Enter the Dime Bag Show!

A benefit for the Social Service League & the Lawrence Percolator Artspace.
All Ages and abilities welcome. Your weird, wild &/or pretty creations will be shown and possibly sold.

Here’s the deal:
1. Go to the Social Service League, get a big grocery bag and fill it with thrift store stuff. If you want something too big for your bag talk to SSL staff. It might cost extra but your $ buys shoes & eyeglasses for low-income people.
2. Take it home & make artwork from your bag’s contents & any other debris you have around.
3. Donate your creation to The Dime Bag Show (priced $50 or under). All proceeds from art will help The Percolator continue to pay bills & put on community events.

Social Service League Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Show opens Saturday, July 16, 5-9 p.m
At the Percolator (yellow building behind the Art Center in the alley)

Percolator artwork drop-off times:
Wednesday, July 13 and Thursday, July 14, 5-9 p.m.

Show open on weekends noon – 6 p.m.
Closing and art pickup is Sunday, Aug. 7 noon – 6 p.m.

Views and Visions: Tony Peterson

from Review Magazine June 26, 2011

Tony Peterson
Uncommon Visions of the Common World

by Steve Brisendine

Tony Peterson first set out to tell stories with his photography ... but he didn't like what he had to do to get those stories.

"I got my degree in photojournalism," Peterson said at the Final Friday opening for Uncommon Visions of the Common World, his solo show at the Lawrence Percolator. "But I didn't like the 'in your face' aspect of that, and so I went into nonprofits for 30 years."

Still, Peterson kept seeing — and photographing — things others missed.

I went on a trip with a friend of mine, he writes, and when she looked at my photographs she asked, "Were we in the same place?" We were in the same place at the same time yet my perspective and what I saw was completely different.

That’s when I realized that I do have an Uncommon Vision of the Common World.

Peterson covers a wide range of subjects with his work, but the nature of structures and the structures of nature are common threads running through the photographic portion of this show. (More on the other part coming up shortly). He focuses not so much on the objects themselves, but on focal points and resonant visual elements, so that each is as much a study in shape and symbol as a record of the thing being photographed.

What's especially effective is how Peterson ties the photo portion of the show (his first solo exhibition, by the way) to his other works, a series of woven tarpaper wall hangings which evoke his penchant for patterns such as the one found in Chex Mix (the image atop this post).

The woven pieces are placed in such a way that they both stand out on their own and point up the pieces around them; what could have been a jarring juxtaposition instead becomes a study in harmonious ensemble.

Peterson is still telling a story with his work. It's his story, and it's one worth following.

CFE: Going | Home | Coming

Call for Entries:
Going | Home | Coming
August 13 - September 11, 2011

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

Charles Dickens

“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”

Hermann Hesse

Home is something many of us take for granted, until we are called to consider it from a new perspective. Leaving or returning home can offer such an opportunity for reflection.

• When do you become aware of home?
• How many homes do you have?
• In what situations do you NOT feel at home?
• What things evoke a sense of home?
• How does the idea of home change over time?

Acceptable Media/Work:
2-D and 3-D works will be considered for the exhibition. If selected, work must be delivered ready to hang or install. Please note that the Percolator is a 600 square foot space with eight-foot ceilings.

Submit digital images (jpg or png) of up to three different works to goinghomecoming@gmail.com with brief description (including size, date, medium) and price of work (if for sale) with contact information, including name, mailing address, gallery representation (if applicable), email, website url, and telephone.

Please limit each image size to 1mb each; with file name: lastname_firstname_001.jpg

Dates:
Saturday, July 22, 2011 submit work via email (deadline)
Friday, July 29, 2011 notification of selection
Show runs August 13 - September 11, 2011
Reception, Saturday, August 13, 6-9 p.m.

Pricing:
The Lawrence Percolator will take 20% of all art sales; price work accordingly.

Delivery/Drop Off:
Selected artworks should arrive by Friday, August 5, 2011. Cost of Shipping to and from exhibition will be the responsibility of the artist. Original shipping materials will be re-used for return shipping to artist. Return shipping fees will be coordinated with artist via PayPal, check or otherwise.

Local delivery/drop off will be coordinated the weekend of August 6-7, 2011.

About the Percolator:
The Lawrence Percolator is the project space of the Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of the Visual Arts. LCAVA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing new art and cultural events to audiences in Lawrence and Douglas County Kansas. Donations are tax deductible!