+   Spongespace, Water & Sound event.
Participants, congregating area, wall paintings.
2008, Solvent Space, Richmond, VA
Visiting experts sound artist Stephen Vitiello, fish bioacoustician Michael Fine, and oceanographic robotics engineer Brian Bingham.

CAVS welcomes artist & MIT alumna Hope Ginsburg and her IAP Center Sponge , a five-day experience in total immersion. During each "absorb-a-thon" day, one theme will be explored in depth: Organism, Fantastical Realism, Optimism, Cynicism, and Metabolism.

Center Sponge will string together encounters with the ocean floor, outer space, maple-sugaring, and singing in the rain. After a week of visiting expert presentations, film screenings, one intensive ukulele lesson, and three field trips (to an aquarium, a planetarium, and a museum), you will “wring-out” by delivering a presentation of your own. Prepare to leave the workshop (with a ukulele) ready to conduct future Sponges.

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Hope Ginsburg was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania in 1974. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art (1996) and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007). Ginsburg is the recipient of MIT’s Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts (2007) as well as MIT’s Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Award (2007). She has exhibited her work at venues such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, SculptureCenter, Socrates Sculpture Park, American Fine Arts, and at Kunst-Werke in Berlin. In addition, she has had solo exhibitions at Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia as well as the Julia Friedman Gallery and Parlour Projects in New York. She has been an artist-teacher in the MFA program at Vermont College, and a visiting artist at institutions including Maine College of Art, Des Moines Art Center, and at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Ginsburg lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, where she is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

Ginsburg’s work is an ongoing investigation of the way knowledge is absorbed, exchanged, and represented. Her projects are part alternative school, part experimental theater, and part multimedia installation. They examine relationships between experts and learners, and between divergent fields of study.

+   2008, Solvent Space, Richmond VA
Participants worked on their felt projects.