The Taxonomy of Trash: An Analytical Approach to Garbage

Friday February 6, 2013 at 6 p.m.

Join the Art Alliance for a lecture and kick-starter launch party for the Taxonomy of Trash. Listen to Tim Eads and his team of artists talk about their inspirational journey through the celebration of garbage. Then join them for a drink at the launch party!

Funding will do 3 things:

First, the team is planning on building a pedal operated mobile laboratory that will have everything they need to collect garbage, examine material, take high-quality  photographs, and record sounds.

Funding will help them publish their book, which includes photographs of the      original found objects, a compilation of treated sound recordings, and a behind-  the-scenes documentary.

Lastly, it will also be used for the team’s exhibition at the Delaware Museum of Art. In late March, the team will be conducting their first mobile lab excursion in    Wilmington, Delaware. The collected trash will be on display in the exhibition.

The Tool At Hand

Opening Reception: Thursday February 7, 6-8 p.m.

Walk into the Art Alliance this month and be prepared to feast your eyes on sixteen different takes of craft using only one tool! This ongoing exhibition features the artist’s works of art, and the tools used to craft them, collectively with videos from their studios debuted at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Artist: Mark Lindquist
wood dowel, glue
Tool: Glue Dispenser

Destinations: Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas

Molly Hatch: Reverie

February 7 to April 28, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday February 7,6-9 p.m.

Come by the Art Alliance and observe Molly Hatch’s first solo exhibition! Drawing from 18^th and 19^th century plates from her family’s own collection, her new works are inspired by her “continued effort to claim the functional surface of the dinner plate as a painting surface.”