ABOUT THE SIDNEY KAHN SUMMER INSTITUTE
Initiated in 1999, The Sidney Kahn Summer Institute at The Kitchen is an annual three-week, intensive summer program, fully accredited by Sarah Lawrence College (3 credits), designed for people interested in the performing, visual, and media arts.

The Artistic Director for the 2006 Summer Institute is artist HARRELL FLETCHER, who will focus this year’s program on expanded ideas of art-making and creativity in relation to collaboration, social involvement, activism, and community. Throughout the three weeks, participants will explore a wide range of socially-responsive, community-based art practices and develop site-related projects while working with a range of public institutions, recreational facilities, and social service centers located in The Kitchen’s immediate vicinity. This rigorous teaching and mentoring program will include lectures, one-on-one sessions with faculty members, special screenings, field trips, and short assignments. In addition, the Summer Institute includes sessions on writing, publicity, and other administrative aspects necessary to becoming a professional artist working today.

ABOUT THE KITCHEN
The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit performance and exhibition spaces, dedicated to presenting innovative new work in the media, literary, and performing arts. Founded as an artists’ collective in 1971 by Woody and Steina Vasulka and incorporated as a non-profit two years later, The Kitchen in its infancy was a space where video artists and experimental composers and performers could share their ideas with like-minded colleagues. It thus was among the very first American institutions to embrace the then emergent fields of video and performance art, while also presenting new visionary work within the fields of dance, music, literature, and film. The resulting combination was an environment uniquely conducive to experimentation and cross-disciplinary explorations that helped launch the careers of many artists, including Vito Acconci, Constance de Jong, Gary Hill, Kiki Smith, Charles Atlas, Lucinda Childs, Elizabeth Streb, Bill T. Jones, and board members Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and Meredith Monk. Today, The Kitchen is an internationally acclaimed arts institution still widely known for its commitment to experimental work as it continues to provide instrumental support for the early and mid-career development of a current generation of artists.

ABOUT SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
Located in Bronxville, New York, Sarah Lawrence College is a long recognized pioneer in creative education, as a liberal arts college with a focus on collaborative undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts. The learning process emphasized utilizes a diverse, global vocabulary, as students explore individual artistic techniques and experiment with connections among theater, writing, art, music, dance, and emerging technologies. For more information about Sarah Lawrence College, please visit www.slc.edu.


The Kitchen’s 8th Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute is presented in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College and is made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the generosity of its founding sponsor, Elizabeth Kahn Ingleby. Additional support has been provided by the Sidney Kahn Family Foundation. Special thanks to technology sponsor, TEKSERVE, NYC's Premiere Apple Specialist located at 119 West 23rd Street in Manhattan.