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Summer 2012 |
Growing up in rural Maine, Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father remodel their family home. These experiences instilled an awareness of the potential for the creative use of materials, and the ability to fabricate his visions. Charland earned a BFA in photography with departmental honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Trustees Fellow in 2010, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Progressive Collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Charland currently lives in Maine and works at the Maine College of Art as an artist in residence. www.calebcharland.com
Charland worked with ArtWorks in 2012 on the project Cincinnati Constellation, a photography-based project that was inspired by Caleb Charland’s previous work, “Black Dots on My Palms Anywhere Lines Crossed, Scanned and Inverted to Look Like Stars.” Created in partnership with FOTOFOCUS, the final project will be installed in Findlay Market in October 2012.
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Summer 2006 |
Dorit Cypis studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Pepperdine. Her art employs photography, performance, installation and sculpture. She is known for questioning the cultural notions of representation and identity, provoking relationships between one's interior experience and one's experience of social space and time. Cypis' art presentations have been seen in venues internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Musee d'Art Contemporaire, Montreal; and Musee des Beaux Arts, Brussels. In addition to her personal artwork, Cypis founded the Kulture Klub in 1992, an organization that pairs homeless teenagers with artists.
Cypis came to Cincinnati in 2006 to work with the ArtWorks True Body Project. She spent time with the apprentices and staff, sharing her work and encouraging them in their creative process. Cypis helped the True Body Project Apprentices create a piece of performance art exploring body image, identity, and self-confidence.
Her biography and projects can be viewed at her Web site
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Summer 2001, 2005 |
Stephen Powers lives and works in New York. Powers attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, authored The Art of Getting Over: a History of Graffiti Art, and publishes On the Go magazine. He has had artwork in the 2001 Venice Biennale and the Liverpool Biennial , 2002. As well, Mr. Powers conceived of the Dreamland Artist Club (2004) where numerous artists gathered to create new signs for Coney Island amusement area. Powers' artwork is innovative and distinctly urban, using the visual language of street signage, graffiti, and advertising. He employs graphic images along with narrative text to tell stories about people and choices they make in their lives.
Powers came to ArtWorks in 2001 to work with ArtWorks Apprentices as part of a commission to create artwork for the exam rooms and waiting area at the Teen Clinic in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center . In addition to this large commission, the group worked with local businesses in Cincinnati's inner city neighborhood, Over-the-Rhine and painted new signs for free. Each sign is unique and some are still put out each morning by local shop owners.
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Summer 2004, 2005 |
Jackie Brookner lives in Soho, New York. Ms. Brookner received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. in Fine Arts from Harvard University and is a member of faculty in the sculpture department at Parsons School of Design. Brookner has led many public art projects and has become well known around the globe for her bio-sculptures, living sculptures with the capacity to clean and filter water. Mosses and other plants grow from the sculptural forms as water filters through the porous material. Ms. Brookner came to Cincinnati in the summer of 2004 to create Laughing Brook as part of a massive greenway project planned by the Mill Creek Restoration Project . The design for Laughing Brook is a series of hands that morph into fish and lead to the Mill Creek.
ArtWorks Apprentices were hired to work with Jackie Brookner and to help create over 150 sculptures to make up the final sculpture. Laughing Brook will be installed in Salway Park, across from Spring Grove Cemetary, in late 2005 or early 2006. Click here to learn more about the Laughing Brook Project. . Click here to learn more about Jackie Brookner.
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Summer 2004 |
Tim Rollins is best known for his work with Kids of Survival (K.O.S.) in the South Bronx, NY. As a high school teacher in the Bronx, Mr. Rollins quickly formed a bond with his students and they began making art on their lunch break and after school. Eventually, with the help of an N.E.A. grant, the group was able to rent their own studio away from school for more intensive art making. The group, called K.O.S., soon gained international attention and has since been in hundreds of professionally curated shows. K.O.S. has become especially well known for their works surrounding classic literature, where they create highly conceptual art over the pages of the book they are focusing on.
In 2004, Rollins conducted a two-week workshop with fifteen Apprentice Artists to create three large-scale works based on the theme of freedom. The workshop included daily discussions, research, listening to freedom spirituals and speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and reading selected literary works including "His Promised Land" by John P. Parker. The group watched the documentary series, "Eyes on the Prize" and visited the Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio, a famous Underground Railroad stop.
The FreedomWorks Project was created by ArtWorks and the Cincinnati Art Museum in tribute of the grand opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati. The final works created in the FreedomWorks project can be seen in the curated exhibition in the Cincinnati Art Museum's Sara Vance and Michelle Waddell Gallery in the new Cincinnati Wing. The exhibition is open to the public from (October 23, 2004 - March 13, 2005) October 23, 2004- February 13, 2005 . Click here to see more about the FreedomWorks project...
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Summer 2003 |
Ms. Rucker came to Cincinnati in the summer of 2003 through a partnership between ArtWorks and Liberated Souls. Not only did she perform as part of a two-day spoken word festival, but she also held a private workshop with ArtWorks Apprentices. During the workshop, the apprentices practiced their spoken word skills and heard an unreleased track of music that Ms. Rucker was currently working on.
Ursula Rucker is one of the premiere spoken word recording artists in the music industry today. As a poet and performance artist, Ursula has enchanted critics and fans across the globe with her diverse repertoire, captivating vocals and accessible poetic verse.
Since 1994, Ursula has shared her songwriting talent and mesmerizing voice with an array of recording artists and producers including King Britt, 4 Hero, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Josh Wink and The Roots. Each was drawn to the soft spoken eloquence and undeterred honesty which have become Ursula's signature. Click here to learn more about Ursula Rucker.
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Summer 2000 |
Following the heels of the success of guest artist Saul Williams, the following summer ArtWorks invited spoken word artist Jessica Care Moore to be a guest artist for a week. She worked with ArtWorks Apprentice Artists, imparting her wisdom on the "how to's" of writing and delivering poetry using one's own voice. Her work with the kids culminated in a performance at the Seasongood Pavilion, which drew a diverse audience from all over the city.
Jessica, along with Saul Williams were featured artists on the PBS show "I'll Make Me a World" which originally aired in February of 1999. Both are accomplished spoken word artists who voices lend a unique perspective to issues that impact modern culture. Click here to learn more about Jessica care Moore.
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Summer 1999 |
Saul Williams is a master of words. He is a renowned poet and an accomplished actor, who has published 4 books and wrote and starred in the movie Slam. ArtWorks was fortunate to score some time with Saul during his 1999 book tour. Saul was roaming about the country promoting his latest book of poetry, "SHE", and stopped by to conduct a workshop for Apprentice Artists. Later that week he held a small spoken word performance at Playhouse in the Park where the capacity audience was treated to a captivating performance including a Q & A session with Mr. Williams. Click here to learn more about Saul Williams.
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