Funding Arts Broward Supports Dave Muller's ROCK 'N' OLD Exhibition in Hollywood
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 30, 2014
Fort Lauderdale, FL - Recently, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (ACCH) opened a musically-inspired exhibition. Rock 'n' Old, a project funded by Funding Arts Broward through a FAB/Knight New Work award, featured Los Angeles-based artist, DJ and record collector Dave Muller who created a mixed-media, site-specific installation that merges wall murals, large-scale paintings, three-dimensional works, and recorded music in the Main Gallery at the Center. The project included Muller's interactive, trademark three-day opening weekend in November, which engaged the community in a free exchange of art, music, and ideas. The exhibition will run until Sunday, January 18, 2015 -a Free Admission Day at the museum.
On the walls of the main gallery, Muller painted a mural of a timeline based on the rise of the rock 'n' roll genre and complemented this mural with paintings up to seven-feet tall that replicate the spines of record album covers. In his 13-day residency at ACCH, Muller spent more than 100 hours working in the gallery to create the most ambitious site-specific work in the Center's history -- a massive wrap-around wall mural that provided the backdrop for life-sized paintings. For this exhibition, Muller created a new painting of top-10 album choices by legendary punk-rock performer Iggy Pop, who personally supplied the artist with his picks. The opening enlisted the public's participation as they shared their own relationships with popular music. "More than 400 people attended the opening weekend," says Joy Satterlee, Executive Director, ACCH. "Dave Muller has collected more than 349,000 songs which are playing continuously on six listening stations in the gallery throughout the exhibition," added Satterlee. "This project has been ground-breaking for the Art and Culture Center, and for the community to have this opportunity to be exposed to such an eclectic, musical entrepreneur and creative spirit."
With the help of a three-year $150,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and matching funds, Funding Arts Broward is proud to have been able to put greater resources in the hands of eight artistic organizations to raise the bar for creative production in South Florida. "We fund ideas ...from people with the vision, tenacity, courage, know-how to see them through," says Dennis Scholl, Vice President of Arts for Knight Foundation. "Funding Arts Broward exemplifies our goals and we are pleased to see this project come to fruition."
In its third and final year, The FAB/Knight New Work Awards are a timely development in FAB'S evolving growth and success. This unique award program was open to eligible FAB-funded groups and devised to enable Broward County's arts leaders to produce more ambitious projects and engage new audiences through creative marketing and free events. Intended as a catalyst to cultural presenters, it allowed them the freedom to innovate and invest in the professional development of their creative personnel, to purchase necessary equipment, to collaborate with guest artists, and to produce projects of excellence.
This season the South Florida arts and cultural scene has been enhanced by three innovative, high quality art projects, supported by Funding Arts Broward's FAB/Knight New Work Award. The three awardees are The Coral Springs Museum of Art ($50,000) for a CSMART Digital Art Lab and Symposium, a program of workshops and digital art salons that will culminate in March 2015; The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood ($20,000) for the exhibition Dave Muller: Rock 'n Old; and NSU's Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ($20,000) for the exhibition, Research and Development: Concerning Belonging which connected South Florida artists with residents of homeless shelters in Broward County, held in Summer 2014.
For further information on FAB! And more details on each project, visit the fundingartsbroward.org or call 954-353-7673.
About FAB! Since 2003, FAB! Has awarded more than two million dollars to more than thirty arts organizations in Broward County. FAB!'S mission is to enrich the Broward County arts community by funding high quality Broward -based visual and performing arts programming. All FAB! Activities are coordinated by volunteers who each make an annual donation; and share a common belief that art and culture in contemporary society transcends our individual differences and unite us in celebration of the human spirit. About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - The Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more information, visit www.knightfoundation.org.Videos