Class 1: Jan 31st , Embroidery by Colleen Coleman

images Katya Grokhovsky






image Peter Gynd

Embroidery class by Colleen Coleman @ 6.30pm Jan 31st, tonight. Bring something to embroider.
http://www.chashama.org/event/111

MONDAY 30TH: OPENING LECTURE BY THE DEAN

TONIGHT:

LECTURE 7PM-8.30PM

Overeducation or never enough, a lecture by dean Katya Grokhovsky about her work and the project.

http://www.chashama.org/event/110

WEEK ONE AT A GLANCE 28th JAN_FEB 5th 2012

Image Katya Grokhovsky

Image Leah Schrager

OPEN HOUSE:

Saturday 28th January 2pm-8pm -class information, open studios, art

Sunday 29th January 6-11.30pm - Open studios, performance/exhibition evening (adult content)

SCHOOL STARTS:

Monday:

7-8.30pm - Overeducation, or never enough, Opening Lecture by Katya Grokhovsky

Tuesday:

6.30pm-9.00pm - Beginning Embroidery, suitable for age 8 and up, Colleen Coleman

7-9pm – Gesturepump, performance class , Nadja Verena Marcin

Wednesday :

7-8pm - Basic Photography Class, Ryan Leitner

7-9pm –Performance workshop, Bring it, Make it, Do it, Marissa Perel

Thursday:

7-9pm –Performance workshop, Body, Space, Time, Katya Grokhovsky

Friday:

7-9pm- Archive and Architecture class, Jeremy Haik

Saturday:

12-2pm – Photography Class, (adults) Ryan Leitner

1-2pm - Performance workshop, Getting to know a stranger, Genevieve White

2-3.30pm –Arts and culture Around the World class, for primary school children, Kiera Brew Kurec

Sunday:

1-3pm –Performance workshop, Bring it, Make it, Do it, Marissa Perel,

2-5pm –Archive and Architecture class, Jeremy Haik

TEACHERS' BIOS:

KATYA GROKHOVSKY

New York based Australian/Ukrainian multi-disciplinary artist Katya Grokhovsky has an MFA in Sculpture (2011) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA in Painting (2007), from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia and a BA with Honors in Fashion, from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Grokhovsky primarily works in the realm of social sculpture and practice through various mediums such as performance art, video, photography, installation, object making, costumes, drawing and text. Her work has been widely exhibited in Australia, USA and Europe in museums, artist run spaces and non profits, commercial and university galleries, art centers and festivals. She has traveled extensively, partaking in residencies and performance art festivals and received many awards and scholarships, such as Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists. Most recently, in 2011, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, New York. In 2012, Grokhovsky’s Projects include “The Bedroom”, a work comprising of a series of one night monthly events, staged in the artist’s apartment by other artists and herself, “The Art School”, an Innovative Educational Project/ Residency in Queens, NY, awarded by chashama and “Learning Agency” “Wonderwomen 7” residency at _gaia studio in Jersey City, as well as group and solo exhibitions, screenings and performances in NYC and Australia.

www.thebedroomgallery.blogspot.com

http://kgrokhovsky.blogspot.com/
http://vimeo.com/katyagrokhovsky

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

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

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/

JEREMY HAIK

Jeremy Haik is an artist and film-maker living in Brooklyn. He is currently pursuing Masters of Fine Art in Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. His work looks at the slippages and inconsistencies of language through the combination of material and digital practices.

www.haikstudio.com

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

PRE-SCHOOL WEEK

CURRENT CONFIRMED TEACHING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE:

COLLEEN COLEMAN
KATYA GROKHOVSKY
LIENE BOSQUE
RYAN LEITNER
JEREMY HAIK
KIERA BREW KUREC
PETER GYND
LEAH SCHRAGER
BAILEY NOLAN
MARISSA PEREL
BIRGIT LARSON
LIZZIE SCOTT
MARIE CHRISTINE KATZ