Fritz Horstman - Singing the Landscape

Saturday, August 13, 4-5pm

Register for this workshop! 20-person limit!

Singing the Landscape, an outdoor workshop led by 2022 visiting artist Fritz Horstman, will engage participants in aspects of Deep Listening (drawing on Pauline Oliveros), Conduction (drawing on Butch Morris), and Horstman's own practice of using the voice to evoke the landscape. No prior experience or training is necessary. You need only to bring your ears, your voice, and a willingness to participate.

This hour-long workshop, for participants ages 18 and up, involves walking, standing, and sitting. Wear attire suitable for the outdoors. The artist will lead participants in methods of listening and vocalizing and together make an improvised composition. Please meet at the Stone Quarry office located on the hilltop. Listen to an example of past singing.

This happening is free; donations are deeply felt and support future art projects.

About the artist:

Fritz Horstman is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, CT. He received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and his BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH. Horstman’s recent selected exhibitions include Glacial Movements (solo) at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA; Folded Cyanotypes and Formworks (solo) at Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT; Made in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Emergence, Martin Museum, Baylor University, Waco, TX; CENTURY: Idee Bauhuas, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany; and Arctic Hysteria, Asker and Bergen, Norway, and St. Petersburg, RU. Recent curatorial projects include In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut at the New Britain Museum of American Art; Becoming Trees at Concord Art in Concord, MA; and Water Access at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT. Recent awards and residencies include the Connecticut Art Fellowship; Bauhaus Dessau Artist-in-Residence; the Arctic Circle Residency; and Shiro Oni Residency, Ohishi, Japan. Horstman is Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He has lectured and given workshops at l'École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, Yale University and many other institutions.

For accommodations, please contact executive director Emily Zaengle: emily@sqhap.org

In the event of inclement weather, ticket holders will be notified of any cancellations one day prior to the event. Rain date: August 14 @ 11am

Please call (315) 655-3196 for additional information.