Sunday, May 22, 2011

jackal in, art in

I'm just getting back from an art event meeting. It's for a big exhibition I'm a part of for El Museo del Barrio's S-Files 2011. We meet at Socrates Park in Queens. Very exciting. Yesterday I had another meeting after work for another exciting project funded by the Puffin Foundation at Brook Park in the South Bronx (more on my website). For both spaces I will be doing my "Illegal Death" piece. meetings are great. Talking to adults is great. The weather has been pretty melancholy though adding a bit more stress to my already stressful life. My husband is super taking care of the kids while I go to work. I feel bad at times because he hasn't gotten a break this weekend- neither of us have breaks actually. We work and watch the kids. That's pretty much it. Add my parents to the mix- and home- and it becomes a festival for shattered nerves. What we do for art. Makes emails from the NYPL so incredibly remarkable, as if I were meeting a lover.

I decided that in order to continue reading Armes book, I was going to need to watch some films referenced. So one is in and I'm updating my blog. More soon after I watch:

El chacal de Nahueltoro
The Jackal of Nauhultoro
Dir Miguel Littin (b.1942) Chile

About Me

Alicia Grullon's projects consist of performances and photography in public spaces. She is interested in the connections between art and activism. She has exhibited at Mount Holyoke College’s Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Raritan Community College, Masur Museum of Art, the Peekskill Arts Festival, Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Hunter College Gallery and The University of Rhode Island. Awards include: Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2007-08, Chashama Visual Arts Award, Research Associateship at Mount Holyoke College, and Arts Council Korea International Artist Residency at Stone and Water Gallery in Anyang, South Korea. She’s participated in 2008’s Art in Odd Places Pedestrian and Jamaica Flux 2010 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.