Workshop Schedule:

Sat. May 5, 2-4PM – Eric Clausen of Drawing America By Bike will give bike repair consultations and talk about his experiences cycling around the country. He’ll share his comics and zines, illustrating his life on the road and the amazing feats of resourcefulness he performed on the way.

Sat. May 12th, 3-5PM - Kristyna and Marek Milde, a collaborative artist duo whose work redeems the waste products of urban and domestic life, will lead the first workshop in which participants will create a social sculpture out of broken furniture. Please bring pieces of chairs or other found furniture. RSVP required to gallery@nurtureart.org - maximum 10 participants.

Sat. May 19th, 2-4PM – The Fixers Collective is dedicated to working together to fix things, encouraging improvisational fixing and mending and fighting planned obsolescence. They will host an open session in which anyone can bring in a broken object and get help fixing it.

Sun. May 27th, 2-4PM - Sewing Rebellion NYC will lead a mending circle dedicated to making and using patches as sources and visual symbols of what makes us proud of ourselves, our loved ones, or our community. Its mission is to teach folks to sew for free.

We seek bright, enthusiastic, responsible interns with a commitment to contemporary art and a can-do attitude. Candidates must be willing to work hard, learn new skills, and take on real responsibility in a professional manner. Strong organizational and computer skills (Word, Excel, Filemaker Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, and web applications) are helpful, but not necessary. Fluent English and professional manner is required. NURTUREart is a friendly gallery and office work environment, our intern program encourages important skill development to people interested in working in the contemporary art world and is ideal for students or recent graduates interested in careers in contemporary art or alternative education.

Summer interns will work directly with the Gallery Staff, learning about and assisting with all aspects of gallery operations, including planning, installing, and promoting the interactive programs and gallery events. Intern responsibilities will include reception; general gallery maintenance and administration; assisting with exhibition installation and de-installation; opening night receptions; and special programs and event preparation. Extensive training and special projects will be given to the right people.

Minimum commitment is one six-hour workday each week, plus occasional assistance for installations, opening receptions, and special projects and events. The internship period is ideally from now through the end of September with a possibility to stay through the Fall. The gallery is open to the public Thursdays through Mondays, 12–6 PM. This is an unpaid internship opportunity, with students encouraged to explore possibilities for course credit arrangements at their university.

To apply for an internship, please email a resume and cover letter stating your interests to rachel@nurtureart.org with “internship” in the subject line.
Resumes will be kept on file until an opening becomes available.

Image: Re-Telling, curated by Melissa Levin at NURTUREart Gallery

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Fri. May 11, 2012 - 6:30 PM
Contemporary Arts Center (website)
900 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Program #2 features artists: Nicolas Carrier, Andrea Chung, Tamar Hirschl (with Michael Reich), Roy Menachem Markovich, Ruaidhri Ryan, Daniel Spanger, and Daniel Terna + Michael Kugler. These videos show a hightened sense of spectacle by dissecting various elements of filmic tradition, pulling between intimacy and expansiveness.

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The CAC is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production and promotion of the art of our time. As such, it organizes and presents curated exhibitions, performances, and programs by local, regional, national, and international artists. It demonstrates proactive local and regional leadership by educating children and adults; cultivating and growing audiences; and initiating and encouraging collaboration among diverse artists, institutions, communities, and supporters.

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As part of her solo exhibition at NURTUREart, Percoco presents a publication conceived as a catalog of repaired objects. The publication is part of an in-progress body of work that investigates how value is lost and reclaimed and how repurposed objects can shift, sometimes humorously, from one role to another.

Through the duration of the exhibition, guest artists (including Eric Clausen, Marek and Kristyna Milde, Sewing Rebellion NYC, and Fixers Collective) will lead a series of public, interactive skill-sharing workshops promoting resourcefulness and self-sufficiency.

Workshop Schedule:

Sat. May 5, 2-4PM – Eric Clausen of Drawing America By Bike will give bike repair consultations and talk about his experiences cycling around the country. He’ll share his comics and zines, illustrating his life on the road and the amazing feats of resourcefulness he performed on the way.

Sat. May 12th, 3-5PM - Kristyna and Marek Milde, a collaborative artist duo whose work redeems the waste products of urban and domestic life, will lead the first workshop in which participants will create a social sculpture out of broken furniture. Please bring pieces of chairs or other found furniture. RSVP required to gallery@nurtureart.org – maximum 10 participants.

Sat. May 19th, 2-4PM – The Fixers Collective is dedicated to working together to fix things, encouraging improvisational fixing and mending and fighting planned obsolescence. They will host an open session in which anyone can bring in a broken object and get help fixing it.

