Opening Reception: May 21st, 6-9pm
Location: Warehouse, 2300 North Davidson St., Charlotte, NC 28205

"Believe me when I say that they were beautiful"

Dugg Dugg is proud to announce Lisa Iglesia's artist residency and site-specific installation.  Please join Lisa and friends for a Dominican dinner and the unveiling of her work during the opening reception. *This is also in conjunction with Southern Holiday and CAC's collaboration. 

Lisa Iglesias is a native of Queens, NY, received her BA from SUNY Binghamton (2001) and MFA from the University of Florida (2006).  Mining diverse sources ranging from the Ashley Book of Knots to One Hundred Years of Solitude, from Victorian Mourning Hair Wreaths to animal taxidermy and from Norwegian folk tales to Dominican iconography, Iglesias’ work weaves together seemingly disparate imagery to create new associations.  While her practice is rooted in drawing, Iglesias employs a wide array of strategies including video, installation and sculpture through which to explore issues of repetition, fate and the uncanny. Meticulous mark making, repetitive construction techniques, and interplay between individual and collaborative work incite the viewer to question modes of temporality, authorship and futility.  Attending such residencies as the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Blue Mountain Center, Seven Below Arts Initiative and the LMCC Paris Program, among others, Iglesias has exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of spaces including the Queens Museum of Art and the Jersey City Museum.  A recipient of a 2009 NYFA Fellowship in Drawing and the 2009/2010 Urban Artists Initiative/NYC, Lisa also works collaboratively with her sister, Janelle under the name Las Hermanas Iglesias.   Her website address is www.LasHermanasIglesias.com.

PaperGirl
May 14th from 7-10pm.
Location: 2300 N. Davidson, Charlotte NC, 28205.  
**The ride and distribution will happen Saturday, May 15th from 1-4pm with volunteer riders meeting at the space

This year's Southern Holiday celebration is going to be kicked-off with the pure at heart PaperGirl Project and this is the final push for donations.

To sum it up, the whole idea is that a bunch of original art is donated by artists to be shown in a gallery and then taken down and given out on the streets for free by means of bicycle.  The whole idea started in Berlin in 2006 and recently it was done again in Portland, which is where Alex and Katie got the idea from. PaperGirl is aiming for about 300 PIECES to be collected so we NEED YOUR HELP to make that happen.  

If you want to submit art you can either mail to 6305 reafield dr. #14 Charlotte 28226 or drop it off at Binders Art Supplies and Frames, 284 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211.  

Also check out Point 8's blog posting, PaperGirl Celebrates Art on the Wall, in the Streets.

May 14th-23rd

Southern Holiday is a 10-day celebration of the arts, from May 14th to 23rd, that provides a break from the monotony of the daily grind.  In a grand collaboration between art institutions, artist collectives, rouge dancers and performers, all will be able to experience community arts projects, local and national visual art, guest lecturers, cookouts, experimental film, music and more.  Through uniting various artists and art communities, Southern Holiday brings together a barrage of stimuli sure to overwhelm, inspire, and expand what art is in Charlotte, NC.

Master list of stupendousness in order of appearance:
Events: PaperGirl, Culture Initiative, Cltblog, Machine Theatre, Kinnikinnik Record, Point 8 Forum, Performance Collaborative, The Light Factory, Charlotte Arts Catalysts, Dugg Dugg, the McColl Center for Visual Art (portfolio day), Blu MagazineRoller Derby Girls

Workshops: Interactive Surveillance by Annabel Manning and Celine Latulipe, Ink Floyd: printmaking, Machine Theatre: performance, CAC presents, Yoga Interventions, Pura Vida 

www.southernholidayisrad.com

April 25th, 4pm
Neighborhood Theatre, 511 East 36th Street
Admission: $3

Dugg Dugg presents a series of contemporary video art, curated by Ash Sechler, that reverberates and challenges controversial themes found in The Battle of Algiers.  With a site specific installation and one night viewing, Dugg Dugg's participation in The NoDa Film Festival is sure to excite. 

The NoDa Film Festival, God City, and the Light Factory present: The Battle of Algeriers

The most explosive film of the 1980's is one of the most important films today.  Three academy award nominations, banned in France in 1965, and screened by the Pentago in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq.