TEEN WORKSHOP
American Teen
Graffiti Art with Percy Fortini-Wright
kids + money
Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity
Awkward Stage with Danica Mattias
Oct 7–Dec 2, 2011
The exhibition in Ketchum looks at teen culture through the lens of surface and identity. Wood River Valley artist Pamela DeTuncq has created an installation for the exhibition that she calls Flock: body-cast sculptures of teens dressed in wool sweatshirts and felted pants, absorbed in electronic devices. Graffiti artist Percy Fortini-Wright worked with local teens to create a painted environment for DeTuncq’s figures. Acclaimed photographer Jona Frank’s Boys Project traces the physical changes as well the shifts in interests that boys undergo during the teen years. Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield explores the relationship between adolescence, consumer culture and, in particular, what it means to be a teen girl today in her intimate and candid photos. Photographer Matthew Hayes spent a year traveling Highway 93, photographing people of all ages, including many teens, in motels, at rodeos, at rivers and on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Artist Miguel Farias and art student Allison Reilly collaborated on Gh0st L1fe, time-lapse photos of teens interacting with electronic media. The photos are ghostly portraits of figures bathed in, and absorbed by, the cool glowing light of digital screens. Father and daughter Richard Ross and Leela Cyd Ross spent four years collaborating on the Leela Cyd Project, photographs of Leela Cyd each morning before she left for high school (often wearing clothing she designed or altered). Accompanied by fragments from her diary, the photos document her transition from childhood to adulthood. Lauren Marie Taylor spent several years teaching art in a Portland high school where she also painted portraits of her students. These portraits depict students wearing clothing patterned with symbols drawn from cultures that Taylor feels express the way these teens see themselves within their families and within the high school hierarchy.
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St. Luke’s Center for Community Health offers education and outreach to assist and enhance the health of individuals and families in our community. Many programs specifically address youth and their parents, including puberty education, Cuidate HIV prevention education program, Super Sitter babysitting classes, and YAK! (Youth Adult Konnections). Weekly Brown Bag health education talks are free, one hour presentations by our physicians and other local experts. Many of the Brown Bag talks offer useful information for parents and educators. For more information, call 208.727.8733, or visit www.stlukesonline.org
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BOISE ID PERMIT NO. 679
Screenings before Nov 17 Exhibition Tour and during Gallery Walks In this 32 minute documentary award-winning photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has an honest conversation with kids about money. The subjects come from varied income levels, but all feel the pressures of consumerism. Each kid discusses his or her obsessive shopping habits and the feelings behind them. Among those interviewed are Matthew, a successful TV actor who largely supports his family, Cameron, a teenage aspiring rapper with a legendary sneaker collection, and Emmanuel, a label obsessed teen who saves scrupulously to purchase luxury items his classmates can easily afford.
In late September, local teens spent two and a half days working with Boston-based graffiti artist Percy Fortini-Wright, learning the history of graffiti and creating graffiti art on large sheets of plywood. These sheets form the background for artist Pamela DeTuncq’s installation Flock, featured in The Center’s Ketchum exhibition.
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Wed, Oct 12, 6:30pm The Community School Auditorium Free Award-winning documentary director Nanette Burstein turned her camera on the life of five teens at Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw, Indiana for their entire senior year. Viewers are invited into the daily lives of the Prom Queen, the Jock, the Rebel, the Heartthrob and the Geek to experience the drama and trauma of high school through each of their eyes. It is a revealing, sometimes troubling, and always familiar look into the life of an American teenager.
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October 7 – December 2, 2011
Sat, Oct 29, 3–5pm The Center, Ketchum FREE Join us as we discover the exhibition Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity. Families will have an opportunity to tour the exhibition and create an art project focusing on the self-portrait. Young artists will create a self-portrait by using card stock, watercolors, wax resist and a variety of mixed media materials.
The teenage years have always been a time for pushing boundaries, rebelling against authority, and defying the status quo. While adults often dismiss teenage trends as mere fads, adolescents are key players in shaping contemporary culture, from fashion to film and music. Transitioning from childhood to adulthood, teenagers
Opening Celebration and Gallery Walks
Fri, Oct 7 & Fri, Nov 25, 5–8pm Free at The Center, Ketchum Enjoy a glass of wine as you view the exhibition. Artists Pamela DeTuncq and Matthew Hayes will speak about their work at the opening celebration on Friday, October 7, at 6pm.
Evening Exhibition Tours
Thu, Oct 13 & Thu, Nov 17, 5:30pm Free at The Center, Ketchum Tour Awkward Stage with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Oct 13: Jona Frank will screen her 30 minute film Between Classes and discuss her photos. Nov 17: We’ll screen Lauren Greenfield’s kids + money at 5pm.
