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PRAXIS w/ Stephanie Sherman (Elsewhere Collaborative) Wednesday, November 17th, 8 to 9:30pm Works Progress/West Bank Social Center welcomes Stephanie Sherman, co-founder and collaborative director of Elsewhere, for a talk and informal Q+A session on the living museum, site-specific residency program, and creative laboratory. Set within a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC, Elsewhere started from a massive collection of 58-years worth of cultural surplus sitting without destination, and in 2003 was converted into a living museum, conceptual+material playground, and space for investigating everyday and extraordinary life. Now, nothing is for sale, and artists live and work amidst an endlessly circulating collection of objects and artworks that is continually re-purposed and re-imagined. Elsewhere is a unique residency model, hosting over 40 creatives from across the globe each year who create projects with and within this evolving environment, responding to the things, architectures, collaborative community, and developing downtown Greensboro. Stephanie will share the story of Elsewhere’s history, evolution, contemporary challenges, and future visions. She will speak from the interwoven perspectives of non-profit director, artist, curator, writer, and organizer, insisting that these practices together can make for a more dynamic, responsive, sustainable (art)world. MORE ABOUT STEPHANIE SHERMAN: Stephanie explores the intersection of everyday and extraordinary life through site-specific projects that interweave the practices of curator, artist, writer, and organizer. She is currently collaborative director and founder of Elsewhere, a living museum and residency program set within a three-story former thrift store. Her creative and critical research themes include magic realism, cultural outpourings, public processes, urban revitalization, smiling and laughter, social formations, collective imaginaries, and how things compose narratives and designate patterns. She loves people, books, and buildings, in theory and practice, and schooling in 20th C English Literature at UPenn and Critical Theory and Philosophy at Duke inform her current projects. ABOUT PRAXIS: Praxis is a free monthly artist talk coordinated by Works Progress at West Bank Social Center. Local, national, and international artists, curators, administrators and cultural producers discuss their work in an intimate setting, followed (when possible) by practical exercises and activities for those interested in experimenting with new ways of thinking, making and doing. Photo by Kate Strathmann (Fall 2010 Resident at Elsewhere)

PRAXIS w/ Stephanie Sherman (Elsewhere Collaborative)
Wednesday, November 17th, 8 to 9:30pm

Works Progress/West Bank Social Center welcomes Stephanie Sherman, co-founder and collaborative director of Elsewhere, for a talk and informal Q+A session on the living museum, site-specific residency program, and creative laboratory. Set within a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC, Elsewhere started from a massive collection of 58-years worth of cultural surplus sitting without destination, and in 2003 was converted into a living museum, conceptual+material playground, and space for investigating everyday and extraordinary life. Now, nothing is for sale, and artists live and work amidst an endlessly circulating collection of objects and artworks that is continually re-purposed and re-imagined.

Elsewhere is a unique residency model, hosting over 40 creatives from across the globe each year who create projects with and within this evolving environment, responding to the things, architectures, collaborative community, and developing downtown Greensboro. Stephanie will share the story of Elsewhere’s history, evolution, contemporary challenges, and future visions. She will speak from the interwoven perspectives of non-profit director, artist, curator, writer, and organizer, insisting that these practices together can make for a more dynamic, responsive, sustainable (art)world.

MORE ABOUT STEPHANIE SHERMAN:
Stephanie explores the intersection of everyday and extraordinary life through site-specific projects that interweave the practices of curator, artist, writer, and organizer. She is currently collaborative director and founder of Elsewhere, a living museum and residency program set within a three-story former thrift store. Her creative and critical research themes include magic realism, cultural outpourings, public processes, urban revitalization, smiling and laughter, social formations, collective imaginaries, and how things compose narratives and designate patterns. She loves people, books, and buildings, in theory and practice, and schooling in 20th C English Literature at UPenn and Critical Theory and Philosophy at Duke inform her current projects.

ABOUT PRAXIS:
Praxis is a free monthly artist talk coordinated by Works Progress at West Bank Social Center. Local, national, and international artists, curators, administrators and cultural producers discuss their work in an intimate setting, followed (when possible) by practical exercises and activities for those interested in experimenting with new ways of thinking, making and doing.

