July 2011 Archives

Monday, August 1st / 6-10pm / $225 / At the Mercantile
Creating Artist Books - A Writing / Book Binding Workshop - Session 1 of 6

Monday, August 1st / 9pm / $6
Tor Johnson Presents: Broadcaster, Grandfather and ROTA

Tuesday, August 2nd / 6-7pm / FREE
AS220 Cottage Industries Open House and AS220 Tour
See the facilities and learn more about Printshop, Labs or AS220 Photo and/or take a tour AS220 with Founder/Artistic Director, Bert Crenca.

Tuesday, August 2nd / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Bring your drawing supplies and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, August 2nd / 6-10pm / FREE or Cost of Kit / At the Mercantile
AS220 Labs Make and Break Workshop

Tuesday, August 2nd / 9:30pm / $5-$8 sliding scale
Colin L. Orchestra, CSC Funk Band, and Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores

Thursday, August 3rd / 7-10pm / $125 / At the Mercantile
Creative Electronics with the Arduino - Session 1 of 3

Wednesday, August 3rd / 8:30pm / $6
POW!!, The Dum Dums, Map Light, Andre Harner, and Jacob Haller

Thursday, August 4th / 8pm / $5
Free Speech at AS220: The Providence Poetry Slam hosts the Regional Decathlon Slam
Featuring: 5 teams from the northeast compete in 10 rounds of themed poetry

Friday, August 5th / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: Fall and Bounce, Amoeba Amoeba, and more TBA

Saturday, August 6th / 12-4pm / $50 / At the Mercantile
Creative Programming Weekend Crash Course at AS220 Labs - Session 1 of 2

Saturday, August 6th / 1-4pm / $100 / At Empire St, FL2 & the Mercantile
Large Format Photography - Session 1 of 2

Saturday, August 6th / 9pm / $6
Big Sky Sun Machine, Symmetry, Glowkid, and The Enthusiastics

Sunday, August 7th / 4-7pm / FREE
AS220 Gallery Opening Receptions for shows on view August 7th-27th
Main Gallery: New Paintings by Heather Sylvester, Russ Carter & Benjamin Ligeri
Open Window: New Work by Bruno Ramieri
AS220 Project Space: New Work by Christian Goncalves

Sunday, August 7th / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue - Variety Show: improv, music, burlesque and more!.

Monday, August 8th / 7-10pm / $175 / At Empire St, FL2 & the Mercantile
Advanced B&W Darkroom Technique - Session 1 of 4

Monday, August 8th / 9 pm / $6
Plain and Simple, Anonymouse, Man The Flying Saucers, and more TBA

Tuesday, August 9th / 6-9pm / $75 / At the Mercantile
Digital Photo Editing and Printing - Session 1 of 2

Tuesday, August 9th / 6-8:30pm / $6 / At the Mercantile
Life Drawing - Bring your drawing supplies and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, August 9th / 9:30pm / $6
Miss Geo, 14Foot1, and Valencourt.

Wednesday, August 10th / 7-10pm / $125 / At the Mercantile
Electronics For Artists - Session 1 of 3

Wednesday, August 10th / 9 pm / $6
Viking Jesus, Colin Nagle, Johnny Lingo Band, and Bryan Fielding

Thursday, August 11th / 8:30 pm / $6
ACCO -The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra

Friday, August 12th / 6-10pm / $120 / At the Mercantile
Intro to Letterpress Printing - Session 1 of 3

Friday, August 12th / 9 pm / $6
Watch Your Head, Suicide Bill & The Liquors, Austin Hevey, and Denise Moffat

Saturday, August 13th 1pm-1am / $5
Foo Fest! 20+ Bands! 2 Stages! Twelve hours!

Sunday, August 14th - August 17th 2011 - Empire Street Complex is closed to take a breather post Foo Fest. Doors re-open Thursday, August 18th.

Thursday, August 18th / 4-9pm
AS220 Youth Member Showcase

Thursday, August 18th / 10pm / $6
Tinsel Teeth, Fuck Ton, Dubknowdub, and GDFX

Friday, August 19th / 9pm / $6
Tovarish, So is the Tongue, Lobotomizer, and GraveSideService

Saturday, August 20th / 9pm / $6
Lil V, Got Money?, AMP, and Kweyah

Saturday, August 20th / 12-4pm / $75 / At the Mercantile
Lighting for Portrait Photography - Session 1 of 2

Sunday, August 21st / 6-8pm / $5
Songwriters in the Round - An Acoustic Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Sunday, August 21st / 9pm / $6
Tor Johnson Presents: Rome Romeo, Best Practices, and more TBA

Monday, August 22nd / 8:30pm / $6
Spread the Infection, Pizzahifive, Powercup, Violent George, and David Carradine

Tuesday, August 23rd / 7-10pm / $90 / At the Mercantile
AS220 Labs' Epilog Laser Cutter Intensive - Session 1 of 2

Tuesday, August 23rd - No Life Drawing Tonight - It returns next week!

