Brooklyn Arts Exchange Announces ARTIST SERVICES DAY

BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange is hosting the fourth annual ARTIST SERVICES DAY on Sunday, February 5, 2017, featuring an array of talks and workshops designed to serve working dance, theater, performance artists and their supporters.

Workshop Schedule

10:30 - 11:30AM & 1:00 - 2:00PM:
Learn About BAX AIR and Space Grant Opportunities
A Q&A with BAX Founding & Executive Director Marya Warshaw and Artist Services staff.

11:30AM - 12:45PM:
Talking About Race (And More) With Children
with Jen Abrams, Sarita Covington, Chanon Judson, Nia Love, Aya Ogawa, and Maya Visco.

This conversation brings together parent artists of toddlers to adults who will examine their individual approaches to explaining the complexities of racial identity and racism to children. Representing a multiplicity of family structures, racial identities, pedagogical perspectives and parenting techniques, the discussants will first compare and unpack their strategies, followed by an open discussion with attendees around the development of critical race consciousness within the youth in their lives.

12:00 - 1:30PM:
De/Re/Presenting the Radical Ritual: Strategies Through a Political Mystic
with AIR Ni'Ja Whitson

BAX 16/17 AIR Ni'Ja Whitson presents thoughts, words, and excerpts from a new creative project on performance and the radical / ritual. Inspired by a new work in collaboration with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Whitson facilitates a window into the places of rage, healing, and magic making.

12:30 - 3:30PM:
AIR Open Studio Showing: Tanisha Christie

bathtub is a multimedia performance event of radical intimacy and surrender by inviting an audience to experience a bath with a Black Woman.

There are few spaces as private as the bath. It is here I have pondered the complexity of my emotions, my femininity, my sorrow and blackness unmediated by others. It is the place where I become intimate with my rage and anguish. It is here that I replenish and refuel. With this work, I am inviting others into this space, to engage beyond the gaze and into a conversation of vulnerability.

This open studio will deconstruct each aspect of creative work in phases. Content, process and audience relationship will be explored. Pedestrian versus the performative. Witnessing and onlooking versus participation.

From 12:30p - 3:30p there will be a series of interval events. Sign up required. Note: sensitive material & participants will be filmed and photographed for use in the artist's work. #areyouin

1:30 - 2:45PM:
Artists Teaching Their Art: A panel discussion on the intersection of working as a professional generative artist and teaching artist
with Eric Aviles, Maira Duarte, José Joaquín García, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Nia Love, and Jill Sigman.

Many artists also teach their art. In this panel facilitated by BAX Education Director, Lucia Scheckner, and longtime BAX faculty member, Donna Costello, we will explore the ways our practices as generative artists can infuse and enrich our teaching practices and vice versa. We will also explore the sometimes tenuous relationship between being a professional artist and a teaching artist. Additionally, we'll identify the kinds of cultural, educational, and community-based organizations that can help us establish a fluid and sustainable relationship between these two roles. We will hear stories from a range of BAX and non-BAX artists and teaching artists, each at different stages of their careers, on their trajectory as artists who teach and about how they have found balance (or not) in this dual work.

2:30 - 4:00PM:
Dancing While Black-A Five Year Retrospective

On the eve of Dancing While Black's fifth anniversary season, founder Paloma McGregor and members of the DWB community reflect on the platform's history and spark a dialogue about its future. Dancing While Black was founded in 2012 to center Black voices in a field that marginalizes our work, particularly artists whose practices do not fit neatly into the reductive labels predetermined for Black bodies in dance. What power does this growing network of artists have in the current political climate? What practices might we contribute to or borrow from broader social justice movements? How are we visioning deepening our work together?

4:30 - 6:00PM:
How Does Your Grant Proposal Get Evaluated? For Individuals and Organizations
with Alexa Aviles (Scherman Foundation) Emily Sproch (Howard Gilman Foundation), Morgan Lindsey Tachco (Brooklyn Arts Council) and individual artists/arts administrators, Craig Thomas Peterson, Risa Shoup, Ivan Talijancic and Marýa Wethers.

Led by BAX Founding & Executive Director Marya Warshaw, these invitees will convene for a conversation about how panels discuss and evaluate grant proposals for individual artists and organizations. Through a public group evaluation of actual proposals, the panel will discuss a range of topics, including: How do panels assess rigor of proposal? What are application "red flags"? How are funding priorities with regards to race, gender, and geographic location accessed and evaluated? How do funders cultivate new applicants while continuing to support repeat grantees?

CHILDCARE is available (FREE) from 11am-6pm. RSVP by Monday, January 30, 2017 to artistservices@bax.org.

Reservations are highly recommended at artistservices.bax.org/2017-artist-services-day.
ABOUT BAX
Founded in 1991, BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, is a community based performing arts center dedicated to developing artists of all ages, from children to professionals. The organization offers community access to arts and culture, supporting the creation of new work by emerging artists, engaging diverse audiences and providing arts education to youth and families. BAX has intentionally constructed an environment where children study and professional artists create under the same roof. Students are mentored by professional directors and choreographers. The organization's distinct focus on developmental process makes it a nurturing incubator for experimental dance and theater artists and is an important advocate for under-represented voices in the New York City performing arts community.

For more information about BAX and its programs please call 718-832-0018, email press@bax.org or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.

FUNDING
BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange receives generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Marta Heflin Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Workshops are sponsored through the underwriting and generous contributions of the Scott Klein Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

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