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.

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?

Is this working yet?

I texted this... I think?

Carrot Revolution, Prosarts, Youthlearn

Carrot Revolution is pretty fun. I like the categories or tags on the left side to sculpture, painting, etc. I can look at what's interesting. I looked at sculpture first. I was a little annoyed with the use of a fish eye lens to document the sculpture garden. Frustrating! But other than that, I like that the entries are short and sweet. If i want more info, I can look it up. also, love the toilet paper roll faces and the green ribbon girl teapot! Maybe I just like the layout because it's run from google so I'm used to the setup...

Pros Arts is a little wordy, but other than that it seems so cool! I love that at the bottom of every tab there is contact information to schedule a show or get more information. And there's still a calendar and contacts tab. It's fairly easy to read and understand what they do. Well done. I would be interested in knowing more about the specific programs or lessons to integrate art and science.

Youth Learn seems like a pretty interesting database of resources. The activities tab might be particularly helpful. We're always looking for lesson plans.

BUGGY!!!!

to use Jean's word, this is cyberdundant, and I'm not so sure on the video quality, but here ya go
klk64.com/buggy
Fringe swept with first place in men's and women's races! Woot!

ugh! just copy and paste. everytime i go to insert a link, it becomes invisible in the actual post. any thoughts?

EVC and Street Level

EVC seems like a lot of fun, and they’re doing something good. I loved the YO-TV program idea. I have a couple of issues with the “who you know is more important than what you know” thing and with the whole college to work system, to water it down a lot, but this program creates opportunities for really talented kids who can’t go to college for whatever reason to get their foot in the door for what they want to do. At least that’s how the site makes it sound. I hope it’s really that effective and that these students get called back after their internships!

Street Level- Hooray for bringing the after-school (fun) education into the classroom! Classes don’t have to be boring!

The coolest typographic self-portrait I ever made

Also, the only one!

Art 21, ChicagoArtMag, ArtLetter

I love Art 21! except for the intro to every episode with the stupid buzzing cell phone. But the actual shows are great. If you get them via Hulu or the library, you can bypass the buzz. It's interesting to try to interpret what some artists mean when they talk.

ChicagoArtMagazine was fun too. It was remarkably similar to looking at a magazine's table of contents and the scrolling links across the top were like a cover. Clever. Check out the article "life after art school part 3". Reassuring.

ArtLetter seems like a time based publication to keep people up on gallery openings and shows. Seems pretty cool. I guess if the same people subscribe to this and go to the openings it creates a kind of community. It is always helpful to have all of your events organized on one piece of paper, instead of having to stay on top of every gallery's schedule. He's doing it for us... or at least that's what it seemed like.

Sewing

I'm starting to wonder if I'm using my favorite media as a crutch...uh oh!