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Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 1 ______ Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 64th Annual FAEA Conference--1...2...3D: Art in Real Dimensions October 6, 2016 / Thursday / 11:15 AM -1:15 AM Naples Grande Beach Resort/ Banyan 1-2 Cut-Up Alchemy Mini-Studio by Alina Rodriguez At it’s essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. Julia Cameron This mini-studio will introduce the seemingly magical alchemists‟ experimental methods of transmuting and transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary treasures. It will provide unique opportunities for artists and art instructors to rethink and reinvent ways of using unconventional materials in the art studio. Using discarded cut-up clothing and repurposed translucent papers, trimmings and fabric collage; we will illuminate our thoughts, emotions, memories, and dreams that reveal the mystery of transformation. Participants will learn about the magic and mysteries of alchemy as interpreted by modern and contemporary artists. Demonstrations include mixed-media relief on translucent vellum paper and/or a translucent mylar background. The reliefs are worked from the front and the back in a form of reverse painting using paper, fabric collage, India Ink embroidery, tattoo drawing, and mock sewing. Participants are asked to bring collage papers and materials that are translucent or see through when exposed to light. Bring old correspondence letters, drawings, photos, personal articles of clothing that are attractive, lightweight and see through, beautiful scraps of translucent fabrics, laces, textured papers, and memorabilia that are meaningful and illuminate your personal story. The reclaimed objects and inherent quality of each will inspire a mysterious and impressive work of art. Materials provided include vellum paper, clear mylar, glue, scissors, containers, brushes, India Inks, sharpies, needle, thread, some fabrics, laces, buttons, beads, and collage paper. Larger sheets of vellum and mylar will be available for purchase. Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Biography Alina Rodriguez currently serves as Curriculum Support Specialist for Miami-Dade County Public Schools Visual and Performing Arts Department. Alina is also a working and exhibiting artist who believes that art educators must practice what they preach. Among many of her duties with M-DCPS she organizes professional development for the Visual Arts educators and secures some of the most prominent Miami and international artists to teach research-based, field-tested workshops in collaboration with the most important Miami museums and galleries. She has been organizing student art exhibitions for Miami-Dade County Public Schools since 1990 and adult visual art exhibitions since 2004 to assist Miami and abroad underserved artists. After over 25 years of service in the art education field she has served as art instructor, museum educator, lead gallery teacher, gallery director, workshop facilitator, exhibitions curator, and art events organizer. Among all these responsibilities her favorite is leading field experiences and art workshops for students. In 1990 she began to work with the District office at ArtWorks Gallery; a Miami-Dade County Public Schools‟ student art gallery. ArtWorks at the Omni Mall, established in 1989 was the first art student art gallery in the nation and in 1996 won the Community Solutions for Education Award nationwide. Currently the ArtWorks Program continues to operate with the support of Miami International University of Art & Design, JCC Alper Children‟s Museum, Pinecrest Gardens, and the Bakehouse Art Complex among many. Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Antiquity-Art and Alchemy According to an old Rabbi legend, an angel gave Adam the mysteries and secrets of Kabbalah and of Alchemy, promising that when the human race understand these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man will again enter into the Garden of Eden. Albrecht Durer‟s ideal of man is represented in this painting of Adam and Eve. According to monk Theophilus of the Middle Ages, “…Through the fault of disobedience (Adam) lost the privilege of immortality. Adam not only inflicted original sin on humankind, but also instigated a hereditary right to the arts. The ability to attain knowledge and to Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471- allow this knowledge to unfold in the arts is, according to Theophilus, part of the Alchemy has been mystified in popular legacy of Adam”. In Christianity, Adam culture with magic, witchcraft, and Eve were considered to be the first spirituality, or with fraud. However, alchemists. scholarship and research within the past 30 years is trying to correct this Art and Alchemy are closely related, Misrepresented perception of historical beginning with the art of dyeing in alchemy. The first alchemists from the ancient Egypt. The Greeks brought Graeco-Roman Egyptian period of the philosophy into the alchemy equation. 2nd century AD laid the foundation of The Greeks explained the earthly world what we know today as modern science, through the theory of the elements, fire, astronomy and chemistry. In the process of looking for the secret formula for turning cheap metals into gold alchemists discovered new medicines, pigments, dyes, alloys, and cosmetics. In turn they also impacted fine art, water, air, earth. literature, theater, and poetry. ` Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Alchemical writings and images became Philosopher’s Stone allegorical and filled with metaphor. Many conventional elements of alchemical imagery can be found in the still existing Ripley Scrolls. Deknamen, secret language and imagery with elaborate levels of meaning fills the Ripley Scrolls; the most exquisite example of alchemical writing. Conventional elements of alchemical images include the names of planetary bodies that are substituted for metals. George Ripley, 1415-1490, Ripley Scrolls Alchemists wished to make gold in large quantities. They developed theories on how substances could be analyzed and purified causing a transmutation in a single step. They sought an “elixir” or the philosopher‟s stone that promised to turn the cheap into the precious. In the 14th century alchemy fell out of favor for social and ethical reasons. Theologians and other leaders argued about the alchemically-produced gold “As the pen reminds us, even a secret being fake or artificial and accused language is of no use unless it is some alchemysts of being charlatans. communicated at least once. Information that is concealed is intended At this time alchemists turned to secrecy to be revealed.” Jennifer Rampling. It is and cover names Deknamen to keep possible that alchemical scrolls were their art alive. Deknamen or cover intended for patrons as a type of names were used to disguise and hide advertisement. true meaning of images and words. Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ white stone used for making silver; red as the red stone which can transmute base metals into gold. Coagulation A human headed bird represents coagulation; The dragon or Serpent of Arabia is the personification of philosophical mercury. The lizard as the symbol for mercury. Uroboros is the cyclical representation of alchemical work; The serpent swallowing its tail. It also stands for one is all concept and the endless cycles of life or infinity. Deknamen-Secret Imagery in Alchemy The Sun (Sol) and the Moon (Luna) both represent the most precious of metals-gold and silver. Their equivalent images are a king and a queen. Their Phoenix marriage, in alchemical terms stands for This is the archetypal animal in alchemy the philosophical union of opposites that represents fire. It rises and its such as heat versus coolness. In reborn out of its ashes. alchemical imagery, this royal marriage Peacock signifies a union of two substance, two The symbol of this bird stands for philosophical or contrary principles as immortality, royalty and some of the one. most admired human characteristics such as integrity and the beauty from Dissolution within. Death by drowning is the symbol of Lion dissolution of a metal while color This is the symbol for the sun or gold changes are represented by birds, and the protector of secrets of alchemy. particularly crows, white swans and the phoenix. Color representations vary Ibis from black as the putrefaction of the Is the symbol for lunar cycles, time alchemical prime matter; to white as the cycles, measurement and movement. Cut-Up Alchemy-Mini-Studio 4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From Alchemy to Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the father of chemistry, studied alchemical texts and Chimica- An Artist’s spent his whole life seeking the Workshop “philosopher‟s stone”. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), acquired a formula passed down from Boyle for making gold. It is believed that Newton suffered a mental breakdown in 1692 due to his obsession with transmutation and working on the formula that contained mercury. The premise was that alchemy could imitate nature and its by-products made
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