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Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala in Two Parts 2021

Part 1: Saturday, June 26, 2021 – SOLD OUT

 

Part 2: Saturday, October 2, 2021

Jennie Prebor & Fred Fisher Residence

 

Reception: 2:00 pm | Mexican Luncheon & Award Program: 3:00 pm 

Porfirio Gutiérrez Studio Pop-up & Curated Oaxacan Marketplace

Proceeds benefit Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation artist and education programs.

 

All levels include reception, luncheon & award program, and limited edition Oaxacan marketplace guide

For added comfort of all guests, we kindly ask that you provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination

Contact: Frederick Janka, Executive Director, [email protected] or 646.334.1006.

 

Quantity:Ticket Type:Amount:Description:
Lead Underwriter table for 10 guests5000.00 USDDeluxe Oaxacan Host Basket Your guests will each receive a hand woven basket from Oaxaca designed exclusively for this event (value of goods: $550, not tax-deductible)
Underwriter Table for 8 guests2500.00 USDOaxacan Host Basket Your guests will each receive a hand woven basket from Oaxaca designed exclusively for this event (value of goods: $450, not tax-deductible)
Underwriter Ticket (s) for 2 guests1000.00 USDOaxacan Gift Basket, and 2 tokens for 2 “marketplace add-ons” (value of goods: $160, not tax deductible)
VIP Sponsor Ticket(s) for 2 guests500.00 USDOaxacan Gift Basket, and 1 token for 1 “marketplace add-on” (value of goods: $140, not tax deductible)
VIP Sponsor Ticket(s) per guest250.00 USDOaxacan Gift Basket, and 1 token for 1 “marketplace add-on” (value of goods: $140, not tax deductible)
Patron Ticket (s) per guest150.00 USDA hand woven basket from Oaxaca designed exclusively for this event (value of goods: $50, not tax-deductible)
Underwrite an Artist Ticket150.00 USDI would like to underwrite ticket (s) for special artist guests
Your confirmation will be emailed after payment is complete

 

All levels include reception, luncheon & award program, and limited edition Oaxacan marketplace guide

For added comfort of all guests, we kindly ask that you provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination

Contact: Frederick Janka, Executive Director, [email protected] or 646.334.1006.

Art Prize, Foundation News, Minneapolis

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prizes 2021

(Left) Porfirio Gutiérrez, by Joe Coca (Right) Jovan C. Speller

Ojai, California – The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 awards. The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize will be awarded to Porfirio Gutiérrez, Mexican American, Zapotec textile artist, based in Ventura, California. The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize will be awarded to Jovan C. Speller, Minneapolis based artist. Both prizes include exhibition projects at the Ojai Institute in Ojai, the artist centric initiative of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation. “Porfirio and Jovan have both taken deep dives into their ancestral land and cosmologies in their respective practices and it is an honor to celebrate them and the dynamic legacies they have inherited.” Frederick Janka, Executive Director, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.

The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize consists of an unrestricted gift of $10,000. Previous prize recipients include Tanya Aguiñiga (2020), Kelly Akashi (2019), Ry Rocklen (2018), and Rob Fischer (2017). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Southern California.

The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize consists of an unrestricted gift of $5,000. Previous prize recipients include Dyani White Hawk (2020), David Rathman (2019). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Minnesota.

Artist Biographies:

Mexican American, Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez was born and raised in the richly historic Zapotec textile community of Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico. His life’s work has been reviving and preserving traditional Zapotec natural dyeing techniques, with a focus on reinterpreting traditional textiles and materials. 

Living and working in both Southern California, United States, and Oaxaca, Mexico, Gutiérrez’s practice brings awareness to a profound spiritual belief that nature is a living being, sacred, and divine. His expression in the arts resolves the apparent conflict between ancient and modern – between a hands-on life where one creates everything from the food one eats to the clothes one wears, versus an urban life where needs are met through complex systems of interacting mechanisms. He resolves the apparent dichotomy by integrating, reinterpreting, and incorporating the symbols and natural materials that have held meaning for thousands of years.  

The story of his art has been told in The New York Times and on PBS. He has been featured in Vogue Australia and American Indian Magazine of Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In 2015, Porfirio received the Smithsonian Institute Artist in Leadership fellowship award, his work is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Fomento Cultural Banamex, and the National Museum of American Indian Smithsonian Institution. A selection of the Gutiérrez dye materials was documented and added to Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection, the world-renowned archive of artist materials.

Artist website: www.porfiriogutierrez.com

Jovan C. Speller is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Her work – visual, textual and performative – interprets historic narratives through contemporary discourse. Her research based practice is centered around elevating, complicating and inventing stories that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory – making the intangible tangible and the invisible visible.

