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Latest active members:
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  4. Kaylea Stoeltzing
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  3. Kate Howard
  4. Joe Grice
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  1. Transcendence
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  2. Ultraviolet Brain Spill
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  3. Manifestation
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  4. Within the depths of stillness
    Britnee Ruppert

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Mellowphone Printing Open House and Porch Party :: JTNY
Posted May 10, 2012

Our friends at Mellowphone Printing and Good City Records are having a little shindig to celebrate moving into a new building and having a sweet new front porch on which to loiter.

Mellowphone will be having a cookout, providing refreshments, and showing off their new print shop space. http://www.facebook.com/mellowphoneprinting

Good City Records will be open normal Saturday hours (noon-5) and will have a porch sale going on all day. http://www.facebook.com/goodcityrecords

Furniture City Foods will be providing local, grass-fed beef from Green Heron growers, along with some vegetarian options. They will also have information available for anyone who may be interested in joining their buying club. http://www.facebook.com/furniturecityfoods

The party will end around 5 or 6 pm with a group bike ride around Jamestown if the weather is nice. Sounds like a good time to us!

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Angela Caley @ Labyrinth Press Co. :: JTNY
Posted February 29, 2012
Angela Caley @ Labyrinth Press Co. :: JTNY

AAAlliance Co-Founder Angela Caley is currently in the process of hanging an amazing collection of all-new oil paintings at Labyrinth Press Company on 4th Street in Downtown Jamestown. The Opening Reception will take place THIS SATURDAY, March 3rd, from about 7-10 pm. Music will be provided by DJBT. This is a FREE event. Come check it out.

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WOMEN CREATE :: Sat 2/11 :: JTNY
Posted February 9, 2012
WOMEN CREATE :: Sat 2/11 :: JTNY

This is a potentially amazing juried show organized by our friends at CAW WNY. It consists of 56 works by 41 female artists, and it's taking place this Saturday, February 11th, at good ol' 3rd on 3rd Gallery, 116 East 3rd Street, in downtown JTNY. It deserves a longer writeup than this, but time is short. 

 

GO CHECK IT OUT. 

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Mosaic Foundation @ EBC west :: Friday 2/3 :: Fredonia, NY
Posted January 31, 2012
Mosaic Foundation @ EBC west :: Friday 2/3 :: Fredonia, NY

Mosiac Foundation is a killer roots reggae band from Rochester, NY, who have been playing shows and making waves all over NY state and beyond for the last couple years. This Friday, February 3rd, they'll be playing at one of our favorite spots, EBC West, 34 Main Street in Fredonia.

This FREE SHOW isn't technically an Artists Alliance event, but we will definitely be there. There are not many things better than good live reggae on a freezing winter night.

 

Also coming up at EBC West:

Saturday Feb 4th - Universe Shark

Saturday Feb 11th- The Ameros

Saturday Feb 18th- The Rodney Horning Project

(all FREE shows!)

 

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David Grice @ Forte :: JTNY
Posted January 20, 2012
David Grice @ Forte :: JTNY

All-Around good guy and AAAlliance co-founder David Grice currently has a collection of newer paintings hanging in downtown Jamestown, at the absolute best, coolest, nicest restauraunt in town, also known as Forte. 

If you are anywhere in or near WNY, go have a beer or some dinner and check everything out. If you haven't been to downtown Jamestown in a few years, you might be surprised at whats been going on. Dave's work will be hanging through the end of winter, so you have some time still...

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The Active Artists Alliance is a collection of people utilizing all media to reflect and shape the construction of the world we inhabit. We are a web of communities creating novel and easily replicable and forms of exhibiting art, a group of folks possessing varying interests and experience teaching each other and entering into a process that definition constantly evades, the process of living, creating and accepting responsibility for our world and its continued creation. We invite others to do the same.

Starting in 2004, as a way for a few friends to keep in touch with one another, pool resources and begin showing their art, the Alliance has grown into a worldwide organization of loosely-connected artists and friends.

Since then, the Alliance participates in an annual roster of open-air art festivals and gallery shows. We are always exploring new avenues in which to exhibit our work and combine it with any component that would allow us to meet new people and bring others into the conversation of what our work should do.

We are a collective, as defined, of artists and individuals exploring the inroads of two seemingly irreconcilable terms, individual and community. Our work is usually solitary, but our goals often intersect. Although our ultimate visions may differ, we remain compatriots in expression, discussion and action.

The Charm and Evasiveness of Kristen Orser

an interview
Chicago, IL, USA
Kristen Orser Oh, young lions. Right: Colin Scharf, Kristen, Thomas Schwartz, me.

"The plan is Eastern Europe, the plan is to eat chocolate. And then the plan becomes the south of France, to dry laundry outside. And next it is California. Roots are for trees."

-Kristen Orser

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