second street gallery: season 42 + outreach

SEASON 42: SUSTAINABILITY /// 2015 / 2016

/// 115 Second Street SE, Charlottesville, VA 22902 /// secondstreetgallery.org

SIEMON ALLEN “Labels”Sept. 4-Oct. 17, 2015

Allen filled the gallery with a curtain of 7000+ South African album labels, dating from 1901-present. This piece, never before shown in the United States, is an expanded version of one shown in the South African pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

BEYOND CLASSIFICATION

Marwa Adel, Sara Batoumy, Marwa Benhalim, Hend and Asmaa

Elkolaly, Yousria Ghorab, Mai al Shazly Nouran Sherif

Oct. 23-Nov. 20, 2015

Co-curated by Greg Pond (The University of the South) and Dr.

Nagla Samir (American University in Cairo), Beyond Classification

featured work by emerging female photograhers and videographers

who examine the diversity and complexity of contemporary

Egyptian society. Two artists visited from Cairo and gave a lecture at the

University of Virginia.



DIGITAL MEDIA GALLERYUVA Cinematography Students, Lydia Moyer, Light House Studio FilmmakersNov. 6-20, 2015

The 2015 Digital Media Gallery was a partnership between the Virginia Film Festival showcasing the works of UVA intermediate and advanced cinematography students taught by Kevin Everson, local youth filmmakers from Light House Studio, and video artist Lydia Moyer. The DMG was part of the Virginia Film Festival’s Community Outreach & Education Program.

SUSTAINABILITY with “WASTEWATER”

Eric Kniss, Molly Sawyer, J. Michael Simpson, Michael Hough, Morgan S. Craig, Robert Llewellyn,

Stefan Chinov, Jason RobinsonDec. 4 2015 - Jan. 30, 2016

This interdisciplinary show in the Main Gallery highlights the works

of seven artists from the East Coast and mid-West. Showing in the Dové Gallery is a new lyrical short video

by the Charlottesville-based Jason Robinson.



AMIE OLIVER and LIZ RODDA Feb. 5-26, 2016

Amie Oliver’s paintings and drawings catalog the passage of time and the subtle, but profound impact of entropy and the elements on the material world.

Austin, TX based Liz Rodda uses collage as a strategy to tease out relationships between materials and ideas that are seemingly at odds with one another.

CHRISSY BAUCOM, HEATHER HARVEY

and KORTNEY NIEWIERSKI

March 4-26, 2016

Chrissy Baucom works from found images of living and dead organic

matter, repeatedly rendering their forms to find her connections

to them.

An “urban beachcomber,” Heather Harvey creates work by reusing trash and discarded objects she

finds in the street.

Kortney Niewierski works to create a sense of comfort and discomfort

in viewers. She mixes comforting images and objects with adult and

self-evaluative humor.



ICU Apr. 1-May 14, 2016

ICU, a diverse group of Los Angeles based mural and street artists who have been producing work globally since 1993, will present original work, visual documentation and video. Past projects include opera set design, live painting at the Coachella Music Festival, and creation of the world’s longest graffiti scroll in Dubai. ICU also links commercial enterprises (ex. Nike, Honda) with the work of practicing artists to engage and enlighten.

TORKWASE DYSONMay 20-June 25, 2016

Dyson designs and builds aesthetically powerful and ecologically sustainable living and working spaces, operating

at the juncture of architect, environmentalist and artist. Her work

articulates the strong connection between the environment and

the personal.



JOHN TREVINOMay 20-June 25, 2016

John Trevino will present Sunken City, photographs of South Bay residents underwater in various locations off the coast of Palos Verdes. By photographing the residents fully dressed, in familiar yet unexpected environments, Trevino explores notions of community, identity and place.

KATE DAUGHDRILL July 1-23, 2016

Detroit-based Daughdrill is an artist involved in sustainable themed art projects. Recent projects include Detroit SOUP, a monthly dinner

that funds micro-grants for creative projects in Detroit, and the Edible

Hut, a community space with a living, edible roof in a public park in

Detroit’s Osborn neighborhood.

SEASON 42: SUSTAINABILITY /// 2015/2016

SECOND STREET GALLERYOUTREACH 2014 / 2015SSG’s outreach efforts are made possible by our generous donors and sponsors, along with the LEAW Family Foundation and the The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF).