Tuesday, August 23rd / 9pm / $6
Vavablume, Full Void, and It's a Mountain

Wednesday, August 24th / 6-10pm / $80 / At the Mercantile
Intro to Silkscreen Printing - Session 1 of 2

Wednesday, August 24th / 9pm / $6
I Abhor, Veterans, Siblings, and Samsara

Thursday, August 25th / 9pm / $6
Dan Liparini, Timothy Alexander, Brother Moon, and Justin Marra

Friday, August 26th / 6-10pm / $25 / At the Mercantile
Experiments in Monoprint / Monotype

Friday, August 26th / 9pm / $6
Whitey, People Of Color, Lovesick Murder, and Nilotic

Saturday, August 27th / 2-6pm / $80 / At the Mercantile
DIY Letterpress Business Cards: Pink Ink Session

Saturday, August 27th / 9pm / $6
Last Good Tooth, Driftwood, Kath Bloom, and more TBA

Sunday, August 28th / 10am-6pm / $80 / At the Mercantile
Postcards from Providence! - A Silk-Screening Workshop Using Hand-Drawn Stencils

Sunday, August 28th / 5:15-7pm / FREE
Providence Poetry Slam Writing Workshop - Share and Discuss Your Work. Contact the pvd poetry slam peeps for details.

Sunday, August 28th / 9pm / $6
MeccaLily, The Invisible Hours, The Motivated Sequence, and Kian Xie

Monday, August 29th / 9pm / $6
BatMyte, Psycho Circus, Birds In Paintings Can't Fly, and Have Fun Dying This Winter

Tuesday, August 30th / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Bring your drawing supplies and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, August 30th / 9pm / FREE
Couscous at AS220 - A Poetry and Performance Open Mic (followed by live music)

Wednesday, August 31st / 9pm / $6
Interplay, Sonic Sandbox, The New Gun Slingers

Wednesday, August 31st / 7-10pm / $45 / At Empire St, Floor 2
Alternative Photo Process Series Vol.3: Gum Bichromate

Over the last month, Devin King and Caroline Picard have been artists in residence at AS220. During that time they have been writing in libraries, conducting interviews and printing books. While they pursue separate artistic practices, they'll have a short reading to commemorate their time in Providence. Chapbooks they made at the AS220 print shop, will be available to peruse and purchase.

Devin King will be reading from his new book, The Resonant Space, a book of poetry that investigates the meeting place between youth culture, object oriented ontology and modernist poetics. Devin King is a writer, a teacher and a musician from Chicago.

Caroline Picard will read from her book, Psycho Dream Factory (Holon Press, 2011)--a collection of short stories that appropriates celebrity figures like paper dolls, colliding Woody Allen and his protege, MJ and Orlan and Dr Dre and the burning man festival. Caroline Picard is the Senior Editor for the Green Lantern Press. She lives in Chicago and writes regularly for Badatsports. The Chronicles of Fortune is a collection of comics depicting the joys and sorrows of an unhappy super hero.

Caroline and Devin will be reading on Thursday, July 28th from 5:30 - 7 p.m. at the AS220 Performance Space at 115 Empire St. Free & open to the public.

Both books will be available for $8/ea or $10 for both.

by Anidou Sonogo

Those reality shows sure make cooking appear to be a breeze. But anyone caught near the gaping hole of a sizzling oven knows that cooking is anything but easy - and can be dangerous too.

The Communications crew at AS220 Youth took it upon itself to document the inner workings of a restaurant, precisely to uncover the dynamics of the underbelly of the culinary world. And of course, they did it at our very own Foo(d) Restaurant.

The assignment was simple: each of our reporters had to focus on a specific restaurant section. This is what our investigative journalists found under the iron pan:

Jose Lopez focused on star chef and Foo(d)'s manager, Guy Michaud. His audioslide grasps the perils behind the counter and how the kitchen crew deals with accidents, cranky customers and each other.

Briana Lazala and Anidou Sonogo interviewed counter queen Sarah Quenon to document the work counter clerks perform. They found out that not all is fun and games for these industrious employees.

Raymond Cirino's short but sharp audioslide narrows in on Emmanuel Gook-Nah, Foo(d)'s dishwasher. His piece, "The Dishes' Foo" takes us on a tour of one of the most under appreciated, but necessary tasks of the restaurant.

