SECOND STREET GALLERYOUTREACH 2014 / 2015SSG’s outreach efforts are made possible by our generous donors and sponsors, along with the LEAW Family Foundation and the The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF).

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COLLAGE WORKSHOP August 1, 2014Community Housing Partners (CHP) Greenstone Community Center on 5th/ProspectAndy Faith

Andy led a collage making workshop to make Sailor’s Valentines. The students each chose images from magazines and calendars to make a collage on the back of their cutout (tigers, sharks, dogs, cats, flowers, sea life, and wildlife), and colored them with pastel crayons. On the front of the cutouts, the students chose a picture they wanted to center on and collaged around it with seashells, beads, bottle caps, stones, glass, and glitter. They worked on their sailor valentine’s for over two hours. Students said they had fun, and one student pointed out, “I’m an artist, we’re all artists!”

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HOW TO APPLY FOR A VMFA VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP October 10, 2014Second Street GalleryJenny Harding

Harding gave a presentation on how to apply to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, including forms to fill out, eligibility conditions, deadline, notification of award, how to select a discipline, and specifications on the application details. She then led a Q&A session with attendees.

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FAMILY ART DAY October 11, 2014Second Street GalleryHeide Trepanier (exhibition artist), Warren Craghead III (exhibition artist), Sarah Boyts Yoder (exhibition artist), Laura Snyder, Mara Sprafkin, Aaron Eichorst

162 kids enjoyed a marble paint workshop, a book-making workshop, a drawing/collage activity, a leaf stencil watercolor collaborative workshop, and a potato printmaking activity. Relay Food provided vegetables for a printing activity and Creative Framing and the Art Box provided a canvas for painting. The artwork created on Family Art Day was then incorporated onto the walls of the Dové Gallery and remained up for the remained of the exhibition.

Warren also had a zine-making workshop in the gallery as part of our Third Thurday late hours.

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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP October 30 and November 13, 2014Albemarle High School Diane DiGiacomo’s Photography ClassStacey Evans

Stacey led a workshop on landscape photography to Ms. DiGiacomo’s class. She talked about composition, lighting, and showed her photographs as examples. The students then went on a 15-minute assignment to take photographs themselves. Stacey reviewed their photographs and worked one-on-one with students to critique their work. The students went on a field trip to Carter’s Mountain and took landscape photographs.

After the class trip to Carter’s Mountain, the students submitted five photographs that were printed out for each student. Stacey went through the classroom and critiqued and chose photographs to go into a booklet. The class chose the order to go in the book and Erica designed a layout for the book to be printed at magcloud.comStacey also gave a presentation about printing on different types of photo paper, and about Adobe Bridge – sorting, adjustments, and layers.

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GLASS BLOWINGORNAMENT WORKSHOPNovember 18, 2014McGuffey Art CenterCharles ‘Chip’ Hall

Chip gave a presentation to the Boys and Girls Club kids about working with hot glass, the chemistry and temperatures of working with glass, and answered students’ questions throughout. Each student chose the colors they wanted to make an ornament with and followed instructions to blow into the glass to make it expand into an ornament.

After the workshop was over, Erica took the students through the McGuffey Art Center and they met another artist, Jim Respess, who talked about what he was currently working on. They pointed to different things in the gallery and commented on what they saw.

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AFRIKANA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING AND DIRECTOR TALK November 21, 2014Second Street GalleryR. Shanea Williams

Enjoli Moon, founder/director of the Afrikana Film Festival presented a screening of ‘Contamination’ by director R. Shanea Williams. After the screening a Q&A was hosted.

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CIRCLE OF HOPE – ORIGAMI BOAT WORKSHOP January 16, 2015Second Street GalleryDr. Arturo Lindsay

Arturo and the students skyped with Nagla Samir in Cairo about the children in Egypt who created origami boats for the installation, the Dream Machine. The students were engaged and questions about the Africa and were asked to think of the future they would like for themselves, families, and nation. Out of recycled paper from a women’s cooperative in Cairo, the students created the same origami boats as the children in Cairo. The students placed their boats on the gallery floor in a concentric circle and created the installation ‘The Circle of Hope.’ Arturo gave the students a tour of his exhibition and answered questions about the work.

