Installation of the Jazz Loft Project exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photograph by Courtney Reid-Eaton.
jazz loft exhibition opening reception july 23rd in chicago
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years documenting the jazz musicians, artists, and underground characters who inhabited the scene at 821 Sixth Avenue. Curated by Sam Stephenson and Courtney Reid-Eaton of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the exhibition features more than 200 images, several hours of audio, and 16mm film footage of Eugene Smith working in the loft. The Jazz Loft Project will be on display from July 17 to September 19, in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. Admission is free.
Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 744-6630 www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
Open: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, 9 a.m.-6p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Closed holidays
opening reception
July 23, 6-8 p.m.
Free admission
gallery talk
August 26, 12 p.m.
A conversation with Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project director and curator of the exhibition. » Continue Reading…
center for documentary studies announces new internship program
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University is accepting applications for nine-month internship positions that will begin in September 2010 and end in May 2011. The interns will gain broad experience in the documentary field, with particular focus on exhibiting, publishing (print and web), and producing a range of materials related to the documentary arts. Two positions are available. (See more detailed descriptions below.) The interns will be based at CDS in Durham, North Carolina, for the 2010-11 academic year.
To qualify, applicants should be recent college graduates (no more than three years out of school) who demonstrate excellent communications abilities, pay careful attention to details, balance initiative and drive with congeniality and team play, show creative talent, and exhibit achievement in some aspect of the documentary arts. CDS internships require a commitment of 30 hours per week, and interns receive a monthly stipend of $1,000.
Interns will be expected to participate as staff colleagues in all CDS activities.
The Center for Documentary Studies offers an interdisciplinary program in the documentary arts—photography, audio, film/video, narrative writing, and other means of creative expression—that emphasizes active engagement in the world beyond the university campus. Much more than a traditional educational center, CDS encourages experiential learning in diverse environments outside the classroom, with an emphasis on the role of individual artistic expression in advancing broader societal goals. Programs range widely to include university undergraduate courses, popular summer institutes that attract students from across the country, international awards competitions, award-winning book publishing and radio programming, exhibitions of new and established artists in our own galleries, and fieldwork projects in the U.S. and abroad. READ MORE: http://cds.aas.duke.edu
To apply to be part of the 2010-11 internship program, send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, one letter of recommendation, and a personal statement of goals and intent for the internship to Lauren Hart at lh90@duke.edu. Please send all materials as electronic files with “internship applicant (applicant’s name) – (exhibitions or publishing)” in the e-mail subject line. Ideally, the recommendation letter should be sent as a PDF directly from the person who is recommending the applicant, with the same information in the e-mail subject line.
First Floor Exhibit Hall, Duke North Hospital
Durham, North Carolina
May 10–23, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, May 14, 4:30–6 p.m.
Photographs produced by young patients and their Duke student mentors, from the class “Children and the Experience of Illness,” taught at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
somos villa victoria: portraits from parcel 19
photographs by lewis hine documentary fellow anne weber
la galeria at villa victoria center for the arts, boston
On view April 29–May 7
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 29, 6–9 p.m.
Special Viewing Hours: 11 a.m.–7 p.m., May 3–7
This exhibition celebrates the residents of Villa Victoria through a series of large-format portraits by Anne Weber. As a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow, Anne has been working with IBA and the residents of Villa Victoria to depict the diverse stories of those who call this neighborhood home. This gallery exhibit serves as a preview of a larger work-in-progress.
La Galeria at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W. Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118
#617-917-1742 www.villavictoriaarts.org
april 2010 jazz loft project related events at the new york public library
“hall overton: out of the shadows” wednesday, april 14, 2010 | 6 p.m.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
For information, call (212) 642-0142
The program is free and open to the public | Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
In partnership with the Jazz Loft Project, this evening program is devoted to exploring the monumental, behind-the-scenes influence of pianist, arranger, composer, and teacher Hall Overton.
The Duke Jazz Talks are part of the two-year Library for the Performing Arts’ project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to present, document, and preserve jazz, contemporary dance, and theater performances and related oral histories.
Still from "In My Mind"
in my mind (100 minutes color | gary hawkins, director; emily ladue, producer; tom rankin, executive producer)
monday, april 19, 2010 | 5:30 p.m.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
For information, call (212) 642-0142
Film screening of In My Mind, by Center for Documentary Studies instructors Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue, based on a concert performance of the same title by Jason Moran and The Big Bandwagon on February 26, 2009, a fiftieth anniversary homage to Thelonious Monk’s original 1959 Town Hall concert. Q&A with the filmmakers and Jason Moran to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
LEFT: Issaquena Street, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, summer, 1992. RIGHT: Man walking down 47th Street on the Southside of Chicago, winter, 1994. Images from "Cedric Chatterley: Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991-1996"
Filmed and edited by Courtney Reid-Eaton, exhibitions director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition opened at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on February 17, 2010. Estimates are that 500 to 700 people attending the opening.
CDS Exhibitions Director Courtney Reid-Eaton traveled to New York (her home town) more than two weeks before the opening to install the show. She worked with LPA’s staff, led by Curator of Exhibitions Barbara Cohen-Stratyner and including Rene Ronda, Herbert Ruiz, Mike Diekmann, Laura Clifford, and Caitlin Mack.
Courtney documented the installation process on video, which she has edited into the following 8-minute sequence. It provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the painstaking world required to mount a show. The dimensions of every object are accounted for in regard to every inch of the space. There is selflessness to hanging exhibitions; the curators disappear and the artwork takes over. Courtney achieved this beautifully. She makes Jazz Loft Project staff (Dan Partridge, Lauren Hart, and me) and CDS look good. Gene Smith would be proud, too.
—Sam Stephenson
The Jazz Loft Project Exhibition is on view at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts through May 22, 2010.
still point of the turning world photographs by frank hunter
On view through June 30, 2010
Reception: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 5-6 p.m.
Allen Gallery, 2nd floor, Allen Building, West Campus, Duke University
Hosted by Provost Peter Lange
Garlic and sapphires in the mud
Clot the bedded axle-tree.
The trilling wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.
At the still point of the turning world.
—T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets
Frank Hunter, a native of El Paso, Texas, grew up in the desert Southwest. Hunter, who received an M.A. in communications from the University of Colorado and an M.F.A. in photography from Ohio University, teaches the fundamentals of photography and courses in nineteenth-century photographic processes in Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His hand-coated platinum/palladium photographs, made with an 8 x 10 view camera, portray the cultural landscape with a singular lyricism.
The exhibition, organized by the Center for Documentary Studies as part of a multiyear project, features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years documenting the jazz musicians, artists, and underground characters who inhabited the scene at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City from 1957 to 1965. In the loft, Smith exposed more than 1,400 rolls of film, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career. He also wired the building like a recording studio and made 4,000 hours of tapes, capturing more than 300 musicians.
