September 2009 Archives

We're in a tight spot, team. Here at AS220 we have 17 new VISTAs diligently volunteering their service to America via expanding access to the arts as fervently and fanatically as is humanly possible. "Sounds like these VISTAs lead a fruitful and unencumbered existence," you may be saying to yourself. "AS220's convivial and wildly productive atmosphere forges ahead free of hindrances or handicaps!" Oh, how nearly correct you are! While zeal is high, our abundance of typing machines created after 1962 is low. In all seriousness comrades, we are desperately in need of a MacBook Pro. Maybe an iMac. Something snappy; something with 2Ghz of power; something that can run Snow Leopard and InDesign; something our freshest compatriots can use to create informational materials not classifiable as "ditto sheets" or "zine formatted." Any benevolent soul wishing to purchase such an item for their favorite Downcity not-for-profit arts organization would find themselves, quite promptly, face to face with a substantial tax deduction. Everyone wins! Watch on in awe and wonder as we shower you with our boundless gratitude and professional design quality "Thank You" notes! Also cleared for bestowal are "gently used" and "lightly loved" Macs of the same specs and with birthdays after 1997. Fancy yourself a patron of the arts no more; your philanthropic dreams are poised to become a reality! Hit a sister back to achieve benefactorhood: reba@as220.org.

Wednesday September 30th 5-7pm Free admission
AS220 Performance Space 115 Empire Street

Giddy-up, print lovers! Wednesday evening, September 30th, AS220's Printshop will devolve into an ink splattered orgy of good times, non-toxic fumes, and do it yourself sensibilities in a desperate attempt to communicate our indescribable delight and immeasurable pride in celebrating our second birthday. This Dionysian affair will be marked by two guest lecturers so esoteric, so intriguing, so rare, that even our perpetually boisterous AS220 staff will find themselves speechless in the shadow of their spellbinding wisdom.

Lauren Pearlman, founder and owner of Providence's Paper Connection International, will regale us with illuminations of her 20 years experience working with Japan's National Treasures in the field of paper-making. Glean insights into the process behind some of the world's finest papers, from fiber to finished sheets. Peep more of what Paper Connection International is all about via their website.

AS220's September Artists in Residence extraordinaire Daniel Luedtke, also of neo-wave Skingraft superstars Gay Beast, will join to unveil his month's work and articulate an artist's history of screen-printing. Highpoint Center for Printmaking pronounces: "Daniel Luedtke's 'bold colors, geometric abstractions and absurdist illustrations within unexpected scenes' express themes of the macabre, the comic and the sexual. A musician and self-taught printmaker, Luedtke's style builds from the poster art tradition while challenging the medium's inherent subordinate and promotional roles." Give 'em hell, Dan.

Ray Min was one of our students in AS200's summer jobs program. Ray helped us produce professional commercial photographs for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Non Violence and also worked on a personal portfolio of boxers working out at the Davey Lopes Rec Center. His photos and others will be on display when Photographic Memory has our October show at Providence City Hall. Stay tuned as the opening date is yet to be announced.

Saturday September 26th 11am - 4pm Free admission all day
RISD Museum Free-For-All Saturday:
We Built A City Together & Urban Explorer Journal

Join us over at the RISD Museum for one very special day of events. Bring the whole family to see Inner City an installation of more than 120 figurative and architectural ceramic elements by Arnie Zimmerman. Then join the Printshop down in the education gallery to craft your own Urban Explorer Journal and try your hand at using our mobile Letterpress.

Outside on the Terrace you can work with Keymember Meg Turner and member Andrew Oesch on an interactive installation. The two have created a large topographic view of Providence that will be installed outdoors. Explore city life as it is portrayed in the exhibition Inner City and other works around the Museum, then share how you work and live in and around cities in a collaborative project. With the guidance of volunteers, you can help to construct a giant city made of cardboard, drawings, markers and stickers.