Through these reporting our journalists hope to communicate how restaurants operate. They too hope that customers will appreciate the hard labor these culinary heroes perform to make those delicious dishes that we enjoy at AS220's Foo(d).

by Jose Lopez

by Raymond Cerino

We have two vacancies opening up on Empire St! Empire St, Unit #304 - 408 sq ft - $446 per month   Empire St, Unit #314 - 324 sq ft - $406 per month

These units are pet-free, no smoking allowed and all utilities included. Empire St residents pay a $10 per month kitty fee to the floor for shared cleaning supplies. This is a communal living situation and the floors' eleven residents share the chores associated with the common areas, i.e. the floor's kitchen and two bathrooms. Residents are also expected to spend 5 hours each month volunteering in some capacity at AS220.

To be considered for a residency apply by email, mail or in-person to the Property Management team (Kelly & Susan) by Friday July 29th at 5pm. If you have already submitted an appliction simply confirm that you are still interested; you can update your application support materials if you so desire. More information on AS220's residential studios and the application for tenancy are available online at the Live/Work page http://www.as220.org/about/2008/03/studio-rentals.html (You can download the application at: http://www.as220.org/Live-Work-App-2011.pdf)

All of the Empire St Studios are for low-income individuals actively pursuing an artistic practice; your annual gross income cannot exceed $25,100. However, you should also be able to show that you are able to pay the modest rent.

A review panel will be held in the evening, Thursday, August 4th.

The AS220 Youth Communications Team visited the Southside Community Landtrust. We were introduced to Skye Hibbard-Swanson, the Landtrust's City-Wide and Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator. Skye talked about the origins of this community garden, the fruits and vegetables grown in here, and how the garden has improved the quality of life of the neighborhood.

The Community Landtrust began in 1981 with the purpose of improving the financial, social and environmental conditions of the area. The community garden helped bring neighbors together. The area became cleaner and people enjoyed owning a piece of their community.

Skye also talked about the many products that grow in here. The workers and volunteers grow tomatoes, mint, raspberries, lettuce and a lot more. 

The best aspects of the garden is that people from the neighborhood can come and grow their own food and save money. Also, they can feel closer to their neighbors, which improves their relationship and, in a way, their quality of life. 

Our Communications Group produced various slideshows about its experience at the Landtrust, which we hope will educate people about this great place.

Artist Talk, 6:30 this Thursday July 21st at As220's Project Space

Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti makes work and play out of exploring real and perceived limitations of embodiement. Her current practice combines daily art and yoga as a way of creating fluidity to foster growth. She uses the motion of her body to make site specific installation and performance. Through photography she collects and shares moments from the world around her. Natasha lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She has shown in New York and London, and holds a degree in studio art from Bard College. Natasha will speak about her work currently on view at AS220, including photographs printed in their new digital print facility.

There has been a transformation taking place at Tides Family Services this summer, thanks to AS220 Youth. Kaitlin, is a summer Vista and the coordinator of the Murals team. I had the chance to interview her and she had this to say, "The purpose of this mural, was to give life to the wall."

Being an artist, you want to be able to create something that has a meaning to it. The visuals team felt like they should give people a 'live wall'. A wall, people could look at and say, "Wow, these people really do care."

Take a look at this short photo slide show I created about the changes on Broad st.

-Briana

Put that Creativity to Worthwhile Use!

Events for Tuesday, July 19th - Friday, July 31st 2011**

The Short of It:

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
6-10pm / $70 / At the Mercantile
Introductory Silkscreen Printing Workshop - Session 1 of 2

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
7-10pm / $40 / At the Mercantile
Sound Synthesis with Pure Data - Session 1 of 2
Learn to use the programming language, Pd (Pure Data) to create interactive computer music and multimedia works.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
7-10pm / $75 / At Empire St, Floor 2 & the Mercantile
Medium Format Photography - Session 1 of 2

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing supplies to Empire St and sketch a live model!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
List at 8:30pm, Show at 9pm / $4
Free Speech at AS220 Featuring: Singer-Songwriter & Poet Open Mic

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
7-10pm / $50 / At the Mercantile
Laser Cut Press Fit Design
Make a custom birdhouse, wine rack, or box using the Lab's Epilog Mini Laser Cutter!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
9pm / $6
Hair, Alps (from Australia), Vio/Mire, and Felix Lieter Jr

Thursday, July 21, 2011
9pm / $6
MOGA, Conversations With Enemies, Cheers Elephant, and Soundoff

Friday, July 22, 2011
9pm / $6
The Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Last One Out, and StarForce Trio

Saturday, July 23, 2011
9pm / $6
Short Handed Goal, Llama Tsunami, The Waffle Stompers, and The Bitchin Aardvarks

Saturday, July 23, 2011
12-4pm / $75 / At the Mercantile
Intro to Audio Engineering - Session 1 of 2
Learn the basics of digital audio recording and production.

