Ceramics Exhibition – Judy Hugentobler

June 29, 2018March 17, 2022

SU-CASA 2018 Residency

Marine Park Active Adults Neighborhood

CARMINE CARRO COMMUNITY CENTER

The Brooklyn Arts Council administers Grants for projects based at senior center sites across the Borough. Since February 2018, my placement at the Carmine Carro Community Center gave me the opportunity to work with seniors from Marine Park, Brooklyn. The participants developed drawing and painting skills to render images onto clay slabs which resulted in ceramic tiles. All materials were supplied through the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA grant and firings took place at my studio in Red Hook. The Carmine Carro Community Center provided the classroom space for approximately 12-14 seniors, who were inspired to create several designs as they gained confidence working with clay.

The themes reflected their interests in various travel locations or general subjects of nature or abstraction. On June 22nd, an exhibition and reception was the final culmination of the teaching residency, coordinated along with an exhibit of artwork by children in the Marine Park community.

http://milldev.org/marine-park-active-adults/

Seslie Brock at the Carmine Carro Community Center

December 31, 2016March 9, 2024

Women Under Siege : It’s Happening Right Here

Ceres Gallery

547 West 27th Street Suite 201 New York City N.Y. 10001

January 3rd to 28th 2017 Reception: January 5th 6:00 – 8:00PM

PANEL DISCUSSION wus-flyer-ceres

In Gallery II, artist Francine Perlman presents an installation, Doors Open, Doors Close that speaks to the plight of women who have escaped domestic violence only to find themselves in shelters and often in poverty. The installation incorporates collages and text made by women living in domestic violence shelters.

THE CASE STUDY OF M.G.

M.G. was 28 years old and 12 weeks pregnant, February 1992 at the time of her arrest and charge in Fargo, North Dakota. Homeless, living on the street and a huffer, she was jailed for recklessly endangering her fetus. M. believed sniffing paint was a way to provoke a miscarriage. In jail the Lambs of Christ, who had lead pro-life protests at abortion clinics in North Dakota, encouraged her to bring her pregnancy to term. Money was raised but M. refused the money and requested assistance instead. She was unable to pay the $ 340.00 fee, however Dr. Susan Wicklund offered her services and flew from Milwaukee to the clinic in Fargo, North Dakota.

S. Wicklund worked as an abortion doctor in several states, including Montana. M. received a leave from prison for a clinic appointment and secretly terminated the pregnancy. Following the abortion all charges were dropped and M. was released. A drug treatment program was suggested after an additional arrest in June of that year. What drew me to this specific situation was the level of manipulation and power over a homeless individual, incapable of helping herself, who already had given birth to six children.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council sponsors weekly ceramic workshops at the Center on the Square Senior Center during March, April, May and June. An exhibition of all completed tiles was presented in the Parlor of the Center between June and July 2016. Center on the Square is located at 20 Washington Square Park North, in Manhattan.

The Center Director is Laura Marceca. Phone: 212 777-3555 X 106

SU-CASA is supported by public funds from the New York City Council, in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department for the Aging. It is administered in collaboration with the City’s five local arts councils. The program began as SPARC in 2012 and was developed as part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Lower Manhattan and beyond.

http://lmcc.net/program/su-casa