I ,Barry Kostrinsky was born in NYC on 6/13/60 and grew up in Westchester County. I graduated Vassar with a BA, majoring in Mathematics in 1982 but studied art history and studio art as well. I have loved both math and art since I was young. Haven Arts Gallery is a culmination of my dreams and united a community of artists in the South Bronx from 2004-now. As owner and founder I do the little and the big things as all responsibility is ultimately mone. I have a director JC Rice and Carol Zakaluk, my do everything girl. Previous to haven I worked for over 20 years in my family metal working company, Grand Silver Co. in the South Bronx. I love working and developing haven and hope it grows. Interns are both young students to us that we can engage in an arts project and teach and they are helpers, do it all kind of folk that sense the flavor of the many different duties in running an art gallery. Inters, such as Johanfry have helped an artist install and assemble large scale sculpture. Stay and study as much as you can in school and get as least a college degree. But know why you are learning what you are learning and choose carefully the thoughts and things you choose to gather into your world as they will inprint themselves on you and you will become them. Barry Kostrinsky
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Due Date: Friday May 23, 11:59
Did you meet your goals?
my goals for my intership were to finish everything i need to do and live with a grant experience and also to help and let everybody happy form my job.
What are the most important things you’ve learned?
one of the most important thing i have learn is that i can do much more them just do what they tell me to do but to learn how to express with art and show what art means and also how to sell them,put them clean and prepare for anybody that wants to buy art.
In what ways have your grown?
i have grown alot because now i can do thing for my self like going to my job bymyself do things for myself and help others alot with my strength in power when they need me or do anything that i know.
What were the highlights of your internship experience?
when i was spry painting on the bronx and also when i got to do my own piece of art too.
If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.
when i was watching a movie and then i got to do one of the arts that were on the movie about jacson polloc.
What challenges did you overcome?
the times in witch i had to make up hours and when i had to stay longer and that was horrible.
What advice would you give a new intern at this site?
to trie to do theyr best on each day that they have on intership because i think that each day you will learn something and that day a new experience could happen to you like it happen to me.
What will you miss about your internship?
i will miss the days in wich i get out eraly and go to work.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
The interview: you are going to interview someone.
-Who do you want to interview?
i will interview my mentor loren
-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)
i know that she is a fast woman everything she do it fast and talktive alot she was born in usa and her job is on art for healing that is to take pieces or art that are donated to her organization and then she fix them and then she sold then at sertain cost of money
-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)
were she is been on this type of work how much important is this job for her is it been difficult for her to do that kind of job and if she is going to make more organization like this on the future.
Posted by Johanfry L at 11:38 AM 0 comments
The daily post synthesis
The week before vacations I was fixing and putting piece of work around the wall and try to fix the area on were the work of art were horizontals and she said that we had to change it because they could stick to each other over the summer and so columba and me we started to do that. We started to put them horizontal and after we had finish that we get to started another thing that we usually do a lot of time and is to put information on flayer that supposted to be giving to people we spent there3 like for a lot of time and we are still doing it sometimes hen she needs us to do it and we do it all. until we started to do another assiment on the bronx that thing was popping something that i had a long time i dint do and is to do spray painting that thing was popping, we spent doing that for one day but it was something new on intership semminar, and fo the first time on my live of the intership i like it that thing was fun and unforgetiable, i will always remenber that day. another project that i did do is to make a piece of art but for myself and i did and it was good i like it alot and i enjoy it because i get to express and show what can i do fro myself.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Daily Posts
mr andrew this thing rigth now is popim is banging i mean is aout the hood
on monday i was on the bronxs i was doing some kind of art i can say nd that art i guess took me like 2 hour doing that thing but it came out nice it wosent like i xpect but i like it alot
on tusday we dint do much because what can i say most of the time i was cuttin papaer to put it betwen the paitns because as you can see summer is coming an they could get ruin if they melt and stick to each other. tha's what we did the whole day cutting paper and im going to be honest that was borring what can i do im the student or intern.
on wednesday o my god that thing whas popim to death i had so mush fun on the bronx because we were oing some art with spray paint and that thing was good i love it i get to paint a shirt and i put like a sing on the back with a j that that is the first letter from my name and it was poppim i love that day it was so much fun i think i sarted to like the bronx more then the one on manhattan even thougth is far i dont like it but whatever if we are going to have ma fun over there.