Sun. May 27th, 2-4PM – Sewing Rebellion NYC will lead a mending circle dedicated to making and using patches as sources and visual symbols of what makes us proud of ourselves, our loved ones, or our community. Its mission is to teach folks to sew for free.

Above: Anne Percoco, The Life Instinct, 2012, slide show.

Can an object be alive? Moreover, would human presence be necessary to validate the life of something inanimate? Would that something even exist, without us?

For her solo exhibition, Arianna Carossa focuses on Argo, a mythological boat with the gift of language, a “character” in the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Using that legendary vessel as a starting point, the artist has built fragments of boats or arks, which will constantly shift physical states throughout the duration of the exhibition. Through these seemingly still vessels, she intervenes in our objective reality, asking us to search for hints of livelihood in sculptures that we perceive as implicitly inert. Inspired both by other contemporary works of art and the myth of Argo, Carossa’s work alludes to the history of their own creation. The materials themselves are an ethereal body, representative of Carossa’s own creation as an emerging artist.

Above: The intensity of our mistake, 2012. Wood, brass, 40x47x19″

Above: exhibition video clip by Giovanni Posa.

Below: Exhibition views – see more photos HERE

When people see a work of art that provokes them in some way they are often curious to know, “who is the artist?” But how good are you at answering that question when it’s about your own work, especially if the listener is a curator or collector you’d like to cultivate? Say 50 or 100 people happen to be listening to you answer that question…how good are you then?

This Muse Fuse will cover the basics of effectively speaking about your work—whether its to 1 or 100 people, a lecture at a university, an artist’s talk at a gallery, or one on one networking at an opening or a dinner. You will learn core principles of how to move an audience with a compelling story. This interactive and fun evening will get you speaking persuasively about your work, your life, and anything else you feel authentically passionate about.

Applied Speaking and Presenting founder Greg Steinbruner came to communications consulting after a nearly two-decade career in New York theater. He created the Applied Speaking methodology to marry the science of persuasion with the art of performance. Businesses, policy advocates, non-profits, academic institutions, executives, and professionals throughout the U.S. and abroad have embraced Greg’s unique, personal approach to public speaking and presenting.

Please download the relative application forms with rules and guidelines HERE

Deadline: April 30, 2012 (Postmark).

Please stay tuned for information on our upcoming curatorial workshop.

Gallery Installation during "Re-Telling", curated by Melissa Levin. Artwork LtoR: Elia Alba, Aaron Gilbert, LaToya Ryby Frazier.

Below: Artist Julie Torres mixing colors with the students.

Carossa’s Argo was informed by the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts as well as by the esthetics of this movie and amazing special effects artistry of Harryhausen.

Film Synopsis (courtesy of rottentomatoes.com)
Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason (Todd Armstrong), rightful heir to the throne of Thessaly, is spared from death through the intervention of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman). The other celestial inhabitants of Mount Olympus watch in amusement as Hera surreptitiously aids Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece. Obstacles to this goal include a giant come-to-life statue named Talos, the screeching harpies plaguing blind prophet Phineas (Patrick Troughton), a set of huge clashing rocks, the seven-headed hydra, and an army of skeletons (this bravura climactic sequence assured Harryhausen’s place in the hearts of 13-year-old boys of all ages). Supporting characters include Nancy Kovack as a pre-infanticide Medea and Nigel Green as a pacifistic Hercules. Bernard Herrmann’s surging musical score was icing on the cake for this greatest of all Ray Harryhausen creations. ~ Hal Erickson

Jason and the Argonauts in the Press:
The sheer outlandish nature of the production sets it apart from many of the mythology-inspired films of its era. (Phil Hall – Film Snobbery)

The ingredients are the usual: color, milling hordes of warriors, royal hanky-panky laced with historical or mythological footnotes, monsters, magic and carefully exposed limbs and torsos. (New York Times)

FREE entrance. Popcorn and Drinks will be served.

Moudov’s practice explores issues of ownership, authorship and authority by infiltrating the art world and its systems as well as by subverting the established norms and conventions of wider bureaucratical systems and sociopolitical contexts. His field of action ranges from micro-interventions to more ambitious gestures that involve expanded communities and, more recently, international transactions.

Moudov’s work has been presented in solo shows at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Siemens Art Lab, Vienna and included in the the 52nd Venice Biennale, the first Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art and Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt, among others.

Ivan Moudov and Alban Muja, Floor, 2008. Marble staircase and floor covered with plywood plates. Installation view and detail, KulturKontakt, Wien