Tuesday Feb 21st 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.
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.
Wednesday 22nd 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.
Saturday 25th 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.
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
Sunday 26th February
5pm-7pm
Teacher: Lizzie Scott
Participatory Performance workshop
The Total Styrene Experience is a roving laboratory for recycling Styrofoam into art and performance, turning the glut of discarded Styrofoam into an opportunity for experimentation and collaboration across live and visual art. Conceived by artist Lizzie Scott in collaboration with artist Michael Mahalchick and Curator Patricia Milder, Total Styrene pops up in different spaces for performance events at which we collect Styrofoam trash from the audience and the surrounding community. Each event features work by 5 or 6 artists from all different disciplines, who use the collected Styrofoam to create experimental projects and performances. The roster of participating artists changes with each event. Events are open to the public and usually free of charge, although we encourage the audience to bring some Styrofoam trash to recycle. The Total Styrene Experience aims to create a small temporary space for intellectual generosity and experimentation in resistance to the commercial and institutional models of competition and commodification that define current art worlds. It celebrates the alchemy of making toxic Styrofoam trash into a source of artistic abundance. Truly a laboratory for experimenting and developing new ideas, the project focuses on the materials and processes of artistic creation.
Lizzie Scott, Lead Artist
lizzierosescott@gmail.com
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