From Teller’s Family Night:
“Join us as we transform the beautiful dining room of Teller’s Restaurant into a high fashion catwalk featuring clothing from local stores and designers! And the best thing is: all proceeds from this event go towards a disaster relief fund for Haiti’s earthquake victims.

“Believe it or not, even during times of devastation, there are groups and individuals that exclude the LGBT community or discriminate in providing help. The Rainbow World Fund (RWF), established in San Francisco in 2000, is one organization that makes sure that charitable donations do not go to bigoted associations. Partnered with CARE, the RWF has been providing emergency food, safe water, plastic for shelter, blankets, and basic medicines to Haitians since the disastrous earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck the country on 12 January 2010. With the credo “One Human Family,” the RWF is the world’s first and only LGBT based humanitarian aid organization, which has distributed millions of dollars in emergency supplies and grants for survivors of disasters, including the South East Asia earthquake and tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. From the RWF website:

‘Rainbow World Fund has three primary goals – to provide humanitarian aid to communities in need around the world; to create awareness within the LGBT community of the need for these relief efforts; and to change perceptions of the LGBT community by putting our highest beliefs and values into action demonstrating our compassion and caring for the world. RWF’s projects affect social change at home and abroad through education, networking, developing solidarity, fostering understanding and building community.’

“Stores include Wildman Vintage, Arizona Trading Co., Miss Fortune’s Creation Station, Goldmakers, GAP, and Social Service League. Local designers include David Goodwin and Jane Hansen.”

Event Details:
Teller’s (746 Massachusetts in Lawrence, KS)
Monday, March 1 from 8pm – 11pm
$7 to enter, $10 for preferred seating
$5 glasses of wine, $5 double Most Wanted vodka

posted by: Tricia Rock

New works, installation, performance & memorabilia by Asteroid Head Art Club at Lawrence Arts Center.

Video shot, edited and sound tracked by Scott Stewart of Artstew Magazine

“It’s All Over Now – Summer Solstice” by Lee Piechocki, 15 x 20 inches, ink and acrylic on paper

posted by: Brent Carter

“Rope”, 2008 34.5 x 40 inches, acrylic and spray paint on paper

“The Playfulness of Some”, 2003 19.5 x 22 inches, acrylic and gouache on paper

“The University of Kansas – Printmaking Area is pleased to present visiting artist Lamar Peterson. Lamar will be in residence the week of Feb. 22 – 26. While he is visiting he will give a public lecture, critique student work and collaborate with students and faculty to create an original limited edition lithograph.

“Lamar Peterson is an international recognized artist. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery, LA, Fredericks & Freiser, NY and Dietch Projects, NY.

“Please join us for this lecture Feb. 24th (Wed.) @ 2:30, Art & Design Bldg. Room 421.” (via: KU Professor Micheal Krueger)

“Nearly Naked”, 2008  26 x 20 inches, acrylic on paper mounted on found Man Ray poster

“Posing the Daisies”, 2003 23 x 22.5 inches, acrylic and gouache

posted by: Brent Carter

Tonight at the 8th St. Taproom (801 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)  DJ/producer Iggybaby joins forces with fellow knob turners Jet Set Bachelor and special guest Juiceboxxx to bring you one hell of a freak nasty Valentine’s Day dance party.

10pm//$3//21+

Also, you can download a new Juiceboxxx mix-tape entitled Thunder Zone Vol. 1 here

posted by: Harold Johns III

Exhibition Info: (by Alaska Noyes)
Asteroid Head Art Club is at it again. Their upcoming show at the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire Lawrence, KS), Welcome To Asteroid Head Land… Dude, is a tacit invitation to escape everydayness, at least momentarily.

The group has been doling out such invites since they formed in the spring of ‘09. Clad in matching uniforms they have set aside the lone artist in the studio art production model for something a little more tribal, a little more exuberant. Collaboration is at the heart of their work, often a multitasking of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance.

This is an outlet with a healthy dose of optimism and no dearth of absurdity. There is potential energy when Asteroid Head gets together, energy greater than the sum of its parts. It is in the interactions, the exchanges, the sharing of information, dreams, anecdotes, theories, and whims. It is in having things to do, not because you have to, but because you want to and you can. Nothing is too silly, too weird, or too ambitious to talk about, laugh about, consider, attempt. Asteroid Head Art Club, for its ragtag members, has become a site for experimentation, trials, tribulations, and camaraderie.

Asteroid Head Land is a physical embodiment of this group spirit. It is an unpredictable installation full of collaborative energy, absurdity, and papier-mâché. Welcome to Asteroid Head Land… Dude.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 12th, 7-9pm

Exhibition Dates: February 12 – March 13, 2010

posted by: Brent Carter