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Art Colony Presents: Textiles with Donna Chung

08.29.11

Fifteen busy bees spent the week experimenting with many types of textile arts: weaving, embroidery, shibori dying, wool felting, finger knitting, braiding, and more! Their beautiful and adventurous handiwork speaks for itself! (Weavings were put to creative use, as shown…)

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Art Colony Presents: Experimental Animation with Will Ellis

08.29.11

Take a boundary-pushing, mind-expanding, eye-opening trip to the world of experimentation! In one short week on Governors Isle, this class of inimitable animators created short films with a host of materials, (both traditional and wildly unconventional), using techniques borrowed from some of the most innovatory artists in the history of animation.

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Art Colony Presents: Organic Art with Jamie Kelty

08.18.11

We roved the island as a happy pack collecting materials from nature to add into our art projects. The students and teaching artists used the island time and the studio time to fully engage their imaginations. We learned about artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Eve Hesse, Tara Donovan, Leon Ferrari, and Mira Schendel. The students were so open to new ideas, incorporating natural objects, and expressing themselves in a variety of art mediums. What a beautiful week!

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Art Colony Presents: Fairytale Films with Emily Collins

08.18.11

The artists behind We Have Tales created stories of enchanted forests, sleeping princesses, evil kings and a water-breathing dragon. They even crafted wings that enabled them to fly - no strings attached! Please enjoy this charmed compilation.

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Art Colony Presents: Cinematography with Will Ellis

08.18.11

What does a cinematographer do anyway? Just ask one of these fine young directors of photography, who in a matter of days mastered the technical demands of camera operation, explored the expressive use of camera angles and movement, and experimented with the boundless possibilities of film lighting. This crackerjack crew of six visual storytellers collaborated on three outstanding short films–at once charming and undeniably unsettling–experiencing first-hand the unique blend of art and science that is cinematography. One last word of advice before plunging into this triple feature–don’t eat the mushrooms.

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Art Colony Presents: Claymation with Joe Vena

08.14.11

Goodbye 182 was created in early August by the brilliant young artists of the Claymation Art Colony in Soho. It is a bitter sweet salute and a knowing nod to CMA’s soon to be former home. And it has whining bunnies…

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Art Colony Presents: Printmaking with Caroline McAculiffe

08.13.11

The Colony of Print-makers spent the week exploring various techniques and processes. Each printer made an edition of foam plate prints inspired by the current Featured Teaching Artist Exhibit, Little Nouns and the Drawings that Loved Them. After seeing the exhibition students created entitled entitled Things I love/dislike/think are lovely. The class worked on a large-scale collaborative rubber band collograph inspired by Tara Donovan’s rubber band print series. The plates and their print will be shown in Beyond the Refrigerator Door on September 10th. Students designed their own silkscreen images by drawing directly on the screens with water-soluble crayons to personalize their CMA shirts for Final Friday.

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Art Colony Presents: Set Building with Will Ellis

08.13.11

Oh, the places they built! 28 dexterous hands and 14 incredible minds teamed up last week to create four miniature locales of dizzying diversity! Let us take you on a trip… Where you’ll promenade down a jelly bean road, dive to the dreaded depths of an underwater city, catapult back to a medieval realm, and uncover the horror of that miasmal mausoleum buried beneath a… toxic waste factory?!?!? Happy travels.

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Art Colony Presents: Ceramics with Mandy Talbot

08.13.11

Students learned a wealth of information about the wonderful world of clay in this weeklong class. They dove head first into hand building techniques such as pinch, coil, and slab building. Their ever-growing enthusiasm for the medium culminated in a collaborative piece based upon the installation, “Folly”, by ceramicist Beth Kattleman seen on their Wednesday field trip to the Museum of Art and Design. Students were able to stretch their imaginations and test their 3-dimensional minds in this week’s exploration of clay. (And what a great job they did!)

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