Me and We: the Individual and the Collective

Call for submissions for the annual Spring Juried Show!

This years show is called "Me and We: The Individual and the Collective"

Submissions are due February 27 at Midnight

Submission Guidelines:

• All Current Brown and RISD students may submit up to 3 works
  
• Submissions should include students name, school, department, year of graduation, box number, and phone number
• For each submission please include jpegs at 72dpi and approx 600x600 pixels, title, medium, dimensions, and a brief statement about the work
• Email submissions to HillelGalleryProject@gmail.com with "Me and We" in the subject line
• View full guidelines and terms here, along with a helpful submission form
• Any questions, email HillelGalleryProject@gmail.com

Waltz With Bashir nominated for Oscar!

After winning a Golden Globe Award Ari Folman and David Polonsky's "Waltz With Bashir" has been nomated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film! 

"Folman's critically-acclaimed film traces the author's journey to put together his memories from his time as an Israeli soldier during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and later the massacres at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Beirut. 

The film uses a striking combination of frame-by-frame and computer generated animation to create a powerful and at times surreal portrayal of war and the way memory plays tricks on the mind. 

The film was screened in Lebanon last Saturday, although it is officially banned in that country. 

The documentary has already been screened in Ramallah and may soon be shown in the Arab gulf states as well, Folman told Haaretz. "

- Haaretz: Israel's Waltz with Bashir,' on 1982 Lebanon War Nominated for Oscar

David Polonsky, who worked as Art Director on the film, will be be participating a in a three month residency at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design beginning in February. 

Check back at this website for the most updated information on residency events like lectures, classes, exhibition, and screenings.

Graham Day Guerra "Ex Nihilo" and Leigh Tarentino "Recent Work"

images (c) Leigh Tarentino and Graham Guerra, respectively

Hillel Gallery Project is honored to be exhibiting work by artists Leigh Tarentino and Graham Guerra.

Leigh Tarentino is an Assistant Professor at Brown who makes paintings, works on paper and digital prints constructed from photographs of the built landscape. She received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. 

Her upcoming exhibition in February 2009 will be at Black and White Gallery in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Stas Namin Centre, Moscow, Russia; Bank Gallery, Los Angeles; the University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany; and The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, among others. Her work has been included in Scope New York, London, Miami and Hamptons. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner grant in 2008. She is represented by Black and White Gallery in New York. 

Graham Guerra is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pratt Institute of Art. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. His large-scale charcoal and graphite drawings are created based on virtual models that he generates using digital photographic and 3D rendering technologies.

His work has been shown at Wardlow Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn; Van Brunt Gallery, New York; and Bellwether, New York, among others. His work has been included in Scope New York, Miami, and Hamptons as well as Kunst Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2008 he was awarded a Faculty Development Grant from the Pratt Institute of Art and a Wardlow International Residency in Melbourne, Austrialia.

Both exhibits will run from January 23- February 4 with a reception on January 29 at 7pm.

Waltz With Bashir wins Golden Globe!

Congratulations to Ari Folman and David Polonsky on winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film!

David Polonsky, the film's Art Director will be coming to Brown Univerisity and the Rhode Island School of Design in February for a three month artist's residency.

For more information on the residency, check back soon or join our mailing list by emailing hillelgalleryproject@gmail.com.

MSNBC: ITVS International Film "WALTZ WITH BASHIR" Receives Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

HGP to Host Golden Globe Nominee David Polonsky as Artist-In-Residence in Spring

The Schusterman Visting Artist Program, The Brown University Creative Arts Council, the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs at RISD, and Brown-RISD Hillel is planning an exciting community collaboration to bring the accomplished Israeli animator and illustrator, David Polonsky, to Providence for a three month artist-in-residency project from February 9^th – May 1^st 2009.

Polonsky has contributed illustrations for every major daily newspaper and magazine in Israel, and has won several awards for his illustrations for children’s books. He just received Israel’s Academy Award for best art direction for Waltz with Bashir, which is about film director, Ari Folman’s, attempt to reconcile his memory of the 1982 Lebanon war. A full-length animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir was nominated for the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes film festival, earlier this year and had its American premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. Waltz with Bashir will have its commercial release in the United States in December. It is also Israel’s nominee to Hollywood’s Academy Awards this February in the foreign language category.

Waltz With Bashir Preview

David Polonsky Website

New York Times: Cannes Film Festival

New York Times: Waltz With Bashir Review

Haaretz: Waltz With Bashir Nominated for Golden Globe

David Polonsky is being hosted part by the Brown University Creative Arts Council, Hillel Gallery Project, RISD Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, Brown Ivy Film Festival, Israeli Film Festival, Brown Israel Committee, Brown Students for Israel, Kol Kivunim, and RISD Kehillah, among others.

Project Open Door

Please join us for the opening of the  Third Annual Project Open Door Student Exhibition at Brown / RISD Hillel January 15, 2009 from 3:30 - 6:30pm.

Project Open Door provides high school students in under-resource urban areas with free intensive studio learning experiences, college and portfolio preparation, and individual mentoring with professional artists and RISD students. 

The exhibit will be on view January 14-18, 2009 with special winter gallery hours:

   Wednesday, January 14 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
   Thursday, January 15 from 9:00am - 6:30om
   Friday, January 16 from 9:00am - 1:00pm
   Saturday, January 17 from 11:00am - 5:00pm
   Sunday, January 18 from 12pm - 4:00pm

Sculpture/Furniture by Ian Gonsher

Hillel Galery Project is proud to present the Sculpture and Furniture of Providence Artist Ian Gonsher, on view now in the Hallway Gallery.

HGP Hard at Work

Because the artwork in Half & Half was made by the HGP Committee Members, we decided to give Ben, our professional installer, a break and hang the show ourselves!

Ben came in one afternoon to give us a demo on proper gallery installation and then we went to work. It took all of us two days but in the end it was a great learning experience and next time we have to hang our own work it will be much easier.

And, to give Ben a better break, we invited his band to play at the closing reception! So come check out Ben Pilgrim playing live at Half&Half, Thursday November 20 from 7-10pm.

Half&HALF

Work by HGP Committee members from Brown and RISD

On view in the Social Hall and Hallway Gallery November 13-20. 

Reception Thursday November 20 from 7-10PM. 

Live Music, Wine, Cheese, and Art

Featuring work by:

Chuka Chukama, Raphael Cohen, Sam Cohen, Dana Davis, Natalia Fadul, Christina Graham, Ben Hyman, Ariel Isaacs, Madeline Jacobs, Jenny JungMin Lee, Hieu Nguyen, Susie Peck, Erik Peterson, Edo Rosenblith, Tali Rozensher, Claire Russo, Sarah Schuster, Lauren Snyder, Tracy Szatan and Chris Wolston

HGP and BRYTE in BDH

The November 3 Brown Daily Herald featured a review of BRYTE Exposures currently on view at Hillel Gallery Project.

"While the artists may not be professionals, it is easy to appreciate their work. Many photos portray scenes of the students' home lives. The subjects of the images range from siblings and friends hamming it up for the camera, to world-weary adults gazing straight-faced ahead. "

The full review is available here.