MIA projects

ticherts & BOARDED

2012-01-14T08:42:00.000-08:00

100% Funded means its a sure go. Hooray!!! Thanks for all the support, but continue sharing! The project aims to become viral and I hope we can make it popular via web sharing. Email, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, all of it.

You want it, you got it! Limited Edition TICHERTS are now available via Kickstarter.
Check 'em out here. --> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miablank/boarded-project?ref=live

& BOARDED®

Gray Dots, VNeck

B&W Dots, VNeck

The Landscape Dictates the Artwork

2012-01-02T14:19:00.000-08:00

When you donate $250 we will make you a 16"x16" resin on wood painting like one of these!

16"x16"
Vees
Resin On Wood Painting
2011

16"x16"

Raindots

Resin on Wood Painting

2011

16"x16"

Blue Vees on Oak

Resin on Wood Painting

2011

Boarded Budget and Techincal Information

2012-01-02T11:33:00.000-08:00

Below a budget layout for the Boarded Project. The costs are based on one (1) single location, and the goal is to receive funds for two (2) or hopefully more.

Technical Information

Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing funding platform, so we can always raise more than the pledged amount of $2,345.00 nothing less.
Amazon marketplace is the website's payment partner, and because of this reason the pledged amount includes the 5% that they will deduct from the funding goal.
The idea is to create a template for a worldwide project, making Boarded and international intervention.

Prints Available

2012-01-02T10:45:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the prints you can choose from when pledging $20 or more.

Raindots Black and White

Raindots Cyan and Yellow

We can always make custom two color prints of your choice as well!

Wood Grain Black and White

Wood Grain Cyan and Orange

Wood Grain Eggplant and Cyan

Yellow on Royal Vees

Indigo on Yellow Vees

Blue on Orange Vees

Just sendus RGB number or Pantone number to formissinginaction@gmail.com with your information and choice of print and we will customize it for free!

Boarded Project

2012-01-02T10:08:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone! We've been MIA from M.I.A. Projects because we've been so busy planning this AWESOME initiative! Below is some of the information that will help you understand the ethos and agenda behind this intervention project titled BOARDED. To help fund this project please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miablank/boarded-project.

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More Boarded locations ready to be worked on! All we need is you! Visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miablank/boarded-project to back us up!

2011-05-16T06:50:00.003-07:00

2011-05-16T06:50:00.001-07:00

Even though we've been MIA from our page, we have definitely been doing our homework.
Just having finished a research on Detroit, a once obsolete industrial city, this place looks like it's on the brink of becoming a hub for the very trendy resurgence of public art. The Heidelberg projects is just one of the many pop up independent exhibits the city has to offer. If you are a junk-turned-art aficionado, then my bet is you want to come see this place.

Santurce Es Ley II

2010-10-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

FRESH CREW and HELLO AGAIN

A virgin parking lot turned an all-out independent union of art, music, and a common necessity for the new. Santurce Es Ley II provided just that. Shows and collections from the people at C787Studios, DaWire, Galería Yemayá, Osviarte, OM Studio, San Juan Street Art, Centro Curatorial La15, (just to name a few) were vibrant and young, harmonizing with the musical showcase. The scene full of trucks and container galleries raged with musical guests EA Flow, Don Severo and DJ Bass, who then lead to the steamy sounds of Tach.Dé while under some refreshing rain mist. Closing numbers included Tekadisko and El Macabeo.

Aside form all the exciting music and art, the space was ample enough to sport live painting, murals, artisans, t-shirt makers, and installations. The Santurce Es Ley series is a perfect example of the evolution of art happenings in Puerto Rico.

Mural by HELLO AGAIN

BIK-ISMO

Left: Jason Mena, Disorder and Confusion, Ivan Argote, Retouch, Aggtelek, 2do Ensayo Escultórico.

Right: Colective including fron left; Emilio Jose Maldonado Rosario, Guillo Torres, Tony Rodríguez y Danny Rivera.

