ART INSTALLATIONS & MORE!
Listen & Record AS220 memories with "Back Talk": The AS220 Oral History Project
In light of the organization's 25th anniversary we will also be hosting the AS220 Oral History Project "Back Talk" which encompasses a listening station to broadcast historical audio clips from the past and offers attendees the chance to record their own memories of AS220. This project is facilitated by the radio and humanities wizards Megan Hall and SueEllen Kroll.
Century Camera Portrait Studio
A Portrait Studio with AS220's Paul Krot Community Darkroom
An opportunity to get an instant B&W portrait shot with AS220's antique Century Camera featuring yourself or your loved ones. Instant photographic portraits from a 100 year old camera; old timey style delivered with a flair only modern convenience can provide!
http://www.as220.org/darkroom/
AS220 Community Printshop's DIY T-Shirt Shoppe
Stop by to screenprint your very own Foo Fest souvenir! We'll have many designs to choose from so you can learn the fine art of printmaking while stepping up your summer wardrobe with a hip new shirt! In addition to shirts, we will have, totes and paper available to purchase for printing on or free free to bring your own.
http://www.as220.org/printshop/
AS220 Labs Presents: An Empire St. Light Show!
Check out this sound sensitive light display from the 2nd floor windows of AS220's Empire Street building! See the music! Watch the beats! Loud, live, custom light show courtesy of your local nerds in the Fab Lab.
http://as220.org/labs/pages/
KidoInfo
Kidoinfo is a hip online resource for parents and kids based in Providence, Rhode Island, and reaching out to the world. This independent weblog is brimming with information, creative ideas, things to do, places to go and links to family resources. Creator, Anisa Raoof lives in Providence with her husband and 7-year-old twin boys. She works on finding ways to make parenting easier, still fun and even a little cool. Being a parent means not staying put and being open to new adventures. Anisa created Kidoinfo in early 2007 to be the central source for everything about kids in the Providence area. But Kidoinfo also goes beyond the city borders – wherever our kids will travel. This essential online guide is for parents, caregivers, and families living in the area or just visiting. This year, KidoInfo will be building interactive fairy houses for children during the day.
http://kidoinfo.com/ri/
Providence Children's Museum
The mission of the Providence Children's Museum is to inspire learning through active play and exploration. The Museum presents hands-on exhibits and programs that explore art, culture, history and science. For more than thirty years the Providence Children's Museum has been an integral part of Rhode Island life and with over 8,000 square feet of interactive exhibits it is a place where children are nurtured and celebrated.
http://www.childrenmuseum.org/
Providence ¡CityArts!
Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth is a community arts organization with a mission to provide free professional arts education to Providence youth between ages 8-14. ¡CityArts! serves over 450 youth in afterschool and summer arts programs citywide, offering meaningful learning experiences in visual art and design, performing arts, and creative writing. Our work is inspired by the creative process of art-making and the exploration of ideas and concepts that shape our communities and everyday lives.
http://www.providencecityarts.org/
RI Museum of Art & Science (RIMOSA)
The Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art, (RIMOSA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We plan to use Rhode Islands' rich resources in the arts and sciences to create a distinctive, highly interactive, informal learning center. This museum will be dedicated to increasing independent thinking, creativity and innovation in older children, teens and adults. Modeled to a large extent on the hugely successful San Francisco Exploratorium, RIMOSA's hands-on exhibits and programs will appeal to a wide variety of learning styles and emphasize the tools that both artists and scientists share; curiosity, observation and experimentation.
http://rimosa.org/
Top Drawer Art Center with Doug Nichols
Top Drawer Art Center is a nonprofit visual art center providing art programs for adults with developmental disabilities. Through the arts, we are dedicated to creative expression, individuality, and self-empowerment. We work to promote the idea that art is a universal human trait that gives purpose to one's life and works as a bridge between people and communities. The mission of Top Drawer is to unravel the traditional social isolation adults with developmental disabilities have faced and reintroduce them as working, productive members of a community, where their role has transformed from "disabled person" to "artist". This year we will be featuring the work of member Doug Nichols, an interactive artist whose work is driven by the fantasy world of dragons and warriors. He is a firm believer that very object has a special power and wishes we could all take part in this magic through his work.
http://topdrawer.squarespace.com/artists/doug-nichols/
CONTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
Alexis Avedisian
Alexis Avedisian holds a BFA and minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership from The School of the Museum of FIne Arts and Tufts University (2009). She has been interning at AS220 since January 2010, and runs a curatorial side project online called vellum (www.v-e-l-l-u-m.com). She is interested in the archiving and collection of objects and the documentation of nostalgia. Her work stems around a deep observation and analysis of specific people, places, and rituals that have impacted her life. Alexis hopes to attend graduate school within the next two years for an MA in Curatorial Practice.
China Blue
China Blue is the only person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and NASA's Vertical Gun at Moffitt Field in Califronia. She is an internationally exhibiting artist who makes works based on the emergence of new biological forms from obsolescent technology. She is inspired by the idea of the emergence of new living forms from the wastes of older ones. As the wastes become more complex, including structural elements, electronic components and power sources a potential exists for new biomimetic forms to arise in a new taxonomic class that scavenges and builds on the waste of its predecessors. She has been an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States and is currently represented by Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France and Art Currents, New York, NY.
