Workshop
February 16, 2006, 6:30pm
The New Artists Files Online. To help artists navigate the new Artists File Online, this practical workshop will include a walkthrough of the new site and illustrate the basics of slide scanning, Photoshop, and uploading digital files.
Speakers: Tomoko Ashikawa, Artists File Coordinator, and Letha Wilson, Artist and Artists File Online Consultant
Calling All Artists!
We are pleased to offer the following talks! As places are limited, please sign up in advance online at www.artistsspace.org.
Tomoko Ashikawa is currently the curator/director at AG Gallery, Brooklyn, and the Artists File Coordinator at Artists Space, NY. She graduated from New York University in Studio Arts, concentrating on Performance Art and Video Installation. While in school, she started an independent curatorial project called "expace[ex-space] projects" and organized several exhibitions and events in New York, including works at the Artists Space, Knitting Factory, hpgrp Gallery, PH Gallery, Transplant Gallery and many others. She recently coordinated a traveling book fair, Japanese Young Artists Book Fair, at Kinokuniya, Printed Matter, St. Marks Bookshop and Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers.
Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoors excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University, and her M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City.