I’m playing a show on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
Lazer Crystal, Juiceboxxx, Pooper & Pizza Dog.
Pilsen Haus
1850 S. Blue Island
10pm
$5 donation

http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/pitchfork-music-festival/87272/bitchpork-festival-2010

I had a holler in Time Out Chicago as one of the acts to see. they said I wouldn’t ever be in a Starbucks compilation. Wait till they hear my Xmas song “Turkey Dance”, a follow up to the “Ham Dance”.  Hee hee.

I am playing Bitchpork on Sunday, July 18.
Pizza Dog is also playing!

Here are our slots:

A 7:40 Pizzadog
O 8:00 daniel lutz (our ex-roomie plays outside)
A 8:20 Pooper

Friday, July 9, 2010

10am Doodlenutz, a drawing event hosted by Pooper and Pizza Dog
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We are drawing with folks at 10am on Friday at the MCA. Get ready for “Pizza Corpse”, “Fax Machine” and other drawing collabs. But that’s not all, there is lots more happening at Club Nutz after our hour of fun in the club!

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11am 3-D video screening of Rasmalai Dreams by Xav Leplae
Noon – 1:30pm Get Nutz open-mic: tell a joke and win a prize!
1:30pm – TBD
2:30pm – Bernie Circuits, robot comedian
3-3:20pm – Sonata in 2-D performance by Scott and Tyson Reeder
3:30-5pm DJ Nevin Tomlison

MCA info page
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=251

Facebook Club Nutz at MCA page
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129180683782041

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611

Me and Thorne are showing/raffling work off in this benefit/art raffle.
Please come and check it out.
It’s for our artist residency we are attending this August.

ACRE Summer Benefit
Venue: Johalla Projects
Auction,Party: 9 July 2010, 6:00pm–11:00pm
Address: 1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Cost: $10

ACRE‘s boredom-banishing night of art, music, and mirth. Even the broke among us can win stellar contemporary art from Chicago and beyond! Plus the folks from the The Hornswaggler Bar will be on hand providing unique refreshments.

Raffle and auction items include paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture by local Chicago artists and ACRE’s 2010 residents. Entrance is $10, which includes 3 raffle tickets and a door gift. Additional tickets can be purchased for $4, or you can get 7 tickets for $20. The silent auction closes and raffle winners are announced at 10:30pm. Funds raised go toward ACRE’s inaugural summer residency.

Featuring work by over 30 artists including Caitlin Arnold, Alex Chitty, Ben Driggs, Paul Ershen, Scott Fortino, Rebecca Gordon, Elisa Harkins, Kelly Kaczynski, Irena Knezevic, Young Joon Kwak, Jason Lazarus, Aliza Morell, Heidi Norton, Jennifer Ray, Matt Siber, Montgomery Perry Smith, Greg Stimac, Brian Ulrich and more.

I’m excited!  We are playing a show with Mahjongg next week in STL.  Should be fun!

This must be the Winter of Art Auctions, because I was asked to participate in 2 in one week.  Tonight’s art auction is to benefit Haiti.  I really want to go but it’s all the way up in Evanston, that’s a little too far for biking, even though the weather is a balmy 34 degrees Fahrenheit.

Cash bar, great food and silent auction featuring artworks by over 50 artists from all over the world. Entry by donation.

Here to  preview work.

Friday, February 19th
Early viewing 4pm
Auction bidding 6-10 pm
518 Davis (Chicago and Davis)
Three blocks east of Davis St. Purple line
Evanston, Illinois

All proceeds of artworks will go to UNICEF. All cash bar proceeds will go to the Andrew Grene Haiti Foundation.

Including works by: Angel Otero, Justin B. Williams, Alex Lukas, Alyssa Doren. Sean Keenan, Thomas Stavnes, Max Roseglass, Maureen Gubia, Ben Bauman, Jordan Nickel, Moira Connelly, Osvaldo Budet, Thomas Roach, Mario Martinez, Jason Lazarus, Garrett Munski, Elisa Harkins, Aislinn Jefferies, Zebadiah Arrington, Joshua Abelow, Nina Hartmann, Candida Alvarez, Nick Jaskey, Michael Gerkovich, Bobby Burg, Jeremy Bolen, Derek Erdman, Cody Hudson, Evan Robarts, Aliza Nisenbaum, Tisch Abelow, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Scott Keightley, Ames Gerould, Coleen Self, Thomas Cowan, Matias Arganaraz, Ryan Ingebritson, Marion Ramos, Orion Martin, Diego Leclery, Judith Geichman, Dana DeGiulio, Nina Rizzo, Matt Ostroff, Doug Huston

Curated by Tessa Perutz

The Foundation is named in memory of Andrew Grene who perished in Port au Prince with so many thousand others in the earthquake of January 12th 2010. His belief in the joy, spirit, and potential of all people was an inspiration to those who knew him. www.andrewgrenefoundation.org

It was very exciting to be a part of the Johalla Projects Art Auction!  Also it was listed as one of Chicago’s hottest Winter events.  (We need as many as we can get!) http://johallaprojects.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/10-hottest-winter-events-in-chicago-chicagotribune-com/

I’m playing at the Ottoman Empire on Feb. 10 with Juiceboxxx, Pizza Dog and TomTomTomBoy.

I’m playing a show Wednesday with Lizz King and Breezee One.  It’s a benefit for Every Drop Counts, an organization sending water to Haiti.  It’s with the nice folks at Black Market Caviar (1945 W. Chicago).  There is an $8 dollar suggested donation. http://everydropchi.com

We got to be part of a really cool thing at Design Miami.

Workshop Workshop, a factory and salon created by artist Jim Drain, poet P. Scott Cunningham, and sculptor Graham Hudson, produces zines that respond to Design/Miami itself–its participants, objects, conversations, histories, narratives, suggestions and shapes. Even the detritus of the tent’s construction has been put to use by Hudson, who is in the act of constructing the space using leftover lumber, rubber, plastic, furniture–anything the fair and the city (the larger fair) has cast off. In Workshop Workshop, physical and metaphysical byproducts are recycled and put to use, creating an environment, a process, and a series of work that represents the heightened interplay that occurs in Miami each December, and creates a locus for collaboration.

Drain, Cunningham and Hudson will draw from a rotating–and ever-expanding–crew of local and international artists, designers and writers, in order to produce as many zines as it can during the length of fair, with as diverse a range of content as possible.

zine [zeen]

1. An abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine
2. A handmade journal, with small circulations and hyperlocal aesthetics, that maximizes the two-dimensional intersection of image and text, using both original and appropriated content.
3. Any self-published work of minority interest reproduced via photocopier.

Completed zines cost $5.00 each or can be bartered for intellectual property.

Proceeds will be donated to two local non-profits, Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist-run exhibition space, and the University of Wynwood, a literature advocacy organization.