Natasha Brooks-Sperduti & Sam Holland
Natasha Brooks-Sperduti uses the motion of her body to make site-specific sculpture and installation. Her actions tracea boundary between our tangible world and another, less visible reality. Continuing her investigation of gesture, the spiral, and the invisible divine, she and collaborator Sam Holland present A Wheel of Fortunes. They invite Foo-goers to enter into their oracular lair, open up to possibility, take their chances and spin the wheel. Each spot on the wheel is an original work of art, created by one of dozens of artists just for you, dear spinners. And like a tarot, it foretells your future. Worry not! They will help you interpret, just remember, they are only the messengers!
Natasha and Sam are Providence residents and RI natives. Sam earns a living [via interactive design]. Natasha produces community events in Providence and New York, and teaches yoga. She has shown her art locally, in New York and London, and holds a Bachelors' Degree in Studio Art from Bard College.
Eamon Brown
Eamon Brown received a BFA in Sculpture at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, 2006. He is excited by the idea that pattern moves between the natural world and human culture in an expansive geological motion; fueled by a sense that pattern forms not only a surface reality of objects, but is also an entrance to deeper, hidden layers of the universe. A lifelong fascination with biological and botanical systems coupled with a joy and compulsion for handcrafting objects has guided his work. "I come from a carpentry and craft background that informs how I work and is always present in the energy of my work, often utilizing simple building techniques, but pushing them into extreme iterative realms or layering them with multiple systems of color or pattern."
Stephen Brunelli
Steven Brunelli is a painter, writer, and filmmaker, will provide a water fountain, made from found materials.
Lyn Goeringer
Lyn Goeringer is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in music composition, gestural performance, film, sound, light and installation art. Her works focus on using essential components of space, sound, and light in performance and installation through the use of given architectural and physical phenomenon. She has performed throughout the United States and has held artist residencies at STEIM and Jack Straw New Media Gallery.
Zine-making with Taffy Hips' Zara Messano
Zara Messano is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance,comics, film/video, installation and printmaking to create works that challenge narrative conventions. She received her BA in Visual Arts and Film History from Sarah Lawrence College, 2009. She is the co-founder of Taffy Hips, a magazine which publishes comics, art and interviews with artists. Join her in a zine-making workshop and continuation of last year's Exquisite Corpse project throughout the Fest.
Walker Mettling and Andrew Oesch
Walker Mettling is a level 6 media wizard and former proprietor of a the backyard wrestling circuit Barry Lucha Lyndaibrary. Andrew Oesch is student emeritis an academy for mis-fitting teachers. The two were introduced at the Lyndaibrary's final tournament and revue... a robust correspondence began. On a recent date at the flea market the two uncovered a small booklet from the archives of Brown & Sharp entitled Factory Colossus. The pocket sized journal contained a plan for a small building but was missing three pages of notations on the diagram. At this years Foo Fest Mettling and Oesch present to you a recreation of The Factory Colossus.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves received his BFA in Sculpture at The Rhode Island School of Design, 2006 and likes to create circumstances that allow for communal interactions. "We've become a disembodied culture; completely separating our heads from our bodies. I seek to use my hands and finely craft objects that are imbued with the history and tradition of a material, speak of an era, or use industrial processes. I want to provoke others to ask how and why." He also started a collaborative artist resource center called "The Wurks " located at the Phillipsdale Landing, in Rumford. This year marks Will's second installation at Foo Fest, following last year's "Encumbering Sphericle Polyhedron Experiment." He will be running giant and small drum-making workshops.
Andrew Sloan
Andrew Sloan is an American-born, self-taught artist currently living in Providence, Rhode Island. His paintings and illustrations have appeared on many surfaces and mediums over the past decade, from outdoor murals to gallery walls, clothing to CD packaging. Sloan has developed a distinctive style incorporating strong color blocks and bold black outlines. His street-influenced works have appeared in solo and group shows uniting graffiti, Pop, figurative, surf/skate, cartoons, and Outsider art. Andrew will be recreating some of his popular head in hole portraiture as well as making some live action paintings.
Tom West
RiverzEdge Arts Project ScreenWorks Director, Tom West works with Screen Printing Studio participants to help them succeed in the clothing industry. He received an honorable discharge from the US Navy and holds an Associate in Fine Arts degree from CCRI. He is a war veteran turned professional artist. This year, Tom West returns again with his zany cut hole portrait pieces!
Colin Williams
Born and raised in Oregon, Colin completed his BFA in Digital Art from the University of Oregon in 2008, and received his MFA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, 2010. " I am endlessly interested in figuring out what it means to be American. " Come explore this concept in his "boring bounce house."
Angela Zammarelli
Angela Zammarelli creates playful installations, videos and performances using textiles, found objects and domestic imagery. Zammarelli received a BFA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In the winter of 2010 she was and artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. She was named a 2009 "Hot Pick" by Smack Mellon's Artist Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY and participated in the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative residency program in Greensboro, NC in 2005 and 2006. If you would like to see more information about her process and work, she keeps a blog at www.zammarelli.com.
