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Installation ephémère dans le Bois D'Amour
Samedi 20 et dimanche 21 mars, Huit artistes internationaux de l'Ecole d'Art Contemporain de Pont-Aven présenteront une exposition thématique intitulée "l'Impermanence" (le provisoire, le temporaire, l'éphémère) pendant deux jours dans le Bois d'Amour. Les différents travaux couvrent une myriade de sujets incluant les relations entre changements d'humeur et conditions climatiques, naissance et mort, méditation, les différentes formes d'éveil de la nature qui amènent au questionnement sur les transciences.
L'exposition se déroulera de l'aube au coucher du soleil du samedi 20 mars au dimanche 21 mars 2010. Début du parcours au parking du bois d'Amour-face à l'école.
Les artistes : Brennan Broom, Ioana Gheorghiu, Tushar Goyal, Jovan Milosevic, Kanika Nagpal, Phil Peters, Nathalie Stanguennec, Wayne Wong.
Galerie Finis/terre presents
“ASSORTED MEMORIES” 
MARCH 2- MARCH 15, 2010
A portfolio of prints from the University of Colorado Special Collections featuring work by Professor Melanie Yazzie and her students.
Kit Adams Shannon Aragon Erica Davidson Ivan Fees Kim Hlavinka Joy Leasure
Annie Pariseau Mary Reccina Evan Rocco Allison Rae Turano Gabriel Walford
Melanie Yazzie
+10 Rue de la Belle Angele, Pont-Aven France 02 98 09 10 45+
Tuesday Evening Lecture Series. 18.15 PM, Lecture Hall:
March 16,2010
Melissa Ferreira
Melissa Ferreira balances her work as a freelance illustrator and part-time faculty at Rhode Island School of Design with her personal art practice. Her work stretches from painting and drawing to mixed–media experiments with 3D assemblage, sculpted clays tiles, and includes many variations on the artist’s journal, including blogging.
March 9, 2010
Andrew Demirjian
Andrew Demirjian is a media artist whose practice is inspired by traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture but reinterpreted through computer processing. He is interested in how technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking and data gathering can be used to create portraits that simultaneously display interior and exterior states, the psychological and the physical.
His work has been featured in exhibitions at the White Box gallery, The Center for Book Arts, LMAK Projects and Harvestworks in Manhattan. Over the last year he has had multiple international exhibitions including the Garden of Earthly Delights in Korea, Küf/Mold in Rotterdam and Analogue/Digital in England.Andrew received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and he is a Professor at Monmouth University teaching courses in video production, visual culture and film history.
February 16, 2010
Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed’s paintings combine text and imagery to create illustrated documents about her environment, resulting in journalistic paintings as records of internal and external geographies. Handwritten text on the painted paper plays an important role in creating narratives between the panels. The work draws on her surroundings, informed by autobiography and landscape to create contemporary cartographies of memory and emotional locations.
Her work is shown internationally and can be found in in the public collections of the US Department of State, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, The Jersey City Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, Newark Public Library, New Jersey State Museum, and Morris Museum. Dahlia has received awards from the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, The Newark Museum, ArtsLink, The Dodge Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, The NJ State Council on the Arts and most recently a grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation.
February 9, 2010
Hedwig Brouckaert
“In her line drawings, digital prints and animated videos, artist Hedwig Brouckaert creates tension between the recognizable and the abstract. Geared towards the ultimate creation of complex, multi-layered and abstract images, these artworks are based on garment patterns and magazine images of fashion models in this season’s new clothing. …. Although the artist doesn’t overtly criticize the ethics and the applied psychological strategies of how (through magazines and ads) big corporations coerce us to spend our money on their goods, Hedwig Brouckaert is a key example of a contemporary artist who deconstructs their image, message, context and goal”. -Jan Van Woensel is an independent curator, art critic and scholar
February 2, 2010
Why Are We Here? Pont-Aven’s History as an Artists’ Colony
Our small French village has been attracting artists since the early 1860’s. Paul Gauguin, along with his comrades Emile Bernard and Paul Serusier, are perhaps Pont-Aven’s best known artists in residence, but there were many more. Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, an internationally recognized art historian, will launch our semester with a lecture on this fascinating history.
Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, Director Emeritus of PASCA, obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in France and a professor of art history at the American University in Paris and the Rhode Island School of Design. She founded the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in 1993 and was its director until 2008. Dr. Boyle-Turner has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues on Gauguin and his followers in Pont-Aven.
Friday Evening Film Screenings. 18.15 PM, Main Classroom:
WEEK ONE: Friday 1/29:
Man With a Movie Camera, 1929, Dziga Vertov, USSR, 68m (*required for critical studies)
WEEK TWO: Friday 2/5:
À bout de souffle / Breathless, 1960, Jean-Luc Godard, France, 90m
WEEK THREE: Friday 2/12:
Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau / Celine and Julie Go Boating, 1974, Jaques Rivette, France, 192m (*required for critical studies)
WEEK FIVE: Friday 2/26:
Les Triplettes de Belleville, 2002, Sylvain Chomet, France/Can/Bel/GB, 83m
WEEK SIX: Friday 3/5:
Diva, 1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France, 123m (or 8 Femmes / 8 Women, 2001, Francois Ozon, Fr/It, 111m)
WEEK SEVEN: Friday 3/12:
Naissances des Pieuvres / Waterlilies, 2007, Céline Sciamma, France, 85m
WEEK EIGHT: Friday 3/19:
La Collectionneuse, 1966, Eric Rohmer, France, 90m
WEEK NINE: Friday 2/26:
Pépé Le Moko, 1936, Julien Duvivier, France, 93m
(*required for critical studies)
WEEK TWELVE: Friday 4/16:
Beau Travail, 1998, Claire Denis, France, 90m
WEEK THIRTEEN: Friday 4/23:
Le Moine et La Sorcière / Sorceress, 1987, Suzanne Schiffman, France, 97m
It is the start of a another spring semester here at PASCA!
spring students with their host families.