Solebury School Visual Arts Newsletter - April 2015

SOLEBURY VISUAL ARTS APRIL 2015 SPRING ISSUE

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.

Featured artist this month is Stasia Babicki, AP Design, with work from her Concentration

THE ARTS

FESTIVAL 2015

THE SCHEDULE OF FANTASTIC EVENTS Arts Fest April 2015 Friday 17th Coffee House at 7:30PM PAC Saturday 18th Verite PAC doors open 7pm concert 7:30 free to Solebury community, $5 to public Monday 20th Recording Studio Workshop@Morning Star Studio w/engineer Glen Barratt, 4 time Grammy winner Tuesday 21st Arche Dream

PAC Assembly

Thursday 23rd Workshops around campus Jazz Roots & Master Singers PAC 7:30pm

THE WORKSHOPS Silkscreening w/ Stasia Babicki and Ilona Wilde...Stasia and Ilona 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/Gloria Kosco who will demonstrate her favorite techniques for working with clay, you can feel free to get your hands dirty and try it out for yourself.

Tie dye T-shirts w/Charlotte Borge...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 Jenei 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!

Origami w/ Haolun Liu , Jenny Liang, and Greysen HebelChristopher… this Dynamic trio will teach you the ins and outs of the ancient art of paper folding.

THE WORKSHOPS, cont...

Song writing w/ Aviva Nachman… Find out why your favorite song is your favorite , what makes a song catchy or popular. Then break up into groups (or work alone) to work on an original song.

Illuminations w/ James Feehan… Glare is the egg white based painting medium used in the technique of Medieval page decoration and illustration/ gilding. Notable examples like the book of Kell's and France's book of hours.

We will use the medium to decorate and design our own single letter choice in Medieval style.

Memory Collage w/ Lorraine Raywood Lorainne is an amazing Colage

artist her photo collages are currently being exhibited in a solo show at the Muse Gallery in Philadelphia. Lorraine will teach you how to collage an image around a memory. You will need to bring a Photograph of yourself from the time period of the memory if you can.

Deck Design w Jared Levy… come design your own graphic Skateboard

Deck. This is a very limited work shop; you will be able to draw your designs on a brand new deck using paint pens and Sharpies. Feel free to bring your old skate board and breathe new life into it, but remember to ride on campus you must protect your noggin.

Bird houses and Feeders w/ S.E.A.C… Come have fun making homes

and feeders for our feathered friends. Do something great for the environment.

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.

Knit w/Hanna, Kara, & the wonderful “knitwits” who will help you start a project or continue with one you are already working on.

Felting w/ Izzy Blasucci What do you do with colorful wool and soapy water? You felt of course! Felt a design or scene of your choice with wool and onto a square of wool. We'll sit outside in the sun (if it is nice out), listen to music and get super soapy with tubs of sudsy water and rolls of wool. You can come to learn how to wet felt and then get the chance to make whatever you wish by creating a design to felt onto a square or a little scene too!

Swirled Paint w/ Michael Wolman…

if you can imagine swirling

paint colors and then a plain old water bottle and put the two things together. You have a fun unique work of art and useful too. Feel free to bring other objects (plastic or metal) and we can play and make more.

Chinese Music demonstration and instruction w/ Keren Zhang& Cancy Han … Chinese Music&Art Appreciation workshop aims to share the music and art culture of China through teaching the traditional music instruments and the history behind them. The music instruments we are going to teach are "Erhu" and “Cucurbit Flute”.

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...use colorful ink to create beautiful paintings on silk

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. This workshop will be using tiles to make mosaic coasters.

Photograms... w/Kevin Cook... 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/Marta Hooijah ‌ never acted before? Want to try it out? Try some comedy Improv and spark the next star in you. Marta has done improv for four years and performed for Jason Alexander and was taught by his son, how cool is that!!

THE WORKSHOPS, cont...

Creative Writing Workshop w/ Renee A. Simons… Are you a teen who likes to blog, write poems, short stories, or even song lyrics? Through participating in fun writing exercises discussing bestselling fictional novel passages and lyrics, and optionally critiquing each other’s writings, we will discover the process of finding our own creative voice as writers.This short workshop is designed to expand your imaginations and exercise your creative muscles with words! Renee A. Simons is a lifestyle writer and blogger with a BA from Lehigh University in English as well as Graphic Design. Her quirky personal stories can be found in her bi-monthly "Ask StyleSkinny" column in TXTURE Magazine, "Heart of a Woman" a blog by the AWoman'sBusiness organization, "Klassy-Kinks" a Natural Hair Blog, as well as the websites of Old School 100.3 and Praise 103.9 Philadelphia radio stations. Her loves include family & friends, design arts, and of course creative writing! Renee resides in South Philadelphia with her overprotective (yet sweet!) cat, Amani, while she works on her first children's book slated to release later this year.

Comic Book workshop w/ Niara Wright… BOOM! POP! BLAM! Come release your inner super hero at the comic book workshop! Create your own character(s), write your own story and bring home your very own comic by you! Imagination required.

Chinese calligraphy and watercolors w/ Lucy Morgnanesi … I will be teaching the students the basics of holding and using a brush; the basics on using various techniques to apply ink to paper; the proper way/sequence to draw a character (from top to bottom and from left to right). The students will paint characters such as LOVE, HAPPINESS and HARMONY. If there is time, they also will paints flowers, animals and landscapes.

VERITE PAC SATURDAY, APRIL 18th, 7:30 pm

"VÉRITÉ is an indie-electro-pop musician from New York City.

For the first six months of their collaboration, VÉRITÉ and producer Elliot Jacobson (drummer for Ingrid Michaelson, Bess Rogers, Jenny Owen Youngs) never spent a minute of their time in the same room together. Encoded in discreet packets of 1’s and 0’s, they traded verses and choruses, synths and vocals, drums and bass back and forth online, crafting and refining and polishing all the while.

Two years later, those digital seeds have come to bloom with her debut release, the ‘Echo EP' which was released in October 2014. It’s a collection that defies easy categorization, tight and danceable with alt-pop sensibilities and a dark emotional undercurrent haunted by her silky, ethereal voice. Lead single “Strange Enough” is already turning heads on both sides of the pond, with BuzzFeed calling it one of the best songs of the summer and The Line Of Best Fit hailing VÉRITÉ as a “rising pop star ready to make her mark.” Upon its release, the track hit #1 most viral on Twitter and earned her the #1 spot on Hype Machine, along with additional love from Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon, Refinery29, Idolator, and more.

VÉRITÉ grew up in a musical household, where she was encouraged by her father (a Latin/rock musician) and addicted to alternative radio. She began covering The Cranberries and Four Non Blondes at open mic nights, started a punk rock cover band at the age of 13, and by 16, was writing her own material."

ARCHEDREAM PAC TUESDAY, APRIL 21st, Assembly

ArcheDream for HUMANKIND has performed shows and taught workshops to thousands of adults and children across the world, seeking to influence its audience to think beyond their means.

ArcheDream for Humankind uses Archetypes- which are universal thoughts, ideas or emotions, in their performances to reach audiences across the globe.

ADHK tours repertoire performances that tell stories through the use of archetypes. The use of these archetypal characters makes ArcheDream performances easily relatable to audiences of all ages.

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.