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July 2010 Archives
AS220 @ the Mercantile Block
Open House - Tuesday, Aug. 3
5:30-7PM
131 Washington Street
Workers for Pezzuco Construction spent this week plastering the top two floors of AS220's new Mercantile building, which house 22 stunning residential studios currently available for rent.
The century-old AS220 @ the Mercantile offers numerous architectural features with historical significance that are being restored to a very high quality, including original plaster columns that can be found in several of the building's residential studios on floors 3 and 4.
Studios range in size from 690 to 880 square feet, and are priced from $640 to $1,125 per month! Rent includes internet access, gas, water and sewer. Building offers laundry room, elevator, bicycle storage. Rehearsal studios for musicians/bands in the basement.
Come see for yourself! AS220 @ the Mercantile Block Open Houses: Every Tuesday evening now through September 5:30-7PM 131 Washington Street
Top of the morning, readers, and welcome to another 7 days of untold wonders. The weather has turned from oppressive to balmy. The birds are singing in the trees. I caught a Godzilla marathon on cable last night. What more could we ask for?
Tonight brings the noise with Academia, The Royalty, Tens of Thousands, and The Universe. It's indie! It's glam! It's garage! Saturday's show has been moved to the stratosphere: The Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, Goliath, Something like Banter & the Cybernetic Inevitable All-Stars, and The Invisible Hours promise to live up to their reputation as Theremin wielding, fuzz echoing, fire-starting ambient psychedelia. This Sunday is the first of the month. If you thought payday was good, wait till you catch the Empire Review. Wednesday at 5:30, for absolutely zero dollars, hackers unite at DC401. Stick around into the night for Sideshow, (R)octopus, This Is A Movement, and the Enthusiastics. Now listen close, readers: Thursday at high noon The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities will be hosting a grants information workshop. Bring a lunch or grab some in our restaurant, and get the down low on what grants are available, as well as secrets for wowing grant-makers. Did you know they're going to be our new office buddies in the Mercantile building? True story. Meet me for high-fiving by the water cooler in 15! Speaking of the Mercantile: we're hosting open houses of our fabulous new live/work studio situations every Tuesday evening from 5:30-7 through September. Cruise by to see their magnanimousness with your very own eyes!
That's all for the mo, readers. I'm off to catch the tail end of Godzilla v Mechagodzilla. For a full list of the happs, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!
The last few classes for Intro to 3D have been great!
We are working on making a city, where each block is modeled in 3D by a student. Then we collectively combine the blocks to feature in a game. Later we'll take what we made to experiment with Augmented Reality.
To draw inspiration, we have been touring downtown Providence to collect photographs of interesting historical architecture and saving them for reference.
Check out the progress that we've made!
This past monday, the Fabratory welcomed guest speaker Tiffany Jon. A recent RISD grad ('09) from the Industrial Design department, she is currently a designer for Apple in Cupertino, CA.
Tiffany showed us samples from her portfolio, focusing on projects related to the work we've been doing this summer. She spoke about her experiences, learning the design process and real world applications for design beyond school.
Tiffany's presentation helped to give perspective on the projects we've been busy with and showed us the opportunities that are available using the valuable skills we've been developing here!
We've heard the age-old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words." This week in the lab, we're exploring possibilities of conveying meaning with design!
Now in our fourth week of the summer work program, the Fabratory is creating an informative word wall - a visual dictionary of design terms to help us with our own design practice and to equip us for conversation and critique.
AS220 has recently received a one-thousand condom donation from Planned Parenthood. The task was pretty simple. I Google searched for condoms for the parenting class at the studio. I typed 'condom donations' in and the first link that appeared was the 'Condom Hut', but they wanted us to pay for the condoms. Then I clicked on the second link which was 'Planned Parenthood' and I wrote down the number to call, I told them who I was and what we needed the donation for and we ended up getting the donation- but I wasn't expecting one-thousand! I felt a real sense of accomplishment obtaining condoms for the studio in order to advertise safe sex for teens. The "PROPER ATTIRE" design helps ensure that now you can feel completely comfortable buying condoms and carrying them with you. It also helps to kind of bring out the humor of using a condom and makes people feel more comfortable and use them all the time.
-Maurice Harrison
An eventful last week of July here at the AS220 Print Shop. This post has three foci. Okay now 4.
