In just a few short weeks, I'll be traveling to Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan to do some international printmaking work! But the main event will be at Breakin' the Law 3: Hong Kong. I'll be helping the Hong Kong B-girls and B-Boys print some of their original work, as well as distribute some new original designs of my own!
Very excited to go back to Japan as well to see my family and friends there. I have some video work I'll be projecting guerrilla style!
Hopefully I can make some fresh new connections for GrapevineINK while I'm there! Missing all my collaborators in the crew, but we'll be meeting up soon enough!
Word up,
Chanel
1.05.2012
Live Printmaking at Breakin the Law 3: Hong Kong
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Beyond Printmaking: Psila vs Queen Gidrea
GrapevineINK members and public artists Elena Stojanova and Chanel Matsunami Govreau's collaborative piece Godpsila vs Queen Gidrea will be exhibited at Beyond Printmaking III, at Texas Tech University in February 2012. The piece is a wheatpaste performance installation. They will be showing a video version of the work.
This is what we do...collaborate, make, distribute!
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Labels: graffiti, grapevineINK, mural, psila, public art, queen gidrea, women
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen Vol. 5
Check this out friends!
This is on the radar for GrapevineINK in New York!
We're working on a dope collaborative project to submit for this event involving printmaking, community, outreach and education. HIP HOP edition! So many of us in the crew are hip-hop related artists, so let's take it there!
Keep you updated!
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Labels: hip hop, print, printmakers, printmaking, screenprint, women
1.28.2011
Shani Peters: Tha Knowledge
For those of you who don't know, check it. This is the work of GrapevineINK member Shani Peters, one of my favorite people EVER. Artist, community activist, educator, very good friend and my sister virgo. We have the same birthday, and one day Janet Jackson WILL pass out goodie bags at our McDonald's Playland Bday Bash- With handprinted happymeal boxes that I nominate Tyanna Buie (another Grapevinette) to print. one day.These pictures are documentation from a performance print piece from this Fall 2010 called "We Promote Knowledge and Love" Anyone who knows Harlem knows those hardworkin' fellows in the Sandwich boards passing out the WE BUY GOLD! cards. As an artist in Harlem- Shani flipped it, challenged the passerbys to take a closer look.
Here's a print Shani did pre-performance. Pulled at the Lower East Side Print Shop where she worked as a key-holder resident artist!
Here's the card above.
Now hear Shani rep herself in her own words...check out the video
Shani Peters: History Rewritten from Under the Mush on Vimeo.
Shani Peters: History Rewritten from Under the Mush on Vimeo.
To learn more about Shani's work check out SHANIPETERS.COM
And this is a link to the original video post on underthemush.com
Here's more about Shani:
Shani Peters is a New York based artist (born in Lansing, MI) focusing in video, collage, printmaking, and social practice public projects. Peters completed her B.A. at Michigan State University and her M.F.A. at The City College of New York. She has exhibited and screened throughout New York, including group shows at Dash Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery, the International Print Center New York, and the Schomburg Center. She has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, and LMCC’s Swing Space and is currently participating in the Bronx Museum’s 2010-11 Artist in the Marketplace program and is a Keyholder resident at the Lower East Side Printshop. In addition to personal and public arts projects she works as a teaching artist with various community organizations –Shanipeters.com
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Story Keeper: Melanie Yazzie Upcoming Show
Our friend Melanie Yazzie has an upcoming show! Wish I could go!
Looking forward to more images~
Denver Botanic Gardens
Opening 2/9/11 5:30-8pm
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11.22.2010
What is up Grapevine!?!?!
This weekend I received Sharita's package of our collaborative print and it gave me the push to go ahead and dig up my password to this account so I can finally get to posting! Thanks so much for sending it Sharita and for having the fantastic idea to begin with!!
SO... I have wanted to share soooo many things with the Grapevine community over the last few months, I'm just going to try catching up with a few now...
WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO- In September and October enacted a new performance project that is oh so very grapevine in theme and form: community involvement, community uplift, and printmaking in the form of custom silkscreened sandwich boards! Fellow Grapeviner Elena Sto was an awesome project volunteer- love that collective support! I'm hoping to bring this project back next September on a bigger scale and I'll need even more collective support then, hopefully a few from the group will be in and around NYC then... In the mean time please check out the details of the project at http://shanipeters.com/index.php?/projects/we-promote/.
FILM RECOMMENDATION- I saw this a few weeks back and thought of the printmaking crew...
I highly recommend it! It's well shot, informative, and oddly inspiring as a printmaker.
READING RECOMENDATION- As I've discussed with a few of you ladies I'm researching for a forthcoming video project on the intersections of Native American and Black Americans in the U.S. I came across a dope essay by a dope young writer named Wendy Walters along the way and thought of the group again. It's discussion of identity, gender, representation, and performance is right up the Grapevine alley. Check Wendy and her essay (“After the Death of the Last: Performance as History in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots”) out!
