Artists & Communities Archive
2004 Projects
Artswego thru Research
Foundation, SUNY, Oswego, NY
Peggy Shaw, New York, NY
Artist Peggy Shaw collaborated with ARTSwego, Services to
Aid Families (SAF), and Oswego Players, a community theatre
company, to create a live performance by and about survivors
of domestic violence.
A DVD of the performance promoted dialogue among SAF clients
and advocacy for SAF's work in the community.
Bradford County
Regional Arts Council, Towanda, PA
Mary Knysh, Bloomsburg, PA
Beth Phillips Brown, Media, PA
Rand Whipple, Danville, PA
Aleta Wynn Yarrow, Cowanesque, PA
Learning Communication Skills Through the Arts brought
appropriate music, storytelling, dramatic play and visual
arts activities to 289 children from low income, rural families.
Teacher training and parent involvement insured that use
of the activities can be used to improve communication skills
into the future.
Center for Community Arts, Cape May, NJ
Magda Martinez, Philadelphia, PA
The Cultural Crossroads Project brought Magda Martinez,
a poet and playwright to the Lower Township Regional Junior
High School and Wildwood Middle School, and the rural
communities they serve in Cape May County, NJ. In addition
to working with the students and their families, Ms. Martinez performed
her own poetry as a featured poet at the Cape May County
Art
League's Monthly Poetry Night, and a staged reading of
her
current play in progress was presented for the community
at Cape May Stage.
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual
Art, Inc., Buffalo,
NY
Keith Gemerek, Buffalo, NY
With photographic portraiture and oral histories, this
project gave visibility to more marginalized members
of the LGBT
community in Buffalo. It contributed to a more comprehensive
understanding
of working class lesbians, trans-gendered people and
queers of all colors and ages as dynamic cultural forces.
Center for Modern Dance Education, Inc., Hackensack,
NJ
Claire M. Porter, Teaneck, NJ
The Center for Modern Dance Education hosted
an 8-week residency by multi-disciplinary performance
artist
Clair Porter, which
included the creation and performance of an original, site-specific
dance and spoken-
text work called Suburban Bush Women…From Jobs to Geraniums, as
well as master classes.
Communities in Schools,Philadelphia,
PA
Jared Martin, Amanda Whittenberger, and Dwight Wilkins,
Philadelphia, PA
Communities in Schools, Philadelphia hosted
a three month residency in its Males Accepting Responsibility
Successfully
(MARS) Program with filmmakers, Jared Martin, Amanda Whittenberger
and Dwight Wilkins. The goal of the residency was to create,
through hands-on experience in the art and technology
of script writing, acting, and video production, a series
of
Public
Service Announcements (PSA's) on teen fatherhood and adolescent
responsibility.
Community Visions Foundation, Inc,. Morgantown,
WV
Cindy A. Snodgrass, Pittsburgh, PA
From a floating barge/studio on the Monongahela
River, environmental artist Cindy Snodgrass worked collaboratively
with riverfront
communities to transform historical and environmental
information into creative site/situation specific installations
and
events, demonstrating how art and environmental initiatives
complement
and energize communities. The six month residency focused
on people's relationship to water.
COSACOSA art at large,
Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Dit Wah Deng, Parsippany, NJ
Pedro Ospina, Briarcliff, NY
COSACOSA brought interdisciplinary artists
Dit Wah Deng and Pedro Ospina into residence at the
Latino
Partnership
Initiative
and the Chinatown-based Harmony Corporation in Philadelphia
to create new cross-cultural installations with intergenerational
groups of community members. The project, entitled
Mask and Metaphor, explored traditional forms
of Chinese and Taino
mask making and their relationship to community transformation
through the creation of collaborative public art.
Dance
Institute of Washington, Washington, DC
Dougie Styles, Philadelphia, PA
For six weeks, the Dance Institute of Washington
hosted Philadelphia-based Dougie Styles of F.I.V.E.
Productions
as he worked with dance
students, production apprentices, and the newly formed
professional company. For students, he provided hip
hop classes. For
the professionals, he choreographed a piece for the
company's repertory.
Floorplay Contemporary Dance
Theatre, Inc. Chesapeake, VA
Jelon Vieira, New York, NY
New York choreographer, Jelon Vieira, partnered
with Virginia's Second Wind Dance Company in a residency
involving: choreography
and performance of a new work; active cultural interaction
with local artists and community members through lecture
and educational workshops which encouraged audiences
to examine
Afro- Brazilian culture and the creative process.
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Two Girls Working: Tiffany Ludwig and Renee Piechocki,
Jersey City and Pittsburgh, PA
Trappings is an ongoing, multi-media project by Two
Girls Working. Jersey City Museum hosted a Trappings residency
(and resulting exhibition) that gathered women of diverse
backgrounds for informal interviews that asked a single question
regarding power and personal identity: what do you wear that
makes you feel powerful?
Jewish Education Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Elena Hiatt Houlihan, Pittsburgh, PA
The Holocaust Memorial Project represents the culmination
of a multi-year community process to create and
construct an outdoor sculpture made of glass block
filled with
6 million aluminum tabs collected to commemorate
the victims
of the
Holocaust. This residency gathered community members
together to participate in design charettes and
other activities
to determine the forma of the interior space of
this monumental sculpture.
Keystone Blind Association,
Sharon, PA
S. Passle Helminski, Erie, PA
S. Passle Helminski, a visually impaired artist,
worked with 20 blind and visually impaired children
in creating
an outdoor
sculpture. The new work of art included art expressions
rooted in traditional craft materials, structures,
processes, and
history that explores unexpected relationships between
art forms.
