Partington Art

Broad Ripple Art Fair 2008

The 38th Broad Ripple Art Fair will take place May 17 and 18, 2008.
Check out the Partington booth at numbers #12 & 13. Soyong will be there will all her new ceramic art.

Established in 1971, the Broad Ripple Art Fair brings together more than 225 artists from the U.S. and Canada, booths from local cultural organizations, a children’s creative area, gourmet food courts, a beer and wine garden and live entertainment on four stages. The Art Fair takes place in ARTSPARK on the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center annually each May. All proceeds from the Art Fair directly benefit Art Center programs. ...

Soyong to speak at "Live Canvas"

Soyong Partington is to speak at "Live Canvas - The World of Art and History" Conversations About Art on Friday, April 25th from 6-8pm.

Soyong studied graphic design under the famous fabric designer Jong Hwa Park and sculptor Jong Myung at Sook Myung Women's University in Seoul, Korea. She was told by her parents to study graphic design in college and not ceramics because they believed that there were too many potters in Korea. Years later Soyong finally gave into her desire to learn ceramics and started taking ceramic classes at t he Indianapolis Art Center. She participates in the Broad Ripple Art Fair and has frequent one-woman shows at various galleries throughout the Midwest.

Soyong is the head of ceramics department at the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center and teaches the popular ceramics and youth camps there. Her art is shown at well-known local galleries and her art work and jewelry is for sale at the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center Boutique.

The "Live Canvas - The World of Art and History" Conversations About Art series is sponsored by the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center, Zionsville, Indiana. 205-255 West Hawthorne Street. 317-873-6862
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"Trophy" - Partington and Darr

"Trophy" - the collaborative installation by Brose Partington and James Darr, was held on Friday April 4th, 2008 at the corner of State Ave. and English Ave. in Indianapolis, IN, USA. Several hundred art enthusiasts came to view this new kinetic sculpture installation. Photos of the "Trophy" event are posted here.
Click here to see the video of this sculpture. (Note: You must have the latest Macromedia Flash Plugin installed) http://www.macromedia.com/flash/...

Frozen in Grand Central Station

This is an artistic prank on a "grand" scale. Over 200 people gathered at Grand Central Station in New York to pull off a "frozen in place" act. The onlooking travelers who weren't part of the act were confused and wondered what the heck was going on!
[See the video here]...

Brose at Toys 2007

Brose Partington will be showing a sculpture at the 2007 Primary Colours Toys event. This year’s art showcase will take place at Gallery No. 2 at the Harrison Center for the Arts (1505 North Delaware St., Indianapolis) on December 7, 2007 from 5 to 10 p.m. Toys exhibits art fashioned around the theme of toys, and invited artists are free to interpret the theme as they see fit.

The following artists were invited to produce artwork:

Mike Altman	Ryan Alvis	Stan Blevins	Adam Brouillette
Lendell Ervin II	Chris Foster	Blythe Hager	Elizabeth Guipe Hall
Mike Akira Litzau	Ben Long	Kipp Normand	Brose Partington
Heidi Pearson	Brian Priest	Andy Short	Brian Short
Kelsey Smith	Charlie Spear	Dan Thompson	Sarah Zuckerman

Exhibiting artists produce one work apiece and keep all of the proceeds they receive from the sale of their art.
There is no admission fee for this free event, which coincides with the IDADA (Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association) First Friday Art Tour.

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Coming to a T-shirt near you!

"We're so avant garde, we're imaginary."

[details]

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El Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead

The Indianapolis Art Center invites families to celebrate the festival of Day of the Dead. This year's celebration will be on Saturday, October 27, from 3--8 pm with activities taking place throughout the months of October and November.

The Indianapolis Art Center's Outreach Department began providing Day of the Dead programming in 2000 as a response to the growing Hispanic and Latino populations in Indianapolis. Through the years the Art Center has found Day of the Dead programming to expand and bridge all communities because of a common experience shared among all people: death. [ MORE]

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Bully Art Unveiled

Local muralist, Alex Edgecombe (and his adopted pit bull, Dia) will be painting an original art piece to be unveiled at the 2nd Annual Bully March on Indianapolis Monument Circle - Sat October 27th, 2007 The piece will be raffled off with the proceeds benefiting Indy Pit Crew and Casa del Toro Bully Breed Rescue. $1 tickets for the raffle will be available the day of the Bully March. The winning name will be drawn and announced on November 16, 2007. More information is [HERE]
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Griff makes Box[UR]Shorts

Griff's film "Any Way" makes it into the Summer Box[UR]Shorts International Film Festival.

You can view and vote "Thumbs Up" for his film [here] or check out the larger movie player on his web site [here].

"Any Way" won "Best Alternative Film" and overall "Best of Festival" in the annual Frog Baby Film Festival at Ball State University on April 28th 2007. Sixteen student films were shown in the categories of Narrative, Alternative, Documentary and Experimental Film.

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WEtv makes Rufus a Perfect Picture Puppy!

Rufus Chickus Magnetus, the family pet, wins 1st place in the online "Picture Perfect Puppy Contest" sponsored by WEtv - Women’s Entertainment LLC, Jericho, NY

This special online national contest was open to any individual over 18 years of age and was a legal resident of the 48 contiguous United States. The submitted photo entries were judged by a panel composed of the employees of WEtv. Nearly 10,000 photos were judged on a 1-10 scale – 1 being “not cute” and 10 being “too cute.”

