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June 2010 Archives
Starting this week we'll be playing basketball every Wednesday at the Classical High School court. We'll be leaving from the studio at 5:30pm and walking over to Classical with Ben and Sean. We'll play ball from 6 to 8pm. So bring your A game (or your B game) and have some fun!!!
"Mask 1" by Holly Gaboriault
The end is near, time to be buried deep in the cool cradle of the ocean, to surf on forever more, till we wash aground July's new exhibits. Saturday is the last day of our current exhibit with Janice Causey, MaryLou Butler, Kevin Cunnigham, Serena Elston, Meredith Younger and Madolin Maxey & friends. Coming in July:
July 2-24, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, July 11, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Holly Gaboriault & Bijan Shadravan
Open Window
New Work By Latoya Lewis
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Cultivar
new work by Jennifer Raimondi
in the Reading Room:
Dirt Palace Presents Selections from S.S.C.O.W.L.
Youth Gallery
New Work by Manny Tobagh
ARTIST TALK with Jennifer Raimondi Thursday July 15th, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space.
In place of our regularly scheduled darkroom meeting, this Monday, June 28th at 7pm the Paul Krot Community Darkroom at AS220 will be hosting a very special Pot Luck Dinner and Open House! Yum!
Stop by and meet our friends, teachers and members, see our darkroom, see our work, and enjoy some tasty snacks! We promise, the secret ingredient isn't Fixer.
Totally free and open to all! Bring your friends! Bring a snack! Bring some work! Bring some questions. Bring it ON!!!
See you in the darkroom!
Well team, you asked for it. The dog days of summer are early and upon us, and don't show any sign of letting up. While all winter long in huddled masses we pined for these damp and scorching environs, we find ourselves now wilting across our beloved downcity, planning our days around bubble tea and air conditioning. Oh man, but Boba House closes at 10! Where could I possibly find air conditioning after.... Whats that? Ohhhhh.....
This very night we've but one spot left in our "very special" darkroom class featuring Denny Moers, and Blossom. Denny's unique practices lend themselves to surreal and somewhat unpredictable results. To snag the last remaining spot, run on over to as220.org/darkroom. Now git! Friday night features an acoustic spectacular via the musical memoir of Andy Shernoff. Yes, of the Dictators and the Ramones. Too bizarre to be true, you say? Try and prove me wrong! Saturday brings a jam-tacular lineup of hip-hop all stars including Big Rush, Dread Mighty, Manni Headphonez, and Hidden Agenda. What did ESG tell us to do? No, not "flush you like a toilet." Dance! This Sunday will be your last chance to check out the literary phenomenon thats been sweeping the city: Bar Plays will take over our humble pub at starting at 7pm. (You might even get to throw the word "thespian" into a conversation. Who else can offer you that?) They'll get the boot at 9 when Stalemate, Roz Raskin & The Ricecakes, and Tonic Thief take the stage. I'm gonna spend the next couple of days sleeping it off, and you should too, readers. Tuesday night marks the kind of epic descent into madness I know you've all been waiting for. It pains me even to trivialize this bill by typing it; the internet could never do it justice. Bastard Noise, The Body, and Denimvenom are here, courtesy of Armageddon, to ensure that you lose your hearing completely, get canned from your job as a waitress for no longer being able to decipher orders, drop off of society completely, and rejoin the cycle of life I like to think of as Rock n Roll. Hey guys, are we a band yet? After that there's something about a cyborg army, an awesome-as-ever curation by B Sharp, and a long overdue visit from your creepy uncles you never thought you'd see again. More on that later.
Alright readers. I've got alot of doom in my future, and that doesn't come without work. I'm off to make it happen. For a full list of our happs, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!
Erin and Randolph, parent educators from John Hope Settlement House, will be running a parenting class right here at the studio. It will be pretty relaxed (no lectures) and a comfortable space to talk about the challenges of having a child. You'll learn more about the local resources available to you, cover the basics of child development, and talk about how to manage relationships, especially if you're still living at home with parents yourself. There will be healthy snacks provided, so come one and all! If you would like to sign up or know someone that would be interested, please email anne@as220.org for further info!
July 12th through August 30th
Mondays- 5pm to 7pm
This is what our June Artist-in-Residence Jimmie Rodgers showed me how to do last week:
It's an Atari Punk Console Noise Dolly! The Potentiometers are in her arms! When Jimmie told me he could turn toys into electronic instruments, my first thought was "Creepy Doll Orchestra." Now I'm one doll closer to realizing my vision. This weekend, I'm going to LASERCUT a little stage for them to play on.
It's Magic! And you can learn it too! This week and next, Jimmie will be hosting a series of workshops for you to learn how to turn your own toys into wonderful oddities.
Did you notice that we also have kits back in stock! You betcha! TV-b-Gone! MintyBoost! Open Heart! Buy a kit then drop by and learn from the master himself. Jimmie is only here for another week and a half! Don't miss out on the magic.
