Cut with the Kitchen Knife II

Cut With the Kitchen Knife II

Sunday, October 16, 2011

3:00pm-5:00pm

Craftswoman House
929 North Oakland Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91104

Come channel the spirit of Hannah Höch with an afternoon of collage making at Craftswoman House. You are welcome to bring magazines & other collage materials to use and share. For additional information, contact cindyrehm@gmail.com.

This event is presented in conjunction with The Big Draw LA.

See images from the event here.

Body Stories

Body Stories

An evening of dance, performance, and film

Saturday, October 8, 2011

8pm

Craftswoman House

929 North Oakland Avenue

Pasadena, CA 91104

This event is free and open to the public

On Saturday, October 8, the domestic interior of Craftswoman House will host Body Stories, an evening of dance, performance, and film curated by choreographer and performer Christine Suarez. The event will feature nine California-based artists who engage the body and intimate narratives to explore complex issues of identity. This collection of site-specific work aims to erase the boundaries between the audience and the performer through the experience of shared personal space.

The evening begins with a burial ceremony conducted by Arianne Hoffmann and Audrey Malone to celebrate the passing of old hopes, outdated dreams, and past aspirations. A dance by Rebecca Alson-Milkman features a re-enactment of her mother’s death, and encourages the emotional traces to become present as her identity as daughter and caretaker become obsolete. In a participatory performance that pushes the limits of consent, Allison Wyper investigates how the sexualized female body can deflect moral scrutiny by becoming a spectacle that obscures a genuine understanding of pain. Ally Voye premieres Carry, a short dance film that alters the viewer’s perspective through a fragmentation of the body, and the unexpected impact of outsiders. The evening also includes Pat Payne’s personal weather front, a portable performance of pre-mendous proportions, along with works by Greg Barnett, Rebecca Pappas, Carol McDowell, and Kai Hazelwood.

Top image: Allison Wyper, photograph by Jennifer Monge

Bottom image: Still from Rebecca Alson-Milkman's You Know Where to Reach Me, photograph by Lillian Wu

See documentation of the event here.

Stemma Call for Works

Throughout history, creative works by women have been devalued, dismissed, and even buried. In an attempt to keep women’s work visible, Craftswoman House seeks artworks that make a direct reference to, or were inspired by, second-wave feminist art for inclusion in a November-December 2011 group exhibition. We are also seeking video and performance works for an event in early December.

Please send images or links of up to five works, or a link to video or performance, a short statement on the relationship between your work and second-wave feminist art, and a CV to craftswomanhouse@gmail.com with Stemma as the subject. For further information about Craftswoman House, go to craftswomanhouse.com or craftswomanhouse.blogspot.com.

Deadline September 7, 2011

Home Rites

Home Rites

Saturday June 25, 7pm

Performances by:

Launa Bacon

Sara Fowler

Linda Ravenswood

Cindy Rehm

Craftswoman House

929 North Oakland Avenue

Pasadena, CA 91104

!WAR

Photograph of Guerrilla Girls in bathroom with sign, "The Birth of Feminism".

Courtesy of the Guerrilla Girls

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Friday July 1, 8pm

Craftswoman House

929 N. Oakland Ave

Pasadena, CA 91104

Join Craftswoman House for a free screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson's new film !Women Art Revolution

from the !Women Art Revolution website:

For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.

!Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art.

New ways of thinking about the complexities of gender, race, class, and sexuality evolved. The Guerrilla Girls emerged as the conscience of the art world and held academic institutions, galleries, and museums accountable for discrimination practices. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now feel is the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Carrie Brownstein composed an original score to accompany the film. Laurie Anderson, Janis Joplin, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Erase Errata and Tribe 8 are some of the gifted musicians who contributed to our soundtrack.

Thank You!

Thank you to all of the wonderful backers who helped us fund the Craftswoman House Kickstarter. We our grateful for your generous support!

Kathleen Adrian

Jenn Beebe
Polly Breckenridge
Geoff Brown
Carrie Bryden
Karen Dee Carpenter
Andrea Collins
Randy Collins
Troy Collins
Dave & Ginny
Julie Deamer
Marcy Eason
Jim Eason
McLean Fahnestock
Hossein Farmani
Jennie Fleming
Elyce Helford
R Janeen Hershey
Emily Hunter
Janet Jeffers
Spencer Keralis
Patricia Keefer
Lauren Knopf
Elizabeth Leister
Jo Letke
Leigh Maddox
Melissa Marion
Diana Marta
Yvette Molina
Mommalicious
Christi Nielsen
Kathy O'Dell
Michael O'Reilly
Louis Pepe
Freya Prowe
Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Pranay Reddy
Peri Richmond
Reb Roush
Jim Sebring
Hadieh M. Shafie
Moira Smiley
Kim Steele
Thomas Sturgill
Sheila Traviss
Paige Wery
Jessica White
Terry Wolverton
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Body, Gender & Ritual Workshop

Patty Chang, 1998 Melons (at a loss)

Body, Gender & Ritual

a workshop at Craftswoman House

Cindy Rehm will lead the workshop, Body, Gender & Ritual at Craftswoman House during the month of June. Participants will engage in an exploration of gender through the study and practice of performance art. Participants are encouraged to generate unique responses to topics of gender construction in society and will develop performances informed by ritual and the history of feminist performance. Workshop content will be presented through slide lectures, video documents, readings, and discussions. The workshop will culminate with a presentation of performances at Craftswoman House. No previous performance experience necessary. The workshop is free, but space is limited, so please contact cindyrehm@gmail.com to enroll.

Meeting dates:
Saturday, June 4, 12-3
Saturday, June 11 12-3
Saturday, June 18 12-3
Saturday, June 25, 7pm presentation of performances

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations) 1972

Cindy Rehm is an artist and educator. She is the founder and former director of spare room, an installation space that was located inside her private residence in Baltimore, MD. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media from the Tennessee State Arts Commission and a Learning to Love You More grant. Rehm’s work in drawing, video, and performance has been shown at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; New York Studio Gallery, NY; Consolidated Works, Seattle; School 33, Baltimore; at Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece; and other venues. Her work can be viewed at cindyrehm.com and she maintains a blog at themouthandtheknife.blogspot.com.