Artists in Action! with Karen Rifas

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Talk | Friday, February 15, 7-9pm
Workshop | Saturday, February 16, 1-4pm
Karen Rifas was born in Chicago and lives and works in Miami.
Her work utilizes drawing and geometry to discover the unique potential
of a material or of a particular site.  She explores varied materials and forms,
order and chaos, geometry and chance in environmental installations made of stitched leaves, cord or steel cable.
Rifas received her MFA from the University of Miami and has taught at many institutions including New World School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely in Brazil, Republic of Panama, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, New York, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. She has been awarded a State of Florida Individual Artist Award and a South Florida Cultural Consortium Award in Visual and Media Art. Her work is in the collections of Miami Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Museum of Art/Ft. Lauderdale and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Artists in Action! is a series of four informal artist talks, artist-led workshops

and limited edition multiples by local artists. Enjoy lively dialogue and

learn about each artist’s work, inspirations and creative processes.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

RSVP at admin@girlsclubcollection.org.
Artists in Action! 2013 flyer

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended
by the Broward Cultural Council, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Third Avenue Art District Artwalk

Photos from last weekend’s event are now on view.
Lecture + Public Talk with Brainard Carey
Thursday, February 28, 7-9pm 
Hear writer and co-founder of Praxis in New York speak at Girls’ Club
about his recent book: Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money, and his radio show “The Art World Demystified.”
Chick Flicks: Alice Neel
Saturday, February 23, 7-9pm
Join us as we screen the 2007 documentary
Alice Neel directed by her grandson Andrew Neel.  Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century.  She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Painting a diverse cross-section of humanity, from Communist Party leaders to art world personalities to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, Neel created a body of work that serves as a social document of New York and America in the 20th Century. The film tells the story of Neel’s life, exploring the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention.