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Digital/Electronic Arts Fellows | May 28th | Big Screen Plaza
2011 Digital/Electronic Arts NYFA Fellows caraballo-farman, James Case-Leal, Michael Greathouse, Sophie Kahn, Karolina Sobecka, and 2011 NYFA Digital/Electronic Arts Finalist, Jason Bernagozzi, will be featured in a public exhibition titled, CYBORG ALARM: When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide, presented by Streaming Museum and curated by Tanya Toft, Curatorial Fellow for Streaming Museum, on May 28 from 6 – 10 pm at Big Screen Plaza, NYC. A panel discussion in the Eventi Hotel’s screening room, will take place 6 – 7:30 PM with the artists. Following the discussion, guests will view the exhibition on the big screen at an opening party at Brighton. The exhibition will be on view at Big Screen Plaza through June 2012.
The exhibition and panel discussion address the timely topic of being human in a world in which digital technology and the body are colliding and giving us new experiences, ideas and capabilities for inventing and imagining our physical and virtual identities. The artworks explore the digital persona as it transcends the human body in representational situations of the contemporary world where norms and behavior are reformulated. The discussion will also address the attributes that make art accessible to a global public in open spaces and online.
DETAILS
Fellow: caraballo-farman, James Case-Leal, Michael Greathouse, Sophie Kahn, and Karolina Sobecka, and Finalist Jason Bernagozzi
Discipline: Digital/Electronic Arts
When: May 28 | 6:00 – 7:30pm
Where:The Screening Room, Eventi Hotel, 851 Avenue of the Americas, 5th Floor, NYC
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Michelle Lopez, 2011 Crafts/Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will be offering a ceramics workshop for students of the East Village Community School. The workshop will be held on the 24th and 25th of May. Lopez’s workshop will both help students of the East Village Community School become more well acquainted with the process of making ceramic arts and provide insight into the method and practices of a working ceramics artist.
More about Michelle Lopez’s work: “I’m interested in the human frailty inherent in our cultural icons, and hope to reveal it through the manipulation of material and form. Conceptually, my work investigates the products of pop culture and how we subversively mirror ourselves through their design and construction. I’ve been exploring the combination of toys, action figures, cars, prosthetics, and architecture to create a hybrid corporeal landscape. I’ve tried to create objects that show the pristine desire of our culture and the way it translates into how we present ourselves bodily, whether fake or not, appropriated, hybrid, hung, or vulnerable.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Michelle Lopez
Discipline: Craft/Sculpture
When: May 24 & 25, 2012
Where: East Village Community School. 610 East 12th Street. NY, NY, 10009
Takuji Hamanaka, 2011 Printing Making / Drawing / Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will be offering an Artists talk and slide presentation at the Manhattan Graphics Center on the 19th of May. Hamanaka will be presenting images of his work and discussing his recent artistic development and creative process. There will be a discussion to follow.
More about Takuji Hamanaka’s work: “My interest is making simple images to construct repetitious forms and patterns by applying layers of color and shape. I want to add emphasis to the structural patterns that are derived from the accumulation of simple units. To this end, mixing Japanese style woodblock and Chin Cole process seem to fit well. Variously shaped/cut Ganpi papers were repeatedly pasted on the surface of woodblock to bring about subtle difference in layers and colors. Accumulations of paper create nuanced color on surface that has physical depth of layered paper.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Takuji Hamanaka
Discipline: Printing Making / Drawing / Book Arts
When: Saturday, May 19, 2012 | 7:00pm
Where: Manhattan Graphics Center. 250 W. 40th Street, 5th Floor. NY, NY 10018
Karyn Olivier, 2011 Crafts/Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will be offering an artist talk on the 17th of May at the Brooklyn Artist’s Gym. The lecture will focus on Olivier’s public works, site-generated projects, interactive works, and various unrealized and in-progress public art projects. She will also be discussing her non-tradition part to a career in art.
About Karyn Olivier’s work: “I investigate our social interactions with familiar objects, spaces and each other, through the use of sculpture, installation, public works, photography and video. I often manipulate the familiar—from the redundancy of replicated objects to the exaggeration of what’s already there. The work explores the changing countenance of intimacy as it fluctuates between a private (individual) experience to a social (collective) one.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Karyn Olivier
Discipline: Craft/Sculpture
When: Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 6:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Artist’s Gym. 3rd Floor. BAG Gallery. 168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Ari Banias, Tonya Foster, Brenda Iijima & Ricardo Maldonado, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellows, will be offering a poetry reading at the CUNY Center for Humanities on the 10th of May. A discussion will follow the readings. This event is meant to provide an invigorating community conversation and bring attention to the diverse voices of poets and NYFA Fellows.
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Fellows:Ari Banias, Tonya Foster, Brenda Iijima & Ricardo Maldonado
Discipline: Poetry
When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Where: James Gallery. 365 5th Avenue. NY, NY 10016
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Joseph Burwell, Adam Fowler, Chris Nau, Marti Cormand Rifa, Ilene Sunshine, and Margaret Ingo Wiatrowski, 2011 Drawing/Printingmaking NYFA Fellows, will be offering a discussion of their works moderated by Erin Brown, curator and director of Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC. The conversation will delve into new trends in drawing as exemplified by the artists’ varied approaches (images of each artist’s work will be projected). As part of the Artist Career development series, the panelists will also address applying for NYFA Fellowships and other strategies to build support for their work.
More about Marti Cormand Rifa.
More about Margaret Inga Wiatrowski.
DETAILS
Fellows: Joseph Burwell, Adam Fowler, Chris Nau, Marti Cormand Rifa, Ilene Sunshine, and Margaret Ingo Wiatrowski
Discipline: Drawing/Printmaking
When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Mid-Manhattan Library. 455 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York 1106. 1st floor, corner room
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Susan Deer Cloud, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellow, will be offering a teen poet’s dinner and discussion at the Southeast Steuben County Library on the 26th of April. The dinner will begin at 5:00pm, with a poetry reading and discussion to follow. This event is meant to encourage aspiring teen writers to share and discuss their work.
More about Susan Deer Cloud and her work: “Originally from the Catskills, I am what people used to call a “breed” … a human being whose lineage is Turtle Island indigenous mixed in with other DNA helixes of genetic memory. Currently I am writing memoir poems under the title Borscht Belt Indian, reflective of my having grown up in the grand finale of those Jewish hotels that gave rise to the name “Borscht Belt.” A longtime “spirit of place” writer, I feel a constant undertow of homesickness for the Catskills and this entire land before it suffered the staggering wounds of genocide and being stolen.”
“I hope that at best I embody the central symbol of the Iroquois Confederacy, our Tree of Peace with four white roots inviting all people to gather beneath its branches in good talk, laughter, listening and understanding. My writing beads my experiences as dreamer woman, Indian, and mountain dancer who has traveled vastly and sojourned in great cities such as New York, London, Paris.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Susan Deer Cloud
Discipline: Poetry
When: Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 5:00 pm
Where: The Southeast Steuben County Library. 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza, Suite 101
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Boris Fishman, 2011 Nonfiction NYFA Fellow, will be offering a weekend workshop on April 28th & 29th at the Courthouse Gallery – Lake George Arts Project . Over the course of the weekend, Boris will aid aspiring writers with the development of their work. Writers will submit writing samples under 20 pages to everyone partaking in the workshop. The group will then devote time to the discussion of each individual piece. Each author will also have a chance to discuss their work with Boris privately. This workshop will serve as a great opportunity for aspiring authors to further develop their writing. Event website.
Boris Fishman was born in the former Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He is the editor of “Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier” (Random House), a collection of short stories about Westerners going wild in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early post-Communist years.