Jovan holds a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, and studied art at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a recipient of a 2018 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a 2018 Next Step Fund Grant, and a 2016 Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship. She recently completed an artist residency at Second Shift Studio Space in St. Paul. Jovan is represented by Aspect/Ratio Projects in Chicago, IL. Her work has been published and is privately collected. Her artwork, I Just Came Across the River, 2017, (2020.57) was acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) in 2020.

Artist website: www.jovanspeller.com

Contact: Frederick Janka, Executive Director, [email protected] or 646.334.1006

Art Prize, Events, Foundation News

#TravelWithArtists Camping in Baja California, Mexico with Tanya Aguiñiga: Friday, May 22, 2020

As part of our #GiveToArtists campaign, we are pleased to kick off our #TravelwithArtists series of virtual trips. We hope you’ll join us live or view it afterwards. We love to travel as we’re sure you do too. Since most of us are staying in place, we’ve invited artists to lead us on virtual travel adventures and satisfy our wanderlust. Registration is free, let’s go!

Camping in Baja California, Mexico with Tanya Aguiñiga
Friday, May 22, 5:00pm
Zoom (register here)

Kick off this Memorial Day weekend with a cold beer and some fish tacos (in your own home) as we explore Baja California through the eyes of Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson Tanya Aguiñiga. Tanya is the recipient of the 2020 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize.

Tanya Aguiñiga and her family have been camping in Baja California, Mexico, for the last 41 consecutive years, and it is Tanya’s absolute pleasure, passion, and honor to show people the beauty and history of Baja Norte and Sur. She will take us on a journey from Los Angeles all the way to Bahía Concepción (Baja Sur), stopping at her favorite places on both the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez. This virtual trip will include cave paintings and Alexander Gustave Eiffel’s stainless steel church in the desert called Iglesia de Santa Bárbara, as well as yurts in the middle of a Baja oasis. Also included is her emergency packing list must haves and preferred routes for scenic, cultural, or quick escapes. We’ll also virtually visit the Valle de Guadalupe wine region, for a peek at amazing up-cycled architecture.

Zoom (register here) After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Dear Friends,

I would like to make this appeal to you for your support during this great time of uncertainty. Our organization, like many others, was planning for a major fundraiser at the end of May.

Today, instead of gala tickets and tables and sponsorships, we’re inviting you, if you can, to make a donation in any amount to support the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala Month. Join us in giving to artists! All of our fundraising efforts this month will go to our Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prizes.

Follow along as we share our #GiveToArtists campaign during our Art Prize Month of May.

Art Prize, Foundation News, Minneapolis, Ojai Institute

Announcing the 2020 Art Prizes!

(Left) Tanya Aguiñiga by Katie Levine (Right) Dyani White Hawk by D.E. Studio

The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Art Prizes. The ​Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize​ will be awarded to Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson ​Tanya ​Aguiñiga​. The ​Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize will be awarded to Minneapolis based artist ​Dyani White Hawk​. Both prizes include projects at the Ojai Institute in Ojai, California, the artist centric initiative of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.

Both artists will be honored at the Art Prize Gala on Saturday, May 30, 2020 during the Ojai Institute Artist & Ideas Festival (May 29-31, 2020) in Ojai. Please save the date. 

The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize consists of an unrestricted grant of $10,000. Previous prize recipients include Kelly Akashi (2019), Ry Rocklen (2018), and Rob Fischer (2017). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Southern California.

The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize consists of an unrestricted grant of $5,000. Previous prize recipients include David Rathman (2019). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Minnesota.

Artist Biographies:

Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists’ group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Her current work uses craft as a performative medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture and gender while creating community. This approach has helped Museums and non-profits in the United States and Mexico diversify their audiences by connecting marginalized communities through collaboration.

Recent museum exhibitions include Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. and Craft and Care at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Aguiñiga is a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC and Creative Capital Grant Awardee. She is the inaugural fellow for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. The award supported her creative work in communities throughout 2018 with AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of artist interventions and commuter collaborations that address bi-national transition and identity in the US/Mexico border regions, founded by Aguiniga in 2016. AMBOS seeks to create a greater sense of interconnectedness while simultaneously documenting the United States / Mexico border.

Current and upcoming solo projects include: Metabolizing the Border performance, Otay and Tijuana Border, US and Mexico; Borderlands Within, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, and Transfronterizas, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 

Aguiñiga has been the subject of numerous articles for American Craft Magazine. She has been featured in PBS’s Craft in America Series, as well as in episodes of the Emmy® award-winning arts and cultures series, Artbound, from KCET. Her work is included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Decorative Arts collection and Contemporary Arts collection, as well as in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and The Mint Museum in Charlotte. 

Visit the artist’s website here: www.tanyaaguiniga.com

Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a visual artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. White Hawk earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011-2015.

