Charles LeDray

Untitled (20x12x4")

Toy Chest (8x13x5")

Another artist that came up in conversation on Monday was Charles LeDray. A retrospective of his work is currently on view at the ICA in Boston, and will be traveling to the Whitney and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston next.  Formal matters, such as the materials he uses and the scale at which he works, contribute significantly to the way we understand and interpret the work.

"For over 20 years, New York-based artist Charles LeDray has created handmade sculptures in stitched fabric, carved bone, and wheel-thrown clay. LeDray painstakingly fashions smaller-than-life formal suits, embroidered patches, ties, and hats, as well as scaled-down chests of drawers, doors, thousands of unique, thimble-sized vessels, and even complex models of the solar system." from the ICA Boston website

Karen Yasinsky

Karen Yaskinsky is a Baltimore-based artist who has been nominated for the Sondheim Prize on several ocassions. I mentioned her stop-action animation work to Cornelia, but thought you all might be interested in seeing some of her work (more at Vimeo).



I Choose Darkness, 2009 from Karen Yasinsky on Vimeo.

MAJOR Cafe and Finding your Way

Major Cafe is coming up. Even if you feel relatively confident about your major, I encourage you to attend. It is a fun event, giving you the opportunity to meet upperclassmen and faculty from all of the majors, ask questions, and thus get a better sense of the various departments. Information about this event, and a more focused one for those completely undecided, follows:

Choosing Your Major 

Thursday, November 4th  |  5:30 -6:30 PM  |  Brown 320 

Part of Major Café program for Foundation students. Trying to decide which major is best for you? Thinking about having a minor 

or concentration?  If you are still weighing your options, come to this informative program to learn from a panel of students who 

went through this process not so long before you.  You will hear from students much like yourself on how they chose their own 

major with specific emphasis on decision making.  You will also learn more about majors, minors and concentrations. 

Major Café 

Friday, November 5th  |  3:30-5:30 PM  |   Brown Center Leidy Atrium & Lower Level Lobby 

Major Café is a program for all Foundation students who are exploring their options in majors and career choices at MICA. This 

program will provide an opportunity for you to meet faculty and upper division students in all majors, to view some work samples, 

and to find answers to your questions. 

Women for Women International and Kate Spade

Deborah Lloyd, creative director of Kate Spade, and Zainab Salbi, who founded Women for Women International (WfWI) have been collaborating to help female survivors of war rebuild their lives. "WfWI takes a holistic approach: educating women about their legal and reproductive rights and providing psychological counseling, job-skills training, and microcredit loans." Kate Spade, the accessory-and apparelmaker, contracted with a WfWI micro-credit and jobs program in Bosnia and Herzegovina to make mittens, hats, and scarves.

Visit this link for more information about this project.

Fellini's Dancing Doll

This segment made me think of Jennifer's presentation yesterday:
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ART 21

The website affiliated with the PBS series Art21 can be found at: www.pbs.org/art21/

Tim Hawkinson, Egg, 1997

Laylah Ali, Untitled, 2004

You can browse the list of artists here.

Jason Wu

After studying briefly at MICA, I was exposed to all kinds of abstract drawings, illustrations, paintings, and graphic posters. However, it was evident that outfit making was completely outnumbered. Being a future fashion design major, I wanted to shed some light on a very unique type of art - fashion design.

Jason Wu is one of the thousands of wonderful fashion designers that are working for the industry today. His dresses take on much more angular, simplistic shapes and sometimes unusual colors. His dresses have been displayed in many fashion shows, and Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States, wore a Jason Wu dress to the President's inaugural ball. Jason Wu's clothing greatly appeal to me, because of the distinct "Jason Wu taste" that he plants in each piece of clothing that he creates. It has the people looking at the wearer asking "where did that person get her clothes?"

-Jennifer Zhang