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PALA/CE Faculty News

Kay Kenny’s Work in New Show

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Landscape: A Sense of Place

May 26th thru June 26, 2016
Congratulations to Kay Kenny, artist and CALA instructor, who has work in a group show in Brooklyn which opens this week.
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“White Horse” 2015, Kay Kenny
Landscape: A Sense of Place is an exhibition that reflects the ambitious, innovative and contemporary practices in painting, printmaking, photography and mixed media today. The work explores the distinct, varied, and symbolic nature of the landscape—work that is made in an imaginative and compelling way. Annette Rose-Shapiro, managing editor of ARTNews, curated the show.

Site:Brooklyn is a street level gallery located in the heart of the Gowanus arts district (165 7th St). The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting a wide range of emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery invites artists, curators and writers to engage in lively exhibitions, criticism and the exchange of ideas through art, reflecting our times and shaping our culture.

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Reaching for the Moon, NH (kaykenny.com)
From Site:Brooklyn “How does an artist frame a landscape? Inevitably, it is an act of choosing: what goes in, what goes out? Poussin and Lorraine first brought landscape, which was previously relegated to merely backdrop for other images, into a subject of its own. After the Impressionist revolution, by the 20th century, the definition of “landscape” expanded considerably. Photography became widespread. Also, it included cityscapes and the explosion suburban subjects, conceptualization, abstraction, and gesture. Artists also brought in other materials such as video, collage, or elements earth or city themselves.Fundamentally, landscape posits the challenge of how we view and engage with the world around us. This exhibition seeks to show how contemporary artists take up this challenge.”

Kay Kenny is teaching Photography Book Project this summer, starting on June 1, 2016. Click on link for details and to register.

Yiddish & Chinese Folk Music, featuring CALA’s Julie Tay

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museum-at-eldridge-street-logoJulie Tay, Clinical Assistant Professor (MS in Translation), will lead her Chinese folk band EastRiver Ensemble to perform with Yale Strom’s Klezmer sextet at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, Thursday May 26th at 7:00p.m.  RSVP: http://www.eldridgestreet.org/events/

“Presenting a joyous mash-up of Chinese and Yiddish folk music! The program will explore the historical and musical connections between the Russian Jews and Chinese who lived together in Harbin, China, from the turn of the 20th century through World War II. ”

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This summer: explore different cultures and languages through CALA noncredit courses, including special week-long bootcamps that combine language instruction with cultural experiences in NYC:

Languages: East Asian, French, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian

Translation courses

Interpreting courses

Michael Zam’s Script Being Developed for FX anthology ‘The Feud’ by Ryan Murphy

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ryan-murphy-jessica-lange-and-susan-sarandonA script by NYU SPS Instructor Michael Zam and Jaffe Cohen  is being developed by Ryan Murphy into a series for FX called The Feud. It’s set to star Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Stanley Tucci, and Alfred Molina. Brad Pitt and Murphy are serving as producers: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/feud-ryan-murphy-fx-anthology-jessica-lange-susan-sarandon-1201758686/

This summer, Zam is teaching the Summer Intensive in Television Drama, Comedy, and Variety/Sketch Writing and is joining other instructors in A College Refresher: A Sampling of the Humanities in CALA

Other courses offered by the Center for Applied Liberal Arts in Summer 2016:

The Screenwriter’s Craft

Writing the Half Hour Comedy

Creating Great Scenes: The Key to Cinematic Drama

Screenwriting Bootcamp

Writing the One Person Show

Writing a Musical: The Basics and Beyond

Acting Techniques: Finding the One That’s Best For You

Acting and Improvisation: Discovering the Actor Within You

Art, Fashion, AIDS, Activism: Meet the Faculty – Avram Finkelstein

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Silence=Death Project poster, 1986

“There is no way out of the fact that history is capital. So people own it, there are fiefdoms, and the people who write history get to become the experts in their field.” FUSE

MEET THE FACULTY: AVRAM FINKELSTEIN.

