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SUMMARY:2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Flyer made by Cayla Lockwood using “Jeviwear” prints by Jevijoe Vitug\nFLUX FACTORY FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION\nJanuary 12 – February 14\n \nVISIT THE EXHIBITION HERE \nRegister for the Virtual Gala Feb 10th\, 7pm EST \nIn place of our Annual Art Auction\, which would now be in its 14th year\, we are hosting a digital Fundraising Exhibition and Virtual Gala.  \nYou can now support Flux Factory by buying one of over 40 artworks between $40 and $1900. Add some beauty to your home\, and help Flux Factory continue to be a center of community and experimentation. While it may be awhile before we’re eating and dancing together in the Flux gallery\, with your support\, we can dance together into the future.  \nThe Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition features stunning works by both emerging and established contemporary artists working today: \nSmokie Arce | Amir Badawi | Allen Ball | Chris Bogia | Jeanne Brasile | Deric Carner | Bill Carroll | Kerry Cox | Danny Crump | Sarah Dahlinger | Mark Dion | Ayana Evans | Flux Factory Collective | Guido Garaycochea | Jesse Harrod | Kohlman Harshbarger | Wieteke Heldens | Pablo Helguera | Lexy Ho Tai | Nung-Hsin Hu | Invader | Melissa Joseph | Aya Kakeda | Vaidehi Kinkhabwala | Tina Kohlmann |  Tzu-Huan Lin | Cayla Lockwood | Heather Lynn Johnson | Jemila MacEwan | Lily Moebes | Natalia Nakazawa | Kira Nam Greene | Will Owen | Jorge Palacios | Caroline Partamian | Alex Schechter | Eleanor Scholz | Tod Seelie | Ward Shelley | Alisa Sikelianos-Carter | Jonathan Sims | Swoon | Talajoon | Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos | Winnie van der Rijn | Jevijoe Vitug | Jaimie Warren | Beatrice Wolert | Amia Yokoyama | Jade Yumang \n\nFLUX FACTORY VIRTUAL GALA\nFebruary 10\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon registration \nThe Virtual Gala will include one hour of programming\, followed by 30 minutes of music by long-time Flux DJ\, Vinyl Richie. \nWe will be honoring two people whose work epitomizes Flux Factory’s values and goals: Queens community activist Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston and Visual Artist Saya Woolfalk. \nThe event will also include a conversation about art and an ever changing NYC with Saya Woolfalk and Flux Factory Board Member Natalia Nakazawa\, as well as featured artworks from the Fundraising Exhibition\, a raffle and more. \nImage Description: On black\, bold sans serif font reads: Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition. 1.12 – 2.14 2021. The front of the letters are a very light lilac and fade into a colorful mottling textures of purples\, blues\, pinks and flashes of orange. 
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SUMMARY:The Gift in the Wound
DESCRIPTION:Quarantine Day 121\, 2020 by Megan Bent\nThe Gift in the Wound \nJanuary 29 – February 7\nCurated by Noah Phillips \nGallery Hours*: 1-6 PM EST on Saturday\, January 30 & February 6\nOr by appointment\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nDownload the Catalog Here \nArtist Talk and virtual exhibition\nFriday\, January 29\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon registration\nOn Friday\, January 29th @ 7pm EST\, join curator Noah Phillips for a live\, virtual celebration of resilience with the exhibiting artists. We will discuss their creative processes\, their work\, and the personal journeys that led them each to face\, and learn from\, their individual challenges. Although our wounds may be unique\, the gifts are collective. Our artists have lived to tell the tale—come listen!