Tag: photography

Rooz Cafe presents . . . The Industry Collaborative Show!

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Fundraiser, short story series

Join us for a Happy Hour Reception at Rooz Cafe.
1918 Park Blvd, Oakland CA 94606
Thursday, June 12th 6-10pm

Mimosas, Beer and Espresso await you along with the sounds of Brass Tax dj’s Ernie Trevino, Alex Mace and maybe a sneak attack by Denim Ding Dong (DDD)aaaand an ambient musical performance by local, Oakland duo Charlemagne Charmaine and William Korte.
(Catharsis for Cathedral, Brasil, Drifting House)

Featuring POP-UP PONCHOS by SuperSugarRayRay
and a pop-up jewelry show by Tidalware Jewelry (Sharla Pidd).

6-7:30 Charlemagne Charmaine and William Korte
7:30-10 Brass Tax

…About the Art Show…
Industry: an activity or domain in which a great deal of time or effort is expended a group show examining hard work in specific artistic genres and spheres of life

Martin Goicoechea: Women
Exploring the female form through a variety of mixed media methods including: acrylics, transfers, watercolor, ink, wood block and charcoal.
Contact: Martin.Goicochea@me.com

Melissa Schilling: Automobile Photography
The automotive industry in the United States began in the 1890s and, as a result of the size of the domestic market and the use of mass-production, rapidly evolved into the largest in the world. These photographs represent frozen in time moments in Havana, Cuba where many cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s permeate the roadways and garages.
It was such a thrill (on blueberry hill) to experience car travel the way my grandparents experienced it.
www.melissaschilling.com

Nick Huckleberry: Recycled Creations
Its overwhelming what is thrown out these days. A large busy metal shop may throw out bunches of pieces as general waste to them but gold to the artist. I have salvaged most of my materials, always trying to bring nature to the pieces by incorporating organic shapes. Bringing new life to old waste is a way of using energies of the old and introducing them to the new, creating a balanced harmony.
www.trueburningreality.com

Project HOPE Art: Cyanotype
Art in Haiti usually requires less materials and more creativity. For this project we needed only the sun, vegetables from our garden and a few chemicals.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

Students in a Gardening Class in Port au Prince, Haiti created these cyanotype prints in February 2014. This was their very first time mixing chemicals and using their “design” eye to arrange kitchen utensils, fruits and vegetables on textured watercolor paper for 10 minutes under the brilliant Caribbean sun.
www.projecthopeart.org

Sarah Miller: Textile Photography
Laundry and People on the streets of Calcutta.
Contact: sarahmiller23@gmail.com

Bwat Aluminyom | A Project by Fanel Duce

December 11, 2013December 11, 2013 Melissa Schilling Uncategorized

Can Race

1: Pou reyalize yon timachin avèk meteryèl resikle, men ki tip de materiel nou itilize nan atis Rezistans.

Materyèl sa yo nou itilize pou nou kapab fe ti machine yo gen anpil ladan yo ke nou jwenn nan la rue, e genyen ladan yo tou se achte nou achte yo. Mamit nou itilize yo se penti pou douko ki te genyen ladan yo, apre yo fin pran penti ki nan mamit yo, yo jete yo nan la rue epi nou pran yo pou nou kapab fe ti machine yo.

Premye travay nou fe nan mamit lan, nou retire papye ki kouvwi mamit la pou nou kapab jwenn plis fasilite pou nou fe tout sa nou genyen pou nou fe nan nan mamit la.

mamit lan. apre sa nap ouvwe mamit lan, nap bap li ak yon mato pou li kapab vin plat tankou yon fèy tol.

Pati sa se lè mou fin byen plati matit la, kounye a nou pwal trase model machin nou vle fè a, e le ou vin trase model machin nan wap pran yon sizo pou kapab koupe li.

Nan pati foto sa yo nou pwal moutre ou kijan pou fe do machin nan! Le ou fin trase de bo machin nan, kounye a wap pran yon lot fey tol pou kapab trase do machine, ou dwe trase vit devan machin nan ak vit deye machine nan. Le ou fin trase li wap koupe pati ou trase yo pou kapab resoti pati vit la.

le ou fin retire pati vit yo, ou dwe bay tol la fom model machin ke ou te trase a.
apre ou fin trase de bo machin nan, avek do machin nan. Ou pral kole yo ansanm pou kapab kadre machine nan.

le ou fin kadre machine nan, kounye a ou gen pou travay anba machine nan, le mwen di anba machine nan mwen vle pale de reso ak kawotyou machine nan.

Pou kapab fe reso machine nou itilize yon ti fe plat, ti fe plat sa se avek li yo konn klanmse bwat pèpè yo.

1: wap koupe fe a ak yon mezi ki pa dwe depase machine nan

2: apre wap kloure li nan moso blanch lan

3: nou dwe itilize fe sèso ou byen fil alegati ki di pou kapab pase nan reso a pou ka genbe kawotyou yo.

Pou nou fe kawotyou machine nan, nou itilize yon ti boutèy plastik.

Prmyeman nou koupe li, nou pran de bouda a, nou kole 2 bouda yo ansanm pou li kapab vin pi dyanm.

