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One-to-one consultations Office / Galleries / Archives Welcome to our 44th season. Presentations/Forums William Zimmer Reference Library Most events are free to attend. since 1974 173 W. Main Street / P.O. Box 0082 There is never a charge for Performances Kutztown, PA 19530-0082 One-to-One conversational Exhibitions 610-683-6440 meetings with our guests. newartsprogram.org [email protected] For up-to-the-minute event details, Television programs call 610-683-6440. hours: fri/sat/sun 11:00-3:00 Reference library/Archives (other times call ahead or just Publications knock, we’re here most days) 2018-2019 season NAP preview editorial & design by John Lotte James F.L. Carroll director board of directors Emily A. Branch New Arts Program Inc. is a public tax-exempt, or just drop us an email with James F. L. Carroll not-for-profit corporation organized under the NAP Exhibition Space is “ADD ME” in the subject line to approximately 6 miles Joanne P. Carroll laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and from Exit 40. section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. [email protected] and we’ll Lincoln Fajardo All donations to the Program are tax-deductible add you to our email list. St John’s UCC Robert Flemming to the extent allowed by law. Please include your full name Susan Lange Robert P. Metzger in the body of your email. Ted Ormai welcome Deb Schlouch This is our NAP Preview events Harry L. Serio calendar for the 2018-2019 Ellen Slupe season. Enjoy the read and see Ann-Sargent Wooster you soon. A • Emeriti: One-to-Ones and exhibitions ab ut Bart Wasserman are free. Most other events are Founded in 1974, New Arts William Zimmer free too. Venue locations and Program is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit board of advisors phone numbers are listed below. educational art resource library, NAP Clytie Alexander For inquiries and for up-to-the- museum, and exhibition space Robert Dick DOWNTOWN Douglas Dunn minute schedule information dedicated to providing a forum KUTZTOWN Jon Gibson call the NAP office: 610-683-6440. for the local public to interact Philip Glass Did you know that our with working artists from the Mary Griffin residency artists are available literary, visual, and performing Patricia Johanson for private one-to-one conversa- arts. Venue information: Mimi Johnson tions? Find out more about our During it’s 44-year history, Klaus Kertess One-to-Ones on the next page. New Arts Program (called the NAP Space Galleries & Office Michael Kessler James Melchert Occasionally we may have some “Art Series Program” for its 173 W. Main St. P.O. Box 0082, Kutztown, PA 19530-0082 Andrew Miller urgent news or a special event initial eight years) has brought Meredith Monk 610-683-6440 that is announced via email. over 700 cutting-edge visual, Ursula von Rydingsvard So next time you write or call, St. John’s United Church of Christ Nancy Wolff, Esq give us your email address— —more, page 2 N. Whiteoak and W. Walnut Sts., Kutztown, PA 19530 Emeriti: For NAP events at St. John’s please call 610-683-6440 George S. Barrell John Cage Berks Community Television Kent Floeter Distances—more, to page Kutztown 4 from: 1900 N. 13th St., Reading, PA 19604 Keith Haring Reading 20 m (0.5 hr) 610-374-3065 Robert Stanley Allentown 22 m (0.5 hr) recognition Easton 50 m (1.0 hr) DUTV 54 (Drexel University) Ralph Bailits Lancaster 55 m (1.0 hr) 3141 Chesnut St., Bdg 9B, Rm 4026 Harrisburg 65 m (1.5 hr) Eileen Baxter Philadelphia 70 m (1.5 hr) Philadelphia, PA 19104 Steve Berardelli Scranton 90 m (2.0 hr) 215 895-2927 Janice Carapellucci NYC 110 m (2.5 hr) Vicki DaSilva Baltimore 125 m (2.5 hr) Manhattan Neighborhood Network David D’Imperio D.C. 175 m (3.5 hr) 537 W. 59th St., New York, NY 10019 Judy Geib 212 757-2670 Mark Innerst © 2018 New Arts Program Inc. Excerpts for reviews or announcements of NAP events are Kermit Oswald permitted. Photos and artwork are copyrighted by the artists and used here by permission; 1 Lisa Oswald reproduction prohibited without prior permission. Tom Sterner through the two days of each available at the closing day group gallery tours residency. Sign up at NAP’s office reception or any time thereafter. or call 610-683-6440. Only Artists interested in engaging Call to arrange for a gallery tour A for your group or class. Educators twelve slots are available, six on with the Project Wall see page 17 abfrom page 1 ut each of the two days, so sign up (Call for Entries). are encouraged to bring their early. Participants should prepare classes— elementary through performing, and literary artists an agenda for their conversation. reference library college. We can also schedule a and critics from around the One-to-Ones are free. visit to your group or classroom world to the