Fortune Tour of the U.S. West Coast



Potter-Belmar Labs West Coast Tour May 2008
Roswell, Albuquerque, Venice, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Eugene, Portland, Seattle

Go to our site for a complete list of tour venues and dates.

Meet the Composer



Potter-Belmar Labs has been awarded a MetLife Creative Connections grant from Meet the Composer, in support of our Spring 2008 West Coast Tour!
Thank you Meet the Composer!

We're taking the tour by Amtrak! Anyone along the way who might be interested in a multimedia fortune-telling, in late May or early June, should get ahold of the author of this blog!

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Leslie will be in Ann Arbor this week, attending the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
The Potter-Belmar Labs short, Pandora's Bike, was selected and will be shown in the 9 p.m. screening Wednesday night, the 26th of March.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest and most venerable festival in America showcasing experimental and independent films. It is always an event and a spectacle. If you're in the area, and you want to witness some incredible art, there is no better opportunity.

Mixing Chamber at Luminaria

Potter-Belmar Labs collaborated with San Antonio artist, Stuart Allen, to create "Mixing Chamber," on view for one day only, Saturday, March 15, from 10am until 10pm, at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

The Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art, David Rubin, has described "Mixing Chamber," which fills the Cowden gallery with light, colors, and sound, as "a giant, walk-through luminaria." We think he's pretty much nailed that on the head.
Not by coincidence only, downtown will be filled with contemporary art during the day and night of the 15th, as the city celebrates it's first-ever Luminaria Arts Night. There will be plenty to do and see. Don't miss it!

This week, in the Press

Don't miss the conversation Potter-Belmar Labs shared with Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh, known as Double Archive, appearing in the upcoming Spring 2008 issue of Art Lies Contemporary Art Quarterly. The interview is already posted on the Art Lies website. But be sure to buy the magazine, it's full of great stuff, including a DVD of video art curated by Andrea Grover of Houston's Aurora Picture Show, and is now available at Barnes & Nobles bookstores all over the United States.


The San Antonio Business Journal identified Potter-Belmar's Leslie Raymond as a "Women of Influence," including her with a number of outstanding ladies from the S.A. arts scene, in a special supplement to the March 7-13, 2008 issue. You can find issues anywhere magazines are sold, as well as curbside newspaper boxes around town.


Finally, keep your eyes open for the San Antonio Express-News on Wednesday. As part of the paper's Luminaria coverage, Dan Goddard interviewed PBL and our collaborator, Stuart Allen, regarding the Mixing Chamber, an installation at the San Antonio Museum of Art coming up this Saturday, March 15.

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Leap Day


February 29 2008, 6 to 8 pm

Potter-Belmar Labs previews their latest audience-participatory live-cinema performance, Fortune, at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. The duo will perform a multimedia reading of the collective fortune of the audience. Hope you're there!

At 2p.m. on the following day, Jason and Leslie will be part of a panel, "Art/Landscape/Architecture" at the Sheldon. The panel is organized by Jeffrey L. Day, Douglass Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and includes Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles; Ed Dadey, founder of Art Farm; Martin Hogue, Assistant Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture; and Patricia Morgado, Assistant Professor, UNL College of Architecture.

McNay Artists Looking At Art

A fine fifty-degree evening for projecting "Characters" and "Settings" outdoors on the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
a big bunch of friendly faces to watch with,
a few thoughts of thinkings to say,
but so much more interesting to entertain questions from the audience.




Photos by Roger Stephens, thank you Roger!

Big Thank You to Rene Barilleaux for inviting us!

Exquisite Corpse

Two nights only! Don't miss it!

Potter-Belmar Labs presents "Exquisite Corpse"
An exhibition of over fifty collaborative drawings by thirty-nine San Antonio artists



At Gallery 118, located at 118 Broadway in San Antonio.
Sale of the more than 50 unique artworks will benefit
the Artist Foundation of San Antonio.

Two days only! Reception on Friday, November 30, 6 to 10pm, with DJ Gabriel Velasquez and refreshments, and open on Saturday, December 1, noon to 8pm.

The participants: Oscar Alvarado, Ricky Armendariz, Kimberly Aubuchon, Nate Cassie, Judith Cottrell, Margaret Craig, Meredith Dean, Joan Fabian, Rick Frederick, Christopher French, Beto Gonzales, Mark Hogensen, Mimi Kato, Jimmy Kuehnle, Rhonda Kuhlman, Claire Little, Ken Little, Mark Little, Connie Lowe, Karen Mahaffey, Rick Martinez, John Mason, Jon Mata, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Michele Monseau, Janette Morales, Dennis Olsen, Justin Parr, Chuck Ramirez, Leslie Raymond, David Rubin, Chris Sauter, S. T. Shimi, Ethel Shipton, Jason Jay Stevens, Michelle Valdez, Anne Wallace, Bettie Ward, and George Zupp.

Visit the website for more information!

In The Garden



Leslie Raymond
In The Garden
a taxonomy of flora & fauna
from my video loop database
2001 - present

at Cactus Bra
reception: 6-9pm November 2, 2007
show runs through November 21, 2007

106C Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204
210-226-6688

In The Garden is a video installation made with loops mined from the image database of video artist Leslie Raymond. It is a rendition of the age-old theme of The Garden told via light and color moving on the walls of Cactus Bra Space.