Art Harvest LA
Stephen Cohen Gallery  – Los Angeles, CA
11/14/09

The Niapele Project and Voices for Umoja are hosting an evening of art, libations, shopping and music. Art Harvest LA will feature works from emerging young local and foreing artists, hand made crafts from East and West Africa as well as many prizes from local businesses. 100% of proceeds will benefit refugee children and women served by The Niapele Project and Voices for Umoja in Liberia and Kenya.

Photography & Art by:
Chris Leombruno, Pierre Letulzo, Kenyan youth, and curated photography exhibition titled Between the Surface comprised of work from emerging Los Angeles artists. Between the Surface is a photographic exchange in response to the use of beauty within contemporary image making. Among other participating Los Angeles photographers, Calvin Lee both reveals and dismantles constructs present within imagery found in daily life, resulting in photographs that are not so readily consumable. In her piece from the series Nami, Kelly Kleinschrodt re-photographs images of waves, engaging with the photographic surface while simultaneously denying the viewers’ ability to dismiss its status as a reproduction. Also joining this conversation: Alison J Carr, Gilda Davidian, Elyse Graham, Greg Hayes, Alexis Hudgins, Ivan Iannoli, Ian James, Laura Kim, Sidonie Loiseleux, Lakshmi Luthra, Joanne Mitchell, Job Piston, Maria Schriber, Katie Shapiro, April Totten, Lindsay Tunkl, and Katrina Umber.

The event goes from 4pm  to 10pm.  Please join and help out this worthy cause!

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For more info, visit The Niapale Project (http://www.theniapeleproject.org) and Voices for Umoja (http://www.voicesforumoja.org).

via EM Staff, 13 November 2009 1:59pm | |