Wednesday September 30th 5-7pm Free admission
AS220 Performance Space 115 Empire Street

Giddy-up, print lovers! Wednesday evening, September 30th, AS220's Printshop will devolve into an ink splattered orgy of good times, non-toxic fumes, and do it yourself sensibilities in a desperate attempt to communicate our indescribable delight and immeasurable pride in celebrating our second birthday. This Dionysian affair will be marked by two guest lecturers so esoteric, so intriguing, so rare, that even our perpetually boisterous AS220 staff will find themselves speechless in the shadow of their spellbinding wisdom.

Lauren Pearlman, founder and owner of Providence's Paper Connection International, will regale us with illuminations of her 20 years experience working with Japan's National Treasures in the field of paper-making. Glean insights into the process behind some of the world's finest papers, from fiber to finished sheets. Peep more of what Paper Connection International is all via their website.

AS220's September Artists in Residence extraordinaire Daniel Luedtke, also of neo-wave Skingraft superstars Gay Beast, will join to unveil his month's work and articulate an artist's history of screen-printing. Highpoint Center for Printmaking pronounces: "Daniel Luedtke's 'bold colors, geometric abstractions and absurdist illustrations within unexpected scenes' express themes of the macabre, the comic and the sexual. A musician and self-taught printmaker, Luedtke's style builds from the poster art tradition while challenging the medium's inherent subordinate and promotional roles." Give 'em hell, Dan.

Batton down the hatches, AS220 enthusiasts! Put on your Sunday clothes, appreciators of all things absurd, spontaneous, and overdue! The AS220 coterie is teetering dangerously on the brink of our imminent and much anticipated group show. "But wait!" you may be asking yourself; "How could I possibly handle the splendor of an exhibition including staff, residents, alumni, and creepily omnipresent hangers-on of AS220? Won't we all be crushed under its brilliance?" Fear not, gentle patron! Our radiance has been reinforced and deemed structurally sound. We are plowing forward with resolve and vigor toward an October 4th opening, leaving only a trail of Gorilla Glue, black glitter, and LED lights in our wake. The show will feature, in part, a staff collaboration in the form of a looming chandelier constructed only from hazy memories, flea-market rhinestones, demon invocations, and stuff we dumpstered from the Empire Street basement. Festivities unfold in the main gallery from 4-7, immediately followed by a very special Empire Review in which AS220 affiliates will join the players in song, dance, Shatner-esque performative sylings, and spoken word montages. Like those banjo-off tailgate parties you had before graduation, except nobody gets arrested at the end. Maybe.

When we started photographing at Point Judith for the September AS220 Darkroom Open House the sun was setting. When we finished it was dark. It only seemed fitting to show this spooky photo as we were packing up to talk about the spookiest month on the Darkroom Calendar. For the month of October we have our Fall offerings of AS220 Darkroom Classes. We also have a fantastic opening of the Photographic Memory youth program's photography at Providence City Hall. We also have a Darkroom open house that will make scientific history. For the first time ever, we have isolated a photographic process by which invisible ghosts in the room can be photographed, with YOU! Keep your eyes peeled, October is a banner month in AS220 Darkroom land.

It's September, right? So come to AS220 for some learnin' why dontcha! Space is still available in all of our darkroom classes, from intro to 35mm cameras to intermediate printing. We've got it all right here! Our lovely darkroom is stocked to the brim with vanilla scented chemicals, nifty little film reels and five, that's right FIVE enlargers! Teachers are ready and willing to pass their knowledge on to you, all you have to do is sign up. Do it TODAY! Check www.as220.org/shop for class descriptions and prices, then proceed directly to Paypal to reserve you spot in this fall's line up of photo fun and education!

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

& Live Music at the Project Space! starting at 7pm with:

The Underscore Orkestra (Portland, OR)

The Salt Wives (Providence-Boston)

The Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence)

marching bands, gypsy tunes & balkan breadowns! wear your dancing shoes! $5 suggested donation!

Please join the AS220 Darkroom crew as we take the 100yr old Century Camera on a road trip to the Point Judith Lighthouse next to the fishing village of Galilee. Once there we will take portraits using Narragansett bay as our back drop as we say good bye to summer. We will be leaving Providence at 6pm. The weather is supposed to be great too!

