April 2010 Archives

That's right friends. There are a slew of classes slated to start next week, and we need you to be there! How can you sit idly by and let a class that spans thousands of years of printing technology pass you by? How could you not succumb to the temptation of learning the AVR Assembly Programming Language? Is is possible that you have already mastered the 35mm camera? Do you really not want to add blinking lights and motion sensors to your artwork? Don't you love lasers???
Honestly, how can you resist? Check this out:

Drypoint Printing-Sharp, Dark and Heavy!
May 1st, 1-5pm Drypoint $40
Make direct marks into a copper plate using sharp tools to leave lines for inks to sit in and then be transfered to paper by running it though the press at high pressure.-AKA-Heavy Metal Printing!! sign up here

Laser Cut Eastern Woodblock Printing-The Impossible is Possible...and Printable!
May 5, 9(1-5pm), 12, 5:30-10pm $125
Cottage Industry Crossover!! Learn to use the Laser Cutter in the FabLab to cut your own woodblock, then shuffle over to the printshop and make prints from your own custom designed woodblock! Dreamy! sign up here

Intro to the 35mm Camera-Film is your Friend!
May 6 & 13, 7-10pm $50
Dig up that camera and snag a roll of film, we're kickin' it old school in the darkroom! Go beyond auto focus and dive into f-stops. We'll walk you through the process frame by frame. sign up here

AVR Assembly Language-Learn Geek Speak!
May 6, 13, 20, 27, 7-10pm $60
Listen up hackers! We're diving deep on this one, probing the inner workings of the Arduino platform, then making it do our bidding! No hardware purchase required, just a desire to turn little micro controllers into massively amazing machines through the beauty of AVR Assembly Language. sign up here

Antique Photo Printing-Old Time Tricks in the Modern Age of Photography
May 12, 7-10pm $50
Gum Bichromate ain't no Bubblicious! Learn to paint color into your photos like they did in the old days! Better than Paint-by-Numbers and way cooler than C41. Give your prints a new life in custom color! sign up here

Basic Electronics for Artists-Make art like a Mad Scientist
May 14 & 21 $100
Wanna know how to make that painting really pop? LED's baby!! We got the parts if you've got the art. Learn to laser your way into brave new territories by going all Frankenstein with your artwork. Turn that ragdoll into a robot! Put motion detectors in your photo montages! It's not crazy; it's science! sign up here

Intro to the Laser Cutter-Lasers+Cutting=INSTANT AWESOMENESS!
May 15, 10am-1pm $65
Don't fight the laser. It want's to help! Learn to master this amazing machine to make virtually anything. We just made some keychains that unintentionally double as bottle openers! See! Lasers are Magic!!! See for yourself. sign up here

Letterpress and Diecut CD Cases-DIY in Style!
May 17, 24, 31 5-9pm $90
Attention rockers and soon to be letterpress rollers! You CAN make your own CD cases with our fabulous letterpress with ultra awesome accessories, including the Die Cut metal cast that will cut your cd in to a classy folded home for your beloved CD. sign up here

Open Screenprinting Session-All you can print! $5 bucks a screen!
May 20 5-9pm $5 per screen
That's right! It's open session every third Thursday of the month in the printshop. Bring your ready to print images and your money in $5 increments and print the night away! Some experience required, total enthusiasm encouraged! sign up here

Well?? What are you waiting for! Get out there and get schooled!

Enchanté, readers! How goes the tangible reality? Here in the blogosphere we're reading a balmy 75 degrees, though at the rate YouTube keeps adding Lady Gaga videos, its about to get alot hotter. Can you handle it, show-goers? We'll wait and see. Is that a challenge? YOU BET IT IS!

I've spent the afternoon getting jacked up on double-caff Folgers and hyperventilating into a brown paper bag in preparation for tomorrow night's anticipated happening. It's been in my Blackberry for months, people, and the moment is finally nigh. Derek Holzer/TONEWHEELS, Black Pus, Humanbeast, and Shawn Greenlee are poised to lay siege to our senses in but a short 24 hours. With the promise of proactive treason, marital eroticism, horrifying drawings of blood, and untold varieties of aural assault, this ain't your mamas noise show. Be there, or possibly have some hope of decent hearing for the rest of your life. (Wait, does that even rhyme?) Also premiering that night is our fabulous new late Spring "Is It Summer Yet?" menu. (Littlenecks with asparagus, anyone? Vegan Reuben?) Sunday afternoon, get casual and saunter downtown for a free-of-charge May gallery opening. Featured this month is nicest person around town and no-longer secretly incredible artist Corey Grayhorse. Also for show and sale are some awesomely shiny and religiously themed works by Alicia Perez, new work by Andrew Gunnar Norquist, and books by children of the Fox Point Community Library. Stick around for an uncomfortably raunchy Empire Review, during which Keith Munslow will continue to tightrope the creepy/debonaire line via having promised to "get wet." Um, really? We're also having a special open Monday for crooning protestors Detroit Rebellion, Joe Fletcher, and Gregory and the Hawk. Fast forward through a thrilling week of cottage industry classes, and bring it all home next Friday for a "very special" B Sharp Presents. Rearing to go are Los Monos Locos and... are you ready? Atlantic Thrills. DAN TANNER WE LOVE YOU!!!!!! Welcome home, buddy. Your music scene high fives you.

