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ARTISTS TALK ON ART

School of VISUAL ARTS

CRITICAL DIALOG IN THE VISUAL ARTS SINCE 1975 Doors open at 6:30pm Panels are held Fridays 7-9pm at SVA Admission : $7 Students, Seniors & SVA Alumni:$3 Current SVA Students, faculty & ATOA Passholders: FREE

Contemporary Ceramics

Erotic Art or Ponography

Jump Start Your Career

Panelist: Ann Agee, artist Arlene Shechet, artist Beverly Semmes, artist Moderator/ Organizer: Michael Klein,Talking Point Films

Jauuary 30th

Couple, Emily Stedman

Turning Writing into Art

The Power of Paper

Curator’s Choice 2009 ATOA’s annual artist slide competition, winners will be announced as selected by Dr. Thalia Vracopolous. Winners will have their art work exhibited at Tenri Cultural Institute in The Village.

texts-ancient? Moderator: Lynne Mayocole, pres. ATOA needs to be Panelist: Emna Zghal, artist Norma Greenwood rewritten Sumayyah Samaha, artist Fareen Butt, artist Imagine being able to throw your career Organizer: Ayse Turgut, indp. curator into high gear in one night? Join local experts who can help you find the focus, the strategy and the resources to maximize independent? the new year and beyond. Panelists: Ethany Uttech, Brooklyn Arts Council, Ginger Shulick Coahsi, Couns. Arts & Humanities, Bill Agardo, Broxn Council in Bronx? the Arts, Kay Takeda, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lillian Chou, Asian American Arts Counciil Moderator/ Organizer: Norma Greenwood, artist & ATOA board

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February 27th

March 20th President

February 13th

February 6th

February 20th

March 6th

Art Log

Telling Artists’s Stories in Moving pictures

Environmental works

The panel will discuss the benefit of making available to the viewer the creative process behind the art they are viewing and the role that knowledge plays in the appreciation and interpretation of it.

Courtesy of Manish Vora

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A discussion with New York artists exploring the ways in which Arab, Middle Eastern and Islamic literary, poetic and problem with this other texts-ancient and contemporary, entire sentence: inform their work.

What does “hot” mean? The classical definition of erotica refers to art dealing with sexual love. Pornography, is defined as obscene art designed to excite sexual desire. What’s going on? Moderator: Emily Stedman, painter Panelist: Vincent Arcilisi, Painter painter should be White Trio, Beverly Semmes McWillie Chambers, painter lowercase Pet Sylvia, owner, Art-At-Large Gallery Ceramics is looked at now as more Carolyn Weltman, artist than a craft, discussion will focus Organizer: Jacqueline Sferra-Rada on the work of three contemporary New York artists who work in clay and as a result are working to find a means to self expression and threrby expanding the boundaries of what constitutes the character missing period of their art

209 E 23rd Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10010

Moderator: Kevin O’Hanlon, owner/dir., FilmsOnArtists.com Panelist: Andreas Rentsch, photographer Richard Laurent, painter Organizer: Ann Lydecker, visual art impresario

Artlog assembles gallery owners and dealers from different neighborhoods in NYC to discuss the challenges facing emerging artists breaking into the art market right now.

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Courtesy of Kevin O’Hanlon

Flight of Warrior, Joan Giordano

Joan Giordano, Fran Kornfeld, Nancy Cohen, Lynne Sures, Mel Kendrick will reveal the hidden secrets of paper, its infinate possibilities and why it is the major componant of their art.

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Moderator: Joan Giordano, artist Panelist: Fran Kornfeld, artist Nancy Cohen, artist, Lynne Sures, artist Mel Kendrick, artist Organizer: Lynne Mayocole, pres. ATOA

April 3th March 27rd The Madness of Art

This panel features short humerous films, in the tradition of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The Office." Dealer-filmmaker, Jim Kempner’s panel is about an art dealer, and the gallery world of modern day Chelsea district, he inhabits. Guest Speaker: Jim Kempner, Jim Kempner Fine Arts Organizer: Ann Lydecker, visual art impresario

Tenri Cultural Institute

April 24th April 17th Theory and Practice: The Artifice of Abjection? No "?". Underneath pic, it should read, Neal Tait, Procession. Procession should be in italics.

Patricia Johanson, Fair Park Lagoon, Dallas, TX

Three stellar environmental artists whose work makes a difference with projects that are utilitarian as well as aesthetic—that both serve and engage the public Moderator: Mary Arnold Environmental art consultant & fmr dir. Teaneck Creek Conservancy Panelist: Patricia Johanson, artist Eve Mosher, artist Aviva Rahmani, ecological artist Organizer: Donna Marxer, chmn A. I. R. I. E.

Moderator: Manish Vora, Artlog.com Panelist: Dylan Fareed, Artlog.com Organizer: Manish Vora, Artlog.com

Juror/ Curator: Thalia Vracopolous, professor, curator & critic Organizer: Margarida Guilarte, adm. manager, ATOA

description should This Double-click here toread: edit text. panel chaired by Peter Duhon (Director, Artcomments.com) will examine the state of trauma discourse in art and theory today. What are the implications for abject art during the current global economic crisis? Courtesy of Jim Kempner

Courtesy of Peter Duhon

This panel moderated by Peter Duhon (Director, Artcomments.com) will examine trauma discourse in art and theory today. What are the implications for abject art during the current global economic crisis? Moderator/Organizer: Peter Duhon, executive editor, Art Comments (Panelists to be announced)