DETAILS
Fellow: Boris Fishman
Discipline: Nonfiction
When: April 28-29
Where:1 Amherst Street. Lake George, NY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Michael Tarbi, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will be presenting a workshop on April 25th from 12:45 – 3:35pm at the Westchester Community College Center for the Arts. Michael will be offering an illustration class. He will also show images of his work and discuss the development of his artistic aesthetic, his creative process, and the progression of his artistic career.
More about the Artist: Michael Tarbi was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1980. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1998-2002 where he received numerous awards for his work including the Henry J. Schiedt Travel Scholarship and the Angelo Pinto Award for Experimental Work. Since then, his work has appeared in various gallery and museum exhibitions including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and James Cohan Gallery, New York. His first solo exhibition took place at Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, in 2006. In 2008 Tarbi’s work was included in the flat files at Pierogi, Brooklyn, where he currently lives and works
DETAILS
Fellow: Michael Tarbi
Discipline: Printing Making / Drawing / Book Arts
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | 12:45 – 3:35pm
Where: Westchester Community College Center for the Arts | 196 Central Ave. White Plains, NY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Barbara Smith, 2011 Craft/Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will be offering a workshop at the Kingston Library on April 21st from 1-4:00pm. As a part of E Equals, a multi-disciplinary arts experience designed for April 2012 National Poetry Month, Barbara will collaborate with Kingston High School art teacher Lara Giodrano, playwright Casey Kurtti, The Kingston Library, students, and Midtown Kingston residents on a collaborative installation which will encompass the entire chain link fence that surrounds the Kingston Library. This installation will relate to themes in Barbara’s work, including the idea of presence without identity and the strategy of combining personal and collective experiences and narratives. An artist talk will be offered following the installation, This talk will address the connections between the installation and Barbara’s body of work in greater detail.
About Barbara Smith’s work: “Throughout the linear progression of moments that accumulate to become days, years, and lifetimes, objects are used, loved, lost, and discarded. The lost or discarded is an inscribed presence and an interruption. Common and often unnoticed, the loss and the lost are intensely personal and simultaneously anonymous. The lost or discarded thing is proof; proof of existence and simultaneously a marker of the body’s disintegration. These indicators of existence denote a life lived and a body experienced. Through discovering these marks and traces, I interact with a history that is both strange and familiar.”
“My work is an accumulation of things predestined to disappear or go unnoticed. These items are things easily recognized; they are recognized as items used and gestures made. By collecting evidence of the body’s actions, I share the space of experience without knowing the details. These fragments capture the frailty of our individual moments. Translated and transformed, the objects are powerful and impotent; full of possibilities and nothingness. Through the experience of locating and re-forming traces of existence, I sense both my presence and face my absence. Throughout the act of making, I reconsider where I exist.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Barbara Smith
Discipline: Craft/Sculpture
When: Saturday, April 21, 2012 | 6:00pm
Where: Kingston Library | 55 Franklin Street. Kingston, NY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Cara Benson, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellow, will present a workshop on Wednesday, April 19 at 6:00pm at Farmingdale State College. The workshop is part of Farmingdale State College’s Visiting Writers Program. This program is designed to, “highlight the importance of literature to education and culture and works to develop its resources and strengthen its service in behalf of this idea. The audience for the program includes: faculty, students, and professional staff from the college and many individuals from the surrounding Long Island and Metropolitan community (event page).”
About Cara Benson’s work: “I have been investigating language as a commons where the public and private collide. Speech is increasingly owned by an oligarchic corporate class and subsequently manipulated to obfuscate and mediate citizen responses to power.”
