I am in the home stretch of my thesis work, those 4,000 prints just snuck right up on me. Tonight I facilitate the second of four printmaking workshops in Remington at Porch Art. If you want to see what that's all about, Porch Art now has a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remington-Porch-Art/218720528159837 I have met some really awesome people at Porch Art, last summer and this summer. It's a really great community program, run by volunteers, with donated supplies. Community Arts greatness lives there!
Check ya for now, I gotta run to get to school and get a parking spot...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
FUNFUNFUN
Hey, been pretty busy what with my three (!) summer sites and my thesis work. I am steadily creating my 4,000 collograph prints, and will be starting the two new sites next week. So in that vein, I present to you, Street Studio!!! I will be facilitating art activities for all ages in East Baltimore, somewhat in front of MICA PLACE. I will also be facilitating four printmaking workshops (collograph and screen printing) at Remington's Porch Art on Tuesdays in June and July for the grant I received. All of these are FREE neighborhood activities.
Look at the cool Street Studio poster that Natalie Tranelli, (one of my partners in art/crime) created for the first session...
Look at the cool Street Studio poster that Natalie Tranelli, (one of my partners in art/crime) created for the first session...
I'm rarin' to go!!!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Dreams
Community art work from all of our AmeriCorps / Community Art Collaborative sites will be on display at MICA soon! The House Of Ruth Maryland will be represented by a selection of Worry Dolls and collograph-printed pillows created by the women in the Empowerment Therapy Group and youth under the age of ten. It's an art series that is participatory in nature. Here is the awesome looking postcard...
Come to this show Baltimore!
ETA: There is a selection of affordable ART made by the youth available at Ruth's Closet! 100% of the proceeds go the the House Of Ruth Maryland programs.
Youth Art For Sale!
I cannot recommend these enough, I honestly want to horde them all for myself. They are perfect as a gift for a loved one...and it's never too early to shop for Xmas stocking stuffers. Please consider a very small purchase of art made by very important children.
ETA: These pieces are now available at Ruth's Closet!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Being a Professional
I just designed a website and new business cards!
Here's what the front of my business cards look like!
The website has a healthy start, but it's not nearly finished. And soon, I will be setting up a paypal account in order to sell some of my pieces. Here it is, check it! shanagoetsch.com
Other than that, I am printing my thousands of collographs all up in here!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
More Crit photos
The lovely Alexis Iammarino sent me these photos that she shot during our final crit...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Row Houses Galore
Today we had our final crit, which was excellent. So I'm definitely ending this semester on a high note...we go back to class in mid-June and then we graduate and have our final visual thesis show up in July. YAY!
The last two suites of images were what I presented today...and I got photos! I can only imagine the printed piece when it has over 4,000 prints. There are only about 400 finished now and I was still impressed. I had never seen them all at once, rolled out, so it was a proud moment. I was also pleased with how the four large plates turned out...very worn and dilapidated, and the inks dimmed the brightness of the materials I used....the color was dimmed or covered, just like domestic violence does to people. The metaphor was sound, and it was 'read' by everyone at crit. Very cool.
After crit I hung the second portion of my thesis at Jubilee Arts (the large scale plates pictured below) along with the shelter residents' art which revolved around the idea of "safe spaces". I think it looks good, but it's so difficult to take photos of art through glass. I'm not satisfied, so I'll have to try again tomorrow, when I drop off the statements and put the finishing touches on it for Friday's opening. But these photos (below) are a good representation of my work. I will update the flickr sites soon enough and post a link to the exhibition images. Until then, final crit images!
The last two suites of images were what I presented today...and I got photos! I can only imagine the printed piece when it has over 4,000 prints. There are only about 400 finished now and I was still impressed. I had never seen them all at once, rolled out, so it was a proud moment. I was also pleased with how the four large plates turned out...very worn and dilapidated, and the inks dimmed the brightness of the materials I used....the color was dimmed or covered, just like domestic violence does to people. The metaphor was sound, and it was 'read' by everyone at crit. Very cool.
After crit I hung the second portion of my thesis at Jubilee Arts (the large scale plates pictured below) along with the shelter residents' art which revolved around the idea of "safe spaces". I think it looks good, but it's so difficult to take photos of art through glass. I'm not satisfied, so I'll have to try again tomorrow, when I drop off the statements and put the finishing touches on it for Friday's opening. But these photos (below) are a good representation of my work. I will update the flickr sites soon enough and post a link to the exhibition images. Until then, final crit images!
3Tributaries
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Coming Up Soon at Jubilee Arts
On Friday May 6, 2011, the second community art exhibition for House Of Ruth Maryland will have its opening reception at Jubilee Arts from 3:30-5:30 pm. The second part of my own visual thesis, 3Tributaries will be up as well, for the duration of the month of May. Refreshments will be provided and a participatory art workshop will be available to all that come!
Come and see it Baltimore!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
More on the Quilt
We are showing our finished quilt for the first time on Monday, after our critique. It will be up at MICA in Baltimore for the next few months in various buildings. The fb invite is here:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=216346221710787&index=1
More updates to come, as we are still building the structure...
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=216346221710787&index=1
More updates to come, as we are still building the structure...
Photo by Anne Kotleba
Sunday, April 17, 2011
'Tis SOLD!
I just found out that my row house painting/print at the Art on Paper show was purchased by "the Fox's". I do not know who the Fox's are, but thank you, the Fox's! It was very validating to hear, since it's one of the pieces that led me to my current visual thesis work, 3Tributaries.
