Thursday, March 29, 2018

"Symbols and Storytelling" Grant Award, Part 2

Deborah and Glenn Doering, co-directors of DOEprojekts, have completed 10 of 20 workshops supported by their 2018 teaching grant by SU-CASA, one of the funding divisions of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). (Above: Collage work-in-progress by participating artist Amy Geller).

The grant funds 20 weeks of 2-hour workshops titled "Symbols and Storytelling." In the workshops we use our Coreforms and Keywords as points-of-departure and invitations-to-interact in order to explore participants' personal connections to contemporary cultural concepts.


In the "keyword" segment of the workshops, we read texts by Modern and Contemporary theorists and artists. We have examined essays on keywords such as Identity, Body, Youth/Age, Celebrity, Disability, Copy, Aesthetic, and Art. We also view and discuss contemporary works in museum exhibitions that use iconic symbols and forms. (Above: "Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art," 1995, collagraph, by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, photo by D. Doering at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC).

We look forward to the upcoming exhibition/project that will be the culmination of our workshops. 




We are pleased that our work is included in the Fossil Tales group exhibition at CENTRAL BOOKING Art Space in Lower Manhattan, curated by artist/director Maddy Rosenberg. (Above: "The Fossil Record is an Open Book, 1/0 and 0/-" installation.) CENTRAL BOOKING is now on Artsy.net and our work may be found and purchased through CENTRAL BOOKING's gallery portal.

In addition, a catalog of our DOEprojekts' "LANDMARKS" Land and Environmental Art has been published. If you would like a copy of "LANDMARKS, please email us at DOEprojekts@gmail.com.



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