There it is, rockers. For a full rundown of the weekly happs, get yourself to our calendar. If you need me, I'll be in the green room doodling "Reba hearts Black Pus"... "Mrs Reba Humanbeast"... etc. Until next time, away!

Introduction to Intaglio: Drypoint with Michael K. Sunday, May 2nd, 1pm-5pm

This single-session class will introduce you to the fundamental principles of traditional fine-art printmaking. Drypoint involves working directly onto a copper plate - your matrix - inking it up, and printing it on an etching press. This class will expand your idea of drawing - amplifying your immediate marks through with the process of printmaking.

To learn more or sign up, click here!  
 
Laser-cut Japanese Woodblock - Future Past Fusion. with instructor Jay Z. AS220 Print Shop and Fab Lab Combo Class.
3 Sessions: Wednesday, May 5th. 5:30pm - 10pm | Sunday, May 9th, 1pm-5pm | Wednesday May 12th, 5pm- 9pm

We're traversing several hundred years of printmaking - combining the Japanese water-based woodblock printing process with the pinnacle of high-tech contemporary carving.

You will learn how to prepare and operate the AS220 Fab Lab's Laser-Cutter - creating a rich and detailed printing matrix. After readying a beautiful brush supplied by the class, you'll be learning how to properly ink up and print your artwork by hand using an elegant water-based process.
 
To the best of our knowledge, this combination of processes has has never existed as a class anywhere ever. Be a creative pioneer with us at the AS220 Print Shop

Learn More or sign up today by clicking here.

May 2-29, 2010

opening reception (free admission)

Sunday, May 2, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Work by Daniel DuBois & Corey Grayhorse

Open Window

New Work By Alicia Preza

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

New Work by Andrew Gunnar Norquist

in the reading room: Pages of Possibility

Books by Children of the Fox Point Community Library (children's bookmaking workshop Saturday May 15th 2 pm at the AS220 Project Space. FREE!)

Youth Gallery: Roots & Rituals

AS220 Main Gallery presents Danger Dan Dubois's dark surreal visions mix it up with Corey Grayhorse's color saturated photos of carefully composed suffused with an element fashion and performance art. Meanwhile Alicia Preza's paintings & tin work tell of the struggle of immigrants coming to America.Andrew Gunnar Norquist exhibits paisley pattern paintings, a wry commentary on men's fashions & modernist cast concrete tiled wall pieces in the Project Space. "Pages of Possibility", is a project organized by Mary Geisser and Ann Schattle of artist books by children of the Fox Point Community Library are displayed by in the reading room. Ann and Mary will be leading a free children's book making workshop in the AS220's Project Space on Saturday May 15 at 2pm.

A Salon at the Providence Athenaeum Friday, 4/30, 5-7pm co-sponsored by the AS220 Project Space

Providence-based artist Madolin Maxey gathered 15 artists to work in the Fluxus tradition to produce 16 unique books, each consisting of 15 envelope pages, with each envelope containing a work by one of the artists. Each book contains the collective works of the following artists: Madolin Maxey, Bob Rizzo, Kenneth Speiser, Norma Anderson, Regina Partridge, Marjory Dalenius, Christine Tillman, Garry Cerrone, Susan Clausen, Richard Harrington, David Hazlett, Paula Martiesian, Ken Carpenter, Eric Miller, and Craig Masten. So put down your Kindles for an evening! Join us for a conversation with artists making books to hold, explore slowly, and savor.

The Paul Krot Community Darkroom at AS220 is proud to host a very special Open House event to kick off the Spring session of photo fun. On April 28th at 6pm, Documentary Photographer David H. Wells will join us for an artist talk on the reality of making a living in the wide world of photography.

Wells began his career as so many of us did; with an entry level course and an immediate passion for the art of photography. Since then, he has traveled the world documenting the globalization of India, pesticide poisining among migrant California farm workers and the last generation of Rhode Island Quahog fishermen.

Among his many talents and worldly travels, Wells is also a dedicated and passionate educator and advocate for artists and photographers. Through his website The Wells Point, he posts weekly podcasts on professional practice, technical tips and posts other valuable resources including links to grants, pricing information, local and international residency programs and other opportunities for photographers off all skill levels and interests.

