February 5 - April 29, 2024 (11 sessions)
Mondays 5:30-7:30pm
Jimmy Miracle Studio (PS1 Close House) 538 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City, IA
Small group class in Jimmy’s studio covering fundamentals of classical drawing, pictorial composition, principles of design, tonal and color painting.
This month we are pleased to offer two reading rooms containing exhibition catalogs and archival ephemera from a long running art collective in Japan called Imadate Art Field with visiting artist Yoriyasu Masuda, alongside the UICB zine scholar’s curated grouping of zines, contemporary DIY publishing projects and work by PS1’s 2023-24 DIY publishing residents Esperanza Chairez and KOLXOZ. We’ve programmed these neighboring rooms in the gallery to offer time and space for browsing, visiting with artists and zine makers, and of course, reading!
Please join us for an opening celebration and visit with artists and curators in person : Saturday April 20, 6-8pm
Both exhibitions are supported in part by the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Imadate Art Field, a non-profit arts organization, has programmed contemporary paper art exhibitions in Echizen, Japan since the 1970s. Echizen is home to a traditional papermaking region with over 1,500 years of history, and this community has long supported the efforts of Imadate Art Field in bringing papermaking into contemporary art.
Masuda Yoriyasu, director and co-founder of the organization, has come to Iowa City at the invitation of UI Center for the Book papermaking instructor and Iowa City artist Nicholas Cladis, who lived and worked in Echizen for many years and formerly served on the exhibitions committee for Imadate Art Field. Together, they have installed a reading room of past exhibition catalogs and ephemera. Join us and dive deep into the decades-long history of this organization. At this exhibition, you will be able to view, handle, and read Imadate Art Field materials dating from the 1970s to the present.
Join Masuda Yoriyasu on Saturday, April 20, from 4-6pm, at PS1 North Side (229 N. Gilbert St.) for an introductory, contemporary lamp-making workshop using papers made by Cladis here in Iowa. The workshop is FREE, but space is limited to eight participants: RSVP by April 13. (Feel free to also bring your own paper!)
Artists and Organizer Bios:
Masuda Yoriyasu was born in 1956 in Japan. In 1979, he co-founded the Imadate Contemporary Paper Arts Exhibition (now called Imadate Art Field). In addition to a prolific exhibition history in Japan, Masuda spent many years living in Spain as part of a research and development team for public, sculptural wind-power turbines. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at Fukui Prefectural University, where he teaches fine arts in the context of the Echizen region’s craft culture. Masuda engages his local community in a myriad of ways, ranging from hosting and teaching public workshop sessions to acquiring antique, disused structures, which are then renewed and turned into exhibition spaces.
Nicholas Cladis is head of the papermaking area at the UI Center for the Book. Cladis is a maker and researcher of handmade paper, as well as an exhibiting artist and educator. Prior to moving to Iowa City, he maintained a studio practice in Echizen, Japan. Since his arrival to Iowa, Cladis has programmed numerous exchange events between Echizen and Iowa; he returns to Echizen every summer. He has received the Fukui Prefecture Ambassadorship Award from the Fukui prefectural government, several local and international fellowships, and support from the Iowa Arts Council.
Cladis and Masuda met ten years ago, in 2014, and have been close friends ever since.
This exhibition gathers together zines and other DIY publications with a “tie to Iowa” gathered and selected by Kalmia Strong in collaboration with a group of zine scholars from the University of Iowa Center for the Book through an open call and drawing from PS1’s own zine library. Including poetry, art, comics, manifestos, instructions, and activism, the collection is necessarily incomplete and subjective, but begins to uncover histories, networks, communities, and fascinations manifested through self-driven print publication.
Visitors are also invited to help us fill in gaps by contributing other publications or histories of DIY publishing in and through Iowa.
Organizer Bios:
Kalmia Strong
Trained as a book artist and librarian, Kalmia Strong is dedicated to understanding and supporting self-organized community spaces, extra-institutional knowledge-sharing, and publication practices as cultural resistance. Her creative, teaching, and curatorial work is typically collaborative and has unfolded in diverse spaces: graduate seminars, youth workshops, libraries, DIY venues, book fairs, cornfields, and defunct museums -- in the Midwest as well as in Canada and Moldova. She works as Program Director at Public Space One and is also adjunct faculty at the UI Center for the Book. Most of her current projects outside of PS1 manifest under the banner of lowercase library, which is both a collection and a structure for activity.
