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About the project

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Ana Gilbert

About

The Centre For The Living Arts is an independent, nonprofit organization, which works on behalf of the community. The group primarily specializes in event planning and focuses on decorative works of art. We plan events featuring the world’s top artists, while also hosting art and gallery exhibitions. Our previous events and our future projects may involve an enormous variety of amazing artwork from oil paintings to glass art and even wood working. Although our goal is to encourage members of the public to seek further education regarding the arts, we also hope to promote social change and the origination of new ideas.

CFTLA hopes to connect artists to those that will love and cherish their artwork within their homes. We sincerely believe art can be incredibly advantageous for promoting social change, personal growth, and encouraging new ideas. We work closely with artists, community leaders and the public to plan, develop, and host amazing events, which will benefit everyone involved.

All of the exhibitions focus on architecture and home décor suitable works, so the community can get involved and begin exploring their own creativity. All events are run, developed, and planned by volunteers, who want to inspire, motivate and encourage others to achieve self-fulfillment. CFTLA is known for hosting their events within rented spaces, in order to spend less and achieve more for the betterment of the world at large. Despite all of the complexities, our true end goal is to help independent artists increase the visibility of their works.

What We Do

We devise community events, involving various forms of arts. These annual events are designed to allow all professional and up-and-coming artists to display their talented creations. We offer art classes in varying fields that are suitable for all age groups and artistic levels. By featuring your artwork at one of our organized exhibits, you will be able to market your work and engage the community.

We know how much work is put into creating unique and detailed works, so we want to help you fulfill your endeavor. Our exhibitory theme will aid in creating group momentum, while allowing artists from all walks of life the opportunity open up about their wonderful works, pieces, and models.

Some of our staff designed some of the world’s best aquarium heaters, and we are very proud of such achievement.

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Artists

Seth Rolland

Seth Rolland is one of the leading artists within the custom furniture movement. The 25-year veteran always strives to push the limits of his materials, while developing lively, fun furniture. Seth is truly a hands-on artists and does everything on his own, including meticulously selecting materials, cutting, carving, assembling, and eventually finishing the masterpiece. As someone, who has created a genre of his own, Seth has designed 3 groups of furniture design and he has teamed up with CFTLA to show off those works.

Andrea De Luigi

Andrea De Luigi is one of the most prominent and best known Argentinian artists in the known world. During his professional tenure, De Luigi has exhibited in a collection of countries, including England, Canada, Mexico, Canada, the United States and Argentina. She classifies her artwork as falling within the contemporary cubism category and strives to force the viewer to feel and experience something emotionally insightful, when looking at her works. Her works are bright and bold with intense colors, yet deep in contrasts and sure to leave an impression.

Rob Glebe

Rob Glebe is a one-of-a-kind artist, and we’re excited to have him as a part of CFTLA. Rob entered the art scene in January of 2006, when he began producing metal vessels. Rob has a fascination with textures and patterns and this is very evident, when examining his masterpieces. He produces an array of metal works, including wall art, tiles, pods and even metal leaves. He has also designed and developed several tables and hopes to be able to experiment with more furniture making in the near future.

Ashley Carter

Ashley Carter is an architect-turned designer, who absolutely loves graphics and textiles. Ashley is widely known for her ability to transform a home’s interior design into something truly magnificent and unique, without spending excessively. She is based out of central California and works as an Architect. Her designs have gained recognition for their simplistic nature, yet the overwhelming emotion they manage to extrude onto those that are fortunate enough to view them.

Our Mission

We strive to create an environment that will be engaging for adults, youth, and all those in between. We work diligently to encourage outsiders to get involved in creative arts, because it is the best way to nonverbally express one’s personality and opinions.

Inspiring the youth to become healthy, productive adults is our main goal. We want to develop an atmosphere, where professional and developing artists can freely explore their creative side. The ideal environment will offer a calming ambience, but filled with excitement, while encouraging everyone to get involved.

Our Vision

Formulate a central location, where the world’s best independent artists will be able to gather and acquire the acceptance, recognition and success they’ve always desired.

