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.
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.
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.
Co-president of Teen Exchange, Talia Mason greets visitors to the Teen Exchange open house this fall.