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UC Institute for Research in the Arts

The University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) supports UC artists dedicated to innovative approaches to form and content in the performing, media, and visual arts. Our goal is to support imaginative projects that transcend boundaries, or that fall outside the present confines of arts practice. We have a special interest in projects that are collaborative in nature and that benefit two or more UC campuses. A program of the UC Office of the President, UCIRA is committed to diversity in all its forms.

Taking place locally with UCR. Check out the schedule. Visit the Art's Walk Thurs- Saturday, we will be showing all weekend!

Path of Life

Black and White Series at Art Walk

NineZero Games 2008

Thank you to everyone who participated in,
supported, and sposored the NineZero Games!

We couldn't have done it without you!

A fun, athletic and entertaining weekend we all had.

Golf – Tennis – Cycling – FASD Conference - NineZero Walk, and much more!

Our signature fundraising event was a success and goes to help prevent the number one cause of intellectual disabilities –
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and to celebrate “The Value of One.”

Pick 2008 Day of Caring

Pick Sept 08 General Meeting

Shows

Art Walk is coming up this week (first Thurs of every month). We were out of town last month, but I am showing a few pieces this month.

For the month of September I will be showing at Back to the Grind, a local coffee shop here in Riverside.

At the end of the month, come to the Riverside Plaza and check out the Peace Festival. I will be down there hosting a booth of handmade soap, Jenn original photo cards and some prints. Plus check out the other booths and activities too!

Golden

Finally finished "Golden." She sat unframed for the longest time. Mark and Erin kept buggin to purchase it but something did not seem finished. So I made the framing - now it is ready to show!

World Turned Upside Down

Jennifer O’Farrell/ WhiteWave Photography
“The World turned Upside Down”
Multi Media (photographs, newspaper ads, canvas, oil, sharpie)
Size – 16”x20”
2008
In a world of resources, there seems to be enough for everyone’s needs – basic needs- however, especially in the United States, we live off the resources of our greed. The earth, in a way, has been turned upside down by the rape of her resources. There are various quotes from authors, Native America proverbs, and guides that have shared the, in their way, the abuse that has occurred to Mother Nature. One of them is: “The US is the number one producer of garbage. We consume thirty percent of the planet’s resources and create thirty percent all its waste. The US is home to just four percent of the global population.”
Some say the whole world, the whole earth, and creation seem upside down. What was once innovation and industrial ingenious now seems to have ramifications upon the purest gift that resides amongst us. Yet the hope is that some how when we least expect it, the world- our choices, our lives- writes itself again.

Message in a bottle

“Message in a Bottle”
Multi Media (oil, canvas, newspaper, pictures)
Size- 16”x20”
2008 – donation to Jim Stream and The Arc of Riverside County’s NineZero Project

“Message in a Bottle” is the heart beat of The NineZero Project. NineZero stands for “Nine months, Zero alcohol.” Alcohol is the leading known cause of mental retardation in the United States, yet it is one hundred percent preventable.

The bottle is an accumulation of many alcoholic beverages sold within the states. The various types of drinks are to show that there is not one beverage that causes Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. The Surgeon General has placed on all of them labels reminding pregnant women that there is no safe time nor no safe amount of alcohol to be consumed during the nine months of pregnancy. Within the bottle’s spill emerges a small representation of the thousands of lives that have been damaged due to the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol. The faces are those with FASD.

I have chosen the color purple that drips out from the bottle splashing onto the faces as an analogy. Purple typically is associated with royalty. People with FASD are from royalty in how they are treated; due to the way others treat them, 60% will find themselves suspended or expelled, 60% will have trouble with the law, 80% are unable to live independently, and 80% are unable to keep a job for over three months. Yet their voices have not been silenced. Choruses of other have joined with them to sing a song of awareness, prevention, and hope for the lives of generation that will not struggle with FASD. Join the chorus. Visit NineZero.org.

Irish or Berlin?

Afternoon

Yellow is the Color (wedding)