PALA/CE Faculty News

CALA Instructor John Hart Stages Moliere’s Tartuffe

March 8, 2017 by Anne Maguire

Friday, March 17, 2017 at 7 PM

TARTUFFE

The Dramatists Guild, 1501 Broadway, in the Mary Rogers Room

NEW:

A matinee performance has been added due to increased demand.

Sunday, March 19 at 3 PM

Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Ave, Studio 17-I

CALA faculty member John Hart will star in and direct a staged reading of Moliere’s classic comedy of love and loss – Tartuffe. Joining him as cast members of the production are: Joyce Lynn, Ruth Aleskovsky, Memory Contento, Gerry Kelly, Sam Hunt, Frank Franconeri, Sheila Mart, and David Contento.

The Dramatists Guild, is located at 501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets) on the 7th Floor. For RSVP or Info email: johnhartstudio1@mac.com

During the summer semester Hart will be teaching the Digital Filmmaking Intensive. Click here for details and course description. Check out these performance courses scheduled for summer too:

PERF1-CE9602 Acting Techniques

PERF1-CE9030 Intro to Stand-up Comedy

Summer Registration opens on Monday, March 13.

Feud Friday March 3 @ 6 PM

March 1, 2017 by Anne Maguire

Coming to CALA this Friday – 19 University Place

Wait List is Open

RSVP

Meet The Faculty: HEIDI LEE

February 28, 2017 by Anne Maguire

Last summer Heidi Lee was a guest lecturer at one of our High School Academy classes – now she’s faculty! Check out Lumine’s montage from the recent show in Japan to see one of the reasons for that rapid transition – Lee is one of the featured artists:

For more information about the Lumine show click on Fashion & Art Exhibition

Lee is a RISD graduate and recipient of the 2012 Met Museum Costume Institute Accessory Design Award. She is a NYC-based artist and designer whose hats have been widely showcased and include features in VOGUE, V, W, Visionaire, Dazed & Confused, MTV, SHOWstudio, NYT, New York Magazine, and The Creators Project.

Exhibitions include the Kentucky Derby Museum, MOSI Museum’s “3D Printing the Future,” and MAD Museum’s “MAD Biennial: 100 Makers that manifest the cultural capital of NYC.” Her clientele include Anne Hathaway, Madonna, G-Dragon, Lady Gaga, Missy Elliott, and Lauryn Hill.

This semester Heidi Lee will be teaching Exploring Fashion: Accessory Design. The course starts on Wednesday, March 29 at 6 PM.

To see course details and to register click here.

Welcome to CALA Heidi Lee!

What, Exactly, is the “White Working Class”?

February 24, 2017 by Cayla Delardi

Guest post by CALA instructor Jason Schulman, who will be teaching his new course, The American White Working Class and Modern Conservatism, this Spring.

For most people, academic debates generate little interest because they appear to be so detached from the real world.

But one debate—a multi-year back-and-forth between Thomas Frank and Larry Bartels—combined questions about methodology with real world implications. At issue was how to define the white working class.

It started in 2004, when Frank, a journalist and history writer, published the best-selling book, What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Frank identified a surprising political trend in which white working-class voters in Kansas were increasingly favoring the Republican Party, despite the fact that its economic platform would largely benefit the wealthy. He argued that these voters went right, leaving the Democratic Party, because of culture and values, not economics.

In 2005, Bartels, then a professor at Princeton University and now a political scientist at Vanderbilt University, gave a presentation at the American Political Science Association conference, a gathering of top political scientists from around the nation. In his talk, “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?,” Bartels challenged Frank’s narrative, arguing that the white working class had actually not abandoned the Democratic Party. In fact, he argued, white voters in the bottom third of the income distribution were actually becoming more Democratic, while middle- and upper-income whites were the ones shifting their allegiance to the Republican Party.

Frank responded in a piece entitled, “Class is Dismissed,” explaining that he defined the white working class by not by income, but by education (e.g., those without a college degree). Bartels was wrong, and his analysis of what he saw in Kansas held.

In 2006, Bartels published “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?” in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, again challenging Frank, and arguing that the only decrease in support for the Democrats by the white working class was in the South.

The two went back and forth in a few other venues.

The debate mattered for more than academic bragging rights. It also had implications for the Democrats’ strategy. If Frank was right, that culture had driven working-class whites to the Republicans, then the Democrats should move to the right on “values” issues (to the degree possible). If Bartels was right, and the white working class generally was still strongly Democratic, there was no need for more conservative or centrist social issue policies.

So it really depends how we define the white working class.

