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Not all roads lead to Rome!

Yes, that’s right, some of them bring to Copper Leg as well. We are pleased to introduce two new artists in our residency! Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza, two artists from Rome, Italy. They both have been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and have become best friends a long time ago.

Currently, Federica conducts her MA degree in the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is attracted to working with metal, its special features, molding complexity and material resistance. Giulia mainly deals with drawing and installation, and her favorite materials to experiment with are fabric and embroidery. Giulia had the first personal exhibition in EKA Gallery this January, which is an important milestone in the life of a young artist.

Now, however, these two great Italian ladies have taken the initiative to unite their forces in Copper Leg Residency. In cooperation, a work of art will be born in the Rae Schoolhouse’s courtyard. It will be a game with texture, geometric and organic shapes, and the main material is a metal mesh. How all this comes out, you can see today on Copper Leg Residency Open Doors Day starting at 15:30.

You are welcome to Visit Copper Leg Residency today, 09/06/2018, between 15:30 and 18:30.

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/551030408623858/

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/iqo3zu7Xmuj

Giulia Lanza website: https://www.giulialanza.com/

Federica Cogliandro instagram: https://www.instagram.com/federicacogliandro_studio/

 

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Open Doors Day / Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza art piece presentation

09.06 / 15:30
Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza art piece presentation

09.06 / 15:30 – 18:30
Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency

On Saturday, June 9th, at 15:30, the presentation of the work of Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza will take place and later Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency will follow. From 15:30 to 18:30 the visitors can discover residency space & its doings. There are also two new residents, metal artist Federica Cogliandro and textile artist Giulia Lanza, from Rome, Italy.

We invite you to the presentation of a joint art piece by Federica and Giulia, come to meet artists, and take a part of Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency. You are welcome to Rae Schoolhouse on Wormhole road, Copper Leg village, Rae parish (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskjala küla, Rae vald).

The keyword is “Pasta”!

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2

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We are hit by the breeze, from Central Asia or maybe from California.

We do not know exactly where the breeze came, but It’s warm at least! Now let’s give warm welcome to our next Artist in Copper Leg residency. Tara Catherine Pandeya is a California-based second-generation dancer, who is a specialist of Central Asian traditional dance. Tara has been dancing on well-known Cirque du Soleil stage as a principal dancer in show “Dralion” which toured 5 continents, 170 cities and 1,500 performances in 4.5 years. In 2015, she became the first Westerner to perform in the National Ensemble of Tajikistan. The list of her accomplishments is too long to write it all out here. Better come to meet her today (12.05.2018) on Copper Leg Open Doors Day from 15.00 – 18.00 and later stay to see her dance performance in Rae Schoolhouse.

Everything about Tara seems to be significant, but the most significant fact is that she has a grandmother who is 100 years old and despite the honorable age, she is using Facebook, driving a car by herself and helping much younger people to get to the doctor’s appointment. That’s something significant, I would say! Vital granny vs. the Estonian Republic! Long live for both!

Tara homepage: https://taradances.weebly.com

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Dance performances & Open Doors Day

Saturday 12th May at Rae Schoolhouse (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskja küla, Rae vald)

15:00 – 18.00 Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency
18:00 – 18:20 Tara Pandeya dance performance
18:30 – 19.15 Outi Valanto dance performance

From 15:00 to 18:00 the visitors can discover residency space & its doings.

Although international dance month has just passed, we will continue with the theme of dance at the Copper Leg Residency. Following Open Doors Day at the Copper Leg Residency, two dance performances will be held by our artists in residence, starting at 18:00. Program one will be given by Tara Catherine Pandeya, a California-based dancer, who is a specialist of Central Asian traditional dance. Program two will be performed by Finnish dancer Outi Elena Valanto, a former longtime resident of Vienna who works primarily through the medium of contemporary dance. The evening will conclude with an audience-participatory traditional circle-based folk dance from Afghanistan lead by Tara! Cake and cookies will be offered to the audience, along with local Estonian honey products. Come enjoy this sweet dance experience and get better acquainted with our artists in residence!

You are welcome to Rae Schoolhouse on Wormhole road, Copper Leg village, Rae parish (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskjala küla, Rae vald)

Residency website: http://copperleg.rae.ee/
Location: https://www.google.ee/maps/place/Rae+koolimaja/@59.3572062,24.9512716,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x4692e912985047bf:0x26ca84c802eb8083!2sCopper+Leg+Artist+Residency!8m2!3d59.357281!4d24.9533436!3m4!1s0x4692e912995dd701:0x47e7a85b447e9958!8m2!3d59.3572062!4d24.9534656

Tara website: https://taradances.weebly.com/
Outi website: https://outielena.wixsite.com/mysite

 

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Every heartbeat is for dance!

Let us greet the next artist in Copper Leg Residency! Outi Elena Valanto is a contemporary dancer born in Finland, she has been living and working many years in Vienna, Austria, but for now, she plans a move to Köln, Germany. Outi has been studying contemporary dance in Finland, Germany, and Austria. This year she starts her Master’s degree studies in the Netherlands.

