Photo courtesy of Perry Burns.
with Perry Burns and Jolie Parcher
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Join us for the new series, Art Social, where attendees will enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.
Stretch your creative mind as broadly as it can go in this functional collage-making class led by artist Perry Burns assisted by his wife Jolie Parcher. Gather up pretty papers, paintings that can be cut up, bits of wallpaper, old cards, tin boxes, matchboxes, and anything that inspires you to collage over. There is no need to purchase more stuff when you can easily make a purposeful art piece with existing materials lying around your house or studio.
The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.
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Perry Burns and Jolie Parcher
Perry Burns received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.., and Masters degree from Columbia University, New York, N.Y. in 1994. He has lived and worked on the east end of Long Island, New York for the past 30 years working as a professional painter, photographer and teacher..
Inspired by travels to many different countries around the world, Burns’ paintings are influenced by Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, African and Indian sensibilities of color, pattern and form. He brings this sensibility to both abstract and representational painting often alluding to aspects of the east end of Long Island landscape and seascape.
Burns has had more than thirty solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is held in many private and public collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Knight Foundation, and the Brant Foundation, among others. He has exhibited locally for many years at the Sara Nightingale Gallery as well as the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Museum, The Islip Art Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
Jolie Parcher is the Founder and Director of Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, and has been a certified yoga teacher from The Patanjali Yoga Center in Kathmandu, Nepal since 1990. Jolie is certified as an Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle Practitioner from the Kripalu School of Ayurveda and is trained as a practitioner of the Ayurvedic hands on Treatments as well as an Aromatherapist.
Her yoga classes guide you to maintain a steady synchronicity of breath and movement as a way to experience a deep listening of Self. She'll keep you moving in a strength-building flow incorporating steps along the way for your body and mind to fully embody the complexity of each posture. There is often Ayurvedic wisdom and tools for daily well-being woven throughout. As a student of the classic Ashtanga system she returns to that particular tradition to shape much of her sequencing. It's a practice that celebrates a vibrant life both on and off the mat.
Sponsors
Art Social Media Partner: James Lane Post
Hospitality Partner: Harbor Market & Kitchen
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through the Vital Projects Fund, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, Andrea and Jeffrey Lomasky, Peter Marino, Stephen Meringoff, and Eva Sandler.
