Seventeen Hundred Seeds installation team: Juan Cano, Chanito, Efren Gutierrez, Robert Hamilton, Cynthia Mulcahy, Courtney Rainwater, Jose Tinajero and Jose Villa.

       Public art project Seventeen Hundred Seeds is generously underwritten by Courtney Rainwater.

       Land provided by Rick Garza,Bishop/Davis LLC. Water provided by Juan Pablo Segura of Familia

       Auto Sales. Farming consultation provided by Mulcahy Farms. Graphic design by Lily Smith-Kirkley.

       Planting scheme plan by landscape designer Kelley Murry.

      * Public picnic reception in the field, Saturday, May 19th, 6:30 to 8:30pm, 715 W. Davis, Dallas,

         Texas, 75208. Free to the public. Seventeen Hundred Seeds is on view now through the month of June.

         Please contact Cynthia Mulcahy at info@mulcahymodern.com for press inquiries.

      * For more info: Seventeen Hundred Seeds

             Recent Projects and Exhibitions

                2011

                      XXI: Conflicts in a New Century           

                             Lisa Barnard  Head Gear. Used by a soldier receiving treatment for PTSD. 2008. Copyright Lisa Barnard

                                      Oak Cliff Cultural Center

                                      Contemporary photography exhibition co-curated by Cynthia Mulcahy and arts writer and curator Charles Dee Mitchell

                                      The City of Dallas' newly built OC3 space (Oak Cliff Cultural Center). 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, TX 75208 214 670 3777

                             The exhibition XXI: Conflicts in a New Century, co-curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy, examines conflicts in the first decade

                             of the 21st century including wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Congo, and Ivory Coast through photographs by many of the most notable artists,

                             documentary photographers and photojournalists working today including American photographers Stephanie Sinclair, James Nachtwey, Christopher

                             Anderson, Jamel Shabazz, Eugene Richards, Christopher Morris, Lori Grinker, Alex Majoli, Rania Matar and Oak Cliff-based independent photographers

                             Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson; British photographers Lisa Barnard, Tim Hetherington and Gary Knight; Dutch photographer Teun Voeten, Middle

                             East photojournalist Natan Dvir; and African photographers Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Fatagoma Silue (Ivory Coast).

                             On May 11 we will also be hosting a free screening of Restrepo at the newly-restored Texas Theatre, located directly next door to the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.

                             Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Restrepo won the

                             Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Tim Hetherington will be in attendance and his portraits of soldiers

                             stationed at Restrepo are also included in XXI: Conflicts in a New Century.

                             Nota Bene: A screening of the documentary film Restrepo was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition in honor of Tim Hetherington and his extraordinary

                                                 work as a filmmaker, photographer and humanitarian. Tim was originally scheduled to give a talk after the screening of his film on May 11, 2011;

                                                 he was killed April 20th, 2011, covering the war in Libya.

            

 

           

             Square Dance: A Community Project

                                     

             Square Dance: A Community Project, curated by Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy, proposes art as social practice in the

             form of an outdoor seasonal community dance at the new Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas on Saturday, November

             12, 2011. This project is a collaborative initiative that insists on fellowship in our community and is consonant with the

             belief  that art resides in every day life as social, cultural practice. Square Dance is generously funded in part by an

             Idea  Fund Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which supports new, risk-taking forms that help to

             define new practices in contemporary art.

                                                      
                                                       Left:  Dallas Square Dancers, c. 1951. Courtesy of the City of Dallas Municipal Archives, City Hall, Dallas, TX.  Right: Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas, TX.
                                                                         Photograph courtesy Sean Fitzgerald

                                                      The Idea Fund

                                                            The Idea Fund provides cash awards to projects by individual artists, curators, performers, collectives or collaboratives that exemplify the unconventional,

                                                                              interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices that occur outside of the traditional frameworks of support. The grant  

                                                                              awarded to the co-curators in 2011 is one of ten awarded in Texas by the Andy Warhol Foundation in partnership with Aurora Picture Show,

                                                                              DiverseWorks, Artspace, and Project Row Houses.

                                                                      Photos of Square Dance: A Community Project:Events

              

   All images and content copyright Mulcahy Modern.