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Family Day
As part of its efforts to increase community and youth involvement in Contemporary Art, White Box announces its new Family Day Program. Every Saturday 10-12, White Box invites families to experience its exhibits in an environment specially geared for families with young children. In order to engage children ages 6-10, White Box will have discussion and a special arts and crafts project coinciding with each exhibit. Please feel free to contact us for more information.
Family Days for 2008 will be:
June 14th (The SaLon)
June 21st (The SaLon)
June 28th (The SaLon)
July 19th (Six Feet Under)
July 26th (Six Feet Under)
August 2nd (Six Feet Under)
August 9th (Six Feet Under)
August 23rd (Welcome to Baghdad)
August 30th (Welcome to Baghdad)
September 6th (Welcome to Baghdad)
September 13th (Welcome to Baghdad)
September 20th (Welcome to Baghdad)
November 1st (Cynical Democracy)
November 8th (Cynical Democracy)
November 22nd (Light Up)
November 29th (Light Up)
December 6th (Light Up)
December 13th (Light Up)
December 20th (Light Up)
December 27th (Light Up)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS:
White Box has for years engaged in hosting community outreach exhibits and programs. One such example is the annual Nightshift exhibition, befitting of White Box’s mission and its role as a unique Chelsea non-profit outpost, is to nurture community-based Chelsea sub-groups of artists and non-artists. White Box offers these groups with needed exposure and with a professional opportunity rather then a job doing construction work, studio assist or paint and recondition exhibition and studio walls. At White Box these same groups of artists are invited to use its walls and exhibit their art, compete with the rest of Chelsea ’s best shows!
In sum, White Box opens its doors to the till now invisible artists and newcomers or those others ‘not-so-newcomers’, in hopes their careers will improve by they utilizing this once-a-year moment to shine and succeed, stumble by experiment, and ultimately learn and grow as artists.
Another exciting community outreach programs embraces the idea of finding a common interest: one that is shared between art and non-art residents working and/or living in Chelsea , including neighborhood schools, students and youth. One such common interest is art – fashion. It is no secret that art and fashion have always had a love affair, and the Chelsea High School of Fashion Industries therefore poses itself as an ideal venue to combine community outreach programs with. A school that nurtures innovation and creativity in the fashion industry, is a school of the future and for the future! At present White Box has inititated and is in the planning phase of a 2008 project that involves the many talented team of young art and fashion professionals, the Andrea Crew company from Europe , with the goal to produce am exhibit-program that will demonstrate
exciting “green” alternatives to old-fashioned fashion ideas. Essentially the project is based on the transformation of discarded clothing from the neighborhood into making new, fun and unique fashions, create a line of clothes that does not require the full-fledged industrial manufacturing machinery but instead can be done on an individual or ‘block party’ basis.
All Annual Community – Outreach Exhibitions are in part supported by charitable contributions from White Box Patrons and Friends. Corporate and individual sponsorship for these community outreach exhibits ad programs is suggested.
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The White Box Annual Trainee Program offers Interns apprenticeships and hands-on learning experiences by way of actively becoming part of WBX's dynamic exhibition program. Through the many individuals involved in the curatorial endeavor, (curators, installers, preparators and other outside professionals who volunteer to develop trainee intern skills) candidates receive a practical and non-traditional training that is next to impossible to acquire through traditional classroom-oriented studies.
