Tea-pi
I had a teepee builded in my studio and re-used my paintings as the skin. Inside the structure is very cosy. It is lined with cowhide and pillows. I invited special guests (friends, neighbors, curators and artists) to come by and hang out, play some songs and have some creative conversation. Guests will be served High Tea accompany by fresh baked biscuits, short bread with assortments of teas to choose from. This session will be recorded and be broadcast as podcast and are available to the public. Tea-pi is an incubator for creative thinking and dialog or just having simple fun in an unusual architectural structure.
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March 27, 2009, Friday, In this session we discuss about a collaboration with Harri Ramlakhan, New York's master gardener and Frank's up and coming folk lore projects including Staten Island's Fairyland: The Folklore of Cornelius G. Kolff. |
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March 31, 2009, Monday José just came back from El Salvador working with artists that will be showing in Bronx River Art Center. The show is Bartered States: Contemporary Art from El Salvador. He is here working with me on the promotional material and catalog of the show. |
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April 5, 2009, Sunday Felicity curated my work in a Double A projects call Free Store and we talk about her up and coming show at Dumbo Art Center, Structured Simplicity. |
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April 16, 2009, Thursday Krista is putting together a proposal for a show at Nurtureart, she is here today to do a studio visit. |
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April 26, 2009, Sunday John talk about art collecting and running his gallery and the fine points of living in Staten Island. |
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April 27, 2009, Monday Melanie talk about twittering, facebook and starting a garden tour and exploring the idea of starting an artist studio building right here in St. George, Staten Island |
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May 5, 2009, Tuesday Emcee talk about edible wild plants, gardening, tabling, his tricycle and all his ongoing and ever changing projects. |
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May 7, 2009, Thursday Debby talk about Art By The Ferry art festival, graphic design, composting, training maggots and her projects about houses that are facing foreclosure and urban decay. |
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May 12, 2009, Tuesday Emmy just came back from the Philippines and was inspired to start a project about boats. Claudio brought yerba maté from Argentina to share and he talks about water usage rights, genetic modified seeds, earth, star, universe and beyond. |
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July 1, 2009, Wednesday Abigail share her experience in her “Art Star” tv show, her personal artistic grow, her inspirations, |
Tea-pi installation at Bronx RIver Art Center by repurposing inventory of unsold paintings.
Tea-pi installation in Hope-a-holic at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art by repurposing inventory of unsold paintings.
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February 18, 2010, Thursday Christine is a curator from Taller Boricua in Spanish Harlem and she is coming for a studio visit at my studio. Instead we decided to hang out in my Teapi at Newhouse Contemporary Art Center. |
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February 18, 2010, Thursday Erin is a curator that had been very active in the the realm of Relation Aesthetic. She talks about her life and art. |
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February 27, 2010, Saturday Jay's film Growing Food on Staten Island documents local residents planting crops for their own consumption and his latest project is Flower Bomb, guerrilla gardening to beautified the neighborhood. |
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March 3, 2010, Wednesday Megan is a brand guru and an art collector. We are discussing about branding and her forthcoming book on the same topic. Can artist learn, use and adapt branding technic on their career as an artist? |
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April 2, 2010, Friday James is a fellow artist in the group show Hope-a-holic where we meet. I invited him for a conversation. |