The Habitat for Artists
studio
returns to the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) for a new season of exciting and diverse community engagement projects beginning July 27 and continuing through October 20th. For a fourth season the WAAM will install the 6x6 foot studio on its front property and offer three months of art activities presented through the HFA studio.
Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ by 6’ studios installed at a variety of locations: some highly visible to the local community; others, more unexpected venues for experiencing art or connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. And while exploring their own creative process, the artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience from that location. The public, meanwhile, is invited into a new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to that local community.
July – October 2019
Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public
SATURDAY, SEP 28, 12-5 PM
Melanie Delgado leads participants through a Matisse-inspired cut and paste art project. New work emerges using painted paper, scissors and glue.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, OCT 4, 5 & 6, 12-5 PM
This interactive installation of drawings, paintings and sculpture is an exploration of the work Torres and Letcher have been making together for the past five years. Join them for a happening of nostalgic remembrances and the birthing of future dream sequences.
SATURDAY, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 20, 12-5 PM
Dancer and choreographer Jill Ann Schwartz invites the community to engage with this site specific interactive dance performance addressing issues of personal, social and environmental space.
