Topography of Memory
Dates:
June 14-21, 2010
Price:
$2,800 double room, $3,800 single room
Program Website:
www.twolittlewishbones.com
Program Coordinators:
Angela Ellsworth and Tania Katan
Address:
4132 E. Almeria Road, Phoenix, AZ 85008
Telephone:
602-957-5203
E-mail:
info@twolittlewishbones.com
Preferred method of contact:
Email
Description:
Through walking, drawing and writing participants learn skills that have the potential to infuse art into their everyday life. We start each day with a walk in the amazing landscape of Spannocchia in order to open up the senses and make connections with landscape, history and memory. Throughout the week we will engage in memoir writing and drawing exercises geared towards finding the threads that connect past to present and generate work inspired by personal and cultural histories. There are focused seminar discussions on memoir writing, principles of drawing, and the history of walking as a cultural and contemporary art practice. We meet daily to share work generated and offer feedback that allows us to take our writing and drawing to the next level. One day during the week we will visit Siena where participants will study works at the Museum of the Duomo and other sites around the city for inspiration. Two Little Wishbones is dedicated to creating workshops, such as Topography of Memory, that focus on creative sustainability; a strategy to maintaining an abundance of creativity in our everyday lives.
Coordinator Biography(ies):
Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist traversing disciplines of drawing, performance, and installation. The primary focus of her work is the body: the body in motion, the body in space, and the body in community. She is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected spaces. Walking plays a significant role in much of her art practice as seen in her recent solo exhibition at Lisa Sette Gallery opening in January 2009. Ellsworth received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. Living and working in Florence, Italy for almost six years she returned to the United States to complete her MFA in Painting and Performance Art at Rutgers University. She attended Skowhegan on a fellowship and has received several grants including Arizona Commission on the Arts, Surdna Art Teachers Fellowship, Art Matters, Contemporary Forum Materials Grant, and New Forms Regional Initiative Grants through The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. She has been nominated twice for the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Intermedia in the School of Art at Arizona State University. www.aellsworth.com.
Tania Katan is an author, playwright and performer. Her one-woman show, Saving Tania’s Privates (based on her memoir My One Night Stand With Cancer), made its European premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008 where it was a critical success! In the U.S. she has been seen performing Saving Tania’s Privates at ACT Theatre in Seattle and The Painted Bride in Philadelphia, among other venues. Katan’s memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer is the winner of the 2006 Judy Grahn Award in Nonfiction, an honoree of the 2006 America Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Tania performs her own brand of personal narrative comedy at Comedy Central’s Sit-n-Spin and other venues nationwide. Katan is a graduate of the Creative Center’s artist-in-residence program, an organization that brings the art making process to the bedsides of people in the hospital dealing with cancer. She is a contributor to OurChart.com, The Advocate and Stand Up To Cancer’s online magazine. Tania is a writing instructor, marathon runner, guest lecturer, and Limoncello enthusiast! For more information about Tania please visit www.taniakatan.com