JC Art school art sale

Fundraiser art sale:
sept 25, 2-8pm

313 3rd street (2nd location)

Showcasing the works of JCAS Artists:

Ana Benaroya
Matt Caputo
Thomas John Carlson
Kiva Ford
Norm Kirby

Live Music & Refreshments.

Limited edition artwork, prints and merchandise. All sales to benefit the Jersey City Art School & JCAS Artist Workshop.

About JCAS Workshop

Located just two blocks from the Jersey City Art School. The Jersey City Art School Workshop or, JCAS Artist Workshop is an 1800 square foot facility housing up to eight mobile artist studios, a screen-printing and etching studio as well as a gallery space.

The goal of the JCAS Artist Workshop is to offer art services such as graphic design and merchandise printing. The JCAS Artist Workshop also doubles as a retail space for merchandise featuring limited edition works of art by established as well as emerging fine artists and especially skilled artisans.

For more information about studio space rental contact JCAS director, Thomas John Carlson: thomas@jcartschool.com

Sunday night film forum: Water

Jersey City Arts school  presents “Water” (2005)   sun jan 30, 7.30 pm

Set in India in 1938, director Deepa Mehta’s “Water” follows 8-year-old Chuyia, a former child wife who must spend the rest of her life in a temple for Hindu widows. Exposed to the hardships of the women in the commune, Chuyia waits in the hope her mother will take her home. But it's through the trials of another widow, a beautiful prostitute named Kalyani who's courted by a follower of Gandhism from ...a higher caste, that Chuyia learns the true restrictions of widowhood.

The third film in a trilogy of stories of forbidden love, “Water” was completed after Mehta relocated to Canada from her native India, to escape death threats over her previous films. As a filmmaker who regularly questions political, religious, and social norms in her homeland, Deepa Mehta’s body of films have incited riots, protests, and the burning of cinemas by her detractors. Come see what makes this director’s work so stirring and controversial.

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow.
FREE admission; $5 donation suggested.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Country: Canada
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 117 min

JC Art school Fall calendar

the independent art school on 5th street has a new fall schedule

8 week courses-
Introduction to Painting and Drawing
Figure Sculpture

4 week courses-
Jewelry Making with Precious Metal Clay
Mosaic Making
Introduction to Stained Glass
Introduction to Etching and Intaglio
Portraiture

Weekend Workshops-Digital Photography- Learning to use your SLR

Weekly Programming-Sunday Night Film Forum
Writers' Seminar
Live Model Figure Drawing

please visit their website
jcartschool.com

plein air, figure drawing

at the JC Art school, 326 5th street
5pm-10pm  “Plein Air Art!” Grab your pencils and paper (or any medium you wish) for a free figure drawing session

writer's seminar week 4: sound and sensibility

JC art school, monday 9/ 13,  7.30 - 9.30 pm

At the heart of much great writing is the balance between “sound and sense,” Alexander Pope told us—and in this session we will see how good prosody (meter and rhymes in a proscribed order) will, like the lyrics of a song, elevate the sentiments you want to convey. This discussion will focus primarily on poetry; poets discussed will include W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and John Donne. Participants are also encouraged to ...bring in and share poems they have written.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

writer´s seminar week 3, " the beautiful sentence"

August 30 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm,  JC Art school, 326 5th street
This talk will set out to create an appreciation for sentence architecture—necessarily in prose, though we will also discuss lines of poetry that accomplish a similar end. How important is that first sentence in a short story, really? What sets a great sentence apart from a merely good one? Through textual analysis of authors from Gertrude Stein to Jonathan Lethem, and an in-session exercise, we will attempt to turn a plain stat...ement into a piece of art.
hosted by Amanda Nazario