Say farewell to summer in style in a special on-location photo shoot with the famous Centruy Camera! This Monday join the darkroom in a pilgrimage to Galilee for some seriously old school photography. After a successful appearance at Foo Fest, we're taking this show on the road for a photo shoot like no other.
The Eastman Kodak Century Camera, shown in an early drawing above, was graciously donated to the Paul Krot Community Drakroom, and through the work of darkroom members and photographer Paul Clancy, is seeing the light of day for the first time in, well, a century. Restoring this camera to working order has been a labor of love here at AS220, and now we want to share it with you in the Indian Summer dusk over Point Judith, the picturesque backdrop for our shoot. We're looking for all measure of photo folks to join us on this excursion and be a part of the Century Camera's new golden age! For more information, directions and other photo related questions, contact Darkroom manager Scott Lapham at scott@as220.org.
See you in Galilee!!

We're in a tight spot, team. Here at AS220 we have 17 new VISTAs diligently volunteering their service to America via expanding access to the arts as fervently and fanatically as is humanly possible. "Sounds like these VISTAs lead a fruitful and unencumbered existence," you may be saying to yourself. "AS220's convivial and wildly productive atmosphere forges ahead free of hindrances or handicaps!" Oh, how nearly correct you are! While zeal is high, our abundance of typing machines created after 1962 is low. In all seriousness comrades, we are desperately in need of a MacBook Pro. Maybe an iMac. Something snappy; something with 2Ghz of power; something that can run Snow Leopard and InDesign; something our freshest compatriots can use to create informational materials not classifiable as "ditto sheets" or "zine formatted." Any benevolent soul wishing to purchase such an item for their favorite Downcity not-for-profit arts organization would find themselves, quite promptly, face to face with a substantial tax deduction. Everyone wins! Watch on in awe and wonder as we shower you with our boundless gratitude and professional design quality "Thank You" notes! Also cleared for bestowal are "gently used" and "lightly loved" Macs of the same specs and with birthdays after 1997. Fancy yourself a patron of the arts no more; your philanthropic dreams are poised to become a reality! Hit a sister back to achieve benefactorhood: reba@as220.org.

Wednesday September 30th 5-7pm Free admission
AS220 Performance Space 115 Empire Street

Giddy-up, print lovers! Wednesday evening, September 30th, AS220's Printshop will devolve into an ink splattered orgy of good times, non-toxic fumes, and do it yourself sensibilities in a desperate attempt to communicate our indescribable delight and immeasurable pride in celebrating our second birthday. This Dionysian affair will be marked by two guest lecturers so esoteric, so intriguing, so rare, that even our perpetually boisterous AS220 staff will find themselves speechless in the shadow of their spellbinding wisdom.

Lauren Pearlman, founder and owner of Providence's Paper Connection International, will regale us with illuminations of her 20 years experience working with Japan's National Treasures in the field of paper-making. Glean insights into the process behind some of the world's finest papers, from fiber to finished sheets. Peep more of what Paper Connection International is all about via their website.

AS220's September Artists in Residence extraordinaire Daniel Luedtke, also of neo-wave Skingraft superstars Gay Beast, will join to unveil his month's work and articulate an artist's history of screen-printing. Highpoint Center for Printmaking pronounces: "Daniel Luedtke's 'bold colors, geometric abstractions and absurdist illustrations within unexpected scenes' express themes of the macabre, the comic and the sexual. A musician and self-taught printmaker, Luedtke's style builds from the poster art tradition while challenging the medium's inherent subordinate and promotional roles." Give 'em hell, Dan.

Ray Min was one of our students in AS200's summer jobs program. Ray helped us produce professional commercial photographs for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Non Violence and also worked on a personal portfolio of boxers working out at the Davey Lopes Rec Center. His photos and others will be on display when Photographic Memory has our October show at Providence City Hall. Stay tuned as the opening date is yet to be announced.

Saturday September 26th 11am - 4pm Free admission all day
RISD Museum Free-For-All Saturday:
We Built A City Together & Urban Explorer Journal

Join us over at the RISD Museum for one very special day of events. Bring the whole family to see Inner City an installation of more than 120 figurative and architectural ceramic elements by Arnie Zimmerman. Then join the Printshop down in the education gallery to craft your own Urban Explorer Journal and try your hand at using our mobile Letterpress.

