Join us Saturday April 25th to participate in the masked performance workshop with Mariangela Lopez and Caroline McAuliffe!

From Mariangela and Caroline:::

This workshop will invite you to explore movement and art-making to delve into your inner world through somatic movement exploration and creation of a wearable headpiece. We hope this multi-disciplinary approach of moving and making can lead to discovering how the ancient practice of masquerade can physicalize your subconscious. Individual experiences will birth a landscape of masked movers.

If you plan on coming please RSVP below

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Sliding Scale ($10-20)

BIO:

Mariangela Lopez is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer from Caracas, Venezuela. Her work has been presented in Australia, Mexico, France, Boston and multiple venues in New York City, including Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, P.S 122, Tisch School of the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, MonkeyTown, The New Museum, The Gibney Dance Center and Saint Ann’s Warehouse. Mariangela is a receiver of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant 2018. She was a Movement Research Artist in Residency, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Artist In Residency and Mount Tremper Arts. Mariangela holds a BFA from the Boston Conservatory and is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. Currently Mariangela teaches Movement and Dance at Blue School, NYC and at the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL). She is currently pursuing her certification in Somatic Movement Education and Infant Development Movement Education at the School of Body Mind Center ®.

Caroline McAuliffe is a paper and fiber artist. She spends her time creating woven wearables that explore folkloric familial nostalgia. She likes to dress up in her art and dance, further fulfilling her life goal of becoming a fool with authority. Caroline holds an M.F.A from Pratt Institute and currently works as the Studio Arts Specialist at Blue School in lower Manhattan. She has shown in group shows throughout New York and New Jersey, and internationally in Iceland and Italy.

Join us Saturday April 4th to participate in a facilitated informal share of poems, sketches, notes etc.

From Cat:::

An experimental writing workshop centered around 'active listening' for text that can live on a variety of platforms, including the page, screen, or stage. 

I will facilitate a salon-style experience centered around 'active listening'  as a way to hold space for creative praxis. Bring creative work at any stage of completion or just come for the ride. Share: Messy notes toward a project! Poems! Sketches! Thoughts! Songs! Other stuff! These are open format, supportive, informal, FUN, and generative.

If you plan on coming please RSVP below and bring paper, drafts of works, and your most favorite writing utensil.

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Sliding Scale ($10-20)

BIO:

Cat Tyc is a writer and artist. She explores dynamics of speculative relations on the precipice of a poetic mediology that include the page, video, sound, installation and performance.She has three chapbooks,  An Architectural Seance (Dancing Girl Press), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). 

Her video work has screened locally and internationally at spaces that include the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, and Kassel Fest. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO's NewNowNext and MTVu. 

She co-curates the Poet Transmit with Victoria Keddie which engages in the connections  between poetry, transmission, and performance to explore textual practice and modes of transmission and how poetry exists in expanded fields of  time. Events have been held at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Knockdown Center and MOMA Ps1. 

She teaches writing as an adjunct and directs The Home School in Hudson, NY which is a week long  intensive program that foregrounds interdisciplinary experimentation and collaboration. 

Join us Saturday March 21th to participate in the devising of small scale puppet productions led by Liz Oakley!

From Liz:::

15 people to make 5 stages smaller than 1 square foot, all within a single art studio... this is the (first ever!) Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages, a miniature site-specific performance extravaganza! It’s just like Coachella or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, except it’s in one small room, the performers are puppets, and we’ll make everything ourselves. During the workshop from 3-5pm, participants will work in small groups to choose locations around The Painted Cloud in which to build & decorate a tiny stage (maximum dimension one square foot!). They will then use found and provided materials to create a short puppet or object performance specifically for their stage. Along the way, we will discuss principles of object puppetry, toy theater, scenic design, and site-responsive performance. At 5pm, we’ll invite additional audience into the space to attend the festival of tiny performances, moving from stage to stage to witness 3-minute shows. RSVP for the whole workshop (space is limited!) or just show up for the Festival at 5!  Light refreshments will be provided. But be warned… once you know that everywhere can be a stage, the world will never be the same.

If you plan on coming please RSVP below

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Sliding Scale ($10-20)

BIO:

Liz Oakley is a puppeteer, designer, and teaching artist living in New York. She is interested in performances that manipulate scale and challenge spatial rules. She has performed original works of object theater at Undiscovered Countries at Judson Memorial Church, Dark Fest at The Tank, Tapis Théâtre (Paris), AS220 (Providence, RI), the Providence Fringe Festival, the Puppet Showplace Slam (Brookline, MA), and a handful of living rooms and bars. She trained in puppetry at the the Théâtre Aux Mains Nues in Paris. @lizoako

Join us Saturday March 7th to participate in a performative sound sculpture experiment with choreographer Ursula Eagly.