today thursday it wosent that fun i dint like it at all i was givin flayers to people and man im sick and i still had to do it and you know what that thing was boring to death i dint like it at all dam but o whell i ha to do it and you know how anbarasing was that when the cute girls were coming by and i was standing rigth there like a bomp that is not a good experience, but that is all i did and mr andrew i need to talk to you personal about something in my intership site and oh rigth away im sorry about the camara thingy i 4got but my brother will gie it to yoou tomorrow and i probably need it agayn for the next week on tusay or thursay that those are the days that we go to the bronxs and thanks and take a look at my intership site any time. be good and take care peace out bro.
Posted by Johanfry L at 3:50 PM 1 comments
Friday, April 11, 2008
02/08 15 questions
Tell a little about yourself.
first of all im a lazy person and im talkive also im a boy that is serious when i have to be serious and funny when i can be funny.
-What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?
i learn that i have to be really serious because where im working i have to be serious and is really serious thing that i have to do.
-What is your greatest fear about internship?
i fear if i brake a art and then i have to pay for it i would be so dam scare and that is not a good experience.
-What is your greatest hope for the internship?
i hope to learn something that would help me on my future.
-What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?
my intership name is art for healing and and i think i would be doing things like picking up stuff.
-What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?
i wount miss nothing only my friends.
Posted by Johanfry L at 11:39 AM 1 comments
midpoint reflection question 04/7-11/08
How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?
my intership where im working rigth now i dint expect it to be like that i thougth tthat it was going to be big an alot of space and i suppost to go and help people tell them about what kind of art they are showing and things like that but is not like that im working in a basemnet fixin arts and clean them and help my mentor to make money.
What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?
sure is rerally different from the school because im not stuying but im working and the way in wich im kind of bymyself. really really im not learning not skill because i know how to use a hammer scruwer and painting and translated and do writing and moving stuff thats why somtimes is borryn because i already know what to do an also making labels.
What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?
the relation with my mentor and me is not like is wounderfull but is ok i mean in the waythat i dont trust her alot like that and i just do whatever she tells me to do. im still been the same because i have to stand for myself and i have grown in the way that i have to do things fromyself.
What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?
the challenges that i have are when she told me that i have to go to the bronx because there were going to be her friends and i dint expect that i had to do those kind of things but i did it and they like me and columba alot and they said that they are happy for what we are doing.
What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?
is really difficult because they send hw and i come home for about 4:30 in the afternoon and im tired of working and im to bed an i remain myself that i have to do my hw and most of the time when they tell us to do essays and things like that.
What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?
What new things have you learned about New York City?
is dirty and there is alot of people on it.
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Friday, April 4, 2008
voicabulary april 1
1. Word / Phrase:inappropriately
Meaning:something that is not apropiated
Context:going nake to school is inappropriately
2. Word / Phrase:heathenism
Meaning:people who do not believe in any god
Context:many people are heathenism because they dont believe in anything
3. Word / Phrase:fornonly
Meaning:angry not in a good mood
Context:i dont understand why people get so fornonlywhen i say im knid of not dominican.
4. Word / Phrase:mutilated
Meaning:missin part of the body
Context: people who smoke alot they can be mutilated form one or more part of theyr body
5. Word / Phrase:assimilationism
Meaning:trie to fit in comunity
contex:when i came to this country i was a assimilationism person.
Posted by Johanfry L at 11:19 AM 0 comments
Daily posts Mrach 31-April 4
this all week what we did was monday we were doing some labels to give out
to people and send them too.
tusday we went to the bronx and we help and artis that was doing something so he
ask us columba and me to help him doing some box thing that he was going to use.
wednesday i went ot her job and we help her in the room and i also help her on some people
that were coming over to the art gallery.
thursday we went to the bronx again and we help the dude mr johns barry and his gallery and he told us to make a summary on what we are doing on his gallery and it took me like 4 pages to write it but i did it and he make us to draw an art. but we did it.
