GHOSTLY GALLEON MOONLIGHT (After The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes)

GHOSTLY GALLEON MOONLIGHT (After The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes)

Created with Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia PA.

48" x 48" Archival Pigment Print

GROVER TAP 304

GROVER TAP 304 BLOG: CHECK IT OUT

OPENING TONIGHT: CFEVA-PHILAGRAFIKA INDEPENDENT PROJECT

Selected especially for the Philagrafika 2010 and Fiber Philadelphia 2010 festivals, "Sweet Spot" features six CFEVA artists whose prints, sculpture, and installations incorporate printmaking and fiber in unusual and unexpected ways.

Artists:
Katie Baldwin
Julia Blaukopf
Andrea Cote
Matthew Neff
Marisha Simons
Ben Volta

Dates: January 28 – February 18, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 5:00 – 7:00

Location: The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
1521 Locust Street
Lower Level
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Hours: Monday – Friday, 11 am - 5 pm
(other hours by appointment)

MIDDLESEX COLLEGE

Next week I will be showing a large project created with young artists at Solis-Cohen Elementary School in a CFEVA group show in Edison, NJ. The info is below. (Edison is about an hour and a half from Philly)

Info on the project:http://www.benvolta.com/edenunderground.html

CFEVA FELLOWS at MIDDLESEX COLLEGE
Thursday, January 21 - February 11, 2010

Studio Theatre Gallery
2600 Woodbridge Avenue
Edison, NJ

Edison, NJ - Middlesex County College is presenting two intriguing art exhibitions: one highlights emerging artists from the mid-Atlantic region; the other features sculpture, shown in a darkened room, illuminated only from the artwork itself.

The exhibition is from January 21 through February 11 and is open to the public weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception, also open to the public, will be Thursday, January 28, from 5-8 p.m. The exhibitions are in adjacent spaces.

Presenting photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition features Maria Anasazi, Leslie Atik, Susan Benarcik, Gregory Brellochs, Danielle Bursk, Brooke Hine, Brenna K. Murphy, Diane Savona, R. Noel Shaak, Daniel Traub, Ben Volta, and John Woodin.

Seedling Nest

(from the wall text)

Seedling Nest
The students at the Elwyn Seedlings School worked with Ben Volta to create multiple drawings and paper collages. The youngsters drew dynamic circular scribbles, constructed tree branch designs using cut paper, created colorful dotted patterns on Japanese paper, and ripped paper to form leaf like forms. All of the marks, designs, shapes, and forms created with the youngsters became the building blocks of this collaboration.

Ben Volta with students from the Elwyn Seedling School, 2010
Archival Pigment Print on Hosho paper adhered to stretched canvas / two-tone acrylic wall painting

This project was supported by the Falls Center / IronStone Real Estate. Continue to check out the Art At Falls Center blog as we create more installations this spring.

GROVER TAP 304: COLLAB-GEOMETRY DRAWINGS

Selected COLLAB-GEOMETRY DRAWINGS with Grover Washington Jr. Middle School TAP Residency. (regular and irregular polygons)

We are just getting started. Here is a link to our GROVER TAP 304 PROJECT BLOG

ELECTRO: STUMBLE 1

GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE
Two images dug up by students on Monday.

ELECTRO: WEEK 2

Two collaborative drawings from week 2 with the MG class at Grover.

"TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU PASSED, BUT WHEN YOU GO BACK MAKE THE FIRST THING THE LAST": STUMBLE 1

VIA Gabriel Sim-Laramee: This gave us the title for our quilt... it is so good!

SEEDLINGS: STUMBLE 4

Tape is made from trees from Conditional Design on Vimeo.

Via Gabriel Sim-Laramee:
CONDITIONAL DESIGN

"TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU PASSED, BUT WHEN YOU GO BACK MAKE THE FIRST THING THE LAST"

Created with Russell-Byers Elementary school at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Delphi after school Art Club. Our print will be on a bus shelter in Center City Philadelphia next March.

Click on image to see details.

SEEDLINGS: STUMBLE 3

From Bruno Munari's book, DRAWING A TREE.

THE HIGHWAYMAN: STUMBLE 2

"Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."
From The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

Kiki Smith's Moons



MOON 1997
lead paint on 83 Opal Remi glass panes, 16' x 13' x 3.5" overall


Moon with Stars I



"I See the Moon, and the Moon Sees Me" TIDAL, 1998
Photogravure, phtolithography, and silkscreen
10 1/4 x 9 11/16” boxed, 19 1/2” x 126 1/4” open

ELECTRICITY: WEEK 1

Today I began a 10 - 15 week residency with Jerry Jackson and MG students at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School. Here is a link to the project BLOG

Our project will revolve around electricity in science, in art, and as metaphor. Mr. Jackson pointed us toward the amazing video below, which reminded me of the writings of Paul Virilio.



"If, according to Aristotle, “the accident reveals the substance,” the invention of the substance is also the invention of the “accident.” Seen this way, the shipwreck is indeed the “futuristic” invention of the ship, the air crash the invention of the supersonic plane, and the Chernobyl meltdown, the invention of the nuclear power station." Paul Virilio

SEEDLINGS: WEEK 1

Last Tuesday I began a new project with the Elwyn Seedlings School at the Falls Center in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA. For the next 7 weeks I will be working with over 50, 3 - 5 yr old youngsters, to create two permanent installations at the Falls Center.

PROJECT NOTES

The circular doodles may be used to visualize “energy” inside seeds.
The doodles remind me of galaxies.
Galaxies shine bright from a dark space.
Seedlings spring out of the dark ground.