“Though subjectivity has been problematized through deconstruction et al., which I attempt to represent, it continues as a point of origin for speaking. I want to know how an individual, comprised of multiple story lines and societal roles, may arise as one of/with many epicenters who speaks within the media-storm. Also, I am interested in revealing how symbolic order works to hold its grip even when attempts to undermine it are enacted through syntactical rearrangement. This reordering teases forward points of a text for emphasis while exposing the tenacity of the ties that bind certain structural elements of rhetoric.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Cara Benson
Discipline: Poetry
When: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 6:00pm
Where: 2350 Broadhollow Road | Ward Hall Great Room | Farmington, NY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
James Hall and Rigoberto Gonzalez, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellows, will be offering a poetry reading on the 12th of April at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan (event page). The reading is meant to be both a celebration of queer poetry and poetry month. There will be a third reader, in addition to the two NYFA Fellows. Also, there will be a Q&A session following the readings that well help the audience become more well acquainted with the works of each poet.
DETAILS
Fellows: James Hall & Rigoberto Gonzalez
Discipline:Poetry
When: April 12 | 6:30p.m.
Where: 208 W. 13th Street. New York, New York
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Robert Fitterman, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellow, will be offering a poetry reading at Bard College. He will be reading from his long poem titled, “Metropolis.” Following the reading, he will discuss the poem with a Q&A session. The reading will take place at the Weis Theater on the Bard College campus and is free and open to the public.
About Robert Fitterman’s work: “last several books of poetry primarily use found or repurposed text. I am interested in creating poetic strategies that respond to the inundation of language streamed from the web.”
“My approach usually involves an orchestrated direct use of this language to invite a new criticality. Additionally, I have recently been working on a community-based performance where I opened a storefront “word shop” on Bowery and sold letters and words throughout the month of May, 2010. These transactions were recorded as videos and are presently being transcribed into a book. The project, “Rob’s Word Shop” speaks to issues about arts and commerce, especially within the specifics of the poetry community.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Robert Fitterman
Discipline: Poetry
When: April 12th | 6:00pm
Where:Weis Theater | Bard College
Linda Cordell, 2011 Crafts/Sculpture NYFA Fellow will be teaching “Soup Can, Steam Cast Bronze Workshop,” at the Rockefeller Arts Center. This will be a hands-on workshop which encourages both students and community members to partake in the creative process. Participants will carve and cast their own works using low-tech materials. The workshop will be help on both the 10th and 12th of April from 7-9:00p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
About Linda Cordell’s work: “reinterprets the figurine enabling animals to break the chains of cuteness and noble savagery. An appreciation of the ridiculous, a love of beauty and skilled craftsmanship, and the belief that domestic objects are social propaganda all contribute to her work (Mindy Solomon Gallery).”
DETAILS
Fellow: Linda Cordell
Discipline: Crafts/Sculpture
When: April 10th & 11th | 7 – 9:00pm
Where:Rockefeller Arts Center | Room 239 | 280 Central Ave. Fredonia, NY
Adam Daily, 2011 Digital Media NYFA Fellow will be presenting an artist talk at the Foundry in Cohoes, New York. This talk is designed to provide audience members with insight into the practice of creating art through the use of digital media. The development of the artist’s aesthetic will also be discussed. There will be a Q&A session following the artists’ presentation. This lecture is free and open to the public.
About Adam Daily’s work: “builds on his interest in the interaction between paintings and the spaces they inhabit…”
“His recent work are geometric explorations of color, shape, and space. These paintings are two-dimensional surfaces with the sculptural power to push and pull their environment. Chromatic intensity, distorted isometric perspective and high contrast are all key to their visual punch (thefoundry).”
DETAILS
Fellow: Adam Daily
Discipline: Digital Media
When: April 7, 2012 | 3:30 pm
Where: The Foundry | 119 Remsen Street. Cohoes, NY
Stephanie Liner, 2011 Sculpture NYFA fellow, will present an artist talk at Irvington High School about her work and the development of her aesthetic. This event will be open to all Irvington High School students and is designed to provide insight into the artistic process and will encourage discussion and student participation.
Stephanie Liner executes her work by “using methods and materials traditional to the furniture and textile belt of the Southern United States, which become environments for characters and performance.”
