ACKER RECIPIENTS 2016 Arturo Vega............................................05 Kate Simon.............................................22 Anthony Haden-Guest.............................06 Robert Butcher.......................................23 John Holmstrom.....................................07 Penny Arcade..........................................24 Carolyn Ratcliffe.....................................08 Eliot Katz...............................................25 Dr. David Ores, M.D. ..............................09 Michael McCabe.....................................26 Alice Torbush..........................................10 Nick Bubash...........................................27 Chris Flash.............................................11 Puma Perl..............................................28 Leonard Abrams......................................12 Dick Zigun..............................................29 Brian “Hattie” Butterick...........................13 Rev. Richard Ryler..................................30 Sara Driver.............................................14 Shiv Mirabito..........................................31 Steve Zeitlin............................................15 Zia Ziprin................................................32 Chris Rael..............................................16 Pat Ivers & Emily Armstrong....................33 Samoa Moriki.........................................17 Antony Zito.............................................34 David Godlis...........................................18 Curt Hoppe.............................................35 Marcia Resnick.......................................19 Ethan Minsker........................................36 Q. Sakamaki...........................................20 James Romberger...................................37 Stanley Stellar........................................21 Marguerite Van Cook...............................38 PAST ACKER RECIPIENTS 2013 ACKER Awards.............................39 2014 ACKER Awards.............................40 POSTHUMOUS AWARDS Michael Cesar.........................................42 Bittman “Bimbo” Rivas............................52 Vali Myers..............................................42 Taylor Mead............................................53 Dean Johnson.........................................43 Spider Webb...........................................53 Snuky Tate.............................................43 Dee Dee Ramone....................................54 Lincoln Christopher Caplan......................44 Joey Ramone..........................................54 Carlucci Bencivenga................................44 Rockets Redglare....................................55 Hank Penza............................................45 Wendy Wild...........................................55 Valerie Caris Blitz....................................45 Grady Alexis............................................56 Frenchy..................................................46 Linda Twigg............................................56 John Evans.............................................46 Marty Matz.............................................57 Jack Smith..............................................47 Martin Wong..........................................57 Patrick Geoffrois......................................47 José Rivera.............................................58 Hilly Kristal.............................................48 Denis Charles..........................................58 Chloe Dzubilo..........................................48 Tuli Kupferberg.......................................59 Gregory Corso.........................................49 Yuri Kapralov..........................................59 William “Bill” Rice..................................49 Jorge Brandon........................................60 Allen Ginsberg........................................50 Baba Raúl Cañizares...............................60 Fred Rothbell Mista.................................50 Holly Woodlawn......................................61 Gerard Little...........................................51 Ethyl Eichelberger..................................61 Florynce “Flo” Kennedy...........................51 Emile de Antonio.....................................62 Raymond “Raybeez” Barbieri...................52 Quentin Crisp..........................................62 Arturo Vega Lifetime Achievement The ACKER Awards were created by Alan Kaufman in San Francisco and Clayton Patterson in New York. Join Patterson and friends as they pay tribute to members of the avant-garde arts community who have made outstanding contributions in their discipline in defiance of convention, and to those who have served their fellow writers and artists in outstanding ways. The Acker Awards are named after novelist Kathy Acker, who in her life and work exemplified the risk-taking HOPPE CURT and uncompromising dedication that identifies the true avant-garde artist. Arturo Vega (October 3, 1947–June 8, 2013) was a Mexican-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1971 until his death in 2013. As a young artist fleeing the violent repression facing Mexico’s student movement in the late 1960s, Arturo Vega, in paintings and prints, explored the relationships between the symbols of the power of the United States government, advertising, commerce, sloganeering, and corporate logo. While he is widely known for graphic imagery that defined punk music (he was the artistic director of the Ramones},He was also a prolific painter and printmaker independent of that imagery. The Arturo Vega foundation what formed in 2014 in honor of his dedication to the arts and love of New York City. Anthony Haden-Guest John Holmstrom Art Criticism Cartoon Illustrator/ Punk Historian CLAYTON PATTERSON CLAYTON CLAYTON PATTERSON CLAYTON In 1975 John Holmstrom founded Punk magazine, which launched the punk movement and was instrumental in the success of many bands such as Blondie, the Ramones, and the Dead Boys. Its hand-lettered graphics inspired many crudely- designed fanzines and helped create the short-lived “punk art” that inspired the East Village art scene a few years later. In 1981 Holmstrom started Comical Funnies with Peter Bagge (of Hate! comix), and in 1982 published Stop! Magazine with J. D. King which published work by Ken Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter, cartoonist, unless forcibly prevented, Weiner, Bruce Carleton, and many others. performer. He was born in Paris, grew up in London and lives in New York. He won a New York Emmy for writing and narrating a program about the coming of John Holmstrom has drawn and designed many posters, t-shirt designs, record, Eurotrash to Manhattan. His most recent books were True Colors: The Real Life of book and CD covers for The Ramones, The Dandy Warhols, the Rolling Stones, the Art World (Grove Atlantic); The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of 50 Kaitenz and Murphy’s Law, magazines such as Bananas, High Times, Heavy the Night (Morrow) and two books of cartoons and rhymes, The Chronicles of Now Metal, and Video Games and films such as DOA: A Right of Passage and CBGB. His and In The Mean Time. He appears on paper and online and claims to be working archives were recently acquired by Yale University’s Beinecke Library. on two books. Carolyn Ratcliffe Dr. David Ores, M.D. Community Gardens Community Medical and Art Shows Doctor I have drawn and painted since my David J. Ores, MD graduated fron childhood in Mississippi, and pursued Columbia College of Physicians ans this through my undergraduate Surgeons in NYC 1985. Dr. Ores studies, graduating with a BA degree started living and working on the on in Art with a concentration in painting the Lower East Side in about 1991. from the University of Alabama. After moving to New York in 1974, I turned The core idea was to offer health in my brushes for a garden trowel care and medical assistance to and a camera, painting landscapes, anyone in need. Much like a then photographing them, as well as physician. events and cityscapes. I organized arts events-dealing with performance “Doctors need to provide health and visual arts in the community care for anyone who asks for gardens of the Lower East Side, assistance to the best of their ability most often in La Plaza Cultural such given whatever resources they have. as the ¡Viva! La Plaza Performance Physicians are meant to be public Festival(1996-2003). It featured servants.” dance, music, drama and the visual arts from May though October in La Dr Ores also feels that private, Plaza Cultural. I wrote and acted as money making, for profit motivated, Project Director for several grants, health insurance is the biggest including the NYFA Community KIMMELBERG DAVID scam perpretrated on the American Assets 2000 for the ¡Viva! La Plaza People since the world was flat. Performance Festival, The 1999 And the USA needs and deserves NEAP and MCAF Awards for Artistas rational national not for profit health de Loisaida for the production of a care for all that live and work in booklet and multi-media presentation this great nation. on the history of community managed CHESTER PAGE open green space in New York Dr Ores runs and operate two not for profit health care organizations. RWRP, Inc. City, and The NEAP2000 award provides free access to a physician for workers in the restaurant and / or service for the New 600 BC E. 9th Street industry. The Fresh Start Tattoo removal program removes “visible” tattoos