At the MAYFAIR

 photo by Selena Schreyer, above.

Washington DC Field Trip

We will be going to Washington DC for a field trip on Thursday, April 25th. We will meet at the Main Building at 8:45 and walk to Penn Station to catch the MARC train. Tickets will be provided for you, but please bring money for lunch or a brown bag meal. We will be back on campus close to 5pm. Please wear layers and comfortable shoes.

Before we go on our travels, please take a look at the exhibitions on view at the major museums around the National Mall where we will be spending our day. You will be free to go to the exhibits you deem most interesting and worthwhile. You will receive a map of the National Mall on the way to DC.

Museum of American Art

National Gallery of Art

National Museum of the Native American

 

National Museum of African Art

National Museum of Natural History

Sackler and Freer Galleries (Asian Art)

The Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art

United States Botanic Garden

Museum of American History

Luminous Intervention

Single Carrot Theater

Cause Company // Get Strolled at Transmodern 2009

Partner Sites for Safe Space Project

We have received responses from three organizations that would be willing to work with  their youth in responding to your prompt. These are Jubilee Arts (Left), Midtown Academy Public Charter School (Right) and the Refugee Youth Project (link here.)

Archive of Socially Engaged Art Practices

For more examples of socially engaged art projects, visit the Creative Time archive here:

In response to Two Chainz...

Open Letter

Discussion on Huffington Post!

Advocates for Youth Respond

Crunk Feminist Collective

and in related news:

Who Runs the World?

Watoto From the Nile - Letter to Lil Wayne 

Sexual Objectification: What is it? Part 1 and 2

Blogs that critically cover fashion and pop culture:

Racalicious

and

Threadbared

Relax!

Take time to read this article! How do we make this possible?

Radiolab podcast on COLOR

Here is the link for the Radiolab episode about color!

 

I see elements everywhere

HELLO ELEMENTS FAMILY!

Here are some things that reminded me of y'all 

 Ok, this actually didn't remind me of anyone, it's just cool. They're safety pins!! This was at the Anthropologie in the Chelsea Market in New York.

On the ceiling of the Blue Moon Cafe in Fells Point, this pipe cleaner bird cage totally reminded me of Kay.

A bench in Harbor East. Did you crochet this Sam?

At the Anthropologie in Rockefeller Center. It kinda looks like Sam's final project! Well, the wood structure at least.

Inside a compartment of the wood structure, this furry piece looks like it could've been made from some of Aleixis' alpacas!

 Janelllllleeee! PAPER FRINGES. THAT LOOK LIKE LEAVES. ON A TREE. Once again, at Anthropologie.

At a night market in Union Square, I had to take this picture for the puppeteers of the class-Valeska and Livvy! What do you guys think of these?

Sorry some of the pictures are hard to see!

Documenting Work on the Body & Performance

Consider combining a close-up (detail shot) and full body shot in one slide.

From the High School portfolio of Elise Wunderlich:

For performance, consider showing the progression of the performance in one slide, if video is not feasible.

Also take a look at:

The work of Francis Alys

The work of Kate Gilmore

The work of JJ McCracken

or any artist with whom you share an affinity.  Short and concise statements or titles can help explain and clarify the work, as can a materials list.

Though the work is very different, I thought Sugiura Yasuyoshi's interest in realism and subversion/transformation of materials related to Kristen's exploration of soap carving.

For the Love of Fringe (and for Jenelle)

 Alexander Vibskov and Andreas Emenius' Fringe Project:

Material Accumulation

We already looked at the work of several artists who use accumulation and repetition to transform our understanding of a material (or re-Present it to us in a new way), or where the accumulation of material over time has strong metaphoric significance. Here are a few more examples:

 A traditional nkisi figure (Congo), 19th century:

Coins nailed to a Washya Dyo or Danteshwori shrine in Kathmandu (to alleviate toothaches)

Pipe Cleaner sculptures of Trevor and Ryan Oakes:

The work of Lauren Clay:

 Judy Colella:

Olivia Lee:

Ruth Pettus' shoe sculptures:

 and the work of Petah Coyne:

Shinique Smith,

Emily Nachison,

and Marjolein Dalinga:

PHILADELPHIA FIELD TRIP // EVT // FALL 2012

ITINERARY

8:45 am // Bus leaves Main Building

11 am    // Bus arrives in Philly

11-1:00 // at PMA (independent)

1 pm // meet at the top of the Rocky Steps (front of PMA) and walk to Reading Terminal Market

1:30  // Reading Terminal Market // lunch

2:15 // Meet at 1214 Arch Street (Fabric Workshop)

2:30-4:00 // Fabric Workshop and Museum

4:00-5:15// possible stop at Rollins Building galleries

5:30 walk back to PMA and bus 

6:00 pm Bus departs PMA for MICA

8:00 arrive in Baltimore (Drop off at Main, Commons & Meyerhoff)

Please wear comfortable walking shoes, food or a snack for the way home (something that does not need to be refrigerated), and your journal or sketchbook and a camera, if you have one.

The hugely influential Czechoslovakian stop-action animator Jan Svankmajer's 1965 short film "Games with Stones" can be viewed here

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FUTURE DAZE
opening this Saturday night at Open Space: