Announcement: At Odds: The Law and Public Art, panel discussion, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Thurs, Oct 15, 7pm

Panel Discussion
"At Odds: The Law and Public Art"
Thursday, October 15 at 7 p.m.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th St, New York, NY 10011
21 647 7778
www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
Free and open to the public

In conjunction with Art in Odd Places' "SIGN" festival on 14th Street
through October

Participating panelists include Amy Guggenheim, "Design Jazz"
participant and filmmaker; Sergio Muoz Sarmiento, artist, writer, and
legal practitioner; Christina Ray, founder and director of art gallery
Glowlab; Leon Reid, "Design Jazz" artist and public works artist. For
more information on the festival, please visit www.artinoddplaces.org.

Pratt film professor Amy Guggenheim's solo plays and short films have
screened internationally, with support from the New York State Council
on the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Embassy. She is
founder of Global Cinemas Salon, an international program for filmmakers
from seven continents. Guggeheim, who previously served as an Information
Specialist with the United States Cultural Council, recently returned
from an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in Japan where she developed a
dramatic feature film with Japan's Koi Pictures.

Christina Ray is the founder of Glowlab, an innovative art gallery and
creative catalyst located in New York focused on the convergence of art,
technology and the urban environment. Ray is also the founder of
Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative
exploration of urban public space, and has led the festival as Director
since its inception in 2003. She is currently serving as Key Artistic
Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square
Alliance and recently became a founding member of the Advisory Committee
of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue. She is a frequent
speaker on the intersection of art and emerging technology in public
space.

Leon Reid IV is a public works artist and Pratt alumnus who entered the
world of public art as a teenage graffiti writer on the streets of
Cincinnati using the street tag of "Verbs." His move to Brooklyn, N.Y.
in 1998 signaled a transformation from traditional graffiti work as
"Verbs" to a more contextual and humorous style under the name "Darius
Jones." His collaboration with afellow street artist is featured in The
Adventures of Darius and Downey published by Thames and Hudson in 2008.
Reid's current public work under his own name has become increasingly
sensitive and relevant to the environments he inhabits.

Sergio Muoz Sarmiento is an artist, writer, and legal practitioner
interested in the relationship between art and law. His main areas of
focus are intellectual property, law and film, and nonprofit
organizations, with a particular emphasis on contemporary art.

His work has been shown in international exhibitions, including Mexico,
Germany, and Spain, and nationally in Dallas, New York City, and Los
Angeles. He has published essays and projects in Five Continents and One
City Exhibition (catalogue essay, Mexico), Capital Art: On the Culture of
Punishment (catalogue essay, US), Cabinet Magazine (US), Law Text Culture
(Australia), and Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left.

He is currently Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in
New York City and Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law
School, creator of CLANCCO, www.clancco.com, as well as a mentor with the
Kennedy Center's Arts in Crisis program.

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