The Artist and the Devine Daze, a blog about art, observations, and my life: Workshops we did with the New Genre XIX visting artists

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I am the instructor for ArtCore, a program that is very unique. It encourages children to explore art beyond drawing, paintings, etc into field such as video art, performance art, music, sculpture, etc.
At the end of the program, we put all of these different fields together into a final presentation.

I am also a painter and video artist. It is difficult to make art and teach it in this economy and I may have to give it up soon so I can pay off my student loans. I live and breath art and giving less and less time to it has become a reality.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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
tEEth
Benjamin Entner
Laura Tanner
viDEO sAVant

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!