Donate

As an independent, nonprofit organization, we truly depend on the kindness and generosity of our friends and colleagues to help us grow and begin to reach more people. All proceeds are utilized for the upkeep, operations, management, and betterment of CFTLA and their artists. By making a donation to CFTLA, you will be playing a major part in encouraging educational innovation, bettering the public, and helping independent artists achieve their lifelong dreams. Those that wish to become a part of building stronger communities and supporting unique arts should utilize the PayPal Donation Link below. We sincerely thank you for your support, time and consideration.

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How to clean your jewelry using Connoisseurs Cleaner

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Ana Gilbert
How to clean your jewelry using Connoisseurs Cleaner

We all love wearing expensive jewelry, but not a lot of people are concerned with taking care of them and keeping them polished. For that, the brand Connoisseurs offers a wide range of products to help you clean jewelry of various types, including but not limited to gold and silver jewelry, precious stones and pearls. Using their products ensures that your jewelry gets a treatment similar to going to a professional jeweler, and that it will sparkle once again as if it is brand new.

Tips for cleaning your jewelry

First of all, professional jewelers recommend you to separate all your necklaces, rings and bracelets into categories, as each category usually needs a slightly different polishing treatment. You should consider using different products for cleaning gold, silver, diamonds, pearls, precious stones, delicate accessories or costume jewelry. The Connoisseurs brand has been refining their products for a long time, and now you can find high quality products for each category, perfectly designed around the type of jewelry they are meant to clean.

Their products are great even for travelling, especially the Jewelry Wipes which can be carried around at all times. It is recommended that, if you are planning to travel with jewelry, you should make sure to keep it all safe and untangled in a special jewelry organiser, which can also be found on the Connoisseurs website.

What products are the best for each type of jewelry

If you are looking to polish your gold jewelry with some high quality cleaner, then you should consider getting the Liquid Precious Jewelry cleaner. This product can be used on any type of gold, and it works very well even on precious and semiprecious stones. Alongside the cleaner, you also get a small touch-up brush, for better cleaning of narrow, hard-to-reach places than you need to polish.

If you have a lot of silver jewelry, then you need to get either the Liquid Silver Jewelry Cleaner, or the Silver Cloth. The upside of the liquid cleaner is that it has a bigger action surface, being able to reach even smaller places, which might be harder to do using a fabric cloth. However, the liquid cleaner can only be used with jewelry containing only silver. The cloth can be used to polish silver jewelry with precious or semiprecious stones, or even silver plates.

Besides the Liquid Precious Jewelry Cleaner, Connoisseurs also sells a product specifically for cleaning diamonds and other precious stones: the Diamond Dazzle Stick. This product contains a highly effective formula of micro-fine cleaners and polishing agents, which make it extremely performant when it comes to polishing your shiniest jewels.

Another multi-purpose product from Connoisseurs Jewelry Cleaner is the Sonic Dazzle Stick, which is cheaper and perfect for all types of jewelry. It comes with a replacement head, so you can make sure to use it for longer. The formula it uses is highly effective, as it not only polishes the jewelry, removing dirt, but it also leaves an extra anti-tarnish layer on their surface, so that you can rest assured that they will be clean for a longer time.

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Artists

Posted on December 11, 2018August 3, 2020 by Jonathan Hill
Artists

2X4 (New York, NY), Founded in 1994 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers and Georgianna Stout, 2×4 is a global design consultancy headquartered in New York City. The focus of 2×4’s work is brand strategy for cultural and commercial clients who value the power of design. The organization creates innovative, experiential, participatory and visually-dynamic ways to engage audiences worldwide. 2×4’s intellectual and creative conviction is that thoughtful design can make an essential contribution to every level of cultural discourse.

In a world that is increasingly moving towards digital media over printed means, 2×4 creates an installation that explores the very act of translation – the way an idea translates from thought to form. Instead of predicting the future, 2×4 polls the internet using the key word “future”, and creates a two-part experience: intimate audio juxtaposed with large-scale visual graphics produced in the gallery and posted daily.

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Candy Chang

Candy Chang

Candy Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who strives to make cities more comfortable and contemplative. She is the co-founder of Civic Center and Neighborland, and is passionate about redefining the ways we share information in public space to improve our communities and ourselves.

She is a TED Senior Fellow, a Tulane Urban Innovation Fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and was named a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero by Oprah Magazine. By combining public art with civic engagement and personal well-being, she has been recognized for exploring strategies for the design of our cities in order to live our best lives.