Photos, movies and other information is on Rufus's web site at chickus.com

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Rufus is Mascot of New Webcast Service

Chickus Magnetus Webcast Promotions was formed to offer performing artists a special service and tools to broadcast live performances over the Internet from their personal web page, blog or MySpace page.
On Monday June 4, 2007 at 7pm EST, Aaron Stout played a 30 minute live concert from Indianapolis, IN USA. It was shown on his MySpace page to his loyal fans around the world.
For more information about webcast services from Chickus Magnetus Webcast Promotions, go [here].
Rufus Chickus Magnetus is the Partington family's pet mutt. His personal web page is [here]....

Two Outdoor Art Fairs for May 2007

The 37th Annual Broad Ripple Art Fair
presented by the Indianapolis Art Center
Soyong Kang Partington had a booth at 101 and 102.
Some photos from May 19 & 20, 2007 are posted [HERE]

Saturday May 26th from 9-3 PM
Art Space 30 Outdoor Art Fair
The main parking lot of the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Education Center
7435 N. Keystone, Indianapolis, IN

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Griff wins "best" at BSU's Frog Baby

Griff Partington wins "Best Alternative Film" and overall "Best of Festival" for his film "Any Way". Griff's film was one of the independent films from universities around the Midwest that were judged by a faculty panel at Ball State University on April 28th 2007. The annual Frog Baby Film Festival was held at Pruis Hall with an award ceremony following the screenings. Sixteen student films were shown in the categories of: Narrative, Alternative, Documentary, Experimental...

Brose Receives Efroymson Grant

Brose Partington was awarded an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship grant during a reception in Broad Ripple on Tuesday. In its 3rd year, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship was designed to increase awareness and the importance of the contemporary visual arts in central Indiana. The fellowship is intended to reward creativity and to encourage emerging and established visual artists by supporting their artistic development.

The fellowship will all Brose to buy technology, including programmable controllers and motors, to make his art more interactive. In addition, the award will help him defray the cost of traveling to Basel, Switzerland and Istanbul, Turkey, where he is exhibiting installations later in 2007.

The four other recipients of the grant were: Lucinda Devlin - photographer, Brian McCutcheon - sculptor, Casey Roberts - painter, Tom Torluemke - sculptor
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Partington art on display at Coachella

The sculpture "TIDE" by Brose Partington (featured at -SCOPE New York) is to be on display during the Coachella Music Event in CA. "TIDE is as sophisticatedly artificial as any truly moving performance and draws viewers to question the origin of their responses to it." Details of Brose's "TIDE " can be found here.

Coachella is a three-day annual music/art festival held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California.
The event features many genres of music including alternative rock, hip hop, and electronica.
The event has several stages/tents set-up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously.
More details here: http://www.coachella.com/
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Brose's Sculpture in Bridge Art Fair Chicago

Brose Partington's latest card sculpture will be on display at the Chicago Bridge Art Fair from April 26th to the 30th - 350 West Mart Center - Chicago IL
The goal of the Bridge Art Fair, an international exposition of new art, is to broaden the exposure of emerging and contemporary art and artists by providing a cost-effective showcase for the best in new art from both established and emerging galleries, ateliers, storefronts, artist collectives and artist-run spaces.

For general information, go to: http://www.bridgeartfair.com/

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Barkin' Arts NYC

Barkin Arts NYC is dedicated to increasing social awareness of the importance of animals in art by promoting exhibitions of contemporary art with canine and animal themes by emerging artists and offering educational art workshops for both children and adults in a dog friendly environment.

Barkin Arts NYC arranges art shows for people AND animals! Not only can you enjoy the art in the gallery, so can your pet companions. Barkiin Arts has four shows a year and welcomes submissions all the time. Here’s the link to find out more about submitting your own artwork.

Who knows, your work could be featured on the Barkin Arts NYC website like Brooke Churchill’s “McQuigan,” shown to the right.

Thanks to Dogster.com for their post about this in their For the Love of Dog Blog.

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Art Documentaries Online

The Smashing Telly web site is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available vidoes on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Many of the videos put there on a regular basis are art and artist documentaries. Some features are: "Andy Warhol - Artist Extraordinaire", "Salvador Dali - Genius", "Frida Kahlo - Portrait of a Woman", "The Genius of Mozart" and many others. www.SmashingTelly.com.
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Rufus on the NBC Today Show 2-24-07

Rufus Chickus Magnetus - the family dog - who won "cutest dog" category in NBC's Dog Show USA by Purina, made a "live" appearance on the NBC Today Show on Sat. Feb. 24th.
The new NYC trip Photos are now on his web site at www.chickus.com . He also visited his bro - Brose - during Brose's NYC debute at the Lincoln Center for the ~Scope exhibition.
[more on Brose's work at ~Scope NYC...]
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Brose chosen as solo artist for Lincoln Center

Dam, Stuhltrager
presents “TIDE” by Brose Partington
-Scope New York, Lincoln Center
February 22-26, 2007

Last December at -scopeMiami, Brose Partington’s debut with Dam, Stuhltrager garnered rave reviews. A mere two months later, has been chosen as the solo artist for the entire entrance and exit of -Scope New York at Lincoln Center.
A short video of the entrance portion of Brose's -Scope NYC installation is [HERE]

18 gear box motors.
40 yards of black rip stop nylon fabric.
"Tide" is a Brose Partington’s latest and largest self contained, mechanical based installation.

The PDF Press Release is [HERE]
The HTML Press Release is [HERE]...