Announcing our Spring 2010 Conversation Series
We're excited to announce our third annual series of public “Conversations” in which unique individuals share how they integrate creative practice into their personal and professional lives. Conversations are held Wednesdays at 7:00pm and are located at New Urban Arts. Free and Open to the Public.
Conversations are curated and hosted by Arts Mentoring Fellows, Emmy Bright and Kedrin Frias.
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March 10: A Conversation with Sidney Tillet
On Painting the Face of the Disenfranchised
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Sidney Tillett was born in Livingston, Guatemala and immigrated to the United States in 1986. He lives in Providence, R.I. and has been painting since he was six years old. Sidney has always had an interest in art, often filling whole sketchbooks within days. At age twelve he joined City Arts, a community arts organization, and came under the tutelage of Munir Mohammed, an accomplished artist from Ghana. Sidney continued to study under Munir and over the years he developed his own artistic style. He often paints cultural large-scale portraits, and over the years he has developed an interest in African culture. Though he enjoys exploring all cultures, most of his work consists of African and African American Motifs.
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March 24: A conversation moderated by Abigail Satinsky
On Organizing for Creative Practice
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Abigail Satinksy is the co founder of InCubate, a research institute in Chicago dedicated to new approaches to arts administration and funding. InCUBATE stands for the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday. InCUBATE organizes exhibitions, publications, lectures, and produces artists projects. The core organizational principle is to treat art administration as a creative practice. By doing so, the hope is to generate and share a new vocabulary of practical and experimental solutions to the issues of independently producing contemporary art. Abigail is currently in residence as a fellow at the JNBC at Brown University, where she is working on a series of articles that document artist-initiated creative funding models. These will take the form of interviews and a catalog of artist projects to spark a dialogue about the ways artists, administrators, and organizers are re-imagining infrastructures of support for their work and the challenges they are facing on a pragmatic level in making it happen.
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April 7: A Conversation and Reading with Michael Cirelli
On Poetry and Privilege
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Poet and educator, Michael Cirelli, will share work from his new poetry collections Vacations on the Black Star Line and The Situation: Jersey Shore Poems, followed by a conversation on race, privilege, whiteness and robots.
Michael Cirelli is the Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, a grassroots non-profit organization that provides free, safe, uncensored and ongoing writing and performance opportunities for NYC teens. He is also the director of the Annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Teacher & Community Leader Training Institute at the University of Wisconsin that won the 2007 North American Association of Summer Sessions "Creative and Innovative Program Award."
He is the author of the award-winning teaching guide, Hip-Hop Poetry & the Classics (Milk Mug, 2004), a standards-based curriculum that explores the relationship between hip-hop lyrics and "classic" poems. He is currently working on two other curricula utilizing hip-hop to engage students. His collection of poetry, Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Hanging Loose, 2008) was a NY Times Book Review independent press best seller, and his next book, Vacations on the Black Star Line (Hanging Loose, 2009) is forthcoming.
Along with teaching writing workshops and performing across the country, he was previously the director of PEN Center West’s Poet in the Classroom Program. He was featured on season 5 of Russell Simmons Def Poetry
(see his performance here) , and has his MFA in poetry from the New School, and certificate from the Columbia School of Business, Institute for Nonprofit Management.
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May 5: A Workshop & Conversation with Boston theater director, Ellie Heyman
On Deep Connections, Collaborations, Movement and Embodied relationships
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May 26: A Workshop & Conversation with Walker Mettling and Jenn Morea
On their approaches to keeping notes, sending postcards, and working with unlikely collaborators. Walker is a writer and performer and independent curator in Providence. Jenn is also a writer, particularly a poet, and educator in Chicago.
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Stay Tuned for More Details on the Conversations in May!
Conversations are curated and hosted by Arts Mentoring Fellows, Emmy Bright and Kedrin Frias.
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March 10: A Conversation with Sidney Tillet
On Painting the Face of the Disenfranchised
***********************************************************
Sidney Tillett was born in Livingston, Guatemala and immigrated to the United States in 1986. He lives in Providence, R.I. and has been painting since he was six years old. Sidney has always had an interest in art, often filling whole sketchbooks within days. At age twelve he joined City Arts, a community arts organization, and came under the tutelage of Munir Mohammed, an accomplished artist from Ghana. Sidney continued to study under Munir and over the years he developed his own artistic style. He often paints cultural large-scale portraits, and over the years he has developed an interest in African culture. Though he enjoys exploring all cultures, most of his work consists of African and African American Motifs.
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March 24: A conversation moderated by Abigail Satinsky
On Organizing for Creative Practice
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Abigail Satinksy is the co founder of InCubate, a research institute in Chicago dedicated to new approaches to arts administration and funding. InCUBATE stands for the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday. InCUBATE organizes exhibitions, publications, lectures, and produces artists projects. The core organizational principle is to treat art administration as a creative practice. By doing so, the hope is to generate and share a new vocabulary of practical and experimental solutions to the issues of independently producing contemporary art. Abigail is currently in residence as a fellow at the JNBC at Brown University, where she is working on a series of articles that document artist-initiated creative funding models. These will take the form of interviews and a catalog of artist projects to spark a dialogue about the ways artists, administrators, and organizers are re-imagining infrastructures of support for their work and the challenges they are facing on a pragmatic level in making it happen.
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April 7: A Conversation and Reading with Michael Cirelli
On Poetry and Privilege
***********************************************************
Poet and educator, Michael Cirelli, will share work from his new poetry collections Vacations on the Black Star Line and The Situation: Jersey Shore Poems, followed by a conversation on race, privilege, whiteness and robots.
Michael Cirelli is the Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, a grassroots non-profit organization that provides free, safe, uncensored and ongoing writing and performance opportunities for NYC teens. He is also the director of the Annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Teacher & Community Leader Training Institute at the University of Wisconsin that won the 2007 North American Association of Summer Sessions "Creative and Innovative Program Award."
He is the author of the award-winning teaching guide, Hip-Hop Poetry & the Classics (Milk Mug, 2004), a standards-based curriculum that explores the relationship between hip-hop lyrics and "classic" poems. He is currently working on two other curricula utilizing hip-hop to engage students. His collection of poetry, Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Hanging Loose, 2008) was a NY Times Book Review independent press best seller, and his next book, Vacations on the Black Star Line (Hanging Loose, 2009) is forthcoming.
Along with teaching writing workshops and performing across the country, he was previously the director of PEN Center West’s Poet in the Classroom Program. He was featured on season 5 of Russell Simmons Def Poetry
(see his performance here) , and has his MFA in poetry from the New School, and certificate from the Columbia School of Business, Institute for Nonprofit Management.
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May 5: A Workshop & Conversation with Boston theater director, Ellie Heyman
On Deep Connections, Collaborations, Movement and Embodied relationships
***********************************************************
May 26: A Workshop & Conversation with Walker Mettling and Jenn Morea
On their approaches to keeping notes, sending postcards, and working with unlikely collaborators. Walker is a writer and performer and independent curator in Providence. Jenn is also a writer, particularly a poet, and educator in Chicago.
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Stay Tuned for More Details on the Conversations in May!
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