To friends, family, movers and shakers....
I am proud and excited to invite you and friends to an art gathering, focusing on community involvement benefiting Multiple Sclerosis. This event,Change is the Only Constant: Revolution Begins With Personal Evolution, takes place on the 16th of October 2008 in Portland, Ore. I will finally be showing my photographic work and book project that I have been working on for close to 10 years, highlighting a fascinating woman's life through her times of struggle and times of positive change. Her name is Layla Love. Layla will also be attending the show and participating in this event, showcasing her own artwork.
This event held on the 16th of October, will also be a sister show to the previous evening's performance at PNCA, (Portland Northwest College of Art) Climbing PoeTree's Hurricane Season Tour.
These incredible, bone-chilling and rabble-rousing spoken word artists, Climbing PoeTree, will also be performing on this night of the 16th to contribute to this exciting event and fundraiser.
Other featured artists include filmmaker and activist Dan Dronsfield. His captivating short- films, shot with 8mm, capture a unique view of international travel in under-developed countries, that demonstrate a friendly approach to the cause and effect on our current situation with global warming.
This group of multifaceted artists share a common passion and mission, the need for change through action. Change is the Only Constant: Revolution Begins With Personal Evolution is a fundraiser, art event, and community gathering encouraging awareness and action.
I am thrilled to invite you and friends to join us for this exciting event on the 16th of October to contribute your time to share views and help inspire the people of Portland to take action and to tackle issues as a community. Highlighted topics include: the environment, women's rights, health care and supporting the arts with a grassroots approach.
Take action and make a change. Change is the only constant. We would be honored to have you and friends attend this event. Together we can and will make our mission heard.
Below you will find the press release and the attached flyer..
Warmest regards,
I hope to see you there!
Allison Kramer
(If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Taurmini for details about the event.)
Allison Kramer
Studio 79
Artist Management
Portland, OR
www.studio79artist.com
www.allisonkramer.com
503.867.1713
Taurmini Fentress
Studio 79
Public Relations
www.studio79artist.com
503.933.8882
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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept 28, 2008
Contact: Allison Kramer, Studio 79, (503) 867-1713
Taurmini Fentress, (503) 933-8882
FUNDRAISER AND EVOLUTIONARY ART GATHERS FOR AWARENESS
AND ACTION. CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT: REVOLUTION
BEGINS WITH PERSONAL EVOLUTION.
Portland, Ore.---It is an event and an invitation highlighting the influential and poetic work of photographer Allison Kramer, photographer/activist Layla Love with spoken word artists Climbing Poetree. In this time of crisis, we attack compliancy and come together, not only to save what freedoms we are now afforded, but also to work to gain back our rights to health, happiness, and community. The event is October 16th, 2008 at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, located at 107 SE Washington St. Portland, Ore.
"Change is the Only Constant" is a culmination of work by various acclaimed artists, working with different mediums towards a common goal. Realizing that at this time in our national and global history, it is imperative to work together for the welfare of our community, rather than to rely on forces outside of this sphere to care take for us, they have come together to illustrate the beauty of our world through the hardships and the joys found in it. This work inspires audiences to become active participants, part of the creation and the outcome. The effects of the evening are further deepened by the dedication of profits to the Jenny Love MS Foundation, a non-for profit working towards a cure for Multiple Sclerosis.
Layla Love works both as an artist and as a muse, using art as a method of treatment. Dystonia, a physically crippling disease has given her a unique outlook on and passion for life. Since childhood, Love has adopted the camera, both as a subject and an artist, as her greatest source of strength and solace. For her life has an undeniable impetus to be lived to the fullest. Reveling with the masses and the esteemed alike, Love's admirers and subjects range from public figures to the more personal next-door neighbors and friends. Her life embodies a fusion between a photojournalistic approach -an activist dedicated to providing a bank of images for the revolutionaries to draw upon- to a woman who is a force of nature, living as an example to artists and her community at large of one who is unafraid to embrace and to exhibit all that life has to offer.
Accomplished photographer Allison Kramer is known for her photo-essayist approach to photography. The intimacy and multi-layered knowledge that this approach allows, is demonstrated in this exhibit of the most intimate, joyful, and fearful moments of Layla Love's journey, shown in all of its beautiful and brutal power. Kramer, through photographs that span years and highlight the most poignant of moments, in an ever-changing environment of hospitals, homes, lovers, and movements, allows us to not just witness, but to share in this most remarkable of lives. Allison Kramer's art is impossible to witness from the outside; it pulls the audience in, creating an event where the line between subject and artist, between audience and participant, is continually challenged and evolving.
Climbing PoeTree, consisting of poets Alixa and Naima, use spoken word to voice their hearts. They are brilliant examples of what we can create and become, when living up to our greatest purpose. Their work combines with their dedication to the creation and execution of hurricane relief efforts, making them an inspiration to anyone who witnesses the moving message brought forth by this dynamic duo. They live by their motto: Art is our weapon, our medicine, our voice, and our vision. Alixa & Naima will bring their skill, their passion and their dedication to social change, enlivening and inspiring the audience.
The scope of this exhibit reflects the various backgrounds and passions of its participants, though the dedication to brave 'over' exposure is a common thread through all demanding that we all strive towards accountability, unable to deny the challenges that we now face. This is art in its truest form, that which touches us and moves us towards that which we know we are capable of becoming. It is a unique and empowering evening, full of art, inspiration, and community.
This exhibit is a one night only event, showing at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, 107 SE Washington St. Portland, Or, 97214 and will begin at 6pm.
All proceeds from the show will go towards the Jenny Love MS Foundation. It is a suggested donation of $10 and there will be a silent auction at the event.
Space provided by Working Artists Network, an organization working towards creating an empowering environment for creative professionals, emerging or established, whose work fuses art, business and social contribution. Working Artists Network is an invaluable resource for those looking to live a life based on creation, participation and change. For more information on Working Artists Network, please visit www.workingartistsonline.com
Artists Websites:
www.allisonkramer.com
www.lovephotography.org
www.climbingpoetree.com
For further information, sponsorship opportunities, and all other inquiries: Please contact
Studio 79, Artist Management Services http://studio79artistmanagement.blogspot.com/ or
Taurmini Fentress at Studio79.taurmini@gmail.com.
