Showing posts with label Cake Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cake Art. Show all posts
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John Landino/Building Facade of ABBC 1987 - Google Photos
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These photos were taken in John Landino's studio on Front Street in
Fair Haven, Ct (near the Grand Ave, Bridge) on the Quinnipiac River.
Photo Credit: Tim Feresten or Roberta Chambers
In the studio with him that night are other ABBC members of the ABBC operations crew:
Judith Johnston
Joyce Greenfield
Ellen Wolpin
Beverly Richey
Phillip Chambers
Monday, November 16, 2020
Still Serving the People; a reunion of the A-mazing Bureaucratic Events Archive | Artspace New Haven
Local Art Community Collaborators
photo credits: Timothy Feresten
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST.
For New Haven’s 350th-anniversary festival coordinator Bob Gregson commissioned local artist Bev Richey to create an interactive cake experience. Richey’s A-mazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake (Serving the People 3500 Pieces…) included artists, activists, lawyers, civic administrators, and their friends into the weeks of bureaucratic planning needed to share thousands of pieces of free cake on the New Haven Green in June 1988.
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Jeff Burnett, Margaret Bodell, Roberta Chambers, Bitsie Clark, Nikila Cole, Mimsie Coleman, Bill Derry, Tim Feresten, Bob Gregson, John Landino, Bev Richey, Johnes Ruta, Amy Seham, Mary Shiffer, and more for an A-mazing reunion as they share memories, stories, and lessons from the experience.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Comet Cake and Article “Art Exhibit Studies Roots of Feminism” New Haven Journal Courier, May 12, 1983
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“Art Exhibit Studies Roots of Feminism” New Haven Journal-Courier, May 12, 1983
New Haven, Ct. women's local art history: 1983... Ann Langdon and Cynthia Beth Rubin formed a Connecticut Chapter of The Women's Caucus for Art. I was a founding member. This was our first exhibit. It was themed Spring Cleaning...took place in New Haven on Chapel Street. Artists involved were Ann Langdon, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Betsy Haynes, myself and others. This was not the first.. but it was definitely part of the early years of exploring cake as process, content, and medium.
New Haven, Ct. women's local art history: 1983... Ann Langdon and Cynthia Beth Rubin formed a Connecticut Chapter of The Women's Caucus for Art. I was a founding member. This was our first exhibit. It was themed Spring Cleaning...took place in New Haven on Chapel Street. Artists involved were Ann Langdon, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Betsy Haynes, myself and others. This was not the first.. but it was definitely part of the early years of exploring cake as process, content, and medium.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
No 'just desserts' on this birthday cake
New Haven RegisterSunday June 5 1988
No 'just desserts' on this birthday cake
By Barbara Steinberger
New Haven - Getting a free piece of cake wasn't a piece of cake in this city Saturday.
But according to designers of the A-Mazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake, that's the price you have to pay for democracy.
In order to get a small square piece of dessert at the "New Haven Celebrates New Haven" festival on the Green, visitors had to survive a bureaucratic runaround that made waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles seem like a day at the beach.
For most cake-eathers, the ordeal began with a five-to-10 minute wait, during which over zealous cake commissioners passed out cake consumption permit applications (in duplicate of course) and "cake police" kept the crowd orderly. About 30 people milled around in line at any one time.
Then the nightmare began.
Bewildered visitors were forced to wade through a sea of red tape (in this case, red streamers and balloons), and get rubber stamps (in duplicate) proclaiming them for "zoned for cake consumption" and "approved for cake release".
After declaring whether they were "fork-users" or "non-fork-users" choosing the appropriate flavor, and confessing whether they had ever previously been denied cake, the by-now starving applicants took and oath and proceeded to the cake distribution center, where volunteer cake servers such as Mayor Biagio DiLieto and US rep. Bruce Morrison, D3, gave them the long awaited baked goods.
But those who declared themselves fork-users were out of luck since there were no forks available.
And as for the choice of flavor-well, those who picked chocolate cake with chocolate frosting just had to settle for white cake with green frosting, because that was all there was.
"We were told forks are plastic and if you burn them it releases dioxin," Morrison said. "And chocolate is too expensive. They can have any kind of cake they want, as long as it's what we have."