“This work explores the connection between the human body and architecture, specifically the relationship between Interior and Exterior. The architecture of the work has a corporeal quality; the external shells are like skin, fleshy and protective, while the internal construction forms the skeleton of supportive ribs, formers, and bulkheads. Each sculpture’s social and architectural façade houses, or entraps, a human character who becomes the personification of the psyche melded with the physical structure. This interior characters’ behavior is dictated by the façade, which becomes a manifestation of social expectations or constraint.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Stephanie M. Liner
Discipline: Sculpture
When: March 23, 2012
Where: 40 North Broadway. Irvington, New York.
On March 25th, Mary Mattingly, 2011 Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will offer the opportunity for middle school students involved in the Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LeAp) to partake in a workshop which includes a tour of her studio. The LeAp program is designed to empower NYC middles school students to speak out on social issues and have a voice in their communities through the creation and public exhibition of art in NYC parks. Workshop participants will be encouraged to ask questions and engage in a discussion about the various ways that sculpture can resonate with its viewers. Further, students will gain a greater knowledge of both the work and thought process that goes into the creation of a sculpture.
About Mary Mattingly’s work: “collapses boundaries between performance, sculpture, architecture, and documentation. Through wearable environments and autonomous living systems, her practice addresses migration and mobility needs due to current and future environmental and political situations”
“My work proposes a peripatetic world where populations depend on both migration and community. I focus on creating autonomous living/ traveling systems and the tools that accompany them, from wearable environments called Wearable Homes to water-based habitats that explore the intersection between autonomy and interdependence.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Mary Mattingly
Discipline: Sculpture
When: March 22, 2012
Where: Mary Mattingly Studio
Damian Van Denburgh, 2011 Nonfiction Literature NYFA Fellow, will present a reading and discussion about his work titled “Grief and Remembrance: Writing about Family” and will be reading an essay called “The Struggles,” which looks at some of the effects of feminism on my family, specificially his mother and six sisters, and their neighbors in upstate NY in the mid 1970’s. A question and answer session will follow.
About Damian Van Denburgh’s work: “I’m currently working on a non-fiction manuscript called Ordinary Unhappiness. Progressing in a roughly chronological order through the shifting perspectives of a child, a teenager, and finally an adult, Ordinary Unhappiness examines such issues as second-wave feminism, rape, homosexuality, and alcoholism, all of which informed my efforts to construct a feasible male identity while growing up as the only boy among six sisters in an Irish-Catholic family. In addition to this manuscript, I’m writing personal essays and working as a freelance editor and book reviewer.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Damian Van Denburgh
Discipline: Nonfiction Literature
When: March 1, 6:00pm
Where: The Creative Center
273 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Jacob Rakovan, 2011 Poetry NYFA Fellow, will present a reading and discussion about his work with roots in Appalachia folks tales and urban legend, with particular attention given to the creation of personal mythos in poetry. A question and answer session will follow.
About Jacob Rakovan: “Jacob Rakovan is an Appalachian author. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals including The James Dickey Review, Thrush, Matchbook and Anon. He has appeared in anthologies by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry press and The Arsenic Lobster. He will be reading from works in progress and will have a limited edition chapbook on hand. Jacob Rakovan is a 2011 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co‐sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).”
DETAILS
Fellow: Jacob Rakovan
Discipline: Poetry
When: February 22, 7-9pm
Where: Writers and Books
740 university Avenue, Rochester NY 14607
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sandy Winters, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present an artist talk at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning about her work and the process of finding her own artistic and creative voice over the years. She hopes to involve the audience in a conversation about the evolution of one’ own creative ideas.
About Sandy Winters’ work: ” I am fascinated with the myth of Dionysus as a metaphor for the creative process. It displays life as an indefatigable and overwhelming force, perpetually giving birth to and at the same time overcoming the world of order, form, human contrivance, and fantasy. On the one hand my work is about procreation, growth, and then annihilation; on the other hand it is about the redeeming surface play of meaning as well as whimsy that this perpetual coming-to-be and passing away makes possible. I depict an environment of largely abstracted organic and mechanical forms (often in tension with each other), which, if I have succeeded, are ominous and yet playful, inexplicable and yet evocative, indeterminate and yet on a subliminal level intimately familiar.”