Fee: $10 suggested donation
The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

writers seminar, multiplicity

aug 23, 7.30 - 9.30  JC Art school  326 5th street

This week we will experiment with multiplicity. Authors often “stuff” their work to make it more illusive or fantastic, and popular genres like magical realism and hysterical realism, as well as multimodal or hybrid texts, demonstrate this: we have many settings, myriad characters, a wealth of contexts in which to see the same situation. We will delve into the advantages of showing the reader these diverse facets, enjoying some ...examples in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, John Dos Passos, and others. An optional writing exercise will be assigned.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

sunday film forum, JC Art school

JCAS Presents: La Dolce Vita   subnday aug 15, 7.30 pm
byob, and bring a donation

326 5th street


Italian for “the sweet life,” La Dolce Vita (1960) is Federico Fellini’s lush and intoxicating masterpiece on life, love, decadence and excess. Marcello Mastroianni plays a tabloid journalist who spends a week in Rome chasing an elusive starlet played by Anita Ekberg, while being easily distracted by women in his own life.

Subject to widespread censorship, the film was condemned by the Vatican newspape...r L’Osservatore in 1960, and banned in Spain until 1975 after the death of Franco.

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow
FREE admission; donations appreciated.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Runtime: 167 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian,  subtitles..

writers seminar week 1

at JC Art school    aug 16, 7.30 - 9.30
 5th street betw monmouth x coles

Even experienced writers can fall into the trap of wordiness; in this, our first session, we will learn to express more by saying less. We’ll examine passages that do a lot in a short space, discussing how and why they create a satisfying effect. (Featured authors will include Ernest Hemingway and Denis Johnson.) There will be a short, optional writing exercise during the meeting.

Fee: $10 suggested donation
Amanda Nazario

digital photography at JC art school

Instructor: Haley Jane Samuelson - http://www.haleyjsamuelson.com/
JC art school , 5th street
• 6/26--NOON to 3PM
• 6/27--NOON to 3 PM

email: jcartschool@gmail.com to register

This workshop is designed to give you a comprehensive overview of digital camera designs and capabilities, and the steps you must take to shoot great photographs. Learn to use the settings and functions of your camera by exploring color space, white balance, the in-camera light meter, and the differences and advantages of shooting in each file format. Also discover the rules of good composition, the Rule of Thirds, background and the S Rule.
cost $70
NOTE: A digital camera is required, digital SLR is best.

A Celebration of Art, art education at JC Art School

while you're making your warm weather JC Fridays tour, be sure to swing by the Jersey City Art School for "A Celebration of Art"--a festive open house toasting to art education.
5 - 10 pm, 326 5th street
We have a lot of great stuff to share:

--The garden is officially open!! Step on back to our urban oasis and talk to Anne McTernan about how she created this multi-tiered green beauty...and scope out a spot where you'll be parking yourself for open-air drawing classes. Special thanks to professional gardener Julee McClelland, who consulted on what to plant and donated some lovely blooms. It really is a beaut!
--Dynamic live art demos by JCAS teachers Thomas John Carlson (painting) and Christi Harrington (figure sculpture).
--Learn about the line-up of summer courses and workshops, including painting and drawing, figure sculpture, jewelry making, digital photography, and more!
--Indulge in a few delectable nibbles with refreshing wine.

We look forward to seeing you there and raising a glass to the art garden and creativity!

a deeper dive into digital photography

may 8 - 9, 12 - 3 pm, 326 5th street
JCAS is proud to host Haley Jane Samuelson to discuss her photography and the craft of digital photography. Seductive, storybook, and theatrical, Samuelson stages dreamy scenes, shooting them digitally. She masterfully alters some images to add an otherworldly overlay that seems to literally bring dreams to life. Her work points to Cindy Sherman and Sally Mann, yet retains a unique personality and essence.

This lecture is a precursor to a Digital Photography Workshop Samuelson is teaching at JCAS on May 1&2:

--A comprehensive overview of digital cameras and their capabilities

--Get hands-on techniques on how to take a great photograph

--Learn about color space, white balance, the in camera light meter, and the differences and advantage of shooting in various file formats