May 9, 6-7 pm
On The Deck at 607 Ashe Street - Meet Pepe Carretero, Regina Jestrow, Marie Bergstedt, and Frank Ortega May AIR's. Free and Informal Gathering
Location: On the Deck at 607 Ashe Street
Pepe Carretero: Painter/Poet
Madrid, Spain
Scheduled Consultations Poetry reading, in his native Spanish language May 23, 7 PM (page 26)
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Regina Jestrow: Sculptor/Fiber Artist
Miami, Florida
Sculpture Installation
Close Knit Group: May 7, 14, 21, 6-8:30 PM
Regina Jestrow was born and raised in Queens, New York, and has lived in Miami since 1999. Her mother was an avid semesters and knitter when Regina was a child, and made cloths for the family. She attended a vocational high school for the arts in Manhattan, and then studied at Fashion Institute of Technology for 3 years. After purchasing her first sewing machine in 2001, Regina started quilting, creating clothing and artwork. One of the common denominators across all of her works is that all are process driven. To quilt is to stitch, sew, cover, and design with one’s own two hands. The paintings translate the movement of color and design, combining the ideas, both from quilting and from nature. The fiber pieces are for people to immerse themselves, whether walking under, through or into the art. Inspiration comes from geometric shapes and structures, which the natural world creates leaving the individual to interpret.
www.reginajestrow.com/home.html
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Marie Bergstedt: Sculptor
San Francisco, California
Workshop: Reconstructing Memories
May 14 & 21, 12-4 PM
Marie spent her first 15 years moving back and forth between a foster home and her birth mother. Lacking a rhythmic family structure, she picked up sewing, crocheting, and knitting at an early age, literally stitching her way through hard times. In the 70s and 80s she studied a wide range of traditional art media, concentrating in hand-colored photography and giving vision to memories from her childhood. She continued her studies and art practice while working as a fund development professional, transitioning to fiber art and completing private commissions for jewelry and clothing design. Returned to full-time art since 2006, Marie has combined the conceptual roots of her photographic images with the fiber and design skills first employed to mentally ground her childhood. Memories, life challenges, and the power to overcome inspire the themes of her recent mixed media sculptures, which have been selected for 35 juried exhibitions, four art books, and five awards.
http://mariebergstedtartist.com/home.html
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Frank Ortega:Writer
Cold Spring, New York
Writing Class: A Sense of Place
May 8,15, 22, 9:30-11:30 AM
Frank Ortega has had work published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and most recently in the latest issue of Oberon, as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry. He has been awarded writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation (France), Dorland Mountain Colony, and Millay Colony for the Arts, and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has read in New York City at the Poetry Society of America, The Knitting Factory, the New York Public Library, the Brecht Forum, CB’s 313, and Barrow Street Poets. His most recent performance readings were Fifty States at Cornelia Street Café (NYC) and Louisiana Voices at Time & Space Limited (Hudson, NY). He was awarded a working scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont and recently received a performance grant from Poets & Writers, Inc.
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Upcoming On the Deck Dates:
Wednesday, May 9 – 607 Ashe Street
Wednesday, June 13 – 607 Ashe Street
Wednesday, July 11 – 607 Ashe Street
