make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
Soap box Derby: August 7th, 2010
Kids: 12 Noon, Adults: 1 pm
17th Street between 5th and 6th Ave, South Slope
Everybody is welcome to participate!
Summer Camp for kids age 7-12
You can always stop by and get some ideas between 9-12am. That is when the Open Source Summer Camp is happening. Children aged 7-12 are learning to construct functional soap box racers out of recycled material. The artists Hubert Dobler and Monika Wuhrer are conducting the workshop following last year’s rave reviews: [Daily News (2-page spread!!!), Popular Mechanics, Park Slope Courier, Brooklyn Paper, among others].
We will introduce the campers to a variety of tools and supervise them closely while they build their contraptions with hammers, nails, handsaws, screws, etc. ALL TOOL USE UNDER STRICT ADULT SUPERVISION. We will encourage the kids to plan on paper, sketch images, make drawings of their invention, and think out of the box. We will also spend time outside, collecting found objects and materials, and testing our designs at each stage. We will also take breaks to play ball and have free play at the park/playground: (the time spent will depend on the different kids and their needs).
We have access to an outdoor space with a slight incline one half block away that we will be using in addition to the Gallery. This will serve as the perfect test track for our soap boxes in their different building stages. The culmination of the camp will be the 2nd annual 17th street soap box derby.
All participants, families, and friends are welcome to be part of the derby on August 7th.
Many thanks to William Duke for the video!
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source’s Windmill Camp’s field trip to Starting Artists
Summer Camp for kids age 10-14
July 6th through July 16th
Keen on the need for green, and inspired by stories like the tale of young William Kamkwamba in “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” (written with Bryan Mealer), Monika Wuhrer and Hubert Dobler will host a quixotic 2-week workshop with the purpose of building one big windmill. The windmill will be constructed out of found material. We will go to local hardware stores to purchase additional material, but we do encourage all campers to look for materials at home and on the streets. Our hope is to generate enough power to run TV’s / radios / small appliances. Who knows, we might even be able to power a simple videogame! We will be using tools like electric drills, saws, hammers etc. All tool use will be under strict adult supervison. Space is very limited, we will only be able to host 6 kids.
Daily 9am -3pm
please email us for more information.
Susie Asado: Hello Antenna
Sept. 18th, 7-10pm
Susie Asado is the poet and songwriter Josepha Conrad. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main and in Chicago and naturally geographic challenges and a life between countries are her main subjects. “Hello Antenna” is the title of her debut album released on the German independent label Lolila in 2008. These songs are about borders and crossing them, about falling in love with border patrol and with countries and that is more than one country. They are about the construction of home and the relationship to fictional characters and books. In many ways Susie Asado is a dialog with the writings of Gertrude Stein. You might know Josepha’s strange wordy songs from Crazy for Jane, the band that she has with her brother Philipp. You might have seen her in Uli M Schueppel’s film “Berlin Song”. You might have run into her along the Landwehrkanal in Berlin where she currently lives.
www.susieasado.com
www.myspace.com/susieasado
www.susieasado.com/video.html
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch at work
June 3rd – July 1st
Opening/Closing: Sunday June 27th 2010, 7-10pm
During the show they will use the gallery most of the day. If you would like to make an appointment to see it contact:
Severin Hagen: severin.hagen [at] gmail.com or Sebastian Koch: kochsebastian [at] gmx.net
This June, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY will inaugurate its annual residency with emerging Austrian Artists. This year we chose the young austrian talents Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch.
The Artists will work over the duration of one month in the gallery, in plain view of the public. Open Source Gallery is a small storefront space with a prominent street presence. The idea being that neighbors and pedestrians will have ample opportunity to interact with the artists in the process of the making of the work. This will help to inform the exhibition at the end of the month. Subsequently, we will have a formal opening/closing on friday, June 27th, 7-10pm to present the finished work to the public. They will also host the cHURCH OF MONIKA, every Sunday 11am, to discribe their process while connecting to the community, but feel free to stop by any day.
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
May 7th – June 2nd, 2010
Opening: May 8th, 7pm-10pm
“FATE” 35″ x 24″ oil on canvas, 2010
The tradition of portraiture is 3000 years old. The historical recording of our likenesses includes the ubiquity of photography. From celebrities to our sons and daughters, we are “on the record.” What do we look like? Who are we and what does our presence signify in the world at this moment? Patricia Watwood takes the long view. Rendered in oil, these are considered, toiled over, and invested with the kind of perspective that photography sometimes renders with cold precision. These paintings invite you to consider who we are, and what our experience here means. Rather than speaking to a moment, they ask you to spend time and relish our common humanity.
Patricia Watwood has studied painting at the Water Street Atelier, under Jacob Collins, and also under Ted Seth Jacobs at Ecole Albert Defois. She earned her MFA with honors from New York Academy of Art. Watwood did her undergraduate studies in Theatre Design, and has worked in scenic design and painting in regional theatres.
Watwood has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Paris, Houston, San Francisco and Long Island. Her work is represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Her figurative paintings have been included in several museum shows, including “Slow Painting,” at the Oglethorpe Museum; “The Great American Nude;” at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences; and in “Representing Representation VI,” at the Arnot Museum.
http://www.patriciawatwood.com
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
April 8th – May 5th
Opening Reception: April 10th, 7-10pm
“Youens regards the tabletop as a place of expansion and Baroque elaboration,where questions of verity and fiction dissolve in imagery that is part of a sequential whole; like stanzas in long poems, having neither predictable beginnings nor definite endings. They speak of poetry, structure, and ragged nature.’ Jim Long
Youen’s paintings find order within disorder. Working from tableaus of still life abundance—foodstuffs and flowers, cloth, wood, and pottery, the fragments of material excess—she translates the asymmetry of objects and allusions into poetic allegories of plentitude and loss, evoking the complexities of affluence and the labor of transformation. Rachel Youens is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brooklyn College, CUNY. She was a Pollock-Krasner recipient in 2005 and a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellow.
“Deconstruction” by Anne Phelan, directed by Nicole A. Watson
7:30 and 8:30 on April 10th
right bottom corner: Parker Leventert, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, Cotton Wright and Director Nicole A. Watson
“Deconstruction” takes place a few years from now, after the U. S. has been defeated in World War III. In some major American city, Emma and Trudy are assigned to the same work detail to clean up the post-war rubble. Their very different pasts and personalities clash immediately.