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F402i INTROS & COURSE MATERIALS – SUMMER 2020

F402i Developing Practice: Independent Study / Mixed Mediums
June 15 — August 21, 2020 / 10 weeks
PROFESSOR / John Ros
EMAIL / john [at] studioELL.org

INTRODUCTIONS & COURSE MATERIALS

Before the start of the course next week please make sure to familiarize yourself with the operation of the studioELL online studio. A How-To ARTIST GUIDE TO ACCESSING THE ONLINE STUDIO has been provided to you.

You can also view it here /
ARTIST GUIDE TO ACCESSING THE ONLINE STUDIO / .PDF

COURSE GUIDE / .PDF

Please tell us about yourself. Provide this info by Monday, 15 June 2020 @ 10a (NYC time)

01. What are you currently watching/reading?
02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down?
03. What was the last art event you experienced in person?
04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently?
05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately?
06. Please provide an image of yourself.
07. Please share an image of your workspace.

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j o h n r o s: i am so excited you are all here! thrilled to meet some...
Catherine Harrington: Apologies for double posting! Locating photo and studio here too.
Catherine Harrington: My portrait and studio

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j o h n r o s

17 June 2020 8:44am

i am so excited you are all here! thrilled to meet some of you for the first time. and really looking forward to working with others of you again!

just a reminder that your initial studio visit is being emailed to me directly… and added to the first week online studio here:
https://www.studioell.org/course-item/initial-studio-visit/

see you again soon!

Artist

emma davis

10 June 2020 10:24am

01. What are you currently watching/reading?
India Knight – quite an opinionated but funny writer. Very North London. Should be watching films but end up binge watching Dinner Ladies.
02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down?
This is the 4th Studio Ell course I’ve done since March!
03. What was the last art event you experienced in person?
We went off to Hoxton on the final weekend 14th March before we closed down. We went to Parasol unit (closed) Beers, Modern Art. We were due to visit Space in Ilford but that was cancelled.
04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently?
My work is on the Derwent Art Prize website https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/505497/the-derwent-art-prize
– that exhibition has been postponed. I’m due to be in a virtual exhibition with City Lit Developing Art Practice course maybe in September.
05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately?
Trying and trying again

Artist

Jane Skinner

12 June 2020 5:55am

01.I’m reading historical novels… Hilary Mantel’s Mirror & the Light and Cathie Hartigan’s Notes from the Lost. I’ve enjoyed A Call to Camera and Art in Isolation on You Tube, and listened to the podcasts ‘Waldy & Bendy’ about Art History matters.

02.I’ve been submitting a fortnightly project online to my local art group.

03.Bridget Riley at the Hayward Gallery.

04.See 02

05.Fear, commitment and quietness.

Prof

j o h n r o s

13 June 2020 10:43am

01. What are you currently watching/reading?
ramy season one on hulu … with the public library still closed, my books need a refresh, but i did just recieve Breathe, A Letter to My Sons, by Imani Perry and will be starting it shortly.

02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down?
have been staying connected via vid chat… studioELL… and a new space called intermission museum of art.

03. What was the last art event you experienced in person?
spring break new york… which was fortunate enough to have a booth featuring the work of fiona buchanan.

04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently?
yes… several studio visits and exhibitions in the interweb space.

05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately?
working continuously… and evolving.

06. Please provide an image of yourself.

07. Please share an image of your workspace.

i am looking forward to working with all of you!

Artist

Catherine Harrington

13 June 2020 2:37pm

01. What are you currently watching/reading?
I am reading Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson
02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down?Yes – trying to. Am participating in the Festival of Alternative Art Education, taking place on July 25th – now the whole event is on-line. And my arts group altmfa (peer led alternative art education group).
03. What was the last art event you experienced in person? Pace Gallery – James Turrell
04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently? In April, I did this challenge 30 drawings / 30 days. With my art group Altmfa (self organised) we have had weekly crits as part of a “Lockdown Residency”, and I am involved in another art crit group (every 2 weeks), I did “shared work” sessions during May with another artist.
05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately? My current art practice – dense / “all over the place” art making – more struggle than fun!
06. Please provide an image of yourself.
07. Please share an image of your workspace.I share a studio that I have not been to for months – so here is the table I am working on. I am lucky to have lots of space at home.

Artist

Catherine Harrington

17 June 2020 5:49am

Reply to Catherine Harrington

Apologies for double posting! Locating photo and studio here too.

