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Photos taken by disposable cameras over the course of 9 months by girls ages 12-20, who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking, will be on display at RUSH arts gallery in chelsea.
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to empower young women, ages 12-21 years, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and violence to exit unsafe and abusive lifestyles and to develop their full potential. GEMS provides young women with empathetic, consistent support and viable opportunities for positive change.
Opening Exhibition: January 24th, 6-8
@ RUSH arts gallery: 526 West 26th Street, Suite 311
http://gems-girls.org
Inspired by an eclectic combination of subjects, such as urban archeology, circus processions and open-scripted and collaborative filmmaking processes, the exhibition of Little & Furgason at Art in General includes sculptures created from materials drawn from local buildings under construction. With these assisted ready-mades, this artists-duo reconfigure the gallery into a theatrical stage—a construction of oddities where actors perform during the exhibition period.
January 26th, 2008
@ Art in General: 79 Walker Street 6th Floor Gallery
http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/436 | http://www.johnfurgason.com
What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today? On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenge you to design a new residence for the world's most powerful individual. The best ideas, designs, descriptions, images, and videos will be selected by some of the world's most distinguished designers and critics and featured in a month-long exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture in July 2008. All three winners will be flown to New York to collect their prizes at the opening party. Register now and send us your ideas for the Presidential Palace of the future!
JURY
Stefano Boeri (Editor-in-chief, Abitare magazine, Milan)
Beatriz Colomina (Director of the Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University)
Liz Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York)
John Maeda (President Elect, Rhode Island School of Design RISD)
Geoff Manaugh (BLDGblog and Dwell magazine, San Francisco)
Mark Wigley (Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University)
Laetitia Wolff (Editorial director, Surface magazine, New York)
PRIZES
The best competition entries from around the world will be exhibited in the Storefront Gallery (New York) in July 2008, and in a special page on the gallery's website. They will also be published in Surface magazine. The authors of the three best projects, as chosen by the jury, will be flown to New York and given three day's free accommodation in The White House Hotel on the Bowery.
First Prize $5,000
Second Prize $3,000
Third Prize $1,500
TIMELINE
January 15, 2008 Competition launched
March 1, 2008 Online submissions accepted
April 20, 2008 Registration and submissions deadline
May 2008 Jury selects winners
May 2008 Winners announced
July 2008 Exhibition and prizegiving at Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
SPONSORS: The Architect's Newspaper + NRI + SURFACE
www.whitehousredux.org
