Author: Teresa Silva

Art Club brings artists from the Philly area in to teach short (five weeks) classes in some specific art medium. The classes are open to all members of the Bryn Mawr community: students, faculty, and staff.

For Spring 2010 Art Club is potentially offering:

Book Arts and Printmaking
Learn how to both make books and use Art Club’s printing press to make images. This class will cover the basics of bookbinding and methods of printmaking.

Standard Sewing
Learn how to sew using both hand sewing techniques and machine sewing techniques.

Fabric Sculpture

Batik and Textile Decoration
Learn the art of batik and other fabric and textile dying and printing techniques.

Screen Printing
Silk screening is not just for your department t-shirt! Silk screening is an ancient printmaking method with wide applications from images, to cards, to posters, to clothing.

Jewelry Making
Work with a Bryn Mawr alumna to make beautiful hand-crafted jewelry.

Emails sent to artclubexec.bmc [at] gmail  (with the class name in the subject) will be used to lottery students. The dates and times for the classes will depend on both the artist teaching it and the students enrolled, meaning we have no set dates as of now but will be decided upon communally.

GALLERY OPENING!

SATURDAY 11/21 at 8pm.

BE THERE!

Sorry for the delays in posting minutes!

Meeting 11/1/09

Announcements

• on Friday, the 11th, is a Family Paint Jam Fest 6:30-8pm at Norristown should be tons of fun! dancing, food, painting!
• working on finding and contacting Haverford’s Photo Club since we can’t have a darkroom in the studio

Renovations

• yay OIG funding!
• yay meeting with Catherine Shapiro, President’s Chief of Staff!
• future meeting with facilities
• future meeting with Dean Tidmarsh
• we are hard at work!

Gallery Opening

• yay Euphemism Quartet is performing!
• discussed food. there will lots of it and it will be yummy!
• how to display art work
• posters and lights!

Artwork

• Exec board is required to submit at least 1 piece of artwork made this year
• announcements to classes
• Artist statements welcome but not required
• someplace else to display the artwork after the opening

Meeting Rescheduling

• Nov 15th’s exec board meeting is rescheduled to Weds at 9pm to start setting up for gallery opening

Activist Stenciling

• starts Weds 11/4/09
• Exec board members will be there

Classes

• report of survey results about next classes next semester
• status report of classes running this semester
• Potential Classes for next semester

1. Silkscreening
2. Sewing
3. Bookarts and printmaking
4. Jewelry Making
5. Batik
6. a specific kind of painting? (issue: no artist known to teach)

• email will be sent out, people respond with what class they’re interested in. Lottery will occur before class, class times will be picked and a meeting one week before the class to confirm class attendance
  

Minutes 11/08/09

Announcements

• yay Dean Tidmarsh!
• Adrienne is being interviewed along with Amy Grebe for Civic Matters about their work in Norristown

Budget Report

• slight mix up fixed up
• classes need to be fully paid up
• table shopping duties for all!

Gallery Opening

• Cheap Art Sale- all unclaimed art (or donated art) will be sold
• new motto: “make art not work” (though exec board members are making art AND work)
• posters!
• Submit art! by the 19th!

Sarah Zia Ebrahimi

• free screening of Between the Folds followed by a free origami workshop at the BMFI

Lighting

• lighting set up on Weds
• command hooks are purchased. so are lights

Next Semester’s Classes

• Class evaluations would be super useful
• respond by 11/18 5pm about what classes you want to take!
• more than 5 people have to sign up for a class to run

Announcements
-3 leaks in the studio roof
–Printing Press is ready! (thanks Louisa!)
–Resume slips! (thanks Adrienne!) when you leave artwork in the studio for a break, use a sign!
-Organized paper! (thanks Angana!)
–LIGHTS! will be set up during Community Art Night (CAN)

Stained Glass Club
–new leadership!
-will be using the available materials
–meetings will overlap with CAN 7-9pm

Sam Salazar
-is organizing Sam Suzuki concert, 8pm on a Saturday
-filling out studio use form, telling Arnecliffe Residents that a non-loud concert will be happening

Studio Renovation
-we want to convert the “office” into a classroom space
-submitted application to OIG

Special Events-Gallery Opening
-band search
-call for submissions!

Gmail account
artclubexec.bmc[at]gmail
-each exec board member is responsible for checking for one day a week

Studio Access
-people keep getting lost and knocking on the professors’ doors!
-wooden sign to steer people the right way

Chore Chart
-the exec board members are responsible for small tasks every week

Murals
-murals in each dorm? housekeeping/facilities okay with this?
-call for submissions for the art studio mural! due by November 1st

Classes-Next Semester
-preregistration next time
-organize by end of this semester
-lunch class to encourage staff
Materials
-are being dealt with

Agenda for General Meeting- THIS WEDNESDAY!
-stenciling and printmaking workshops
-short agenda, food

This weekend, Sister Spit is at Garageland on Saturday, October 24th. These ladies do a combination of spoken word, poetry and performance that is fun, hilarious, feminist, and in your face.  I saw them when they came to Bryn Mawr a few years ago so I can definitely recommend going! Plus, what else is so cheap ($7-10) to do that gets you off campus and is not Haverford?

If you have any free days during the week or will be in Philly anyway (oh those UPenn classes…) you could check out the Art in City Hall series. It’s easy to find on the 2nd and 4th floors of City Hall and is currently running a paper sculpture exhibit. Paper sculpture is something I didn’t really know existed but it looks really impressive, it’s free and in the middle of the city.

And I don’t mean to disparage Haverford. They’re currently holding a series of events about comics called Drawing the Line. When I think of comics, I think about Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis) insisting that her work was not a graphic novel but comics.  So this series about the social transformative impacts of comics is an interesting approach to the studying of comics. They have a website with their schedule right here

But you don’t even need to venture from Bryn Mawr to do some art.

Tonight, Thurs the 22nd at 6pm  is the first meeting of the Sewing with Recycled Clothing class. We all have old tshirts that we love dearly but there’s that stain or huge hole, you freeboxed it and didn’t notice that small flaw until later, or some other reason you no longer really wear it.  The best solution is make it into a new piece of clothing! Or maybe you just want unique clothing without needing to buy cloth… This class teaches you to learn how!

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And on Sunday, the 25th at 7pm, our Silkscreening class begins. Silkscreening is so versatile; you can make an image to transfer onto almost anything using non-scary chemicals. Plus, it’s really satisfying to see the image you thought of come out.

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On Monday, the 26th at 7pm, our Making Plushie Animals class begins. Learn how to make adorable little plush animals that are cute, adorable, and make good presents.

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On Tuesdays at 7, is the Paper making class. There’s still room in this class so even if you missed the first meeting, you can get in. Making paper is fun, dirty, and satisfying since you can use your finished paper for stationary, books, art, or anything else you use paper for.

Go make art part of your day!