SEMINAR PROFILE

A11 -
Safe Places and the Idea of Home

In this seminar we will first address the means and requirements for creating a work space with our following meetings being a studio on the depiction of home and its meaning in art. One of the first rules of plastic art making is the designation of a dedicated place to work. When one enters that space, one is working on art, no matter what the production. The mind becomes trained to respond in that space, to allow the unconscious to do creative work. Artists have to be able to create such spaces for themselves, including temporary ones. With great frequency, artists have also traveled looking for visual homes -- because the light, the landscape, the architecture, the demographics feel important. The idea of place, of course, has changed as the world has become smaller, more confusing as has the idea of home has expanded and been redefined. Preparation for the course will involve reading a lecture paper sent out beforehand and one drawing exercise. Participants are asked to spend 2 1/2 hours (in one sitting or up to five) making marks of any kind on a surface while considering the issues of home and safety. Please bring the drawings to the first session, in which we also discuss the paper and begin the process of making art. The remaining two sessions will be devoted to studio work. TAS will provide acrylic paint supplies and canvas paper, as well as drawing materials, but participants are welcome to use other visual media and, if desired, sound.

Scholar:

Susan Erony

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

4/8/2011, 4/12/2011, 4/15/2011

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A11 -	Safe Places and the Idea of Home

	In this seminar we will first address the means and requirements for creating a work space with our following meetings being a studio on the depiction of home and its meaning in art. One of the first rules of plastic art making is the designation of a dedicated place to work. When one enters that space, one is working on art, no matter what the production. The mind becomes trained to respond in that space, to allow the unconscious to do creative work. Artists have to be able to create such spaces for themselves, including temporary ones. With great frequency, artists have also traveled looking for visual homes -- because the light, the landscape, the architecture, the demographics feel important. The idea of place, of course, has changed as the world has become smaller, more confusing as has the idea of home has expanded and been redefined. Preparation for the course will involve reading a lecture paper sent out beforehand and one drawing exercise. Participants are asked to spend 2 1/2 hours (in one sitting or up to five) making marks of any kind on a surface while considering the issues of home and safety. Please bring the drawings to the first session, in which we also discuss the paper and begin the process of making art. The remaining two sessions will be devoted to studio work. TAS will provide acrylic paint supplies and canvas paper, as well as drawing materials, but participants are welcome to use other visual media and, if desired, sound.

		Scholar:	Susan Erony
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	4/8/2011, 4/12/2011, 4/15/2011