UICB Zine Scholars
13 artists, musicians, researchers, and educators currently enrolled in the University of Iowa Center for the Book Topics in Material Analysis course.
Poojana Prasanna, Alex Bezahler, Chayna Truex, Harper Folsom, Abigail Kellis, Allison Stickley, ev Leto, Charlie Pott, Margaret Yapp, A. Darryl Moton, Jessie Kraemer, Alice Eberhart, and Mira Pappin
workshop focused on queer narratives
Join Hannah and the PS1 CARETAKERS
for a hands-on raised bed building workshop
Bring your curiosity and end the day burlier, with more friends, and peace in your heart knowing you built the garden beds that will nurture veggies at PS1 for years to come.
no previous woodworking experience required
wear your work clothes and close-toed shoes
safety glasses and tools provided
free ~~ advance registration required:
This workshop is made possible with funding awarded from the Wellmark Foundation, which provided funds to help PS1 develop an edible garden at our Close House location. These grant funds also made it possible to receive guidance from Backyard Abundance, whose carefully laid designs got us this far.
This workshop marks the beginning of the planting work taking place across the west side of the yard. Interested in getting involved in the garden this summer? Let us know! email kalmia@publicspaceone.com.
workshop with Emily Edwards
We’re excited to partner with the UI Cinematic Arts Department’s student-run experimental documentary film festival, ICDOCS, to present a program featuring one of this year’s festival jurors, Sara Sowell.
Dada’s Daughter / Sara Sowell
Dada’s Daughter is an ongoing expanded-cinema performance with 16mm film projections and a live score using objects of illusionary optics and industrial scrap. Abstractions of light and pattern reintroduce photographic practices of early 20th century Dada films by way of darkroom techniques and improvisation. Spliced in between photograms and negative images, sections of clear film leader cue a live performance activating the remote objects photographed on celluloid through the immediacy of the film projector’s beam. When placed in front of the projector these objects create tactile optical images; impressions of form, shape and pattern that reenact the process of capturing images on celluloid.
Jews Harp or: Harpaud / Sam Taffel / United States // 2023 // 0:06:29
“If I held you any closer, I’d be on the other side of you” – Groucho Marx
An examination of identity seen through the lens of the Marx Brothers and Antonin Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty.” Appropriating sounds, images and thoughts from The Marx Brothers, Wayne Koestenbaum, Elaine May, Susan Sontag and Artaud, “Jews Harp or: Harpaud” reflects on impersonation, doppelgängers, and the nature of Vaudeville as a shared art form / cultural practice. Gesturing towards performance as a form of survival, the effect of mirroring becomes a means of finding wholeness.
Another Rapid Event / Daniel Murphy / 2023
in 1859, two telegraph operators communicate using the radiant energy from a massive solar storm as their sole power source. In 2012, radiation from a comparable solar storm narrowly misses the earth.
이것은 보이는 것과 다르다: This Isn’t What It Appears / Heehyun Choi / 2022
Among everything obscure in an image, there is always the camera. This Isn’t What It Appears reconstructs and radicalizes the ways to see and interpret archival photographs of Korean women taken in the 1950s by American soldiers stationed in South Korea. This film attempts to reveal the camera within the frame, not as an omniscient eye but as a reciprocal medium that subverts the hierarchy in an image.
This issue of JOY the Zine is about care and caretaking. It features stories about tending for others -- the elderly, children, the dying, animals, plants, the soil. The Zine is printed and ready to share! Please join Jennifer New and the growing team of the JOY zine for an event that is about care and caretaking.
What to expect: There will be community art making projects -- including several aimed at kids; a visit from Groot the City High School therapy dog; singing led by members of The Quire; a storytime led by a local drag queen; a mini nosh of lovingly made food; a lesson in self-massage; a dedication to Maria Cano, the person responsible for starting a translation program at UIHC. AND OF COURSE readings by some of the zine's contributors.
Can kids come? Yes! There are activities especially for them.
Please help support JOY the Zine: We ask for a minimum of $5 to attend. If you'd like to get into the event AND get a copy of the zine, it's $15. Any money on top of that goes to our JOY Micro-Grant program that gives money to people under 30 who need extra funds for a joyful resistance project. REGISTER HERE.
with Barry Phipps
organized by Jessica Tucker
Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!
