Roger Goldenberg’s Inspiration Banners add dynamism and warmth to AVA’s already inviting foyer

At the Leeds “Platinum Certified” AVA Gallery and Art Center Roger Goldenberg’s Inspiration Banners can be seen to add colorful joy to the smart eco-design of the building. AVA’s Director Bente Torjusen remarks that not only are there ecological benefits from designing a Leeds Certified 21st Century building, such as energy savings, use of recycled materials, and utilization existing structural elements rich in history, there are subliminal benefits. The Leeds design involves consideration of passive solar and as a result the interior spaces have a luminous quality. This creates an uplifting, elevating feel which affects ones spirit and mood. This light and the warm hues of the antique hardwood floors create an inviting environment in which to create art, meet like-minded art buddies. Often it is just these qualities that lure the curious minded or  unsuspecting passerby to walk in to enjoy the original artwork on the gallery walls or to sign up for art classes and workshops. In the foyer photo, Roger Goldenberg’s Inspiration Banners add to the energy and warmth of AVA’s magical world. Here is an article in NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION magazine featuring Bente Torjusen and a brief pictorial review of the AVA Gallery and Art Center.

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Roger Goldenberg announces the beginning of Fall Art Classes for Adults and Teens at the Portsmouth Music and Art Center (PMAC).Session one begins on October 7th. See below for our listings or go online at http://www.pmaconline.org/adultartclasses.html  New to our PMAC’s adult/teen class faculty is Dustan Knight, regionally renowned watercolorist, art historian and wordsmith.

DRAWING with Roger Goldenberg
This class is built on the experience level of the individual student.
Beginner and Intermediate drawing students are welcome. In this drawing class
we will use the fundamentals of drawing to revisit learning how artists see.
We will be able to work on a sustained still life set-up using a variety of
drawing media, moving beyond B+W by introducing color and color mixing.

DATES/TIME: Thursdays, 10:00am-12:30pm
SESSION ONE: October 8 – November 12 (6 Weeks)
SESSION TWO: December 3 – January 21 (6 Weeks, no class over holiday break)
TUITION: $185 per session ($175 with PMAC card)
*Materials not included – CLICK HERE FOR REQUIRED MATERIALS LIST

WATERCOLOR with Dustan Knight
Playful experimentation will be balanced by a step-by-step approach to painting is this two-session class. Gain a solid understanding of color mixing, pigments, brushes and materials while discovering the delight of the watercolor medium. Individualized instruction in a
classroom setting that encourages participants to participate in either or both sessions.
DATES/TIME: Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm
SESSION ONE: October 8 – November 12 (6 Weeks)
SESSION TWO: December 3 – January 21 (6 Weeks, no class over holiday break)
TUITION: $185 per session ($175 with PMAC card)
*Materials not included – CLICK HERE FOR REQUIRED MATERIALS LIST

ART-FULL PLAY with Roger Goldenberg
Open channels of creativity, relax and clear your mind through structured creative play. This playful class for adults and teens begins with the art of doodling to open up channels of creativity. Doodling can lead to fresh ideas for making deeply personal works of art. Students will be guided through the simple process with pen and paper, then, expand their experience by introducing other media.
DATES/TIME: Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm
SESSION ONE: October 7 – November 11 (6 Weeks)
SESSION TWO: December 2 – January 20 (6 Weeks, no class over holiday break)
TUITION: $185 per session ($175 with PMAC card)
*Materials not included – CLICK HERE FOR REQUIRED MATERIALS LIST

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The IENE Creativity Workshop was hired to perform, teach and inspire at the Applewild School in Fitchburg, MA this March 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2015.

Six of our personnel worked with 217 students from grades 4 – 8 and rubbed elbows with K – 3, the youngest of Applewild’s budding musicians, artists and scholars. On Tuesday at 11am  we unloaded and set up for our opening performance before the entire student body and faculty. Our set list was carefully chosen and crafted to reflect the school’s focus on the Harlem Renaissance. Included in our performance were Duke Ellington’s composition Jump for Joy, the title song from his musical of the same name (1939), Langston Hughes’ poem Dig and Be Dug, the gritty and poignant poem Satchmo by Melvin B. Tolson, and the traditional Negro spiritual Motherless Child.

