Pat Oleszko

Lecture: Monday, October 24
Workshop: October 24 - 28

Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself and doesn’t mind if you laugh. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created a multitude of lithe performances, films and installations that address trees, knees, breasts, butts, elephants and fingers. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house to the Museum of Modern Art, Sesame Street Magazine, Ms., Playboy and Artforum. Recently she spent a year in Italy as a recipient of the Rome Prize that resulted in much controversy and an inimitable evening in jail for posing as The Nincompope. Oleszko continues her efforts pumping irony, disparately trying to “bring home the beacon- the truth squirts.”

Wearing Spectacles: Mo' Better Visions

This workshop will concentrate on making costumes for Day of the Dead celebrations on November 2nd in Santa Fe. Open to families, students, artists and educators of all kinds. "This low tech hi performantz workshop goes straight for the jocular. In view of the upcoming celebrations of Halloween, All Saints, Souls and Insane Daze, we will literally a-dress issues both looming and blooming. Ideas personal, political, pervasive, abrasive and/or invasive will be translated into walking squawking mediums of message."

"More is more, more or less. Bring lots of everything, a plethora of stuff, masses of the crass and uncared for, including the ever-necessary tools, cardboard, paints, fabric, sewing machines, glue guns and other handy folderol for fixin's. If you have hidden talents, now's the time to turn those bits into pieces. It's Jest 'artin' around in a public way, mind overt messes in-Sanity Fe.”

Call for workshop application at 424 5050, or download online
Scholarships available.