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Art After Dark with Lynn Book – 'Movement: Embodied Acts'

Presented by Weatherspoon Art Museum at Weatherspoon Art Museum

April 8, 2010

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Art After Dark is a new hands-on program for adults aimed at inspiring creativity. Each workshop explores a different creative process and uses the “Existed: Leonardo Drew” exhibition as a departure point. Participate in one or all three workshops. No experience is necessary. For details and to reserve a space, email weatherspoon@uncg.edu or call 336.334.5770. This workshop explores how everyday actions are full of meaning and creative potential. Gestures that may appear to be routine, turn out to be distinctly personal and idiosyncratic. Leonardo Drew performs his own alchemy on the myriad objects that populate the world. Participants will investigate simple actions performed with mundane objects, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Bring 3 objects to the workshop: something flat, something long and something that contains. Lynn Book’s 25 year history of interdisciplinary artistic practice crosses boundaries between performance art, dance, theatre, visual art, language and new music forms. Her performance work has received citations, fellowships, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Franklin Furnace, and Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and Program Director for Creativity and Innovation at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Looking for ways to instill more creativity in your students? Educators are invited to a 30-minute preprogram discussion before each Art After Dark workshop. The “Just for Educators” program provides information on Leonardo Drew with strategies for translating workshop ideas for the classroom. For information and to receive professional development credit, contact Terri Dowell-Dennis by email at t_dowell@uncg.edu or 336.256.1449. Public Programming for "Existed: Leonardo Drew" is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.