Outside on the Terrace you can work with Keymember Meg Turner and member Andrew Oesch on an interactive installation. The two have created a large topographic view of Providence that will be installed outdoors. Explore city life as it is portrayed in the exhibition Inner City and other works around the Museum, then share how you work and live in and around cities in a collaborative project. With the guidance of volunteers, you can help to construct a giant city made of cardboard, drawings, markers and stickers.

Wednesday September 30th 5-7pm Free admission
AS220 Performance Space 115 Empire Street

Giddy-up, print lovers! Wednesday evening, September 30th, AS220's Printshop will devolve into an ink splattered orgy of good times, non-toxic fumes, and do it yourself sensibilities in a desperate attempt to communicate our indescribable delight and immeasurable pride in celebrating our second birthday. This Dionysian affair will be marked by two guest lecturers so esoteric, so intriguing, so rare, that even our perpetually boisterous AS220 staff will find themselves speechless in the shadow of their spellbinding wisdom.

Lauren Pearlman, founder and owner of Providence's Paper Connection International, will regale us with illuminations of her 20 years experience working with Japan's National Treasures in the field of paper-making. Glean insights into the process behind some of the world's finest papers, from fiber to finished sheets. Peep more of what Paper Connection International is all via their website.

AS220's September Artists in Residence extraordinaire Daniel Luedtke, also of neo-wave Skingraft superstars Gay Beast, will join to unveil his month's work and articulate an artist's history of screen-printing. Highpoint Center for Printmaking pronounces: "Daniel Luedtke's 'bold colors, geometric abstractions and absurdist illustrations within unexpected scenes' express themes of the macabre, the comic and the sexual. A musician and self-taught printmaker, Luedtke's style builds from the poster art tradition while challenging the medium's inherent subordinate and promotional roles." Give 'em hell, Dan.

Batton down the hatches, AS220 enthusiasts! Put on your Sunday clothes, appreciators of all things absurd, spontaneous, and overdue! The AS220 coterie is teetering dangerously on the brink of our imminent and much anticipated group show. "But wait!" you may be asking yourself; "How could I possibly handle the splendor of an exhibition including staff, residents, alumni, and creepily omnipresent hangers-on of AS220? Won't we all be crushed under its brilliance?" Fear not, gentle patron! Our radiance has been reinforced and deemed structurally sound. We are plowing forward with resolve and vigor toward an October 4th opening, leaving only a trail of Gorilla Glue, black glitter, and LED lights in our wake. The show will feature, in part, a staff collaboration in the form of a looming chandelier constructed only from hazy memories, flea-market rhinestones, demon invocations, and stuff we dumpstered from the Empire Street basement. Festivities unfold in the main gallery from 4-7, immediately followed by a very special Empire Review in which AS220 affiliates will join the players in song, dance, Shatner-esque performative sylings, and spoken word montages. Like those banjo-off tailgate parties you had before graduation, except nobody gets arrested at the end. Maybe.

When we started photographing at Point Judith for the September AS220 Darkroom Open House the sun was setting. When we finished it was dark. It only seemed fitting to show this spooky photo as we were packing up to talk about the spookiest month on the Darkroom Calendar. For the month of October we have our Fall offerings of AS220 Darkroom Classes. We also have a fantastic opening of the Photographic Memory youth program's photography at Providence City Hall. We also have a Darkroom open house that will make scientific history. For the first time ever, we have isolated a photographic process by which invisible ghosts in the room can be photographed, with YOU! Keep your eyes peeled, October is a banner month in AS220 Darkroom land.

It's September, right? So come to AS220 for some learnin' why dontcha! Space is still available in all of our darkroom classes, from intro to 35mm cameras to intermediate printing. We've got it all right here! Our lovely darkroom is stocked to the brim with vanilla scented chemicals, nifty little film reels and five, that's right FIVE enlargers! Teachers are ready and willing to pass their knowledge on to you, all you have to do is sign up. Do it TODAY! Check www.as220.org/shop for class descriptions and prices, then proceed directly to Paypal to reserve you spot in this fall's line up of photo fun and education!