Learn the simple trick to creating a seamless pattern similar to what you see on gift wrap, fabric and wallpaper.
Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.
All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).
RSVP (encouraged but not required)
Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!
Design, carve and print your own original stamp.
Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.
All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).
RSVP (encouraged but not required)
Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
"Pulses" is the premiere of Jason Snell’s 10-person biofeedback orchestra. Participants' brainwaves and heart rhythms are translated into a live audio-visual performance using biofeedback headsets. This unique setup forms an 'orchestra' based on participants' alpha states. Attendees can expect an immersive experience that blends art with neuroscience, offering insights into the symbiosis between our internal and external worlds. Join us for a unique exploration of the interconnectedness of mind and heart through the medium of music.
This event will be video recorded. RSVP required.
This program takes place in the PS1 Close House Dance Hall, which is only accessible via stairs.
about the artist:
Jason Snell is a creative technologist who performs electronic music with biosensors and builds generative art installations.
His performances use biofeedback loops to explore consciousness and the line between cause and effect. His installations explore the nature of authorship, requiring the presence of visitors to generate the art. These projects use live data from the body and mind to compose music and visual sequences in real-time. The resulting compositions are biomorphic - taking the shape of life patterns - and reveal a natural intelligence inherent in the world and our bodies.
Jason's work has been featured at Sundance, SXSW, CPH:DOX, the Berlin Independent, SF Independent, Slamdance, and Eufonia festivals, in TV and print news, and earned ADC, IAB, Webby, and Glaad Media awards.
His brainwave and bio-sonification work has captured the attention of neuroscience and arts communities. He has presented and lectured throughout North America and Europe, including at NYU, MIT, Ableton, Native Instruments, University of Iowa, and scores of music and technology shows, conferences, and festivals.
He founded the Newbo Synth Group, a monthly educational forum about synthesis. He studied at the University of Iowa, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, School of Visual Arts, and earned a MA in Interactive Media Arts from NYU Tisch, NYU Berlin, and NYU Shanghai.
workshop with Mackie Garrett
workshop with Annie Klein
workshop with Kalmia Strong
workshop with Katina Bitsicas
with Dan Miller
Wednesday June 5 & June 19, 6-9pm
at PS1 Close (538 S Gilbert)
$10-$120
This workshop will give you the tools and knowledge to record and release your music, whether you plan to record yourself or rent out studio time, you will learn all the steps in the process and gain a basic understanding of all elements in music production. The first workshop will focus on preproduction techniques, such as composition, arrangement, and recording techniques. The second workshop will focus on post production, including mixing, mastering, and distribution. The concepts in this course will be applicable to any production style e.g digital vs. analog, various software, or genres.
Registration deadline: June 4
open to teens & adults 14+
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $112 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Dan Miller is a musician, recording engineer, mixing engineer, and filmmaker. They have been making recordings since they got their first Yakbak at age 5. Most recently they opened the Vault Recording Studio in West Liberty, Iowa.
with Nicolás Gerardi
Thursdays June 6, 13, 20, & 27, 6-7:30pm
HYBRID: at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert, Main Hall) and on Zoom
pay-what-you-can: $5-$125
Regenerative Composition: expanded literature tactics is a theoretical and practical workshop in which we will review works and theories about electronic literatures and cyber poetry pieces and make our own experiments inspired by these readings.
Session I: Tensions between image and word
Session II: Assemblies and projections.
Session III: Technology, Colonialism and Afrofuturism.
Session IV: Ancestral discussions, current problems.
Registration deadline: June 5
open to ages 18+
co-presented with Porchlight Literary Center
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $112 is the true cost of the workshop. We encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford. If you have a higher income or access to resources, pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Nicolás Gerardi (Venezuela, 1989) is a multimedia writer and researcher. In 2012 he was part of the Experimental Curatorial Workshop with his exhibition Dynamics of Appropriation: Anthropophagy in the 2.0 era at the Centro de Arte Los Galpones (Caracas). In 2013 he organized together with Ionee Waterhouse the digital art encounter Señal Abierta at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. In 2016, he twice organized the multimedia event Live Cinema that integrated poetry reading, with the revitalization of film archive and electronic music in real time. In 2019, he presented his piece Límite y Frontera at the Andrés Duque Cinema, as part of the Bogotá Young Art Salon. From 2019 he has been dedicated to conceptualize, design and print and artist books under the publishing house Limo (s)Ediciones del Caribe. Through this house he self-published his first work in book format, the photo poetry book Uy,uy,uy,uy,ur,ur,ur,ur (2019). With his project Poemas Unicode he was selected to be part of the II Jornada Internacional de Poesía Visual, at the Universidad Federal Fluminense (2023). He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Iowa and is preparing an immersive exhibition about his own experience as a migrant and refugee.
