Jackrabbit Homestead BOOK SIGNING with Kim Stringfellow

Michael Dawson Gallery will host a book signing and exhibition featuring photographs from Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938-2008 by Kim Stringfellow. Published by the Center for American Places, this 136-page hard cover book with dust jacket features sixty-one color photographs with an accompanying text. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase for those unable to attend the event. Signed and inscribed books may also be purchased through PayPal at www.kimstringfellow.com.

Twenty-four photographic images from the book will be on display in the gallery from February 20th until April 3rd, 2010. Historical documents and photos related to the jackrabbit homesteading experience will also be on display.

For more information about this project or to download the JRHS audio tour, please visit the project’s Web site at www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 2010 FROM 2 TO 4 PM.

Dawson Books/Michael Dawson Gallery
535 N. Larchmont Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90004
PH: 323.469.2186
Hours: Thursday – Saturday 11am-5pm and by appointment.

www.michaeldawsongallery.com

Kim Stringfellow

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Jackrabbit Homestead Book Now Available

From Kim Stringfellow:

Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008 published by the Center for American Places is now available for online pre-order at www.kimstringfellow.com. The book explores the cultural history and physical landmarks that resulted from the implementation of the 1938 Small Tract Act throughout Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. The Small Tract Act was one of the many land acts designed to dispose of “useless” federal lands from the U.S. public domain. The hardbound book contains sixty-one color plates and a text by Kim Stringfellow.

Signed and inscribed copies are available for purchase through PayPal at http://www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.
For more information about this project, please visit: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

Semi-related event:

New Topographics Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthrough

LACMA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

5905 Wilshire Boulevard

Los Angeles CA 90036

When: Sunday, December 6^th, 2 PM

Cost: Free with LACMA regular admission

If you are in Los Angeles this coming Sunday please join me for an exhibition walkthough that I will lead of LACMA’s current photography exhibit, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. The group will meet at the front of the exhibit in BCAM on the 2nd floor if you plan to attend. The event is free with paid admission, tickets required (available one hour before the program). For more information on this event please the exhibit Web page at: http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx. JRHS books will be available for purchase at LACMA’s gift shop.

JRHS Lecture:

Joshua Tree National Park Association’s Old Schoolhouse Lecture Series

Old Schoolhouse Museum 29 Palms

6760 National Park Drive, 29 Palms, CA

WHEN: Friday, December 11^th, 7 PM

COST: $5 at the door

This lecture will cover the history of jackrabbit homesteading throughout the Morongo Basin. For more information please visit: http://desertinstitute.homestead.com/lectures/osh.html.

Kim Stringfellow

www.kimstringfellow.com

UPDATES FROM KIM STRINGFELLOW

from Kim Stringfellow:

Exhibit, lecture & workshop event:

Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KIM STRINGFELLOW

SHOW OPENING & LECTURE WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER (FREE)

THURSDAY- OCTOBER 22, 2009 6:00-9:00

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography,
Northgate Hall, U.C. Campus Hearst & Euclid

“Stringfellow attacks her subject as a historian, a collector, and a photographer with the vision of a Walker Evans on acid.”

—Danny Lyon, author of The Bikeriders and Conversations with the Dead

In conjunction with this event, I will be leading the Land Use & The Built Environment: Photographing the Albany Bulb workshop with Fotovision on October 24th & 25th, 2009 — 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please visit Fotovision’s Web site for more information and to sign up for this workshop.

Workshop description: Artist/educator, Kim Stringfellow will lead a three-day photographic exploration and collaborative photo book project focusing on the built and cultural landscape of the Albany Bulb, a 30-acre spit of shoreline landfill owned by the City of Albany, which has been “reclaimed” by a variety of interest groups including urban artists, homeless, dog-walkers, teenagers, and environmentalists.

In this unique and challenging workshop participants will have the opportunity to collaboratively produce a book project in the span of a weekend. The workshop will begin with an introductory lecture by Stringfellow on Friday evening. Saturday will consist of a field workshop day where workshop participants document the site photographically supported by field notes and interviews of park users when possible. Sunday will be spent organizing and sequencing the photographs into a print on demand collaborative book project to be printed at Blurb.com.

Additional help with book production, editing and design during the workshop will be offered by Fotovision program director, Adrianne Koteen. PLEASE NOTE: This class will also be meeting on Friday night, October 23rd, from 6-9pm.

http://www.jackrabbithomestead.com/

http://fotovision.org/pages/indexEvents.php?page=weekend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Bulb

www.kimstringfellow.com