HALEY-HENMAN contemporary art

You are invited to hear Bone Chilling Tales On A Hot Summer Night at Ann Marie Newman’s performance installation, Interweaving.  She has invited master tellers GENE HELMICK RICHARDSON and STEVE McCLURE to join her in telling some of the best bone chilling tales this side of the Mississippi!  The action begins promptly at 7 pm on Friday evening, July 8th.  It is presented by Haley-Henman Gallery at Gallery 422, 422 Singleton Boulevard in the Trinity Groves neighborhood in Dallas.  Call or text John at 214-532-3225 for more information.

Ann Marie Newman’s installation INTERWEAVING is growing with all the wonderful contributions of stories, drawings, and three dimensional collaborations!

This Saturday is another Open House.  Everyone is invited to tell a story.  Everyone is invited to create an artwork for the collaborative installation.

Saturday, June 18 at 2 pm to 5pm.

Call John at 214-532-3225 if you need more information.  This event is free and open to the public.

You are invited (free and open to the public) to experience COMMON COMPANY.

They are a community of spoken word artists who use multi-media approaches to creative expression. Innovative is the word……. James Madison West of Common Company invites you to their performance of “Ekphrasis” with Nadia Wolnisty, Gabe Mamola, and the band “Hewyn” (Beatrice Block and Daniel Carlson).

This is also their third birthday!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMMON COMPANY!

(photo by Common Company)

Ann Marie Newman will talk about her concept of Interweaving during an interactive evening of stories, poetry, sound and more!

Wonderful songs by Rita Joye Gray and Kristian Craig.

Thank you Piloto for remembering combing your grandmother’s hair as she rocked in a chair on the veranda of her home in Cuba. You painted a beautiful picture with words.

Beth Ayers recited her poems– “No Cuts” and “Green Grapes”.  We hope we will hear more from this gifted poet!

Thanks to all the other participants for their conversation which embellished our experience of all the stories, drawings, songs, and poems.

At the Open House for Interweaving we had a very special contribution by Dr. Njoki McElroy.  Her affectionate moniker of Mama Njoki speaks to her warm human spirit.  She told us stories from her book, 1012 Natchez:  A Memoir of Grace, Hardship and Love.

Interweaving by Ann Marie Newman, drawings by Midge Lynn, stories by Mama Njoki.  (photos by Ann Marie Newman)

We started to see the process of Interweaving as the stories continued and participants add their drawings.

Larry Lynn told a story of “Pacoima” growing up in the turf boundaries of biker gangs in Los Angeles.  He remembers very well the core law in the land of competing groups:  with respect comes no problems!  He recalls his fondest for a particular bike—The Vincent Black Shadow!

Elisabeth Schalij read from her recently published book, SnowBear. The text is derived from Inuit folktales she heard during her visit with them.  Elisabeth beautifully illustrated the book.

David DeSalvo read his vignette, The Driver.

I love my Job

drawing by Midge Lynn, interwoven by Ann Marie Newman (photo by Ann Marie Newman)

We all heard of the passing of Muhammad Ali that morning.  Midge Lynn told a story about meeting him at the coffee counter in the Playboy Office building in Chicago. She chatted with him for over a half hour–an beautiful man who was very

charming! Midge Lynn telling a story at Interweaving.

Her recall of meeting celebrities led her to the story of meeting Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks the day Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International, brought them by for a visit to Soka University in California where Midge was working at the time.

Ann Marie Newman, Artist-in-Residence at Haley-Henman Gallery this summer, has begun the interactive, site specific, immersive and performance artwork titled, Interweaving.  This past Saturday, June 4th, she held an Open House for anyone who wanted to tell a story, draw or write.  The process was non-stop from noon to 5 pm.  Here are some highlights.

Jiann Powers started the process with the telling of a Swedish folk tale, Three Wishes.

John Marcucci and Jiaan Powers (rt) holding a drawing by John as he listened to Jiann’s telling of the tale. (photo by Ann Marie Newman)

Ann Marie Newman  You, Me Us starting to transform drawings by participants into interweaving for the installation. (photo by Ann Marie Newman)