Bemis $100 Art Sale
The Bemis Center is hosting their famous fundraiser-the $100 Art Sale with all proceeds benefiting the bemisUNDERGROUND. On June 8th, the fee is $10 at the door for a chance to snatch up some great work and help fund the projects, exhibitions, and opportunities available at the UNDERGROUND. An event in which not only can [...]
“The Rainbow”
The Bemis Center has announced that it is commissioning Michael Jones McKean’s project “The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms.” It is a real-yet-scientifically fabricated rainbow, a public artwork outside the Bemis Center, appearing twice every sunny day beginning June 21st. The Bemis’ ever-searching intuition has found a very new gallery — [...]
June 21st
“FEA$T”
The Bemis Center just announced that they will be hosting “FEA$T,” which is an acronym for Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics, on Saturday, May 19th at 6:30 p.m. The event will consist of a dinner which will be attended by donors of a “micro-grant” (at a minimum of $10) wherein 5-7 artists will propose [...]
FEA$T
“FEA$T” will consist of a dinner which will attended by donors of a “micro-grant” (at a minimum of $10) wherein 5-7 artists will propose projects in need of funds. The deadline for artist submissions is Tuesday, May 7th and the winning project will be presented at the subsequent FEA$T. Each patron/diner will vote on which [...]
“Leslie Shows”
The Bemis Center is hosting an opening reception for their latest feature exhibit by San Francisco-based artist Leslie Shows on Friday, April 27th from 6-9 p.m. The artist began her work as an artist in residence in Spring 2011. The first part of the exhibit includes large scale works that are made of many heavy, [...]
Art21 season 6 premiere
The first episode of season 6 of “Art:21,” a PBS series about current trends in the contemporary art world will be shown as a sneak preview at Bemis Center on Thursday April 12th at 7 p.m. The episode title is “Change” and featured artists in the series will include: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, [...]
Tatsuya Nakatani
Music returns to the Bemis Center with a special one night performance by percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani on Saturday,April 7th at 9 p.m. From Osaka, Japan, Nakatani performs with instruments he made himself including drums, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects. Melding aural experience, performance, creation and composition, the Bemis will be host [...]
First Thursday Art Talk for April at Bemis Center
Art encompasses all sensory experience and as with literature, each viewer or reader brings a different perspective which is not always congruent with the artist’s process and inspiration not to mention intent. Thus, the importance of the Art Talk. On Thursday April 5th, Bemis will have three of their artists in residence show their work [...]
Bemis Open Studios
The Bemis Center’s artists-in-residence are opening their studios on Saturday, March 24th from 1-3 p.m. Currently, there are 11 artists in residence, and the event is free and open to the public. The artist-in-residence program is a fundamental part of the Bemis’ core mission and according to the press statement, “Open Studios represents a chance [...]
March Art Talk
The first day of March is a Thursday, which means another First Thursday Art Talk at the Bemis! This month’s artists-in-residence speakers are Andrew Kerton, Elisabeth Higgins-O’Connor, and Carly Silverman. Come listen to artists speak about their work and get a chance to ask them questions or chat after the talk! From the Bemis Center: Andrew [...]
