February EVENTS:
Saturday February 11th – 7pm-9pm – BABYSKINGLOVE: SHOPYARD, performance
Saturday February 18th - 8 pm-late– “WORK IN PROGRESS (LIKE MY LOVE LIFE) One night performance and exhibition event by the artists of The Art School Project.
WEEK 2 CLASSES:
Tuesday Feb 7th 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.
BIO:
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.
Wednesday 8th February 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.
BIO:
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.
7-9pm
Teacher: Marissa Perel
Repeating Class: Workshop: Bring it. Make it. Do it.
A workshop about performance construction. Participants come to the space with something: an object, a text, a song, dance phrase or otherwise, anything will do. I will guide the workshop first with relaxation techniques, a physical warm-up and a creative writing exercise. I will then facilitate partnering for participants to share their relationships to the things they have brought and to discuss ways that they would like to work with these things toward a performance. The partners will then participate in Authentic Movement, a movement and observation methodology used to bring attention to the body’s innate sensibilities and its ability to tap into subconscious movement potential. Participants will then have a brief period of reflection to apply writing and movement to performing with their objects, etc. The class will culminate in brief performances by each participant. The goal of the workshop is for participants to explore their own intuitive relationships to performance making without judgment, to learn how to make quick decisions with material, and to experiment with modalities of expression. Come dressed comfortably, wear shoes that feel good to dance in and that you’re not afraid of getting dirty. Bring an open mind. Be willing to share and witness ideas, processes, states of awareness and experimentation.
BIO:
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.
Thursday 9th February
5-7pm - Performance Workshop: Body and Space
Teacher: Katya Grokhovsky
We will work with the specifics of the space and the body in it. Making a gesture for the space we are in, repeating the gesture, timing the gesture, combining the gesture and performing the gestures. How we inhabit the space with our energies and what it might look like to others around us. Do not ask why, proceed and learn whilst doing.
BIO:
KATYA GROKHOVSKY
Brooklyn based Australian/Ukrainian artist Katya Grokhovsky has an MFA in Sculpture (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 many awards and scholarships. Most recently, 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, a “Learning Agency” “Wonderwomen” residency at _gaia studio in Jersey City , numerous group exhibitions in NYC and a solo exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.
www.thebedroomgallery.blogspot.com
http://vimeo.com/katyagrokhovsky
7-9pm - Making an artist website in under 1 hour
Teacher: Leah Schrager
This workshop is designed to give you the important and
essential basics to building a free website using Wordpress. We will
go over how to sign up for a free URL, how to navigate the backend of
a Wordpress site, the lingo associated with Wordpress, possible
modifications of your site via themes and widgets, and more. This will
be suitable for people looking to create an artist portfolio and/or a
blog.
Leah has created around 20+ websites using Wordpress for artists and
non-artists. She believes it's a powerful, versatile, and quick way to
get your work online. Having learned by doing, she wants to share how
how easily a website can be created and modified.
[For now:] Since there is no communal WIFI in this studio Leah will
have her computer with Internet to show as she goes and will have
print-out instructions for you to take home. If you have a computer
with Internet access, please bring it and you can create your website
as we go. This first workshop will be approximately two to three
hours. If there is enough interest we will hold a second workshop as a
follow-up.
You don't need any prior experience with Wordpress to do this class.
BIO:
LEAH SCHRAGER
Leah Schrager is an artist based in NYC working with photography,
video, poetry, performance, and movement. She graduated from the
University of Washington with the 2007 Dean’s Medal in the Arts. She
is the resident choreographer for Inverse Theater, co-runs The Home Of
and is on staff at the Performance Club NYC. Some of her work is
online at http://leahschrager.com.
Saturday 11th February
12-2pm
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.
BIO:
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.
2-5pm
Teacher: Liene Bosque
Class: Mold Making and casting workshop/Plaster
Introductory workshop for those with no experience in making plaster molds.
This workshop will include step-by-step demonstrations and practical hands-on experience. It will cover the basics of one-piece plaster mold making, made on a simple object with no undercuts. Participants will learn about mixing and pouring plaster.
Materials will be provided. Please bring objects that you would like to make a mold of. Participants will make their own molds.
BIO:
LIENE BOSQUE
Liene is currently in Artist Alliance Inc.’s (AAI) LES- RSP Residency Program in New York. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Liene was born in Brazil, where she completed her BFA at São Paulo Estate University in 2004 and a baccalaureate in Architecture from Mackenzie University in 2005. While living in Lisbon, Portugal, she received in 2007 the "Anteciparte" award and in 2008 completed and Advanced Course at Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual (Ar.Co.). Her installations, objects and site-specifics works have been exhibited internationally at locations such as the Museu de História Natural in Lisbon, the Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto in Brazil, and non-profit galleries and public spaces in Brazil, Portugal, Chicago and New York.
2.00pm-3.30pm
Teacher : Kiera Brew Kurec
Class: 4 week Saturday course: Arts and Culture Around the world. For primary school children.
Week 2:
This class will be aimed at primary school children to get them interested and excited about arts and culture from all over the globe. Over four 90-minute classes students will be immersed in interactive educational activities.
BIO:
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
5 pm-6 pm
Teacher: Marie Christine Katz
Class: Conceptual Knitting/I need you
Following a thread leading to an unexpected moment in two people’s lives.
During the workshop I will teach you basic knitting techniques and present you with a surprise request.
How to create a knitted dress that will unravel as imagined…
BIO:
MARIE CHRISTINE KATZ
Visual and performance artist living in New York working with personal narratives and stories in her practice.
http://www.mariechristine.com/
Sunday 12th February
2-4pm
Teacher: Jeremy Haik
Class: Archive and Architecture
The word archive has its roots in the Greek words arkheion (town hall) and arkhē (government / to rule). The word itself implies not only site but authority. How does this notion of location and government exist in today's culture of open digital exchange and global democracy? What are the implications of a cultural environment where physical location is less important than an Internet connection and the contents of any archive can be cloned and disseminated globally and instantaneously. In this class we will look at the ways artists have used the notion of archiving to investigate the significance of site and location in the construction of a cultural and personal archives and create works that reflect the changing architecture of the archiving process in the 21st century.
BIO:
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.
4-6pm
Teacher: Marie Christine Katz
Class: Conceptual Knitting/I need you
Following a thread leading to an unexpected moment in two people’s lives.
During the workshop I will teach you basic knitting techniques and present you with a surprise request.
How to create a knitted dress that will unravel as imagined…
BIO:
MARIE CHRISTINE KATZ
Visual and performance artist living in New York working with personal narratives and stories in her practice.
http://www.mariechristine.com/
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