Free Exhibition Tours
Tue, Oct 18, 2pm and by appointment The Center, Ketchum Trained Gallery Guides offer insights into the artwork on display in free tours of our exhibitions.
images, clockwise from top: Miguel Farias and Allison Reilly, Hulu (907) from the Gh0st L1fe Project, 2010, C-print, ed. 4, courtesy the artists; Jona Frank, Simon, 2005, chromogenic print, courtesy the artist; Matthew Hayes, Martin Bridge, Silver Creek, Idaho, 2007, silver gelatin print, courtesy the artist.
VISUAL ARTS, HAILEY Awkward Stage
THEATER in collaboration with Company of Fools
Oct 14–Dec 9, 2011
Students at Hailey’s Sage School have worked with Center staff and local photographer Dev Khalsa to curate an exhibition of portraits of themselves and their peers. The exhibition will offer local teens the opportunity to present their ideas about what it means to be an adolescent today and how they perceive themselves. Students have been involved in every step of the curatorial process from creating and choosing the final work to writing wall text and lighting the show.
Opening Celebration
Fri, Oct 14, 5:30–7pm The Center, Hailey Join us as we celebrate the opening of Awkward Stage with the Sage School students who are the exhibition’s artists and curators. This project made possible in part through generous support from the
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Commencement written and directed by Clay McLeod Chapman
Fri, Nov 4, 7pm, Liberty Theater, Hailey For ticket info: www.companyoffools.org Originally commissioned by Company of Fools, Commencement features one actress playing three women drawn together in the aftermath of a high school shooting—the mother of the shooter, one of the shooter’s victims, and the mother of that victim. The play is a deep exploration of the lives of three women that, according to SEE Magazine “…will leave you wringing your hands in helpless empathy.” Commencement will be performed for school matinees on November 3 and 4. Commencement Sponsors: Linda and Bill Potter, and Priscilla Pittaglio
TEEN PHOTO PROJECT What does adolescence look like? If you are a middle or high school student in the valley, we want to see your answer to this question! Take one or two photos that capture your idea of what adolescence looks like and submit them to The Center’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/sunvalleycenterforthearts). We’ll post them on our website and print them for inclusion in our exhibition at The Center, Ketchum. Submissions are limited to photos by 12–18 year old Blaine County students. Everyone who submits a photo will be entered into a random drawing for a $350 gift certificate to the Board Bin! All submissions are also eligible for a $150 gift certificate awarded to the People’s Choice winner, determined by the most votes from gallery visitors. Upload your photos to The Center’s Facebook page no later than Monday, November 7, to qualify for the gift certificate drawing and People’s Choice award. Visitors are encouraged to come into The Center and vote for their favorite photo by Thursday, December 1. Winners of both the random drawing and the People’s Choice award will be notified on Friday, December 2. (Any photos deemed inappropriate for this public site will be removed.)
struggle to gain independence. This push for freedom means that the teenage years are also a critical time for creative self-expression. This multidisciplinary project explores what it means to be a teenager in the 21st century, and how teens define and differentiate themselves through their choices in clothing, hair, music, and technology. How are teenagers today different from those who came of age before i-pods, texting and unprecedented highs in teen buying power? What remains the same?
LECTURES Creating Balance, Powerful Communication and Higher Self-Esteem in the Life of your Teen with Midge Patzer
Thu, Oct 27, 6:30pm The Center, Ketchum FREE In this free workshop, Midge Patzer, local author of Teenagers: Unlocking Personal Power, will give parents the tools they need to help guide their own teens in their search for personal power. She will address the importance of physical, spiritual, emotional and mental balance in teens’ lives. She will share ideas for opening up positive channels for communication with teens. And she will discuss the importance of self-esteem and ways of helping teens build positive self-image.
images: above: Lauren Greenfield, Joyce, 15, Elysia, 14, and Allison, then 14, at their friend Jane’s sixteenth birthday party, Arlington, Virginia, 1999, dye destruction, ed. 6/25, courtesy the artist and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; left: Leela Cyd Ross and Richard Ross (collaboration), 2/1/1999, 12/7/1999 and 11/8/2000, from The Leela Cyd Project, 1996-2001, color photographs, courtesy the artists; cover: Pamela DeTuncq, Flock (detail), 2011, Hydrocal and sheep wool, courtesy the artist; mailer: Lauren Marie Taylor, Protection, 2010, pencil and ink on paper, courtesy the artist.
Lois Lowry
Thu, Nov 3, 6:30pm Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood, Ketchum $15 / $25 nonmembers, $5 students Lois Lowry has written more than thirty books for children and has twice received the prestigious Newbery Medal. She is known for addressing difficult subject matters ranging from racism to terminal illness, murder and the Holocaust. Thoughtful, challenging and never condescending, her work resonates with children and adults. Lowry’s The Giver is widely read in our school district and is required for students at Wood River Middle School. This classic young adult novel addresses the controversial and important issue of questioning authority. Adults are invited to read or reread this book and join the discussion with students. Lowry will spend time in the WRMS discussing her book wtih students. Lecture sponsors: Britt and Peter Palmedo