screening and panel at FilmScene
with Clare Kinkaid
Sundays June 9, 16, 23, 30, 6-8pm
at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert, Cloud House)
pay-what-you-can: $5-$120
Workshop participants will learn the ways to make a film without a budget, script or most 'industry standards' and learn it can still be everything they desire and possibly even more.
We will learn how to plan around what is available, make connections with people 'artist to artist' rather than 'director to actor', explore the inherently exploitative aspects of cameras and a male dominated industry, have (virtual) guest speakers who practice intuitive filmmaking & make our own videos start to finish!
Registration deadline: June 7
open to ages 18+
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $120 is the true cost of the workshop. We encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford. If you have a higher income or access to resources, pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Clare Kinkaid trained in commercial filmmaking and achieved success locally, but became fed up with the rules of the industry, financial hoops and sexist enviorments. She decided to part ways from that path to travel & pursue her experimental dreams. Clare practices intuitive filmmaking; focusing on the relationships between everyone involved, the inherit exploitative power of the camera, accessibility and challenges what narratives look like in the modern age.
workshop with Emily Edwards
workshop with Kalmia Strong
workshop with Mackie Garrett
exhibition on view July 1 - August 17
workshop with Emily Edwards
Join us for our spring Art Market at Big Grove’s Iowa City Taproom featuring dozens of local artists!
Ciara Von Holten
Ariane Parkes-Perret
Sara Ann Cavic
Oliver Engelhardt
Katlynne Hummell Underhill
Claire Thoele
B Good 2 All
Opallios Art
Callie Gardemann
Ben Minniear
fArt Club (Amber Morris and Kelly Moore)
Shane O'Shaughnessy (Rv. Xen)
Hope Spragg
John EEE's Grand Debris Micro Bizarre
Anna Kain
Maddison Jo Edwards
Mori Venus
Annie Fitzgerald
Sarah Ehlen
Ella Davis
Connie Sherman
Gia Heimermann
Of Moss and Bone
Nick Chalkley
Sean Doyle
Lisa Leech
Mary Pat LaMair
hosted by Artifactory
The model will maintain the same pose (with breaks) for the entire session. Bring your own drawing materials which can include graphite, charcoal, pastels or watercolors. Acrylics, water-based oils, and regular oils using odorless terpenoid will be allowed. We will be drawing from nude, partially clothed or dressed models. Must be over 18 to attend.
Doors open at 8:45am. Enter through the eastern alley door (with the ramp). Please register to get the access code. Proceed upstairs and go to the Dance Hall.
Advance registration required. $15 fee payable by cash or check at the session.
in our northside gallery
workshop with Masuda Yoriyasu
Join us this Saturday 4/20 at 3:30pm at PS1 Dance Hall for a mix of our Fantasy Aerobics hits and some new techno and original music!
Fantasy Aerobics is a fun and silly aerobic dance event using a variety of fantasy, anime, cartoonish, and whimsical music. This event is free and open to all ages and fitness levels. Demonstration of basic aerobic-inspired dance moves will be provided.
Admission: Free
Date & Time: 3rd Saturday of the month at 3:30 pm
Location: Public Space 1 Close House - Dance Hall - 2nd Floor
538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA 52240
Casual and friendly free open hours for working and hanging out at the Close House!
with Snack Break Movement Arts
with Zaria James
closing reception: Friday April 19. 6-8pm
"The Long Season / 漫长的季节" presents an exploration of how trauma impacts my body, from childhood experiences to their ongoing effects. Through the intersectional lenses of identity, culture, and gender, I navigate my bodily trauma, using the process of constructing images as a cathartic as a means of catharsis and subverting. Through this exhibition, audiences are invited to engage with the complexities of trauma, survival, and the power of images as an alternative language.”
