I participated in a walk-thru and critique with the students from Bridget Malloy’s Honors and drawing class at The Beacon School. I was invited to attend the tour, but; since I was there I participated in the dialogue. The exhibition at Beacon was inspired by their recent visit to MAD to see the exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife. The Beacon work is ambitious, well executed, sometimes political, sometimes beautiful and very inventive. All of the work, done with paper, looked at the exhibition for inspiration.
February 1, 2010, Andrea Dezsö a featured artist from Slash: Paper Under the Knife conducted a morning seminar with teachers at MAD. Dezsö shared not only the amazing tunnel books that she is known for; but also the smart, witty and beautiful embroidery pieces that she creates, all the while sharing funny anecdotal stories about growing up with Hungarian folklore and myths spun by and about women.
Togolese designer, Kossi Aguessy is best known for award winning design for the Stella McCartney perfume bottle. Aguessy who trained in industrial and interior design at Central St. Martins, has worked with Renault, Yves Saint Laurent, Cartier, Swarovski, St Dupont and Branex to create sleek, sensual objects that range from lighting to watches. A consummate artist, Aguessy has exhibited art, sculpture and furniture in Paris, Copehagen, Tokyo, Shanghai and Istanbul.
….at the newly opened Muriel Guepin Gallery in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
So the Moving Paper cut animation website has been running for a few weeks now. This project represents something of a milestone for MAD in that we were able to build a fairly sophisticated video-sharing and social-networking site in about three weeks with a budget that was basically non-existent. For many years, the tools required to create projects like moving paper were simply out of reach for most organizations, let alone most non-profits and cultural organizations. I am pleased to say that this is now not the case, and it is even true that you don’t need to be a serious programmer in order to take advantage of some of the resources that are out there.
ED: Teaching artist Rachel Miller worked on a collaborative project between Young Audiences New York (YANY) and MAD, where students were introduced to cut-paper art through the exhibition ‘Slash.’ You can come and see the student work in the Seth and Sarah Glickenhaus Education Center on the 6th floor of MAD.
When I saw how well the students could draw, as well as seeing how excited the teachers and students were when they viewed Dezso’s and Coron’s work from Slash, the decision to create a project based around the creation of tunnel books came naturally to me.
That was the title of our Studio Sunday session for January 24th. The Studio Sunday group as usual was a mix of families, couples, group of friends and adventurous individuals who come alone (for those of you who have never joined us for Studio Sunday, you get more entertainment value here than going to the movies on a Sunday afternoon).
Many of my pieces currently on exhibit at the Lois Lambert Gallery in Santa Monica (1/9/10-2/20/10) were made, right here, in Open Studios.
On a Sunday in mid-January, over 25 enthusiastic visitors joined me for Studio Sunday. The classroom was overflowing with happy faces from young to old.
Suzanne Morlock is an artist who lives outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She is works in painting and more recently sculpture and installation involving more organic materials, paper and felt. Morlock has exhibited in the US and internationally. This posting is drawn from her experiences in the summer of 2009 with Cross Cultural Collaborative, Inc., Teshie/ Nungua, Ghana.
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