Stayed tuned for more information about next year’s ArtAwake.

The Rochester Fire Department are some of ArtAwake’s biggest fans.  Here is a picture from when they stopped by this weekend as we were setting up.

]]> http://www.artawake.org/2012/04/19/artawake-is-in-2-days/feed/ 0 http://www.artawake.org/2012/04/08/volunteer-for-artawake-2012/ http://www.artawake.org/2012/04/08/volunteer-for-artawake-2012/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:07:33 +0000 Emily McGraw http://www.artawake.org/?p=721 ArtAwake is less than TWO weeks away! If you want to get involved, you can volunteer to set up the space, work the event itself, or clean up ArtAwake.  Please contact our awesome volunteer coordinator, Natajah Roberts, at nrobert4@u.rochester.edu for more information.

Check back for more information about art, music, and food at this year’s ArtAwake.

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Co-Head Directors: Emily McGraw and Melissa Martin

Art Directors: Lauren Blair, Cait Munro, Katie Hoff

Performance Director: Kory Buresh

Marketing Directors: JT Gaskill and Bonita Sur

Video Marketing Director: Tergel Purevdorj

Interactive Art Director: Lisa Kaggen

Food Director: Laura Dombrowski and Sonya Bentovich

Fundraising/Sponsorship Director: Aaron Berkowitz

Community Outreach Director:  Kristiana Lachiusa

Volunteer Coordinator: Malena Selic

Production Directors: David Bendes and MacLain Christie

Site Search Director: Mo Seraji

Webmaster: Aaron Berkowitz

Please email info@artawake.org if you are interested in joining a committee (all directors will have a committee).

What is ArtAwake?

ArtAwake seeks to strengthens Rochester’s creative community and culminates in a one-day festival that brings life to an underused space through art, music, and local food. The 5th annual ArtAwake will be held Saturday, April 21, 2012. ArtAwake is an initiative of Urban Exploring Club at the University of Rochester, and is sponsored by a combination of over 25 groups. It is organized by an independent team of student volunteers, with the assistance and involvement of all of its sponsors and volunteers. There are many leadership positions available for the 2011-2012 year!

Leadership Opportunities:

Art Director(s): Develops a plan for what the art exhibits will look like and how they will be incorporated in the space. Coordinates the set-up of the gallery. Develop & Implement the “Call for Art”, and the jurying process. Chairs of the Art Committee

Marketing Director: Develops a Marketing Plan & Timeline for event promotion. Develops & Coordinates the graphic design, video production, web promotion, advertising, banners, and all other marketing initiatives. Chair of the Marketing Committee

Community Outreach Director: Develop & Implement initiatives to create a lasting Community Impact – both during and outside of the festival. Chair of the Community Committee.

Sponsorship Director: Search for and Identify potential Financial Sponsors at UR, other Colleges, and throughout the Community. Works with other campuses to implement ticketing and busing from their campus

Food Director: Develops a vision and plan for the events food & drink. Finds ways to ensure that the food & drink is local and sustainable. Chair of the Food Committee

Webmaster: Maintain and Update the ArtAwake website

Volunteer Coordinator: Reach out to organizations and individuals to collect volunteers. Manage volunteers to ensure they show up on time and do their job properly

Stage Managers: Run the stages at the event

Interactive Exhibit Coordinator: Develop ideas to increase the interactivity of ArtAwake. Coordinate interactive elements with the rest of the event

For more detailed descriptions, please email info@artawake.org.

The Alliance Building has been a flurry of people with cleaning supplies over the past few days, and after hours of scrubbing decades of caked-on dust, the old escalators are a completely different color.  Most of the artwork has been dropped off and the galleries are really starting to come together! The rest of the artwork will go up over the next couple of days, and then before we know it, we’ll be setting up the stages and running sound checks…

Point is, we’re all very excited for Saturday.  The artwork, the performances, the food, the wine, the interactive exhibits… it’s all going to be stellar.  I can’t possibly talk about EVERYTHING, but I thought I’d highlight a couple of performances I’m particularly looking forward to:

Dave & Marissa [7:45pm]

I met these two while working at Starbucks after they performed an acoustic set, and it’s probably the best show I’ve seen as part of the Starbucks ‘Friday Night Live’ series on campus.  Not only that, they were incredibly nice and didn’t order anything obnoxious like an extra hot quad vanilla sugar free hazelnut extra foam no whip caramel drizzle on ice in a venti hot cup latte.

The Ginger Faye Bakers [10:50pm]

I think these guys are fantastic.  Not only does their song “Back off Warchild, Seriously” remind me of ‘The Black Keys’, I think it’s just as good. The band of brothers is pretty new to the Rochester scene, but I could see them becoming a real staple of the city’s music scene if they keep it up.

Check out this song: The Ginger Faye Bakers – “Back off Warchild, Seriously”

The Windsor Folk Family [9:00pm]

Their version of ‘Shady Grove’ practically makes my roommate weep, so that’s got to count for something, right?

Hard Logic [3:00pm]

Groovy jazz and world rhythms are only the beginning, and these guys will be well worth coming to the beginning of the event.  Plus, we’re serving free cupcakes to *ba-dum-chhh* sweeten the deal.  My sense of humor is masterful, deal with it.

Matt Witten & the University of Rochester Percussion Ensemble [5:00pm]

I’m pretty confident in saying that Matt Witten and his ensemble will awe you.  Add to that the world debut of their first commissioned new work by Jennifer Bellor and a Rock n’ Roll piece featuring three percussionists and a marimba? Say no more.

Patrick Gaffney [12:15am]

This guy is the brains behind RIPROC, and if you haven’t been to one of their sockhops, you are seriously missing out on the best parties the city has to offer.   If his music doesn’t get you dancing, then I don’t know what will.

There’s so much more where that came from, and I strongly encourage you to check out the rest of the performers who will be gracing the ArtAwake stage this weekend!

Cheers,

Ben [Jammin'] Brown
ArtAwake ’10, ’11: Head Co-Director