TURNING HEADS, frocks in flight
a site-specific dance created for Sitelines 09

TURNING HEADS, frocks in flight is an exuberant dance for women inspired by 15 unique “Dresses of Transformation” created by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Colorful and fanciful dresses adorn this celebration of freedom and personal transformation.

Performances at the South Cove of Battery Park
August 3-13th, 2009
M, T, TH @ 12:30pm
W@ 6:30pm
Tickets: FREE

Click on www.lmcc.net or www.rivertoriver.com for more information & directions.

Produced by Sitelines and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
in association with the River to River Festival.

“As a member of the Danish group Corners, I am joining 8 other members to teach at an art school in Inner Mongolia. The school is part of a museum. We will also show at the museum. I am bringing a CD with 80 images that will be shown on a loop and left with them. The group will first meet in Beijing and go together to Houhot, the capitol of Inner Mongolia.

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Art Workshop International is unique - more NEWS about our instructors

Edith Isaac-Rose Invited to Teach in China.

“As a member of the Danish group Corners, I am joining 8 other members to teach at an art school in Inner Mongolia.”(more on the blog).

From beginning to professional artists, participants excel under Edith Isaac-Rose’s wise guidance.
Participate in her Drawing Course August 5-18 in Assisi, Italy.
Independent Program, suit your schedule.

Duke University approaches Bea Kreloff.
Historians at The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture are talking wtih her about her career and archives.
To take Art Making with Bea Kreloff, legendary artist and teacher, is the opportunity of a lifetime.
July 22 to August 18, 2,3, or 4 weeks.

Preview of American Airlines magazine article about Art Workshop International by alumna Linda Stasi (”New York Post” columnist, author, and TV host).

More about our Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Italian language, and culinary arts
on www.artworkshopintl.com. Email info@artworkshopintl.com.
You can also apply online.

Art Workshop International - the 29th year!
Join us this summer in Assisi, Italy
July 22- August 18, 2009: 2, 3, and 4-week sessions
Live and Work in a 12th-Century Hill Town
Respond to this email and you will still qualify for early-bird enrollment.

Critiques, lectures, field trips, and visiting artists
Beautifully situated 3-star hotel, air-conditioned room and bath, two meals, studio

Independent Program for professional and advanced artists and writers.
Work on your project, have one-on-one consultations.

For more information: Art Workshop International

463 West Street, 1028H, New York, NY 10014
Toll Free: 866-341-2922 Fax: 212-691-1159
E-Mail: info@artworkshopintl.com

EDITH ISAAC-ROSE, BEA KRELOFF, CHRIS SPENCER, DIRECTORS

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Sandra Perlow consulted with Edith Isaac-Rose in Assisi, Italy, last summer as an Independent Artist. We’re pleased to announce her upcoming Exhibition at the Linda Warren Gallery June 26th to August 15th. If you’re in Chicago, Illinois, stop in at her Opening Reception on Friday June 26th, from 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. The address is 1052 W. Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607. Her website is sandraperlow.net.

Sandra wrote to me recently: “I want to put one of the pieces I did in Asissi in my show at Linda Warrens gallery. I wrote an artist statement for the show, which mentioned a connection to the light around religious figures and light emanating from different types of light fixtures.”

Award-winning author Rosellen Brown teachers “Many Ways to Tell a Story” July 22 to August 4 in Assisi, Italy

“I was the moderator of a panel on the short story at the Chicago Tribune’s Printers’ Row Literary Festival in June featuring four very diverse writers in lively conversation. This year I’ve been publishing a series of stories from a book in progress to be called Late Loves. (Seven of Rosellen’s stories have been included in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prizes.)

One more thing: Though I do a lot of contest judging, this year I chose a few prize-winners for one of the most interesting magazines I’ve run into: The Bellevue Review is published out of NYU’s medical school; it’s devoted entirely to stories and poetry about health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body and it’s amazing how much good work it contains. Check it out at www.blreview.org.”

For Summer Sleuths: Best Mystery, Crime Novels

by Maureen Corrigan (National Public Radio)

Ethnicity aside, Lydia Chin, the protagonist in S.J. Rozan’s The Shanghai Moon, is a private investigator very much in the brisk Nancy mold (that is, if Nancy were grown up and Chinese-American). In her ninth novel in the terrific Edgar Award-winning series, Rozan elegantly riffs on the stolen jewels plot that constitutes about 99 percent of the classic Nancy Drew mysteries.

Lydia is hired to trace a cache of jewels that’s recently been unearthed in a garden in Shanghai and swiped by a corrupt Chinese official who’s now believed to be hiding in New York’s Chinatown. The box containing the jewelry had been buried since World War II and may contain a brooch called the Shanghai Moon, which, in the intervening decades, has become the stuff that dreams are made of.

Lydia’s race to find the stolen gems before various plug uglies can lay their paws on them constitutes one plotline; another takes readers back to wartime Shanghai. As The Shanghai Moon demonstrates, there’s plenty of possibility lurking in the old missing-jewels plot. It just takes a master like S.J. Rozan to restore the luster of a classic.

