FYLMKID STEVEN CHILLOUS SHORT WITH TOM FRANCO AND FIREHOUSE ART CO

About The Fylmkid Project

"My work has focused on co-creation.To create meaningful services and experiences for people. I am best at finding ways to tell the stories of who you are as an artist,individual or a company. Through the lense I hope to tell these stories in the narrative." Steven Chillous

Here is a short clip of a Firehouse Art Co event @ YBCA in San Francisco. 
Steven Chillous captured the narrative using Tom Franco's voice and own words and illustrating the intent of Tom Franco's work as the executive director of the Firehouse Art Co.

A very big THANK YOU goes out to all the collaborating artists who made this event not only awesome but possible. Sweet Thanks also to our insider friends at YBCA Maureen Dixon, Katya Min and Tommy Lau.

Great to live and work in the Bay Area and this Era with our peeps!

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MAY ART SHOW @ PUBLIC MARKET EMERYVILLE

Artists Leon Kennedy and Journey Coward each have a unique style. Both self taught and highly disciplined artists, creating cutting edge art, each with their own cultural background.

 Please come and experience this unique exhibit through the month of May 2013, inside the Emeryville Public Market Hall by the Kid's Play space, enjoy the eclectic art in the alcove reserved to dine on your choice of international food, use free wifi, meet and mingle with local folks. A great spot to chill, do some thinking work or just hang out with friends. Public is the new private...?

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:


Leon Kennedy,

is rated one of the top 100 self-taught artists in the country. His works are coveted by prominent Folk Art collectors everywhere – foreign, as well as domestic. Serious collectors take huge store in the fact that Mr. Kennedy’s works appear in the Smithsonian Institute; which in itself adds extreme value to the ownership of a Kennedy original.
A native of Houston, Texas; Mr. Kennedy has lived and worked in Oakland, California for over 25 years. If you are out, about, and alert, you may just run into him on an Oakland street – where he is busy capturing the people and scenes of bay area life – on canvas. And what canvas it is! Kennedy paints on “everything.” Some of his most impressive works have been captured on bed sheets. Yes, they are huge. And the precision and multiplicity of detail is astonishing. Works on wood, glass, and metal (even hubcaps) have been known to grace a thorough Kennedy collection.

Leon Kennedy is inspired by the Spirit, as his works exemplify. In fact, his trademark is the hand. “Hands symbolize my personal testimony. God is the door. Prayer is the key. Hands stand for the power of the imagination and for divine testimony. God sees my heart. He has the master plan; I am his obedient servant. Faith leads. I follow.”

My name is Journey Coward,
and I am a professional doodler. I have been training in the bay area all of my life. My ideas developed by growing up with A.D.D. I usually have a 1000 ideas flashing threw my mind and need somewhere to put them. While growing up in resource class I was permitted to draw during the lectures in school.
In this collection I decided to name them all according to my belief that when you expect Less and get more it becomes a memorable experience. I prefer this style over any other because it frees my mind from the everyday clutter. This is who I am and what I do.
I am Journey Pierce Christopher Coward

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LOCAL TRIBE EXPO @ GALLERY NORTH MAY 2013

We Are Becoming Our Ancestors

Drawings, paintings, and sculpture by: Magick, Leif Wold & Tigre Bailando

We are becoming our ancestors. We are elders in waiting. Our bodies and our spirits are our inheritance from those that have come before us. Every day we are creating the legacy we will leave for those who will come after us.

Please join us for this exhibition exploring & honoring our personal, collective, and archetypal ancestry.

Opening reception on May 10th will feature live performance and a collaboratively built altar to our collective ancestors. We invite you to bring an offering to give to the altar (whatever that may mean for you). There will also be jewelry and prints available for sale.

And here are our bios:

Tigre Bailando is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Philadelphia, now living in Berkeley. His work spans the visual, ritual, and performative arts, drawing on the deep reservoirs of mystery and magic impregnating the world and characters that surround us. He is inspired by mythology, music, trickster gods, mountains, love, death, graffiti, cartoons, old folks, poetry, decaying wood, rust, spirits, stillness, bones, folktales, the vastness and complexity of human emotions, winds, children, the human and non-human figure, trees, the ritual practices of people throughout the world, and the cosmic impulse to play. http://tigrebailando.com/

Leif Wold is an East coast born Artist, but as a youth transplanted in the northern California soils. Since finding artistic ground in the Bay Area he was deeply inspired by the street art budding up everywhere around him. And since his early twenties he has embarked on numerous over seas journeys to India, South and Central America to learn both the lifestyles and spiritual traditions of our ancient cultures. His travels and studies in the artistic traditions and heirlooms of our Earth's people have served as the primary inspiration for his latest work. From sand mandalas to textile weavings, temples to ceremonial garb, Leif's work seeks to recapture the great mystery so elaborately revered by our predecessors, and communicate it to our modern world.
He currently lives and works wherever he lives and works, but calls the Sierra foothills a good home.
http://www.leifoutloud.com/


Magick, a Bay Area Local born in Manila Philippines, draws together an urban expression of a Renaissance Butterfly dabbling in the fields of Paint, Stringed Instruments, Jewelry Design and Esoteric Sciences. A world traveller, mother, dancer, student of life and the paths of earth’s mystery schools, her love for art and geomancy began at an early age. Since San Francisco’s School of the Arts high school, London’s University of London Union for Art History, the Art Institute of San Francisco, CA for Interior Design to lastly the Golden Gate Feng Shui School, her path for understanding form, the history of beauty and its application has been immensely eclectic. Sustainable design, contemporary art and feng shui have been the backbone of creativity throughout her design training. Through it all, the thing she has gained most is the sense of certainty in knowing what she was put on the earth to do….Make Magick to make the World Shine Brighter.

 
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TOM FRANCO SHOW INITIATES NEW ART COLLECTIONS

Three new art collectors aquired Tom Franco paintings during opening week in April 2013.

A beautiful success for a working artist whose work is cutting edge and counter 'art world' culture. 

"We believe that Tom's work is going to be very well known and valuable in time, and are truly happy about these folks starting a private collection with such big future winners. " JL

Firehouse Gallery North will be open on Saturdays and Wednesdays 5 to 8 pm through April, there are still pieces ready for a home, come and view, meet and mingle with the artist and some other Firehouse art collaborators.
Here are some photos from opening night, which also served as Tom Franco's birthday party night...one of them...with DJ Patrick Lotilla painting perfect soundscapes, singer songwriter Jordan Epcar, Will Crum guerilla crashing, Tom Franco giving a talk about his process as an artist and vision for an art retreat spot in the country...another wholesome current culture art event with Firehouse collaborators.
Here are a few photos of opening night:

Artist talk...

Bannwart family in one of the new art collectors!

May the art collections grow and increase in value for the families who started them. 

Feels great to live Art Now.

A Big thank you also to Firehouse Harmon Street Studios friends, who organized a surprise party on Tom's proper birthdate April 14...love you guys!

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JOHNNY 'TURFEINZ' LOPEZ hosts "Turf Dance Battle" @Adeline Arts Hangar

April 13, all afternoon, Turf and all style dancers battled for first place...an important piece of Oakland street art culture for those of us who live here. 

Here are some photos by Julia Lazar and OforiPhoto

JOhnny Lopez photo by OforiPhoto

Judges, all original dancers themselves

Afternoon sun in the Art Hangar, great crowd

Warm up session in the back parking lot

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