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Opening Reception
Friday, September 12
6–7 pm Members’ Preview
RSVP required: anna.nickila@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488, x116

7–9 pm Public Opening: Features the music of Puttanesca performing songs from their upcoming CD atop Martin Kersel's sculpture/stage Rickety. Joe Baiza, guitar; Jacob Cohn, alto sax; Weba Garretson, vocals; Ralph Gorodetsky, bass; and Wayne Griffin, drums.

Friday, September 12
Opening Night Workshop
Ages 6 and up
Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required: asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488, x 118
6–7 pm, Members only: $10 per participant
7–8 pm, General Admission: $15 per participant

Saturday, September 13, 1–4 pm
Emerging Artists Family Workshop: Willow Weaving
Ages 6 and up
Weave objects from Danish willow with artist and master weaver Steen Madsen, who collaborated with Martin Kersels in the creation of Dionysian Stage on view in the exhibition.
Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required: asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488, x 118
$20, $15 SMMoA members

Tuesday, September 23, 7–9 pm
Heavyweight Lecture Musicale
When words are not enough... Martin Kersels uses visual material, song, music, and dance to describe his work. Followed by Q&A with the artist.
Free Admission

Thursday, October 16, 7 pm
SMMoA Book Club: The World According to Martin…
John Irving’s imagined India—A Son of the Circus. Hosted by Martin Kersels. New England raw bar and Bombay beer accompany; SMMoA members only.
RSVP required: anna.nickila@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488 x 116

Friday, November 14, 7 pm
&
Saturday, November 15, 7 pm
Huh?
Choreographer Melinda Ring and dancers Sari Nordman and Kimberly Hamlin take over Kersels’ sculpture/stage Rickety with Huh?, a dance about one moody individual portrayed by three people.
$15, $10 SMMoA members. Seating is limited
Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com
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Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 pm
Name That Tune
with Leonard Nimoy & Josh Kun
A special night of lost music, excavated memory, and forgotten Jewish LPs. Followed by a book signing of Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost (Random House).
Free Admission
RSVP required: rachel.monas@smmoa.org
or 310.586.6488, x 119

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Coming Soon

September 13 - December 13, 2008


Project Room I:
Henry Taylor: Girrrrrl!

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Project Room II:
Bruce Pollock: Circling West

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September 13 - December 13, 2008

Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion

Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 7–9 pm

Kersels’ first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, includes 13 years of multi-media work. His sculptures, photographs, and performances, though frequently whimsical and funny at first reading, often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in. Heavyweight Champion is organized by The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion is organized by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and curator Ian Berry.

Heavyweight Champion has been generously supported by the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; Pasadena Art Alliance; ACME., Los Angeles; and California Institute of the Arts Dean’s Interdisciplinary Fund. Programs for the exhibition have been funded, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

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