Photo by Kate Strathmann (Fall 2010 Resident at Elsewhere)

We’ve said it before, but seriously: We love the folks over at Art Review and Preview. For the past two and a half years, they’ve busted their butts putting together issue after issue of thoughtful, engaged arts criticism. These are people who care about art and healthy creative communities! We’re fantastically excited to bring in ARP! founders/editors Tiff Hockin and Ariel Pate for our October Praxis, this Sunday from 4-6pm. Tiff and Ariel told me that we’ll be making newspapers, though they’re mum on details. Come make some papers and pick their brains about the tough business of running an independent arts journal! Very much! —Miranda

We’ve said it before, but seriously: We love the folks over at Art Review and Preview. For the past two and a half years, they’ve busted their butts putting together issue after issue of thoughtful, engaged arts criticism. These are people who care about art and healthy creative communities!

We’re fantastically excited to bring in ARP! founders/editors Tiff Hockin and Ariel Pate for our October Praxis, this Sunday from 4-6pm. Tiff and Ariel told me that we’ll be making newspapers, though they’re mum on details. Come make some papers and pick their brains about the tough business of running an independent arts journal!

Very much! —Miranda

PRAXIS: FarmworkSunday, September 20th: 3pm Join us this Sunday for a Praxis presentation & discussion with WBSC keyholder Andy Dayton. He’ll talk about Farmwork, a community of artists rooted in the farmland outside of Madison, WI. Things that may be discussed: gardening, Alan Kaprow, alternative growth, Black Mountain College, localism, Frank Lloyd Wright, bonfires, intentional communities, and pickles.

PRAXIS: Farmwork
Sunday, September 20th: 3pm

Join us this Sunday for a Praxis presentation & discussion with WBSC keyholder Andy Dayton. He’ll talk about Farmwork, a community of artists rooted in the farmland outside of Madison, WI.

Things that may be discussed: gardening, Alan Kaprow, alternative growth, Black Mountain College, localism, Frank Lloyd Wright, bonfires, intentional communities, and pickles.

Join us for Praxis this Sunday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Our featured artist for August is Marcus Young. He describes his work as ”attend[ing] to inner and civic life, nurturing personal practice and collective experience.” Learn about Grace Minnesota, his newly-launched “behavioral art studio,” and his job as artist-in-residence for the entire city of St. Paul (!). This isn’t simply an artist talk, though. Marcus has some ideas he wants to bat around with you, and we’ll also hit the streets in a mini version of his public dance project, Don’t You Feel It Too? Bring a set of headphones if you’ve got them (we’ll have some extras, so come either way).

Join us for Praxis this Sunday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Our featured artist for August is Marcus Young. He describes his work as ”attend[ing] to inner and civic life, nurturing personal practice and collective experience.” Learn about Grace Minnesota, his newly-launched “behavioral art studio,” and his job as artist-in-residence for the entire city of St. Paul (!).

This isn’t simply an artist talk, though. Marcus has some ideas he wants to bat around with you, and we’ll also hit the streets in a mini version of his public dance project, Don’t You Feel It Too? Bring a set of headphones if you’ve got them (we’ll have some extras, so come either way).

This Sunday, WBSC presents the first installment of Praxis, our monthly artist talk and workshop. Each month an artist’s talk will be followed by an activity that will generate questions, discussion, and hopefully even ideas for new projects. This month Peter Haakon Thompson will be sharing some images and thoughts about his creative projects, including the A project, Auto Ethnographic, Art Shanty Projects, Neighborhood Art on Wheels, Teach me Your Language and others. Following Peter’s talk, an activity will get everyone outside. There will be beverages to consume and plenty of good company. We’ll be taking small donations at the door ($5-10) to help support the efforts of West Bank Social Center, but all are welcome regardless of whether you can contribute financially. Hope to see you!

This Sunday, WBSC presents the first installment of Praxis, our monthly artist talk and workshop. Each month an artist’s talk will be followed by an activity that will generate questions, discussion, and hopefully even ideas for new projects.

This month Peter Haakon Thompson will be sharing some images and thoughts about his creative projects, including the A project, Auto Ethnographic, Art Shanty Projects, Neighborhood Art on Wheels, Teach me Your Language and others. Following Peter’s talk, an activity will get everyone outside. There will be beverages to consume and plenty of good company.

We’ll be taking small donations at the door ($5-10) to help support the efforts of West Bank Social Center, but all are welcome regardless of whether you can contribute financially. Hope to see you!