More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Sandy Winters
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: February 15, 6:30
Where: Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning
50 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Scott McCarney, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present an artist talk titled “Books & Pieces: Works by Scott McCarney” about his work in conjunction with an exhibition of works by Scott McCarney drawn from the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
About Scott McCarney’s work: ”This work is part of an ongoing series entitled “Encyclopornia.” It extends a project from the 1990s (“Smart Books”) that addressed the migration of primary sources of information from books to digital media. Working with images from eighteenth and nineteenth-century dictionaries and encyclopedias pointed out a gender gap in printed works of that era. This current work builds on themes of “gendered” information while acknowledging the overwhelming volume of information available today. Reworking images from an early twentieth-century encyclopedia with images from late twentieth-century gay magazines alludes to an embedded desire in the body of the book. This practice also conflates our culture’s addiction to information with a more commonly acknowledged addiction to pornography.
Teaching hand bookbinding has influenced the work’s physicality. We learn how books are put together by carefully taking them apart. The body of the book (or lack thereof) and concepts of physical attachment are heightened by these book autopsies. Dissected elements become a focus of attention. Book covers and cases are altered with texts and images that reference the world outside of the book, counter to the traditional of design binding that seeks to embody the content of the text.”
More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Scott McCarney
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: February 9, 5:30-7pm
Where: Cary Graphic Arts Collection. http://library.rit.edu/cary/
90 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ellen Grossman, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a public lecture about her work and will facilitate a graduate student critique on November 26 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Staller Center for the Arts at SUNY Stonybrook.
About Ellen Grossman’s work: ”Drawings maping and telegraphing the sense of touch through the sense of sight. These drawings reference topography, fluidity and tactile associations. The flows, the folds, the ripples and the crosscurrents build up, suggesting that which is common to water currents, geologic change and the wind made visible. Time also flows. Originally I recorded, on the bottom edge of each drawing, each date that I worked on it, calling attention to the process and evolution of the image. This prompted questions about which section was drawn which day, usually accompanied by a laugh.
In 2005, taking up the challenge, I started to record date and time at the start of each line and again at line’s end. This provoked questions about how many hours the drawings took to make, so, pushing absurdity, the notations evolved to include running subtotals and totals up to that day. This can be daunting and that’s part of the point: written numbers build up, forcing the lines to fan out, reading at first glance as texture, radically affecting how the drawings evolve. As in science recording observations can alter results.” More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Ellen Grossman
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Saturday, November 26 2011, 11:00am-6:00pm
Where: SUNY Stonybrook.
Staller Center for the Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
MaryKate Maher, 2011 Crafts/Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will present a lecture and workshop, including a Q+A session about her methods of working and artistic experiences at the Lower East Side Girls’ Club.
About MaryKate Maher’s work: ”I work with motifs, building a vocabulary that describes my thought patterns. My work is heterogeneous, combining hyper-realistic and bare, structural elements. I want the viewer to feel pulled between familiarity and unease.The work is a play between the formal and the narrative. One informs the other, suggesting deeper meanings while obfuscating easy interpretation. It is an attempt to find explanations for my relationship to the world and the anxiety I feel by the shifting identities it demands. The most recent work addresses the image of ‘home’ through a reoccurring archetype of a house. The image of the ‘house’, smudgy and blackened, takes the place of the Void. The House-as-metaphor, though generic in its physical shape, addresses the universal home shaped void in every person. One we attempt to fill by recreating the familiar. But in the act of recreation its image becomes something strange and uncanny.” More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: MaryKate Maher
Discipline: Crafts/Sculpture
When: Tuesday, November 29 2011, 4:00pm
Where: Lower East Side Girls’ Club
56 E. 1st street, NYC, NY 10003
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
Geoffrey Chadsey, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a public lecture about his work and will facilitate a graduate student critique on November 9 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Staller Center for the Arts at SUNY Stonybrook.
