Latest Classes for Art Workshop International Summer 2009

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Two New Mosaic Classes taught by Nina di Giovanni, director of Arte Biulu Centro Cultural, Oaxaca, Mexico.
July 22 - August 4, 2009: The Byzantine Muse - Mosaic Enchantmnet
August 5 - August 18, 2009: Contemporary Mosaic - Beyond Byzantine - The Muse Morphs

New Poetry Class with Francesco Levato, Chicago Poetry Center Director.
July 22 -August 4, 2009: Join multi-talented poet and editor in “Caffe Poesia,” an intensive poetry workshop in a coffeehouse setting.

Early-bird discount price extended to May 15, 2009!
Our own financial stimulus package. Art Workshop International has not raised its tuition since 2006. Register before May 15, 2009, to benefit.

Art Workshop International proudly announces a new show by Edith Isaac-Rose at the Phyllis Kind Gallery.
Here is a link to the opening on Saturday, March 28, 2009, and also to the gallery.

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

Visual Arts: painting, drawing, artmaking, pastel portraits, watercolor plein air, creativity workshop
Faculty: Edith Isaac-Rose, Bea Kreloff, Pam Christiansen, Ellen Eagle, Nina di Giovanni, 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 artists and writers

For more information: Art Workshop International

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

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THE PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY
EDITH ISAAC-ROSE: THE POLITICAL EMBROIDERIES
March 28 — April 30, 2009

New York, March 22, 2009 — Phyllis Kind Gallery is pleased to present The Political Embroideries, an exhibition of new works by Edith Isaac-Rose. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, March 28th from 5–7pm.

The artist Edith Isaac-Rose graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1951 and moved to New York in 1959. Since 1980 as co-director of Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy she spends three months every year in Italy. A mix of the past and the present, classical tradition and popular culture are reflected in her work. This body of work consists of handmade embroideries on mainly found vintage fabric are from 2006–2009.

Since 1987 her work has dealt with information and images from the daily newspaper. Daily Rage came along with the morning newspaper. Over the years her work developed various themes: Our Bodies Are More Alike Then Different, Suits, The Old Men Send the Young, Animal Men and the Last Last Supper.

Isaac-Rose is using the images from her paintings as icons for new compositions. Make Love, Leaving Eden, Daily Rage, Springtime In Washington are some of her embroideries. Isaac-Rose approaches embroidery as if it were a drawing; lines, texture, form is what concern her. The scale of the embroideries allow the subject intimacy and playfulness.

Says Edith Isaac-Rose, “For a very long time, I’ve been aware of images that are almost the same the world over: men in suits, (whether allies, competitors or political enemies), dress and gesture in similar ways — they carry brief-cases, shake hands, wave and salute, acting out their parts in the theater of power. These leaders often violate the earth and the people who live on it. These works address that violation.

I’m a first generation Jewish American. My mother’s parents and most of her family never left Hungary. From when I was 9 during the war and through the 1950’s, it was my job as the one who spoke and read English, to fill out the forms to substantiate the fate of our family following the Holocaust. I could not imagine a world without justice or that power would not make sense but it would be believed. Over the years, slowly and reluctantly, I have learned to express the inexorable fears that now underline my work.”

CONTACT:
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Tel: (212) 925-1200

Phyllis Kind Gallery
236 West 26th Street, Suite 503, NY, New York 10001
Web: www.phylliskindgallery.com