Welcome to Fall at DIVA. It's that time of year when day and night are momentarily the same length in both hemispheres. Those living south of the equator welcome the beginning of spring while we here in the north prepare for fall and the coming darkness of winter.
   What better time of year than now, to begin planning your next visit the DIVA Center where the First Annual All-Member's show continues on exhibit through the month of October. Art classes being soon. And, a full fall-schedule of screenings and media art events await your participation. So, come downtown to the DIVA Center, "Where Art Happens". (Image: Texas A&M Astronomical Observatory freeware)

Tuesday Deadline for Class Registration. September 26th is the final day to register for Fall Classes in book arts, painting, illustration, pencil, mix media, and cartooning at the DIVA Center. A full list of classes, workshops, and faculty is available by clicking here. Or, you can download a PDF brochure. Register online, over the phone (), or in person at the DIVA. Classes begin October 3rd. Sign up now!

DIVA and Eugene Film Festival Schedule Special Programs. DIVA and the Eugene Film Festival are sponsoring a monthly film series that will re-screen some of the "best of" the festival feature films, documentaries, and experimental works shown at the first festival in May.
      The series begins with: Mutant Ferrets from Outer Space, Red Toothbrush, Leeward Tide, On Earth, deep deep blues, and The Tulpa. 
     The series begins 7:00 PM, September 27, at the DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway. Admission: $5.00.

The Catalyst. DIVA's new print newsletter should be arriving soon in your mail box. The purpose of this newsletter is to recognize our generous donors and inform them by mail of our upcoming activities. Currently the Center plans to produce The Catalyst twice a year, but this may change based on the response we receive. You may also download a PDF copy here.

Earth to Ear. Ear to the Earth, is a unique festival of sound art, music, and ecology that will take place October 6 - 14 in New York City. The festival is a week-long celebration of environmental sound and image with installations, panels, and concerts. Conceived and organized by Electronic Music Foundation, the aim of the festival is to inspire sensitivity to our natural and human environments through sound and foster engagement in environmental issues. For a brief background statement, follow this link.

Sound Artists at DIVA. The DIVA Center has become known by sound artists from all over the world as the venue to stop at while on a west coast tour. Don Haugen's Human Monster Productions continues to wow Eugene with a slate of national and international noise artists. Although, to some, noise events are unpleasant, discordant, and painful. To others, especially noise artists working with "non-musical" sources, these events provide a sense of acoustic exploration and auditory experiences uncharacteristic of more structured musical performances. Many artists refer to their work simply as "noise" and not "noise music". This October and November, Eugene will have the opportunity to experience some of the best noise artists thanks to Human Monster Productions and the DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway. In a series of events, artists from New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, will give performances at the Center along with local and regional performers, Some of the artist include: Carlos Giffoni, Venezuela, Jazkamer- from Norway, Neglected Receptors out of Minneapolis, The Microwaves arriving from Pittsburgh, and many regional and local artists as well. See the Media Arts Calendar for days, times, and descriptions.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal's editorial section makes the point with the photo seen above. The picture was taken on 9/11 and shows a group of people in the foreground with the Trade Center Towers in the distance. When this picture was recently made available it created quite a stir because it doesn't fit our mental image of what that day was all about. The photograph is open to interpretation by the eye of the beholder. To understand more about the power of images read the informative article, Looking Through a Lens: One 9/11 picture, thousands of words: Rorschach of meanings, by Richard B. Woodward which recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It is an eye-opening article about the images we see and how we understand them through our own personal filters. (Photo © Wall Street Journal).

Artist Draws 'Clean' Graffiti from Dirty Walls. British authorities aren't sure what to make of the artist, known as Moose, who creates graffiti by cleaning off the grime urban life. Moose is a street artist who draws using a shoe brush and water to scrape away the grime on tunnel walls and other surfaces to leaving behind an image. (Source: NPR) Read and Listen.

First Annual All Member Show Continues. Included are paintings, installations, ceramics, and other works by DIVA Members.
     This year's theme is the "Edge Effect". In nature, the "Edge Effect" describes the activity that occurs where different ecosystems meet. DIVA is poised at the "edge" of a cultural change for downtown Eugene. DIVA Members were invited to submit works that illustrated, demonstrated or evoked, their own edge effects for exhibition. This exhibit illustrates the creative diversity of our Center's membership.
      The exhibit will be on display through October and showcases some of the best work in the region. See full list of Participating Artist.

EFF at DIVA CENTER

September 27 Best of the Eugene Film Festival Re-Screening Session I - Locals Only: films from the Pacific Northwest
Time:7:00 PM Wednesday
Sponsor: DIVA Media Arts Committee and Eugene Film Festival
Admission: $5.00
The Best of the First Annual Eugene Film Festival will be screened this Fall at the DIVA Center. Come and enjoy some of the finest filmmaking available today.