During her stay in Copper Leg Residency, she has been participating in a public dance project at the festival “Deutscher Frühling”, organized German embassy and Goethe Institute, also she has been taking part of a dance workshop during dance week in Viljandi Culture Academy. Now she is preparing for her own contemporary dance workshop in Rae Cultural Center at May 5th and solo performance in Copper Leg Residency studio room in Rae Schoolhouse on May 12th. Do not hesitate to take part and be there!

What else? So Outi Elena is an energic person, also very communicative and she has a mostly good mood for some reason! She is a true believer in the dance and probably she is right, dancing seems to make her dopamine levels high! Go for it Outi Elena Valanto! Every heartbeat is for dance!

Oops, we almost forgot, happy name day to you Outi!

 

Outi webpage: https://outielena.wixsite.com/mysite

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Today we have a laundry day!

Tomorrow is cleaning day. The day after tomorrow we will open the exhibition in the Rae Schoolhouse and the doors of the Copper Leg Residency for visitors. But that’s not what we wanted to talk about!

In fact, we would like to introduce the next artist in Copper Leg Art Residency. His name is Kåre Holgerson. A versatile artist, printmaker and first-rate art teacher from Kalmar, Sweden.

As for now, he has an exhibition in Pärnu City Gallery and has been giving an excellent photopolymer workshop in Copper Leg last weekend. You know what we are talking about if you visited the workshop.

Kåre is a good communicator and a socially active person, someone who does not find it too much to ache heart about other peoples worries and to help wherever it is possible. In addition, he arranges the work of the Kulturmagasinet, Arts Center in Berkvara and is also one of the founders of this institution.

We are waiting for you on Sunday, April 15 to visit Copper Leg Residency starting at 14:00. Come and say hello to Kare!

PS. There will be soup as well!

Kåre webpage: http://www.holgerson.se/

Location of event:
https://www.google.ee/maps/place/Rae+koolimaja/@59.3572062,24.9512769,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4692e912995dd701:0x47e7a85b447e9958!8m2!3d59.3572062!4d24.9534655

 

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Be there and be ready to squeeze that sponge!

Let us introduce the next artist in the Copper Leg Art Residency. His name is Wayne Liu and he was born in Taiwan. Wayne is a photo artist who lives and works in New York since the end of the 90s. In his artistic practice, he encompasses the fields of archives, photo-based installations, sound recordings and found objects. During his residency period in Copper Leg, he has been making many expeditions to different places in Estonia, to extract information, first-hand experience and impressions. Wayne describes his creative method as becoming into a sponge that can absorb endlessly information into itself.

Now its time to squeeze a bit out of this sponge! On Sunday 15.04 at 14:00 opens his exhibition in Rae schoolhouse, in Residency studio room on Wormhole road and later will follow Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency. Be there and be ready to squeeze that sponge!

Wayne Liu homepage: http://www.wayneliu.net

Location of event: https://www.google.ee/…/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4692e9129…

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Exhibiton opening & Open Doors Day

15.04 / 14:00 Exhibition opening
Wayne Liu “In the Shape of an Eye”
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15.04 / 15:00 – 18:00
Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency

On Sunday, April 15 at 14:00 opens exhibition of artist Wayne Liu and later will follow Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency. From 15:00 to 18:00 the visitors can discover residency space & doings. There is also our residents, printmaker and educator Kåre Holgerson from Kalmar, Sweden and photo artist Wayne Liu from New York, USA. We invite you to the exhibition opening and meet the artists.

You are welcome to Rae Schoolhouse on Wormhole road, Copper Leg village, Rae parish (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskjala küla, Rae vald)

Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rae+koolimaja/@59.3598395,24.9615974,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4692e912995dd701:0x47e7a85b447e9958!8m2!3d59.3572066!4d24.9534649

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Say “ja”and make it five-fold!

Time to introduce the next artist in the Copper Leg Art Residency. Her name is Wang Bei and she is from Shanghai, China! Bei is a painter who has been studying art at Huaqiao  University

Bei is constantly surprised about Estonian weather; how cold it is and how much snow here is. So far she has warmed up herself by painting some abstractions, also landscapes and building an over-life-size snowman. During her time in Copper Leg residency she has been visiting two important cities in Europe, Tallinn and Brussels; and has seen the final destination of bus no. 244 at the end of Aruküla road.

Bei is a person with a positive mindset, she likes to laugh, and her favorite sentence is five-fold “ja” (ja-ja-ja-ja-ja).

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Open Doors Day

On Saturday, March 03 Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency

You are welcome to Rae Schoolhouse on Wormhole road, Copper Leg village, Rae parish (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskjala küla, Rae vald) From 15:00 to 18:00 the visitors can discover residency space & doings. There is also our new residents, life artist Scott Hawkins from Edinburgh, Scotland and painter Wang Bei from Shanghai, China. We invite you to come see the artists and to get an overview of their doings.

Location:
https://www.google.ee/maps/place/Rae+koolimaja/@59.3598395,24.9615974,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4692e912995dd701:0x47e7a85b447e9958!8m2!3d59.3572066!4d24.9534649