PAVARTES
"Linking Art, Science and Business"
AMAZING CULTURAL EVENT:
New Art Workshop in DC...
"Self-Discovery Through Colors"
Invited Instructor: Master Sisto Pascale
Assistant: Ricardo Penuela-Pava
Under the auspices of the Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts - UCFA at the Uruguayan Embassy in
Washington
Three Sessions - Three Hours Each One - Small Groups
Fun as a Must...
202 - 321 - 4745
For more information please contact us by Internet to: ricardox2000@yahoo.es
Our General Purpose
This workshop provides specific artistic tools which will develop the student's expression through the upgrading of their own skills with a dynamic and useful methodology. The practical approach uses colors as a way to better communicate one's feelings and will provide a method in which to better understand the feelings of those people around us. Individual and Team Work exercises in the workshop allow participants to set up the following specific goals…
The Specific Goals to Reach
1. Understand the process of constructing a piece of art with hands on experience in order to translate colors into moods and moods into colors.
2. The three hands on sessions of each workshop will allow every participant to manage basic artistic tools which are useful in meeting sensitivities and understanding variations and in order to deal with them in a day to day personal or professional relationship.
3. Set up an alternative path to better reach self understanding in dealing with stress and enhancing the ability to communicate our feelings.
The Workshop is addressed to adults of any age that would like to learn an alternative method in dealing with others through the use of art and artistic ways to understand someone else's point of view. Individuals or group's members of Corporations, Multilateral Organizations, Public and/or Private Schools, NGOs, Communities, Minorities, are all welcome. The workshop will be one week long, three days a week, three hours per session. Two different groups will be organized: Group A will meet on Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 of January, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM; Group B, will meet on Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 of January, same time schedule.
Special Workshops for only Spanish speaking groups are also available, as well as other time schedules and dates! Participants with no previous art experience are encouraged to joint us. Call us: 202-321-4745
The Main Activities
1. Portraits and moods in contemporary arts, interactive lecture and hands on experience.
2. Recognize the variations and similarities of others through exercises in values and colors.
3. Development of Team Work abilities through art exercises. Theory and practice on composition and colors: how to catch up.
The Organization Format
The Program will be developed in two groups of fifteen participants each. The Workshop will be organized as follows but may be adjusted to fit the needs of individual participants, groups or communities. Both initial groups will meet for three hours a day, three times a week. If there is sufficient demand the Program will be extended to incorporate two additional groups. Furthermore, it would be possible to offer an additional week of workshops for participants who found the first week to have been exceptionally rewarding and wishing to excel in this methodology. The $US 250 fees for the three day workshop include all required materials:
To get more information please contact us by Internet: mailto: ricardox2000@yahoo.es or give us a call to: 202-321-4745
Just to register at: Cultural Department, Embassy of Uruguay... or just call to 202 - 321- 4745
( Metro Station: Farragut West - Lines: Orange & Blue )
Phone number: (202) 3311313 (ext. 30), fax (202) 3318142
E-mail: cultural@uruwashi.org
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About Sisto Pascale
Sisto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1965. When he was just five years old he migrated with his family to the U.S., where he lived for seventeen years. At a very early age he began to study art and participated in numerous art contests and workshops. By the age of 18 he had achieved many recognitions for his works to include the Scholastic Art Awards finalist with 2 gold keys, a painting at the Goddard Space Flight Center's collection, finalist at the Kennedy Center's Readers Digest Art Contest, ASTAG art awards. He also won scholarships from the Corcoran Art College, the Maryland College of Art and Design, the Baltimore Art College, the Pratt and many more. In 1987 he returned to Uruguay with a degree in Fine Arts from the Maryland College of Art and Design (now School of Art & Design at Montgomery College), including an Asociates Degree in Fine Arts. In Uruguay he established his Art Studio and began teaching. From 1987 to date he has had his works exhibited in almost all of the main Uruguayan art galleries.
During the last twenty years he has also made it possible for over 6,500 children, adolescents and adults to somehow be involved in his continuous art projects, thanks to the collaboration of many companies and his students. In his studio he has taught over a 1,000 students, he has also worked hard in helping change the way art is taught in Uruguay through his conferences, where he has made many aware of the fact that art forms part of our day to day life. His studio is recognized as a formal art studio from the Ministry of Culture in Uruguay. There are very few studios in Uruguay that have this official registry. He has worked as an art consultant to many private firms and embassies including the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo. Please see Sisto's web site: Art in the U.S. Embassy"
In 2007, as part of the celebrations for 20 years of exceptional work in Uruguay, he had five successful art exhibits. His art work inaugurated the new Carnival Museum in February and then he was asked by the U.S. Embassy to do a one man show for President Bushes' recent visit to Uruguay. He also participated in a collective art exhibit, celebrating Punta del Estes' 100th birthday at the Mantra Casino Hotel. Fripur, Uruguay's leading fishing company, asked him to do a one man art exhibit at the Montevideo's Sheraton Hotel. More recently, at the Uruguayan Presidential Executive Office: "Libertad" Palace, he did a one man show, honoring the twenty most popular Uruguayan writers, illustrating their short tales works for children. The exhibit consisted of one watercolor illustration framed with a fragment of either a legend or a short story about Uruguay. The main goal of this project was to bring back to light those forgotten writers that almost every Uruguayan adult read in their childhood. The methodology illustrates the tales with a watercolor painting and this made the audience more involved in the reading process, mixing two arts. The exhibit was for all age groups, but it was mainly focused on children. The exhibit was visited by many schools with the purpose of promoting reading and art appreciation. That main goal was certainly achieved.
About Ricardo Peñuela-Pava
Ricardo was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1959. He holds a BSc degree from Universidad de los Andes, where he got involved in some art studies, which started up his formal interest on this field. He eventually moved to Europe to be trained as a scientist and at the same time registered in several art courses offered in Oviedo, Rome and Brighton. Ricardo has also participated in art workshops held at the Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States (OAS), in Washington, DC. His paintings have been exhibited in Bogota, Colombia; Oviedo, Spain and the USA (Washington DC; Alexandria and Petersburgh, Virginia). More recently he spends two months in Montevideo, training at Sisto Pascale's Studio.
