NEW SUMMER WORKSHOPS IN BERLIN & LONDON 2013
To sign up for all workshops: please email: berlincollective@gmail.com
Where: My studio at Klosterstr. 44
Cost: 20 Euro per morning session. An additional 10 Euro per day if you would also like to take the optional afternoon session. Students must register and pay for 5 days in the first class. Receipts can be given upon request.
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“Out of Line: Exercises in Seeing and Drawing”
Taught by Romeo Alaeff, Artist & Instructor
Dates/ Times for Drawing in Summer 2013:
(July & August, Dates to be determined)
Location: When you sign up we will send you this information, along with a list of materials needed. Cost: 15 euros each class
To sign up: email, berlincollective@gmail.
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Course Description:
So you think you can’t draw? Bollocks. Drawing is one of our earliest and most direct forms of creative expression. So why do most find it so hard or that it requires some mystical talent? It’s all in your head. Literally. Through exercises in seeing and mark-making, this class focuses on overcoming typical problems and clichés in seeing and drawing. This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to better translate what they see in 3D to 2D, with an emphasis on the importance of the act of drawing as a creative imperative.
Romeo Alaeff received his Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Romeo Alaeff’s work “blurs the boundaries between icon and art, funny and serious, traditional and experimental, public and private.” He has exhibited internationally in major galleries and museums including the Lyon Biennale, Artists Space, MACBA, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Alaeff has been a guest artist, critic and teacher at institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Pratt, and Parsons/The New School. He is also the author of “I’ll be Dead by the Time You Read This” (Penguin Books, 2011) which can be found at the MoMA bookstore, and he is featured in the street-art bible, “Stuck Up Piece of Crap” (Rizzoli, 2010). Romeo has also worked extensively on award winning children’s television shows for Nickelodeon, Disney and PBS. Website link: www.romeoalaeff.com and www.illbedead.com
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JUNE WORKSHOP IN LONDON:
5-Day Workshop: June 6, 7, 8, 14, 15
Instructors: David Blamey & Tom White
To sign up email: berlincollective@gmail.com
Location: Artist’s studio in central London, upon signing up you will be put directly in touch with the Instructor who will send you the address for the location.
Cost: GBP 250.00 per person
This course provides an induction to a range of sonic art forms for artists and designers across the fields of music, theatre, film, video, design and visual art. Focus is on the development of work on location in London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and the context of a number of contemporary methods: performance; gallery installation; broadcast; podcast; production and publishing. Emphasis will be placed on experimentation and adventure. You will be introduced to field recording, sampling and collage techniques before digitally mixing, editing and arranging a track of your own work, then mastering it for publication online.
Several kinds of artist and designer would thrive on this course: those who have a strong background in a single discipline and would value the learning opportunity that interdisciplinary environments provide; those whose studio practice fuses disciplines; those wanting to work with sound for the first time; and those who want to invigorate their practice with a period exploration with sound.
Artist Instructors:
David Blamey is a London-based Artist, proprietor of independent publishing imprint Open Editions and an occasional curator and writer. In addition to gallery installations, his work embraces photography, the written word, sculpture and sound. He is an educator of repute, having taught at the Royal College of Art in London for many years. His sound work has been performed/exhibited at numerous galleries worldwide, including the Royal Academy of Arts and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, MKG in Milton Keynes and Electric Spring in Huddersfield. His edited books include, Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues On Location and Mobility (2002) and Living Pictures: Perspectives On the Film Poster in India (2005).
Tom White is a London-based Artist whose work traverses multi-media platforms including sound, experimental film and video, installation and live performance. Recent projects include commissions for LUX Moving image, My Dance The Skull, MK Gallery & Spill Festival of Performance. He has taught at the South London Gallery; Srishti School of Art & Design, Bangalore India; Milton Keynes Gallery; and Central Saint Martins, London.
*Note: A project outline and list of materials, tools and skills is available to any potential participants.
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UP-CYCLING + DECORATING CHINA WORKSHOP (LONDON)
WITH ROSA NGUYEN
To sign up email: berlincollective@gmail.com
Decorate, customize, up-cycle new and old china crockery with artist Rosa Nguyen at her South London studio.Rosa will introduce enamel painting, stenciling and applying vintage and contemporary transfer decal prints to create collaged and drawn designs onto new and second hand glazed ceramic ware. Pieces are all fired at the studio and available to pick up during the week or can be sent to your home. Materials including ceramic enamel paints and selection of transfer decals are provided along with a choice of blank ceramic ware, paintbrushes and other tools to work with.
Participants can also bring their own new blank or second hand decorated ceramics to work on. Plain white and coloured blank plates, bowls, and platters are available from £2 -£4.
Workshop Price: £25 (includes materials, firing, Jasmine tea + cake)
Limited space for 10 people.
To sign up, email: Berlin Collective
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What are Workshops with Artists?
Workshops with artists are short-term workshops, from a weekend, to a week, 10 days, or 2 months. Professional artists are invited to work with students, who sign up and apply to study specifically with them. These workshops are not typical courses, in that you are invited, as an artist’s assistant might, to work in their studios or in and around NYC, LA, or Berlin, on a specific project related to their work or to one that they assign for the workshop. Each artist can create a different proposal for the workshops and we will list these workshops depending on the availability and interest of the working artists. This allows for great access to work with these artists and a rare opportunity. Space is limited and the artists choose to accept the group of whom has applied for their artist workshop.
How do I sign up?
To Sign-up for Workshops with Artists:
Pay & Register with Pay Pal: http://berlincollective.de/members-only/join
Join the Berlin Collective and/ or Pay a Registration Fee to Take our workshops! If you join you get access to our events for one year. Email us for more information:
Steps: 1. Choose a Workshop, 2. Contact us: berlincollective@gmail.com, 3. Pay registration fee: Registration fee for first class: one time payment,4. Once this is confirmed and your payment is received to the Berlin Collective, 5. We connect you with the Artist/Instructor, 6. Go to the artist workshop, pay in cash to the instructor in full on the first day, unless other arrangements are made. For questions, please email us.
*All registration fees to Berlin Collective are non-refundable. After you pay the registration fee, you pay the course costs to the Artist directly. You may ask the Artist conducting the workshop for a receipt for your payment for the course.
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Scroll down to registration fee. You must register with Pay Pal, wire transfer, or send a check and then you will be connected to the Artist/ Instructor. Registration fee is to take Berlin Collective workshops. Payments after this go directly to the artists.