Texty Tuesday sessions run from 6pm to 8:30pm. They include interactive writing exercises, group discussions, drawing, and other forms of artistic expression using text. It's also a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow wordsmiths, share ideas, and feel inspired.
If you're new to writing or if you're a seasoned pro - everyone is welcome! We believe that everyone has a story to tell, and this event is all about celebrating the power of words.
Texty Tuesday is a hands-on workshop series where you express yourself as a co-creating viewer in artistic response to the works on exhibition in the main gallery.
Texty Tuesdays events are free to participate.
Upcoming:
October 22, 6 pm - 8:30 pm: From the Ground Up
How does artmaking, and the long-term inhabitation of an art practice, affect our experience of aging, both as maker and viewer? How does artmaking affect our experience and perception of the passage of time and the process of aging?
Join Janette Platana, artist, writer, and educator, and Luka Stojanovic, Ph.D. student and
Lead Convener of the Aging and Disability Studies Reading Group at Trent University at this Texty Tuesday workshop, where you will learn to fold a zine and then fill its pages to make a work of miniature literature in co-creation with the work in From The Ground Up: Artists in Practice for 50 Years. featuring works by Dorothy Caldwell, Wayne Cardinalli, Frances Dorsey, Faye Jacobs, Jeanne McRight, and Brian Nichols.
A guided tour of the works on exhibition, and generative discussion, will be followed by a hands-on artmaking workshop. With instruction and inspiration, you will produce an original work of miniature literature (a zine) made by you, the co-creating viewer, an aesthetic response to the works in this important exhibition by artists in their 6th or 7th decades of artmaking.
November 12, 6 pm - 8:30 pm: Co-creation and Aesthetic Response
*** Event Cancelled ***
When we enter an art gallery, do we become co-creators? If so, of what? Of meaning? Of beauty? Jeanne McRight, one of the artists in From The Ground Up, writes, “My work has taken many forms over 50 years, but it has always been grounded in a continuum of hope.”
Join Janette Platana, curator, writer, artist, and educator where you will learn to make a zine and fill its pages with words and images to make works of “miniature literature” in co-creation with the work on exhibition, featuring works by Dorothy Caldwell, Wayne Cardinalli, Frances Dorsey, Faye Jacobs, Jeanne McRight, and Brian Nichols.
Learn to fold a sheet of paper into the classic 8-page punk zine. Instant publishing! Writing prompts will help generate your work of art in language. Polaroids or visual art materials will be provided to illustrate the covers or inner pages. Guided by Artspace member volunteers, and with instruction and inspiration, you can leave with an original zine of your own, the co-creating viewer.
Explore how viewers/readers can co-create meaning with the artist.
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Do I need to register for all 3 sessions?
No! Each session will be fully self contained, with no knowledge of the first session required for the next. Participants can register for as many sessions as they wish.
Who can attend?
This event is open to all ages and all levels of experience. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Additional Notes
Accessibility
Gallery entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible
All workshop tables will be set up to accommodate mobility aids.
Earplugs and Fidget Devices available for use on site
All cleaning products used at Artspace are scent free, with scent free policy in place for all volunteers and staff.
COVID-19
Masks are welcome and respected, volunteers and instructors will gladly wear their masks if and when needed, except while eating or drinking.
Maker Space and Gallery equipped with a Hepa filter, which will be running during the event
Hand sanitizer provided.