OAS Node #1 is going to Black Mountain!

Please join us Wednesday, September 26th at OCCUPATIONAL ART SCHOOL NODE #1 @BAT HAUS to workshop our presentation at Black Mountain College this weekend! 

OASN1 Presentation Program Summary for BMC International Conference 2012 

• ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 4 
• September 28-30, 2012
• Asheville, North Carolina 
• Thematic Focus: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy 

OASN1 PRESENTER: JENJOY ROYBAL 

Bucky in Bushwick: Actualizing Black Mountain in the age of Occupy

 Occupational Art School (OAS) is a start up art school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, born out of the arts and culture committee at the hieght of  the occupy movement. The overall approach is to combine a self-educational salon with some of the sustainable urban strategies expressed in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. After doing a visioning process and researching similar endeavors like Black Mountain College, 3rd Ward, Eyebeam and Bruce High Quality, it became clear that there is no single place that allows one to develop a holistic approach to being an artist in the city in the way we are envisioning. You do your urban farming in one neighborhood, showcase and sell your handmade wares in another and go back to your studio to produce your artwork for a gallery showing, all disconnected. OAS is a one-stop shop for integrating art practice and a sustainable lifestyle in such a way that is regenerative – an artist centric enterprise with a strong educational component provided by its members/participants. Influencing projects from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge include Plant Chicago, Brooklyn Farm Yards and Santa Fe Innovation Park. Courses started in August 2012.

About OAS Founding Member Jenjoy Roybal: JenJoy Roybal managed the Buckminster Fuller Challenge at the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in Brooklyn (NY) for several years. She is a graduate of the groundbreaking Urban Design Program at CUNY headed by Michael Sorkin. Prior to BFI, JenJoy worked for the City of San Jose implementing public art for capital improvement projects (CIP), and in Santa Fe, NM for a design/build company utilizing indigenous and sustainable practices for housing development. JenJoy is also a painter and video artist with a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Join students from SVA for ”I Win. You Lose.” - Dec 13, 2011

“I Win. You Lose.” A Call to Action by students from the School of Visual Arts. Participants needed to occupy every corner on Wall Street and deliver a message…. !

WHAT, WHEN WHERE….
We are….
….shocked by the unabashed corruption and self-interest that runs rampant throughout corporate America.
….faced with a life-time of debt in the pursuit of an education.
…the 99%.

Energized by the ideals and actions of Occupy Wall Street, we want to make our message heard and let the 1% know we will not be ignored nor can our path be bypassed.

Occupy every corner of Wall Street and New York’s Financial District at lunch time participate in the action: “ I Win. You Lose. ”
Join us on Tuesday December 13, 2011.
Orientation meeting at 12:00 noon at Louise Nevelson Plaza Triangle (at the junction of Liberty St., Maiden Lane and William St.).
Action begins at 12:30.
For more information contact Kirby at:
http://www.twitter.com/kikibraga (twitter) | @kikibraga (ows) | http://www.IWin-YouLose.blogspot.com

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#OCCUPYWALLSTREET LIFE DRAWING CLASS THIS SUNDAY

David Horvitz will be hosting a Life Drawing class This Sunday inside the Wall Street Occupation.

We will do sketches of the police officers who are stand on the periphery of the occupation. Paper and boards will be supplied, bring your own if you can.

Sunday, October 30, 2PM-4PM

Meet under the Mark di Suvero sculpture (aka the Red Thing)

Note: this is not intended to antagonize the police! We are just returning an attentive gaze. Their's is one of surveillance, ours is more about shape, form, light, shadow, and line.

http://davidhorvitz.com/blog/2011/10/occupywallstreet-life-drawing.html