Providence RI, 02903
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November 2009 Archives
Please help us raise needed funds for the AS220 Paul Krot Community Darkroom by contributing to AS220's 25th Anniversary Fund Drive, taking place thru Dec. 31 with a goal of $50,000.
Please donate now at www.as220.org! Specify that your donation is intended to support the Paul Krot Community Darkroom, and you will receive an AS220 Photographic Memory 2010 Calendar for every $15 donated.
This Calendar, in all it's black and white photo glory, is now also for sale online at www.as220.org/shop. The thirteen photos selected for the calendar were chosen from hundreds taken by our youth photographers. By photographing their own experience, our students give voice to their own lives as only they can. These images are rare glimpses into lives rarely seen, but now easily accessible with the purchase of the Photographic Memory 2010 calendar.
The funds we raise will be used in the darkroom to purchase a new digital camera, a new computer and a larger scanner, which will let us scan a backlog of large negatives and start to execute large-scale artwork for public display.
AS220's Paul Krot Community Darkrooms are the only black-and-white photography facilities in Rhode Island that provide affordable public access to photographers at every level. Photographic Memory, or Photo Mem, is a unique program in which Rhode Island's underserved youth learn the craft of photography while gaining real-world experience by working as an apprentice to a professional photographer. For students seeking a college education, portfolios created in Photo Mem have been used to gain admittance to RISD, Pratt, Chicago Art Institute and Hampshire College.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO ENSURE THE CONTINUATION OF THESE PROGRAMS. Each year we rely on contributions from individuals like yourself to help us balance our budget. That support is crucial; we couldn't survive without it.
$10, $50, $100, $1000 OR MORE. Any gift you can make is much appreciated, and is absolutely needed to help AS220 continue to serve as Providence, Rhode Island's only unjuried, uncensored forum for the arts.
If you prefer, please send your check payable to: AS220 Attn: annual fund drive 95 Mathewson Street Providence, RI 02903
Your contribution is tax deductible. All of us at AS220 thank you!!!
Julia Gandrud will be talking about her animations and artists' books currently on exhibit in the AS220 Project Space this Thursday, November 19th from 6-8pm. Julia's hand drawn animations and books use primordial motifs that tell stories of our most primitive and raw experiences of the beauty and magic of the world we encounter daily, a magic that speaks softly that could be easily overlooked.
Talk is free and at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for more info contact neal@as220.org
For those unfortunate souls unfamiliar with the AS220 Flat Files, allow me to illuminate: within the Project Space gallery on Mathewson Street lies a slender set of drawers filled with two dimensional creations of featured Rhode Island artists which may be perused at any time. Work in the Flat Files is refreshed frequently, and can be viewed real-live during gallery hours or with holodeck-like 24 hour convenience in our online shop. By way of whetting your paper-art appetite, Flat File artist Seamus Hames describes in maniacal doodles his art-making process, the endlessness of time, and his place in the cosmos. For the key to obsessive meticulousness as a road to transcendental serenity, read on!
What do you get when you combine a group of artist who love hip hop, dressing up, and entertaining? Chaos Co.
This week Chaos Co stopped by the studio to discuss their latest work and some experiences they've had with music. The group has just under ten members including an amazing female vocalist. Their crazy face paint, clown suits, positive and funny attitudes make them an act that you want to check out.
This summer AS220's Broad Street Studio took part in an unprecedented collaboration between The Department of Art, Culture and Tourism, the Office of Mayor David N. Cicilline and Workforce Solutions of Providence/Cranston to provide workforce training and summer jobs opportunities to the Providence's youth. Utilize funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, BSS employee 30 young people to complete projects as diverse as painting a large mural on a building in south Providence, to creating an entire product line of merchandise to represent the studio, to building a library of original beats for to share and reuse with Rhode Island hip hop community, and documenting the different job training programs that happened around the city.
Check out a new video created by Harken Productions of some of the work we did!
The Printshop was recently invited by PPL Special Collections Librarian Rick Ring to visit and view a new acquisition. "From the subscriptions and donations raised for my Occasional Nuggets series, the covers of which are printed on a Vandercook proof press, I was able to purchase The Vandercook Book, produced this year by the Center for the Book Arts in NYC.
To celebrate the acquisition and to inspire my partners over at AS220 to do something similar, I invited the keymembers of the Printshop to the Library for a glass of champagne, to toast printing and the book arts, and to get them out of the shop for a few minutes and give them some love! I must admit, it was a great time."
We've got a host of new classes to whet your photographic pallet this winter in the Paul Krot Community Darkroom. This winter, we've let our talented darkroom members take the reigns to come up with a curriculum to meet all kinds of interests. Take a gander at what we have to offer. Click here to sign up!
Alternative Printing Workshops
Dec.9th 7p-10p $50 Cyanotype
Dec.16th 7p-10p $50 Van Dyke Brown
Jan.6th 7p-10p $50 Gum Bichromate
Learn the secrets of these antique and alternative methods and create truly unique photos for you personal collection! RISD Grad and Darkroom Member Danny Floyd will take students through the printing process in these one day workshops.
Darkroom to Digital Theory
Jan. 16, 23 12p-4p $35
Now that you finally have a shiny new digital camera, what are you gonna do with it? In this two week course, SBI Camera Expert and Darkroom Member Phylis Ollari will show you how to use all those crazy settings to create beautiful, print worthy digital images.
Large Format Photography
Feb.6, 20 1p-5p, Feb 11, 18 7p-10p $125
In four weeks, you'll get a hands on introduction to large format photography. Using AS220's collection of cameras from our Camera Rental Program, Darkroom Member and Large Format Master Scott Alario will take students through the entire large format process, from operating the cameras and learning their settings, to developing 4x5 film and making prints. A real steal for a class of this calibur!
All supplies are included in these classes (except the digital class. You gotta bring your own for that one, but no chemicals or computers are required). If you want to make extra prints, or have a preference of papers, feel free to bring your own.
For more information on classes, contact Krystal Grow at 401-831-9327x112 or krystal@as220.org
This week students at AS220 talked about street bands and their role in the music world. Norlan and Kenny, both musicians in a street band, discussed the different genres that make up music today. Conversations focused on the differences and similarities between different music styles. Also discussed; the state of music today, how music influenced communities and the youth, and the perceptions people have about hip-hop, rock and classical music. The beat used in this podcast was "Nuevo" out of the Broad Street Studio library.
DJ Justin Lake interviewed Broad Street Studio member Phoenix on her latest literary work. Based upon real events and people, she is in the process of writing a novel. But writing isn't her only talent. She also writes original music to be performed at Elementary Showcase the second Thursday of every month.
Click here for the interview.mp3
