Solebury School Visual Arts Newsletter - April 2014

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SOLEBURY VISUAL ARTS APRIL 2014 SPRING ISSUE

ISSUE NO 20

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE VISUAL ARTS THIS MONTH AT SOLEBURY SCHOOL

Solebury School celebrates the Arts with its week-long Arts Festival every year.

The art show in Abbe and Coffee House bring the community together in a celebration of both the performing and the visual arts. Throughout the week, special art activities are scheduled for students and faculty. Students enjoy theatrical and musical performances by well known artists. Professional artists, musicians, and performers are invited to offer workshops in their crafts during the week.

Several art students over the years have also run their own workshops in the various arts. We hope you will attend both the performance events as well as the workshops and enjoy the week long immersion in the arts here at Solebury School.

THE ARTS FESTIVAL 2014

THE SCHEDULE OF FANTASTIC EVENTS Arts Fest April 2014 Saturday 19th Langhorne Slim at 7:30PM PAC Monday 21st Recording Studio Workshop@Morning Star Studio w/engineer Glen Barratt, 4 time Grammy winner Tuesday 22rd Roxey Ballet Performance at 2:25PM PAC Wednesday 23rd Jazz Roots & Master SIngers Concert at 7PM PAC Thursday 24th Workshops around campus Coffee House in PAC at 7PM

THE WORKSHOPS Shrinky Dink Portraits w/Ellen Melchiondo...Draw freehand or trace an image on a thin sheet of plastic, bake it for under a minute and it will shrink to 1/3 the size of the original image. The possibilities are endless! In this workshop, you will create Shrinky Dinks miniature portraits or whatever you want. Your work can be framed later or displayed on a miniature easel or even worn as jewelry. If you have a special iconic person you'd like to work with, please bring a picture in. It should be at least 5 X7 inches. Pets make good portraits too.

Reference pictures will be provided also.

Hip Hop Dance w/Mark Roxey...fun Hip Hop dance workshop, be dressed to move.

Silkscreening w/ Stasia Babicki...Stasia will help you to craft a design and apply it to a screen, Then you will be able to screen your design on your T-shirt or any other surface. Feel free to bring clothes from home if you want to make more.

Ceramics w/Greg White who will teach you how to stretch and shape a block of clay into a usable, beautiful form. By incorporating recyclables and found objects, we will transform the shapes and textures into vessels made of fine material.

THE WORKSHOPS, cont...

Tie dye T-shirts w/Emily Baltimore...she will be teaching you the finer points of Tie dye, cool twists, & lots of colors so that you can walk away with your own unique colorful t-shirt!

Tile Painting w/Sharon Victor... will offer a hands-on workshop where students will learn the expressive art of decorating ceramic tiles. Each participant will receive a 6 x 6 inch tile to paint with colorful paint using a variety of tools: brushes, ceramic pencils, chalks, and stencils.

Spray Chalk Tagging w/Zeke Jennai who will teach you how to create great graphic designs using images that you bring to the workshop.

You will then go out around campus and spray chalk “tag” your images!

Music Workshop w/Sidd Khosla from Goldspot...come meet a creative and cool musician and learn about his take on music.

Spray Paint Art w/Iain Trimmer and create great space paintings with spray paint.

Knit w/Hanna, Kara, & Kristie

the three wonderful “knitwits”

who will help you start a project or continue with one you are already working on.

Potato Guns w/Daniel Sherriff...what can you do with a little PVC and a potato? Come find out!

THE WORKSHOPS, cont...

Music Video Workshop w/Quinn Waters... workshop will show you how to shoot and edit a music video from start to finish.

Dyed Silk Hoops w/ Kim Alligood Mosaics w/Lauren Fisher...Lauren will be teaching you how to make your own personal Mosaics. Mosaics are pictures made up of small pieces of Glass or Tile, but some mosaics can have found objects as part of the design.

Artist’s Talk with J. Mike Kuhn...who believes that there are no brakes in life – therefore you won't find any brakes on his bike nor in his high-energy approach to art and photography. His talents range from typography, illustration, editorial design, photography, videography, motion graphics to murals throughout the New York Metro area. J. Mike Kuhn's portfolio contains work from a spectrum of retail design partnerships as well as large-scale architectural pieces.

Photograms w/Rob McHue... a Photogram is a direct process, Participants will arrange interesting objects on a sheet of photographic paper and then will expose the image to light. After that the magic begins when you develop your image and the images appear on your blank white paper right before your eyes! Very fun process! Feel free to bring cool objects from home to use in your photogram

Printmaking w/Susan Roseman...create your own designs using a soft rubber matrix that is easy to carve and quick to print using lots of fun color...make your own logo or just have fun with pattern.

Acting workshop w/Shawn Wright...never acted before? Want to try it out? Try some comedy Improv and spark the next star in you.

WHO WILL BE HERE???

Langhorne Slim & The Law Saturday April 19 PAC 7:30PM

“There is nothing like the challenges and camaraderie of the road to inspire a songwriter who thrives upon the emotional energy and exhilaration only travel can deliver. Some singers are devoted to the pursuit of perpetual motion, and Langhorne Slim releases his wild soul in ways that come out of the discipline of live performance.

The 13 songs that compose Langhorne Slim & The Law’s new The Way We Move are road-tested, rollicking and very rock ‘n’ rolling tunes that the songwriter perfected with his loyal band, and come out of the kind of good times and bad experiences that songwriters of Langhorne’s lofty stature can turn into life-affirming rock ‘n’ roll. You could also call what Langhorne Slim does folk music, but then there’s his sly, charming and open-hearted feel for pop music—those summertime melodies that nudge you into a grin even when the song is about something bad.”

You simply must come see this awesome group. You will love them!

WHO WILL BE HERE??? tuesday April 22rd PAC 2:25pm

ROXEY BALLET The Roxey Ballet is a world class contemporary ballet company that uses dance to build community and cultural bridges.Their mission is to deliver artistic and cultural excellence through professional dance performances, residencies, educational programs, workshops and master classes. The company takes pride i n i t s m u l t i c u l t u r a l a n d a l l - i n c l u s i v e organization, fostering a creative environment of growth for all.

What YOU need to do...

Students will be signing up (in the dining hall) for a workshop during the scheduled Thursday workshop times. Act quickly when you see the sign up sheets as your favorite choices may fill quickly. All students are required to sign up for a workshop. Try something new. Try something creative!

Faculty are needed to supervise and assist

during the

workshops. You are also welcome to sign up for your first choices but please be aware that we need someone with every workshop. We will do our best to place you in your first choice.

Try something new. Try something creative!

Please attend the performances held on campus. They promise to be OUTSTANDING

and MEMORABLE events.