After such trying times, AAA3A is excited to safely re-open for this thoughtful Bronx Council on the Arts, Arts Fund project by Michele Brody.
Throughout the time of the Pandemic and Lock Down, Brody continued her work as a community-based artist by inviting friends and colleagues to share their window views while sheltering in place. She asked interested participants to frame their photographs to include things like plants or curtains that may be set in front of their window as a way to personalize each view as an expression of the environment surrounding each subject, and what they were left to see… She then used her time isolated in her home-studio to interpret these photos through a unique process of pulp painting with watermarked handmade paper. The results are a colorful blend of naively painted works in paper accompanied by community members’ stories and poems about managing through COVID.
She began this series first over email and social media, but then utilized a City Artist Corp grant to host a series of safe, one-on-one Tea Time Talks throughout Mott Haven at Mottley Café, La Morada Restaurant and at AAA3A. Participants shared their stories through conversion and by writing onto specially prepared note-papers made from tea stained tea filters to be hung as part of the paper quilts Brody has been collecting since 2007 for her community engagement project Reflections in Tea.
For her show Brody will be exhibiting participating community members’ stories along with their window paintings in the forms of hand bound sculptural books, a self-published zine, fluttering paper quilts, framed letter sized paintings and a handful of large-scale handmade paper sheets of pulp painted versions of the windows at almost life-sized. This final version to re-create for the viewer a vicariously shared experience of how we managed to live while sheltering in place.
In compliance with the New York City mandate, all visitors over the age of 12 must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to enter AAA3A, and masks are required.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Throughout the time of the Pandemic and Lock Down, Brody continued her work as a community-based artist by inviting friends and colleagues to share their window views while sheltering in place. She asked interested participants to frame their photographs to include things like plants or curtains that may be set in front of their window as a way to personalize each view as an expression of the environment surrounding each subject, and what they were left to see… She then used her time isolated in her home-studio to interpret these photos through a unique process of pulp painting with watermarked handmade paper. The results are a colorful blend of naively painted works in paper accompanied by community members’ stories and poems about managing through COVID.
She began this series first over email and social media, but then utilized a City Artist Corp grant to host a series of safe, one-on-one Tea Time Talks throughout Mott Haven at Mottley Café, La Morada Restaurant and at AAA3A. Participants shared their stories through conversion and by writing onto specially prepared note-papers made from tea stained tea filters to be hung as part of the paper quilts Brody has been collecting since 2007 for her community engagement project Reflections in Tea.
For her show Brody will be exhibiting participating community members’ stories along with their window paintings in the forms of hand bound sculptural books, a self-published zine, fluttering paper quilts, framed letter sized paintings and a handful of large-scale handmade paper sheets of pulp painted versions of the windows at almost life-sized. This final version to re-create for the viewer a vicariously shared experience of how we managed to live while sheltering in place.
In compliance with the New York City mandate, all visitors over the age of 12 must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to enter AAA3A, and masks are required.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Schedule
Venue
AAA3A
309 Alexander Avenue Apt. 3A
Bronx, NY 10454
Phone:
917-260-9954
Website:
www.blankaamezkua.com/aaa3a
