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
The Dance Exchange is hosting INSPIRE, a Youth Internship Program supported by Maryland Multi-cultural Youth Centers. In this six-week summer intensive, participants will gain leadership skills, engage in the community and make art in the local environment. This project is led by Wayles Haynes, the Youth Programs Coordinator and Lead Artist of the Teen Exchange at the Dance Exchange. I am a supporting artist offering workshops in art making, community engagement, video and photography
Photos is this gallery are from day one workshop in developing art making and designing activities for community engagement. Facilitation and photos by Alexis.
Inspire is a young adult internship program involving individual mentoring of participants as they develop skills in community engagement, project management, communications and movement based art-making. This multi-layered project results in various outcomes from personal achievement to facilitating public discourse and art-making around shared spaces and ideas. Participants will learn about the many facets of the Dance Exchange from artistry to administration and develop their own practice in how to engage a community around concept-based making. This will come in three main conduits; personal art-making, mentor observed group work and community engagement. ~
Wayles Haynes, Lead Artist and Adjunct Artist with the Dance Exchange
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.
Images in this gallery are from the creative convening workshop hosted by the Teen Exchange on Saturday December 11, 2010.
Lead artist Wayles Haynes and I worked together to organize an all day workshop with the Teen X-change, at the Dance Exchange studio in Takoma Park. Teens participated in art making, editing/shooting video for their TX website, dance improvisation and composition work and we worked together on designing and brainstorming plans for some of the collaborative garments that I have begun to explore in my Creative Project for MACA.
Please view the Teen Exchange's Tumblr for more images and updates.