DGS NEWS

Glow: Dusk-to-Dawn

"While museums and galleries are fast asleep, Santa Monica will Glow with an entirely new way to experience art" says Marc Pally, Artistic Director of Glow. Ensuring the total transformation of the beach, Santa Monica Pier and the Palisades, another dozen of the region's innovators have been commissioned to create site-specific work that will engage viewers for the entire night of Glow's debut. A project of the City of Santa Monica in partnership with Bayside, the Pier Restoration Corporation and the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Go to www.glowsantamonica.org
to learn more. SEE YOU THERE!

Glow
Dusk-to-Dawn
Saturday
July 19, 2008
7:00 PM – 7:00 AM

Santa Monica Beach, Pier and Palisades Park

Cowboys & Presidents

The exhibit Cowboys & Presidents opens this weekend at the Autry National Center. The exhibit explores the fascinating and ongoing intersection of cowboy culture and presidential politics from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
Check out items such as LBJ's mini branding iron and Bill Clinton's childhood drawing of the film 'High Noon'. Don't forget to take the two polls (designed by DGS) in the voting booths in the exhibit!

Cowboys & Presidents runs April 12 - September 7
Autry National Center
              4700 Western Heritage Way
              Los Angeles, CA
 

CONGRATULATIONS...

...to Edgar and Fritz on their participation in the 2008 Whitney Biennial!

March 6-June 1, 2008

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
www.whitney.org

Pics from the Whitney Museum Bookstore, courtesy of Gretchen Larsen (New York's newest resident).

EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn

a project by Fritz Haeg

Book Release at the New York Public Libray
Friday, March 7, 2008
at 7:00 PM

Celeste Bartos Forum/Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street

In the fine company of Peter Sellars, Dolores Hayden, Frederick Kaufman, Shamim Momin & Paul Holdengräber

www.nypl.org

Make Some Light!

Artwork for one-night arts festival. Commissions for new artwork range from $500 to $2,000.

The City of Santa Monica is seeking proposals from artists and/or artist teams for temporary art installations for the city's newest event, Glow. For one night, the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica Beach, Palisades Park and surrounding areas will host unique and diverse temporary artworks. Inspired by Paris' all-night festival, Nuit Blanche, Glow is also partly in homage to the California grunion, a native fish that comes ashore during spring and summer months to spawn on local beaches, thereby creating a momentary iridescent glimmer. The Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division is pleased to invite artists to partake in this unprecedented nighttime event by submitting proposals for artwork.

Go to www.glowsantamonica.org (designed by you know who!) to get all the details and some effervescence.

Happy New Year!

This week ushers in the Chinese New Year—the year of the rat. What better way to celebrate than to come on down to Chinatown for the annual New Year's Parade? Find out all the information about the parade and much, much more about Chinatown at the newly launched ChinatownLA.com. At the new site you can learn about the history of Los Angeles' Chinatown, where to eat and shop during your visit, or find out about upcoming special events.

The 109th Annual Golden Dragon Parade
Saturday, February 9 from 2pm- 5pm

Parting is such sweet sorrow

2008 brings a world of new beginnings for the folks here at DGS. Our dear friend and partner, Gretchen Larsen, has left the West Coast for adventure in the Big Apple. Ever since we all can remember, Gretchen has been talking about the lure of New York City. We wish her all the best as she starts her journey and she'll be missed here more than she'll ever know.

Her Best Work Yet: It's a Girl!

We are proud to announce that Liz had her baby, an adorable little girl, on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 10:30am. Agnes Van Anderson weighs 7lbs 9oz and is 20.5" in length. Everything went perfectly smoothly with the delivery and Mom, Baby and Dad are all healthy, happy and doing great!

The Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid Book Release Party Nov. 7

Please join Department of Graphic Sciences, Gallery 400, WhiteWalls & Susanne Vielmetter in toasting the release of The Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid, the book supporting the multi-media installation work of the same name by Edgar Arceneaux. Featuring video pieces from the 2006 exhibition, the evening will include a dramatic reading by David Alan Grier and book signing by Edgar and David.

WhiteWalls will also present its latest books, The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets and Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68 with a reading by a special guest, and a Sun Ra-inspired video installation by artists Robby Herbst and Karl Erickson.

Wednesday, November 7, 6-9pm

LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90034
323.951.9790 | www.laxart.org

Edgar Arceneaux and the hosts enthusiastically thank LA><ART for the generous donation of their space for this event.

Our Name (and our work) in Print

Ever wonder what the heck people mean by "award-winning design"? We found out the fun way when two of our book designs made into Print magazine's Regional Design Annual for 2007. The Fair Exchange catalogue and The Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid by Edgar Arceneaux both grace the pages of this esteemed design publication. We are so thrilled! Check out the post on the book release party for Alchemy of Comedy for your chance to see what the hub-bub is all about.