Biography
Jiayi Liang is a Chinese artist, working on ideas at the intersection of feminism, trauma, and photography. Liang utilizes the lens, paper cutouts, and physical collages to explore the relationship between trauma and her creative practice. Her work has been included in SPE the 12th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition; She received an Honorable Shortlist recognition for the Photo Forum Santa Fe Photography Award in 2021 and showed her work "Don’t Tell Your Mom”. Liang is a current MA candidate at the University of Iowa (2024). She received her BFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico.
Casual and friendly free open hours for working and hanging out at the Close House!
Open Studio at the Iowa City Press Co-op is the second Saturday of each month from 12-4pm.
Drop by for a free studio tour, or sign up to use ICPC studio equipment for the afternoon.
The afternoon of studio use costs $20 for non-members and $10 for PS1 members, and advanced registration is strongly encouraged.
**Open Studio participants must be proficient with the equipment they are using. If you’re interested in learning, check out our workshops.
Questions? Contact icpresscoop@publicspaceone.com
Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!
Use it as a gloss coat for tiny collages or make small pendants.
Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.
All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).
RSVP (encouraged but not required)
with Snack Break Movement Arts
X. A. Li has invited the Performance Art Lab of Iowa to conclude the exhibition with a closing performance of Typedancing.
Join us for this special performance, and the penultimate chance to experience Li’s exhibition Terminal Care.
Typedancing is a collaborative interdisciplinary performance featuring musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists making music with and dancing to obselete office equipment. With audience participation, it also includes live-produced zines from the artifacts of the performance.
with Esperanza Chairez
open gallery hours:
Thursday, April 11, 6-8p
Saturday, April 13, 11a-1p
Monday, April 15, 11a-1p
Tuesday, April 16, 6-8p
Thursday, April 18, 6-8p
Friday, April 19, 11a-1p
Saturday, April 20, 11a-1p
closing reception: Friday April 19. 6-8pm
"The Long Season / 漫长的季节" presents an exploration of how trauma impacts my body, from childhood experiences to their ongoing effects. Through the intersectional lenses of identity, culture, and gender, I navigate my bodily trauma, using the process of constructing images as a cathartic as a means of catharsis and subverting. Through this exhibition, audiences are invited to engage with the complexities of trauma, survival, and the power of images as an alternative language.”
Biography
Jiayi Liang is a Chinese artist, working on ideas at the intersection of feminism, trauma, and photography. Liang utilizes the lens, paper cutouts, and physical collages to explore the relationship between trauma and her creative practice. Her work has been included in SPE the 12th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition; She received an Honorable Shortlist recognition for the Photo Forum Santa Fe Photography Award in 2021 and showed her work "Don’t Tell Your Mom”. Liang is a current MA candidate at the University of Iowa (2024). She received her BFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico.
Casual and friendly free open hours for working and hanging out at the Close House!
workshop with Alexandra Janezic
hosted by Artifactory
The model will maintain the same pose (with breaks) for the entire session. Bring your own drawing materials which can include graphite, charcoal, pastels or watercolors. Acrylics, water-based oils, and regular oils using odorless terpenoid will be allowed. We will be drawing from nude, partially clothed or dressed models. Must be over 18 to attend.
Doors open at 8:45am. Enter through the eastern alley door (with the ramp). Please register to get the access code. Proceed upstairs and go to the Dance Hall.
Advance registration required. $15 fee payable by cash or check at the session.
the Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Alternative Media
with Snack Break Movement Arts
workshop with Eva Adderley
Casual and friendly free open hours for working and hanging out at the Close House!
zine-making, potluck, & games
The Iowa City community is invited to participate in Hold On/Let Go, a collaborative project and exhibition led by local artists Heather Steckler and Harper Folsom.
The artists are seeking donations of objects you have held onto for sentimental reasons. If you are ready to let go of these things, but it doesn’t feel right to throw them away, we welcome your contributions!
Participants may share their future wishes for donated objects on collection days by filling out an optional form, detailing their “conditions of letting go.”
Collected objects will be part of an exhibition at PS1 in October 2024.
We welcome donations that you can easily carry. Larger donations must be arranged in advance. Contact Heather and Harper at holdonletgoproject@gmail.com with any questions!