THANK YOU.

“I’m an artist, we’re all artists!” - participating student

COLLAGE WORKSHOP August 1, 2014Community Housing Partners (CHP) Greenstone Community Center on 5th/ProspectArtist: Andy Faith Attending: : 14

Andy led a collage making workshop to make Sailor’s Valentines. The students each chose images from magazines and calendars to make a collage on the back of their cutout (tigers, sharks, dogs, cats, flowers, sea life, and wildlife), and colored them with pastel crayons. On the front of the cutouts, the students chose a picture they wanted to center on and collaged around it with seashells, beads, bottle caps, stones, glass, and glitter. They worked on their sailor valentine’s for over two hours. Students said they had fun, and one student pointed out “I’m an artist, we’re all artists!”

HOW TO APPLY FOR A VMFA VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP

October 10, 2014Second Street Gallery

Jenny Harding Attending: 22 adults

Harding gave a presentation on how to apply to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, including forms to fill out,

eligibility conditions, deadline, notification of award, how to select a discipline, and specifications on the application details. She then led a

Q&A session with attendees.

FAMILY ART DAYOctober 11, 2014Second Street GalleryHeide Trepanier (exhibition artist), Warren Craghead III (exhibition artist), Sarah Boyts Yoder (exhibition artist), Laura Snyder, Mara Sprafkin, Aaron Eichorst

162 kids enjoyed a marble paint workshop, a book-making workshop, a drawing/collage activity, a leaf stencil watercolor collaborative workshop, and a potato printmaking activity. Relay Food provided vegetables for a printing activity and Creative Framing and the Art Box provided a canvas for painting. The artwork created on Family Art Day was then incorporated onto the walls of the Dové Gallery and remained up for the remained of the exhibition. Warren also had a zine-making workshop in the gallery as part of our Third Thurday late hours.


SEASON 42: OUTREACH /// 2014 / 2015

GLASS BLOWINGORNAMENT WORKSHOP

November 18, 2014McGuffey Art Center

Artist: Charles ‘Chip’ Hall Attending: 7

Chip gave a presentation to the Boys and Girls Club kids about working with hot glass, the chemistry and temperatures of working

with glass, and answered students’ questions throughout. Each student chose the colors they wanted to make an ornament with and followed instructions to blow into the glass to make it expand into an

ornament.

AFRIKANA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING AND DIRECTOR TALK November 21, 2014Second Street GalleryArtist: R. Shanea Williams Attending: 9

Enjoli Moon, founder/director of the Afrikana Film Festival presented a screening of ‘Contamination’ by director R. Shanea Williams. After the screening a Q&A was hosted.



LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP October 30 and November 13, 2014Albemarle High School Artist: Stacey Evans Attending: 20

Stacey led a workshop on landscape photography to Ms. DiGiacomo’s class. She talked about composition, lighting and showed her photographs as examples. The students went on a field trip to Carter’s Mountain and took landscape photographs. After the class trip to Carter’s Mountain, Stacey went through the classroom and critiqued and chose photographs to go into a booklet. The class chose the order to go in the book and Erica designed a layout for the printed publication.

CIRCLE OF HOPE – ORIGAMI BOAT WORKSHOP January 16, 2015Second Street GalleryArtist: Dr. Arturo Lindsay Attending: : 11

Arturo and the students skyped with Nagla Samir in Cairo about the children in Egypt who created origami boats for the installation, the Dream Machine. The students were engaged and questions about the Africa and were asked to think of the future they would like for themselves, families, and nation. Out of recycled paper from a women’s cooperative in Cairo, the students created the same origami boats as the children in Cairo. The students placed their boats on the gallery floor in a concentric circle and created the installation ‘The Circle of Hope.’

ARTIST/ CURATOR CONVERSATION

January 16, 2015Second Street Gallery

Dr. Arturo Lindsay and Tosha Grantham Attending: 45

Dr. Arturo Lindsay and Curator Tosha Grantham discussed his life and work exhibited at Second Street Gallery.