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

& Live Music at the Project Space! starting at 7pm with:

The Underscore Orkestra (Portland, OR)

The Salt Wives (Providence-Boston)

The Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence)

marching bands, gypsy tunes & balkan breadowns! wear your dancing shoes! $5 suggested donation!

Please join the AS220 Darkroom crew as we take the 100yr old Century Camera on a road trip to the Point Judith Lighthouse next to the fishing village of Galilee. Once there we will take portraits using Narragansett bay as our back drop as we say good bye to summer. We will be leaving Providence at 6pm. The weather is supposed to be great too!

Say farewell to summer in style in a special on-location photo shoot with the famous Centruy Camera! This Monday join the darkroom in a pilgrimage to Galilee for some seriously old school photography. After a successful appearance at Foo Fest, we're taking this show on the road for a photo shoot like no other.
The Eastman Kodak Century Camera, shown in an early drawing above, was graciously donated to the Paul Krot Community Drakroom, and through the work of darkroom members and photographer Paul Clancy, is seeing the light of day for the first time in, well, a century. Restoring this camera to working order has been a labor of love here at AS220, and now we want to share it with you in the Indian Summer dusk over Point Judith, the picturesque backdrop for our shoot. We're looking for all measure of photo folks to join us on this excursion and be a part of the Century Camera's new golden age! For more information, directions and other photo related questions, contact Darkroom manager Scott Lapham at scott@as220.org.
See you in Galilee!!

Do you enjoy high-fives? Are you seeking a sense of purpose and financial stability in your life? Have you been harboring yet to be realized dreams of employment that does not include compulsory wearing of cargo pants or referring to yourself in the third person as a "team member?" Dream no more, weary worker. AS220 has four upcoming employment opportunities to suit myriad personality types and infuse your existence with joy and meaning. Rock-lifers and night owls can check out the House Manager and Bartender positions, while gentler, more stable souls may consider working with the youth of Broad Street Studios as Visuals Coordinator or through a mentorship. Interested parties should explore the "Jobs and Opportunities" page of our website for further descriptions and application information. Remember what The Village People taught us, gang: don't dress for the job you have. Dress for the job you want.

September 4-26, 2009

opening reception Sunday, September 13, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

Hello, and happy Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer, but an end of summer means the the start of an autumn gallery schedule of exhibitions full of wonder and surprises!

Coming up in September we have Double Vision, a dynamic collaborations between photographer Nathan Fitch & the artists from the Top Draw Art Center. Top Drawer is a nonprofit visual art center that provides art programs for adults with developmental disabilites. Nathan spent a year getting to know and working with the artist at Top Drawer. Over time he photographed portraits of each artist, then asked each artist to work into that portrait to create their own self-portrait. The Youth Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by the Summer Visuals workshop. Check out the new works by up and coming artists : Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, & Rev. The AS220 Project Space presents Love Songs new works by Lydia Stein. Lydia's exhibit will comprise of a series of books of wood prints, paintings, and small altars of documenting the struggles of the heart and mind in troubled times with radical spirit.

It just so happens that the first Monday in September is also Labor Day. Hopefully you will be out enjoying the last days of summer. The printshop will be hosting its monthly Open house on the 14th this month. Because we are making you wait, we have decided to make it an extra amazing open house. To begin with, we will celebrate two years of pulling prints. We will be screen printing on the street in front of our building, prints will be for sale, you can bring a t-shirt to print, in addition to learning the basic ins and outs of what we do. Stop by if you've been before or come for the first time!

AS220 Labs has been asked to participate in a pilot project of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms: The Fab Academy. We're one of ten Fab Labs around the world to offer instruction and guided investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. If you are interested in participating in the Academy, please send a short letter of introduction to shawn@as220.org. This is a 40 week program, roughly equivalent to taking the class "How to Make (Almost) Anything" at MIT. Tuition is $3,500 for the whole year, and we'll also be offering access to individual 2 week certificate programs. For more details, see the Fab Academy site or contact shawn@as220.org.