suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
The Alley FELLOWSHIP: The Alley Fellowship produces a two-month rotating exhibition and lecture series and is open to emerging, young, progressive artists in Los Angeles. The fellowship will be awarded to six artists, selected by a seven-member jury consisting of artists, designers, and architects from the A+D Museum and Rios Clementi Hale Studios. The jury will select based on which projects best embody the spirit of transdisciplinary creative exploration, a key focus area for RCHS and A+D.
“A fundamental aspect of the A+D’s mission is to produce a platform for analysis, exploration, and for the ever-expanding perspectives of our field regardless of their historical arenas. The Alley Fellowship is a direct expression of this mission, it explores the means and modes of contemporary inquiry and experimentation within the field. There could not be a better partner in this endeavor than Rios Clementi Hale Studios, their office, their ethos and approach to the discipline as a whole is a snapshot of the success that can come from such an approach of multi-disciplinary investigation and we are privileged and thrilled to embark on this new endeavor with a long-standing family member of the museum,” says Anthony Morey, Executive Director and Chief Curator at the A+D Museum.
“Our practice is always looking beyond the world of architecture in order to stay informed and collaborative. We are thrilled to partner with the A+D Museum on this opportunity. The interesting notion about the name — Architecture plus Design — is that the ‘+’ sign is symbolic of our firm’s ideology; when we add more than one form of art to our methodology, it becomes something larger and more informative to our explorations as designers and practitioners,” says Frank Clementi, FAIA, Partner at Rios Clementi Hale Studios.
The program grew organically out of a shared belief in providing a platform that supports emerging multi-disciplinary artists. The Alley Gallery, the fellowship’s namesake, will provide a dedicated space where emerging artists can contribute their voice to the overarching narrative of transdisciplinary design.
The selected fellows will receive logistical, curatorial, and financial support to implement a design installation within the Alley Gallery at A+D. Additionally, each fellow will present their installation, design process, and creative viewpoints during a guest-lecture event at Rios Clementi Hale Studios’ new offices located in the Crenshaw Creative Corridor.
Artist applications will be accepted on a rotating basis; more information and details can be found on the A+D website, www.aplusd.org. The first installation will debut in winter 2018 and will then occur on a rotating two-month basis.
For additional inquiries about the program please contact TheAlley@aplusd.org.
About Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Rios Clementi Hale Studios has earned an international reputation for its collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach, establishing an award-winning tradition across an unprecedented range of design disciplines. The firm’s partners— Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, Julie Smith-Clementi, IDSA, Frank Clementi, FAIA, AIGA, Bob Hale, FAIA, Mark Motonaga, and Jessamyn Davis — comprise a team involved in every aspect of design, from practice to education. Acknowledging the firm’s diverse body of work, the American Institute of Architects California Council gave Rios Clementi Hale Studios its 2007 Firm Award, the organization’s highest honor. For its varied landscape work—from civic parks to private gardens — the firm was named a finalist in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Since 1985, the architects, landscape architects, planners, and urban, interior, exhibit, graphic, and product designers at Rios Clementi Hale Studios have been creating buildings, places, and products that are thoughtful, effective, and beautiful. In 2017, Rios Clementi Hale Studios released its first book entitled Not Neutral: For Every Place, Its Story, a robust visual collection of the firm’s multi-disciplinary work, published by AMMO Books, available for purchase at www.notneutral.com.
About A+D
A+D Architecture and Design Museum was established in 2001 in response to the need for a space that would be devoted expressly to the exhibition of architecture and design in Los Angeles. Our mission is to celebrate and promote an awareness of progressive architecture and design in everyday life through exhibits, educational programs, and public outreach. The museum is a location of serendipitous combustion resulting in endless exhibitions, events and cultural engagement attempting to bringing emerging themes, topics and thoughts of the Architecture and Design community to the forefront.