White Box also hosts community – outreach exhibits and programs in conjunction with its Annual Exhibitions and Out-of-the-Box Exhibitions. Please go to and join us for our upcoming Internship program and for the fun and unique community - outreach programs. If you are a teacher or professor interested in including White Box as part of your school’s curriculum, please contact us at info@whiteboxny.org
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NIGHTSHIFT II: HIDDEN HANDS
A Community Project
Hosted by White Box
August 14, 2007– August 24, 2007
NIGHTSHIFT I
West Chelsea Art Handler - Artist Assistant - Gallery Assistants
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, July 26th, 6-9 pm
Viewing dates: July 26 – August 9, 2005
Scott Andresen / Robert Attanasio / Sascha Brawnig / Travis Choat / Bethany Izard / Kenny Komer / Nathan Gulick / John LaRocca / Jeremy Lawson / Margaret Lee / Jim Mattei / Michael Mckinney / Jeffrey Allen Price / Gary Rough/ John Ruggirello / Marie Ruggirello / Boris Rasin / Sean Ryan / Nelson Ricardo Savinon / Nina Schwanse / Brian Sette / Ramon Antonio Silva / Aaron Sinift / Steve Szabo / Jaret Vadera / Adam Winner
White Box is pleased to host Nightshift I, a group exhibition of artists who by day work in the trenches of the Chelsea arts community. They are art handlers, artist assistants and gallery assistants and at night use their time to pursue their own artistic endeavors. These individuals are part of a sizable sub-community who spend their daylight hours behind the scenes of the high profile Chelsea arts world while still managing to balance their time and commitments to their artistic practice.
This show includes painting, photography, sculpture, video, and installation and its focus is establish a dialogue between these artists-cum-arts industry labor force and those they work for. The prime objective is to give visibility of their bus-community to the Chelsea community at large. The exhibition attempts to demonstrate some of the strengths, benefits or obstacles their daily exposure and involvement in the Chelsea arts community has left a mark on their work. The overall show talks about a place where these artists are at once simultaneously supported, informed, enraged, enthused, indifferent and inspired.
ANNUAL WHITE BOX INTERN EXHIBITIONS:
Each year, at the end of the art season in August, White Box presents all its annual interns with the opportunity to culminate their training with a self-organized exhibition of their own work. White Box Interns are required to make a contribution to the organization’s overall operation by signing on to be trained in a broad range of curatorial and arts administration skills, tasks and responsibilities. At White Box Interns experience hands-on training and career development from its staff, its Board and White Box’s international network of arts professionals.
In the fall and spring semesters of each year Interns invest in their careers at White Box where individual attention is given to each Intern’s talents. Among the task at hand are day-to-day basic organizational management, manning the exhibition space, responding to general audiences in person or by phone at the reception desk, sending supervised replies to artists and curators’ emails, in addition maintain and update White Box’s multiple archives and databases. Most importantly, Interns get a first-hand chance by being involved in the planning, production and presentation of the annual exhibition and special programs as well as annual fundraising benefits. All those completing the Annual Intern program satisfactorily are then at the end of the year invited to organize and partake in their own exhibition.
The Annual Intern Program at White Box has in part received generous support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and from White Box Corporate and Individual Members.
 2007 ANNUAL INTERN SHOW:
CRUDE TECHNOLOGY: End of Season Selection
August 3 – August 24, 2007
Curated by 2006-07 Intern David Howe
Presented at The ANNEX,
an affiliate of White Box
601 West 26th Street, New York, NY
View photos of Crude Technology
Susan Conte / Marcy Cruthirds / Margaret Heinze / Laura Marte / Aileen Meehan / Ann Oren
In the 2007 edition Intern, David Howe with the consensus of selected Interns, decided to create the exhibition around the theme of Crude Technology. This year’s theme is the umbrella both Intern-Curator and Intern-Artists have taken to explore their art-making practice and see them from the perspective ‘communication’, with the added awareness of living and working in a super evolved tech-driven society. They are aware that with all the popular, beautiful, gleaming gadgets available everywhere, the overall tech-prowess of our communication age cannot be ignored. Regardless of this state of affairs, they have found that disparate tech and non-tech (crude) elements are there and can be manipulated, calibrated and brought into a cohesive whole that can reveal a concern vis-à-vis ‘communication’.
Even though the resulting works demonstrate that innovative thinking and research remain hidden beneath the often sophisticated and polished exterior, in Crude Technology the works show for the most part a disinterest in a tech-perfect finish and instead show the unrefined forms of technology, revealing a raw and crude aesthetics of sorts.
In sum, the technology this year’s Interns seem to hint at in Crude Technology is one that technology can be made used as a tool for hand-made, methodical constructions with which perhaps small, immediate cultural problems can be solved or may become a vehicle to ‘talk’ with. In the end, this year’s Interns’ exhibition shows that ‘communicating and talking’ to one another and the world is a prime aspiration of all art.
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