Join us for a day of free artist-run workshops and musical performances for The Bridge Program "Graduation" brought to you by The Salon. The Bridge Program seeks to provide BIPOC artists with an income generating skill that does not detract from their art practice, to help define what aspects of their practice can be used to build a bridge between their community and themselves.
About the Salon
This event has been facilitated by The Salon, a class conscious BIPOC artist cooperative addressing inequity within the arts. Through their Salons they utilize a uniquely designed inquiry based critique format, that supports the art practice of artists seeking a culturally literate practice support. The Salon hopes that art making workshops designed by marginalized artists will create a series of bridges that connects artists and audiences to a more equitable world.
By engaging in collaborative projects and skills exchanges The Salon will create an accessible space for artistic development for self contained artists and post graduates by acting as an incubator that explores the use of criticism, education and art making. The Salon believes that artistic development includes skills training that generates income while making meaningful connections to the public.
About the Bridge Program
The Bridge Program is an early Pilot of the services The Salon would like to produce for low income BIPOC artists. The aim of all Salon programs is to help artists to become more articulate around their practice, provide the skills necessary for artists to generate income in ways that do not detract from their practice and to create the means for artists to build mutually reciprocative relationships to audiences.
Artists within The Bridge Program will be provided an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of becoming a teaching artist. The purpose of The Bridge Program is to help artists to define what aspects of their practice can be used to build a bridge between their community and themselves. Our objective is to provide a skill that allows artists to not only create dialogue between their practice and their audience, but to provide communities with a new skill.
About Workshops & Showcase
Each workshop is intended to introduce audiences to a significant or special part of an individual artists practice. This ranges from a particular technique to a personal philosophy, our goal is for you to have fun while discovering something new.
This Event was made possible by The City Artist Corps.
Intro to Experimental Self Portraiture
Time: 1pm - 2:15pm
Join me for a one hour portrait making workshop. We will explore an experimental approach to self-portraiture as a means of self documentation informed by intuitive decision making and radical self acceptance. Participants are encouraged to use this time to exercise their intuition, meditate and self express.
Attendees will make self portraits in a relaxed manner that confronts the history of art and classrooms as a space for competition. Come find pleasure in the act of making, and reflect on your individualism.
Facilitator: Melika Dave | IG: @MelikaNYC
The Art of Alternative Processes: How emulation transfers transformed photography
Time: 1pm - 2:15pm (Direct Instruction & Activity)
This three-hour session will introduce participants to an alternative process of image based work detailing the benefits of non-traditional photography. These approaches to be reviewed include a portrait session, emulsion lifts, and a brief history of alternative process. The discussion will include information about how these approaches have informed Dave’s personal work and have transformed photography as a medium.
Note: Development time 3hrs
Facilitator: Andie M. Clarkson | IG: @AndieMClarkson Website: amclarkson.com
Trains of Thought: A Writer’s Workshop
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
This workshop is a space for writers of all kinds to explore new possibilities for personal expression. Using performance methods to engage the voice and body, Trains of Thought will encourage writers to reclaim the practice for themselves, reframe writing as a full circle sensory experience, and begin to take the first steps to overriding the trap of compulsory self-editing.
Facilitator: Jackie Torres | IG: @Jackienes
Turmeric Anthotypes: Making Photos with Plants
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Hi, I’m Hector and I am a photographer working on a new alternative photography project, where I use Turmeric to make plant based photographs. My goal for this workshop is to show people how to make their own prints with simple items that can be found at home and to think about photography on a deeper level.
Participants will be able to create alternative photographs and photo impressions using the spice Turmeric and a few other household items. We will extract the yellow pigment from the turmeric using household alcohol, coat a piece of paper of choice and print images from your own personal collection or make impressions of leaves and plants of choice.
Facilitator: Hector Gomez | IG: @HectorGomez Website: HectorGomez.net
Language & Touch: Intro to Making Portraits like a Conceptual Artist
Time: 3:45pm-4:45pm
Ariel Mercado walks audiences through the core principles of their “Written Objects” and “Non-Objects”. Within this workshop, attendees will explore experimental writing and drawing techniques, resulting in their own “Written Portraits” and “Touch Portraits”.
This workshop deconstructs the process of looking, how seeing informs perception and what role empathy plays in art-making. An approachable introduction to Conceptual Art through an Afro-Diasporic lens.
Facilitator: Ariel Mercado| IG: @SheSoPleasant
Bridge Graduation 21’ Music Showcase
Time: 5pm-7pm
Commemorate The Salon’s “The Bridge Program’s” first graduating class of Teaching Artists with live music and a DJ set, Produced by Bridge program graduates Pook Hustle and Melika Dave.
Our showcase presents musicians who are their own bridges between crafts, this is a unique presentation of local BIPOC multidisciplinary musicians.
Produced by: Pook Hustle & Melika Dave| IG: @PookHustle IG: @MelikaDave
Performances: Pook Hustle | IG: @PookHustle
DJ: Jakariwing | IG: @Jakariwing Website: JasdeepKang.com
Jokamundo | IG: @Jokamundo