Red-diaper baby, activist, Sassoon creative, artist, and writer, Avram Finkelstein will be teaching two courses at CALA this summer. A founding-member of Gran Fury, the art/activist collective most closely associated with ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and with the iconic and powerful Silence=Death poster, which predates ACT-UP and was produced by The Silence=Death Project of which Finkelstein was also a founding member. It is exciting that he will be teaching a history course at NYUSPS with a focus on the central questions of who gets to tell the story, why they get to tell it, and how it’s told. Click on link below for details and to register.

MAKING MEANING OF HIV: CONSTRUCTING AN ETHICAL AIDS HISTORIOGRAPHY

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AIDSgate (1987), Read My Lips (Boys, 1988) & Enjoy AZT (1990) by Gran Fury

“How we speak about HIV has had us tied in knots for a generation. In the midst of an ongoing pandemic, what are the ethical considerations in attempting to construct the “history” of HIV/AIDS? And, what do artists, historians, journalists, archivists, and policy makers need to tackle when trying to make sense of the questions that HIV/AIDS raises about power, representation, and survival?” 

NAVIGATING THE BORDER BETWEEN ART & FASHION

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Mondrian & Yves Saint Laurent, Kusama & Vuitton & Kusama and Clooney

Finkelstein will also teach a one-day review of the collaboration between artists and fashion designers from Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvadore Dali, to Cindy Sherman and Rei Kawakubo.  See link above for details and to register.

“This one-day workshop also covers the rise of the fashion editor as cultural kingmaker. We will discuss why art museums consider fashion so bankable; why art foundations love Seventh Avenue; and how fashion/art appropriations can spin out of control…”

Welcome Avram Finkelstein to CALA.

For more information avramfinkelstein.com and CALA Biography

Scenes & Monologues at The Producer’s Club

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The Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU SPS announces Scenes and Monologues – an end-of-semester performance developed during one of our spring semester acting courses. Please join CALA instructor, Laurence Gewirtz, and his students for a presentation of their work from the course Acting in the Zone: Scene Study & Improvisation

Producer's ClubShowtime is 8 PM on Sunday, May 8 and Monday, May 9th at The Producer’s Club,  358 W44th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues). Free Admission.

We are so excited to see Maxine Steinhaus, Clinical Assistant Professor at the American Language Institute, NYU SPS, perform in a scene from the female version of The Odd Couple.

Maxine SteinhausCALA Summer Courses for Maxine and all acting and improv enthusiasts!

ACTING & IMPROVISATION

ACTING TECHNIQUES

And DRAMA BOOTCAMP for High School students.

Mastering Street Photography: NYU SPS Student Exhibition on 4/28

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From the NYU SPS CALA course Mastering the Art of Street Photography comes the 35th one-night student show at Soho Photo Gallery. Photographer and Instructor T Lawrence Wheatman and his students cordially invite you to this special event.
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Student Photography Exhibition

Soho Photo Gallery 

Thursday, April 28, 2016

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

15 White Street 

TriBeCa, New York City 

photo credit: RE:ARTISTE

T. Lawrence Wheatman is teaching the following courses at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts this summer:
Wheatman‘s website: www.BothKindsOfPictures.com

Earth Day and Translating “Green”

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Earth-Day-2016-Poster-Earth-Day-NetworkOn Friday, Earth Day 2016,  175 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change at the  United Nations in New York City (more information here).  The theme of this year’s Earth Day is “Trees for the Earth”,  inaugurating an initiative to plant 7.8 billion new trees by Earth Day’s 50th anniversary in 2020.