• Mutant Ferrets from Outer Space. Mutant ferrets terrorize a small coastal town. A mother and son are trapped inside their home. Can they be stopped?
• Red Toothbrush - When a clean freak mom and a careless kid share the same toothbrush it's bound to cause problems. But in this case, there are only more questions, and an ending you'll never be able to guess at.
• Leeward Tide - On a lonely stretch of coastline a forlorn mariner seeks comfort in the rusted remains of a forgotten shipwreck. Unbeknownst to him, his redemption will arrive with a leeward tide.
• On Earth - Have you been searching for purpose in a cruel and faithless world? Does the prospect of living out your life in a meaningless circle of frustration and futility make you long for another way out? Well look no further because On Earth Ascensions has the answers you’ve been longing for.
• deep deep blues - The story of a lonesome harmonicist/bullfighter searching for purpose in a confusing world.
• The Tulpa - A headstrong female reporter interviews a young Tibetan Monk who claims that he has the ability to manifest physical objects from the depths of his mind.

September 27 - Eugene Noise Event - I
Time: 9:00 PM Wednesday
Sponsor: Human Monster Productions
Admission: $5.00

Once again a cutting edge noise event comes to the DIVA Center with Portland noise guru Dead/Bird, Newton from New York City, and Eugene based gloomy doomy guitar by i.n.r.i, and compu-noise by Eraritjaritjaka. The event, produced by Don Haugen.

September 29 - Fletcher Tucker with Bird By Snow. Also appearing Lusty Leaf, Little Girl, Big Spoon and Ryan Reeves - Aways Ago.
Time: 8:00 PM
Sponsor: DIVA and Lusty Leaf
Admission: $5.00 donation

Bird By Snow: Fletcher Tucker Fletcher began making music not too long ago, writing songs as he recorded them, because recording reminded him of sculpture, which he had studied formally formerly. He settled upon the band name, Bird By Snow, in 2002, it was taken from a poem by e.e. cummings, that is very much about that small-town of Pacific Grove where he lives. The band is Tucker, and sometimes friends he wants to play with (usually the rhyth-mythically talented Spencer Owen), and whoever else wants to play. Fletcher sing songs about what is in him, which is a love for the world and everything in it. Visit Web Site.

Spencer Owen and Lusty Leaf: Lusty Leaf is a folk collective based out of Eugene coordinated by Owen Smith. Lusty Leaf will perform"Autumnal Hymns".

Little Girl, Big Spoon. One girl show, Michelle Zauner - lyrics, vocals, guitar, xylophone and piano. Zauner has a refreshingly unpolished stage presence and presentation. Experimental / Acoustic / Folk. . Read more: Oregon Daily Emerald Article

Ryan Reeves - Aways Ago. Folk rock artist from Eugene, Oregon. "Tasty rock chops inherited from the era of volcanic earth.." Sample music online.

Subway Dreams

September 30 and October 1 - Subway Dreams with filmmaker Anna Holtzman
Two showings : 8:00 PM Saturday and 7:00 PM Sunday
Sponsor: DIVA Media Arts Committee
Admission: $5.00

"Subway Dreams" (56 min.) is a documentary that explores the lives and ambitions of six performers who audition for Music Under New York, the MTA's guild for subway musicians.
   Anna Holtzman is a native New Yorker who has been listening to music in the subways for 29 years. She is a freelance journalist who writes about architecture and photography for Architecture, Metropolis, The Architect’s Newspaper, and the Amsterdam-based photography magazine Eyemazing, among others. This is her first film.

Media Arts Schedule for Fall. You can now download the Fall Media Arts Schedule. We have it all at the DIVA Center from film classics with improvised musical scores to some of the cutting edge artistic work in video and electronic media.

Dioramas: American Museum of Natural History (Scout Report) Many decades ago, the diorama reigned supreme in the world of natural history museums. After a long period of decline, there was a recrudescence in these seemingly simple and straightforward pedagogical tools. Through video introductions offered by senior project manager Steve Quinn, visitors will become intimately familiar with those dioramas that replicate the domains of the lion, the mountain gorilla, the mountain goat, and several others. After these vignettes, visitors can take some of the “Virtual Tours” offered here, and then download some of the audio files for use during their own visit to the museum. As a coda, visitors can learn about some of the artists who worked on creating both the background and foreground paintings of these dioramas over the past one hundred years. Visit Web Site.                 

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- An E-studio on the DIVA website
- Discounts on class art supplies
- Monthly Artist Salon - 4th Sunday
- Discounts on DIVA Sponsored Events
- Member's Gallery Exhibit opportunity
- Exhibit Annual All Members Show
- Possible exhibit in local businesses
- Invitations to DIVA Special Events
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