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Program: NLE Curatorial Lab
Friday, February 22 2013 - Friday, March 22 2013
'Gathering Place'
Open Friday-Monday, 1-7pm
25 w 8th street
Greenwich Village
Where now the tide of traffic beats / There was a maze of crooked streets; the noisy waves of enterprise / Swift-hurrying to their destinies / Swept past this island paradise: / Here life went to a gentler place / And dreams and dreamers found a place. -Floyd Dell
No Longer Empty's new NLE Curatorial Lab program is pleased to announce an upcoming contemporary art exhibition at 24 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Selected artists fill this formerly-vacant storefront with site-specific works that explore the street and neighborhood's unique history of commerce and culture, and envision 8th Street's rebirth as a mixed-use destination corridor, engaging the community in critical dialogue around its future.
The artists in Gathering Place respond to residents' expressed desire for new spaces on West 8th Street and in the surrounding neighborhood that provide not only interesting dining and shopping experiences, but also communal and cultural experiences that call out to the area's history.
Artworks include installations in different media that resurrect specific aspects of the area's past or even incorporate found materials from the neighborhood. Participatory art projects will gather visitors' observations and opinions about this site and its ideal future development. Collected responses will be shared through the exhibition's run.
PROGRAMMING:
Cup-Drawing with Gwyneth Leech
Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, 1-4pm, FREE
Don’t throw those take-out coffee cups away—turn them into art! Cupcycling artist
Gwyneth Leech will be on site to draw on cups with visitors of all ages, alongside her cup
art installation. There will be empty cups for you to use, or bring your own!
Story Time with Micki Wantanabe Spiller
Sundays: March 3rd , 10th, and 17th, 1pm, FREE
Children ages pre-K-10 can experience the wonder of books and the joy of reading. Spiller
will introduce a selection of children’s books that relate to Greenwich Village, and a craft
project with Village-specific coloring book pages and a competition to design your own!
Village Photo Scavenger Hunt with Lomography
Sunday, March 17th 2-4pm, $10
The Lomography studio on West 8th Street and NLE Lab curators will co-lead a scavenger
hunt for all ages on and around 8th Street. Learn how to use Lomography’s unique film
cameras to explore the neighborhood’s rich history of commerce and culture.
ARTISTS FEATURED Luisa Caldwell / Rebecca Hackemann / Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel / Gwyneth Leech / Jennifer Maravillas / Simonetta Moro / Eleanor Ray / Ira Sachs / Micki Watanabe Spiller / Gail Thacker / Seldon Yuan
EMERGING CURATORS
Katherine Gressel is a New York-based artist, curator and writer focused on site-specific art. She received her BA in art from Yale and MA in arts administration from Columbia University. She has worked as project director and curator for the FIGMENT Sculpture Garden on Governors Island and her original annual exhibition series, Brooklyn Utopias, engaging local social and environmental issues. She currently serves as Programs Manager at Smack Mellon gallery.
Jessica Wallen is a New York-based arts facilitator, curator, and writer. Before moving to the East Coast to study at New York University in 2010, she produced exhibitions in San Francisco and Berlin while devoting her time to advisory board duties for non-profit alternative art spaces. She currently works as a consultant for MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design.
ABOUT NLE CURATORIAL LAB
Through an eight week program, emerging curators will be able to hone and expand on their skills and knowledge through the tools provided by No Longer Empty and our collaborators through every step of the process. The experience will offer curators resources, networking opportunities, knowledge and practical experience which will be invaluable to their career path. Curatorial guidance will be provided by Manon Slome and guest curators as lecturers.
Participants will
· Attend and meaningfully contribute to weekly lectures/workshops
· Conduct research on site, artists and organizations
· Schedule and lead diverse artist studio visits
· Critically discuss aspects of exhibition design such as wall text, lighting etc
· Arrange at least one public program that delves into a topic relevant to the exhibition.
Apply for our next Curatorial Lab program in fall of 2013. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis from emerging curators interested in becoming engaged in socially conscious and site specific curation. An application fee of $25 applies. Please send a cover letter and resume to info@nolongerempty.org with 'Curatorial Lab 2013' as the title. Participants will be selected summer 2013. Click here to pay the application fee.
Program image by Jennifer Marvavillas
Thank you to those who generously shared their time, mentorship and opened their doors to NLE Lab Curators. Special thanks to Sara Reisman, Jarrod Beck, Eva Diaz, Stephen Jones, Sarah Lookofsky, Mary Mattingly, and Edwin Ramoran.
This program is supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and is a collaboration with Buchbinder & Warren and Village Alliance.
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