About Geoffrey Chadsey’s work: ”Working in watercolor pencil on Mylar, Chadsey’s twisted figures blend fashion (both high and hip-hop) and “representative” images of gay life (found via internet chat rooms) to create powerfully disconcerting and humorous images that are characterized by an off-putting sense of the familiar. Chadsey’s drawings present exotic images of half-dressed figures that…take on the form of comedic monsters. [-Jack Shainman Gallery] More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Geoffrey Chadsey
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Wednesday, November 9 2011, 11:00am-6:00pm
Where: SUNY Stonybrook.
Staller Center for the Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
Bianca Stone, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a multimedia reading series featuring projections of poems and images, or “poetry comics” on November 10 at 8:00pm at the Center for Performance Research .
The multimedia reading series plans to be a unique, sonic and visual experience of literary arts and visual arts.
About Bianca Stone’s work: ”In my background as both a visual artist and a poet, I has always been interested in the comic book genre, as it is one of the few mediums where art and text are given the same space. Text pasted or written into my drawings has now become a very important part of my work as an artist. The movement of my work into incorporating language and devices used in comic books such as word bubbles and panels, was a natural one. But what I’m interested in is the drawing becoming part of the movement of the text rather than a literal translation of it. In essence, I want to deconstruct our ideas of the graphic novel and comic book, and explore how the confines of that field might be pushed against.
Once a word is placed beside an image, both change drastically. What I want in my drawings is for each element to work simultaneously, to create a moment where they are both informing the other, changing the other’s meaning. I have always loved the immediacy and movement in comic books. There is a sense of conversation, as in poetry, where the reader is required to interact with the work, becoming a vital part of its creation. In my drawings I mix cartoon with rich detail obtained with the fine line, and surrealism. My main medium is pen and ink, but there are also elements of collage and paint. I find myself most interested in juxtapositions of tone, often playing with the immediacy of human figures, the mysteriousness of poetic language, and abstract imagery.” More about the artist: http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=6605
DETAILS
Fellow: Bianca Stone
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Thursday, November 10 2011, 8:00pm
Where: Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Brooklyn NY 11211
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages
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Akiko Busch, 2011 Nonfiction Literature NYFA Fellow, will present a writing workshop titled “The Changing Place We Live” for children fourth grade and up on Thursday, October 20 at 6:30pm at the Beekman Library in Beekman, NY. Parents are welcome to attend and join in.
“The Changing Place We Live” workshop, composed of an artist talk and a writing workshop, will regard the changing landscape of the Hudson Valley, its growing population and evolving animal and plant species. The young participants will write and read short pieces about the local environment, aquatic life of the Hudson river, the orchards of the Hudson Valley, the winter storms of 2011 or the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Discussion would consider questions about land use and how kids and adults can both participate in volunteer programs that promote land stewardship.
About Akiko Busch’s work: ”The introduction to my book, Nine Ways to Cross a River, describes a swim across the Hudson River in the summer of 2001. That morning swim was such a restorative and sustaining experience, and the Hudson River had such a particular taste and feel and texture, that it lead me to swim in and across other rivers as well-the Connecticut, the Delaware, Monongahela, Cheat, Susquehanna, Mississippi, and Current rivers. River swimming became a preoccupation, and then it became a kind of passion. Four summers and nine rivers later, I found that the sense of restoration was not simply personal. Since the passage of the Clean Water Act, many river communities in this country have become reconnected to their waterways. Traveling to these rivers and swimming across them also served to connect me to these communities; and becoming immersed in the water of these rivers also inevitably immersed me in their greater stories of transformation and revitalization. The nine essays in the book I subsequently wrote document both my own river crossings and personal sense of renewal, along with the greater sense of renewal so many American waterfronts are experiencing today.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Akiko Busch
Discipline: Nonfiction Literature
When: Thursday, October 20 2011, 6:30pm
Where: Beekman Library
11 Town Center Blvd. Hopewell Junction, N.Y
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for kids (4th grade and up) and adults. Registration suggested, register here.