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ARTIST/ CURATOR CONVERSATIONJanuary 16, 2015Second Street GalleryDr. Arturo Lindsay and Tosha Grantham

Dr. Arturo Lindsay and Curator Tosha Grantham discussed his life and work exhibited at Second Street Gallery.

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MOSAIC MAKING WORKSHOP March 4 and 10, 2015Community Housing PartnersNinni Baeckstrom

Ninni led the students in a glass-cutting workshop, color selection and placement, and made picture frames with students. The mosaic workshop continued with the students, by mixing and placing grout on the picture frames.

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DANCE March 12, 19 and 26, 2015Second Street GalleryKatharine Birdsall, Dinah Gray, Jennifer Kelly

Dances were choreographed and performed in response to Susan Bacik’s sculptural works.

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CARDBOARD PRINTING April 6, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubCarol Barber

Carol led the students in a cardboard print-making workshop and helped them to create a mural using all of their cardboard stamps together.

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OIL PAINTING April 6, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubRenee Balfour

Renee led the students in an oil painting workshop, where they observed and painted still life scenes.

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WATERCOLOR COFFEE FILTER SUN CATCHERS April 7, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubErica Barnes

Erica did a workshop on watercolor techniques and taught the students how to make sun catchers using coffee filters and watercolors.

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MASK-MAKING April 7, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubAnnie Temmink

Annie led the students in a mask making workshop using shapes and patterns cut from construction paper.

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DREAMCATCHER WORKSHOP April 8, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubStephanie DeWolfe and Mary Pearl

Mary and Stephanie led the students in a dreamcatcher workshop, using waxed string webbed around a knitting circle and decorated with beads and fabric strips.

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MURAL PAINTING April 10, 2015Cherry Avenue Boys and Girls ClubLee Alter

Lee helped the students create two handprint painted murals to be hung on the walls of the Boys and Girls Club.

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ARTS ROUNDTABLE April 17, 2015Second Street Gallery

Becca McCharen, founder of CHROMATClaude Wampler, Ruffin Distinguished Artist-in-ResidenceMickael Broth, Tom Tom Artist-in-ResidenceJohn Reinhold, founder, RVAMagSeth Casana, founder, WHURKEmily Smith, executive director, 1708 Gallery

Artist luncheon hosted by U.Va. as part of the Tom Tom Founders Fest. Emma Terry led a discussion about the topic of Virginia’s national arts identity.

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WORDS AND MUSIC April 18, 2015Second Street Gallery20 performers in U.Va.’s Creative Writing Program and McIntire Department of Music

U.Va.’s Creative Writing Program and McIntire Department of Music created a performance marrying Words & Music, featuring innovative, collaborative new works by graduate students of poetry, fiction, and music composition. Presented as part of the Tom Tom Founder’s Fest.

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SCHOOL TOUR AND PRAXINOSCOPE WORKSHOP April 21 and 24, 2015Second Street GalleryEdward Thomas

On the 21st, Erica gave Charlottesville Day School students a tour of the exhibitions by Edward Thomas ‘Praxinoscopes’ and Regina Miele ‘Meridians.’ The students explored the gallery, asked questions, and did hands-on activities with the Praxinoscopes.

On the 24th, Edward Thomas discussed his work with stop-motion animation with the Buford Middle School students and helped them to animate their own film strips using his praxinoscopes. The students were then able to tour the gallery and experiment on their own with Edward’s praxinoscopes.

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SELF-PORTRAIT WORKSHOP May 1, 2015Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention CenterAmy Sherald

Amy had a discussion with the students about their and her life, what their interests are, and showed them a presentation of her works. A topic of discussion was the recent riots and protests in Baltimore. Amy led a self-portrait workshop with the students and worked with them one-on-one.

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ARTIST/CURATOR CONVERSATION May 2, 2015Second Street GalleryAmy Sherald, Arturo Lindsay, Tosha Grantham

Curator Tosha Grantham led a discussion with Amy Sherald and her mentor, Arturo Lindsay, about Sherald’s life, works, and career-development.

Photo: Rick Stillings

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CHARLOTTESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GUIDED TOURSMay 13, 15 and 21, 2015Second Street Gallery

Erica led a tour of Sherald’s exhibition with Charlottesville High School Studio Art students. Topics included: Sherald’s process, influences, history, and a projection of an interview of Amy Sherald by BMore Art

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