18th FEBRUARY SATURDAY ONE NIGHT EVENT BY THE ARTISTS OF THE ART SCHOOL:
Ryan Leitner
Marie Christine Katz
Lizzie Scott
Marissa Perel and Katya Grokhovsky
Molly Weiss
Leah Schrager
Birgit Larson
Kiera Brew Kurec
Peter Gynd
Ryan Leitner's photo class
Katya Grokhovsky's drawings
WEEK 3:
Tuesday Feb 14th 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.
Wednesday 15th 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.
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
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.
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.
Saturday 18th 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.
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
2.00pm-3.30pm
Teacher : Kiera Brew Kurec
Class: 4 week Saturday course: Arts and Culture Around the world. For primary school children.
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.
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:
Visual and performance artist living in New York working with personal narratives and stories in her practice.
http://www.mariechristine.com/
ONE NIGHT EVENT:
8pm -late WORK IN PROGRESS....LIKE MY LOVE LIFE
Artists of the Art School : Performances/Videos/Installations
Sunday 19h February
2pm- 3pm
Teacher: Birgit Larson
Performance Workshop:
"Siamese Twins: Learning to separate the eyes"
An experimental workshop that will make art while trying to understand how the eyes work together.
BIO:
Birgit Larson:
A performance artist, based in New York. Has a BFA from Indiana University. Has exhibited and performed widely. Using humor, fear and science Larson tries to understand and recognize the most basic connections we have with each other.
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.
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
3.30-4.30pm
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:
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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