All this was just a little too much for some cake applicants to handle. "I don't believe I am doing this for a piece of cake," said a hungry Paula Diliberto of Bristol as she stood in line with her permit application. "Do we want cake this badly?" Another women asked her friend.
But this wasn't just some half baked idea. A 30 member cake bureau, including a panel of 13 cake commissioners, spent about six weeks formulating policy, defining terms, designing stationary and memos, and making up agendas and minutes, said Beverly Richey, marketing and membership director for the Greater New Haven Arts Council and the artistic director of the cake project.
The cake was made by Leon's Bakery in Hamden, which planned to give out 3500 pieces over four cake-serving periods Saturday and today, said bakery owner and chief cake commissioner Leon Weinberg. Visitors to the green can apply for cake today from 1-4pm and 5-7:30pm.
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A Cake by Committee transient Art an amazing part of 350th
New Haven Register
June 1988
A Cake by Committee transient Art an amazing part of 350th
By Markland Taylor
To Beverly Richey, Leon Weinberg, and friends, New Haven's 350th birthday celebrations this weekend are quite literally, a piece of cake.
To be precise, 3500 of official, free, individually sliced cake, which will be served to 3500 reveling members of the public on the New Haven Green on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings.
It's all part of Richey and Friends' A-Mazing Bureaucratic Cake. A slice of transient culture commissioned by New Haven's 350 Committee and sponsored by Leon's Bakery, the committee, the New Haven Register, and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. And what is more culturally transient than and edible piece of cake?
Actually, New Haven's A-Mazing Bureaucratic Cake is a combination of the edible and non-edible. The edible portion, supplied by Weinberg's Leon's Bakery, will consist of a generous supply of sheet cakes.
The non-edible portion will be an "elaborate and humorous" central structure-an 14-foot high iced facade of city hall.
It will have cut out windows through which the edible slices of cake will be served and part of the fun will be a "bureaucratic maze" (hence the cake's amazing title), a crowd-control device through which would-be noshers will be directed.
Be not afraid. The whole bureaucratic approach, including filling out a registration form, supplying requested information, and ultimately receiving approval for a piece of cake, won't take more than a minute or two-even allowing for "amusing bureaucratic mishaps".
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven's director of marketing and membership, Richey is no newcomer to transient culture or cakes.
Cake first became an art form to Richey when she worked as an apprentice to Paul Rutkovsky, the founder-director of Papier Mache Video Institute, from 1978-1983.
Then, in 1983, Richey's submission to the Connecticut Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art Spring Cleaning Show was a twenty-inch tall cake in the shape of a Comet scouring powder can. It both delighted and fed the public.
The following year, Richey contributed a military wedding cake to New Haven's first show of 1984 (based on George Orwell's novel). And her work has continued with such appetizing pieces as Famous Cookie, Eat Audubon Street, and the Profitable Hartcake.
Her A-Mazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake is, however, her biggest project to date, and the first time she hasn't baked the cake herself. "When I started thinking about the project after the 350 committee commissioned it, I found myself faced with endless questions," Richie {sic} says. "What is a city? What do you give a city for its birthday? What will the weather be like? Who will attend? How many will attend? and so on.
"Since this would be by far the biggest number of people I have ever served cake to, the main issue became the actual serving. Obviously, one person couldn't possibly serve 3500 people. So it became clear that I needed an organization, a system, a bureaucracy to make it all happen."
So Richey brought together some of her artist friends with some "commissioner type people" to interact. She ended up with a Cake Bureau or 30 individuals, including a systems consultant, a bureaucratic fashions designer, maze developers, paperwork producers, and more than a dozen cake commissioners.
"The bureaucracy involved frightens, inspires and fascinates me," Richey admits. "But through it all I've discovered that systems, hierarchy, aren't necessarily bad, that in certain cases they are essential to get things done. It's been quite a stretch for me working with so many individuals and groups."
The transient art will be documented for posterity-by the cake bureau's 3 documentation artists Michael Rush, Timothy Feresten, and Joan Fitzsimmons. And so that everyone can see everything that's going on at all times, there will be a television monitor revealing the action behind the city hall facade.
Richey knows a lot of variables inevitably impinge on such a project. "But the one variable I don't expect is no customers," she laughed. "Whenever I do cake I can't get them away from the table."
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