Boneyard Arts Festival 2005

April 15 & 16

In conjunction with the 2005 Boneyard Arts Festival, OPENSOURCE Art will host several events on Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16, including:

+ an exhibition of the Danville Area Community College HIV/AIDS Awareness Project (featuring Richard Wilson and DACC students)

+ an OPENSOURCE Members’ exhibition

+ a dance performance choreographed by Jessica Ray

+ an improvised dance performance by HUB

The gallery will be open to the public for no charge on Friday (opening reception) from 5 to 11pm and Saturday from 10am to 7pm. OPENSOURCE Art is located in north downtown Champaign at the corner of Neil and Washington Streets (12 E. Washington St.).

Danville Area Community College HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
an exhibition featuring artwork by Richard Wilson and DACC students

This event is an extension of the HIV Prevention across the Curriculum project from the fall of 2004 where a prevention fair showcased student work in a variety of media, from creative writing, to visual arts and service learning activities. The art to be displayed at OPENSOURCE is the culmination of informational visits to the classroom from persons with HIV and community health workers. A play, “One
Night, No Escape,” which was written and performed by students will be shown. Maurice Miller, M.A., psychology instructor at DACC, will facilitate a discussion of HIV issues at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 16. Also, students will solicit video interviews from visitors to the gallery. A highlight of the exhibit will be the documentation of the
prevention project and fair as seen through the lenses of various DACC photographers. The artist in residence for the project, Richard Wilson, a 20-year veteran photojournalist, guided the creation of the art and photography. The photos document the project in an art form best described as social sculpture, which reveals the process through which art is created and is effecting social change.

Richard Wilson has been photographing the parts of the world which get his attention for fifty one years now. He has been shooting clubland since Harrah and The Mudd Club in NYC in 1967 and was Studio 54’s photographer from the day it opened until it closed.

This project is sponsored by DACC's Liberal Arts Division, the Vermilion County AIDS Task Force, and the American Association of Community College's Bridges to Healthy Community Project. For more information about Danville Area Community College and the HIV Prevention project, call the DACC Liberal Arts Division at (217) 443-8724 or email dstrong@dacc.edu.

Ear to the Ground
dance performance choreographed by UIUC MFA candidate Jessica Ray

MFA candidate Jessica Ray presents an adapted version of her thesis choreography on Friday the 15th at 7:30 & 8:30pm featuring dancers Tess Dworman, Virginia Munday, and Beth Veile. “Ear to the Ground” presents a world of waiting, waiting nervously, until finally and decisively reacting. Spliced into an underlying flow of shifting spatial design are moments of abrupt change, as if the dancer was caught off guard, feeling a cold chill from an open window. From large bursts of movement that circle and fall, gestures of recuperation resolve their efforts subtle and slow, with knowing and intense eyes. Metaphorically they listen to a rumble in the distance, until they can wait no longer and they noisily assert their own desires while never leaving the company of the other women.

HUB Dance Performance
site-specific improvisational movement

This local, non-traditional dance troupe will perform improvised dances on Saturday the 16th at 2:30pm. HUB’s mission is “to peel back the diverse layers of this thing called dance – to make it well-known, accessible, comfortable and as necessary as air.” For more information on HUB, visit http://www.freewebs.com/hub_dance/.

OPENSOURCE Members Exhibition
an exhibition of OPENSOURCE artists

Several members of the OPENSOURCE Art collective will display their artwork in the gallery. Artists include S. J. Hart, J. Meredith Warner, and Lindsey Caplice.

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