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SUMMARY:Intro to Pottery Wheel - Saturdays
DESCRIPTION:This class will introduce you to the skills needed to center\, form shapes\, trim and finish pots using the wheel. You will also learn decorating and glazing techniques to be able to complete your own pot\, bowl or cup by the end of the sessions. \nIncludes 1 bag of clay (25lbs)\, 2 firings\, tools\, glazes\, storage\, 18 hours of studio time \nInstructor: Stella Psillides\nDuration: 9 weeks\nCost: $375 (Weekly installments can be set up in the studio only. Email tina@alterworkstudios.com) \nSaturdays\, 1pm – 3pm \nStarts: January 13th \nLast session: March 10th \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/intro-pottery-wheel-saturdays/
LOCATION:AlterWork Studios\, 30-09 35th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oil Painting - Beginner Class
DESCRIPTION:6 sessions – 90 minute each session – limited to 6-7 students\nInstructor: Olja Stipanovic\nDATES: February 5th\, 2018 – March 12th 2018\nMondays\, 7.30pm-9pm\nCost: $300 (Weekly installments may be arranged in-studio) \nOverview: \nThis introduction to oil painting provides students with an opportunity to explore and understand this challenging medium. In this course we will engage with technical\, practical\, and concept based problems involved with the practice of oil painting. Participants will become familiar with oil painting through a variety of assignments that highlight technology\, methods\, chemistry\, color\, surface\, space\, and volume composition. Students explore a range of oil color specific challenges and processes through painting [unconventional] still life assignments. Each session will allow one-on-one time for discussion of your studio work and targeted study or troubleshooting. Techniques include underpainting\, oil sketching\, small studies\, glazes\, direct painting and finishing with varied textural applications of paint. Great emphasis is placed on artistic process and technical skill building. \nFebruary 5th\, 2018 – Session # 1 – The cookout \nStudents will learn the basic elements [anatomy] of an oil painting. We will prepare several variations of support [stretchers – wooden frame\, hardboard\, plywood\, canvas (cotton duck or linen) and paper] to be used in following sessions. \nStudents will learn how to construct stretchers\, stretch canvas and apply primers. We will try both traditional primer using rabbit skin glue [that is not what it is made of\, but it is animal derived collagen] and calcium carbonate [half chalk ground] as well as modern acrylic gesso. Each student will start preparing one traditional canvas that will be used for the final project. \nFebruary 12th\, 2018 – Session # 2 – Finishing the primers and Underpainting \nStudents will try a value study\, grisaille\, sepia and other underpainting techniques. Students complete monochrome still life. Discussion and demonstration of color value and high key painting. \nFebruary 19th\, 2018* – Session# 3 – Pigment/Color \nStudents will learn about the basic pigments and binders– what to look for when buying or making paints. Permanence. Understanding color through use of a Limited Palette – students pick one natural pigment and make their own oil color paint that will be the dominant color in the assignment. Mixing colors. \nFebruary 26th\, 2018 – Session #4 – Deep space \nTexture – creating impasto\, spatula work\, dry-brush scumbling\, reflective glazes\, blending\, matt surface. Glazing mediums. Drying times and paint application techniques. \nMarch 5th\, 2018 – Session # 5 – Painting on the stretched canvas \nStudents start painting on the traditionally prepared canvas. Assignment will include everything learned so far. \nMarch 12th\, 2018 – Session #6 \nIntermediate and final painting and varnishing. Q& A. Basic oil painting recipes. \n* February 19th – Presidents Day: if we find that too many people are absent for this session we will push the series one week forward and have the last class end on March 19th instead of 12th. \nSupply list: \nSTUDIO provided: \nRSG\, chalk\, priming brushes\, rags\, pans\, jars\, containers\, brush soap\, some canvas and some brushes\, one plywood board per participant\, drop cloth/protective paper\, canvas stretching tools – staple gun\, canvas pliers\, L-squares\, scissors\, screwdrivers\, cleaning supplies\, pencils\, palette paper or tray\, easels\, support boards\, clips\, charcoal pencils\, props\, still life materials\, spot-lights\, drying rack/space\, storage space for class supplies. \nSTUDENT provided: \nBRING BY FIRST CLASS \nPainting surfaces – at least one set of heavy duty professional stretchers [I suggest 10” x 10”\, 12”x 12” or 14”X 14” stretchers – larger sizes might need cross braces and more supplies to prepare properly]. \n· Wood frame panels\, painting boards\, Masonite boards] DO NOT BUY pre-stretched gessoed canvas like fredrix and similar] \n· Acrylic gesso – [pint or larger] \n· Gesso brush 1 ½” or 2” \n· Canvas – cotton duck or linen – half yard or one yard \n· Apron or some other comfortable protective clothing \nBRING BY SECOND CLASS \n· One set of oil paints [Titanium White- [lots of – buy a big tube]\, Ivory Black\, Cadmium Red\, Permanent Alizarin Crimson\, Ultramarine Blue\, Pthalo Blue\, Cadmium Yellow Light\, and Cadmium Yellow. Buy each of these colors in 200ml tubes. Technically those are all the colors you need\, but you should also get a few greens and browns until you learn more about mixing colors. Pick up some Permanent Green Light\, Viridian\, Burnt Umber\, and Burnt Sienna to round out your palette. \n· Brushes: two small\, two medium\, and two large – natural bristles \n· Turpentine [for thinning paint] \n· Turpenoid or Mineral Spirits (solvents for cleaning) \n· Linen seed oil – cold pressed\, 8oz or larger \n· Stand oil – small bottle [this is not a substitute for linen seed oil] \n· One Gamblin Artist’s Colors Dry Pigment – you choose the color \n· Cobalt drier \n· 1-2 spatulas and palette knives \n· Apron or some other comfortable protective clothing \n· Sketching and drawing paper \n· Damar varnish \n· Cotton rags and sponges \nPlease bring as many supplies as you can to first class – you will be given safe storage space\, so you do not have to carry your supplies every time. Decide if you want to buy small quantities or plan to share/save with another student. \nI suggest Utrecht www.utrechtart.com or Artist & Craftsman supply https://www.artistcraftsman.com \nAny prep or shopping questions please email: oljas004@gmail.com \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/oil-painting-beginner-class/
