Dinnerware Artspace: Lighter on its feet, 2012

Dinnerware Artspace will be out of the building at 119 E. Toole in another week. The kilns, potters wheels, etching presses, yoga mirrors, photography enlargers, stage segments, rolling display walls, all into a nearby storage facility until their next opportunity for use arises.

What is Dinnerware Artspace now?
We're a pop up artspace redefining vacant spaces in pre-announced locations in downtown Tucson, Arizona, at 76 E. Sixth Street (Benjamin Supply parking lot), downtown parking garages, and in other areas in need of arts and culture activities.

Not to miss a beat, Dinnerware's next event is Monday, January 9th, 2012, at 76 E. Sixth Street, also known as the Benjamin Plumbing Supply parking lot. This is the  Tucson Food Truck Roundup which runs 5 to 9pm and is great fun for the whole family.

We'll have a Bollywood movie projected on the side of the Benjamin Warehouse.
The Wonderfools will entertain kids, as will the kids arts table.
An exhibit of new paintings by Neil Adam Collins.
Performing on stage ToReeNee Wolf on guitar.
Amy Hagemeier doing face painting

And it's a full moon night, with clear skies predicted.
This is an outdoor ambiance with 20 tables and chairs for seating, but watch for some unusual seating arrangements.

And the food!
We'll have 17 food trucks on site including:

-Guero Loco’s Bubba-Que, ("sMoK'n....up some BBq")

-The Patty Wagon, (Gourmet hamburgers)

-Animal Farm, (falafel with tzatziki sauce, Berkshire pork belly banh mi)

-Mafooco, (Korean Tacos, Kimchi Quesadillas)


-Robdogs, (variety of hot dogs, toppings including chili or sauerkraut)


-Jamie's Bitchin' Kitchen, (Caribbean Jerk Chicken, Mojo Criollo Pork Cuban Sandwich)

-Cyclopsicle,(mango dipped in Chipotle Chocolate)


-Seis Curbside Kitchen, (Mexican food with a flare: yucatan tacos, burros, panuchas stuffed with black beans.)

-Pin Up Pastries, (Tracy's whoopie pies, cake ops, cupcakes)

-Street Delights, (Variety of pies, creme brulee, chocolate cake)


-Stolen Recipe BBQ, (St. Louis style ribs smoked over pecan wood.)


-Vero Amore (Authentic Neapolitan Pizza)

-Trucking Good Cupcakes(Voted Best cupcake by Tucson Culinary Experience 2011)

-K-Bork Tacos y Gorditas (try their “Dirty Tacos”)

-Planet of the Crepes (you might come across smoked duck crepes or bean & basil soup)

-Ni Hao Amigos( mexican and asian fare: quesadillas, to teriyaki chicken)

-from Phoenix: Luncha Libre, (Oaxaca Quesadillas, Tortas, SW Salads)

Thank you to Benjamin Plumbing Supply for letting us use their parking lot!

Tablecloth covered tables, with seating, in a star covered ambiance.

A project of Dinnerware Artspace and Tucson Food Trucks.

Contact me at dinnerwareartspace@gmail.com for more info on future events, how you can participate as a musician, or artist, or food trucker.

David Aguirre
Director

Dinnerware Artspace Leaps into 2012

It's time to re-boot, rebrand, and refresh Dinnerware Artspace.

The year 2012 is likely to be another challenging one for many of Tucson's artists and nonprofits.

At Dinnerware, we're pulling up our little root at 119 E. Toole in Tucson. Choosing instead to surf the curved edge of the coming 2012 changes. We'll make adjustments in our programming intentions, then expect to 'take the show on the road', beginning in January.

What you're likely to see from Dinnerware Artspace in 2012 are innovative arts events on a pop up basis. Not only art exhibitions, and art workshops such as printmaking, silk screening, but a fusion events with food, clothing trades, growing your own greens workshops, creating your own electricity workshops, raising your own chickens, and more.

You see, in 2012, sustainability, art, and science will be a necessity for innovative living. Previous, dogmatic separations will continue to deteriorate. New alliances need to be created. Artists will need to venture further into becoming microsustainable-community-beings using their creativity to reduce reliance on outdated commercial systems.

Our new 2012 project, Molecule Arts, has been created for this purpose. A molecule forms stable microstructures of benevolently charged units, creating a stronger pattern of energy than if they had not organized(or reorganized). Magnetic resonance is a must to make a cohesive pattern, that is, they need to like each other through it's ups and downs. Molecule Arts will help create these cultural organisms.


Sometimes you have to search for art. Some Dinnerware sites may be downtown. I've seen potential temporary sites near 22nd St/Alvernon, and Ft. Lowell/First Ave, and St. Mary's Road.

Projects that will continue in 2012 under the Dinnerware banner are:
Ignite Tucson,
Tucson Food Truck Roundup,
District Clothing Trade,
Slide Shark!,
Eat Dinner: Fund an Artist, and
our fashion shows.

Also on the drawing board for 2012:
Art Park(bringing a cultural eye into Tucson's new parking garages),
The Cozy Room (music and storytelling with To-Ree-Nee and company), and
The Majestic (top level parking garage outdoor cinema with food and music and a view)

As always, thanks for your attendance, and support for Dinnerware Artspace this last year, and the past 32 years.

I hope you will stick with us as we jump on the wild ride that will likely be year 2012.


David Aguirre
Director
Dinnerware Artspace