Lynsey Weatherspoon:::Art Battle Birmingham

Cauldron Projekts presents: Birmingham Art Battle from Lynsey Weatherspoon on Vimeo.

Magic City Art Connection:::Friday April 28th-Sunday May 1:::Linn Park

Tony Bingham

Willow Scott

Tia-Simone Gardner

Cauldron Projekts will host a booth at this years Magic City Art Connection where we will be distributing new work created by the team.  Come visit us sometime between Friday and Sunday and pick up one of Tony Bingham's beautiful pin hole images from West Birmingham, one of Willow Scott's ethereal drawing works, and participate in a postcard project with some of our favorite women and Tia-Simone Gardner.  

You can find us in Booth 333, just down the path from the information booth nearest the Linn-Henley Library.  (Don't worry, Magic City will provide maps).




Let's keep the spirit alive Cauldron.  If you curious as to what we have been up to since March, come by and visit us there.


Magic City Art Connection

Ballin 4 A Cause- Cauldron Projekts Closing Event with Birmingham Mpowerment Project and BAO

 

Mar 31st was a night of young, funky, supercharged individuals ready to showcase their extraordinary dance skills and superb fashion sense! Nigel Weatherspoon and DJ Se7en coaxed the exploding crowd of over 200 into a frenzy of avant garde performances.  The Ball included a sex education segment with Birmingham MPowerment Project and Birmingham Aids Outreach, which was eyeopening to many of the participants.  Birmingham Aids Outreach was there to pass out condoms, Mardi Gras beads, and other information about knowing your status!

 

                                                                                   

 

Watchwords Exhibition Opening

The last exhibition opening for WATCHWORDS was a complete success! The show was in response to such words as FREEDOM, CITIZENSHIP, PATRIOTISM, AND CIVIL RIGHTS.  The 9 artists exhibiting questioned all those topics and more.  There was even a surprise appearance by one of the artsts, Nikki Styles Baker.  Nikki's spoken word installation, Superblak, touched on the thought of a superhero named Superblak, and whether he or she could exist. 

LIVE ART, Friday March 18th 7p

as a part of our mission to support artists from disciplines in and outside of visual arts, we are excited to present a new action by Birmingham artist, Willow Scott.  Join us Friday March 18th at 7pm for an event in conjunction with our current exhibition, Homegrown: Contemporary Art from Alabama.   Whip It Live Art with Willow Scott will be an interactive performance work that brings together movement, public art, and painting.

   

The Recitation

 “Tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light…Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man.  What moves at the margin.  What it is to have no home in this place.  To be set adrift from the one you knew.  What it is to live at the edge of a town that cannot bear your company.”
-Toni Morrison

Since I decided that I could be an artist, I have been trying to create work that would allow me to explore a dialogue between Birmingham past and Birmingham present. 

Six months ago, I made a proposal to the Alabama Historical Comission to do a commemorative project for the May 2011 exhibition 'The Road to Equality.'  The exhibition is bringing together a group of artists who live along the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides.  My proposal was accepted, then began the task of collecting information and images, and to make sense my response to this new knowledge.
On today a group of women who agreed to be a part of this memorial gathered to execute this project, in the rain.  I thank God for allowing all this to happen.  From a thought, to a few sentences on paper, to this beautiful gathering of these beautiful human beings.
It's an awesome feeling to see your dream materialize.  It was a huge accomplishment that was not mine alone, and while it may not be perfect or thorough, the actualization of this project sparked a difficult but coveted growth spurt for me as an adult, as a woman, and a Birmingham being.  All the gratitude I can muster in my body goes to the following women for their participation in the project:

Ejella Gardner
Willow Scott
Sharifa Wip
Kathleen Hamrick
Simone Jones-Snelling
Tatum Preston
LaQuin Taylor
Catherine Burkes-Brooks
Sandra Sanders
Karen Percy
Tiffany Taylor
Jessica Latten
and Lynsey Weatherspoon

Join us in Montgomery at the historic Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station on May 20 to view the final work.

Tia-Simone Gardner
artist
educator
cauldron projekts team member

Homegrown-Opening Tuesday, March 8th 6p!!

Join us for our 2nd exhibition, Homegrown: Contemporary Art from Alabama! We will be featuring new work from all over the state.  Enjoy sound from the Cauldron Projekts in-house dj, Tony Bingham!

Tuesday, March 8th 6-9p

109 Richard Arrington Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35233