⁣ \n“Without the weight given by a wound consciously realized\, [one] will lead a provisional life.” — Robert Bly \n\nParticipating Artists \nMegan Bent || Aloe Corry || Betty Eastland || Valeria Haedo || Angela Rogers || Jonathon Sims || Ellen Wetmore \nThe Gift In The Wound highlights the work of artists who have confronted their fears\, traumas\, and shadows\, and emerged on the other side with unexpected insights\, treasures\, and talents to share with and enrich their communities. The wounds explored vary from the physical to the emotional to the spiritual\, and the media from paint\, fabric\, glass\, and beyond. Each work celebrates an enduring process of transformation reflected in nature\, in myth\, and in our bodies. \nThe Gift in the Wound is Noah Phillips‘ curatorial debut. Before beginning his residency at Flux Factory\, where his work has focused on the intersections of folk ritual and innovative understandings of psychological “plurality\,” Noah was working as a Peer Specialist in the New York City’s public mental health system. He is also a Licensed Master of Social Work and an organizer with the Institute for the Development of Human Arts\, a training institute for transformative models of mental health. \n*The exhibition will take place at Flux Factory’s Garage Bay Gallery. In response to COVID-19\, all visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
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SUMMARY:2021 Flux Factory Virtual Gala
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nZoom link is sent upon registration.\nFree to attend! \nFlux Factory invites you to join us on February 10th @ 7pm EST\, to celebrate our amazing community and to mark the completion of our Fundraising Exhibition. \nWe are thrilled to announce this year’s Honorees – Saya Woolfalk and Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston. Suga Ray and Saya will join us for the Gala and Saya will speak to Flux Factory Board Member and visual artist Natalia Nakazawa about their time as emerging artists in a changing New York. \nThe event will run one hour with the participation of Fluxers all around the world and includes hot news about the future of Flux Factory\, a raffle and more. It will be followed by 30 minutes of music by longtime Flux DJ Vinyl Richie. \n\n2021 Honorees\n \n\nSaya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.  She has exhibited at museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces throughout Asia\, Europe and the United States including numerous solo exhibitions and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY; the Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA.\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, among many others. \nWorks by the artist are in the collections of major institutions including\, among others\, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Mead Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Woolfalk is the recipient of numerous honors\, awards\, and commissions. She has delivered numerous public lectures at museums and universities throughout the United States. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects\, New York and teaches in MFA program at Yale School of Art as well as in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons: The New School for Design. \n\n\n\nLashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, born on March 14th\, 1984\, would endure a lifetime worth of pain by the time he was only 20 years of age; including losing his dad and oldest sister to cancer\, getting shot\, going to prison\, and witnessing friends killed by friends. Through a constant reflection of self and his surroundings\, he found his way since 2008 has been committed to assisting in the elevation of humanity and the liberation of all oppressed people. \nSince his transformation\, “Suga Ray” would go on to receive numerous honors and awards from high ranking government officials\, his peers\, and countless others he has worked with\, on various fronts\, from various parts of the World. None of that has changed him as he remains committed to the mission of healing our hurting world\, and thus gives much more than he receives. “Suga Ray” is a peace activist\, food activist\, spiritual guide\, community builder\, public speaker\, universal educator\, program developer\, writer\, artist\, humanitarian\, podcast host\, and Founder of Transform America\, a community based organization operating predominantly in Queensnbridge Houses.
