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On Second Friday in August, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend and Photo Never Taken), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Michelle Dove, Laura Jaramillo, Chanelle A. Bergeron and Minori Sanchiz-Fung (who has a solo show of painting at Slug Space at Attic 506 currently).
On view on the walls of The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill starting July 9 through September 4, digital collage prints by Marc Kennedy. Marc is an artist & musician living in Burlington, NC. We have Marc’s latest book self-published in the Summer of 2021, Big Crunch, in store. It is a lyric book illustrated with digital collage for his solo music project, Crumb Catcher. We also have Marc’s zine, Greasy Gambit in store.
On Second Friday in June, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Mark He, Susannah Simpson, Ian Lockey, Marta Núñez Pouzols, Dylan Angell.
Debuting this second Friday of March (March 12 6-9pm) at our space at Attic 506 : Two mixed media works by artist Skully Gustafson ‘Ride on Butterfly’ and ‘Connectors’ which both appear in The Concern magazine issue 3, out now. These works will be up through the end of April.
Skully is currently based in Chapel Hill.
“My current work is centered on paintings that mix figuration and abstraction as a way to represent identity and the fluctuation of the self. I juxtapose images, symbols, and figures to show the way individuals are influenced, fortified, or defined by meanings outside themselves. The identities in the work shift from ideas of public presentation and private constructions, the way an individual is many different and overlapping people and performs, distorts, and shifts between personas.” - Skully Gustafson
The Concern Newsstand will be participating in Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair in 2021 with a ‘virtual booth’: theconcernnewsstand.pmvabf.org
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair
February 24–28, 2021
Opening, Wednesday, February 24
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, will take place on February 24–28, 2021 (Opening February 24).
Since the first NY Art Book Fair in 2005, Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs have been among the leading international gatherings for fostering the distribution, understanding, and celebration of artists’ books and art related publishing. In 2021, the NY Art Book Fair and LA Art Book Fair will be produced as a combined online event—Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair—safely bringing the artists’ book community together for a fun and experimental new Fair.
On view at The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506, starting Friday, November 13, with 2nd Friday opening reception from 6-9pm
‘This is America’ 2018 (metal staples on cotton & bulletproof vest panel) artwork by Sasha Huber, 15.3 x 18.3 x 1.7 inch, Series 1: Edition 1/6
This work was exhibited in “Healing Garden” exhibition at the Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art in 2019 and was also featured in The Concern, a magazine, issue 2, 2019/20.
UNC LSP presents:
‘poetry books in the age of corona: a conversation’ (with emilio taiveaho peláez, josé felipe alvergue & orvokki crosby). The discussion will include reading from ‘landskips,’ a new book of poetry by emilio taiveaho peláez, available soon through our store.
30 september 2020, 5pm eastern time live on zoom
email or message for zoom link
Now accepting submissions for The Concern. a magazine issue 3. Email hi res jpegs or pdfs of image based work, word docs (preferred) of text based work to: theconcernnewsstand (@) gmail by October 1, 2020. The magazine will be 8.5” x 11” in size.
This year has proven our concerns are through the roof, there are too many to count. What are you concerned about, it can be a societal issue, a personal issue, small, big, general, detailed? It is open ended.
Submissions will be curated into the magazine; unfortunately not all will be able to make it. Those who have a piece in the final issue, will receive a free copy mailed to them, plus a generous discount on multiple copies.
See Issue 2 for more details.
Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
Opening Reception: Sunday February 16th, 3-5
On view February 16 - March 29, 2020
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm & by appt
LABspace
2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY
Please join us for this journey through artist-run spaces of Chapel Hill and Raleigh NC, Chattanooga and Nashville TN... with a detour through Charlottesville VA!
We’ve (Curators: Julie Torres & Ellen Letcher) culled this show from our visits with artists who have founded and/or run uniquely situated and inventively programmed labors of love, exhibiting the work of fellow artists in attics, basements, sheds, faculty offices, former meat packing plants... and traditional white boxes, too.
Also on view are works from Drawing and Painting majors at the University of TN, Chattanooga who we met through Christina Renfer Vogel’s curatorial project Office Space, in which Vogel installs exhibitions in her faculty office and hallways. This initiative has inspired her students to devise their own artist-run projects and plans, so we’ve jumped at the chance to fan those flames.
