CALL CONNECTS - October 2024
CALL/ CONVERSATIONS Kick-off
November 7th, 6 pm
Hosted at the home of Tom Bishop and Katie Ford
Light refreshments will be served
Charles Birnbaum
Christine Steiner
Max Anderson
CALL/Conversations is a 3-part discussion series, that will help create new windows of understanding for our key projects and broader mission. All of the ticket costs are tax-deductible.
CALL/Conversations Part 1 will focus on Mary Miss’s 1996 project Greenwood Pond: Double Site. Former museum director Max Anderson, arts attorney Christine Steiner, and Charles Birnbaum, who leads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, will consider the issues raised by removing this landmark environmental sculpture from the Des Moines Art Center’s collection.
Lindsey Heights WaterMarks Day!
Join us for the unveiling of the Lindsay Heights WaterMarker and celebration of the WaterMarks project throughout Milwaukee!
A short speaking program will kick off at 11:00am and the community resource fair will go until 2pm! Free food available, while supplies last!
CALL Featured in Pioneer Works Article
Daylighting Tibbetts Brook
An ode to an underground Bronx waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it
By Emily Raboteau
Emily Raboteau is a Black Studies professor at the City College of New York and the author of Lessons for Survival.
"As I walk the city, I sometimes recite the second line of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” The poem is an amulet. I use it to ward off the scourge of freeways surrounding our house in the Bronx. The Henry Hudson Parkway (NY 9A) that our boys must cross by an ugly pedestrian bridge to get to their public middle school. The Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) that turned back into a river when Hurricane Ida dumped a record seven plus inches of rain. The eight lanes of Broadway (US-9) that divide us from the greenspace of Van Cortlandt Park, where a brook now known as Tibbetts was dammed in the eighteenth century. I haven’t known this ancient little river, one of New York City’s many buried streams. By 1912 its final stretch was strangled into a culvert that led underground to the sewer..."
CALL Artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez, for CENTRAL Performance Festival
November 8th, 8 - 9 pm
Grace Exhibition Space, 182 Avenue C, NYC
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he helps unfold within the quotidian. He is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing. Nicolás served recently as a Senior Lecturer and Social Practice Artist in Residence in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. He has exhibited or performed at various renowned institutions locally and internationally.