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Maya Ciarrocchi, Franklin Furnace 2015 – 2016 grant recepient

maya ciarrochi franklin furnace

Project Description

“Gender/Power” is a collaborative working methodology lead by Kris Grey and Maya Ciarrocchi. Together we produce performances, installations, workshops, and writing. Our methodology uses a transfeminist framework to directly engage with marginalized communities in order to address social justice issues around authority and gender. Rather than producing a fixed narrative, the work explores how gender presentation affects everyone regardless of their identity. “Gender/Power: Composition IV,” is a continuation of previous iterations, and will be comprised of live performance, projections and active audience participation.
Biography

Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York City based artist whose work in video, photography, installation and performance addresses identity and otherness via documentation and durational portraiture. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Anthology Film Archives, Chashama, The Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Arts Center, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, Sasha Wolf Gallery, and at Artisphere, (VA), Hammer Museum (CA); Borderlines Film Festival (UK); Moving Pictures Festival (CAN). Residencies include the Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Kala Art Institute (CA), LMCC (NY), and the Ucross Foundation (WY). She is the recipient of grants from the Jerome and Puffin Foundations and was awarded a Jeff and a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for video scenography. Ciarrocchi received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and her B.F.A. from Purchase College.

Kris Grey is a New York City based gender-queer artist whose work exists at the intersection of communication, activism, community building, storytelling, lecture, and studio production. Grey earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Ohio University. They perform, teach, and exhibit work internationally. Grey was a 2012 Fire Island Artist Residency recipient, a resident artist for the ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art in Kupoio, Finland in 2012 and 2014, and a teaching artist in 2013 at The International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

More info on Franklin Furnace at:
http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/funded_projects/the_franklin_furnace_fund/fundwinners15_16/ciarrocchi.php

Peter Ruta retrospective
Art Students League
Sept 8 – 30, 2015
EXTENDED to October 30th!

LUCIA'S GARDEN oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches 2013

LUCIA’S GARDEN oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches 2013

Peter Ruta
Retrospective 1940-2015

September 8-30, 2015
Extended to October 30, 2015

The Art Students League
215 West 57th St (betw 7th & Broadway) New York
on view in the reception gallery, lobby and cafe
9 AM-10 PM M-F 9AM-4 PM Sat and Sun

www.peterruta.com

Peter Ruta: Nulla Dies Sine Linea: story of the artist as American original
http://theartstudentsleague.org?LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ewU03060m60%3d&tabid=280

Arlene Gottfried featured in article in Time.com

Arlene Gottfried Bathing Beauty

The Granit Hotel and Country Club in Kerhonkson, N.Y., where vacationers would come to kick back and relax as recently as the 1980s (but even more so during its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s.)

For many – mostly wealthy, elderly, white singles from Florida – this hotel in the popular hills of the Catskills was a summer haven where they could recover from the scorching sun of the South. A wide range of activities was available and mingling was encouraged while dancing by the pool, exercising in the park, even participating in costume contests.

Thankfully, the sharp, irreverent yet ever genuine eye of New York photographer Arlene Gottfried was there as well – on the edge of the pool, on the dance floor of the lounge – to quietly capture the frivolous extravaganza that lives in these never-seen-before photographs.

Read more here:
http://time.com/3944124/the-extravagant-summers-of-vacationers-in-the-catskills/

WESTFEST 2015 dance review – A sheer thrill!

WESTFEST NEWS ARTICLE 2015

WestFest’s “All Over Westbeth” takes advantage of the site-specific possibilities of the Westbeth Artists Community, an enormous complex in the far West Village. A former Bell Laboratory, the buildings were repurposed in the 60s to provide inexpensive housing for creators of all stripes. Curators Carol Nolte and Carol Mendes say, “WestFest itself was born from the idea of embracing the outstanding artist history at the Westbeth’s building.” In “All Over Westbeth,” residents lead tours through the sprawling compound for small groups to witness short spurts of dance unfolding in the most unexpected of places.

Read the full article by Erin Bomboy here: The Dance Enthusaist

Will Westbeth be the new St Vincent’s? Read the article by Catherine Revland published in WestView .

REVENUE RUNAROUND: A view of Westbeth’s prime commercial luxury space: sweet deal or a breach of fiduciary trust? Photo: Ramscale.

REVENUE RUNAROUND: A view of Westbeth’s prime commercial luxury space: sweet deal or a breach of fiduciary trust? Photo: Ramscale.

Westbeth Board Sues the Attorney General

From its inception in 1970 the revenue from artist residents has far exceeded that of the commercial tenants, and for decades the Westbeth Board of Directors’ excuse has been the undesirability of the neighborhood. Although this excuse is no longer valid, the current Board refuses to reveal information about the current commercial rent roll. In fact, Executive Director Steven Neil has told the Westbeth Artist Residents Council (WARC) they do not have the right to receive any details about Westbeth’s finances.

Read more here: http://westviewnews.org/2015/05/will-westbeth-be-the-next-st-vincents/