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
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.
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.
Tool training with Dance Exchange (DX) Company member Shula Strassfeld. She spent two hours working with Anne Kotleba and I working through DX Tool Box activities. She focused on one called “Detail: a tool which focuses on drawing movement ideas from concrete physical evidence by observing the immediate environment and by conjuring details of a scene from memory and imagination. Rather than a fixed procedure, Detail is a set of practices for observing, imagining, discerning, and organizing information that can be a rich source for movement.”
Shula led us through a series on movement improvs and visualizations to create solo material and material that we fused together. I really enjoyed dancing with Anne! As we have begun to co-facilitate at Dr. Rayner Browne we are developing and sharing some great activities together and this training strengthened this relationship for sure!!