Artist

cary

15 June 2020 9:31am

hey all,

01. Mostly British whodunnits but I did a rare binge watch the other week – Line of Duty, which resulted in some very late nights and frantic dreaming. I don’t typically watch more than an hour of tv a day and my only must see each week is Gardeners’ World. This past week my main reading has been Amazons, Abolitionists & Activists by Mikki Kendall & A. D’Amico and a pile of books about birds/birdwatching.
02. I’ve mostly just been connecting with local artist friends informally online, usually via Instagram or chatting about process on FaceTime. During lockdown I’ve attempted to be less online than I normally would.
03. That feels a very long time ago now… I think the last thing I went to in person was probably a visit to The Frist Art Museum, who are soon going to reopen and extend their current shows (they don’t have a permanent collection). I have membership and it’s one of my favorite spaces in Nashville & only a mile away so I usually visit each exhibit multiple times over without the pressure having to take them all in at once but also can spend a lot of time with works that really connect.
04. I did the studioELL Archives course at the end of April.
05. Isolation; inside/outside; focus/distraction.

Artist

Karen Robertson

15 June 2020 9:53am

01.What are you currently watching/reading? I have been listening to lots of podcasts, most recently an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Ezra Klein Show. He’s more hopeful than I am right now, with is good for me to hear. Also slowly working my way through Jenseits der Stille (Beyond Silence) for the dual purpose of reading a good book and practicing my german. 02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during lockdown? I am a participant in a project called #ArtFeltThanks. A local business person wanted to fund a project that would both support local artists and thank health care workers. The yard signs and banners feature different artists’ work collaged into an image of a health care worker wearing scrubs and a mask. 03. What was the last art event you experienced in person? Early March, the non-profit I work for part time hosted its annual “6x6x30″ show. Artists complete 30 6″x6” works in 30 days. Opening was on March 6 and the show closed to the general public on March 11. Short but sweet. 04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently? Nope. Looking forward to this class to help shake me out of that! 05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately? Something like a meditation practice or other discipline. Trying to form regular working habits even when I’m not feeling particularly creative or inspired. One benefit of this is when I am inspired I’m in a good position to take full advantage.

Artist

Karen Robertson

15 June 2020 9:56am

I don’t know why the photo of me posted sideways. Working on a solution…

Artist

Karen Robertson

15 June 2020 10:01am

That’s better

Artist

vlado

15 June 2020 11:03am

01. What are you currently watching/reading? In Defense of Elitism by Joel Stein. I generally don’t watch much TV but being stuck at home has forced me to binge a couple of shows over the past couple of weeks – Killing Eve, The Outsider, Sex Education

02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down? I’ve taken several classes at Pratt, SVA, and StudioELL, along with committing more time to research and studio time.

03. What was the last art event you experienced in person? Sur Moderno at MoMA, Agnes Denes at The Shed, The ADAA Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory

04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently? I’ve been in talks with several art professionals I know about my practice in the past week or so, as well as submitting to a number of online exhibition opportunities.

05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately? repetition, discipline, trial and error, coincidence, patience.

Artist

Melissa Dunn

15 June 2020 12:39pm

01. What are you currently watching/reading?
Reading – The Body Keeps the Score
Watching – Insecure

02. How have you been staying active in the arts community during this time of lock-down?
On Thursday nights I have a video drawing session with three artist friends. Also, I’m finalist for a public art project through Urban Arts Commission here in Memphis and I’ve been working closely with them on that. Last week I presented my proposal via zoom. I was also invited to do a drawing collaboration with four other Memphis artists where for three nights we look into a piece of obsidian that is shaped like a cell phone, light a candle, and all make drawings at the same time with white drawing materials on black paper. It’s been a whole of fun.

03. What was the last art event you experienced in person?
A show at David Lusk Gallery of local Memphis artist Tad Laurentzen Wright

04. Have you done any digital studio visits or shared your practice in any other way recently?
Besides the drawing I mentioned above, I did a virtual studio visit a Jodi Hays who taught the Archive class here at studioEll. I occasionally post my work on Instagram. I recently I had this interview published in a regional arts quarterly from a conversation I had with a current undergrad at University of Memphis. Reading it feels like looking into a parallel universe, back when people would meet up and sit across a table and chat. (I’m have to do elderly parental care so I’m still not meeting face to face with people.) Here’s a link to that interview: http://www.numberinc.org/melissa-dunn-holding-space/?fbclid=IwAR0wl2_KUUYg1KUBICWrYkuf9w-4CdQTuiCSN3ja4a3tBjRUyQDKUZDUfWU

05. When you think of art practice what comes to mind immediately?
Rich but ethereal, transitioning, shedding skin, entering a new phase

06. Please provide an image of yourself.
07. Please share an image of your workspace.

Artist

Catherine Harrington

17 June 2020 5:45am

My portrait and studio