SPRING BREAK ARTS CAMP!
THURS: PLACES THAT MATTER
WITH LAURA HALSEY BROWN
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~8-11 (3rd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale, $40 or $60 per day
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATES: Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Thursday, March 27th: PLACES THAT MATTER with Laura Halsey Brown
In PLACES THAT MATTER, campers will focus on the idea of memory and place; as Laura shares why places matter to her, and how these themes show up in her own artwork. Campers will be led through projects utilizing drawing, painting, collage and more—creating mixed media works that relate to their own special places.
Laura Halsey Brown (www.laurahalseybrown.art) is a neurodiverse interdisciplinary artist presently based on the Washington coast. She has worked nationally/internationally. Her work responds to psychological aspects of place. In her present work, she uses architectural forms, drawings and found architectural materials. These are incorporated with several mediums and processes within each work, including: cyanotype, mark-making, language, printmaking and encaustic. Her art typically employs a combination of modest materials to produce subtle conceptual or formal effects. She layers imagery to reflect a psychological layering of experience, through which to contemplate our layers of time, place - and memory itself. Her MFA exhibition from California Institute for the Arts was an interdisciplinary installation about the philosophy of nature; combining video, printmaking and sculpture. She moved to New York City after graduating, where she primarily focused on moving image works. She began curating for arts spaces such as The Kitchen and The Knitting Factory (NYC), Woodstock Center for Photography(NY), Philadelphia Center for the Arts (PA) and Art House (Dublin). She also created a series of place-based screenings in public spaces. During this period, she showed her site-responsive installations nationally and internationally, including at the New Museum in 2001 (based on a LMCC World Trade Center Residency), and White Columns, Art in General and spaces throughout Europe. In 2002, she moved to Rotterdam and received a grant to create public art works that focused on city architecture by local architects. Five years later, she moved to San Francisco and started ‘senseofplace LAB’. This work was a series of temporary works that responded to location, an architectural setting or social landscape – to heighten a sense of place.