To better see the piece, go to this earlier post: http://artinshanaty.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-on-paper.html
And here it is in the MFA Circle Gallery with its red dot:
To better see the piece, go to this earlier post: http://artinshanaty.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-on-paper.html
And here it is in the MFA Circle Gallery with its red dot:
No longer mine.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
NYC and Wisconsin
I have a few photos on flickr now from the recent mural tour of New York City that MAC/CAC took. I also have a few more recent photos of my quilt piece, or as I like to call it, "fabric collage". I changed the original theme from women's rights to workers' rights because I have been so obsessed with what has been going on in Madison and around the country. It actually hurts me when I watch the news, because I can't be in Wisconsin to protest this (imo) insanity.
Link to flickr set of the NYC mural tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artinshanaty/sets/72157626317402639/
The statement for my quilted piece is as follows:
The bird is used here as a metaphor for freedom, forward movement and our basic human rights. Specifically, I have been thinking about the nationwide attack and vilification of the working class in America. When "birds" are caged and their voices are squelched, all freedom is lost.
When they cannot sing, they scream.
Link to flickr set of the NYC mural tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artinshanaty/sets/72157626317402639/
The statement for my quilted piece is as follows:
The bird is used here as a metaphor for freedom, forward movement and our basic human rights. Specifically, I have been thinking about the nationwide attack and vilification of the working class in America. When "birds" are caged and their voices are squelched, all freedom is lost.
When they cannot sing, they scream.
Finished (but without the cage bars) piece above.
This is the official state seal on the Wisconsin state flag, and it's located near the top of the piece. We are having a simulated "cage bar" down the center and across each of the pieces. I placed this centrally because I knew the two people would be severed/divided...just as Wisconsin is right now.
This writing above says: Collective bargaining is a democratic action that keeps us one step away from slavery and takes us several steps closer to equality.
Located in the center of this raven's body is a sacred heart with the words "Forward" and "Wisconsin" across it. The writing at the bottom says "Forward not Backward".
P.S. The Wisconsin state statue by Jean P. Miner is also entitled "Forward".
P.S. The Wisconsin state statue by Jean P. Miner is also entitled "Forward".
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Virtual Tour
You can cruise around the Maryland Federation of Art exhibition that I'm currently in, Art on Paper with this cool virtual tour feature! Check it out!
http://www.panoramastreet.com/live/Demos/MDfederationofart/
ETA: Ah ha! It's a NEW feature for MFA. I found this article written about the show and its panorama-ness.
http://www.panoramastreet.com/live/Demos/MDfederationofart/
ETA: Ah ha! It's a NEW feature for MFA. I found this article written about the show and its panorama-ness.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Funnin'
During our team meeting on Friday morning, we worked on our quilts, reviewed our quilts collectively, figured out the order of where the pieces would go, and then generally screwed around and hammed it up. Here are some of the photos taken yesterday by our professors:
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Collected Voices - Collected Dreams
An upcoming House Of Ruth Maryland community art exhibition will be held at Jubilee Arts starting on April 1st. The Jubilee Arts community will add to the exhibition all month long! And there will be free art classes taught by me for 8 weeks! I will start to hang the show tomorrow...
Fabric Collage-ing
'Fabric Collage' = my version of quilting. Yeah, I gotta be different. MACAns were tasked with a quilting project a few months ago. This is a Quilting for Social Justice project, brought to us by Dr. Joan M. E. Gaither. She was lovely and smart, and made beautiful art, but I have to say, quilting is not my bag! And these have got to be the largest quilting pieces ever made. They're like, 5 foot by 3 foot or something as ridiculously large (we MACAns dream big).
Needless to say, this was a struggle for me aesthetically. How to make this quilt something that I would make (hint: I would never make a quilt). So the challenge for me was not so much the social justice aspect, or the message, but instead the actual medium. So my solution was that I glued everything. I used no-sew glue and treated it like a giant collage...with fabric. I may add a little paint later, I have been thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm just about finished. I still have to add the words, and I have to rethink the words I picked out two months ago, but the rest of it is finished. We had decided that our overall theme would be "cages". In fact, the quilt will have a (giant) armature and thus become an actual (giant) cage. Each of the six of us got to create one "view", or social commentary into the cage. We will each have a bar down the middle of our pieces as well, to simulate the caged-in feeling. I will have more details on all of this later, and I'm sure, many more photos. I just wanted to give you some in-progress shots...mine is a bird, and it will be about workers rights. I have been particularly affected by everything going on in Wisconsin right now (and the rest of the country, for that matter).
Needless to say, this was a struggle for me aesthetically. How to make this quilt something that I would make (hint: I would never make a quilt). So the challenge for me was not so much the social justice aspect, or the message, but instead the actual medium. So my solution was that I glued everything. I used no-sew glue and treated it like a giant collage...with fabric. I may add a little paint later, I have been thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm just about finished. I still have to add the words, and I have to rethink the words I picked out two months ago, but the rest of it is finished. We had decided that our overall theme would be "cages". In fact, the quilt will have a (giant) armature and thus become an actual (giant) cage. Each of the six of us got to create one "view", or social commentary into the cage. We will each have a bar down the middle of our pieces as well, to simulate the caged-in feeling. I will have more details on all of this later, and I'm sure, many more photos. I just wanted to give you some in-progress shots...mine is a bird, and it will be about workers rights. I have been particularly affected by everything going on in Wisconsin right now (and the rest of the country, for that matter).
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