Dig and Be Dug

“I stay cool, and dig all jive,
“I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That’s the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.”

by Langston Hughes

Applewild sixth graders were split into two groups; musicians and artists, to be taught to create conversations between jazz and expressionist painting.

Fourth graders painting duets as they build upon the idea of collaboration

Applewild horn players get their collaborative jazz on while classmates collaborate in the conversations at their easels

Exciting visual jazz expressionist paintings begin to grow before our eyes (and ears)

BY MELVIN B. TOLSON

King Oliver of New Orleans
has kicked the bucket, but he left behind
old Satchmo with his red-hot horn
to syncopate the heart and mind.
The honky-tonks in Storyville
have turned to ashes, have turned to dust,
but old Satchmo is still around
like Uncle Sam’s IN GOD WE TRUST.

Where, oh, where is Bessie Smith,
with her heart as big as the blues of truth?
Where, oh, where is Mister Jelly Roll,
with his Cadillac and diamond tooth?
Where, oh, where is Papa Handy
With his blue notes a-dragging from bar to bar?
Where, oh where is bulletproof Leadbelly
with his tall tales and 12-string guitar?

Old Hip Cats,
when you sang and played the blues
the night Satchmo was born,
did you know hypodermic needles in Rome
couldn’t hoodoo him away from his horn?
Wyatt Earp’s legend, John Henry’s, too,
is a dare and a bet to old Satchmo
when his groovy blues put headlines in the news
from the Gold Coast to cold Moscow.

Old Satchmo’s
gravelly voice and tapping foot and crazy notes
set my soul on fire.
If I climbed
the seventy-seven steps of the Seventh
Heaven, Satchmo’s high C would carry me higher!
Are you hip to this, Harlem? Are you hip?
On Judgment Day, Gabriel will say
after he blows his horn:
“I’d be the greatest trumpeter in the Universe
if old Satchmo had never been born!”

This young bass player listens intently as we compose a tune and prepare to converse in music and paint

Applewild Seventh grader takes her turn in a collaborative visual jazz painting while classmates and IENE personnel perform some improvised jazz

An Applewild student collaborative visual musical jazz masterpiece is born!

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Roger seen teaching two of his adult students in a Drawing Class in PMAC’s new art rooms

Roger Teaches at The Portsmouth Music and Arts Center This Spring

Hi students, and friends, I am offering fun art classes in drawing and watercolor this Spring at the Portsmouth Music and Arts Center.  Spring Classes Begin in March!

Intermediate Drawing: Tuesday mornings, 10am – 12:30, March 10th – April 14

Beginning Drawing: Thursday mornings, 10am – 12:30, March 12th – April 16

Later in the Spring I will teach Watercolor. It runs on Tuesdaymornings May 5th – June 9,  10am – 12:30

For detailed information go to:   http://ow.ly/JDdyc

Teen avidly working from a still life set-up in an Introductory Drawing class for teens and adults

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In Ears ‘n’ Eyes Creativity Workshop hired by Mechanica Inc.

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Roger moves through the Creativity Workshop to encourage and aid the Saucony participants

 

In Ears ‘n’ Eyes hired by Mechanica Inc. to provide one on their inimitable In Ears ‘n’ Eyes Creativity Workshops for Saucony shoe executives. In the background are Chris Klaxton, Jonny Peiffer, Scott Kiefner and Matt Langley.

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop musicians Matt Langley, Chris Klaxton, Jonny Peiffer, and Scott Kiefner.

 

 

Painter and musicians start the creativity workshop with a 10 – 12 minute demo kickstarts the creativity workshop and energizes the workshop participants.

 

Get ready, Get set, Paint!

 

The intensity, excitement and playful joy in the room was palpable

 

Four Saucony participants were lined up before the easel stations. These tag teams participated as a group to create the lively colorful paintings inspired by their conversations with the jazz ensemble.

 

 

 

 

 

Mechania CEO Ted Nelson is seen in the middle distance contemplating his next painterly move

 

 

Fun through music, art and collaboration was had by all! Untapped creative resources were discovered!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information about In Ears ‘n’ Eyes Creativity Workshops contact us: www.inearsneyes.com

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