Posted by Johanfry L at 11:18 AM 1 comments
Weekly vocab March 29
1. Word / Phrase: Ajar
Meaning: just a litlel bit open
Context: live the door a liltle bit ajar.
2. Word / Phrase:coquettishly
Meaning:flirty
Context:sometimes girls act kind of coquettishly
3. Word / Phrase:arrogant
Meaning: too proud.
Context:some people are arrogant when they sai they are from theyr country
4. Word / Phrase:flourish
Meaning:
Context:
5. Word / Phrase:eccentric
Meaning:
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Daily posts march 24-27
mr andrew this all week we has been working on paintings and helping her on fixin the room that you saw when you went other remenber? weel yeah that is what we are been doing and we went to the bronx to work with her friends there.
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Weekly vocab march 21
1. Word / Phrase:oppressive
Meaning:tyrant brings you down
Context:my friends oppress me because i dont know how to play basketball
2. Word / Phrase:cliche
Meaning:over use expression
Context:sometimes when i say sometimes is when that time i said sometimes.
3. Word / Phrase:sarcastically
Meaning:say the oppoite of something
Context:many people look and think they are superman because they got muscle
4. Word / Phrase:plaintively
Meaning:veginly esperelly
Context:ms arti was plaintively when she was asking for the books
5. Word / Phrase:menacingly
Meaning:angryly
contex:sometimes i get menacingly when they trie to get on my way.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Third week assignment
Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently. BE DESCRIPTIVE!
Give as much specific detail as you can. Elaborate. Explain. Expound. Delineate. Illustrate. Use a lot of words. Treat this like an English class writing assignment. Use complete sentences with correct grammar and punctuation.
i have been doing the same thing every day, rgith now is not like we are doing a prject but we are triying to get everything in perfect conditions because ias you saw when you went over there it was messy but i think i can hendlel it any way i have no choise. we clean the work of art, an if there is like a mark on in we have to fix it and make it clean and ready to be 4 sell.im not going to lie sometimes i feel bored but i always doing my thing with alot of responsabilitys you know, because each of these work of art theyr espencibe, if you brake that thing you going to jail that thing is really expencive so we have to be becarefull on everything thats pretty much it mr Andrew. bye peace up
Posted by Johanfry L at 3:13 PM 2 comments
Second Week Assignment Part 2
What did you do during your second week?
well we did the same thing i guess i dont rememenber as the first weeek.
How was it different than the first week?
nothing much i think it was the same.
What is something that you really like about the internship?
well i dont like pretty much nothing because i know how to do
everything that im doing so im no learning almost nothing.
What is something you dislike about the internship?
that sometimes i have to go to the bronx.
and that im not learning almost nothing because i already know everithing
Who else's blog have your read and commented on?
no one i dont think i have dont i? right
Posted by Johanfry L at 3:08 PM 1 comments
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The End of the First Week of Internships
Please describe your internship site by answering the following questions...
What is it?
Art for Healing
What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?
is no actually professional but you have to be care full with the glass frames and the paint.
Where is it?
is on 50 street and 9 Avenue but ones a week we go to the Bronx's and help one of her Friend Johns Barry were he is making a new haven art gallery.
Tell a little about your mentor.
my mentor is OK the problem is that she talks to much thrust me she is like a bird but is okay actually she told us to do something that we have no experience at all but she dint ask us either if we knew about it an we did it wrong and she was mad at us she said that what we was doing was too advance for us but i will explain it more at school.
What happened on the first day?
the first day was OK like another i had to use the hammer secrets and hooks to UT on the art.
What kinds of things have you done so far?
put hooks on the art put labels on the paper hanging art of work traicing with marker nothing interesting really.
What were some of the highlights of the first week? (Memorable moments, cool things...)
nothing is is not teaching us nothing about art stuff she is using us to help her sell the arts but we are not learning nothing everything i did except for the mailing tning i hate it all.
Please answer some logistical questions...
When do you leave school?
after lunch
How long does it take you to get to your internship?
1 hour and 20 min
When do you arrive at home?
5:30 to 6:00
What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)
every day from 1 to 4
Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)
At this point, do you have any other questions, comments, concerns, queries, or inquiries? i talk to you at school.
Mr andrew i dont know how to get the other questions please tell me i want to do it
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