Art Fallout to be Held in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, 10/17

To celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month, Girls' Club hosts the sixth annual Art Fallout - a day to explore and support the production and presentation of contemporary art in Downtown Fort Lauderdale.

Art Fallout brings together Girls' Club, the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, 1310 Gallery, FATVillage, Glavovic Studio, Cadence Pop-Up Gallery, MAC Fine Art, Made in Broward at The Cottage, MASS District, Laser Wolf and local artists for an explosive evening of interactive exhibitions, special presentations, pop-up galleries, shops, local food and open studios.

Representing a unique variety of venues, Art Fallout promises to offer something for everyone. All venues will be open with free admission from 5-9pm. Free shuttle service between each venue will be available from 5-10:30pm, provided by the Nova Southeastern University Shark Shuttle. Food trucks, vendors or cafés are available at each venue.

Diverse public art works will ignite the landscape of downtown Fort Lauderdale with large outdoor video projects, curated by local artist Jen Clay, and large scale inflatable sculptures, organized by Giants in the City, at select venues and sites along the Art Fallout route. Curated by Fort Lauderdale-based artist Jen Clay is a dynamic video project featuring videos and interactive pieces that will project onto building facades, warehouses and interior spaces from local artists. Giants in the City will be collaborating with Art Fallout this year to bring their oversized inflatable sculptures by international artists to several Art Fallout venues.

THE VENUES

Founder and organizer of Art Fallout, Girls' Club will host its popular one-day open call exhibition "Art Fallout Unframed". Local artists of all ages and stages in their careers will exhibit works on paper that cover the entire first floor gallery. Members of the public - as well as invited arts professionals, curators and collectors - are invited to give feedback to artists though a system of color-coded Post-It notes, placed on the wall adjacent to the artwork. At the end of the night, artists go home with a stack of color notes from the community, furthering dialogue among artists, arts aficionados and audience.

Also at Girls' Club, local favorite and nationally recognized food truck Ms. Cheezious will be serving hot bites and grilled cheese sandwiches with options for vegans, vegetarians and the hungriest of carnivores. Mini Gramps, a nomadic pop-up bar by Gramps Bar in Wynwood will be on hand serving ice cold beer and beverages.

Adjacent to Girls' Club, the studio of Francie Bishop Good will open to the public, sharing a new series of mixed-media works by the prolific artist and collector.

The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will be open late for Art Fallout, with free admission presenting A Prelude to Art Fallout with multiple exhibits on view including "The Indestructible Lee Miller", "Pablo Picasso: Painted Ceramics and Works on Paper 1931-71", "War Horses: Helhesten and the Danish Avant-Garde during World War II", and "William J. Glackens: A Modernist in the Making". The Museum Café will offer light bites and a special 2-for-1 wine and beer for purchase with live music and performance artists activating the breezeway in front of the iconic building.

At 1310 Gallery, the tri-level gallery space within the Sailboat Bend Artists Lofts presents "True heART Show", an exhibition of work from local artists to benefit the Humane Society of Broward County. Several artists studios of the Sailboat Bend Artists Lofts will be open, inviting guests to drop in to lively artists live/work spaces.

At FATVillage, a variety of artist studios, galleries, alternative exhibition spaces and technology-driven venues on NW 1 Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets will be open. The Projects will be celebrating the closing "Possessed": a large-scale interactive exhibition curated by Lisa Rockford which gives the community the chance to become - literally - part of the artwork. Local artists present colorful, provocative, 3D artworks that invite viewers to "strike a pose" next to their work. Fellow FATVillagers World and Eye Art Center, General Provision, Studio 535 Fine Arts Collective, Donna Haynes Studio and other will be open, presenting special events, with food trucks available nearby.

On Third Avenue, Glavovic Studio / Margi Glavovic Nothard Studio will be presenting "FLOW" a large-scale public art project that connects Fort Lauderdale's New River and the community to the new Broward County Courthouse, embracing the public access Breezeway below the parking structure and the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale. The project's vitality travels the floor and wall surfaces creating a dynamic envelope inviting the public to experience FLOW. In addition to form and color, lighting activates the space as an integral part of the experience.

Cadence, a landscape architecture, urban design and site planning firm located on Andrews Avenue will present a special edition of the Cadence Pop-Up Gallery, introducing the launch of the public art project Mockingbird Trail. The Mockingbird Trail is an urban art exploration trail - the first of its kind in South Florida. A collaboration between artist Valeria Yamamoto, Flagler Village Community Garden and Girls' Club, Mockingbird Trail invites the community to get outside, experience the outdoors and explore the urban landscape with several public art sculptures and murals dotting the 2 mile trail loop.

Participating again this year, Made in Broward at The Cottage - a multi-use education facility located in a renovated historic home on NE 1st Avenue boasting sewing, culinary, gardening and wood working facilities. For Art Fallout, Made in Broward presents "Foundation of Printmaking" an exhibition of works on paper and alternative print making workshops throughout the evening.

The contemporary art gallery Mac Fine Art participates again this year with "Second Chances" an exhibition curated by Rochi Llaneza. Housed in a 10,000 sq ft warehouse space on NE 4 Avenue, MAC Fine Art stands as an anchor to the growing MASS Art District that runs along NE 4 Avenue.

Now in its sixth year, Art Fallout's blast radius pushes north even further with the addition of MASS Art District, a new art hub composed of an eclectic mix of venues including MAC Fine Art, Art Attack, the studio of Henning Haupt, Dekkagon, Art Attack and others. Grown out of a recently reinvigorated row of warehouses on NE 4th Avenue, MASS (Music and Art South of Sunset) Art District boasts a lively mix of artist studios, art/music venues and creative businesses.

Also new this year is the addition of Laser Wolf, a local favorite beer bar on the edge of Flagler and Progresso Village. Serving an endless flow of local, international, indie and craft beers, Laser Wolf will also be the site of local artist Samuel Lopez de Victoria's interactive video projection Howler, that utilizes chance to provide a satire on where wisdom is thought to be found, by way of a fortune telling wolf.