Our Time Together Performing I can mentally picture people gathering their belongings, checking their stoves carefully, making sure that they have their keys and their IDs with them, and putting cough drops and metro cards in their bags. Most … Continue reading Our Time Together Performing with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
In our first class, we focused on creating a pleasant and friendly relationship between all the participants as we understand that is the key to a deeper learning in the short term workshop. Students learned and practiced the … Continue reading The Colors of Life, Spanish for Mandarin Speakers – Week 1
Time flies by, we reached our last workshop day! We had a small critic looking pieces that were made during the course, to reflect on all the processes experienced during classes such as the moldings in oily clay, water-based clay … Continue reading The Space in Between-Week 6
In today’s class the students got a chance to discuss about their experiences visiting neighborhoods of different cultures. Each one of them got the opportunity to learn about the lifestyles and the foods within that group. One of the students … Continue reading LIC, mi Barrio – week 6
This was our last hands on class! It was a class to see and touch some samples of different kinds of molds materials such as silicone, plaster as well as casting materials like paper pulp, liquid plastic, cement, wax, clay. … Continue reading The Space in Between – Week 5
Este martes New New Yorkers pudieron ver un corto documental sobre la muy relevante fotógrafa mexicana Graciela Iturbide, el título del documental: Más de mil palabras. Durante el corto, la fotógrafa se explayo y habló de cómo convertirse en un … Continue reading LIC, mi Barrio – Week 5
During our class 5, we reviewed artworks done by contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith, Antony Gomerly, Janine Antoni among others, as references for the body cast assignment we were going to make using alginate mold our own body parts; … Continue reading The Space in Between- Week 5
During this class we worked with plaster bandage to do body cast. The students watch the demo in how to use the material, after that they use their own bodies as molds and they did a sculpture that came out … Continue reading The Space in Between – Week 4
Today class was about portraits, candid, staged, street, studio. The participants applied skills such as direction-giving to their models. They got in groups of three where two of them got to give their third member instructions on how to pose … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop – Week 4
Esta semana, hemos explorado variantes de la composición y los diversos factores de esta que influyen para una persona pase más tiempo contemplando, analizando y atraido con imágenes que creamos en la fotografia, recordando que nosotros somos los que decidimos … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop – Week 3