doorsteps of the Housed within the NAP Space, for a presentation. Lehigh Valley, Berks County and public presentations the William Zimmer Reference Philadelphia. Library is an artist’s or research- the NAP store Additional programs include On the first evening of each er’s dream. The public is invited Where else can you find a internships, two monthly cable residency, the public is invited to use its resources at no charge. Keith Haring poster for $15? television programs, an art to a social hour of conversation NAP members have exclusive Gift certificates are available. research and slide library, with the guest artist, which borrowing privileges. Gallery The NAP Store catalog appears NAP archives, NAP Limited Print could include a gallery talk, hours or by appointment. toward the end of this Preview. Editions, Live On Paper: Book slides, video or audio, and in Here you’ll find: certain instances, a performance. Forms, and other publications. BOOKS—Every subject imagin- Performances and exhibitions open Sundays able for the artist. residencies are held in an intimate, relaxed In addition to our Friday and public setting. The informality PERIODICALS—Current and lots Since 1974, artist residencies Saturday hours, NAP opens of a small community space of back issues. every Sunday during our season have been the cornerstone of encourages conversation. the New Arts Program. Today’s EXHIBITION CATALOGS—From from 11:00-3:00, except holidays. most provocative and insightful around the country; around We’re actually here most other visual, performing, and literary exhibitions the world. days, so if you’re in the neighbor- hood, give a ring or just knock. artists and critics are invited to Eleven months out of the year, VIDEO ARCHIVE—Featuring NAP take part. our intimate galleries feature Video Festival winners and a Each residency includes two solo exhibitions of first-rate collection of artist presenta- funding and support days of personal one-to-one working artists from this country tions recorded at the Program The New Arts Program would conversational meetings between and abroad. Complimentary over the past thirty+ years. not be in operation without the the residency guest and members exhibition booklets, which generous support of its individual, SLIDE ARCHIVE—Over 50,000 of the general public lasting an include reproductions and a organization and business slides of works by contempo- hour each. On the evening of conversation with the residency sustaining sponsors; foundations; rary artists. On-site viewing day one, our guest conducts an artist, are available. Capping off facilities. and a supporting membership open dialog with a public each season is our popular base which includes persons like audience in a presentation/ international invitational salon CONSULTING and technical yourself. Funding is also provided performance and/or exhibition exhibition. assistance on studio and arts in part by the Pennsylvania context. This access to major management, alternative and Council on the Arts, a state agency, talents—with NAP as a conduit the project wall co-op spaces, housing, and and the National Endowment for mailings. —cultivates direct dialogue Inaugurated in 2013, The Project the Arts, a federal agency. between artists and the public. Wall gives the public an oppor- Every so often, the Program tunity to view artists’ ideas and residency booklets is blessed to have prominent one-to-ones work in progress—a situation Beginning in 1997, each NAP performing artists donate their Over the course of each two-day normally absent in a formal exhibition and artist residency time and talent for a benefit residency, up to twelve persons gallery setting. The Project Wall has been documented with a event. On October 13, composer from the community have the is literally a wall surface in the booklet which includes repro- Philip Glass performs a solo opportunity to reserve one-hour foyer gallery—8 feet high by 14 ductions of the works and piano recital at St. John’s UCC time slots for private conversa- feet wide—on which an invited commentary by and about the in Kutztown to benefit NAP. tions with the visiting artist and artist presents a body of work artists. Exclusive transcripts Glass, one of the greatest determine the direction of the that evolves over a 12-week from New Arts Alive TV composers of our lifetime, has encounter—a walk, a chat over period, sometimes with public conversations are often included. been a longtime advocate of coffee, a presentation of their collaboration. Booklets are available free of New Arts Program, engaging work (actual works, laptop, slides, The Project Wall avoids being charge at events. A small fee is with us for eleven benefit video or, circumstances permit- like a regular exhibition, but charged for booklets by mail or concerts since 1985.