Galleries // Community Arts Residencies and Ongoing Projects
- Hope Elephants Murals, 2013
- Community Art Show // Pop Up Gallery, 2013
- Sweet Tree Arts, Community Arts Projects and Mentorship, 2013
- Saturday Studio at The Rockland Rec. Center, 2012
- Camden Philosophical Society, 2012
- Follow the Shirts!! Public Art Installation in Rockland
- Dance Work and Community Festivals, 2010-present
- Theatrical Curtain for Triskelion Arts: Fabric Assemblage, Spring 2012
- Meridian Gallery Choreographer-in-Residence, November 2011
- Photography Portfolio
- Sugar Miniatures & Cake Decor
- Patterson High School, Community artist residency Fall 2010-Spring 2011
- Dr. Rayner Browne Academy, Integrating Community Arts. 2010-2011
- AmeriCorps site: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Takoma Park Fall 2010-Summer 2011
- Endor Gardens Lakeside Art Camp, Summer 2010
Youth Arts Night at the Dance Exchange.
Teen Exchange hosted Youth artists at Dance Exchange to perform dance, song and poetry.
I have been working closely with Teen Exchange as a mentor / facilitator this year.
Teens from Teen Exchange performed their own original choreography, and they also organized the event and invited the group's who performed.
MOVING FEILD GUIDES, Patterson Park: Baltimore City
In this gallery are photographs taken during the development days for a field trip Anne Kotleba and I collaborated with Dance Exchange on. Anne and I have been partnering at Dr. Rayner Browne Academy Elementary and Middle since November.
I am an AmeriCorps Member with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, so we've had this opportunity to work together with the Company to develop the first in a series of nature walks that will be using Dance and Scientific observation to connect urban youth to the natural environment.
We worked with the YMCA of Central Maryland and with Greg Branch who is a community partner at Dr. Rayner Browne Academy Elementary and Middle.
For our field trip we after school sessions at Patterson Park* with Y program staff and dancers / naturalists (with The National Forest Service) with DC-based Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and educators form University of Baltimore. We explored and connect to the natural environment through movement and art-making.
Move It, Map It: Altered Map Workshop.
co-facilitated by myself and John Borstel, Humanities Director Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
- Tell, reflect on, write about a personal story concerning a significant map experience.
- Do a personal mapping experience by mapping on paper a life journey where you name 3,5, or 7 significant points.
- Do a mapping experience focused on something(s) you use and where it comes from: Place of use/place of origin
- Movement experience: think about a route you walk and walk someone through it
- Turn the Room into a map with yarn, tape, felt color forms, rope, etc.
- Group reflection: What are the purposes of a Map?
- Group reflection: What do you NOT do with a map?
- Group reflection: How are things represented on a map?
- Show examples of Map-based art.
- Make list of modes of alteration, with ideas about how to use art materials.
- Choose one map from among the maps of uniform size.
- Alter!!!
- View, review, wrapup.
Members of the Teen Exchange have begun developing choreography for their second Teen choreographed piece of this year's end-of-the year performance.
In this gallery Molly Barth leads her peers through choreography she created for a piece about Beauty, which is being directed by Teen Exchange co-captain Talia Mason. Also, the group rehearses work made in a previous workshop wherein each teen has shared their own choreographic contribution to the larger piece.
Please follow this link to find the recent video documentation to a light / shadow workshop facilitated this month with Teen Exchange.
As well as this link to the Teen Exchange Tumblr and here for more information about this youth-lead modern dance group.
In this gallery are photos from my work with Teen Exchange. Each week they work independantly and in groups to develop choreographic material for their Spring program.