NYU SPS CALA instructor Francoise Herrmann recently wrote about translating the color “green” for the New York Circle of Translators:

Translating the color “green” post-UNFCCC – COP21

“Beyond the UN alphabet soup of abbreviations and acronyms…the term “green” is associated and often replaces the term “clean” as in “green energy” and thus technically arises in reference to those sources of energy (sun, water and wind) that do not produce the GHG effect. In reality, the term “green” is often co-opted. The color green then includes reference to alternative biomass-based sources of energy; that is, energy derived from organic matter, such as wood, certain fast growing plants, algae, organic compounds found in municipal waste and agricultural residues”

Other blog posts by Herrman:
Oh patents! Green, what;s green? [ Feb. 4, 2014] http://patentsonthesolesofyourshoes.blogspot.com/2014/02/oh-patents-green-whats-green.html

Programs and courses in Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting at CALA:

Home From Afghanistan, and Learning to be a Couple Again- One Year Later

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Elizabeth Roldan took a Feature Writing course with Susan Hartman at NYU SPS. Susan Hartman subsequently wrote a moving feature story in the New York Times about Elizabeth and her husband Rafael Ramirez as they negotiated the tricky journey toward reuniting as a couple after deployment.

Elizabeth wrote this update for the CALA blog:

“I took a feature writing class at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU SPS with Susan Hartman. During my time in her class, my husband was in Afghanistan as a Lieutenant in the army. Each week we had a writing assignment. In a practice interview another student focused the interview on my diagnosis of epilepsy. I wrote a personal essay about mother’s death. For the main feature story, I wrote about my husband’s deployment to Afghanistan. I explained the major differences in communication and how it affected our relationship. For example, the last deployment was 10 years ago and we had to go through great lengths to communicate. This time around, technology made communication easy. We were able to speak and see each other every day.  Ms. Hartman combined all these stories and wrote a beautiful article about me and my husband. She tells our personal histories and challenges.

It’s been almost a year the since story was published. The article highlighted issues in our relationship including the fact that we both travel separately. We still haven’t gone on a honeymoon but did buy a house. This was a huge process that took 7 months. It brought us closer together. However, we continue to travel separately. I went to Miami for an art festival and to the Bahamas for a girl’s trip. Rafael continues to visit his mom in the Dominican Republic, and next month I am going to Cuba on a cultural research trip and Rafael to Colombia for yet another bachelor event!

The article also mentioned my epilepsy disorder. Within the last year, I had another seizure in a NYC restaurant which required me to be admitted into NY Cornell. But of course, Rafael was by my side by the time I regained consciousness.

Many people reached out to us after the article was published. I think people enjoyed reading about our story. It was a raw look at our relationship.”

Read the full article here

NYU SPS Summer Course Suggestions:

Feature Writing

Multimedia Storytelling for Journalists

Legal and Ethical Issues in Journalism 

The Art of the Photo Essay

Podcast/Radio Reporting and Storytelling

Judy Aiello featured in “Small Works Baruch 2016”

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NYU SPS adj. insJudyAiellotructor Judy Aiello is featured in Small Works Baruch 2016 at the Mishkin Gallery, a juried show of New York regional artists. The show includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture covering a cross section of contemporary art. (left:  Crown, ink on paper, 2015, by Judy Aiello).

The show runs from April 15-May 13th, with an opening reception on April 14th, 6-8pm.

The Sidney Mishkin Gallery is located 135 East 22nd Street.

Judy Aiello’s website can be found here

Sign up for her course at NYU SPS this summer :

Exploring Contemporary Art

Jeffrey Yamaguchi- Digital Trends in the Book Industry

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In this  article featured  in Publishing Digital, Adjunct Instructor Jeffrey Yamaguchi writes about his upcoming SPS course, Digital Trends in the Book Industry:

“The course is a good option for anyone interested in understanding how to engage, amplify and impact digital trends in the publishing space — self-publishers, writers, people trying to break into the industry, publishing professionals who are looking to bring more digital efforts into their long-standing industry roles. The better the mix of students, the more interesting and engaging the course”

WPUB1-CE9221  Digital Trends in the Book Industry will be offered this summer, starting June 9. Register for the course here