Projects include the award-winning Street Vendor Guide in New York City, I Wish This Was, which gathered residents’ ideas for vacant storefronts—an idea that further developed into Neighborland, a tool to help people see, share, and build on ideas together for the places they care about, and Before I Die on an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans for people to reflect on their lives and share their personal aspirations in public spaces.

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Dawn DeDeaux (American)

Dawn DeDeaux is considered among America’s pioneering artists in new media, and was a featured artist in the 2012 international art biennial Prospect Two, which was held in her hometown of New Orleans. Her massive installation Goddess Fortuna and Her Dunces in an Effort to Make Sense of It All, which was inspired by the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, received national and international acclaim.

DeDeaux is an author, curator and publisher, and is acknowledged in two current college textbooks, including Understanding Art and Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. She is also an avid arts educator, and established a comprehensive arts program for a 6,000 inmate prison facility in Louisiana. This inspired her exhibition Soul Shadows: Urban Warrior Myths, which featured her own art as well as the work of her inmate students. This exhibition was presented in several American cities.

Works by DeDeaux have been exhibited widely throughout the country, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Baltimore Museum for Contemporary Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut.

Tom Leeser (American)

Tom Leeser (Los Angeles, CA) Director of the Art and Technology Program and Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, serves as a participating artist and curates 22 works by emerging and significant video artists in the CLA Video Gallery, a 6,000 square ft. raw industrial space with dramatic 30 ft. high ceilings.

Future Tense

We cannot perceive the future directly or ‘remember’ it. 
– Oesten Dahl “Tense and Aspect Systems”

An embedded installation of moving image, spoken word and sound art within Centre of Living Arts’ Futures Project.

In grammar, the future tense is used as a reference to time. It is used to describe an event that hasn’t yet occurred, but is expected to occur. Tense also refers to a mental or nervous condition.

Future Tense does not function as a singular reference, instead it is positioned as an assemblage of possible futures culled from past and present media. It’s my curatorial intent to exhibit work, host workshops and conduct artist talks that can be framed as multiple space-time shifts. These future shifts represent past and present tenses derived from cultural anxieties, social complexities and political instabilities. The exhibit strives to translate these precarious conditions into a poetics of trepidation.

Body Envelope, Nina Waisman

Body Envelope is an interactive installation that makes the visitor’s body a tool for tuning an extended cosmos, by mapping sounds of far-flung worlds into the visitor’s immediate space. “The volume of space around your body out to arm’s length – what neuroscientists call peripersonal space – is part of you. Through a special mapping procedure, your brain annexes this space to your limbs and body, clothing you in it like an extended, ghostly skin… Your self does not end where your flesh ends, but suffuses and blends with the world, including other beings…”. (Blakeslee, Sandra and Matthew, The Body Has a Mind of its Own).

Nina Waismans work highlights the roles that movement, gesture and  rhythm play in forming our thoughts – neurologists and cognitive scientists call such “physical thinking” the pre-conscious scaffolding for all human logic. How, then, might our new tech-inflected gestures be shaping our relationships with the bodies and systems we connect to when we move with technology?

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Kenny Scharf (American)

Born in Los Angeles, Kenny Scharf received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1980. During the 1980s he rose to prominence alongside fellow contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring in the East Village art scene. As one of the first artists to inject elements of street culture into mainstream contemporary art, Scharf continues to pioneer projects like Cosmic Cavern—a now legendary all-night DayGlo disco party, held in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse from 2009-2010.

Scharf’s ambition as a professional artist is to maintain the course he started over 25 years ago, by establishing his work in the fields of painting, sculpture, and performance. A guiding principle of his work “is to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture through my art.”

Scharf refers to his art as “Pop Surrealism” and his paintings incorporate imagery from advertisements, cartoons and classic Americana. He uses animated cartoon characters from his childhood, like the Jetsons, to bring pop culture to the fine arts, and as a prolific artist, he has worked in traditional media, while also designing a lifeguard station, Zippo lighters, and carousels. His work is found in numerous museums, galleries and private collections throughout the United States and abroad.

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Art Park (American)

In conjunction with the Futures Project, the CLA will develop a CLA-owned vacant lot in downtown Mobile into a vibrant Art Park that will be accessible and engaging for all ages. Plans for the park call for a designed landscape, including changing art installations, educational programming and a green stormwater management system.

