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NET Nights at Moore - Building a Creative Life as a Teaching Artist

Friday, March 19, 2010

Last night's talk was a great success, featuring four teaching artists in conversation about the ups and down, opportunities and obstacles and paths they have taken in their lives to maintain a balance of being a working artist and teaching artist in Philadelphia.

The talk featured Barbara Bickart, a filmmaker and recipient of multiple Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's Artist and Communities grants whose work often engages communities in telling their stories; Beth Nixon, of Ramshackle Enterprises, is a visual and performance artist who uses art as a tool for activism and social change; Michelle Ortiz, a Moore College alumna, administrator at the Bartol Foundation, muralist and visual artist whose work has taken her all over Philadelphia and around the world; Alex Shaw, a musician, teaching artist and education programs coordinator for Live Connections, a program of World Café Live.

A podcast of the talk and interviews with the participants will be available soon so stayed tuned! 

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Upcoming Program - March 19, 6 - 8 pm

NET Nights at Moore – Building a Creative Life as a Teaching Artist

Friday March 19, 6 - 8 pm

6:30 pm – Conversation with a range of working artists to learn how their role as an arts educator enhances and sustains their creative lives. They will share their paths to becoming teaching artists, strategies for securing teaching artist positions, resources to build your skills as an educator, and their reflections on how they integrate their lives as educators and artists.

Teaching artists participating in the conversation include:

Barbara Bickart, a filmmaker and multiple recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's Artist and Communities grants whose work often engages communities in telling their stories

Beth Nixon, of Ramshackle Enterprises, is a visual and performance artist who uses art as a tool for activism and social change.

Michelle Ortiz, a Moore College alumna, administrator at the Bartol Foundation, muralist and visual artist whose work has taken her all over Philadelphia and around the world.

Alex Shaw, a musician, teaching artist and education programs coordinator for Live Connections, a program of World Café Live.

Moderated by Beth Feldman Brandt, Executive Director, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.

Presented in cooperation with The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.

The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation supports organizations that provide creative opportunities to connect and engage, that give voice to a community’s history and future, and that sustain and share a rigorous artistic process

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NET Nights at Moore – Died Young, Stayed Pretty Film Screening and Conversation / Nov 17

On Tuesday, November 17, The Galleries welcomed Eileen Yaghoobian for the Philadelphia premiere of Died Young, Stayed Pretty. Following the film Eileen led the audience in an informal conversation about not only the film and her process, but how she became an independent filmmaker and is continuing to forge her own path, creating edgy, raw and beautifully framed films.

More about the film:

Picking up where punk left off, Died Young, Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work. Under the guise of advertising for rock shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and Xerox machine carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes. This feature film is the first of its kind to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement. 

This program was presented in collaboration with AIGA Philadelphia and Moore’s Graphic Design Department

Elieen Yaghoobian, filmmaker

Eileen and Elizabeth Gilly, The Galleries' Outreach/Public Programs Coordinator

 

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