We’ll be reading Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas and Bartels’s “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?” the first week of a new course at CALA, The American White Working Class and Modern Conservatism. https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/courses/HIST1-CE9117-the-american-white-working-class-and-modern-conservatism.html

The Hollywood Reporter Loves Feud!

February 21, 2017 by Anne Maguire

And so will you! CALA event WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
and FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN is filling up fast.

To attend screening and Q&A RSVP here.

FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD 6 to 9 PM 19 UNIVERSITY PLACE

Please join us for a screening of the Academy Award-winning drama and cult classic, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, followed by preview clips from the forthcoming FX show, Feud: Bette and Joan, the behind-the-scenes story of the two actresses’ bitter and sometimes violent rivalry. There will be a Q&A with Michael Zam, producer and co-writer of Feud, and CALA Academic Director Jenny McPhee.

Daniel Fienberg writing in the The Hollywood Reporter states, “With a Saul Bass-inspired credit sequence that still fills me with cinema-loving giddiness after over a dozen viewings, Feud was extrapolated from Jaffe Cohen and Michael Zam’s script Best Actress by Murphy, with Tim Minear…”

Click Hollywood Reporter for the full review.

Please join CALA, Michael’s beloved students, our friends and colleagues as we recognize our good fortune having Michael teach at NYUSPS, but mostly to celebrate Michael’s wonderful achievement and future success with Feud and beyond.

I can’t remember the last time I saw words like that written down!

Elvira Stitt, shocked by obscenities Jane had scrawled

CALA Photography Instructors in the News

February 15, 2017 by dak7

Photographer Kay Kenny’s work was recently featured in Light Leaks Magazine, a bi-monthly online magazine dedicated to the the photographic arts. Take a look here:

Kenny is teaching the following courses this semester:

High School Academy- New York City Through the Camera Lens

Advanced Photography: Mastering Camera and Image

The Photography Book Project

In other faculty news, photographer Lynn Saville is featured in an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester Massachusetts. The show, Dark City, opened on February 7th and will be on view through April 9th. A reception is scheduled for March 21st at 630pm. Lynn will be teaching the course Photographing New York City From Remarkable Locations this summer.

Other photography courses at CALA this spring:

The Portrait Project– Lina Bertucci

Expressive Photography– Lawrence Wheatman

Event Photography- Lawrence Wheatman

Digital Retouching and Advanced Photographic Workflow- Benjamin Coopersmith

The Digital Darkroom with Photoshop– Benjamin Coopersmith

NYUIT: Capturing a Face: Björk, Masks, and 3D Scanning at LaGuardia Studio

February 14, 2017 by Thomas M Devlin

While 3D printing has largely been marketed as a great tool for product designers, it is becoming a common device for artists around the world. The word “common,” however, may not be the best adjective to describe one of the latest users: Björk. The Icelandic musician has partnered with MIT’s Mediated Matter Lab to create a complex mask based on her face.

Work on the mask, however, started at NYU’s LaGuardia studio, which scanned the face of the artist. You can read all about the process on the NYU Information Technology blog.

If you dream of one day making a mask of Björk’s face, or perhaps have any other ideas for the future of 3D printing, you can look at these courses from CALA:

If you want to learn more about the LaGuardia Studio, they offer this description:
The LaGuardia Studio provides advanced digital media and fabrication services to NYU faculty, students of the arts, scientific researchers, and visiting artists. Services at the facility, located at 545 LaGuardia Place, include museum-quality digital prints and 3D scanning and printing. Project consultations are available by request.

Feud

February 7, 2017 by Anne Maguire

Save the date: Friday March 3rd.

Watch this space!

Art of the Photo Essay

February 6, 2017 by Anne Maguire

Have you ever wanted to tell a story using photographs and text? In Susan Hartman’s Art of the Photo Essay class, students have created photo essays about quinceaneras, Coney Island, swingers, Occupy Wall Street, and the Bird Man of Washington Square Park.

Misha Cohen, a talented freelance journalist, was one of Ms. Hartman’s first students. Misha has since shot projects in the United States and West Africa, working with the Huffington Post, San Francisco magazine, and the International Rescue Committee. Her photo above is titled, Bronx Prom.

For information and to register for Susan Hartman’s class click here.

Meredith Sue Willis Reads from her New Anthology: Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods

February 4, 2017 by dak7

On Monday, February 13th at 7pm, CALA instructor and author Meredith Sue Willis will join Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes in a reading of their works. The event will take place at McNally Jackson Books on 52 Prince Street. Willis will read a story from her new anthology Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods and Huges will read from her memoir Losing Aaron.