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Comments and Conversations - Fall opening gallery tour.

Join us on this specially designed 3 hour gallery tour in the Lower East Side.

Currently over 100 galleries (some moving over from busy Chelsea) are found in the Lower East Side art scene (along with the new ICP museum location on Bowery).

Led by Claudia Sohrens*, we will have comments and conversations, sometimes joined by a gallery representative, about the images and current trends. Ten galleries will be visited to show the diversity of the new season's shows.

Note, this is not a formal structured workshop or seminar but rather a format to spark thinking for new creative ideas and encourage dialogue.

This is limited to 12 people due to the size of many galleries. At the end of the formal tour some may want to visit other galleries and continue the conversation. We’ll find a lunch place near the meeting place if any want to gather around 1 PM before the tour starts at 2:00 PM.

RSVP: bnelson2@earthlink.net
Fee required prior to event
Tour schedule and details forwarded on receipt of payment.

*Claudia Sohrens is a German-born visual artist and educator, who lives and works in New York. Sohrens received a BFA in Communications Design from IN.D, in Hamburg, and an MA in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, where she is currently a PhD candidate. She is faculty in the Full-Time General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography, in the Photography Department at Parsons The New School for Design and in the Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute.

She is the recipient of several artist grants, such as the 2010 NYFA fellowship in Photography; she participated in artist residencies, for example at the Bronx Museum in New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and at the Artists Space in New York, as well as international art venues and festivals, such as the Electronic Language Festival in Sao Paulo, the Project Space at Kunsthalle Wien, KW – the Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as, Kampnagel KX in Hamburg. Her latest project Mise En Abyme: Archive, has fiscal sponsorship through NYFA http://artspire.org/DirectoryDetail/tabid/95/id/1142/Default.aspx

Barbara Nelson, long time PWP member, produces the professional workshops and seminars for PWP. Photographer, journalist, producer of workshops and seminars for the visual arts community. Member PWP, WICI, ASMP