Ellen’s work is noted for her sensitive portrayal of a person - and capturing their spirit.
-Chris Spencer

“Ellen Eagle is a loving magician with color, light, shadow, and form, and with the very soul and essence of the people she paints. She captures their humanity, their vulnerability, and their deepest persona as she transforms pastel into a truly painterly medium. Her portraits are filled with raw emotion and a depth of feeling that are astonishing and breathtaking to behold. Take her wondrous portrait class and discover not only how to make your own portraiture breathe, but how to uncover the passionate spirit and heart of your work. Be embraced by Ellen Eagle’s sensitivity and empathy — and you will see your work take flight.” www.artworkshopintl.com/visual_arts.aspx
—N. Cohen

Conversations: Among Friends, Paris Jazz
featuring Emmy Award-winning producer Charles Hobson and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, MoMA

including a performance by special musical guest Terry Waldo
Harlem in Montmartre: Paris Jazz

Conversations: Among Friends, Paris Jazz featuring Emmy award-winning producer Charles Hobson and Joshua Siegel will explore the historical themes that emerged in jazz music developed in Europe during the 20’s and 30’s, and feature clips from Hobson’s upcoming PBS documentary Harlem in Montmartre; a Paris Jazz Story, scheduled to air late this summer nationwide on Great Performances. Following the Conversation, there will be a reception and performance by a special musical guest, Terry Waldo, in the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Lobby.

Charles Hobson is the executive producer of Vanguard Documentaries, which will premiere Harlem in Montmartre this August for PBS’s Great Performances series. His distinguished career spans four decades and includes Porgy and Bess: An American Voice (PBS); Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant; Jump Street: The History of Black Music (a thirteen-part PBS series); Negroes with Guns; The Africans (a nine-part series coproduced with the BBC); Global Links (a six-part series on international development, coproduced with the World Bank for PBS); Spaces (a six-part science series, funded by the Department of Education); and Like It Is (ABC-TV). His awards include an Emmy, a Fulbright (Germany), The Japan Prize (Special Citation), and CINE Golden Eagle. Hobson has been ranked among the top fifty producers in the film and television industry by Millimeter magazine. He has taught at SUNY, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Vassar, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. This summer he will be the 2009 Artist in Residence at Art Workshop International, in Assisi, Italy. Hobson and his family currently reside in Brooklyn.

Joshua Siegel, an associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, has organized or co-organized more than ninety exhibitions at the Museum, including The New India (2009), Jazz Score (2008), Projects 84: Josiah McElheny (2007), Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures (2006), Killer Films (2005), and The Lodz Film School of Poland: 50 Years (1999). He has organized monographic exhibitions of Julien Duvivier, Michael Haneke, Gregory La Cava, Christopher Guest, James Wong Howe, Jem Cohen, Jean Painlevé, Errol Morris, and Paul Robeson, among others. He has also co-organized the annual exhibition To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation since 2002, and together with Kirk Varnedoe and Paola Antonelli, co-organized Open Ends, as part of MoMA2000, and co-edited the accompanying catalogue, Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980. Mr. Siegel has lectured at Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Warsaw; has served on grant panels for the Alpert Award in the Arts/CalArts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and The Penny McCall Foundation; and has been a jury member of the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Santiago International Film Festival, and other festivals.

Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premier performers and presenters of ragtime and early jazz. He has played countless New York jazz clubs and concert venues worldwide, including the Grand Parade du Jazz in Venice and Jazz At Lincoln Center, and he recently appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, where he performed the world premiere of The Eubie Blake Concerto. Waldo’s TV and film credits include The Tonight Show, the PBS documentary Storyville: The Naked Dance, and Ken Burns’s Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. He has produced and arranged over forty albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG, and he is currently working on albums for Chiaroscuro, GHB, and Delmark Records. His This Is Ragtime, presently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject. Waldo has been the music director for a number of theatrical shows in New York City, including Mr. Jelly Lord (directed by Vernel Bagneris,) and Ambassador Satch (directed by André De Shields), and he has originated four one-man shows: Eubie and Me; The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville; Shake That Thing!; and Waldo’s 1927 Revue.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
7:00 p.m. program | 8:00 p.m. performance and reception
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater)

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
The Museum of Modern Art
4 West 54 Street

Art Workshop International - the 29th year!
Join us this summer in Assisi, Italy
July 22- August 18, 2009: 2, 3, and 4-week sessions
Live and Work this Summer a 12th-Century Hill Town
A few places left - newsletter subscribers still receive early-bird registration.