LOCATION:AlterWork Studios\, 30-09 35th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tina%20Stipanovic":MAILTO:Email tina@alterworkstudios.com
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SUMMARY:Take Root Presents De Funes Dance and MElder Movement Art
DESCRIPTION:Take Root Presents De Funes Dance & MElder Movement Art \nFebruary 9th & 10th\n8pm\nAdvance sale tickets: $15 online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org\nTickets purchased at door: $20 cash\, $22 credit card \nAbout the Work \nDe Funes Dance’s Crisálida is an exploration of reflection and resolution. The works follow the soloist through her reintroduction with her past\, beginning with her initial unwillingness to confront these memories\, through to her ultimate reconciliation of them. The program follows a narrative arc\, with the soloist’s confrontation of her past as the climax. The full program is comprised of two ensemble pieces\, two solos\, a duet\, a trio and a sextet. The final piece culminates with the union of the dancers\, suggesting that the individual they form has reconciled these parts of herself\, and achieved solace. \nMElder Movement Art’s Sessions in Subjugation: This movement theatre work investigates micro- and macro-aggressions within the narrative of a one-on-one counseling session and psychosocial intake. It explores how one dominate entity\, typically from a place of power\, influences and stifles the voice and narrative of the perceived subordinate other. Sessions in Subjugation dialogues with the audience about oppressive “gazes” often felt in settings with inherent power struggles through falling and interweaving phrase work\, harnessed tension within the body\, weight exchange\, spoken word\, and physical environment. \nPhoto credits: Cesar Brodermann (De Funes Dance) & Jim Coleman (MElder Movement Art) \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/take-root-presents-de-funes-dance-melder-movement-art/
LOCATION:Green Space Studio\, 37-24 24th Street\, Suite 301\, Long Island city\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Valerie%20Green%2FDance%20Entropy":MAILTO:jill@greenspacestudio.org
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SUMMARY:Ruderals and Coyote Cinema at The Wolfhound
DESCRIPTION:Songs for caged animals\, by caged animals.\nFriday\, February 9th\nCAPTIVES COLLECTIVE PRESENTS\nRuderals and Coyote Cinema at The Wolfhound \nRuderals are an acoustic folk-punk trio\, comprised of Ben Absurdo (guitar\, vocals\, bass)\, Kyle Rogers (guitar\, vocals\, bass\, harmonica\, electric kazoo)\, and Keith Malonis (drums\, handsomeness). Originally formed as a way to flesh out full-band performances of Rogers’ and Absurdo’s solo compositions\, the band quickly took on an identity of its own\, combining a raw\, sometimes-nasty rhythmic energy with an exploratory\, even experimental spirit\, always grounded by the cynicism and self-deprecation of its two lead singers. Wild\, manic\, and to some degree unpredictable\, their live performances have earned them the monicker of “Astoria’s Ramones\,” as Miguel Hernandez\, booker for Astoria Music Collective\, puts it. The band are currently working on recordings. You can find their first release “Phone Cuts” here: https://ruderals.bandcamp.com/releases \nCoyote Cinema is a folk-rock band led by Astoria-based poet and singer-songwriter Elise Levitt. A native of Woodmere\, Long Island\, Elise spent her young adulthood crafting stanzas on napkins and tossing out prose like free samples. In 2015\, she met poet and spoken word artist Ben Absurdo while playing Astoria’s open mic scene\, and the following year formed the band with Absurdo on bass\, Keith Malonis on drums\, and Kyle Rogers on mandolin. Since then\, Coyote Cinema has played clubs\, bars\, and venues throughout NYC. \nThe Wolfhound is a modern authentic neighborhood Irish bar located on 30th Avenue in the heart of Astoria. The Wolfhound offers draft\, craft\, and bottled beers\, fine whiskies and scotches\, traditional and modern drinks\, and hosts live music/events/parties/sports. \nCaptives Collective is an association of musicians who\, each in our way\, tell a story of human domestication — what it means to be a restricted and self-restricting animal — through music\, poetry\, and whatever other mediums and genres we see fit. We need not always call it by name\, but the pains we express refer back to the dull\, pounding discomfort and ultimately prehistorical traumas of civilized life\, just as our joys are the howls of a wild beast in the middle of a parking lot. We make music\, put on shows\, and write stories\, poems\, and essays. A zine and website are currently in the works. Our first release was Kyle Rogers’ solo debut “Songs” which is available here: https://kylerogers-music.bandcamp.com/releases \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/ruderals-coyote-cinema-wolfhound/
LOCATION:The Wolfhound\, 38-14 30th Ave\, Astoria\, NY\, 11103\, United States
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