What’s Your Elephant Art Exhibit to Opens with Compelling Art and Performances

Opening Night + Performance: Saturday, August 18th | 1310 Gallery | 6pm-10pm

Artist Niki Lopez will be curating her 10th Annual Art Show at Fort Lauderdale’s 1310 Gallery. She was recently featured on the People Magazine Investigates: Cults series on the Investigation Discovery channel. There, Lopez shared her story of being raised in an abusive cult that thrived on secrecy, until she and other survivors broke their silence, which ultimately brought down the cult and its leader.

This experience inspired her to create a space in her art to share her “elephant” (an obvious truth that is being ignored or otherwise unaddressed) and to passionately provide opportunities for others to do the same. What’s Your Elephant uses a combination of art exhibits, interactive installations, and workshops to provoke and facilitate discussions unveiling issues like gender, discrimination, and abuse.

Visual Artists:

• Adewale Adenle
• Artists for Black Lives Matter #a4blm
• Cathleen Dean
• Cindy Shaw
• Jodi Stoner
• Kristin Beck
• Mary Catello
• Naomi Lauren Ross
• Natalya Kochak – Niki Lopez
• Rene Gordon
• Robbi Potter
• Stonewall National Museum & Archives (COMMUNITY PARTNER
• Susan Buzzi
• Tabatha Mudra
• Talora Michaels
• Teepop
• Tina La Porta
• Victoria Sheridan
• #whatsyourelephant workshop artwork
• Wilbert Simpson

Attendees are invited to participate with an interactive installation to share their “elephant.” Lopez will also host a “What’s Your Elephant” workshop at the location of this exhibition’s community partner – Stonewall National Museum & Archives on Thursday, August 2, 2018.Participants will use creative arts in a safe space to reveal individual or societal “elephants” impacting their lives. “It’s about acknowledging it [the elephant] owning it, so that it doesn’t define you,” says Lopez.

Admission is free and open to the public. This exhibition presents materials of a sensitive nature. Viewer discretion is advised.

Opening night will be hosted by poet Rachel ‘Flow Diva’ Finely and include performances byInez Barlatier,Venus Rising, Mystic Mantra Band, May Reign, Dillon, Morgyn Danae, G. Winston James, Charnell Richards and Chelsea Ward. Music DJ Bumi.

Sponsors: AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Niki Lopez Creative, 1310 Bandits Collective, Very GTV, Panku Literary and Arts Magazine, TBA, and the 1310 Gallery.

For more info on the arts project: http://nikiartstudio.com/whats-your-elephant/

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and from the Community Foundation of Broward: Fonda, and H. Wayne Huizenga, Jr. Family Trust Fund, Gary J. Scotto Fun and Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund

Sponsor:

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

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2018 Community Partner:

Stonewall National Museum & Archives: Stonewall, our 2018 Community Partner, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(3) that promotes understanding through preserving and sharing the proud culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their significant role in society.

Exhibition: August 18 – September 29th, 2018

Dates:

• August 2  – What’s Your Elephant workshop at Stonewall National Museum & Archives
• August 18  – What’s Your Elephant – Opening night & performance
• Sept 6 – Ignite Women South Florida / 1310 Bandits Short Film Screening
• Sept 18  – Artists Co-Lab Music Mixer
• Sept 29  – Artists Talk / Open Mic Closing

This exhibition contains materials of a sensitive nature that may be offensive to some viewers and may not be appropriate for children.

July 15th, is the main night that includes a line-up of performance artist and a feature performance by Venus Rising! 

25% of ALL PROCEEDS OF PIECES PURCHASED IN THE MAIN GALLERY GO DIRECTLY TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY!

The 1310 Gallery, Sailboatbend Artist Lofts is happy to announce that we will be having a food truck on site for the true heART SHOW PART 1! Come out next Saturday, September 26th from 7:00PM – 10:00PM and taste some of the delicious, mouth watering delectable bites from the Everglades Food Shack! Here’s their menu and always expect some new surprises! https://www.facebook.com/events/375435302647727/

 

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The 1310 Gallery is joining forces with 2 creative giants, ArtServe and MAC Fine Art to continue to showcase some of the most talented artists in South Florida. Please mark your calendars and prepare to enjoy a wonderful evening of art and music sure to inspire. I wonder what new beginnings will emerge for you after attending…

ARTISTS
Jamie Caceres
Tatiana Cast
Gianna DiBartolomeo
Ivar Fandel
Joao Paulo Goncalves
Maxim Lipzer
Leonardo Montoya
Adam Collier Noel
Mary Pohlmann​
Don Sheffield
James E. Swarthout
Anna Visnitskaya​
Amanda Walling Art​

OPEN ARTIST STUDIOS
Christine Velez Stone​
Jeremiah Jenner​
Barry Gross​
David I. Muir​
Sonia Baez-Hernandez​
Philip Curtis​
Niko Yulis​
Josafat Miranda Studio​

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES by:
Shade Aaronberg
Dana DellaCamera
Colleen Armuelles​

Sponsored by: The Satori, The Edge, The Chimney House, ArtServe, MAC Fine Art

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A resident artist of Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, Alana DaCosta is a creative rebel. Alana has not received any formal training in visual arts. However, she continues to think out of the box and uses many mediums to share her creative talents. An artist activist, vocalist, musician, and poet whose distinctive sound extends beyond boundaries as she blends neo-soul with reggae, jazz, and a drop of funk. Alana has performed throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. “My music and art will touch the minds, hearts and souls of people across the world, and will increase

one’s motivation for self-discovery, collective consciousness of one’s purpose, and the desire to live life freely, without regrets.” says Alana, who also has a M.S. in Mental Health Counseling and understands the healing power of the arts. With the drive and passion felt in her music and community art initiatives, there is no doubt, that Alana DaCosta is destined to leave her own mark in our world and make her artistic mission.