Can Race: Apre tout demach sa yo, men rezilta can race la.

Sponsor a Student in 2014

November 13, 2013November 14, 2013 Melissa Schilling Uncategorized

Project HOPE Art is now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas!

Our new Project HOPE Art Center is primed and ready to host countless children in an array of art classes. We need your help to keep funding alive!

Click Here to Give a Tax-Deductible Donation!

This Holiday Season you can give the gift of learning and development in the Third World to a family member or friend in the First World. Donate now and we will send the recipient of your choice a festive and cheerful e-card explaining the details of your very special gift to support art in Haiti!

Make a $50 Donation to cover lunches for one student for a semester.

Make a $75 Donation to cover books, transportation and lunches for a student for a semester.

Make a $100 Donation to support our new animal husbandry program in conjunction with our Art + Botany class.
(Yes this is the goat’s natural hair!)

Make a $150 Donation to cover English lessons (including books, transportation and lunches) for an entire year for one student.

You can also set up recurring payments to sponsor the Project HOPE Art Center all year round.

$1200 covers the costs of an entire arts education class for 12 students. Our arts classes create jobs for local Haitians, and all of this can be achieved with $100 monthly donations for one year.

$600 covers the costs of seeds, clean water, nutritious compost and guest lecturers for our Art + Botany Lab class. All of this can be achieved with $50 monthly donations for one year.

Just click this link, make your donation and we’ll be in touch to send a personalized e-card to the recipient of your choice.
All holiday donations must be in by December 20th for e-gift cards to arrive by Christmas! To help support HOPE Art and keep art alive for kids in Haiti, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. Your donation is incredibly appreciated.

Folk Pumpkins

October 25, 2013October 25, 2013 Melissa Schilling Art Projects 1 Comment

We love practicing art projects with local kids using discarded materials. In this case, we made folk art pumpkins from newspaper, scrap paper and leftover yarn & twine. Imaginations unite!

The kids and I had a frank discussion about all the different shapes, sizes, colors, textures and types of pumpkins. It was really sweet for everyone to come to the realization that there is not a perfect pumpkin and each and every different pumpkin had its endearing qualities.

Then we stuck our hands wrist deep in glue and shaped our own special folk pumpkins from newspaper. Once they were dry we used yarn, raffia, crepe & tissue paper to create multi-textured finishes.

I super love getting messy with these little loves.
Be sure to post on our facebook page, photos of your own homemade folk pumpkins!

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It’s not too late to do this at home!
You will need:
Tissue paper or paper towels
Scissors
Non-toxic glue
Paint brush (to spread glue on the paper and help keep your hands clean too)

Directions:
1. Start by crinkling newspaper into a ball to create your desired pumpkin size and shape.
2. Crinkle newspaper to create a stem shape.
3. With the paint brush, spread glue around the top of the pumpkin and glue the stem part to your pumpkin figure.

Tip: Experiment with paints and glitter to create a more colorful or festive look to your pumpkin. You might try painting the stem or creating patterns and mixing colors.

gardening program and the art + botany lab

October 22, 2013November 21, 2013 Melissa Schilling Urban Agriculture

The 2014 Project HOPE Art Gardening Class will take place each Saturday at the Project HOPE Art Center at Haiti Communitere from 8am-11am.
The goal of the class is to teach fundamentals of gardening to 12 students and one class Supervisor so they may return to their neighborhoods and spread knowledge about urban agronomy. We want to prepare each student to grow their own food at home.

For our first foray, we’ve rounded up 12 students from a variety of neighborhoods, backgrounds, education levels and ages to come together and learn a skill that will help them feed their families and communities.

Class Instructor: TBD/Daniel Tillias
Class Supervisor: Luc Winter

Week 1-4: Basics of Gardening and Mapping Out Your Garden; Basic Husbandry (Rabbit Keeping)
Week 5-9: Soil Health: Composting and Vermicomposting; Moringa Trees and Soil Erosion
Week 10-14: Urban Gardening: Growing Vegetables in Containers
Week 15-19: Harvesting and Seed Saving
Week 20-24: Cooking with Moringa, Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs
Week 25-29: Aquaponics: Using Tilapia Fish
Week 30-32: MultiCropping and MonoCropping

Measuring Success: Each student in the class will keep a journal. In it they will be asked to write down notes, ideas, recipes and activities. We will invite local artists to attend the class and help the students learn botanical drawing. The students will take a field trip to the the Jaden Tap Tap Garden in Cite Soleil to see a working garden. At the end of the class, each student will be given seeds and asked to start their own mini-garden at home.

Student journal entries will be combined to create a gardening handbook.

Download our 2012 Gardening HandBook, There Grows The Neighborhood here.

Class Supervisor Luc Winter will use his knowledge from the class to start his own community garden at his school in Bwa Nef in Cite Soleil.

Our gardening class will run from March, 2014 – November 2014 on Saturdays at the Project HOPE Art Center. For the finale of the class, each student will be given seeds and a class generated gardening handbook to create their own mini container garden at home.

The young students in the class range across five neighborhoods and span educational, income and resource levels. They are 12 to 16 years old. All incredibly motivated to learn Urban Agronomy.

Meet our Students (coming soon!)