be happy. surround yourself with + more art.

2008

The workshop involved students of the Clinton Middle School for Artists and Writers, a Chelsea public school, and their parents. The workshop started with a tour of the Lelong Gallery.

Galerie Lelong opened in New York in 1985, and in 2001, the gallery moved to its present ground floor location in Chelsea. The gallery's focus is the primary representation of important contemporary artists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America who work in sculpture, painting, photography and new media.

At the time of the workshop, the Gallery was showing the works of artist Angelo Filomeno. The students had a chance to ask questions to the director of the gallery about the artist, the gallery itself and the management of a gallery in general. Afterwards, the workshop moved to Angelo Filomeno’s studio. Mr. Filomeno learned to sew as a child in southern Italy, first by his mother and then as an apprentice to a local tailor.

Angelo Filomeno's work consists of beautiful machine-sewn embroidery on pieces of silk stretched over canvas. The students were treated to not only a detailed tour of the studio but also to the creation of their own work of art – a fabric made origami - done in cooperation with the artist.