LABspace was founded by artist Susan Jennings in 2014, and we took the reins in 2018. We met SJ in 2015 at DIY anti-fair ARTIST-RUN at Satellite Art Show in Miami (curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid). Without TSA’s ARTIST-RUN project, we would not have met SJ or her wonderful space, which is now our curatorial home. We are so indebted to our own local community of artists who show, promote, and support fellow artists. Please come celebrate this necessary and enduring tradition!
Space Case at LABspace
UNIVERSITY OF TN, CHATTANOOGA:
Christina Renfer Vogel
Amanda Nolan Booker
Larkin Cook
Claudia Hoffer
Caitlin Kelley
Shannon McAllister
Hilary McWilliams
Dionna Moore
Victoria Sauer
Olivia Tawzer
Summer Tomes
VERSA, CHATTANOOGA:
Mirel Crumb
Dana Ortega
Chloë Shupe
Stephanie Loggans
Dylan Pew
Kirby Miles
STOVE WORKS, CHATTANOOGA:
Mike Calway-Fagen
LOG, CHAPEL HILL:
Maria Britton
April Childers
MY ROOM, CHAPEL HILL//LUMP, RALEIGH:
Amanda Barr
John Bowman
DRAWING ROOM/LUMP, RALEIGH:
Bill Thelen
ACID RAIN, CHAPEL HILL:
Jerstin Crosby
THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND, RALEIGH & CHAPEL HILL:
Orvokki Crosby
BASEMENT, CHAPEL HILL:
Laura Little
Mike Keaveney
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Chieko Murasugi
John DeKemper II
ONEONEONE, CHAPEL HILL/GUTTER BOX, RALEIGH:
Louis Watts
LUMP/THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND VOLUNTEER:
Critter
UNREQUITED LEISURE, NASHVILLE:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
Clinton Sleeper
ELECTRIC SHED, NASHVILLE:
David Onri Anderson
DADU, NASHVILLE:
Jodi Hays
DAVID LUSK GALLERY, NASHVILLE:
Ameila Briggs
MITTEN, HARRISONBURG VA/FORMER TEAM LUMP, RALEIGH/CURRENTLY CHARLOTTESVILLE VA:
Allyson Mellberg Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Taking part in the Mini Printed Matter Fest at Supergraphic’s new warehouse space in Durham (see address on flyer) on Thursday, December 19, 6-8:30pm. Other participants include Matthew Tauch & Utilities Included.
Join us December 8 for Art Basil, a Holiday Bazaar at Attic 506 (506 W. Franklin Street, 2nd floor), 4-7pm!
Get some holiday shopping done-> locally made art, crafts, ceramics, cards (Max Huffman, Amanda Barr, Jerstin Crosby, Lindsay Metivier, Vanessa Murray), vintage clothing (Dress Kit Vintage) and books & magazines courtesy of us. Flyer below by Max Huffman, whose comics we sell in store.
I will be teaching a Zine Making Workshop on Saturday, November 23, 2-4pm in conjunction with Duke Create. Free for Duke students & staff, it will take place in the Makerspace at the Rubinstein Arts Center.
In the course, we will look at a collection of zines from the past & present and then create a zine together, which will be available for pick up at a later date.
We will be tabling at Zine Machine, Durham’s Printed Matter Festival on Sunday, October 13, 11am- 6pm. It will take place at the Durham Armory, 212 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701.
Come by!
On Saturday, July 13, 2-4pm we will set up some thematic publications for the exhibit ‘Healing Garden’ at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island.
“Healing Garden explores living-memory of a botanical garden located within isolated megacity proximity. It features artist contributions examining the dynamics of urban sustainability and its metaphoric relationship to the human condition. This group exhibition features the work of Remedies Universe (Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko) and Aukea Collective (Eveliina Hämäläinen & Petri Saarikko), international artists based in Helsinki, Finland and The Concern (Orvokki Crosby) contributing with thematic publications during the opening.”