Wells is a long time friend of the AS220 Darkroom and we are thrilled to have him join us and share a slice of his expertise with us. Please join us, absolutely FREE, on April 28th at 6pm in the performance space at 115 Empire Street.

Hope to see you there!

Greetings from the hacker capital of Rhode Island-It's* QuahogCon*! We've been talking with makers, hackers, thinkers and tinkerers from across the country about how cool it is to be a total nerd.
There's robots and LED's and brain machines and lock pickers and laser cutter goodies all over the place! It's pure magic!
Our comrade John Duksta, fearless leader of DC401 put this whole shindig together and we couldn't be happier to be here!

Students from the FabAcademy are impressing the masses with their gadgets

the Fluxamascanner 3D scanner
Chording Keyboard prototype
Motion sensored skulls with LED eyes
3d casts of moon craters and Pure Data Frequency Modulators
and cute laser cut keychains that amazingly double as bottle openers!!

It's all fun and games here friends! And don't forget about our May classes:

Intro to the Laser cutter
Basic Electronics for Artists
Laser Eastern Woodblock Printing
Hop to it Hackers!! We'll be waiting!

Here we are again, readers. The womb-like pleasantness of the blogosphere numbs us not, but rather enables our lucidity and heightens our awareness of the surrounding environs and weekly happenings. While downcity has, of late, been the site of flash floods, drunken brawls, riots surrounding iced coffee, a couple of interesting incidences involving fireworks and proto-farmers markets, innumerable baffling interpersonal interactions, and one quasi-sensual critical mass, let us focus our attention on one western corner known to its devotees as the Artist's Space 220. We've got an epic week lined up, and I heard Meredith baked cookies.

Did anyone else forget to celebrate Earth Day until the 9 p.m. Bono tribute specials ran on cable? No big D, hippies; there's time to go green yet. Sunday night, local Aveda mavens Kim and Courtney host Clean Water Makes Noise, a glimmering extravaganza featuring the musical stylings of local legends I Destroyer, Chrome Jackson, and Holy Sheet. The $6-10 sliding scale cover goes right to Potomac Conservancy, and scores you not only access to a dazzling array of bands, but also a fantastic raffle spotlighting contributions from such local business as The Red Fez, Nick-a-nees, McGinnis Tattoo, E&O, Seven Stars Bakery, White Electric, Julians, Legend Bicycle, Second Time Around, A Pleasant Surprise, The Coffee Exchange, Into the Wardrobe, and Narragansett Brewery. Jigga WHA?! Pass the hemp paper and India ink. I'm signing up. Tuesday evening marks a divergence with a night of hilarity via the comedic stylings of Ahmed Bharoocha, Tim Vargulish, and Michael Wilbur. I've been practicing my heckling, and I think its pretty clear its a term of endearment. Right? Don't be afraid to rest up before Friday; I'm canceling my Saturday brunch plans, because this show might kill me: Derek Holzer (Germany)/TONEWHEELS, Black Pus, humanbeast, and Shawn Greenlee take over Providence and our stage in a calculated attempt to destroy our ears, enliven our spirits, and generally raise hell. Avante garde? Yes. Assaultive? Sure. Unparalleled? Absolutely. I'll be the one up front wearing razor-blades and earplugs.

Until then, I'll be choreographing my routine for the noise show. Jazz Hands! Kick! Spin! Drop! Turn! Sashay! Spirit Fingers!

For the full weeks listings, hit us up. Away!

As many may know, Broad Street Studio is now working on a new album which is set to drop this summer. Some might think that this is a little soon seeing that we just released the "Handle It or be Defeated" album. But the Delgado contains an abundant source of music that never stops coming in and is getting better and better with every session.

Another motivator for this new album is to make sure that BSS artists are continually motivated and challenged. If not, there's a risk that their art might remain on the same level, never reaching the heights of its true potential. So we keep it as fresh as possible to keep them interested.

One way of doing this is by bringing in guest artists. This past week, 3rd Eye's Youth program from New Bedford, MA, came to collaborate with our MC Writing Class. This class is run by Plan B, but today Anjel helped out with the big crowd of teens. They split into 2 groups and created 2 new tracks for the album. It was impressive how easily they collaborated with each other. Jerimiah B. produced both tracks. Over all, it went really well! Pretty soon we'll be taking a BSS contingent across state lines to finish up the recording, so stay tuned for the next sneak peek of the many good things to come!!

The AS220 Project Space was awarded with the Reader's Choice Best Art Gallery in the Providence Phoenix Best of 2010. Thank you to all our fans, patrons, volunteers and supporters, and especially to all the local artists that have exhibited at AS220. You, local artist, make the magic happen that makes AS220 happen. This award belongs to you and your creative spirit, the spirit that makes AS220 and Rhode Island a creative and vibrant place to live and work. We look forward to many more great exhibitions with you. xo

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http://thephoenix.com/thebest/providence/2010/arts/artgallery/