We need your old books. Gallery5 library to open in September.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Friday, September 5th
First Friday Opening
Exhibition will run from September 5th - September 26th.
Downstairs:
"Lucent Pheonix": Gallery5 Community Resource
Center/Library Grand Opening.
Upstairs Gallery:
Courtney Johnson "Power & Vulnerability"
The Byrd House Market will be set up outside Gallery5.
Local Vendors will sell fresh produce, arts and crafts.
LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY:
The Awesome Few
The Nice Jenkins
"Lucent Pheonix"
In Gallery 5's never ending pursuit to provide an open space and forum for social change and
awareness, we have created the 'Lucent Phoenix' community library. A non-commercial
resource center which aims to help increase dialog and facilitate that change by providing
valuable space and resources not readily available elsewhere to Richmonders. The Lucent
Phoenix invites non-profit and grass roots organizations to meet and organize, present
lectures, workshops, and to utilize the space for future rallys and events as a head quarters
or ground zero. The Lucent Phoenix will be operated by a dedicated group of volunteers and
rely on donations and grants to fill it's bookshelves.
Located in the heart of the controversial arts district of Richmond's historic black neighborhood,
Jackson Ward. In an area which has been undergoing what some business owners and city
leaders would call a renaissance, the Lucent Phoenix will attempt to provide the tools needed
for our neighbors to fight back the negative and embrace the positive effects of gentrification
and perhaps restore some of that historical fight and culture Jackson Ward is known to have
had.
We invite you to attend our grand opening and to bring reading material and other resources
that you believe will help us achieve our goal as a community resource center that the Jackson
Ward neighborhood and the city of Richmond can be proud to have.
A special thank you to the Historic Jackson Ward Association. Without their generous
contribution, the Lucid Phoenix would not be possible.
Suggested Book Topics:
Environmental Issues, Green Design, Workers Rights, The Slave Trade
(Internationally and Locally), Richmond History, Jackson Ward History,
Women's Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Feminist Theory and Movement,
Anti-War/Peace Movement, Non-Profit Managements, Grant Writing/
Research/Funding, Art Theory/History, Public/Guerilla Art, Racism
Discrimination and Oppression (Internationally and Locally), Grassroot
Organizations, Situationist, People's History (Economic History), Conscious
Consumerism, Do-it-Yourself Manuals, Gentrification, Movement Organizing
Public Campaigning, Urban Planning, Inner City Schools and Education, Art
Education/Therapy, Biographies, Alternative Parenting/Schooling,
Neighborhood Beautification, Fundraising
Courtney Johnson
"Power & Vulnerability"
Medium: Carbon Pigment and Silver Gelatin
Prints from Cliché-Verre
Miami-based artist Courtney Johnson uses photography and painting techniques to create
works that discuss nature, technology, and humans. Johnson uses a photographic process
called cliché-verre, where painted glass is used as the photographic negative. Her works deal
with the idea that technology has replaced mythology as a way for humans to explain their
world, and that technology, like mythology, maintains cultural structure and reveals trends and
values of societies. Her images are intended to evoke oral and visual traditions of the past in a
way that can compete with technology for human attention.
Johnson has a BFA from New York University and an MFA
from University of Miami.
7:00PM FREE