Saturday, July 23, 2011
12-4pm / $75 / At the Mercantile
Photographing Artwork - Session 1 of 2
Learn how to use studio lighting to take professional photos of 2D or 3D artwork for your website, portfolio, resume, etc.

Sunday, July 24, 2011
5:15-7pm / FREE
Providence Poetry Slam Writers' Workshop - a low-pressure group for writers to meet and share work.

Sunday, July 24, 2011
9pm / $6
Hampshire, Jim Kelsey, The Fierce Urgency of Now, and Anthony Mattera

Friday; June 24, 2011
6-10pm / $200 / At the Mercantile
Polymer Plate Photogravure Printing - Session 1 of 4
Sorry -Sold Out!

Monday, July 25, 2011No performance at Empire St and Foo(d) is closed. The Bar at AS220 and the Cottage Industries are open regular hours.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing supplies and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
9:30pm / $6
Zulu Lulu, T.R.B., and Winston Greene Soundtrack

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
9pm / $6
Zenith Arc, Lee McAdams & The Cosmic Factory, and Eric French & Mr Hyde

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
7-10pm / $70 / At the Mercantile
Intro to the Laser Cutter

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
7-10pm / $40 / At Empire St, Floor 2
Alternative Process Photography Vol.2: Van Dyke Brown

Thursday, July 28, 2011
9pm / $6
Kokomo, Wume, and more TBA

Friday, July 29, 2011
6-10pm / $25 / At the Mercantile
Edge Painting Your Letterpress Prints

Friday, July 29, 2011
6-10pm / $25 / At the Mercantile
Experiments in Monoprint and Monoype

Friday, July 29, 2011
9pm / $6
Boo City, Bird Dog, and Tyler James from the Silks

Saturday, July 30, 2011
9pm / $6
Mother Of Dylan, Boreworm, Sunken Ships, and Metcalf

Sunday, July 31, 2011
9pm / $6
Apollo's Prophets, Making Mountains, The Rhythmic's, and The Famous Winters

Print Your Own Business Cards on the Letterpress: Dark Blue ink, $80.00

Monday, July 25th, 6-10pm

Instructor: Colleen Ellse

Just started a new business? Have a new logo? Or just time for some new cards? Join 7 other business owners, artist and designers as we bring more letterpress printed business cards to Rhode Island. In this four hour workshop, you will learn how to make a photopolymer plate for the letterpress, ink and adjust the impression on our Vandercook 4 Proof Press. Each participant will leave with a box of 250 freshly printed cards on Pearl White (warm white) Lettra 100% cotton paper by Crane. This workshop will use dark blue ink, see other Business Card class listings for other ink color options.

You will need to submit your design for printing or choose a template a week prior to the class, Wednesday July 20th, email: Colleen Ellse colleen-at-colleenellse.com. Letterpress is suited to fine lines and delicate images. Big flat, solid areas of colors and photographic images can be a challenge for beginners and are not recommended for this class. Please be sure all of your type is 10 points or larger. All designs need to sent with fonts outlined or packaged as an indesign file. If you do not have a design, we have three templates you can choose from for the workshop. Please send an email with the template you would like to use and all of your information as it should be printed (Capitals and hyphens).

Colleen Ellse grew up in a creative family of painters and printers, learning to love the process of making things by hand. In 2004, she graduated from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, receiving a BFA in Graphic Design. Working as a designer for several years at a graphic design studio, she learned the ins and outs of running a small business. Upon discovering letterpress for her own wedding invitations, she soon realized that letterpress was the perfect combination of her two artistic personalities: the creative free-spirit who loves to explore color, texture, and type (a.k.a. the designer), and the meticulous perfectionist when it comes to craft (a.k.a. the printer). She studied under several printers for over two years before launching her own freelance design and letterpress printing services in 2009. Ever respectful of the creative process, she values the importance of thoughtful, quality work, no matter how simple the project or piece.

To sign up visit the AS220 Online Shop or click on the name of the class!

Natsha Maria Brooks-Sperduti as part of her exhibition, "Current: exploring embodiment" will be "performing" two salt drawings at the AS220 Project Space. The first is at at noon and then at 5 p.m. Using her breath, Natasha gently blows on grains of salt crystals across a painted circular surface, creating gentle undulations and valleys in the salt. The Salt Drawings are a part of Natasha's on-going series of Elemental Drawings that strive to uncover and reveal the secret fleeting gestures within forms.

The Salt Drawing are at the AS220 Project Space and free and open to the public.