Funded in part by a $150,000 challenge grant from the Connecticut-based Educational Foundation of America, the park will be a major component of the CLA’s exhibition program and be fully incorporated into our visual identity. The CLA, working with a nationally distinguished advisory group, will commission a landscape artist/architect of national or international stature to lead site planning and design development.

This group includes:

Mary Beebe, Director of the Stuart Collection at the University of California-San Diego
Thomas Doyle of LA & South, whose previous projects include the master plan for the Frank Gehry-designed Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS
Peggy Fogelman, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Vini Nathan, Dean and McWhorter Chair of the College of Architecture, Design & Construction at Auburn University
Georgie Stout, Partner and Creative Director for the New York-based design firm 2 x 4 (the CLA’s design partner for our website, exhibitions, and publications)

Site plans for the art park will be displayed as part of the Futures Project exhibition, and presented in the context of economic development through the arts.

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Xavier de Richemont (French)

Xavier de Richemont is a French artist best known for intricate, large-scale light installations. Born in Algeria, he currently lives and works in Paris. Richemont studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Aix en Provence, France and during the course of his career he has worked closely in the fields of theatre and opera with artists such as Robert Wilson and David Salle.

In recent years, Richemont has won international acclaim for his massive outdoor video installations projected on monuments and historical sites found across the globe. In 2003 he created a large-scale video installation which projects images on Chartres Cathedral. This installation is open from May through September every year, and has become a popular destination attracting thousands of visitors annually.

Richemont recently made his U.S. debut with his signature video installation Hokushima in The Memory Project. Projected as an immersive, 30-foot-high video installation, the piece spanned an 8,600 SF gallery.

Richemont will contribute plans and visualizations for his next CLA commission, a long-term open-air video installation that will be projected onto a local landmark.

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Performances

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Jonathan Hill
Performances
  • Front Porch Sessions – Poetry on the Porch with Georgia Pearle
  • Aaron Neville and Keb’ Mo’
  • Performance: Friday, August 10
  • Front Porch Sessions – Yard Preachin with Papercut 8/18
  • Bonnie Raitt to play the Mobile Saenger 10/26
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Futures Project

Posted on December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 by Jonathan Hill
Futures Project

Futures Project (May 2013—January 2014) is a nine-month program that examines future possibilities for the Gulf Coast, with focus areas that are both expected and unexpected.

Futures Project features a group exhibition of emerging and established visual artists of our time in our 16,000 square ft. gallery. In addition to the exhibition, the CLA has organized an extensive slate of educational and public programming to compliment and amplify Futures Project.

Artists’ projects are considered a springboard for new conversations, and the CLA welcomes their input and ideas for all public programs and activities. A different topic relating to the future will be examined through film screenings, public forums and conversations, studio classes and workshops for all ages, plus special programming for teens and seniors.

Topics include:

Childhood & aging
Home, place & immigration
Race, class & ethics
Communication, information, knowledge & wisdom
Education & learning, success & failure
Health, wellness & spirituality
Environment, climate change, prediction & politics
Art & cultural organizations
Mobile & downtown economic development

Futures Project

Futures Project has been made possible by the generous support of The J. L. Bedsole Foundation, The Hearin-Chandler Foundation, PNC Bank, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional support provided by Mobile Gas, Regions, Ben May Charitable Trust, The Caring Foundation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Mike and Cay Rogers, Educational Foundation of America, Alabama State Council on the Arts, City of Mobile, and Mobile County Commission. Special thanks to Fabrication Specialists Inc. and Hampton Inn & Suites Mobile / Downtown Historic District.

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Saenger Theatre

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Jonathan Hill

The Centre for the Living Arts, Inc. operates the historic Saenger Theatre and Space 301, a non-profit contemporary art gallery. Erected in January of 1927, the European-style Saenger Theatre has witnessed thousands of top performers, acts, ballets and musicals throughout its almost eighty years of existence. The Saenger Theatre is a historic landmark, treasured for its architectural beauty and ties to our cultural history.

Please visit us:

Saenger Theatre Box Office

250 Conti Street

Monday – Friday 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Theatre

6 South Joachim

Mobile, AL 36602

Open for special events & scheduled tours only.

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