Hands-On Artmaking
Weaving Cultures, Albers + Common Ground
Saturday, 10/23 – 12:00-3:00pm
Students from Common Ground High School and staff at The Albers Foundation have created a wonderful weaving workshop for the public. Learn new skills and a history of weaving among people from various New Haven cultures.
9th Square Plaza
50 Orange Street, Downtown
Painting Experience, Danielle DeJesus
Saturday, 10/16 – 12:00-3:00pm
Artist Danielle De Jesus is offering two free and for all, guided painting experiences on Saturday, October 16th, from noon to 1:30 pm, and from 1:30-3:00 pm EST at Artspace New Haven. If you do not already know, De Jesus is an artist who’s paintings tell the story of her life growing up in Bushwick Brooklyn.
Juxtaposing her experience as a Puerto Rican in the diaspora with the gentrification of her home neighborhood, Danielle tells the story of displacement through various mediums including U.S currency. Danielle De Jesus’ background is in photography and she utilizes her images of the people native to Bushwick as a reference to tell the story of Bushwick’s displaced residents.
Artspace
50 Orange St,
New Haven
Hands-on: Blended Reality, CCAM at Yale Media Center
Sunday, 10/24 – 12:00-3:00pm
This session offers access to 3D modeling techniques through easy ‘open source’ tools. Join Justin Berry as he demos the free development platform Unity and the publicly available toolkit that he co-created: The Verb Collective. This is an excellent entry point for artists considering a blended reality space.
Reality123 York St,
New Haven
Note: Event capped at 18 participants