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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180113T130000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Tina%20Stipanovic":MAILTO:tina@alterworkstudios.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180312T170000
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CREATED:20180115T151132Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T210000
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SUMMARY:Central Park Paint and Sip Class
DESCRIPTION:Come paint with us! Our paintings are all for beginners- no experience necessary. Our professional artists will guide you through the class step by step to help you create your one a kind masterpiece to take home with you that night! \nThis is a BYOB class- feel free to bring beer or wine\, and we will provide cups and openers.\nUse the code ASTORIA for 20% off of your seats! \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/central-park-paint-sip-class/
LOCATION:The Paint Place\, 31-21 31st St\, Astoria\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T200000
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SUMMARY:LIC Reading Series: Hermione Hoby\, Kanishk Tharoor\, Cherise Wolas
DESCRIPTION:Join LIC Reading Series for a fun\, FREE event with Catapult writing instructors and acclaimed authors Hermione Hoby (NEON IN DAYLIGHT)\, Kanishk Tharoor (SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS)\, and Cherise Wolas (THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY). \nWIN A DISCOUNTED CATAPULT WRITING COURSE IN OUR RAFFLE! \nDrinks/Readings/Panel Discussion/Prizes\nClosest subway: 7/E/M/G to Court Square \nAbout our readers: \nHERMIONE HOBY grew up in south London and graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with a double first in English Literature. She worked as an editor and writer on the Observer’s New Review section before moving to New York in 2010. She writes about culture\, especially books\, for the Guardian\, the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the TLS and others. She has profiled hundreds of writers and other cultural figures\, among them Toni Morrison\, Meryl Streep\, Naomi Campbell\, Debbie Harry and Laurie Anderson. Her debut novel\, Neon in Daylight\, is published by Catapult. \nKANISHK THAROOR is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2017)\, a collection of short stories that won the Tata First Book Award for Fiction in India. HIs work has appeared in the New York Times\, Guardian\, The Nation\, New Yorker\, Paris Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere\, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. He is the presenter and writer of the BBC radio series “Museum of Lost Objects” on public memory and cultural heritage. \nCHERISE WOLAS is the author of the novel The Resurrection of Joan Ashby. Longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction Prize\, it was named 2017 Best Fiction and Best Fiction debut by Kirkus Reviews; The New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choice; an Indie Next Pick\, Booklist’s 2017 Top 10 First Novels\, a Bookbrowse Editor’s Choice\, among other honors. Her second novel\, The Family Tabor\, will be published in July 2018. She received a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a feature film story editor and director of film and television development. She received a JD from Loyola Law School and practiced law in both Los Angeles and New York\, before cofounding a film company\, Ovie Entertainment. At Ovie\, in addition to being legal counsel\, she acquired and developed scripts\, novels\, and stories\, produced movies\, including a SXSW Audience winner\, and created an internship program to teach college students story development and adapting material for film. She has been a fiction editor for a literary journal\, and is a freelance fiction and nonfiction editor. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and literary journals.\n*\nThis event is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/lic-reading-series-hermione-hoby-kanishk-tharoor-cherise-wolas/
LOCATION:LIC Bar\, 45-58 Vernon Boulevard\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tyrannosaurus
DESCRIPTION:TYRANNOSAURUS is a weekly stand up comedy show at R’A’R Bar (30-01 35th Ave. Queens\, NY 11106) in Long Island City! Each week Sam Evans (Montreal Just For Laughs Festival) and Patrick Hastie (SF Sketchfest) carefully curate a solid lineup of comedians from Conan\, The Tonight Show and Comedy Central\, mixed with only the best up and coming new talent! The show is always FUN and the show is always FREE! \nThis week’s comedians: Mary Mack (Conan)\, Jake Mattera (Big Sky Comedy Festival)\, Jared Dryden (Jerry & Barry) ***plus special guests*** \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/tyrannosaurus-2-4/
LOCATION:RAR BAR\, 30-01 35th Avenue \, Queens\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gideon%20Hambright":MAILTO:kiddergidder@live.com
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