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Dates:

• July 18th – Opening Night + Performance

• July 25th – Drink & Draw More info TBA, Artwalk w/Free trolley service.
• July 29th – Panel discussion #What’s Your Elephant.

• August 5th- COMMUNITY OUTREACH -TBA
• August 7th – Thou Art Women – LGBT Poetry Night

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

Sideways Confections – SidewaysConfections.com

Health Rush – http://www.myhealthrush.com

JLPR –  https://www.facebook.com/JLPRInc

Zen Bartender – https://www.facebook.com/ZenBartending

Images by Xio – https://www.facebook.com/X.meza.the.artist

Niki Lopez Creative – https://www.nikilopez.com

“Instead of our audience being disconnected observers, documenting bits and pieces with their phones, we invite them to dive into the event with things to touch, taste, see, smell and hear – during our ‘Here and Now,’ from 8 PM to 9 PM,” says Street. “Take a one-hour tech vacation.”

Featuring:
Art
Music
Performance
Site-specific Installation

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Through visual art, music, interior design and site-specific performance, The Sacred Here aims to be a playful, yet powerful event; it is the moment when our belief in the great potential of our community becomes reality. Presenters and collaborators also include photographer and filmmaker Cathleen Dean, illustrator Maru, writer P.L. Como, teaching artist and DJ Rich Ejire, photographer Ayanna Muata, textile artist Laraia Dean, writer Tresa Chambers and choreographer Petagay Letren.

This official Broward 100 event is cohosted by Donnet Bruce of Nubian Oasis, and Jacqueline Romano, community activist. As part of the goal in engaging all of the audience’s senses, green sanctuary spaces will be featured throughout the building, created by Fortner’s Garden. The beverage sponsor is Jardesca, a new Sonoma-crafted aperitiva inspired by the vineyards and gardens of California – a feast for the senses in itself. The doors open at 7 PM, and guests are invited to enjoy the atmosphere up until 10 PM. There will also be a free trolley to the Downtown FAT Arts Village.

“Unlike other exhibitions, this isn’t about you wandering from one artist’s wall to another,” says Laraia Dean, another artist. “It’s a journey, like a story, with a beginning, middle and end. It begins as soon as you walk through the doors.”

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grand opening of Ubuntu featuring works of Nzingah at 1310 Gallery. During the reception there will be a dance and poetry workshop, in addition to several open studios from several artists in residence at Sailboat Bend Artist Loft. Whole Foods will also be sampling Ubuntu coffee. The opening coincides with art

walk at Fat Village and there will be a Trolley traveling back and forth from FAT Village and 1310 Gallery.

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EVENT SCHEDULE FOR UBUNTU

4/28/15 Find Your Flow Yoga 6:30-7:30 p.m.
4/29/15 Vision Board Workshop 6:30-8:30 p.m.
5/5/15 Find Your Flow Yoga
5/8/15 Nzingah Designs Rasin Collection
5/10/15 Closing

and Pop Up Shop 12:00-6:00pm

Biography

Nzingah Oniwosan is an award winning visual artist, jewelry designer, classically trained pianist, published poet, and up and coming African and Haitian folklore dancer. She has been a full time teaching artist for the past 10 years, which has allowed her to work with well over 20,000 students. During this time, Nzingah has the fortunate opportunity to work with organizations like VSA Arts FL, Center Creative Education, Coral Springs Museum, Miami Children’s Museum, as well as Young Audiences in Baltimore, to name a few. Her work has been noted in periodicals like the Sun Sentinel (2006/2007), Essence Magazine (2014) and Art & Culture Magazine (Fall 2006). Nzingah’s most recent accolades include: a grant in 2010 to exhibit the “Sankofa Experience” and in 2009 to exhibit “Un-murdered,”being named 2008 artist of the year by the Links Incorporated, and placing first in several juried exhibits. She is currently an artist-in-resident for Broward County School Board, as well as, Old Dillard Museum. Nzingah’s a certified level 1 Art Clay instructor and will be a senior Instructor Summer 2015. Outside of being a creative, Nzingah is a raw foods chef and a 200 hr registered yoga instructor.

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Friday / April 25th, 2014 / 2:00pm
BC North Campus Ceramics Studio
1000 Coconut Creek Pkwy. (Bldg.50 Room 125)
Coconut Creek, FL 33066

Join the Broward College North Campus Fine Arts Dept. for a free afternoon workshop and one on one, hands-on experience with artist Amy Gross. Gross will guide you in creating your own embroidered nature collage and will assist you in quickly learning sewing, embroidery and beadwork skills.

Friday / February 21st, 2014 / 2:00pm
BC North Campus Ceramics Studio
1000 Coconut Creek Pkwy. (Bldg.50 Room 125)
Coconut Creek, FL 33066

Join us for a free workshop with artist Taylor Pilote and learn how to make molds with plaster and high-detail capturing alginate. Pilote will walk participants through the molding process and discuss his personal molding and sculpting techniques often beginning with plaster and alginate and ending with bronze and fiberglass. After receiving his MFA from the University of South Florida Pilote has worked and exhibited throughout the U.S., Canada and Paris. Employing the visual language of automotive exteriors he attempts to conjure a variety of reactions to his materials and subject matter simultaneously as difficult or farcical issues are presented in a slick, seductive manner.
Broward College’s North Campus expands upon its inaugural 2012 / 2013 Artist Talk series with a new line-up of some of South Florida’s most groundbreaking, local and internationally acclaimed artists visual artists. Each of the up and coming and internationally renowned artists involved will present the diverse concepts and aesthetics within their respective bodies of work and direct a hands-on workshop the following night to further allow the public to experience and learn from their artistic processes.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC