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Jong Kyu Kim on artblog radio

This episode sponsored by The Art of the Covenant – at FLUXspace The new exhibitions coordinator of Fleisher Art Memorial goes by Dave, but as a performance artist he’s been calling himself Jong Kyu Kim. He talks to us about celebrities, identity and living up to his family’s expectations. Below is the 30-second sample clip. And below that is the full 11-minute interview. 30-second clip

Haiti fundraiser a success!

We often put up our own version of public service announcements, but rarely do we follow up on them with the outcomes of the efforts. Here’s an outcome worth mentioning, plus lots of crunchy details explaining how Green Line Cafe successfully raised money for Haiti earthquake relief. I’m including most of the press release because of all the useful info in there, should someone want to follow their formula for a fundraiser:

Kelsey Halliday Johnson at the Green Line Cafe

Ebullient drawings of heaving landscapes and meditative mark-making by Kelsey Halliday Johnson, now up at the Green Line Cafe, caught my eye on my way in for a cup of joe. I was drawn in by the mix of gorgeous colors and powerful geographical forms.

Alternative stocking stuffer

CD cover art by John Overmyer Here’s your chance to do a little good and stuff the stockings with some swell alternative music recorded at the Green Line Cafe. The profits–all 100 percent–from the CD, Songs on the Green Line, benefit Cooperativa San Fernando, a worker-owned coffee cooperative located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, where the Green Line’s house coffee is grown. This is quite a different model from the Starbuck’s music marketing scheme, which makes me squirm a little. And the packaging has a Christmas-y kind of jaunty cheer from the pen and brush of editorial illustrator ... More » »