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SUMMARY:Rhizome Voice: Speakers Series for Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Movement Not a Moment: Black Liberation Movements Through Time\nFebruary 12\, 7pm EST\n \nThe first of a three part series of the Rhizome Project’s speaker series for Black History Month\, Rhizome Voice is curated by Queens based artist and activist Trasonia Abbott. \nThe current uprising has given way to a multitude of new local liberation organizations started by young activists. To those young activists we pose some questions: How was this mobilization possible in such a short time? How were the current organizers influenced by previous movements? \nHow does this experience compare to movements of the past – we invite experienced (our elder) activists to join the conversation. What similarities to your own activist beginnings\, in spirit and drive and urgency\, do you feel from the latest iteration of the movement? \nJoin us for an honest conversation with organizers Nathylin Flowers Adesegun and Fayola Fair as they talk about their experiences\, influences and future goals. They will bridge the gap between the decades of the Black Liberation Movements within the United States\, connecting past movements to the current one with the hopes of rekindling victories and sharing tactics to keep the current movement alive. \nSPEAKERS \n\nNathylin Flowers Adesegun has been an activist\, an artist\, and a community leader for her entire life. She started organizing with the Scranton Youth Chapter of the NAACP\, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on Washington DC in 1963. Back then they were fighting for jobs\, justice\, and housing\, and she’s still fighting for jobs justice and housing. For the last 3 years\, Ms. Flowers has been a leader with VOCAL-NY fighting for a home for every New Yorker.  Although she is most famous for confronting the Mayor at the gym last year\, her role at VOCAL-NY goes much deeper. Flowers also helps organize and run meetings and actions\, as well as lobbies elected officials on at a local\, state and federal level. A brooklyn resident of over 35 years she is an active performer in the New York City theater\, tv\, and film scene. \n\nFayola Fair (she/they) is an educator\, curator\, activist and organizer from Jamaica\, Queens who works to center and uplift Blackness in all iterations. Fayola is an active member of the Queens community fridge network\, volunteering and organizing with the Jamaica Community Fridge. Fayola is also the creator and curator of the Reading for Black Lives Project and a part of South Queens Women’s March. Fayola hopes to follow in the footsteps of radical Black activists who dared to envision a new world. \n\n\nThe State of Black Art in and out of The Institution\nFebruary 19th 2021 7-8:30pm\n \nAt this moment we\, as Black artists find ourselves at a crossroads\, with the choice of deciding for ourselves where the center of gravity for Black Art is to be. High Art Society has its allure but it comes with implicit bias and it’s own deeply entrenched investments in the world wide oppression of BIPOC\, In this discussion\, we ponder our options: keep working within institutions that have the resources we require as artists but force us to play by the rules of our oppressors or forge a new path outside of it. \nJoin us for a conversation between two artists who will discuss working within Institutions and outside of them\, ruminating on the pros and cons of the two worlds and the freedoms that may lie within each. \nSPEAKERS \nJonell Joshua is an illustrator based in Brooklyn\, NY specializing in editorial illustration and animation. Jonell graduated from Pratt Institute in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications design majoring in Illustration. Soon after graduating\, Jonell started her career in package design while also working on freelance illustration projects. After leaving the package design industry Jonell transitioned to Higher Education\, working as the Assistant to the Chair in the Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute. There\, she works with\nstudents pursuing careers as Art Educators while continuing to freelance. Jonell’s work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration: International Motion Art Awards and has worked with clients such as The New York Times\, NPR\, Civilrights.org\, and The Washington Post. Her work can be found on www.jonelljoshua.com \n\n2020-2022 Threewalls RaDLOW fellow Felicia Holman is a native Chicagoan\, independent cultural producer/facilitator\, and a co-founder of Afrodiasporic feminist creative collective Honey Pot Performance. She is also a 2020-2021 Buddy Research and Performance resident artist and a member of the Co-Prosperity Programming Committee (CoPro ProCo). \nFelicia’s creative/ professional and social practices are firmly grounded in critical thought\, intersectionality\, community building and embodied storytelling. Her recent projects include commissioned performances for Illinois Humanities and the 5th annual Instigation Festival\, as well as written contributions at See Chicago Dance\, Performance Response Journal\, 6018North\, and The Quarantine Times (published by the Public Media Institute).  \nFelicia relishes her artrepreneurial life and sums it up in 3 words—“Creator\, Connector\, Conduit”. \n  \n\nCelebration of Black Life Cypher\nFebruary 26th 2021\, 7 – 9PM EST\n \nA night of rejoicing in Black resilience and artistry\, Flux Factory will be providing a platform for artists to come together to celebrate through art\, music and spoken word\, in an open mic / cypher hosted by Nonbinary Artist / Poet / Organizer\, Trasonia Abbott. \nThis cypher is open to Black artists of all creative backgrounds\, once signed up the artist will be given up to 5 minutes to show off the art of their choosing.   \n\nAll events are curated by Queens based artist and activist\, Trasonia Abbott.\nTrasonia is a Nonbinary Visual Artist / Poet / Community Organizer from Richmond\, Virginia. They graduated from Pratt Institute in 2020 with a BFA in Creative Writing and a minor in Film and soon after became one of the cofounders of Queens Liberation Project\, a mutual aid organization in West Queens.
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