2010-2011
For the 2010-2011 season, the Columbia Design League Board of Directors has created a diverse collection of thought provoking events. From copyright issues and sustainable farming to public art and rural architecture, this is a series you won't want to miss! We are continuing our popular members-only Meet the Designer series, intimate gatherings in which we meet a hand-picked selection of Columbia's finest artists and designers in their homes and studios-- there's never been a better time to join. For membership information, click here.
09.17.10
Annual Membership Meeting
PWYC Finalists’ Faceoff
6pm/ Nelson Mullins Rooftop
The sky is the limit for the Columbia Design League's new Play With Your City public art competition, and on September 17 high above Main Street on the rooftop of the Nelson Mullins building the three competition finalists will fight for funding of their proposals. Award-winning NYC-based arts writer, editor and blogger Teri Tynes will return to Columbia to choose just one winner. Each finalist will have only a few minutes to present their public art proposal and will then have to defend it in response to questions from Tynes, the audience and even the other finalists. It's all or nothing in this high-energy, high-altitude Finalists' Face-off.
10.08.10
Meet The Designer: City Roots
6pm/ City Roots Farm, 1005 Airport Blvd
This is no ordinary farm! Founded in 2009 by architect Robbie McClam and his son and father, City Roots has become an icon of sustainability, a meeting place for local foodies, farmers and creatives, and a cherished ingredient source for Columbia's top chefs. Situated just steps from the Owen's Field airport, this in-town farm offers organic fare from tilapia to turnips. The farm's mission is to produce clean, healthy, sustainably grown products while enhancing and educating the community about the benefits of local, sustainably grown food, composting, vermicomposting and other environmentally friendly farming practices.
11.05.10
Copyright Smackdown
6pm/ Columbia Museum of Art
Copyright. Fair Use. Mashup. Remix. What’s legal? What’s not? Feeling confused? Join the Columbia Design League, the Nickelodeon Theatre, USC Media Arts and Moving Image Research Collections for the Copyright Smackdown. The Nick will screen Rip! A Remix Manifesto, starring remix master Girltalk on Thursday, November 4th and on Friday November 5th the film’s director Brett Gaylor will be joined by Renee Hobbs of the Media Education Lab, Mark Cooper of MIRC and others for a bare-knuckled debate of all things copyright and wrong.
12.17.10
Meet the Designer: Mike Dwyer
6pm/ Columbia Museum of Art
Go behind-the-scenes of the Columbia Museum of Art with Michael Dwyer, the Museum's Exhibition Designer and Chief Preparator. Dwyer will host a talking/ walking tour of the museum’s preparatory areas showing where and how the temporary and permanent collections are stored, maintained, and prepared for exhibition. Dwyer will discuss his role in designing, organizing, and implementing the processes involved in creating major art exhibitions in all art media.
01.28.11
A Columbia Design League invitational exhibition featuring 2010 Runaway Runway entries
The Community Gallery of the Columbia Museum of Art
6pm/ Members-only reception
Get up close and personal with outfits and designers from the 2010 Columbia Design
League’s Runaway Runway event at this invitational exhibition featuring entries from RR 2010.
Learn about the concept and construction processes behind each outfit. CDL members will have the opportunity to meet the designers in person at the Meet the Designer reception.
02.04.11
Citizen Architect:
Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
6:00 reception; 6:30pm Film - Lorick Auditorium
The Columbia Design League welcomes the producers of Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio for a screening and discussion of the film. In 1993 the late architect and MacArthur Genius Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build education program in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by frank, passionate interviews with Mockbee, the film shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic client, known to locals as Music Man because of his zeal for old R&B and Soul records.
03.04.11
Who Shot Rock
Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground. From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs that personalized, and frequently eroticized, the musicians, creating a visual identity for the genre.
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is organized by the Brooklyn Museum with guest curator Gail Buckland.
photo Credit:
Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938). Tina Turner, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles (detail), October 1985. Chromogenic print.
04.29.11
Runaway Runway
Now in its fourth year, the Columbia Design League's Runaway Runway annual fundraiser is Columbia’s premier fun and funky fashion show that aims to raise design and environmental awareness through the use of post-consumer materials constructed into fantastic freestyle fashions.While the entire world is serious about sustainability, this event proves green can be fabulous, fashionable and fun! The competition features clothing created by designers using items destined for the landfill. For more information, follow the link above.
05.08.11
Meet the Designer: Pearl Fryer
Bus-tour field trip, Bishopville, SC
Pearl Fryar began work on the 3 acre topiary garden in 1984 in an effort to win "Yard of the Month". The manicured, sculptural plant forms that comprise Fryar's living vision of peace, love and goodwill often times began as salvaged seedlings from a local nursery. Internationally recognized by art and botanical enthusiasts, the visually whimsical garden is maintained year-round by Fryar for visitors from around the world. In 2006 the Columbia Design League presented the documentary film, "A Man Named Pearl." Join us as we follow up with a visit to this legendary garden.
Members-only event and space is limited. Registration details available soon.
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