From Ursula:::

We are going to sculpt sound and space through simple group actions. It’ll be fun—we will play inside of game structures that are designed to be negotiated (not executed flawlessly). These games involve real-time decisions about our relationships to space, each other, and the audience. We will explore, organize a performative structure, and take turns as audience members. And we’ll have time for a conversation to reflect on different approaches to navigation, participation, cooperation, and resistance.

If you plan on coming please RSVP below

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Sliding Scale ($10-20)

BIO:

Ursula Eagly is a choreographer based in New York City since 2000. Her works are characterized by a “rabbit-hole logic” (New York Times), and her research considers the potential of porosity. Works have been commissioned throughout New York City, and her interest in different artistic contexts has drawn her to sustained projects in the Balkans, East Asia, and Mexico. She recently premiered a piece for psychosocial motor systems at Danspace Project, and her previous project, an iterative work performed in multiple mediums, is still available as a vinyl LP from The Chocolate Factory. Lists of commissions, grants etc at www.ursulaeagly.org

Join us Saturday January 18th to witness and discuss in-progress works from puppeteers in NYC!

Puppet Sketchbook is a recurring evening in which puppet artists and other performance makers present first-stage work and solicit feedback from audience participants. Each evening includes four performers presenting 10-15 minutes of work. The audience is asked to respond to the presentations in provided notebooks, and following the presentations, in lieu of a traditional panel-style talkback or group discussion, the artists and audience mingle and share questions and feedback, over drinks and snacks.

On February 8th, Sam Jay Gould will be presenting!

Bio:

Sam Jay Gold is a puppeteer, theater artist, and filmmaker based in New York.

With the support of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Sam studied traditional forms of puppetry around the world. He trained in marionettes in the Czech Republic, Noh and Bunraku in Japan, and Wayang Kulit in Bali, while exploring empathy, imagination, and projection across the animate/inanimate divide. These experiences cemented Sam’s belief in the primal power of the puppet, of the shadow, of the not-quite-lifelike, as vessels for surprising, delighting, and challenging audiences with transformative storytelling.

Sam’s original work has been supported by the Jim Henson Foundation and featured at venues including St. Ann’s Warehouse, BAM, and the New York State Puppetry Festival. He has performed in shows at Lincoln Center, Mass MoCA, The Watermill Center, The Merry-Go-Round Theater, The Eugene O’Neill Theater, HERE Arts, and La MaMa, as well as toured works in France, Poland, and Indonesia. 

 Sam is co-founder of The Brothers Campur, a Balinese/American shadow puppet company performing classic and contemporary Wayang Kulit throughout the US and Bali. His writings on theater and pu      ppetry have been featured in Bauhaus Magazine, Puppetry International, and Mime Journal.

When not performing, writing, or making new shows, Sam assists in puppet fabrication at AchesonWalsh Studios and works as a teaching artist at The New Victory Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, and CO/LAB Theater Group, where he offers individuals with developmental disabilities a creative and social outlet through puppetry and other theater arts.

if you plan on coming please
1) RSVP below

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Pay-As-You-Wish (Suggested $10-20)

BIO:

Justin Perkins is a puppet artist and performer. Recent puppet performance includes Madama Butterfly at Met Opera (cover), and Hansel and Gretel at Michigan Opera Theater (principal). He has appeared in works by Ping Chong+Company (Alaxsxa|Alaska, LaMama, US tour), Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (And Here We Are, National Sawdust), Tom Lee (Shank’s Mare, NYC, Paris, US tour), Lake Simons, Patti Bradshaw, Puppet Cinema, Unitards, imnotlost and more. In 2019, his most recent work, DIANAMAS, was developed at Puppet Lab at St Ann's Warehouse. Justin's puppet ballet Unicorn Afterlife was the recipient of a Workshop Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation and residencies at the Jim Henson Legacy Carriage House and Center at West Park, and has been presented at has been presented (in progress) at Carriage House, Dixon Place, Center at West Park, and FlameCon. Justin is a curator at Object Movement Puppetry Festival, a year-long development residency program for puppet artists with new works in development, currently in its third year. He is also the Program Director at New Country Day Camp in Staten Island.

Join us Saturday November 9th for an inclusive and immersive experiment with analogue and digital video equipment!

Come get immersed in an abstract video wonderland! Artists Julian Bozeman and John Crowe will set up multiple pieces of analogue and digital video equipment throughout The Painted Cloud studio for all to use. Together we will create unpredictable abstract video. This is a unique opportunity for participants to get their hands on rare video equipment.

After a brief introduction from the artists, participants will have the opportunity to use an array of video equipment to create abstract video projections. Each piece of video equipment, ranging from cameras to mixers to colorizers and more, will feed into the final abstract product, which will be projected onto the wall. There will also be a performance station, where your simple and complex movements will be captured, transmitted, and transformed by the video equipment.

if you plan on coming please
1) RSVP below
2) bring something shiny

Ages Teen and adult!

