The Colloquium III

Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens invite you to the third Colloquium, a nomadic, intermittent series of evenings filled with a mix of quick presentations from artists on their work, followed by lively, insightful discussion.

The Colloquium III will take place at the Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, on Oct 13 at 8 PM. There will be refreshments available!

Artist-presenters include:
Marilyn Lanfear
Rex Hausmann
Franklin Bryson Brooks
Stuart Allen
Beto Gonzales


Admission is free, and The Colloquium is open to you and your friends. If you know artists who may be interested, please forward this invitation.

If you are an artist and think you might like to present at a future Colloquium, we hope that you'll attend this event and we'll tell you in person how you can submit materials for consideration.

Don't miss this, it's been great the last two times and it'll be great this time too.

Chalk It Up 2009

Saturday was a great day for working outdoors - not too sunny (ominously cloudy in fact), full of kids, and full of artists. Good day to draw a board game on the sidewalk. It didn't rain, fortunately!



PBL may be known for their work in video and new media, but the interactive and participatory aspect that they use in their video work translated very well to sidewalk chalk drawing. Dozens of kids took part in the life-size board game, and they liked it.



Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and thanks to Artpace for inviting PBL to be a Showcase Artist. It was a blast.

Art Outside!

If you don't have anything pressing to do this weekend there is some kind of art Woodstock going on at Apache Pass, Texas. From what I read at their website (go to it, it is very interesting), from the 9th to the 12th of October there will be all kinds of art among the trees: music, visual art, craft, performances, pretty much everything. It promises to be full of all kinds of fun. And PBL will be performing there too! So if you don't go for the nature, go for the PBL performance.

Potter-Belmar Labs will be doing their Fortune performance in a tent at sundown on Saturday, Oct 11. Inside, they will be reading audiovisual fortunes to small, intimate groups of people. Go get your fortune told!

You can buy tickets for Art Outside here: https://beticketing.com/_E1_view.php?editid1=53

PBL's Lunchbox Series Talk at Artprize

Well folks, Artprize is over for our heroes, who didn't quite make it to the top ten. But they still had a grand time at Grand Rapids! Thanks to the thousands of people who stopped by!

Yesterday (October 5), Leslie and Jason gave a Lunchbox Series talk; a free lecture series that they were invited to participate in to talk about Artprize, art, etc. Their lecture was one of three "Competing Couples"-themed lectures. See the video:

ArtPrize is happening!

ArtPrize, the world's biggest art competition, opens this Wednesday 9/23 for the public's critical perusal!

Everyone in or near Grand Rapids should go see how upwards of 1,200 artists have turned the entire city into a gallery. And if you're around there looking at the art, you should also register to vote, then vote!

What's that? You'd like to vote for Leslie and/or Jason? You are so kind! Here's how:

Vote FOR Leslie's Icarus Overland: vote30371
Vote AGAINST Leslie's Icarus Overland: vote30370

Vote FOR Jason's Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary: vote30271
Vote AGAINST Jason's Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary: vote30270

Nature of Place Symposium

Leslie is giving a presentation at the first Land Heritage Instute Art-Sci Symposium, “The Nature of Place: Land Art/Land Use.” Their schedule boasts an exciting collection of speakers and presentations about Land Art and public art vs. private art, among other related subjects.

This free and open event will be held October 24-25 at the San Antonio Toyota Manufacturing Plant Visitors Center, located directly across the Medina River from the 1200 acre Land Heritage Institute site in the southern-most sector of San Antonio.

Double Thunder showing at Antimatter Film Festival!

Prestigious yearly Canadian film festival "Antimatter", which is taking place on October 9-17 this year, will have Potter-Belmar Labs' short "Double Thunder" in its roster of prodigious screenings. While the program guide is not to be up at their website until mid-September, I happen to know that they will be playing Double Thunder on October 14.

Some history: dedicated readers may recall that PBL participated in the festival last year with their Fortune performance.

Art Prize at Grand Rapids, MI

Both Leslie and Jason are participating in the competition for world's largest art prize, aptly named ArtPrize. It's taking place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from September 23 to October 10, and the winners will be chosen democratically by the public without the involvement of electoral colleges.

Both entries have proven success in San Antonio already:

Leslie will be showing her Icarus Overland piece, previously seen in the Multiples Show at David Shelton Gallery. Her venue is Lightbox.

Jason's entry is his Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary installation, as seen before at Joan Grona, to be shown at The Old Federal Building.

Please send your sincerest, most effective good luck wishes, and if they work, you might get a cut of the winnings! Or not! Who knows!

Potter-Belmar + W ((aa)) ou w) at Squeaky Wheel

Jason, Jax & Leslie

On Saturday, August 1, Potter-Belmar Labs and Buffalo-based band W ((aa))ou w) (pronounced 'wow') regaled the audience at Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center with two surreal sets of live music and video mixing like ne'er a buffalo has seen. W ((aa))ou w) is Jim Abramson, Tristan Trump, and Jax DeLuca, who is also Programming Director at Squeaky Wheel.