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New Views: Exploring Nostalgia through Photography Wednesday, February 25, 2009
CreateHere is excited to unveil New Views, a gallery exhibit featuring work by MakeWork grant recipients Dana Shavin and Daryl Thetford. The show explores the theme of nostalgia—both public and private—through pieces based in photography.
Shavin, a writer and mixed-media artist, exhibits pieces from A Better House. In this series, Shavin combines original text with photo transparencies to discuss the idea of “home” and the significance of physicality in our private lives.
Thetford, a photographer, displays collage images that combine vintage signage and Americana relics. These pieces combine objects that, though they may have lost their cultural familiarity over time, serve as entry points into a public nostalgia and help rewrite our collective sense of history.
CreateHere will host a gallery reception for New Views on Thursday, March 12, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The event will feature a cocktail hour and an open mic venue.
In exploring the theme of shared history—and the revision thereof—CreateHere asks participants to forget everything they know about open mic night. Filmmakers and visual artists are encouraged to attend, in addition to poets, storytellers and musicians. Rethink what it means to share.
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Celebrate ChattanoogaWorks: Photo Scavenger Hunt from 6 to 7 pm Friday, February 20, 2009
Tonight, CreateHere hosts the launch party for ChattanoogaWorks, a photography campaign to get you talking about the people and places that make this town tick. We’ll be sending droves of Chattanoogans out to document their community during an hour-long photography scavenger hunt.
Here’s how it works: We’ll give you a list of 10 adjectives, and then we pass the creative reins over to you and your digital camera. Think the new Warehouse Row sign is “Transcendent.” And who could blame you, really? Nab a photo, and bring it back to the CreateHere Studio, where we’ll showcase the results over local foods and tunes from DJ k[7].
A little birdie told us you might want to marinate on those adjectives. But if anyone asks, we didn’t tell you…
bright | palatable | stellar | effervescent | communal | tragic | cryptic | glitzy | raucous | crisp | lucky
ChattanoogaWorks Launch Party
CreateHere Studios
55 E Main Street
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ChattanoogaWorks Launch Party | Friday 2.20.09 Sunday, February 15, 2009
Join CreateHere for the launch of ChattanoogaWorks on Friday, February 20, 2009, from 6 to 9 pm at CreateHere’s 55 E. Main Studio.
ChattanoogaWorks is an on-going campaign to elicit city love from residents. This photography campaign features user-submitted images in an online gallery and celebrates our city, from many flattering angles. Amateur and professional photography is welcome in this showcase project: we’ll feature cell phone submissions next to digital SLR shots.
The event begins with a Chattanooga photo scavenger hunt from 6 to 7 pm. Bring a digital camera, and be ready to show us how Chattanooga works.
The evening continues at CreateHere, where we’ll showcase the results of the scavenger hunt, serve favorite staples from local eateries, and groove to music from DJ k[7].
Next Friday’s party kicks it all off, but ChattanoogaWorks will accept submissions throughout the coming months. This is a way to celebrate all that Chattanooga is right now, and what it means to be a “local” today.
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CreateHere Video Series: Celebrating Chattanooga Doers Thursday, February 12, 2009
CreateHere is made up of many, many people. In an effort to capture and share our stories—your stories, really—we’ve taken it upon ourselves to record testimonials from different programs. We’re looking for SpringBoard participants, MakeWork recipients, LeadHere fellows, merry Mainx24ers, gallery exhibitors and ArtsMove artists, like Lisa Cutler.
Lisa, a purse designer and one of many Fort Negley All Stars, sat down to talk with us about her work, her home and what the ArtsMove program means to her.
Know someone you’d like us to talk to? Shoot an email suggestion to Veronique Bergeron, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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George T. Hunter Lecture Series presents John Merrow Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Join the Benwood Foundation, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, and CreateHere for a lecture by John Merrow, education correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Mr. Merrow is an accomplished writer and op-ed contributor to numerous newspapers including USA Today, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. This is the second lecture in the 2009 George T. Hunter Lecture Series.
A life-long educator, Mr. Merrow has taught at the junior high, high school, college, and graduate level. He is founder and president of Learning Matters, a non-profit, award-winning production company focused on producing outstanding reporting about American education.
Mr. Merrow will speak in Chattanooga about his observations regarding the progress of public education in the United States.
The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall located inside the Fine Arts Center on the UTC campus. All lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Directions and more information on the George T. Hunter Lecture Series are available at www.benwood.org.
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