Join us at The Brooklyn Coffee Tea & Guest House for our Jan 2020 Exhibition, showcasing work by John Hunter Housley and Sarah Jane Lapp
The exhibition will be on view on the first floor of the Brooklyn Coffee House located at 209 Douglas Ave, in Providence, RI. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 8am-2pm, during public events and by appointment.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, January 16th from 6–8pm. Light refreshments will be served. Free on and offstreet parking is available.
Sarah Jane Lapp
www.cinemagoat.com
Sarah Jane Lapp is an American artist. She also likes to help people laugh, preferably together. Over the last twenty-five years she has made images for stage, page, screen, and bean, producing essay-films, hand-drawn animations, short plays, jigsaw puzzles, music videos, telematic productions, anti-fascist greeting cards, and photovoltaic solar installations.
Two very funny Minnesotans spawned SJL and sent her to earn a B.A in Playwriting at Brown University before she moved even farther east as Fulbright Scholar at Filmova a Televizni Fakulta Academie Muzickych Umeni (FAMU) in Prague. She apprenticed at Studio Bratri v Triku and completed her MFA from the Department of Filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After a brief stint in NYC typing for R.O. Blechman and Wall Street tycoons alike, Ms. Lapp spent the next eight years in Seattle, vending her drawings at Pike Place Market, contributing editorial cartoons to the Hearst daily, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (RIP!), and producing animations, primarily for social justice and arts-dedicated entities. These animations, including her collaborations “Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper” and “Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist” with contrabassist/composer Mark Dresser, earned SJ internationally peculiar museum and festival exhibitions, an almost-Genius Award, and numerous stalkers. Lured back East for teaching appointments at Wellesley and Harvard, Sarah Jane dropped anchor in Seekonk, MA with her partner, the musician Skyjelly. Living among turkeys, deer, and other people’s dogs Sarah Jane uses comedy and compassion to generate free and off-grid renewable energy.
John Hunter Housley
John Hunter Housley studied film and graphic design at the Rhode Island
School of Design from 1971 to 1977, graduating with a BFA in Graphic Design.
Although painting was one of his earliest interests, he worked for 35 years as
an award-winning art director and designer, with diverse and varied clients
including Brooks Running Shoes, Roomful of Blues and the BBC.
John was a typography teacher at Katherine Gibbs and taught paintingand
watercolor at PACE and Cornerstone of RI. He also runs various painting
workshops at the HeartSpot Gallery in East Providence
Join Us | Light Refreshments will be served | FREE off-street parking is available.