Artists & Communities Archive
Artists and Communities 2006
African American Cultural Center of Greater
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ronald K. Brown, Brooklyn, NY
The One
Shot Project involved
choreographer and dancer Ronald K. Brown in
a month-long residency focusing on the work
of noted photojournalist and portrait photographer
Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1999).
The residency included intervewing and
photographing members of communities previously
photographed by Harris; a community photo
identification event; collaboration with the
manchester Craftsmen’s Build Outreach
Program, a multi-disciplinary, minority-directed
center for arts and learning; open rehearsals;
and a final performance of new choreography
created by the artist in conjunction with
an exhibition of Teenie Harris’s work.
African Cultural
Alliance of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Princess Fatu Gayflor, Sicklerville, NJ, J. Blamoh Doe, Philadelphia, PA, and Andre V. Forrest, Philadelphia, PA
A three month residency was conducted
at the African Cultural Alliance of North
America (ACANA) in Philadelphia and created
an original African dance, song and drumming
piece that was performed at the Echoes
of Africa Festival to in July 2006
at the Malcolm X Memorial Park. The newly
choreographed artistic pieces were performed
by the African Youth Participants of ACANA’s
After School Program.
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia,
PA
Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, Brooklyn, NY
The Asian Arts Initiative hosted performance
artist Marian Yalini Thambynayagam in a residency
to design and facilitate a 6-week spoken word
and theater workshop, in collaboration with
local artists and Asian American youth participants
from the YouthArtWorks summer program. The
project culminated in a group performance
of the artist and youth participants, and included a performance of the artist’s
own personal work created during the residency.
Avampato
Discovery Museum, Inc., Charleston, WV
Tina W. Brewer, Pittsburgh, PA
In Exploring Personal Stories through
Art, the Avampato Discovery Museum worked
with nationally known fiber artist, Tina
Brewer,
to present hands-on workshops for children,
families, artists and art students exploring
personal and cultural symbolism through
the development of story quilts, dream pillows
and art umbrellas.
Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.,
Baltimore, MD
Bill Stewart, Spencerport, NY
Baltimore Clayworks hosted ceramic artist
Bill Stewart of New York for a one-month residency,
during which he led senior adults and
youth in creating fanciful animals in clay
to create a "Noah’s Ark" for
an exhibition, while developing his own body
of ceramic artwork in a private studio.
COSACOSA art
at large, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Hein Koh, New York, NY and Carla P. Morales,
Bala Cynwyd, PA
COSACOSA brought visual artist Hein Koh,
theater/film artist Carla P. Morales, and
audio artist Ezechial Thurman into residence
with Philadelphia’s Latino Partnership
Initiative and To Our Children’s Future
With Health to create new cross-cultural artworks
with intergenerational groups of community
members. The project, entitled In Common,
explored shared neighborhood visions for
a more livable and sustainable urban community
-- through the creation of collaborative public
art.
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Angelo L. Ciotti, Allison Park, PA
Erie Art Museum, in partnership with
three community organizations, hosted environmental
artist Angelo Ciotti in a 30-day residency
to design and create an artistic outdoor
learning space. The creation of the artwork
drew
inspiration and reflected the Mill Creek Watershed,
the living system within which the City
of Erie resides.
First
Night Binghamton DBA Southern Tier Celebrates!,
Binghamton, NY
Sophia Michahelles, Red Hook, NY and Alex
Kahn, Red Hook, NY
This 4-month residency project broughth Superior Concept Monsters, a two-person
pageant puppetry and processional artistry
ensemble
featuring artists Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles,
to Binghamton, New York, to create and present
a multi-puppet pageant procession for First
Night Binghamton.
Institute for Arts and
Humanities Education,
New Brunswick, NJ
Darrell Wilson, Staten Island, NY
Telling Our Stories merged documentary,
art film and story-telling. A filmmaker, arts
education organization, storytellers, high
school students and senior adults worked
together to document the oral history of one
community in an experimental quilt-like video.
Elements of this creative process were
incorporated into the filmmaker’s current
project.
Institute on Ethnicity,
Culture, and the Modern Experience, Newark,
NJ
Bill Gaskins, Princeton, NJ
The Cadillac Chronicles involved the collaboration of photographer
Bill Gaskins and interns from the Newark Arts High
School, the oldest high school for the arts in the country. The artist
produced a series of large-scale color photographic
portraits and stories of African American
men who own and drive a Cadillac in the
city of Newark.
Maryland African American
Museum Corporation, Inc., Baltimore, MD
Kermit Frazier, Brooklyn, NY
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum worked
with playwright Kermit Frazier. For two months,
Frazier researched subject matter at
the Museum and then involved middle and high
school
students from throughout the community in
a creative writing project that culminated
in the production of an original play.
Pennsylvania
Prison Society, Philadelphia,
PA
Teya Sepinuck, Philadelphia, PA
Teya Sepinuck’s residency with The Pennsylvania
Prison Society led to the development
of a new Theater of Witness production designed
to integrate the stories of incarcerated men
from Graterford Prison’s Public Safety
Initiative with those of girls from Sulzberger
Middle School who have inherited a legacy
of violence.
Philadelphia Mural Arts
Advocates, Philadelphia, PA
Bradley McCullum, Brooklyn, NY and Jacqueline
Tarry, Brooklyn, NY
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s
Artworks! - Teen artists combined talents
and resources with artists Brad McCallum and
Jacqueline Tarry to create a series of multi-faceted
public artworks, inviting mainstream society
to move beyond assumptions and misunderstandings
of teen parents, highlighting the adult responsibilities
they carry while still children themselves.
Public
Art Foundation, Inc., Trenton, NJ
Steven Siegel, Red Hook, NY
From September 11-October 7, 2006,
New York artist Steven Siegel workied
on-site
at Grounds For Sculpture, a 35-acre contemporary
sculpture park located in Hamilton, New
Jersey. Working with three local school and
community
groups and interacting with the general
public, Siegel created 3 outdoor
sculptural
installations using indigenous post-consumer
materials (recyclables).
Rutgers University
Foundation, Camden, NJ
Elizabeth J. Hill, Collingswood, NJ
The six-month residency with artist
Elizabeth Hill augmented the Rutgers-Camden
Center for the Arts community theater project,
A Camden Christmas Carol. Hill worked with
Camden residents to create large-scale puppets
who performed specific roles in an adaptation
of the Dickens’ classic by notable playwright
John O’Neal, based on Camden history
and stories collected from Camden residents.
Samuel
S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia,
PA
Miguel Luciano, Brooklyn, NY
Miguel Luciano led a community
art project for youth that focused inquiry on
consumer
culture and provided opportunities to create
art that challenges it. Work created by
35 participants and by Mr. Luciano during
the
residency was displayed in an exhibition
at the end of the 120 day residency.
Sumei
Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark,
NJ
Ye Xun, Brooklyn, NY
Using a Chinese flour dough figurine sculpting
technique, Chinese artist Ye Xun worked
with members of the Newark Chinatown community
of elders, to create a second section of scenes
from Newark Chinatown’s Mulberry Street
history. The information was assembled
from archival materials collected from ongoing
research begun in 2000.
Village of Arts and
Humanities, Philadelphia, PA
Barbara M. Bickart, New York, NY
COIL is a community arts project that
united video artist Barbara Bickart with
20
teens -- from the Village of Arts and Humanities
and diverse arts and community partners --
to create a series of videos illustrating
the impact of scientific and genetic research
on teens’ notions of identity and beauty.
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