Installation from BICIJANGUEO

TACH.DÉ

EL MACABAEO

MIA Projects2010®

Barbaro Shop

2010-09-28T12:42:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we had the pleasure of attending a very exciting display of true artistic individuality that screams Puertorican-Pop culture in all its might. Local artist Omar Obdulio Peña Forty succeeded in creating the perfect atmosphere for an art-hungry crowd that is desperate to find the holy grail of art shows: good work and a good time. With live DJ beats in the dance room, and a live performance by the self proclaimed barber/artist, this show at El Antiguo Arsenal de La Marina in San Juan, Puerto Rico was a gracefully edited collection of a very cohesive thinker. Safe to say that this man can cut it- literally.

Omar Obdulio Peña Forty works on this customer/ viewer's hair as part of his live performance.

I AM THE QUEEN Documentary screening in Puerto Rico

2010-09-12T19:28:00.001-07:00

Very successful screening in San Juan, Puerto Rico for I AM THE QUEEN a documentary by Josue Pellot and Henrique Cirne-Lima.

INTERVENCION TOTAL en Noticentro.

2010-09-10T06:14:00.000-07:00

Enjoy.

Missing In Action projects presents I AM THE QUEEN, a documentary by Josue Pellot and Henrique Cirne-Lima

2010-09-08T14:13:00.001-07:00

Today Missing In Action projects presents I AM THE QUEEN documentary- a look into the Puertorican transgender youth community in Humbolt Park, Chicago. The screening will be held at El Local 1425 Fernandez Juncos Ave. San Juan Puerto Rico, starting at 8pm. Come watch-

WE HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED!!

2010-08-31T07:09:00.000-07:00

I am so humbled by this. What a well rounded report, this guy was listening... Thanks again Enrique Olivares. Enjoy-

http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Gas-station-sent-to-art-rehab-in-Alvarezs-TOTAL-INTERVENTION

Gas station sent to art rehab in Alvarezs TOTAL INTERVENTION

By Enrique Olivares

Special to the Daily Sun

It’s hard to find something interesting in a dilapidated, out-of-service gas station, but Margarita Alvarez saw a work of art waiting to be born.

TOTAL INTERVENTION is the brainchild of the 23-year-old artiste and it’s described as “the first of many Pop-up galleries” which aim to create physical artistic spaces across urban areas. On Thursday, at an abandoned Total gas station in Miramar, metropolitan inhabitants got a taste of this new, and daring, visual endeavor.

Dozens of art connoiseurs and enthusiasts showed up at the site, many of them scratching their heads and asking Alvarez: “where’s the art?” Little did they know that they were standing smack in the middle of it.

The Rhode Island School of Design graduate, with the help of a few art-mad friends, took the broken remains of a condemned gas station and remade and remodeled the infrastructure in a guerrilla-style manner, transforming a once- useless plot of land into a cultural hotspot.

The “gallery” consists of newly painted exteriors, with stylish and slick faux gas pumps and other artistic accoutrements such as a cargo ship container stuffed with beer boxes and garbage and a knocked oil can with a “BP” imprint running around its side. Thankfully, this minor spill was easily contained.

Backyard bands also managed to create a sonic space. Naranja and Carambola blasted danceable beats while Los Niños Estelares revisited familiar songs and local favorites Campo Formio machine gunned through yet another power- packed show.

The expo also sported a series of banners with modern-type font messages and proverbs by local artists, replacing traditional beer advertisements. Phrases such as “no es facil la vida en el trópico” (life in the tropics isn’t easy) and “la piña está agria” (the pineapple’s sour) adorned wooden posts, commenting and forcing the gallery goers to reflect on the island's current socio-economic situation.

An excited, if not electric, Alvarez was juggling conversations to and fro while trying to enlighten slightly dazed gallery members about what is the ethos and agenda behind this “happening.”

“It’s an initiative. It’s about renewing and reimagining areas. Transforming spaces into art,” said the young woman.

Referring to her blitzkrieg, go-in-for-the-go-for-it type of approach of sending the rubble to art installation rehab, she mentioned that she still had to scrounge through the bureaucratic nightmare of requesting permission from the French petrol magnate to stage an intervention.