August Classes are filling. Click here to sign up for a class today! acquire some printmaking skills and create printed matter that matters. We offer great classes across diverse print disciplines, and the class sizes are small - which means participants get plenty of hands on experience and personal instruction! We're proud of our classes, presses, and teachers - just read this snippet from our last batch of class evaluations:
"Overall Experience was spectacular. Instructor extremely knowledgeable and patient. Was able to cover a lot of info in a small amount of time. The only improvement would be more time... maybe by adding a fourth day."
-From June Letterpress Class
Our classes cover a lot of ground! Register to make something analogue and beautiful!
2. The Print Lottery is coming up and tickets are now available online. Excellent work continues to roll in. Every ticket purchased helps to support the shop and wins some incredible work, too!
We've recently received some incredible prints by Stefan Gunn, Keyholder Henry Brown, Lois Harada, and more. The Sneak Peek Below is a small glimpse of a dense and incredibly articulate c-print by Piotr Kaczmarek.
- Tamara Waite-Santibanez is the July A.I.R. for a few more days. The Print Shop is psyched to have her around and printing. Pictures below feature work she's printed here at the AS220 Print Shop.
- Look at the Youth Studio Screen Printers in Action!
August 1-28, 2010
opening reception
Sunday, August 1, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Travelling Asia by Scott Baker &
Coloring Book by Brooke Goldstein
Open Window
New Work By Joshua Harriman
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
New Work by Peter Lutz
artist talk August 19, 6-8pm at the Project Space
in the reading room:
Recent Acquisitions
Youth Gallery
PhotoCollages from the R.I.T.S.
August in the AS220 Galleries brings us to Asia with the travel photography of Scott Baker, Brooke Goldsteins uses symbols and colors to tell vivd narrative stories and Joshus Harriman's paintings invoke dream-like sequnces of the natural world inspired by the work of the German Expressionists. Peter Lutz works acorss a variety of media creating works that appear to be simple, but are painstakingly constructed, and highly nuanced. In the Youth Gallery are photo-collages from the RI Training School that are contemporary spin on the classic works of Hannah Hoch. In the reading room we have new books by local artists and poets such as Irene Lawrence
Ann Shaw, and recent zines fro Amigo Press. Good art work + Good reads= Good times. Come on in enjoy the work and a/c.
AS220 @ the Mercantile Block
Open House - Tuesday, July 27
5:30-7pm
131 Washington Street
Workers for Pezzuco Construction spent this week plastering, painting and finishing much of the final work on the top two floors of AS220's new Mercantile building, which house 22 stunning residential studios currently available for rent.
The century-old AS220 @ the Mercantile offers numerous architectural features with historical significance that are being restored to a very high quality, including original columns that can be found in several of the building's residential studios on floors 3 and 4.
AS220 is also replicating the building's original tin ceiling throughout the building, including inside every one of the residential studios. We have also installed new, hardwood maple flooring in all 22 residential studios. All the windows in the building - including those of the residential units, which face onto Washington or Martha streets - are historically accurate 2-over-2s.
The residential studios range in size from 690 to 880 square feet, and priced from $640 to $1,125 per month! Rent includes internet access, gas, water and sewer. Building offers laundry room, elevator, bicycle storage. Rehearsal studios for musicians/bands in the basement.
Each apartment has its own bathroom with a tub and shower, and a kitchen equipped with a refrigerator and electric stove. Each unit also contains its own heating and air conditioning, and a ceiling fan.
Come see for yourself! AS220 @ the Mercantile Block Open Houses: Every Tuesday evening now through September 5:30-7:00PM 131 Washington Street
Today a package arrived at the Print Shop full of work from the wonderous 1026 in Philadelphia!
AS220 House Manager, Large-scale Linocut Phenom and Just Seeds Member Meredith Stern dropped off a work of her own, sneak peak below:
We're really impressed thus far with the quality submissions we've received for our 2nd Biennial Print Lottery. Come September, supporters of the Print Shop will have the opportunity to take home some fantastic prints and works on paper.
On to the next one. August P-Shop classes are coming up! These are our last classes before the Mercantile-Block move, so if you were hoping to pick up a skill or two this summer, sign up today! Click here to visit our online store, where you can see and sign up for our complete roster of classes
Click below to see the complete panorama from our most recent Third Thursday Screenprinting Session - where screen-printers with a bit of experience can come coat, shoot, and print a screen for only 5$ We have monitors around to help trouble-shoot and ensure success! The Third Thursday sessions are not a substitute for a class, but great for folks who've done this before!