Critiques, lectures, field trips, and visiting artists
Beautifully situated 3-star hotel, air-conditioned room and bath, two meals, studio

Special escorted trip to Venice Biennale August 19 - 24

Visual Arts: painting, drawing, artmaking, creativity course, mosaics, pastel portraits, watercolor plein air
Faculty: Edith Isaac-Rose, Bea Kreloff, Pam Christiansen, Nina Di Giovanni, Ellen Eagle, Kamilla Talbot

Creative Writing: fiction and non-fiction, crime and mystery novel, arts journalism, memoir, poetry, playwriting and solo performance
Faculty: Rosellen Brown, Leslie Garis, Robert J. Hughes, Bill Goldstein, Francesco Levato, S.J. Rozan, Aoibheann Sweeney, Barbara Shoup, Dinitia Smith, Jayne Wenger

Special Programs: culinary arts, immersive Italian language
Faculty: Arianna Calzolari and Valerio Mogliana, Caterina Bertolotto

Independent Program for professional and advanced writers and artists

Visiting Arist: Emmy Award-winning producer Charles Hobson

Read our testimonials, and upcoming Amerian Airlines online magazine article

For more information: Art Workshop International

463 West Street, 1028H, New York, NY 10014
Toll Free: 866-341-2922 Fax: 212-691-1159
E-Mail: bk@artworkshopintl.com

EDITH ISAAC-ROSE, BEA KRELOFF, CHRIS SPENCER, DIRECTORS

Here’s an advance look at the American Airlines Online Magazine Article about Art Workshop International coming out soon! As written by an Arts Workshop International alumna, it’s a clever takeoff of Eat, Pray, Love - Chris Spencer, director

LEARN
Surround yourself with artists, award-winning authors, playwrights, painters, cooks, and those who want to be any of the above at Art Workshop International where you can workshop that play you’ve always wanted to write, learn Italian, paint that painting that’s lying dormant, or learn to cook by apprenticing to a master chef in the kitchen of the Hotel Giotto, in Assisi, a 12th century hill town in the heart of Umbria. The summer workshop, now in its 29th year, lets you find your inner artist – with all meals, board, instruction included. Like grown-up camp for the artistically inclined. Stay a week or a month. Enthusiasm – not experience, required. July 22 – Aug. 18. For prices, details, instructors and classes: www.artworkshopintl.com or call Bea Kreloff, director, Toll free: 866-341-2922

EAT
 If you attend the school, you probably will have to drag yourself away for a meal anywhere other than the restaurant at the Hotel Giotto, but force yourself! Impossible to get bad food in Assisi.
 Personal faves – and faves of locals, include The Fortezza right off the main piazza, the Trattoria Umbra for easy, casual dining. A more elegant feast can be had at the Medio Evo right below the piazza as well as the excellent Trattoria Pallota.
 La Stalla right outside of town offers a great casual outdoor meal; tables covered in red, and Chianti candles. A must-stop for families, campers, hikers, who gather under the arbor, near the large camping site, for yummy grilled meats, chicken, vegetables.

PRAY
 Assisi, once home to Francis of Assisi, houses the magnificent Basilica of S. Francisco, a double Basilica, with an upper tier that has Giotto’s spectacular frescoes of the life of St Francis and the famous frescoes of Cimabue, Giotto’s teacher. The lower frescoes by the masters of the 12th and 13th centuries are open from dawn until sunset.
 The Eremo delle Carceri, the Hermitage, is a place of solitude up the Monte Subasio where St Francis went to meditate. Open from 6.30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
 The charming church of San Damiano, one of the earliest churches in the area, is a small simple building where the more casual masses are said to the music of strumming guitars. Go in the morning and take in the solitude. Take a camera and shoot the amazing light pouring into the ancient chapel.

LOVE (To Shop)
 Some of the finest hand prepared vinegars and olive oils in all of Italy are found in the shop of Francisco Mollaioli (Franciscodassisi@umbria.net) directly across from the Hotel Giotto. There you can buy the famous oils, as well as cherry barrel aged balsamic vinegar and Francisco’s special recipe grappa. Stop in – the only thing Francisco loves better than overseeing his product is telling you all about it. Great way to while away a morning.
 You won’t find a Bennetton in this gorgeous town square. What you will find is craftsmen who make some of the finest handbags, paintings, and religious objects like the still ultra-modern shops looking crosses designed by St. Francis himself. It is not impossible to find a painting from modern to practically relic for a price you can afford. And, yes, bargaining is still a time-honored sport here.
 Assisi has a small but choice market on Saturday mornings up on Piazza Matteo including a van with one of the choicest delicacies of Italy, the porchetta, roasted pig — sandwiches and by the pound. Pick up cotton shorts, cheapie sandals, and hand-hewn wooden St. Francis-style crosses.
 There is also a permanent outdoor market at the rail station in Assisi where you can pick up handmade jewelry, scarves, cotton dresses for a song.
 Take a side trip to the nearby market town of Bastia Umbra, where the streets are full of all kinds of wonderful bargains from clothes to housewares every Friday morning.

STAY
 Hotel Giotto: Where you’ll stay if you attend the Arts Workshop International. Housed in an ancient piazza, this simple hotel is basic Italian. Not fancy, but quiet and quaint with a great room for working on that novel, relaxing and downing some grappa or a cappuccino with new and old friends. (The bartender won’t laugh at you for ordering a cappuccino after breakfast either!) There is also a giant wrap-around terrace for drinks and another for outdoor dining.
The oldest rooms are dark and the a/c isn’t great but some have giant terraces. Advice: Instead ask for a room in the new wing. After all, the afternoon cappuccino will give it away – you are an American and like your room chilly and your drinks with ice. High speed internet available. http://www.hotelgiottoassisi.it/
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