American Arts- i'll be talking tonight, so i'll keep it short and sweet here. or at least short. i found one blog post that stood out to me for a couple of reasons. mostly, "how important is what we do". for the full report, attend cyberped, tonight at 6 pm in McLean.
CAC- i need someone else's opinion on this. my personal experiences with buy-in artist clubs has been a little less than satisfying. we'll chat.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Mess Hall, Walker AC, Three-Walls
Mess Hall- I loved the map of peoples' function in the organization. I'm not sure how helpful it is, but as an artwork, it's awesome. I'm also really interested in hierarchies in work environments, so this was funny and refreshing in its format--aka not a pyramid.
Also, I'm taking a class with one of these people next semester. Anybody understand the Jam website? I am a little confused. Interested, but I need to think about it a lot more. I might make y'all talk about it on Tuesday.
Walker AC- The weekly drawing club, as part of the Open Field project, is so amazing. I was part of a class that incorporated this kind of practice during my undergrad. It was a great stress reliever and totally changed the way I look at ownership of work/being social while working.
Three Walls- I talked a little with one of the people who works here (and is an SAIC professor, I think in the art history/criticism/fiber? department) I love the CPS Thinktank idea. To think, I can teach and still *gasp* be in contact with practicing artists? I wonder how teachers actually get involved though.
Also, I'm taking a class with one of these people next semester. Anybody understand the Jam website? I am a little confused. Interested, but I need to think about it a lot more. I might make y'all talk about it on Tuesday.
Walker AC- The weekly drawing club, as part of the Open Field project, is so amazing. I was part of a class that incorporated this kind of practice during my undergrad. It was a great stress reliever and totally changed the way I look at ownership of work/being social while working.
Three Walls- I talked a little with one of the people who works here (and is an SAIC professor, I think in the art history/criticism/fiber? department) I love the CPS Thinktank idea. To think, I can teach and still *gasp* be in contact with practicing artists? I wonder how teachers actually get involved though.
Monday, April 26, 2010
SFMOMAIMAEYELEVEL
SF MoMA blog- I fell in love with the first post I saw. It was a five question interview with Allison Smith. I clicked on the link and it took me to Wikipedia. Awesome!! And the first link was Trench Art. Reading this was really really interesting. This morning, V asked me how the boys respond when I ask them to sew for a lesson. This link provides evidence that wounded soldiers, at least during WWI, were encouraged to embroider as part of the recovery process. Interesting and anti-stereotypical context for sewing. I like!!
Also, there's something addictive about the 5 questions format. It's so beautifully organized. It appeals to that little piece of me that enjoys taking multiple choice tests and organizing binders (sorry guys) but I think it's also the same drive that makes me enjoy repetitive process art making. Obsessive sewing?
IMA- clever name. IMAMuseum. Honestly, sorry but my next thought was "There's a museum in Indie?" My apologies to anyone from Indiana. Next immediate thought was that the first page was not as seductive as SF MoMa's, but I guess that's an unfair comparison. I clicked on the education tab, and stumbled across a post on making the museum accessible. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Why is there a Miss Wheelchair Indiana? Why can't we think that a person using a wheelchair is beautiful or capable or whatever beauty queens are of being just Miss Indiana? Counter examples welcome. Please. http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/03/29/the-as-of-ima/#more-11602
Eye Level-interesting idea. A printed wiki. I wonder how had it is for her to let go of authorship like that. and how much she'll make final edits. I'm struggling with ideas of ownership over words and information. hmmm... food for thought.
Also, there's something addictive about the 5 questions format. It's so beautifully organized. It appeals to that little piece of me that enjoys taking multiple choice tests and organizing binders (sorry guys) but I think it's also the same drive that makes me enjoy repetitive process art making. Obsessive sewing?
IMA- clever name. IMAMuseum. Honestly, sorry but my next thought was "There's a museum in Indie?" My apologies to anyone from Indiana. Next immediate thought was that the first page was not as seductive as SF MoMa's, but I guess that's an unfair comparison. I clicked on the education tab, and stumbled across a post on making the museum accessible. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Why is there a Miss Wheelchair Indiana? Why can't we think that a person using a wheelchair is beautiful or capable or whatever beauty queens are of being just Miss Indiana? Counter examples welcome. Please. http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/03/29/the-as-of-ima/#more-11602
Eye Level-interesting idea. A printed wiki. I wonder how had it is for her to let go of authorship like that. and how much she'll make final edits. I'm struggling with ideas of ownership over words and information. hmmm... food for thought.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Artless Wednesdays
http://myitf.org/news/regional-and-state/1878-qartless-wednesdaysq-will-show-life-without-art-in-pa
I still can't make a link work. I copied and pasted the whole thing in the insert link pop up. what am i doing wroooooooong? I can text to my blog now though!!
This is a link to an article on artless Wednesdays...I just don't know how effective it is. Most places I've been don't have particularly active art communities. Oh well. There ya go!
Tired
Does anybody else get kind of tired after a day of observations? I feel better after teaching, but for some reason, observations leave me really exhausted. I sometimes wonder if I'll make it through a full day of teaching, let alone a week. Agree? Disagree? Words of encouragement?
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