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Workshops we did with the New Genre XIX visting artists

Every year, Living Arts of Tulsa has something called the New Genre Festival. Several artists come in from around the world to present their work to the Tulsa public for 3 weeks.

WHAT IS NEW GENRE?
New Genre refers to non-traditional forms of art, which are experimental
and fresh.  The New Genre Festival presents a diverse range of artists, many
of whom cross disciplinary lines, to create exciting new art works.  These
works push the limits of traditional media while incorporating the new media
made possible by today’s technology.

Artists and Artist group from the past include:
Cloud Eye Control
Kristina Wong
Emily Johnson
Eileen Doktorski
José Torres Tama  
Dave Gedosh
URSULA SCHERRER & MICHELLE NAGAI 
and many, many more

Some of the artist from New Genre Festival XIX (2012) include:
Kathy Rose
Lindsey Allgood
Erica Mott 
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Benjamin Entner 
Laura Tanner 
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Artist Benjamin Entner instructed a workshop with the ArtCore students and guests on how to create inflatable sculpture and installation artwork.

 The students first created a shape that would be simple to turn into a 3D form (i.e. a cube, pyramid, bannana), by drawing it on a piece of paper. Then, they carefully cut it out, brought it over to the projector, set up a large piece of Tyvec on the wall, then adjusted the shadow of their projected shape to where it fit on the piece of Tyvek. They then traced the shadow, cut it out, sewed the seams, leaving a small opening for something to blow it up (i.e. a blow dryer).

The kids had a blast with this!

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Artist Erica Mott encouraged the students to think outside the box with incorporating performance and objects:

Artist Kathy Rose teaches the students about using projections, objects, and shadows to create art:

The ArtCore Program at Living Arts

The Spring 2012 ArtCore Studio project is entitled “Color My Dreams”. The students are exploring various subjects and imagery of dreams (such as flying, falling, loss, happiness, safety, etc) , all either positive and/or negative. We are conveying this imagery through the use of projections and artworks created by the students to be set up as a “dream-like” environment, inviting the onlooker to step into their dreams.
The students have chosen to create imagery of nightmares and dreams. Colors that are associated with both the positive and negative are explored through sculptural, 2D, and video work. Warmer colors, such as red and orange, are associated with nightmares, and cooler colors, such as blue and purple, are associated with dreams.
The video projections created were made to represent dreams being projected from one’s mind. There will be an area for the audience to lie down and view some projections, as well as on the walls and various objects. The students will also be creating shadows on the live projection screen, over the video that was made earlier of them doing the same thing. This is meant to create a sort of “dream with in a dream”.
-Mery McNett

Made possible with assistance from the Oklahoma Arts Council.