Oil and Cotton is pleased
to announce the OIL AND COTTON PROJECT ROOM, an installation
that features FREE workshops, events and activities, highlighting an exciting
mix of education and art-making practices, in conjunction with the exhibition
DallasSITES: Available Space at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Oil and Cotton is a creative commons for learning and sharing ideas. This exhibition is a mini-version of our Oak Cliff location, where we facilitate creative education and cultural exchange for all ages. The heart of our programming is at the intersection of academic art, the tradition of handcraft, and human ingenuity.
Join us for a series of workshops, events, and projects that explore process, material, and art making for all.
5-12am
Friday, July 19: Opening Night
COLLECT & SORT: The
public is invited to add to our collection of donated materials and bring in
their old art and craft supplies to build out studio at the DMA. Help Oil and
Cotton owners Kayli House Cusick and Shannon Driscoll collect, sort, and
organize. Inventory will be available to museum visitors to use in make and
take activities.
Architect Esther Walker
will put finishing touches on her design of the Oil and Cotton Project Room in
the Available Space exhibition at the DMA. Visitors will be invited to ask
questions, view sketches, and learn about architectural processes. Drop-In, All Ages
1-4pm,
Saturday, July 20
TEJIDO: Fiber artist, Sarah Westrup, will take up residency in our
DMA studio. Sarah will weave the Spanish language into our space by labeling storage
areas and sorted bins in Spanish. She will create a glossary of fiber art terms
in a small English/Spanish vocabulary book. She will make the book throughout
the day and invite people to assist with the bookmaking process: printing,
collating and binding culminating in a limited edition handmade bilingual book.
Drop-In,
all ages.
11-3pm,
Saturday, July 20
BULB BASKET WEAVING: Expert weaver Jan Schmidt will teach students an open weave
pattern. The baskets will function as storage during our exhibition and may be
taken home after the exhibition. The basket begins by making a star pattern base, then a small thin
reed is woven around and around to form the bulbous body of the basket. Woven in the round in
your lap to take on a beautiful organic shape. Observe a workshop in
progress.
5-6pm
Thursday, July 25
SUMMER STUDIO: The first of three one-hour kids studio art classes taught
by Oil and Cotton weekly art class
instructor Jessica Sinks. This 3-week drawing
course responds to current exhibitions. Advanced
registration required through DMA, ages 7
to 18.
6-8:30pm
Thursday, July 25: Late Night
WEAVE-IN: Join June Covington,
Analise Minjarez, and University of
North Texas School of Visual Arts and Design fiber artists for a variety of weaving
demonstrations while discussing fiber arts, the ins and outs of weaving, its
history and potential. Drop-In Make & Take, all ages.
6-8pm
Thursday, July 25: Late Night
NATURAL DYEING DEMO: Experiment with dyeing
silk and cotton in a range of natural dye baths using black beans, hibiscus
flowers, and avocado pits. Unlike synthetic dyes, natural dyes are a
living thing. The colors produced are very complex and harmonize together. Each
color holds hints of other colors within it, producing vibrations in the
natural dye color that synthetic dyes could never have. Experience the
spontaneity and beauty of the unique colors produced with natural dyes with
artist Sarah Westrup. Drop-In Make & Take, all ages.
1-3pm
Friday, July 26
PRINT//PROOF: Join us for an introduction to printmaking with artist Kyle
Hobratschk.
Drop-In Make & Take, all
ages.
11-1pm
Saturday, July 27
ORB: Join artist Emily Riggert and her Community Art Camp
students for Project ORB (Operation Rainbow Brains). Make your mark with
colorful pastel on tree rings and sticks. Drop-In Make & Take, all ages.
1-4pm
Saturday, July 27
MEMORY JUGS: Bruce Webb will teach his memory jugs workshop and display
and discuss his collection of 19th-20th century memory jugs by African-American
Texan folk artists. Advanced registration required through DMA,
8-student maximum.
Wednesday,
July 31
Natalie Macellaio Workshop
Thursday,
August 1
SUMMER STUDIO: The second of three one-hour kids studio art classes
taught by Oil and Cotton weekly art
class instructor Jessica Sinks. This 3-week drawing
course responds to current exhibitions. Advanced
registration required through DMA, ages 7
to 18.
SOUND MATERIALS: Explore sound
art with a discussion and hands-on demonstration of sound mediums. With Kayli
House Cusick (hand-written music notation), David Karsten Daniels
(laptop/smartphone recording), Martin Back (sound art
instrument-building/automated gamelan), and Chaz Underriner (tape music: sound
portraits & landscapes).
Friday,
August 2
COLOR SORT: Observe
and play with the subtleties of working with color. Join artist Rebecca Carter for an interactive
exercise and glimpse into her semester course in color, its theory, concepts
and history. Drop-In, teens & adults.
11-Noon
Saturday, August 3
THE YANKEE DOODLES: Please join us for The Yankee Doodles
Sing-A-Lot Sing-A-Long. There will be a short musical program of American
Revolutionary era songs and action rhymes performed by The Yankee Doodles
featuring John Dufilho on drums and guitar. Families can participate in a
hands-on art activities including spinning wool into yarn. Learn about art,
history and individual versus collective action. Come sing along and bring all
tiny patriots and future revolutionaries.
The
Yankee Doodles are a non-professional performance group founded by Danette Dufilho,
Anne Lawrence and Regina Yunker. The
program includes action rhymes, flash cards and audience participation. The
Yankee Doodles are: Danette Dufilho, John Dufilho, Anne Lawrence, Todd Ramsell, Mike Rudnicki & Regina Yunker. HUZZAH! Drop-In Make
& Take, all ages.
1-2:30
Saturday, August 3
IT FELT SO GOOD, WET FELTING DEMONSTRATION: Learn
the magic of felting with artist Lizzy Wetzel. Transform fibers by stimulating them with friction, moisture, and
alkalinity. The resulting felt can be soft and used to make slippers or a
fedora hat or tough enough to build a yurt or a sculpture. Join artist Lizzy
Wetzel to explore the potential of this ancient process and exciting materials. Drop-In
Make & Take, all ages.
2:30-4pm
Saturday, August 3
ANTHOTYPE: Rachel Rushing will
introduce you to this historical process that combines natural dyeing
techniques with the magic of sunlight, plant extracts and photography. Share in
a discussion of historical and contemporary methods of image-making with this
elusive process. We will consider the technical implications of material,
color, contrast, dye methods, and fastness, as well as how this almost bygone
process has recently found a resurgence of interest. Drop-In Make & Take, all
ages.
2:30-4pm
Saturday, August 3
ART LAW BASICS: Meg Friess
will discuss the diverse spectrum of legal considerations facing the arts
community and creatives, including basics of intellectual property and
contracts. Meg is an attorney with the intellectual
property firm Hitchcock Evert LLP and is the executive director of Arts Counsel
Texas, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves creatives, arts
nonprofits and businesses, arts professionals, and attorneys by facilitating art
law education, legal advocacy, and creative collaboration.
Thursday,
August 8: Late Night
SUMMER STUDIO: The third of three one-hour kids studio art classes taught
by Oil and Cotton weekly art class
instructor Jessica Sinks. This 3-week drawing
course responds to current exhibitions. Advanced
registration required through DMA, ages 7 to 18.
Friday,
August 8, 2013
GRAB BAG: Shannon Driscoll, Kayli House Cusick and Matthew Cusick
will repurpose or deaccess and disburse supplies. Studio will be dismantled and
artists will be invited to help find new uses for supplies, furniture, equipment. Drop-In
Make & Take, all ages.
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