Joe Catuccio
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Joe
Catuccio,
the
"Mole Man" of Greene
Street - thus coined for his long-term, lack-of-sun
dwelling habits at his famed Greene Street abode - has
moved from Soho, but fear not, as The Project of Living
Artists has been moved with him.
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Drawing
Class
Director:
Joseph Catuccio
Phone
the Project at:
718-388-6708
Model
Sessions: Saturdays - Year-round from 10:30 am to 2:30
pm.
Pause:
His drawing session won't miss a beat.
Location: 30 Bushwick Avenue, Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. To
get there, take the L train to the third stop in Brooklyn
- Graham Avenue - walk south to Devoe Street, and then
it's only two and a half blocks to Bushwick and the Project
of Living Artists.
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the early days of 1968, The Museum of The Project of
Living Artists was formed by some bizarre hippie types,
in Greenwich Village. The Project was originally intended
to be a communal artist space, So it became one of the
first alternate spaces in the city. |
Then,
throughout 1969—1971, the members drifted different
ways—since as a communal space, it was unworkable.
So in 1971, Joe was looking for a new space, in order
to keep The Project going. And he found a basement space
in the barren and budding canyons of Soho. |
©
Joseph Catuccio 1975
Project of Living Artists Space, Greene Street, NYC
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Housed
in its previous address at 133-135 Greene Street, in
New York city, and starting in 1971, it became legendary
that, ever since Joe first landed on the island of Manhattan,
the Project has been home to a multi-faceted array of
creatures and causes ranging from a 24-hour exhibit
space, an original buyers club, a center for poetry
readings and cinema screenings and a shelter for fourteen
oddly hued cats. |
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Throughout
this prolific 3-decade tenure, from the renegade phase
of Venice Biennale protest shows to the penniless
months when Joe could barely afford coffee yet always
prevailed with payments to the models; through the
years of fire and water coffeehouse culture forward
to the onslaught of punk and the advent of cybersex,
Joe's loyalty to life drawing in a mayhem-infused
metropolis has been unremitting.
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The
New York Times
Arts Section
on
Saturday, April 16, 1994
about Joe Catuccio and
The Project of Living Artists
See
Underground
Poetry
for
more . . .
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And
the New York Times has followed close on his heel,
showering praise on the Project from its inception
to the present.
Every
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7:00pm to 10:00pm,
and Saturdays from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Joe, who hails
from Waterbury CT, and has been drawing, painting,
printmaking and soldering cast iron since the precocious
age of four, has upheld his firm belief in the importance
of providing an earthy, warm atmosphere where artists,
bankers and petty thieves alike are encouraged to
engage their shared interest in studying the human
form.
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THE
PROJECT
OF
LIVING ARTISTS
IN
BROOKLYN AND NEW YORK CITY
In
his constantly well-maintained, vast space, the air
crackles with a vibrant fury as something intangibly
beautiful and ferocious is shared between artist and
model.
There
is no irritating and pompusly dogmatic instruction,
no proselytizing, no philosophical hogwash; simply
a carefully crafted, creative dynamic, the likes of
which has carved out an internationally
renowned reputation for the Project as - THE PLACE
TO DRAW.
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THE
PLACE TO DRAW
THE
PROJECT OF LIVING ARTISTS - NYC
For
more info
Call Joe Catuccio at:
1-718-388-6708
See
Joe Catuccio's Art Works
View Murals and Sculpture
Enter Here
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In
June of 1997, Joe relocated from
Greene Street to the Williamsburgh
section of Brooklyn, New York, home to the
highest demographic of artists in the country.
More
on Greene Street:
www.nyc24.org/2001/issue01/story06/page3.html
House
number 30 Bushwich Avenue in Brooklyn is the
address to remember, to permanently etch in your mind.
To get there, take the L train to the third stop in
Brooklyn - Graham Avenue - walk south to Devoe Street,
and then it's only two and a half blocks to Bushwick
and the Project of Living Artists.
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