Tania Katan at Art Intersection April 15, 16 and 17th
Tania Katan is one of the funniest people I know. When you are privileged to spend a few hours with her you will laugh, no doubt about it, but the other magic is that you will feel like one of the most important people on the planet. Good listening skills are an art form Tania has in spades. No kidding.
So here’s a few excerpts from our conversation:
You are presenting a writing workshop at Art Intersection that focuses on laughter as a healing agent? What if your interested in taking the workshop but you don’t think you’re funny and worse, you don’t think you can write? Mark Twain said, “Humor is tragedy plus time.” The fact that humor springs from a place of fear, discomfort and otherness and yet somehow allows us to feel less fear, discomfort and otherness feels like magic. Humor is magic. Who doesn’t like magic? What can people coming to your lecture and or workshop expect to walk away with? At some point during every workshop, I give all the participants gourmet cupcakes, which they are encouraged to eat while I personally roam around the room, giving each person a back-rub, unless they are uncomfortable with touch, in which case I just sing to them, something that makes them remember a happy time in their lives. Oh, and one lucky workshop participants always wins a car. I’m sorry, what was the question? OH…The only thing that people will walk away with is a sense that they have an opportunity to live their lives with more urgency, humor and love. But that’s all. Don’t expect an SUV. This ain’t Oprah.
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I’ve known Bob for over 10 years and the photo community was sad to see him leave Phoenix for the big city lights of New York City. He’s coming for a weekend, March 4-6th at Art Intersection where his Ballerina series will be exhibited.
Join us for an opportunity to hear Bob speak about his career and his long love affair with self portraiture. He’ll also be showing off his technical chops with a workshop on simple table top photography using simple but effective ways of photographing small works.
Wish from the series, Snowbound by Lisa M. Robinson currently showing at Art Intersection
I’m sitting in Liberty Market (a great restaurant right across the street from Art Intersection), sipping tea, nibbling on the best bread pudding I’ve ever had and waiting for the doors to officially open tonight.
It’s hard to believe that Alan Fitzgerald’s dream of opening an art space devoted to the preservation of photography and its roots will soon be a reality.
This weekend Art Intersection will begin a journey. Growing, evolving, building and making a home for the arts to thrive. It’s pretty exciting stuff. We’re ready for you! Welcome.
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After several months of constructing, visiting, planning, designing and hoping (and praying) the exhibition space at Art Intersection is coming together.
We installed the exhibits yesterday and… well, you’ll just have to see for yourself on Saturday, January 22 (yikes, that’s THIS Saturday) by stopping in to say hello-7-10pm.
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Out of the Blue, the title for the inaugural exhibition opening this month is an opportunity to showcase some of the work that is being made as a result of the resurgence of antiquarian processes in the last few decades by contemporary practitioners in the photographic arts.
The question often asked is, why bother with finicky, “old fashioned” techniques in the 21st century? Would the same questions be asked of the musician using a piano or a dancer practicing ballet?
Cyanotypes, also known as blueprints, are one of the very first photographic processes. The English inventor, Sir John W.F. Herschel, discovered the process nearly 160 years ago. Herschel, in replica Watches fact, invented the very term “photography”.
The use of cyanotype as a means of documenting the world around us can be evidenced by a long and rich history of individuals, the most distinguished, Anna Atkins, (1799-1871), a botanist who in 1843 produced an illustrated book “British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions”. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=188
In the Exhibition, Out of the Blue: A Contemporary Cyanotype Invitational, you’ll see how 21st century artists are using the medium replica chanel handbags.
We are very excited to have presenting in the first of our programming at Art Intersection, none other than marketing guru, Mary Virginia Swanson and co-founder of Radius Books, Darius Himes.
We’ll be their first stop in a series of seminars they are presenting around the country that address the timely issue of publishing a book. There will be three opportunities to fit every level of artist.
Friday evening is a 2 1/2 hour presentation that will give you an overview of whether to be published or self publish. Special guests, Mark Klett and Lisa Robinson, both who have had experience bringing their artwork to publication will take part in the conversation.
Saturday, is a day replica Hermes handbags long seminar that will go into detail, giving participants an in depth overview from concept through production and on to marketing the printed title.
Sunday you can meet with both Mary and Darius for one on one consultations.
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