Places
 The
film "Downside UP" will screen for communities at
the following locations into Fall 2002, and serves as the anchor
for local conversations about the role of art and art institutions
in community development activities. For information on how
to screen "Downside UP" in your community, go to Contact
Us , and drop us a line.
Asociación de Músicos Latino
Americanos (AMLA)
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC)
HandMade in America
Little Black Pearl Workshop
The Point
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS
MoCA)
Asociación
de Músicos
Latino Americanos (AMLA)
P.O. Box 50296
Philadelphia, PA 19132
Tel: 215/223-3060
Fax: 215/223-3299
amla@amla.org
www.amla.org
The Asociación de Músicos Latino Americanos
(AMLA) is an arts organization dedicated to promoting the
development, dissemination, and understanding of Latin American
music in the Philadelphia Delaware Valley region, with an
emphasis on youth. AMLA believes music is the heartbeat of
the Latino community, and is also a powerful tool for its
advancement. AMLA's members range from three years old to
seniors. They are not only musicians, but also students or
just lovers of Latin music. AMLA members represent interests
in a wide variety of folkloric, classical and contemporary
Latin music styles.
• Screening date: June 20, 2002
Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center (GCAC)
1300 Guadalupe Street
San Antonio, TX 78207
Tel: 210/271-3151
info@guadalupeculturalarts.org
www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) was founded in
1980 as a nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization whose
mission is to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture
of the Chicano, Latino, and Native American peoples. It is
the largest institution of its kind in the U.S. The GCAC manages
and provides artistic development for six component programs
of the Guadalupe, including dance, literature, media arts,
theater arts, visual arts and Xicano music.
• Screening date: September 17, 2002
HandMade
in America
P.O. Box 2089
Asheville, NC 28802
Tel: 828/252-0121
Fax: 828/252-0388
info@handmadeinamerica.org
www.handmadeinamerica.org
Born of the struggle to find fresh approaches to economic
development and renewal in the Blue Ridge Mountains, HandMade
in America celebrates the hand and the handmade. Through business
and financial support to craftspeople, and by the encouragement
of public education around the regionĚs craft culture, HandMade
in America nurtures the creation of traditional and contemporary
craft. Equally important is the preservation of natural resources,
the maintenance of a rural quality of life, and the preservation
and enrichment of the spiritual, cultural, and community life
of the region.
• Screening date: September 10, 2002
Little
Black Pearl Workshop
4200 S. Drexel Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60653
Tel: 773/285-1211
Fax: 773/285-1633
info@blackpearl.org
www.blackpearl.org
Little Black Pearl creates avenues for exposure to art and
culture while teaching the profitable connection between art,
education and business. Program participants contribute to
the health and well-being of their families and communities
by exercising a sense of pride and collective teamwork through
economic self-sufficiency in the arts. Little Black Pearl
also offers with community schools and organizations who utilize
art to motivate students. Workshops offered include writing,
mural painting, mosaics, claywork, masks, stamps and quiltmaking.
• Screening date: July 10, 2002
The
Point
940 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, NY 10474
Tel: 718/542-4139
paullipson@usa.net
www.thepoint.org
The Point is an emergent non-profit organization dedicated
to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization
of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Working with
neighbors, especially young people, The Point celebrates the
life and culture of the community, an area traditionally defined
solely in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools,
and sub-standard housing. Through programming which includes
music, theater, dance, photography and the visual arts, The
PointĚs mission is to stimulate culture and enterprise in
the Hunts Point community and encourage "self-investment"
by its residents, especially its youth.
• Screening date: June 12, 2002
The
Wing Luke Asian Museum
407 7th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: 206/623-5124
Fax: 206/623-4559
folks@wingluke.org
www.wingluke.org
Nestled in the heart of Seattle's International District
is a unique cultural treasure of the Pacific Northwest: The
Wing Luke Asian Museum. A pan-Asian Pacific American Museum
devoted to the collection, preservation and display of Asian
Pacific American culture, history and art, Wing LukeĚs programs
are inspired and created by the combined efforts of museum
professionals and grassroots community members. The Wing Luke
Asian Museum is a multidisciplinary cultural center that presents
arts and heritage exhibitions, public programs, school tours,
publications, and films and maintains a permanent collection
and research center.
• Screening date: July 16, 2002
Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, Massachusetts 01247
Tel: 413/664-4481
Fax: 413/663-8548
info@massmoca.org
www.massmoca.org
MASS MoCA's
13-acre factory campus, with its enormous unobstructed indoor spaces,
irregular courtyards, elevated walkways, towers, and industrial buildings,
presents a tremendous platform for the art of our time, accommodating
works that have seldom, or never, been exhibited because of size,
materials, or complex technological requirements. With an emphasis on
large-scale sculpture and site specific installations that create
encompassing environments, MASS MoCA's visual arts program seeks out work
that will physically engage and challenge its vast galleries and
courtyards. By and large, MASS MoCA is not a collecting institution, but
rather draws its works from other museums, collectors and artists as
long-term loans. Occasionally, MASS MoCA will commission new works that
exploit and inform the site's unique history, social context, and physical
infrastructure. MASS MoCA also seeks out work that embraces the performing
arts, new media, film, and other forms and formats that might not
otherwise find natural venues within conventional museums.
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