The Art School

Tuesday Feb 28th/MARCH 6TH 2012

7-9.00pm

Teacher: Colleen Coleman

Repeating Class: Beginning Hand embroidery –Age: 8 y.old and up

Beginning Hand Embroidery 1: Straight stitch, and French knots: this workshop will allow the participant to create an interesting image just using two stitches. Be prepared to work in class bring with you a piece of tightly woven fabric or clothing item you’d like to embroider, one to 3 skeins of embroidery floss, set of embroidery needles and a hoop.

COLLEEN COLEMAN:

Colleen Coleman is a multi-disciplinary artist, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is recent recipient of an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Colleen Coleman's work uses a personal language of visual metaphor to explore life through history and projection of the future. Outer space, time travel, invisibility, tolerance: nothing is impossible in the worlds she constructs. She makes sculpture, prints, drawings, and animations to explore liminal states of becoming. She utilizes character narratives simultaneously with enigmatic adventure, explore diverse aspects of life and consciousness, dynamics of human interaction, and environmental changes. The world as it once was, treating the historical amnesia suffered by society. Her influences range from symbolism, surrealism and pop art in western tradition -- extending the Catholic and African traditions of object and altar making. It is Coleman's belief that all human beings share in a collective unconscious and her work reflects her own personal struggle to uncover the full meaning of what it means to be HUMAN.

www.colleenlcoleman.com

7-9pm

Teacher: Marissa Perel

Artist Statement Writing Workshop

MARISSA PEREL

Marissa Perel is a Brooklyn based artist, having re-arrived from Chicago. She is interested in the body's relationship to gender, desire and power within and against socio-political constructs. Her work explores these dynamics through performance, installation, video and writing. Her column, "Gimme Shelter," is the exclusive performance art column on the Art21 Blog. Perel will be a guest curator for the Spring 2012 Movement Research Festival. Her work has been shown at New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Judson Memorial Church, Chez Bushwick, Cake Shop and Galapagos, among other venues in NY. Her work has also been presented at the MCA, Chicago Cultural Center, Spoke Gallery and LVL3 Gallery, and has toured to Central Europe. She holds a B.A. in writing from Naropa University and an M.F.A in studio/performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

http://www.marissaperel.com/

Wednesday 29th February/MARCH 7TH 2012

7-8pm

Teacher: Ryan Leitner

Repeating Class: Photography

This Photography course will consist of the camera and lighting foundations. To start off, we will learn the importance of light and shadows, aperture, and shutter speed. The following courses will consist of a still life photo shoot, where the students will learn how to create a balanced image. Each person will go away with the knowledge to start them off with taking images that are executed well, and the beginning knowledge of stepping into a studio environment.

RYAN LEITNER

Ryan Leitner is a New York City based Photographer, capturing people within and outside of the city with his 35 mm camera. His work concentrates on the actions people take, and the moments that share an understanding of the way all different types of people choose to live their lives. Growing up in a naval family, he lived all around the world from South Carolina to Japan until junior high school where his family settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since the age of 13, he knew he wanted to be a photographer, and created a darkroom in the basement of his parents’ house. After high school, he studied at the University of Cincinnati and then quickly moved to study in Chicago at Columbia College. He then moved to London to study at American Intercontinental University where he received his BFA in Photography.

www.ryanleitner.com

Saturday 3rd March/10th

2pm

Teacher: Ryan Leitner

Class: Photography Class –Adults

These sessions are for the more open group of people to come together and release their inhibitions and actions. It’s for people to try and discover what their body wants them to do, outside of what their mind is telling saying. The class starts off with practices that get each other accustomed and more comfortable to one another, and then moves on to different games and actions that express themselves at that given moment. This class is designed to give people the opportunity to open up in front of peers and to maybe help understand oneself and others a little more.
*Each participant understands that they will be photographed during the course of each session.

RYAN LEITNER

www.ryanleitner.com

2.00pm-3.30pm

Teacher : Kiera Brew Kurec

Class: Performance Art workshop

KIERA BREW KUREC
Kiera Brew Kurec is an emerging artist from Melbourne Australia. Brew Kurec graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with first class honours in 2010. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, artist run spaces and art fairs, Including West Space, TCB art inc, Next Wave, K- Salon (Berlin) and Berlin Kunst Salon (Berlin). Brew Kurec is currently located in New York where she is undertaking an internship at Franklin Furnace and researching her new body of work.

http://www.wooloo.org/kierabrewkurec

Sunday March 4th/11th

Teacher: Katya Grokhovsky

Class: Performance Art workshop

3pm - 5pm

Katya Grokhovsky

BIO

Brooklyn based Australian/Ukrainian artist Katya Grokhovsky has an MFA (2011) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Grokhovsky's work has been exhibited in Australia, USA, UK and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in residencies and performance art events and received awards and scholarships, such as Freedman Travelling Scholarship and SAIC Graduate International Scholarship. Most recently, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson' s Watermill Center, New York, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. In 2012, Grokhovsky’s Projects include The Bedroom, a 6-months project, comprising of a series of one night monthly events, staged in the artist’s apartment by other artists, The Art School an Innovative Educational Project - Residency in Queens, NY through Chashama, a “Wonderwomen” residency in _gaia studio in Jersey City, Santa Fe Art Institute residency and many group and solo exhibitions in USA and Australia.

http://kgrokhovsky.blogspot.com/