WOW.. 12 friends were awarded Guggenheim Fellows ..Please..le me introduce them to you

WOW!  I want to post some GOOD news. I NEED to post some GOOD news, .on this dark day politically. The Guggenheim Fellows have been announced!  Artists are our flashlight out of the tunnel of darkness as the DTs turn off all the lights in the rooms of hope This morning I learned of Hunter Reynolds becoming a Guggenheim Fellow,,,,
I am so proud of my friend and soul buddy HUNTER REYNOLDS for being awarded a GUGGENHEIM this year. An artist of profound vision and a will to live despite everything possible that would say no .. I treasure his friendship and literally stand in front of his work and find myself falling into a swoon intoxicated by the sheer mesh of beauty and the reality check of history that covers his canvases  

CONGRATULATIONS HUNTER... I hope you will be up to joining us again this year when the GAY LIBERATION FRONT marches (or rides we are fundraising to get a mini-bus to carry some of our people )

Please click on the announcement link  ...and you will see a slide show of SOME of Hunter's work...

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Hunter Reynolds

Hunter Reynolds is a visual artist and AIDS activist. He received his BFA in 1984 from Otis College of Art in Los Angeles where he was a part of the downtown art scene and formed his first performance…

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and when I went to see who else was so awarded for their work I saw other friends and fellow travelers I am thrilled to see my friends so honored and in this economy, this will mean a HUGE change in their day to day life as in giving some breathing room
so please join me in say WOW CONGRATULATIONS 

Please click on the announcement link  ...and you will learn of each artist work

Mx CASSILS: in a tradition that is a bit Abromowitz and a little Lisa Lyon Cassils uses her body as a template of ideas and practice

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/cassils/

HARRY DODGE: visual artist and wordsmith that won at sundance and walked away

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-dodge/

MASHA GESSEN: a thinker whose books I rush to read 

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/masha-gessen/

Mx Keith Hennessy: We met in a class we were taking in SF with Anna Halprin

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/keith-hennessy/

Shelly Hirsch is being rewarded for a vocal instrument that is unlike any other 

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shelley-hirsch/

Kirsten Johnson: A film shooter extraordinaire as well as a documentary director .. and a most unusual mom

 ttp://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kirsten-johnson/

Mike Kuchar: master, indie low-budget, t wild narrative filmmaker

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/mike-kuchar/

Yvonne Meier: one can not speak of post-modern dance without thinking of Yvonne She took contact improvisation and made it into  physical poetry

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/yvonne-meier/

Will Rawls Watching Will is like being in the Black Forest with only a full moon to light the sky.

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/will-rawls/

Carmelita Tropicana like a spitfire in the house of love Cuban-American Tropicana brings a celebration of both the body and the brain dressed in a physic comedy about very serious issues. 

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/carmelita-tropicana/

Marianne Weems: Theater maker, the opposite of reality TV is  Weems vision of life as seen on any kind of stage 

\http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/marianne-weems/

Special shout out to Mx Keith Hennessy and Mx CASSILS for forward thinking gender free pronous