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Pay-As-You-Wish (Suggested $10-20)

BIO:

Julian and John are artists that have collaborated on video and performance works for over 10 years. Throughout that time, they have amassed a bank of video gear and experimented with using the gear outside of its intended purpose. From making music videos to developing fully immersive video installations, their approach is to seek the beautiful abstractions made possible through constant and consistent experimentation with video.

Join us this Saturday October 12th for the latest session of Nick DeMarco’s cardboard and papier-mâché workshop.... Crumpled Stuff!

A message from Nick::
Using simple techniques and dirt cheap or reused materials, I will help you build a funky li’l vessel of your own design. Papier-mâché is an often neglected medium, but it’s one of my all-time favorites to work with. Done correctly, it can be durable, expressive, beautiful and very eco-friendly.

All are welcome, regardless of a self-perceived lack of prior experience making things. if you participated in my previous session of Crumpled Stuff you’re welcome too! I’ll try to introduce some new techniques to seasoned mâché veterans.

if you plan on coming please
1) RSVP below
2) bring a medium sized plastic container of some kind. this will be the bones of your vessel, so choose wisely. a seltzer bottle, gallon milk jug, yogurt tub, to-go thing, etc. also plan on leaving with a wet object so bring a plastic bag to hold it. if you have extra brown grocery bags lying around please bring those as well to share with the group!
this is gonna be fun!!

Beginner and Intermediate

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Pay-As-You-Wish (Suggested $10-20)

BIO:

Nick DeMarco was born in 1986, raised in Seattle Washington and now lives and works in New York City. Nick has been been an Artist since early childhood, cutting his teeth working on community art events, parades and performances organized by his family and friends in Seattle. His work now spans many mediums, from product and furniture design to filmmaking, sculpture, writing, digital image and netart. Though his interests are varied, his body of work contains a consistent thread of critical irreverence—observing the world as it is, pulling from it, and suggesting how it might be different.

Join Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman this Saturday for Right Now Mind//\\Cheaper than Therapy. These two hours in the studio are meant for showing up to mindfully relax and work on anything you'd like to work on or simply sit and have conversation. Soothing video projections will fill the walls and materials will fill the tables for you to mindlessly try 2-d projects (ie collage, stamping, card-making) or bring your own if you have something of your own you would like to add onto. Past explorations include poetry, sewing, collaging, knitting, drawing, fortune telling, and more. When we are so busy that we do not have time to spend time together and move our hands and talk and drink tea or wine, this is when we need a night of Right Now Mind.

BYOB // Suggested $10-$20

What better way to spend your Saturday than creating something with your family!

Come join us for our Second Saturday All ages workshop. Guided by a teaching artist, you and your child will have a great time creating something together. In addition to the project, we have games, books, and a back deck if your child needs to work off some energy :)

***Note: This is not a drop-off session. Each child must be accompanied by a caregiver.
suggested cost: $20 per maker // 10% off per sibling // 10% off for families attending semester-long sessions!

Nick DeMarco is bringing his papier-mâché skills to the studio for a not-to-be-missed pay-as-you-wish workshop. Growing up in Washington State, Nick began papier-mâché developing masks, objects and floats for the Fremont Arts Council’s various parades and happenings. More recently, he developed, constructed and installed the stage design for MoMA PS1’s warm-up party featuring performances by Cardi B, A$AP Ferg, John Maus and more.

Space is limited. RSVP required.

BIO:

Nick DeMarco was born in 1986, raised in Seattle Washington and now lives and works in New York City. Nick has been been an Artist since early childhood, cutting his teeth working on community art events, parades and performances organized by his family and friends in Seattle. His work now spans many mediums, from product and furniture design to filmmaking, sculpture, writing, digital image and netart. Though his interests are varied, his body of work contains a consistent thread of critical irreverence—observing the world as it is, pulling from it, and suggesting how it might be different.

Bring the whole family and join us for “Sun Catchers // Investigating the New Year” January 12th from 9:30am-11:00am

$20 per maker // 10% off per sibling // 10% off for families attending semester-long sessions!

Join Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman this Saturday for Right Now Mind//\\Cheaper than Therapy. These two hours in the studio are meant for showing up to mindfully relax and work on anything you'd like to work on or simply sit and have conversation. Soothing video projections will fill the walls and materials will fill the tables for you to mindlessly try 2-d projects (ie collage, stamping, card-making) or bring your own if you have something of your own you would like to add onto. Past explorations include poetry, sewing, collaging, knitting, drawing, fortune telling, and more. When we are so busy that we do not have time to spend time together and move our hands and talk and drink tea or wine, this is when we need a night of Right Now Mind.

BYOB // Suggested $10-$20

Ornaments! Beautiful hanging objects! So many materials!!

Bring the whole family and join us for “Dangler Creation // Investigating the Ornament”

$20 per maker // 10% off per sibling // 10% off for families attending semester-long sessions!

Bring the whole family and join us. November 10th from 9:30am-11:00am
Pom-Pom creation // Investigating the circle
$20 per maker // 10% off per sibling // 10% off for families attending semester-long sessions!