Corner Cone Soft Serve Playhouse Presents 10-Minute Play Festival, Saturday Aug 16!
-Ryan, 8/4/2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Conference of the Birds
Miles Budd Goodman Amphitheater, site of Conference of the Birds presented by Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse (photo Sarah Weinstock)
Sarah reminiscing her days working stage lights
Cheers to Neal Kirkwood's original score and Pierre Nagley's costumes...
and gorgeous stage painting!
The play, directed by John Fleming, was adapted from a fable by classical Sufi author Farid ud-Din Attar. Hats off to all involved in this production!
a view backstage
kilns at Antioch's outdoor sculpture lab, next to the amphitheater
a nearby path into south Glen Helen
Headstand by Sarah Weinstock
Catch YSKP's newest show, Oceans of Notions (Lakes of Mistakes), under the big top at Young's Jersey Dairy, Wednesday-Saturday Aug 4-7 at 7pm, for reservations call (937) 767-7800.
-Ryan, 8/3/2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
YS Experience - an evolution of the educational landscape
I am contributing to this blog as a current participant in the Nonstop Artist Residency "Local Stories".
This week artist Sarah Weinstock joined me for a day-trip from Columbus to Yellow Springs. We first made a pit-stop at Young's Jersey Dairy for samples of fresh cheddar cheese curds and kid-size milkshakes. We landed at the Nonstop Liberal Art Institute, browsed the library of salvaged books, all meticulously indexed, then made our way to the corner of Dayton and Walnut to visit the telephone booth project initiated by artist and Yellow Springs resident Migiwa Orimo.
Orimo generously invites other artists to create site-specific works at the booth, resulting in 8 to 12 projects from Oct. 2009 to Sept. 2010. My activity during this residency coincides with an audio project for the telephone booth, incorporating collaborative audio recordings with my grandmother, Ora Lee Carr.
Here is a drawing of the phone booth from one of the tables at the Corner Cone Dairy Bar & Grill & Bike Rental.
The act of drawing is contextual to the place and process involved. Another person enters and exits the booth during the process. The drawing is informed from direct interaction with the particular site producing a real-time artifact and ongoing connection with the world. The materiality of water, pigment and paper in the case of watercolor allows for rapid and spontaneous responses.
Next, Sarah and I visited Starflower Natural Foods, an excellent place to shop, take in therapeutic aromas from sample bottles of essential oils and bump into people such as artist Nevin Mercede. We then proceeded to the Village Herb Shoppe -- thank you Owa rock-of-ages for sharing the organic bee pollen, propolis royal jelly and your own wild oregano oil extract!
Walking the bike path along the edge of Glen Helen, we soon reached the hushed grounds of Antioch College. We ate tasty crabapples that had fallen from a tree in the middle of the campus -- my colleague Herb would call these apples a "ground score!"
Check out Antioch's art building...
Near the art building we found an entrance to a path leading us into a mysterious wooded area.
This is Sarah's drawing made from things picked up off the ground.
In the picture below I imagine the wild vegetation shaping its own improvised educational landscape...
If you look closely, you can see the bottom of a platform in the trees.
Climbing a rusty ladder to this platform was worthwhile, a great spot for elevated meditation and painting. We agreed with a local squirrel to eat only the mulberries we could reach, then the squirrel began showing off by dancing upside down on a twig. Lots of empty beer litter in the area -- signs of raccoons?
Back on the ground this sign marks the area as a nursery for trees.
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Looking forward to tomorrow evening's open house!
-Ryan, 7/16/2010
This week artist Sarah Weinstock joined me for a day-trip from Columbus to Yellow Springs. We first made a pit-stop at Young's Jersey Dairy for samples of fresh cheddar cheese curds and kid-size milkshakes. We landed at the Nonstop Liberal Art Institute, browsed the library of salvaged books, all meticulously indexed, then made our way to the corner of Dayton and Walnut to visit the telephone booth project initiated by artist and Yellow Springs resident Migiwa Orimo.
Orimo generously invites other artists to create site-specific works at the booth, resulting in 8 to 12 projects from Oct. 2009 to Sept. 2010. My activity during this residency coincides with an audio project for the telephone booth, incorporating collaborative audio recordings with my grandmother, Ora Lee Carr.
Here is a drawing of the phone booth from one of the tables at the Corner Cone Dairy Bar & Grill & Bike Rental.
The act of drawing is contextual to the place and process involved. Another person enters and exits the booth during the process. The drawing is informed from direct interaction with the particular site producing a real-time artifact and ongoing connection with the world. The materiality of water, pigment and paper in the case of watercolor allows for rapid and spontaneous responses.
Next, Sarah and I visited Starflower Natural Foods, an excellent place to shop, take in therapeutic aromas from sample bottles of essential oils and bump into people such as artist Nevin Mercede. We then proceeded to the Village Herb Shoppe -- thank you Owa rock-of-ages for sharing the organic bee pollen, propolis royal jelly and your own wild oregano oil extract!
Walking the bike path along the edge of Glen Helen, we soon reached the hushed grounds of Antioch College. We ate tasty crabapples that had fallen from a tree in the middle of the campus -- my colleague Herb would call these apples a "ground score!"
Check out Antioch's art building...
Near the art building we found an entrance to a path leading us into a mysterious wooded area.
This is Sarah's drawing made from things picked up off the ground.
In the picture below I imagine the wild vegetation shaping its own improvised educational landscape...
If you look closely, you can see the bottom of a platform in the trees.
Climbing a rusty ladder to this platform was worthwhile, a great spot for elevated meditation and painting. We agreed with a local squirrel to eat only the mulberries we could reach, then the squirrel began showing off by dancing upside down on a twig. Lots of empty beer litter in the area -- signs of raccoons?
Back on the ground this sign marks the area as a nursery for trees.
--
Looking forward to tomorrow evening's open house!
-Ryan, 7/16/2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Residency Open House Planning
Nonstop Summer Residency Artists: John Hempfling & Jonny No with Chris Hill (NS staff & a media artist)
Friday, July 2, 2010
Nonstop Multimedia Open House & Tapas Lounge
Join the 2010 YS Experience.
Enjoy a festive evening of fusion tapas, wine, performances, media and conversation. Performances (starting at 9:30) will feature dancer/choreographer Jill Becker & Friends, improvising with original music by YSKP guest musicians Neal Kirkwood and Harry Mann. Theater artist Louise Smith’s work-in-progress is based on her studies of inland waters and related bodily humors whose depths can only be reached with special instruments of locomotion. Actress Rani Deighe Crowe will present Julia Child’s Midwest Chef—adapting world famous cuisine for the midwest palate. Also presenting will be NS Local Stories/Oral Histories summer Artist-Residents: John Hempfling & Jonny No will screen excerpts of their work-in-progress about Yellow Springs youth and public space; Dennie Eagleson will present recent documentary photography projects, and Ryan Agnew will share a story that has emerged from his local encounters. Food will be tasty and nourishing late night fare organized by artist Migiwa Orimo. $15
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