MOSAIC MAKING WORKSHOP March 4 and 10, 2015Community Housing PartnersArtist: Ninni Baeckstrom Attending: 20

Ninni led the students in a glass-cutting workshop, color selection and placement, and made picture frames with students. The mosaic workshop continued with the students, by mixing and placing grout on the picture frames.



DANCE PERFORMANCE March 12, 19 and 26, 2015Second Street GalleryKatharine Birdsall, Dinah Gray, Jennifer Kelly Attending: : 48

Dances were choreographed and performed in response to Susan Bacik’s sculptural works.

CARDBOARD PRINTING April 6, 2015

Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubCarol Barber Attending: 22

Carol led the students in a cardboard print-making workshop and helped them to create a mural using all of their cardboard stamps

together.

OIL PAINTING April 6, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubArtist: Renee Balfour Number of students: 12

Renee led the students in an oil painting workshop, where they observed and painted still life scenes.



WATERCOLOR COFFEE FILTER SUN CATCHERS April 7, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubArtist: Erica Barnes Attending: : 22

Erica did a workshop on watercolor techniques and taught the students how to make sun catchers using coffee filters and watercolors.

MASK-MAKING April 7, 2015

Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubArtist: Annie Temmink Attending: 22

Annie led the students in a mask making workshop using shapes and

patterns cut from construction paper.

DREAMCATCHER WORKSHOP April 8, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubArtists: Stephanie DeWolfe and Mary Pearl Attending: 14

Mary and Stephanie led the students in a dreamcatcher workshop, using waxed string webbed around a knitting circle and decorated

with beads and fabric strips.



MURAL PAINTING April 10, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubArtist: Lee Alter Attending: : 18

Lee helped the students create two handprint painted murals to be hung on the walls of the Boys and Girls Club.

ARTS ROUNDTABLE April 17, 2015, Second Street Gallery

Becca McCharen, founder of CHROMATClaude Wampler, Ruffin Artist-in-ResidenceMickael Broth, Tom Tom Artist-in-Residence

John Reinhold, founder, RVAMagSeth Casana, founder, WHURK

Emily Smith, executive director, 1708 Gallery Attending: 40

Artist luncheon hosted by U.Va. as part of the Tom Tom Founders Fest. Emma Terry led a discussion about the topic of Virginia’s national

arts identity.

WORDS AND MUSIC April 18, 2015Second Street Gallery20 performers in U.Va.’s Creative Writing Program and McIntire Department of Music Attending: 121

U.Va.’s Creative Writing Program and McIntire Department of Music created a performance marrying Words & Music, featuring innovative, collaborative new works by graduate students of poetry, fiction, and music composition. Presented as part of the Tom Tom Founder’s Fest.



SCHOOL TOUR AND PRAXINOSCOPE WORKSHOP April 21 and 24, 2015Second Street GalleryArtist: Edward Thomas Attending: : 18

On the 21st, Erica gave Charlottesville Day School students a tour of the exhibitions by Edward Thomas ‘Praxinoscopes’ and Regina Miele ‘Meridians.’ The students explored the gallery, asked questions, and did hands-on activities with the Praxinoscopes.On the 24th, Edward Thomas discussed his work with stop-motion animation with the Buford Middle School students and helped them to animate their own film strips using his praxinoscopes. The students were then able to tour the gallery and experiment on their own with Edward’s praxinoscopes.

SELF-PORTRAIT WORKSHOP May 1, 2015

Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention CenterAmy Sherald Attending: 11 adults

Amy had a discussion with the students about their and her life, what their interests are, and showed them a presentation of her works. A

topic of discussion was the recent riots and protests in Baltimore. Amy led a self-portrait workshop with the students and worked with

them one-on-one.

ARTIST/CURATOR CONVERSATION May 2, 2015Second Street GalleryAmy Sherald, Arturo Lindsay, Tosha GranthamAttending: 23

Curator Tosha Grantham led a discussion with Amy Sherald and her mentor, Arturo Lindsay, about Sherald’s life, works, and career-development.



CHARLOTTESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GUIDED TOURSAugust 1, 2014May 13, 15 and 21, 2015Second Street Gallery Attending: : 26

Erica led a tour of Sherald’s exhibition with Charlottesville High School Studio Art students. Topics included: Sherald’s process, influences, history, and a projection of an interview of Amy Sherald by BMore Art.



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