BORIMIX
This weekend I had my meetin' wif da peeps from the Clemente Soto Velez Center on the Lower East Side. I checked out the Borimix festival and stood captivated by the work of painters, photographers, and other artists. I'll post a few photos soon.
I'm squeeing like every five minutes. Everyone there is so talented, and so wonderful and open and passionate about their community.
The city just gave a multi-million dollar grant to help update the Center and make way for new projects. So far the Center is home to multiple studios, galleries, theaters, community classrooms, even a bar @.@ I don't mean to sound obnoxious but its all in the name of Puerto Rican culture preservation :3 And yes, I really shouldn't ignore the fact that my mother is Ukrainian, Italian, and Irish but its Puerto Rican Heritage Month in NYC!!! WEPA <3
We have yet to set an exact date, but the directors of the Center and I agreed that it will be the second week of December. I know it sounds selfish, but this means that my boyfriend gets to come :3 Speak of the devil I get to fly down to Orlando and see him tomorrow....DEFINITELY BETTER THAN MCNUGGETS.
I'm so excited that the Center is letting me take on somewhat of a junior "producer" roll with this show. Me and the two other guys are trying to work together on organizing it, but I've consistently been the one liaison between us in the center, and I've been curating the show from the beginning, which is a job in itself!! @.@ I'm learning a lot about this whole exhibition business, and I love it. Definitely will not be my last time curating/organizing. I've already been brainstorming about feminist animation show with one of my friends/coworkers. I think its important as artists to give back to our community by providing safe and reputable places for young up and comers to show. If we don't get a break, then who will? In this day and age, its so important to our own livelihoods to make an effort to get out there. And its fun :3 I'm not making any money off of this, I'm doing it because my mother never had the chance and neither did my grandfather. I hope that he's watching me now. Maybe someday I'll put a show together for deceased artists that never got their chance? He was a sanitation worker for the greatest city on Earth, and one of the greatest cartoonists I ever met. Its such a shame that I didn't get to see his work until AFTER he passed.
ANYWAYS. ITS MONDAY. GET BACK TO WORK BITCHES.
