We went for a field trip at Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park. We were really welcome at the Noguchi Museum that let us do a self guided tour. We focused in comparing the work of Noguchi with Tom Sachs, … Continue reading The Space in Between – Week 3 – Noguchi Museum Field Trip
Today we had a nice group of photo enthusiast eager to learn more. We learned about exposure and Macro. To practice everyone brought something from the own Culture. Carmen brought a poncho from Colombia, hand weaved and a small balcony … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop – Week 2
In this second class I presented a lecture about Body Imprints. Showing references of modern and contemporary artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Janine Antoni, Francisco Tropa, among others who uses they own body to make an imprint in a canvas, … Continue reading The Space in Between with Liene Bosquê – Week 2
In our first encounter at the library we learn about the participants a diverse group, adults in different ages from different countries like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Perú, Dominican Republic. All with different stories to tell but they all have … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop week 1
Sami discussed some of the political dimensions of traditional Syrian music, as part of a panel conversation on links between the present conflict and historical migrations. Other panelists were Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, a nonprofit that … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 8
In this first class we did an exercise creating a clay relief. Students prepared the oil clay, feeling the hard consistency of it and how the heat of our hands make the clay to become more malleable to be easier … Continue reading The Space in Between workshop – Week 1
The class reviewed all of the concepts explored in the previous classes, comparing the mood of the different maqams (melodic modes) in the songs “Min Hubbi Fiik Ya Gaari” and “ish-showq mihayyarni.” We reviewed some of the rhythmic patterns used … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 7
Saturday May 21st was the culmination of our workshop; in order to celebrate we had a graduation party, but not before we squeezed in one last grammar lesson. Since last week we closed our class by introducing the Past Simple … Continue reading ESOL workshop with Jennifer Cruz Marulanda – Week 8
This past Saturday, May 14th, we had a very special class. Our students were granted the opportunity to present any art or artist of their choice during our class time. The idea was to employ the knowledge about art and … Continue reading ESOL workshop with Jennifer Cruz Marulanda – week 7
On 5/8 we explored the music and culture of Aleppo, Syria. We sang two quduud (upbeat songs): “Sayyid il-Asaari” and “Qaddukal Mayyas” and listened to performances by Mustafa Maher and Sabah Fakhri, the most famous 20th century singer of the … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt – Week 4
