We Are The Sunbursts
- frida@artyardbklyn.org
- 4 days ago
- 1 min read
We are the sunbursts
We turn rain
Into diamond fringes
Black clouds
Into pink tulle
And sparrows
Into birds of Paradise
~ Florine Stettheimer, 1916
In the article The House that Carrie Built: The Stettheimer Doll’s House of the 1920s, (Art & Design, 1996) Janine Mileaf describes Carrie Stettheimer’s doll house, on view at The Museum of The City of New York, as “a conflation of interior and exterior, imagination and reality.”
Carrie Stettheimer, Doll House (detail with sculpture by Gaston Lachaise), 1916-1935
Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of my Sister, Carrie W. Stettheimer, 1923
Likewise, our AYB doll house project, a deconstructed version of the spaces we use at 180 Franklin Avenue, is a work of imagination and reality.
Several of us have been working on the project over the winter break. We have repainted the structure, customized furniture, invented a way to represent the quirks of the space such as the rows of amber lights along the wood ceiling.
On Monday Jan 5 in Advanced Studio on zoom we will create miniature books to fill the library shelves. On Tuesday Jan. 6 AYB Artist TJ Edgar will be teaching the Advanced Studio in person session about travel documents. Hope you will join us!
AYB Advanced Studio classes are free and open to the public.
Sign up www.artyardbklyn.org at 5pm on Sunday
Click the yellow button towards the top of the page!
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