Shepard Fairey’s Image Problem (tags)
As if Wal-Mart didn’t have enough controversies to deal with, imagine the consternation in the PR war room when news hit that the retail giant was selling t-shirts bearing a Nazi SS skull. As the story unraveled, it turned out that Wal-Mart’s designer had ripped off the image from pop art superstar Shepard Fairey, whose reference for the Gestapo logo was 1960’s “biker culture.” Oops.
Free Movie Screening: Peace Press (tags)
A feature-length documentary about Los Angeles' Peace Press produced by students in L. A. Valley College¹s Media Arts Dept.'s Directed Studies workshop in conjunction with several Peace Press "alumni" and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. [ Image: "Evict Nixon" Poster created by artist Mark Vallen in 1971 and published by Peace Press.]
CALL FOR ARTISTS: "Utopia" (tags)
The A Shenere Velt Gallery of West Los Angeles has issued an Artists Call for its upcoming exhibit, Utopia. Artists are being asked to submit slides of up to three wall-hung works in any media (except ceramics and jewelry) that speak to the theme of "Utopia."
Artist's Call: Art of California Labor (tags)
This information on the Artist's Call for: Art of California Labor, was taken from artist Mark Vallen's weblog: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
BEST photos from March 18th Hollywood Demo (tags)
"I Am Not The Enemy" poster by artist Mark Vallen.
Antiwar Art Exhibit: "The New Normalcy." (tags)
THE NEW NORMALCY features paintings, prints, and drawings that focus on the post 9-11 reality of endless war, terror, and repression. Images posted to this page by Mark Vallen & Sergio Hernandez.
Audio: "Don't Talk About Religion or Politics" Talk & Presentation (tags)
MP3 audio recording download of a presentation/talk on art, religion, and politics, by artist/curator Mark Vallen and fellow exhibition artists Poli Marichal, Sergio Hernandez, John Paul Thornton, and Gwyneth Leech.
Artist's Forum on Art & Politics (tags)
As part of the continuing "Don't Talk About Religion or Politics" exhibition with Mark Vallen, Sergio Hernandez, Gwyneth Leech, John Paul Thornton, and Poli Marichal, the Avenue 50 Studio will present an artist's forum on Art & Politics. The exhibit runs until Feb (Photo: Opening night at the exhibition.)
ART EXHIBIT: DON’T TALK ABOUT RELIGION OR POLITICS (tags)
The Avenue 50 Studio invites the public to an art exhibit focusing on questions of religion and politics. Featuring artists: Mark Vallen, Gwyneth Leech, Poli Marichal, Sergio Hernandez, John Paul Thorton. [ Posted image - "Station of the Cross # 10." Oil painting by Gwyneth Leech. ]
Both Sides of the Border: Latin American and Chicano Art (tags)
With the recent upsurge in popularity for Latino art, Carlotta's Passion Fine Arts intends to present a proper historical and aesthetic context for what is quickly becoming an internationally renown school of art. As an expression of a newly independent hemisphere, Latin American art has long delighted and inspired a world audience. Vibrant, compelling and rooted in the unique experience of the Americas, the genre provides a bridge for a new contemporary US art movement. Chicano Art is the visual language of the Mexican-American community in the US, and domestically it has already made an impact with its bold aesthetics - now it is poised to become popular with the worldwide community. To help broaden that recognition, Carlotta's Passion Fine Arts presents, Both Sides of the Border: Latin American and Chicano Art.
Chicano Artists Promote Healthy Diversity (tags)
Chicano artists “paint their own reality” by promoting multiculturalism and healthy diversity.
The Neo-Con Assault on Art (tags)
When the neo-cons attack civil rights, the poor, immigrants, gays - and wages war around the world, the "left" has a lot to say. But when the right attacks the arts, there is a deadening silence. Artist and blogger Mark Vallen hits the nail on the head. As Emma Goldman once said, "If I can't dance in your revolution, I want no part of it."