Allyson Strafella, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present an Artist Talk titled “Worksite” on Saturday, October 15 at 3:00pm at the Hudson Opera House at 338 Warren Street in Hudson NY.
Using visuals of her custom drawing tool, the typewriter, and the custom marks it creates, “Worksite” will be a public talk to introduce the audience to Strafella’s process of drawing. Strafella will share the sights and sounds of one of her drawings being made and will discuss the resources in her studio that inform her drawings.
About Allyson Strafella’s work: “I have worked with a typewriter, making drawings for 17 years. I developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language ‘written’ by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form. Early in my practice, a question emerged: are these images details of something much larger than what is seen on the page or are they full-scale landscapes as seen from the sky above?
The theme of landscape has slowly seeped into my work, becoming central to my language. My chief considerations are not focused on capturing the appearance of the landscape, but rather to investigate the physical orientation to space, form, and placement. I use my drawing language as a map for the purpose of navigating mark and form.
There are no limitations to drawing in my mind. With this notion of the expanded field, literally and rhetorically, I continue exploring the drawn mark.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Allyson Strafella
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Saturday, October 15 2011, 3:00pm
Where: Hudson Opera House
338 Warren street, Hudson NY
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
John Hampshire, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a Artist Talk and Slide Lecture on Wednesday, October 12 at 6:00pm at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) at 7 Laphan Place in Glens Falls, NY.
About John Hanmpshire’s work: “At the beginning, the lines or marks are very loosely responsive to the image I am building. As this progresses, the white spaces I have remaining to put lines in become smaller and smaller, and the information that gets built into the drawing becomes more and more specific. Edges of shapes are found rather than started with. This synthesis of process and image, while very time consuming, feels very fluent and natural to me. The act of making these, I imagine, is like jumping into a big vat of molasses; the initial descent in would be fast, but then the submergence would get progressively slower until movement stops, because of the viscosity of the medium.”
DETAILS
Fellow: John Hampshire
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Wednesday, October 12 2011, 6:00pm
Where: Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC)
7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls, NY 12801
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
John Hampshire. Courtesy of the artist.
Dusty Herbig, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a Public Lecture and Slide Presentation titled Talk Print: Dusty Herbig, Juror of Social Justice Exhibit on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00pm at The Ink Shop in Ithaca, NY.
From Dusty’s work statement: “Given the current socio-political conditions of our nation and world, I feel I have a responsibility to touch on some of the reasons humans gravitate towards a competitive discourse about power/energy. This leads to my excitement about my current media choice; relief printmaking. Using such a traditional method of working feels the most direct, democratic, environmentally friendly, and immediate way to bring the content of my work to increasingly expanding populations of energy consumers.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Dusty Herbig
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Thursday, September 15 2011, 7:00pm
Where: The Ink Shop
330 E. State Street | CSMA Building – 2nd Floor
Ithaca NY 14850
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
Dusty Herbig Biography:
Dusty Herbig is an Assistant Professor of Art, and the Director of Lake Effect Editions at Syracuse University, where he teaches lithography, intaglio, serigraphy, relief, digital printmaking, letterpress, and all levels of advanced and graduate print courses. Herbig earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, and his BFA from Fort Hays State University, in Hays, KS in 1996.
Herbig exhibits nationally, participating in juried exhibitions from Los Angeles to Miami to New York City, and internationally, including shows in Canada, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, South Korea, Scotland, Pakistan, China, Argentina, Japan, and Poland. His socially provocative work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, KUMU: The Art Museum of Estonia, Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, NJ The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC, among others. He currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY.
For more information about NYFA Fellowships and the Artists&Audience Exchange program, go to:www.nyfa.org/afp