Kings Majestic Corporation/ 651 ARTS,
Brooklyn, NY
Marlies Yearby, Montclair, NJ
651 ARTS hosted choreographer Marlies Yearby
in a three-month residency to develop a new work for
the
stage in collaboration
with 75-100 women from four Brooklyn neighborhoods,
(Woom'en)n is an evening-length multimedia
work that excavates women's
layered and diverse physical histories, addressing
the architecture of identity.
Maryland Hall for
the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD
Jane Todd Cooper, Philadelphia, PA
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts and poet
J.T. Cooper collaborated, working with at-risk and
bi-lingual
middle
and high school
students in after-school programs, exploring how
students view themselves within their environment.
The poet
also conducted workshops for the public, and a reading
and
signing of her
work.
Middletown Township, Langhorne, PA
David McShane and Eurhi Jones, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Middletown Township worked to integrate the arts
into the daily life of its community, provide
the community
with
substantial interaction with professional artists,
create a cultural center
for Township residents, and bridge a growing generational
divide by working with artists David McShane and
Eurhi Jones to create a mural by and for the community
in
the Municipal
Center lobby.
Check out the project homepage at
http://home.comcast.net/~jmrodier/MuralWeb/
On
Lok House of Philadelphia, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Yu Wei, Philadelphia, PA
A three-month residency by choreographer Yu
Wei was conducted at Chinatown's On Lok House to create
an
original full-length
dance piece which was performed during the Chinese
New Year Festival in January 2005. The dance was
performed by the
artist with participation from the On Lok House
participants.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,
Dt.01-1,
Meadville, PA
Amara Geffen, Meadville, PA
Read between the Signs is a 1,200' x 9' sculptural
relief screening the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's
storage lot. The project, a partnership between
PennDOT, artist
Amara Geffen and Allegheny College, celebrates
the landscape, environment, and community of Crawford
County through a series
of repetitive undulating mounds fabricated from
recycled road signs.
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown,
NJ
Cesar E. Viveros Herrera, Philadelphia, PA
Julie Deery and Baily Bellenger Cypress, Bala
Cynwyd, PA
Perkins Center for the Arts hosted an Artists & Communities
project in partnership with the Newtown Friends
Meeting and South Jersey Legal Services and the
collaboration of three
artists, Cesar Viveros, Julie Deery and Bailey
Cypress. The project contributed to the revitalization
of an inner-city
Camden community by building linkages between
community groups, community members and professional
artists to create a mural
and community sculpture garden at a public site
in a Camden City neighborhood.
Philadelphia Mural
Arts Advocates, Philadelphia, PA
Brett Cook-Dizney, New York, NY
Over a two month residency, New York artist
Brett Cook-Dizney worked intensively with 20 at risk
youth in the Philadelphia
Mural Arts Program's ARTscape group, to create
six site-specific collaborative projects on social
and
criminal justice.
The residency included interviews and portrayals
of prison inmates,
community members, and victim’s advocates.
Reading
Public Museum, Reading, PA
William Dexter, Boyertown, PA
The Reading Public Museum featured William
Dexter as an artist in residence for a related educational
event
to
a major exhibition
of glassware by internationally known glass artist
Dale Chihuly. The artist worked in a Hot Shop
with other
artists who teach
and promote the craft.
Reichhold Center for the
Arts, Charlotte Amalie,
VI
Ryan Saunders, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Ryan Sanders worked with participants
in The Youth Moviemaking Workshop. The Workshop is
an intensive
seven
week hands-on training experience designed to
motivate, educate
and build practical skills in the field of digital
film production.
Schuykill County Council for
the Arts, Pottsville, PA
Rand Whipple, Danville, PA
Theatre artist Rand Whipple developed a performance
piece integrating multimedia with live performers.
The performance
explored the synapse between the digital culture
of the area's youth and the coal region's heritage
of
physical work. Its
content and performers were drawn from workshops
conducted with county residents.
Society for Art
in Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
Talya Baharal, Rifton, NY
New York metals artist Talya Baharal partnered
with the Society for Contemporary Craft to explore
connections
between Pittsburgh's
steel manufacturing heritage and her art, which
utilizes steel wire. Collaborating with Baharal
on Big Steel - Little
Steel were individuals and historical organizations
from two legendary Pittsburgh steel-producing
communities.
Step By Step, Inc., Harts, WV
Heidi Muller, Washington, NJ
Songwriter and nationally-acclaimed Appalachian
dulcimer player Heidi Muller worked with the
Big Ugly Creek
community to create
a song cycle and a story quilt drawing on the
history, legends and concerns of the coalfields
of West Virginia.
Songs and
quilt panels were prepared as a songbook and
CD and shared in concert.
Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center,
Newark, NJ
Ye Xun, Brooklyn, NY
Using Chinese flour dough figurine sculpting
technique, Chinese artist Ye Xun worked with
members of the
Newark Chinatown
community of elders, to create scenes from
Newark Chinatown's history. This history, which has
been forgotten in recent
times, has been researched by Sumei over the
past three years. Newark Chinatown existed
in Newark,
from 1875
to approximately
1975.
The Delaware Center for Contemporary
Arts, Inc., Wilmington, DE
George Apotsos, Philadelphia, PA
Artist George Apostos worked with Delaware
seniors on a biographical clay mosaic project
entitled The World's Melting Pot:
Immigration Stories. Participants
created mosaic silhouettes that tell the
history of their
or their ancestors' settlement
in the Delaware Valley and celebrate the
development of their communities.
Warren-Washington
Association for Mental
Health, Hudson Falls, NY
Dona Ann McAdams, New York, NY
Picturing Ourselves: The Warren-Washington
Association for Mental Health Photography
Project Part II.
A participatory photography program with
a community of people living
with
mental illness.
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