Draw-a-Thon on June 19

http://michaelalanart.com/drawathon.html

June-19th-2009
7pm-12pm
-The Chelsea Art Museum-
Draw-A-Thon Theater Presents: The Factory

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon Theater & Exhibition

at The Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
Friday, June 19, 2009 7pm - Midnight



Calling all artists and open minded viewers, be a part of a five hour long monumental ground breaking experience!
The Chelsea Art Museum main floor will be filled with performers,
costumes, theater and tons of empty space for new work to be created
by hundreds of artists.
All artists are summoned to make art in the museum.
All mediums, all styles, come be one.
Come make history for the first show in a museum were hundreds of
artists gathered and made work inspired by Theater.

The Factory- a 5 hour long satire
Over 20 performers will build an environment under slave, sweatshop
management inside the Chelsea art museum. The factory is controlled by
paint splatted floor managers and Michael Alan's mother will dictate
and choreograph Repetitious senseless building of sculptures,
costumes, boxes and paper piles. The Assembly line of the robotic art
slaves. Live punk, experemental, folk and classic rock and roll will
be playing live from a handicapped truck that will be drivin into the
museum. This monumental performance will be open to all artists to
come and interpret through any creative process. The museum will be
cleared out and taken over by hundreds of artists making new work in
the Chelsea art museum.

Community - Art Activism - Movement

Featuring Nick Greenwald & Matthew Brennan
along with twenty dynamic performers
Exhibition curated by Michelle Woo
Live music by- The Bones Of Davey Jones, Epileptic Peat, The House of Waters and many many wars.


$20 online for this show only- discounts to follow- [GO HERE TO PAY ONLINE: http://michaelalanart.com/drawathon.html]
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"To recapture what has been lost and update it with a huge splash of paint"-The New York Times



"Go to the Draw-A-Thon." -NBC The Today Show

"A rare chance to draw models staged in unusual theatrical poses." -Village Voice

"The communal bent of Draw-A-Thon Theater seems increasingly at
odds with the prevailing curatorial trends of the city." -New York Press

May 2009 Meeting Notes

Members Present: Amber & Ellyane

Ellyane showed more knitting, lace, etc things.
Amber showed design/layout for an event program.

Lots of discussion of crafting, re-skilling, sharing materials and workspace:
etsy labs
jewelry, sewing machines
church of craft - is gone now
3rd ward
The Be Hive: http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/The-Be-Hive/180046965713

MAKE MAGAZINE

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Amber suggested the film Born Rich (available on youtube)

David Sarma's short animation is playing at the Brooklyn International Film Festival!
Let's have our next meeting there: Brooklyn Heights Cinema - Sat June 13 at 10pm
It is also playing that Sunday at 8pm if you'd rather see it then.

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Then it got a little extra "salon"-like and we talked about all kinds of non-art stuff too:
Tedtalks video about the flu empidemic.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/laurie_garrett_on_lessons_from_the_1918_flu.html

Excerpts from Life Inc.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/04/life-inc.html

Meeting Notes - April 2009

Members Present: Ellyane, Stephanie, Amber

Ellyane showed her lace-making. Talked about history of lace, possible lace businesses, state of lace/textiles today

Talked about exquisite corpse and lent out Psst Pass it On animation DVD. (it's good!)

Amber showed birthday card she made.

Talk about how she's SO CLOSE to finishing her art book.

Stephanie talked about her puppet project. Shot BGs in Scotland but is having trouble getting footage off the PAL-formatted tape.

Talked about the need to get RSVPs to future meetings

what I've been up to...

Sorry I missed the meeting.

Since our last meeting have played with clay a bit. I'm making a doll and I'm trying to decide if I want him have a cloth body or not.

My trip to San Francisco was fantastic. I learned Bobbin Lace, Tatting and Needle Lace. Mostly I've been tatting because its portable. I just got my Bobbin Lace Pillow, so I made one motif, which I will applique onto a bag or shirt.

After San Francisco, I want to Houston Tx, visited some family and enjoyed the nearly 80˚ weather. Visited some cool museums and got a taste of Tx life.

And Last weekend, I went to Lancaster Pa. to the WARP annual meeting, which was great. I'm writing a post about it for my blog, so more on that soon. But it looks like I have some great resources / subjects to do a fiber related documentary, which is an idea I've been toying with for a long time.

Meeting Notes Feb 01

members present:
stephanie, david, amber, ellyane, lisa

stephaine has puppet pieces ready. going to sand to make wood grain and then paint wood color. off to scotland to get background plates. bryan haimes helped with making puppet - does muppets and stop motion stuff

ellyane - brought in bags. she has started an etsy site to try to sell her work. ACEO - 2.5x3.5 card artwork that's selling well right now. also brought in clay faces

anthony - showed Little Spirit in 3D (trailer and some scenes). showed where the camera is in space

amber - idea for amber's face-cutout of Bunny+Crab: crab plus blowdryer. showed pages from a few sections of Subjective New York book.

david - showed sketch books; talked about process

For next meeting everyone will have made commitments for more small pieces or progress towards larger goals.
Some talk of sketch crawl for those of us who are underemployed

Next Meeting: sat march 21st at 5pm

Drawings on bigger pieces of paper

Page

Creativity and stretching the sweatshirt

An interesting analogy for creativity by Seth Godin

Tilt Photography

Check out these examples. Tilt photography makes photos of normal life look like photos of miniatures.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/