Sign up NOW!!
Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland's focus on excellence, its long history, and its inspiring, retreat setting have made it a model of experiential education. The school offers workshops in books and paper, clay, drawing and painting, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, wood, and other media. Penland sponsors artist residencies, a gallery and visitors center, and community education programs.
Printshop Manager, Morgan Calderini and glass artist, Nicole Chesney will be teaching a Printmaking workshop July 25th through August 10th at Penland. Vitreography is a printmaking technique using thick sheet glass as a matrix. Daily demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for applying vitreography to their own work. Demonstrations will include chine collé, multiple-plate registration, working reductively, monoprinting, editioning, carving, engraving, and sandblasting. From painterly to graphic, vitreography offers endless approaches to artists of all disciplines and levels of experience.
Visit Penland's site to sign up!
Hello hello, readers! Welcome to a very special Father's Day edition of Your Weekly Events Email. In this issue we will be discussing Great Gifts for Dad, as well as featuring two short editorials, Guess What About Technology and I Cannot Believe My Father Still Asks Me This. I know that some of these topics have been weighing on your mind, readers, and I'm here to offer some relief. Without further ado: Fathers day is June 20, or so the internet tells me, and many of us still have yet to wrastle up an appropriate gift for the paterfamilias. Try these on for size: Get dad out of the house for a fun outing to Beyond The Lighted Stage, the new documentary about Ontario's most legendary progressive rock sensation. Everybody loves Rush, even if they don't know it yet. If material luxuries are your dad's bag, consider a pair of custom designed cowboy boots. Rugged! Utilitarian! Man Town! If all else fails, go with my old standby, pickled herring. Moving on: Hey guys, guess what about technology? Did you know that BMI owns the technology called Shazam? The one where you hold your cell phone up to some musics, and it tells you what song it is? What on earth could they have wanted that capability for? Oooooh, do you think that when you Shazam something, BMI knows? I'm only leaving the house wrapped in aluminum foil from now on. In other news, I went to visit the fam last week, and I Cannot Believe My Father Still Asks Me if I've considered paying for health insurance, or if I'm planning on getting married any time soon. Ok ok, to be fair, that last one was my mother, but still. Get it together, Mitchells. Its the 90's.
Friday night promises a host of hackers and noisemakers so esoteric you'll find yourself in some kind of kaleidoscopic underwater transcendental hypnotic state. Area C provides loops and drones, Myo hacks into contact mics, Jeff Carey real-time multi-channels electro instrumental tunes, and Blevin Blectum casts some sort of Siren/muse/immersive trance curse. Dreamy! Saturday proves to be equally avante, with Screwed Anthologies, Aster, (R)octopus, and ^. Think spandex, improv, audio-visuals, and performance art. Where have you been all my life?! Sunday we'll be drinking as per the usual, but this time to the soothing literary stylings of Bar Plays: Plays Set In Bars Done In Bars. If you haven't seen these yet, you're probably not a raging alcoholic. Keep up the good work! Part deux will happen Monday night, right before my favorite event of the year, Not About the Buildings 4th Annual Spelling Bee. Free to watch! Cheap to compete! Glory can still be yours! Time's a wasting. Start scrabbling right now to be in top form for the smack-down. I'll be heckling. After that, we've got a whole slew of hacker/wizard/noise classes, a free tour with Bert, and a musical memoir with Andy Shernoff of the Dictators and the Ramones. True story! He'll be here next Friday, acoustic style. Oy!
There's the D, team. I'll leave off there. Probably you're tied up buying neckties and cologne. For a full list of the happs, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!
Thursday June 17, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space, FREE.
Come chat with [Meredith Younger] and Serena Elston about their current installation at the AS220 Project Space and other fine topics such as the burial rituals of the formerly departed, mystery organs of the chest cavity, medieval construction methodology, incendiary devices and their application, subversive tattoos in the films of Jean Vigo, Two Story yurts and their impact on the future of Psychogeography and the fine art of home brewed beer.
Air Horn! The AS220 Community Print Shop is pleased to announce our 2nd Biennial Print Lottery! A series of print-related events spread out over the month of September 2010 culminates in a massive lottery of over 200 prints / works on paper.
And, serendipitously, after our print-related festivities in September, we'll begin our big move into the Mercantile Block building. More air horn!
But before all that, we'll still have a handful of productive months in our current, cozy home. If you're feeling the desire to develop a skill-set this summer, check out our online classes for July.
Alongside our Screen Printing and Letterpress classes (which still have a few spots) we're trying a new, longer and more in-depth Intaglio class - Introduction to Drypoint.
In this 3 session class, participants will get in-depth, guided experience creating a beautiful copper-plate matrix, inking up plates, setting proper press pressure and preparing your fine-art papers. Students will join a great tradition of printmakers and see their work and lines printed with rich, beautiful inks - this process will amplify your artwork's emotional effect.
