SPARC
I will be participating in Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) at Sirovitch Senior Center in the East Village through a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), from January through July 2012. Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) is a community arts engagement program that places artists-in-residence...
tART Collective Year 8: Arts@Renaissance
Front page article by Michael Cesarczyk: “The Renaissance Women of tART” tART Collective Year 8, Arts@Renaissance September 9 – October 14, 2011 opening reception: Friday, September 9, 7-9pm ***closing reception: Friday, October 14, 7-9pm 2 Kingsland Avenue (@ Maspeth Avenue) Garden Level Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L train to Graham Ave)
New porcelain edition for Fuse Works
I am creating a new edition of vessels for Fuse Works. I created two plaster molds and cast nine pieces each out of english porcelain slip. The pieces were handshaped after being removed form the molds and embossed with JWB on the bottoms. The first firing was to cone...
New York City Department of Transportation commission
New comission from by the New York City Department of Transportation Urban Art Program comprised of a 2,000 foot long mural starting at 155th Street & Harlem River Drive in Manhattan completed on May 1, 2011. The mural was painted on 3 foot tall cement barriers with the assistance from hundreds of...
Open Engagement
I will be speaking about the tART Collective with fellow members Anna Lise Jensen and Nikki Schiro in Porland, Oregon on Saturday, May 14. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction...
TV Interview for Naming the Animals
Interviewed on WMBC-TV News by Nicole Isreal about the “Naming The Animals” exhibition at Curious Matter and Proteus Gowanus. Air date: Monday, April 22nd at 5PM
Open Studios
My studio building in Red Hook is hosting an open studio weekend on Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1 from noon to 6 at 183 Lorraine Street, 3rd floor, studio #18.
Huffington Post feature about bats
My installation Gilded Phtophilic Bats discussed by Kerry Trueman in article about bats on The Huffington Post.
500 Ceramic Sculptures book published
My installation “Orchid-Bat (Tre of Life)” was included in the book 500 Ceramic Sculptures book published by Lark Books.
SPARC
I will be participating in Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) at Sirovitch Senior Center in the East Village through a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), from January through July 2012.
Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) is a community arts engagement program that places artists-in-residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. The program provides selected artists with access to workspace in senior centers and a stipend in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Participating seniors will be engaged in an art project or series of cultural programs over the course of the residency, which will also include a public program component – a series of exhibits, open houses and other cultural interactions open to the surrounding community. This initiative seeks to connect artists with seniors in senior centers and positively impact the well-being of seniors through arts-based activities.SPARC is a collaboration among the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging and the City’s five local arts councils situated in each borough – Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Council on the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Queens Council on the Arts. It was developed as part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors, and previously ran as a successful pilot called Space for Art. The program is supported, in part, by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
tART Collective Year 8: Arts@Renaissance
Front page article by Michael Cesarczyk:
“The Renaissance Women of tART”
tART Collective Year 8, Arts@Renaissance
September 9 – October 14, 2011
opening reception: Friday, September 9, 7-9pm
***closing reception: Friday, October 14, 7-9pm
2 Kingsland Avenue (@ Maspeth Avenue) Garden Level
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L train to Graham Ave)
New porcelain edition for Fuse Works
I am creating a new edition of vessels for Fuse Works. I created two plaster molds and cast nine pieces each out of english porcelain slip. The pieces were handshaped after being removed form the molds and embossed with JWB on the bottoms. The first firing was to cone 6 and then underglazed and glazed and fired to cone 05.
New York City Department of Transportation commission
New comission from by the New York City Department of Transportation Urban Art Program comprised of a 2,000 foot long mural starting at 155th Street & Harlem River Drive in Manhattan completed on May 1, 2011. The mural was painted on 3 foot tall cement barriers with the assistance from hundreds of volunteers from New York Caresand NYC Community Cleanup.
volunteers from NYC Community Cleanup priming the barriers
volunteers from New York Cares transferring the designs onto the primed barriers
volunteers from New York Cares painting the barriers
Open Engagement
I will be speaking about the tART Collective with fellow members Anna Lise Jensen and Nikki Schiro in Porland, Oregon on Saturday, May 14.
The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally renowned artists Julie Ault, Fritz Haeg, and Pablo Helguera. The work by these artists’ touch on subjects including democracy, group work, the boundary (or lack there of) between art and life, education, and transdisciplinarity. In addition, Open Engagement will play host to the Bureau for Open Culture, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and a summit on art and education. The summit features students and faculty from MFA programs focusing on public and social art, including OTIS College of Art and Design, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the California College of the Arts.
This year’s Open Engagement sets out to discuss various perspectives on art and social practice. Through conversations, interviews, open reflection on experiences, and related projects created for or presented at the conference we will be looking at five themes that encompass ideas connected to social practice: Peoples and Publics, Social Economies, In Between Places, Tracking and Tracing, and Sentiment and Strategies
TV Interview for Naming the Animals
Interviewed on WMBC-TV News by Nicole Isreal about the “Naming The Animals” exhibition at Curious Matter and Proteus Gowanus. Air date: Monday, April 22nd at 5PM
Open Studios
My studio building in Red Hook is hosting an open studio weekend on Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1 from noon to 6 at 183 Lorraine Street, 3rd floor, studio #18.
Interview on BRIC ARTS TV
INTERVIEW ON BRIC ARTS TV
Huffington Post feature about bats
My installation Gilded Phtophilic Bats discussed by Kerry Trueman in article about bats on The Huffington Post.