The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art is open Thurs- Fri 12 -7, Sat-Sun 11-5
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden: 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301
We are now taking submissions for The Concern. A Magazine, issue 2, which will be published this fall. Unlike issue 1, which was entirely black and white, xerox printed, this 2nd issue will allow for color pages, but still printed with a DIY touch. We are looking for submissions that relate to being concerned about something, it could be anything. It could take the form of writing (poetry, articles, short stories) or artwork (drawing, collage, video stills, photography, etc). Though we can’t say we will accept all submissions, as a curated bookstore, this magazine will also be a curated collection. Please submit something to theconcernnewsstand (a) gmail, by September 15. Thank you!
We will take part in SEEK Raleigh on Saturday, June 1, 3-8pm at Dorothea Dix Park. Our location will be a container on Blair Drive within the park.
SEEK Raleigh is a temporary public art program that engages artists to use unique, non-traditional interiors, structures, and outdoor spaces for site-specific, performative, and participatory installations and experiences. These temporary, experimental projects are designed to introduce the public to new, diverse, and thought-provoking experiences as well as create opportunities for artists to extend their creative practice. Through these experiences, both the artist and the community will find novel ways to learn and share the stories of our City.
We will take part in the Richmond Book Art Fair at Studio Two Three on Friday, April 19 (ticketed preview) 7-10pm and for the main event Saturday, April 20, 10-5pm.
"The Richmond Book Art Fair culminates in a day-long fair featuring artists’ book makers, zine makers, and independent publishers. The theme of the 2019 Richmond Book Art Fair is Power of the Press, highlighting the power of the book, printing and publishing to tell previously untold narratives and highlight marginalized voices in our community. The role of the press is at the forefront of our civic dialogue, and this event empowers community members to harness the power of the press and highlight the capacity of individual citizens to create and process media."
LUMP SUM BENEFIT
Friday, April 5, 6-9pm
LUMP, 505 S. Blount St. Raleigh, NC 27601
Free, no ticket required
100% of proceeds go to LUMP
Lump’s first fundraising benefit, titled LUMP SUM, will occur Friday, April 5, from 6-9. The benefit includes a silent auction of over 72 original artworks, performances by Crowmeat Bob, Dan Melchior, and Jasmyn Milan, a memory capturing installation by Mollie Earls. Moon By Moon Apothecary (Chanelle A. Bergeron) will be providing herbal tonics and elixirs. The first issue of the Blount Force Magazine will be released as well! All this while DJ Gallimaufry helps guide us through the evening’s events.
Took part in the 1st Annual Comics Life Event in Greensboro, NC this past weekend. It took place at WAM Rev Gallery at the historic Revolution Mill, a former textile mill building. I was also part of a panel discussion “Stepping Into the World of Zines and Memoir” with Critic Rob Clough.
Attic 506 (new name for the Art Studios at 506A W. Franklin Street, 2nd floor)
open for 2nd Friday Art Walk in Chapel Hill:
March 8, 6-9pm
Featuring:
A hallway show by Brenda Goldstein (Durham) showing a series that explores her relation to space, color and light rendered in architectonic lines and curves in acrylic pencil & crayon.
Sourcing imagery from production sets, kitsch crafts, and prop designs, April Childers will present new paintings and sculptures in a show titled ‘Precious Moment’ at ‘My Room,’ Amanda Barr’s rotating exhibition space. Combining the principle of the carrot and the stick with gentle notions of instructional painting, mouse excrement and chintzy object references, the exhibition will be displayed as a ‘looping still’, taken from a narrative cycle involving authority and the rumination of it.
The Concern Newsstand run by Orvokki Crosby (Chapel Hill) open with new artist publications in store, plus video with original music by Clark Blomquist (Carrboro) of Tegucigalpan on display and a new publication by him called ‘Instant Ham’.
The debut of Jerstin Crosby (Chapel Hill) sharing a studio with Vanessa Murray (Carrboro). Jerstin will be showing his current work with sculpture, as well as video art by David Colagiovanni (Athen, OH) from Jerstin’s long running cable access video art show, Acid Rain. Vanessa will be showing painting & mixed media work from the past & present.
Lindsay Metivier (Carrboro) will have her photo studio open. In her space will also be a table ocomix collective The Weakly Group founders Max Huffman (Carrboro) & Andrew Alexander (NY). They will be selling comics, zines, prints & stickers.
Precious Moment- April Childers
Brenda Goldstein