s photographs have appeared for the past forty-five years in such publications as the The New York Times, Life, Look, 2wice, Vanity Fair, and American Photo. His work has been shown in countless solo and group shows, and is now in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.

During the artspace Club Dantzic Exhibition, guests will be transported back in time to experience the 1950’s through Dantzic’s black and white photographs, performances by jazz musicians and culinary delights from the café @ artspace.  Grayson Dantzic, Jerry Dantzic’s son, has put together this collection of his father’s photography just for artspace.

CLUB DANTZIC will also include photography by Dantzic from the “1958 Timex All-Star Jazz Show” on loan from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.  These rare photographs highlight another facet of the career of Jazz great Louis Armstrong, this time in partnership with Kentucky native Lionel Hampton, rehearsing for a show at the CBS Studios in New York City.  Dantzic’s classic photographs capture the exhilaration of the music and the sheer delight of these musicians to be in one another’s company.

JERRY DANTZIC BIO (1925 – 2006)

Jerry Dantzic and son, Grayson, photo by Cynthia Grayson

From 1951 Dantzic worked in New York as a publicity writer by day and took night courses at Columbia University. Joining the Columbia Camera Club, he shared a darkroom with Garry Winogrand, George Zimbel, and other aspiring photographers. In 1953, inspired by the Alexey Brodovitch Workshop he had attended, he quit his job and went to Mexico for two months. In a letter at that time, he wrote, “For better or worse I have taken the plunge as a photojournalist.”

Dantzic returned to New York to pursue work as a freelancer and became a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1956.  He worked for numerous publications of the day including, among others, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Look and Life. In 1958 he moved to Manhattan, opening a studio on West 31st Street, and married Cynthia Mans Gross. While continuing to work as a photojournalist in the 1970s and 1980s, Dantzic developed a unique specialty, panoramic photography.  His pioneering color panoramic work won him two Guggenheim Fellowships and a solo exhibition in 1978 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated by John Szarkowski.  Dantzic spent more than twenty-five years as an educator, teaching at Long Island University and at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and lecturing at many other institutions.

Thursday, July 15th, 8:15-8:45 pm

Join Tony for a discussion about MAXIMUM MINDSHARE, his current exhibition in coolspace @ artspace.  He will talk about his career as an artist, how his style came to be and the medium he chooses.  He’ll also share about where he drew his inspiration for creating these and other artworks.

“I like to call my work an “extrospection of popular culture through the idiom of fine art cartoons.” I watch the world, observe human nature, and find iconic imagery that I feel defines a particular concept, then create a cartoon from it. But it’s not enough to merely paint cartoons. Using collages made up of printed materials (newspapers, magazines, etc), I bring some ‘real world’ into my make-believe creations.­ It’s with this real-world “found data,” that, when combined with my own imaginary images, I hope to connect with the viewer. I tend to work in themes like food, sex, love, death, America, and space aliens, which helps me find subjects and ideas that most other folks can identify with or appreciate.”

If you are an emerging artist and are interested in working up to exhibiting at artspace and other galleries, you will benefit from Tony’s elaboration on building your career in the arts.

featuring the artworks of

Marshall Dines of Denver, Colorado

Bruce Allen • Matt Deford • Mary Virginia Hill
Micah Harold • Alan Dyson • Tama Ripps Nathan

BUBBLE RAP 3:  curated by Michael G. Moore, Northwest Louisiana’s Cartoon/Comic/Graphic Art Exhibition

Plus…meet 15 giftspace POP! artists who have created
jewelry, fashion and accessories out of Bubble Wrap® cushioning!

Opening Night Bubble Wrap® cushioning Fashion Show by Tiffany Shemise Walker

Musical Entertainment by DIRTFOOT begins at 7:00 pm.

DRESS POP! – wear Bubble Wrap® cushioning!

Admission:  $10 includes complimentary POP! and POP! hors d’oeuvres

TONY REANS

“I like to call my work an “extrospection of popular culture through the idiom of fine art cartoons.” I watch the world, observe human nature, and find iconic imagery that I feel defines a particular concept, then create a cartoon from it. But it’s not enough to merely paint cartoons. Using collages made up of printed materials (newspapers, magazines, etc), I bring some ‘real world’ into my make-believe creations.­ It’s with this real-world “found data,” that, when combined with my own imaginary images, I hope to connect with the viewer. I tend to work in themes like food, sex, love, death, America, and space aliens, which helps me find subjects and ideas that most other folks can identify with or appreciate.