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11.17.2010
GrapevineINK/Harlem Textile Works Re/Union
I was back in NYC for the weekend! This past Sunday at Harlem Textile Works, myself and GrapevineINK members (and fellow HTW teaching artists) Elena and Shani met up with our interns Denzell, Giselle and John for a day to catch up in the studio. My old friend Ged Palmer, a graphic designer and typographer from Bristol also stopped by.
After I took this picture of my old stack of screenprint inks, I show it to Giselle and she says, "It looks like you!" Indeed, a self portrait of sorts.
Ged showing Denzell some new Illustrator tricks.. "Chanel! Why didn't you show me pathfinder!!" Also schoolin' from one Jedi to another (we call Denzell our Harlem Jedi) about some serious typography. It was my secret ambition for these two young men to meet o(^-^)o
Definitely check out his work at GedPalmer.com. It was a pleasure Ged, thank you for stopping by!
Off Denzell's Sketch pad. Look deep, he constructed an entirely new alphabet/language.
Denzell's [monkey] 'King of Abels'. Can I get this printed on some gear please?
All about teamwork. Denzell helping Giselle out with her screen.
Queen Giselle getting busy in the inks. Now that I moved, she's takin' over the excessive use of hot pink that we all need in our lives. HTW (and I) thank you Giselle!
Fierce. Look at that face- John's designs here are getting some added color and sparkle on Illustrator. He's getting prepared for Design school applications.
OOOooh, check out these colors! Lookin' hot. Mmmmen's Wear!
Elena and I reunited!
Fam Fam FAM for life! Shani and I are birthday twins which explains a lot about how we became friends so fast. Virgo artists down to the last drop.
I'm so thankful that I have this community in my life. Combining community, arts, education, taking charge of what we need in our lives to keep making our work and ourselves.
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Labels: collective, Harlem, love, print, reunion, silk screen
11.09.2010
Upcoming Show: Hot Harvest
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11.07.2010
Print/Book Fairs in NY
Hey Ladies and all the followers of the blog!
Finally to catch up! I wanted to write sooner, but these past months were very eventful for me personally, I hardly set in front of my comp. Also a lot was happening in the print-making world in NY.. ;-) ...things slowed pace lately and here I am!
This weekend in New York, there are 3 Print and Book Fairs that I'm pretty excited about.
Thursday was the opening day for the IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory. It totally worth running on the rain to see the show! One could find prints from Durer to contemporary artists.. and it really makes a difference to see them in person, than from a reproduction. If you are interested there is a list of all the print-shops/ galleries on the website www.ifpda.org
Yesterday I visited the book fair at PS1. Overwhelming ! Everything from small print editions, silk-screened art books, activist DIY zines, and much moreee .... I was in printmaker's wonderland :-) Check out the show, or the individual publishers are on the site http://nyartbookfair.com/
Today I'm going to the Ex-Dia space in Chelsea, where the Editions/Artists' Books fair is taking place. I am expecting it to be nothing less than the previous ones... Here is the info http://www.eabfair.com/
That's all for now! Running for the train...!
Catch up with you pretty soon!
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9.23.2010
Monumental Ideas in Miniature books II (MIMB II)
Monumental Idea in Miniature Books II
Contact: ying@uakron.edu
Coordinator: Hui-Chu Ying, Professor, The Myers School of Art, The University of Akron ying@uakron.edu
Specifications
Size: No more than 4” X 5” X 1”(10.16cm x 12.7cm x 2.54cm) but when opened can be expanded to any length, width, and depth. Three-dimensional forms are encouraged.
Weight: Not to exceed 1/2 lb.(225 gr. Or 0.23kg)
Catalogue & Traveling Exhibition: 100 books will be selected by Jurors for traveling exhibition and catalogue publication.
Deadline: Dec. 30, 2010. International deadline: Dec. 15, 2010
Fee: $50 (make check payable to University of Akron). Mail check & 5 books together. No fee to outside USA participant due to the complication of foreign check and their shipping cost .
Juror: TBA
Edition number: At least 6 editions (artist may choose to do more).
First edition: Southern Graphics Council Archives. (This set will travel in the US.)
Second edition: Washington University in St. Louis permanent collection. (This set will travel in US.)
Third edition: Traveling Exhibition. (This set will travel internationally.)
Fourth edition: The University of Akron. (This set will travel internationally.)
Fifth edition: Spare. (This set will travel internationally.) (mail $50 check & 5 books together)
Sixth edition: Property of the artist. Artist keeps the rest of edition.
Every MIMB books will go to selected permanent collections
Every Artists’ books will be photographed and listed on MIMB.org and flickr.com
No books will be returned to artists.
Publication: 140 pages of MIMB II catalogue will be printed by blurb.com (print on demand publisher)
Web Site: http://mimb.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimborg/
First Exhibition Location: SGC International Conference 2011, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Contact: Hui-Chu Ying, ying@uakron.edu 330-972-6030, 330-628-4154
150 E. Exchange St. The Myers School of Art, Univ. of Akron, Akron OH 44325-7801 USA
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