"The Traveling Wobbly Show" Art Exhibit (tags)
[ News on an art exhibit about the IWW comes from artist Mark Vallen's "Art For A Change" weblog - www.art-for-a-change.com/blog ]
Self-Help Graphics Update (tags)
Update on the Self-Help Graphic story. 200 attend mass meeting in Highland Park to find a way to open the doors of Self-Help again. following materials and photo come from Chicano artist Harry Gamboa. See art for change web log for more details on story: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
Update on Self-Help Graphics protests & mass meetings (tags)
the following was pulled from Mark Vallen's weblog, an artist who has been covering that story and more....... www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
MARK VALLEN - Self Help Graphics Finished? (tags)
Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, wrote and posted the following article on his weblog concerning the closing of LA's Self Help Graphics. You can read more of his posts, at: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
Website Banned for Bush Parody (tags)
Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, reported the following on his web log: "Michael Dickinson has fashioned a website photomontage house of horrors he calls the Carnival of Chaos. Since 2002, with scissors, glue, and pictures torn from popular magazines, the artist has been creating vitriolic though humorous works of collage that lambaste the world's powerful - and George W. Bush in particular. The artist's latest cut and paste statement was a send up parody of what The Sun and New York Post had done by publishing photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear… and by doing so Dickinson has become the most recent victim of censorship."
WITHERED Arts Journalism in LA? (tags)
"All historic epochs have cynics who pontificate that everything under the sun has been accomplished, and that there are "no more movements" on the horizon. Such proclamations are the clearest sign that all hell is about to break loose. Artists have always reacted to the world around them - with their collective actions forming schools or movements. To declare that we are in a "post-movement" period while the world is burning is nothing short of delusional."
Art For A Change: Mark Vallen (tags)
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - With this special issue, Xispas, the online journal of Chicano culture, art, and politics... looks at the meaning and role of Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492.
"MARK VALLEN: MORE THAN A WITNESS" LA Art Exhibit (tags)
"... LA artist Mark Vallen establishes himself as one of the most profound political artists of our time." - LA.com review
Hiroshima Day, Art Slide Lecture by Artist Mark Vallen (tags)
Artworks clockwise: German Expressionist Felix Nussbaum's 1940 "Self-Portrait with Jewish Pass"; Mark Vallen's 1982 anti-Nuke "There Goes My Career"; Gert Wollheim's 1919 "The Wounded Man"; Atom Bomb survivor Takakura Nobuko's vision of a civilian melting in atomic fire; Vallen's 2001 "I Am Not The Enemy"; Vallen's 2003 "Not Our Children, Not Their Children" (published in the book Peace Signs).
"Yo! What Happened to Peace?" (tags)
LA artist John Carr has organized a terrific exhibition of antiwar posters to be exhibited in Boston and New York during the conventions. The show, "Yo! What Happened to Peace?" is currently on display in Cambridge MA until July 30th. From August 6th to September 5th it will be on display in Brooklyn NY. Dozens of artists contributed prints to the show, including Mark Vallen, Winston Smith, Doug Minkler, Seth Tobocman, Favianna Rodriguez, EMEK, Chaz Bojorquez, Mear One, Edward Colver, Eric Drooker... and many others!
"BURN!" with Brando at Workmen's Circle (tags)
BURN! Starring Marlon Brando. Sunday, August 29, 7 pm at the Workmen's Circle in West LA.
MARK VALLEN: MORE THAN A WITNESS (tags)
MARK VALLEN: MORE THAN A WITNESS A Shenere Velt Gallery Now - August 26, 2004 A major retrospective art exhibition encompassing thirty years of work.
"Soldier of Fortune" Mark Vallen. Photo collage March 1985. Created as a street flyer for mass distribution.
500 at Westwood anti-war rally (tags)
In the photograph, artist Mark Vallen and an anonymous protestor hold Vallen's "Art For A Change" artworks (www.art-for-a-change.com). Photo by Bob Morris (www.polizeros.com)
XISPAS - New journal of Chicano, culture, art, and politics (tags)
Xispas.com is a new on-line journal for Xicano culture, art, and politics. Xispas is an exciting new on-line magazine that will be entertaining but not "entertainment." Xispas will deal with ideas, history, indigenous traditions, books, opinions, and social critique.
"CHE Y QUE" Art Exhibit (tags)
MARK VALLEN, SERGIO HERNANDEZ, JOE BRAVO, MARIO TORERO, and dozens of other Chicano visual Artists will be showing new artworks at the upcoming CHE Y QUE show, an exhibition that focuses on images of Che Guevara in popular culture. The showing opens on Saturday, August 9th. and runs until August, 31st., 2003. (Artwork on this page by Mark Vallen)
ART EXHIBITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE (tags)
LIGHT AMONG SHADOWS... an Art exhibit dedicated to the struggle for human rights in the Americas and beyond.
Art Auction to benefit L.A. School Art programs! (tags)
The Democrats are threatening deep cuts in the state's budget. The FIRST to go will be funding for Art. Gov. Gray Davis first said he would slash the California Arts Council by 79%... now there is talk of eliminating it entirely. Which makes the following that much more important.
Antiwar Artwork by Mark Vallen (tags)
Mark Vallen, Artist and Founder of the Art For A Change website, has released a new Drawing titled, "Not Our Children, Not Their Children." Use the low resolution image on this page to place on your website (just be sure to give the Artist credit and provide a link to Art For A Change)... or download the high resolution PDF file to print on your home computer's printer.
PARTY WITH "ARTS IN ACTION!" (tags)
ART AND RESISTANCE! Come celebrate the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the ARTS IN ACTION space! Help support another year of creating an environment, which generates artistic and political dialogue and action. Keep the doors open for another year! Keep this independent cultural center alive! Arts in Action is a cultural and political collective housed in the Westlake/Pico Union area of Los Angeles. Our vision is to create an environment which generates artistic and political dialogue and action.
A retrospective on the Art generated in the Los Angeles Punk Rock movement of the late 1970's.
THE ART OF PUNK exhibit will offer original artworks and related materials documenting the rise of L.A.'s Punk underground at the close of the 20th century.
THE ART OF PUNK exhibit will offer original artworks and related materials documenting the rise of L.A.'s Punk underground at the close of the 20th century.
KOREANS UNITE AGAINST BOND FILM (tags)
Koreans are protesting against the latest 007 film "Die Another Day." The photo shows a young South Korean Student demonstating against the movie.
Multi-media Progressive Art Show! (tags)
A progressive Art Exhibit on the UCLA campus against war, repression, and racism.
LIBERATE PALESTINE! - MUSIC/ART EVENT. (tags)
Music/Art Benefit for Orphans of recent Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre.
ISRAELIS KILL ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHER (tags)
An Italian photographer was shot dead covering Israel's offensive in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, the first foreign journalist killed in 17 months of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.
ARTS IN ACTION - Grand Opening (tags)
A Grand Exhibition opens an Activist Art Space at the old Convergence Center, February 9th.
ARTIST'S RESPONSE TO WAR (tags)
Multidisciplinary Art Performance oppossed to War slated for this weekend at "HIGHWAYS" Art Complex in Santa Monica.
A major online exhibition of Art by Atom Bomb Survivors
"HIROSHIMA" MEANS DISARM! (tags)
The People of Hiroshima have a message for the world... NEVER AGAIN WAR!
Thousands protest in Japan against Nuclear Weapons!
Drawing by a young Palestinian Girl living in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
Democracy is not only putting an "X" beside a candidate's name once every four years... it's also about organizing our neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools on a daily basis.
Stolen votes and missing ballots... Jeb Bush's version of the chant, "This is what Democracy looks like!"
For free and fair elections in the United States!
Demonstrators in Los Angeles defend democracy.
SON OF BUSH FRANKENSTEIN (tags)
Poster of a Corporate Monster set loose upon the People!
Demonstrators in Los Angeles painting protest signs