“We’re lucky we were permitted to do this. I had to present the project point by point to them, and because the French have always had a longstanding, and fulfilling, art tradition, they let us do it. It also didn’t hurt that it wasn’t going to cost them a dime,” explained Alvarez.

Establishing spaces via installations, commented the RISD grad, is not only intriguing and daunting but practical, since most local contemporary galleries have turned to selling traditional art pieces in these trying economic times, shunning more avant-garde works.

When it comes to the nitty gritty of the installation, the exposition is brilliantly planned. Though it will not necessarily move people with more traditional aesthetic sensibilities, the work is crafted with finesse. The stylish gas pumps and vestiges of all-white infrastructure are sure to captivate the eye as will the austere, yet harmonized, “in the works” construction interior. Regardless of the aesthetic quality of the work, the piece excels because of its mobilization against urban decay. It uses its remnants as a canvas to explore the limits of art and its involvement in life.

More importantly, the installation embodies the pro-active spirit which art aims to be, crafted with a quest for renewal, concepts that have been the elusive Holy Grail in the 21st century pseudo eco-friendly era. It is clear that the medium is the message, regardless of how new or shiny it looks.

Alvarez hopes that this intervention motivates future artists to revitalize the urban zones. This up-and-coming artist has set up the launch for a more adventurous foray into contemporary art. Other collaborating artists for this project were Michael Linares, Carolina Caycedo, Jesús "Bubu" Negrón, Josue Pellot, La Ele, Kristen Fink, Christopher Rivera, Katalina Iturralde, Sebastián Vallejo, Chaveli Sifre, Mónica Rodriguez and Radamés "Juni" Figueroa.

For more info on Alvarez, visit her blog at www.miaprojects.blogspot.com.

2010-08-27T18:19:00.001-07:00

Very Nice Night. Anoche, Intervención Total fue una increíble demostración de apoyo por el desarrollo del arte contemporáneo. No sólo por su género emergente en Santurce, sino tambien con el propósito de demostrarle al público, una ilustración metafórica del potencial en este, y otros espacios que estan fuera de uso. Le tenemos que dar las gracias, a los que contribuyeron para hacer este proyecto posible-

Municipio de San Juan, Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corporation, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, UBS Financial Services, Dueñas Trailers, Benjamin Moore Paints, Heineken and Heineken Light.

GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS

2010-08-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

TOTAL INTERVENTION was a great success. Thank you all for making it that way.

Bik Ismo, Michael Linares, Juni Figueroa

2010-08-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

TOTAL INTERVENTION

2010-08-26T01:31:00.001-07:00

TOTAL INTERVENTION

Sneek peak- Its happening today!!!!! Come enjoy music, artworks and Heinekens-

2010-08-25T10:07:00.001-07:00

Its up!! La intervención colectiva curada por Radames Juni Figueroa-

2010-08-24T17:42:00.001-07:00

Radames Juni Figueroa designed and produced this t-shirt from the shows invitational collaborative intervention. Featured artists from top: Carolina Caycedo, Katalina Iturralde, Michael Linares, Jesús "Bubu" Negrón, Mónica Rodríguez, Christopher Rivera, Kristen Fink, and La Ele.

2010-08-24T06:55:00.001-07:00

Professional Equipment

2010-08-24T06:54:00.003-07:00

2010-08-24T06:54:00.001-07:00

Juni comenzando su Bed Painting

Thanks!

2010-08-21T22:47:00.000-07:00

Just a note to thank everyone who came out today and showed their true colors. You are all spectacular human beings, and are also taking part in a very special project. Thank you all.

2010-08-21T12:47:00.005-07:00

2010-08-21T12:47:00.003-07:00

2010-08-21T12:47:00.001-07:00

Painting happens here...

2010-08-21T09:16:00.001-07:00

2010-08-21T09:14:00.001-07:00

People are starting to arrive- come see us!

2010-08-21T07:38:00.001-07:00

A pintar!!!! Today is the first official community painting day for our first event TOTAL INTERVENTION en Santurce, PR. See you there!