Recent support for White Hawk’s work has included 2019 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, 2019 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art, 2019 Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship, 2019 Forecast for Public Art Mid-Career Development Grant, 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, 2017 and 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships, 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and 2013/14 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship.

Upcoming projects include: a two person presentation with Sky Hopinka by Bockley Gallery at The Armory Show in the 2020 Focus section; solo exhibitions at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, later this year and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri in 2021, and a residency at Surf Point Foundation also this year. 

She has participated in residencies in New Orleans, Santa Fe, Australia, Russia and Germany. Her work is in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Tweed Museum of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and Akta Lakota Museum among many other public and private collections.

Visit the artist’s website here: www.dyaniwhitehawk.com

Contact: Frederick Janka, Executive Director, [email protected] or 646.334.1006

Art Prize, Events, Foundation News, Minneapolis

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize Gala Brunch Celebrating David Rathman, Saturday, September 14, 11 AM

 

Quantity:Ticket Type:Amount:Description:
Patron Ticket (s) per guest150.00 USDincludes preview reception, chef’s brunch at Bellecour, and award program
VIP Sponsor Ticket (s) for two guests Ticket (s) for two guests500.00 USDincludes the benefits of the Patron Ticket plus invitations to kickoff party on September 13 and September 15 event program the benefits of the VIP Sponsor Ticket plus a “Founders Level” Ojai Institute membership for one year
Underwriter Ticket (s) for two guests1000.00 USDincludes the benefits of the VIP Sponsor Ticket plus a “Founders Level” Ojai Institute membership for one year
Underwriter Table for eight guests2500.00 USDincludes the benefits of the VIP Sponsor Ticket plus a “Founders Level” Ojai Institute membership for one year
Underwrite an Artist Ticket150.00 USDI would like to underwrite ticket (s) for special artist guests
Your confirmation will be emailed after payment is complete

Contact:
Frederick Janka, Executive Director
646.334.1006 or [email protected]

Art Prize, Events, Exhibitions, Foundation News, Uncategorized

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize Weekend: September 13-15, 2019

You are invited to join us for a very special weekend in Minneapolis, September 13-15, 2019 as we inaugurate the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize.

Over the course of three days, our Minnesota Art Prize Weekend will feature a benefit exhibition hosted by Burnet Fine Art in Wayzata, Fierce Generosity 2.0, with 25% of art sales directly benefiting the launch of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize. The recipient of the inaugural prize is David Rathman, a Minneapolis based artist who’s talent and need are deserving of a $5,000 unrestricted cash grant, and a residency in Ojai at the Ojai Institute, a new initiative of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation. The weekend will also feature a kickoff dinner at the Morrison Family Residence on Wayzata Bay, a benefit Gala Brunch at the critically acclaimed Bellecour restaurant, an artist panel discussion, artist studio visits, and a visit to the private art collection of Peggy & Ralph Burnet.

Learn more about David Rathman by listening to this podcast conversation with the artist and Frederick Janka, Executive Director.

Quantity:Ticket Type:Amount:Description:
Underwriter Table for ten guests2500.00 USDincludes the benefits of the VIP Sponsor Ticket plus a “Founders Level” Ojai Institute membership for one year
Underwriter Ticket (s) for two guests1000.00 USDincludes the benefits of the VIP Sponsor Ticket plus a “Founders Level” Ojai Institute membership for one year
VIP Sponsor Ticket (s) for two guests500.00 USDincludes the benefits of the Patron Ticket plus invitations to kickoff party on September 13 and September 15 event program
VIP Sponsor Ticket (s) per guest250.00 USDincludes the benefits of the Patron Ticket plus invitations to kickoff party on September 13 and September 15 event program
Patron Ticket (s) per guest150.00 USDincludes preview reception, chef’s brunch at Bellecour, and award program
Underwrite an Artist Ticket150.00 USDI would like to underwrite ticket (s) for special artist guests
Kickoff Party Ticket50.00 USDincludes kickoff party at the Morrison Family Residence and buffet dinner, Wayzata Bay, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
September 15 Event Program50.00 USDincludes private collection visit and an artists' brunch
All inclusive Art Journey Single Occupancy1500.00 USDIncludes all Minnesota Art Prize Weekend events, as well as underwriter level tickets and benefits, and hotel accommodations.
All inclusive Art Journey Double Occupancy2000.00 USDIncludes all Minnesota Art Prize Weekend events, as well as underwriter level tickets and benefits, and hotel accommodations.
Your confirmation will be emailed after payment is complete
Art Prize, Events, Foundation News

Sold Out! Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala Saturday June 29, 2018

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala Celebrating Kelly Akashi

Saturday, June, 29, 2019
Cocktail Reception: 6:00 pm
Chef’s Dinner & Award Program: 7:00 pm
Private Residence, Ojai

Silent Auction of artworks and experiences

On Saturday, June 29 the 2019 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala will take place at a private residence in Ojai and will be an evening celebrating Kelly Akashi. The Art Prize Gala provides a critical financial support for efforts at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation including the Ojai Institute.

