CHANCE AND CHOICE
with guest artist Eva Mantell
March 21, 2013, 9 am - 3 pm

Thank you to Eva Mantell for leading this year's Teachers Symposium. Please check back in February of next year to register for the 2014 Teachers Symposium.


The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is pleased to announce this year’s Teachers Symposium, Chance and Choice. The event will take place on Thursday, March 21, 2013, 9 am – 3 pm, and will be presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, Cordy Ryman: Shuffle / Scrap / Echo.

The symposium will begin at 9 am with registration and a light breakfast. Eva Mantell, guest artist and educator, will discuss her current practice working in a range of media including readily found materials from culture and nature to question the relationship between the environment and inner life. The group will then visit the Main Gallery for a tour of Cordy Ryman: Shuffle / Scrap / Echo, paired with gallery exercises to stretch the imagination. This exhibition features the work of Cordy Ryman who manipulates materials such as wood, metal, Velcro, Gorilla Glue, staples and scraps from his studio floor, reconstructing them into assemblages that hybridize painting and sculpture. After lunch, our guest artist will lead a hands-on art workshop to explore how artists work with inanimate materials to create works of art imbued with spirit, memory and feeling. Referring to the current exhibition by Cordy Ryman and her own body of work, this session will experiment with the theme of chance and choice. This workshop will renew your artistic spirit and provide you with new skills for your classroom.


All participants will receive six professional development hours.
Please, dress appropriately for the workshop.
Lunch will not be served. (Several restaurants are within walking distance of the Art Center.)
There is a registration fee of $60 per participant to attend the symposium.
For more information, please contact Cara Bramson, Interim Director of Programs at cbramson@artcenternj.org or 908.273.9121 x213.

ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST

Eva Mantell writes, "The gestures I develop have telling details as each piece is an homage to a story, possibly outrageous, possibly true." Working in a range of media, she uses readily found materials from culture and nature to question the relationship between the environment and inner life. Her artwork has been seen at The Brooklyn Museum, The ICA in Boston, The Hunterdon Museum of Art; internationally at Photo Antwerpen in Belgium and at the Dada Festival in Liverpool, England. An interactive video piece of hers "Float and Jumble" was presented at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in 2011.

Eva is a teacher and a leader of professional development with a special interest in the fields of creative aging, arts and health. Her approach in teaching as well as studio practice is to see art as a game of creativity where all participants have the potential to contribute to the conversation. She teaches at the Arts Council of Princeton and holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband and two children.

More information about Eva’s work is available at www.evamantell.com