Our Time Together Performing I can mentally picture people gathering their belongings, checking their stoves carefully, making sure that they have their keys and their IDs with them, and putting cough drops and metro cards in their bags. Most … Continue reading Our Time Together Performing with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
In our first class, we focused on creating a pleasant and friendly relationship between all the participants as we understand that is the key to a deeper learning in the short term workshop. Students learned and practiced the … Continue reading The Colors of Life, Spanish for Mandarin Speakers – Week 1
Today’s class was very special because it was the last session, and we had an opening reception of the students’ photos. Today was the culmination of a nine sessions cycle in which each student had a personal learning process: experimenting and … Continue reading LIC, MI BARRIO – WEEK 9
In today’s class, we made a visit to the Met Museum, which is located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, for most of us the first time. At the beginning we enjoy the Roman marbles, photographing the textures and the light. … Continue reading LIC, MI BARRIO – WEEK 8
In class today we had the opportunity to share some thoughts and conclusions on each personal experience before and after this photography workshop. One student said: “before this workshop, I thought the photography was just to register events and parties, … Continue reading LIC, MI BARRIO – WEEK 7
Time flies by, we reached our last workshop day! We had a small critic looking pieces that were made during the course, to reflect on all the processes experienced during classes such as the moldings in oily clay, water-based clay … Continue reading The Space in Between-Week 6
Today is the last day of Ebb and Flow: Drawing Sound workshop. The participants climbed a constant uphill learning a somewhat new field in art practice. Six weeks was not enough to understand how electronics work from the bottom up. … Continue reading EBB AND FLOW: DRAWING SOUND: WEEK 6
New York reached its peak temperature in this summer season. The heatwaves from concrete didn’t seem to subdue as our sweat evaporating from the surface. Ebb and Flow workshop participants visited Visible Futures Lab [VFL] at School of Visual Arts … Continue reading EBB AND FLOW: DRAWING SOUND: Field Trip
In today’s class the students got a chance to discuss about their experiences visiting neighborhoods of different cultures. Each one of them got the opportunity to learn about the lifestyles and the foods within that group. One of the students … Continue reading LIC, mi Barrio – week 6
This was our last hands on class! It was a class to see and touch some samples of different kinds of molds materials such as silicone, plaster as well as casting materials like paper pulp, liquid plastic, cement, wax, clay. … Continue reading The Space in Between – Week 5