Kelly Akashi’s works have a gravitational pull that focuses on her innovative use of material and interest in both exploring and exposing the artistic process. She is constantly challenging assumptions of use, while creating incredibly smart and awe inspiring artworks. Living and working in Los Angeles, Akashi is represented by Ghebaly Gallery, where her most recent and critically acclaimed solo exhibition took place. Akashi’s first museum solo exhibition took place in 2017 at SculptureCenter, New York, and she was featured in the 2016 Made in LA Biennial: a, the, though, only at the Hammer Museum. Other institutions that have exhibited her works in major exhibitions include Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, and Jewish Museum, New York. Her works reside in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.

The prize consists of a $10,000 unrestricted cash grant, an artist residency in Ojai, and a solo exhibition at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation. Kelly Akashi in Residence will be on view June 29 – Ongoing. The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists of merit living in Southern California with an interest in creating deeper engagement with the Ojai Valley community.

Host Committee:

Nora & Bob Ackerley, Chris Bailey, Megan & Christine Bense, John Connelly, Veronica M. Fernandez, Jennie Prebor & Fred Fisher, Pam & Rob Frame, Lila Glasoe Francese & Dines Francese, François Ghebaly, Leslie Golden, Brooke Gregson, Corinne Bordeau & Andy Koski, Bruce Mason, Suzanne & Gilbert Mathews, Lisa Casoni & Heather Stobo, Danielle Rago, Laurie & Marc Recordon, Honora Shea, Wendy Wheeler Smith, Christine Steiner, Seyburn Zorthian.  As of May 15.

Sponsors:

Ameriprise Financial, Beato Chocolates, Buttonwood Winery, Found 203, Lorraine Lim Catering, OHI Home, Porch Gallery Ojai, Law Office of Christine Steiner, THIS X THAT

 

Art Prize, Foundation News

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize 2019: Kelly Akashi

Announcing the 2019 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2019 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize is Los Angeles based artist Kelly Akashi. The prize consists of a $10,000 unrestricted cash grant, an artist residency in Ojai, and a solo exhibition at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation. Previous prize recipients include Ry Rocklen (2018) and Rob Fischer (2017). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists of merit living in Southern California with an interest in creating deeper engagement with the Ojai Valley community.

Akashi will be honored at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala on Saturday June 29, 2019 in Ojai, and the exhibition Kelly Akashi in Residence will be on view from June 29 – September 23, 2019. Click for more information about the Art Prize Gala and tables and tickets.

Akashi has exhibited nationally and internationally and was recently featured in the 2016 exhibition Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum. Her most recent solo institutional exhibition Long Exposure at SculptureCenter in New York in 2017 was curated by Ruba Katrib. An excerpt from Katrib’s essay Kelly Akashi – In the middle: “Her works revel in micro interactions, spinning out through the various details and associations she can actualize within a tangible form. Akashi slows down and speeds up the processes of turning a material or an effect into a thing, creating a growing lexicon of inherent and internal material qualities.”

Frederick Janka, Executive Director, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, and curator of Kelly Akashi in Residence is currently working with the artist to develop her exhibition through multiple site visits to Ojai to meet creatives and makers that will inform the exhibition. Janka says: “Akashi’s works have a gravitational pull that focuses on her innovative use of material and interest in both exploring and exposing the artistic process. She is constantly challenging assumptions of use, while creating incredibly smart and awe inspiring artworks.”

Listen to the our Podcast here: Episode: Kelly Akashi in Conversation with Frederick Janka, Executive Director

About Kelly Akashi:
Kelly Akashi (born in 1983, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions include Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Long Exposure, SculptureCenter, New York (2017); Being as a Thing, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); &, Tomorrow Gallery, New York (2015); and SSOftllY, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Tissue of Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, New York (2018), Pine Barrens, Tanya Bonakdar, New York (2018); Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London (2017); Lyric on a Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York (2017); LA: A Fiction, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (2017); Take Me (I’m Yours), Jewish Museum, New York (2016); Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2016); and Made in LA: a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016). Her works reside in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; CC Foundation, Shanghai; M Woods, Beijing; and Sifang Museum, Nanjing.

Recent Press About Kelly Akashi:

ArtNEWS

Kelly Akashi Wins Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize
Kelly Akashi at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

Art Daily

Kelly Akashi is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Art in America

Reviews: Kelly Akashi at Francois Ghebaly

V Magazine

The New Vision: Kelly Akashi