Creating Physical Performance, a two-day intensive

Tiverton Four Corners is hosting a two-day workshop for performers, storytellers and artists. Learn techniques to develop your own work, gain greater emotional expressiveness in your performance, and find new links between your mind’s imagination and your body’s intelligence. Through movement exercises, theatre games and improvisation, local actors/directors Rebecca Noon and Jed Hancock-Brainerd will partner with Philadelphia performer/theatre creator Aram Aghazarian to teach physical acting techniques, dynamicmovement, character development and dramatic structure.

Whether you are an actor, a storyteller, a dancer, a writer or even a visual artist interested in pushing your creative frontier, this workshop will challenge you to find richer dynamics, increased sensitivity, a greater state of play, and deeper expression in your work.

The workshop runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 12 and Sunday, March 13 at Tiverton Four Corners. This workshop is free of charge, thanks to support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and The Four Corner Arts Center. Registration is required. 15-person limit. 21+ age requirement. No previous performance experience necessary. Participation at both days is required to attend. Email Rebecca at [email protected] for registration/information.

Aram Aghazarian, Jed Hancock-Brainerd and Rebecca Noon met while studying at the London International School of Performing Art (LISPA). Since graduating in 2008 they have collaborated on three devised shows “Please Make us Happy, or Protaganismo!” (Tiverton Four Corners/Philly Fringe 2009), “F.orward O.perating B.ase” (Perseverance Theatre Second Stage, Juneau, Alaska) and “Special Happy” (Perishable Theatre 2010).

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Summer Studio with Lisa Granata

Classes held at the Four Corners Arts Center, 3852 Main Road, Tiverton Four Corners, RI

To sign up, contact Lisa Granata:
Email: [email protected]
Cell Phone: (508) 523-1144
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ART 103 Painting from Life
(All levels Welcome/ ages 13 and up)
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Times: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dates: August 23-27
Duration: 1 week, five classes
Instructor: Lisa Granata
Tuition: $ 140.00

Explore painterly techniques and expressive qualities of painting. Students may paint with oil paint or acrylics. Demonstrations given on the following techniques and painterly processes: stretching canvas, organizing a pallet, tinting, shading, glazing, brushwork & pallet knife painting, impasto, alla prima painting and indirect painting. Students will paint directly from life. Attention will be given to composition, value, volume, and color theory. Historical Examples from the Renaissance to postmodern painting will be shown to the students for inspiration. Emphasis will be on experimenting with the medium and personal growth. A critical language will be nurtured and developed during class discussions and critiques. *Students will provide their own materials.

Biography
Lisa Granata holds Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a year's study in Florence Italy at Studio Arts Center International. Lisa has been instructing classes in the Art Department at Dean College in Franklin Massachusetts since 2002. There she lectures to several art history classes titled Introduction to Visual Arts as well as instructing the studio class Introduction to Drawing. She has been teaching a variety of Studio Art classes at the Attleboro Arts Museum School since 1993. Lisa also teaches studio art classes at he Four Corners Art Center in Tiverton Rhode Island. Lisa also enjoys presenting lectures, demonstrations and workshops throughout southern New England. Her art exhibitions include galleries and museums on the east coast in the mid west and in Italy. Lisa's art studio is located in Fall River Massachusetts.