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CW: mentions of abuse, CSA, suicide Last week, Melissa Chadburn and Carolyn Kellogg published a disturbing expose in the Los Angeles Times about literary grifter Anna March. Or is it Nancy Lott? Or Delaney Anderson? Or Nancy Kruse? So many writers — mostly marginalized — are tweeting stories about how Anna did…
Sunday, June 18th my major professor, Hans Breder, passed away. Hans was instrumental in the development of video and performance art, launching the first MFA in Intermedia/Multimedia at the University of Iowa after a career in New York, showing at the Richard L Feigen gallery and continuing through recent shows at the Dansiger Gallery. Breder was… Read More Remembering Hans Breder
In April, AIGA CO Boulder had our first Makerspace Series at BLDG 61. The Makerspace Series is an event designed to highlight the amazing program at Boulder Library called BLDG 61. BLDG 61 is an all-ages public workshop located in the Canyon portion of the Main Library that features programs l… Source: Recap – AIGA… Read More Recap – AIGA CO Boulder Makerspace | AIGA Colorado
By Alan Murdock “Shade: Clyford Still/Mark Bradford,” an exhibit exploring relationships in the work of Mark Bradford and Clifford Still exhibited in Denver from April 9-July 16, 2017. I visited the exhibit in May. The relationship between the two artists’ work is both conceptual and aesthetic. In terms of form, large canvases, shapes that look… Read More Mark Bradford Clifford Still – Shade
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? GOOD COVERS 1) This poster for the movie, Black Swan, is extremely effective and clever. The title uses the nice serif typeface, Bodoni, and then to portray the ‘swan’ is the letter ‘S’ extremely blown up from the typeface being used in the title of the poster. This is a…
In my Narrative Design class students are writing about how various types of images become “narrative” in our minds. Read Evan Wirth’s comments on how still images can imply narrative by the elements captured within the frame.
Musicbed, a company providing royalty clearance of music for use in the film industry has an excellent blog with highly relevant articles for filmmakers and creatives of all stripes. Their recent post “Four Career Decisions Every Creative Should Make” asks some questions that I’ve been asking myself as I search for meaningful work in a… Read More Evaluating Career Decisions
In 1956 Japanese painter and avant-garde artist YOSHIHARA JIRŌ wrote a manifesto that would drive the art making of a group of young, energetic, daring young artists in Japan following the end of the Second World War. In the opening to his manifesto Jirō wrote: “To today’s consciousness, the art of the past, which on the whole… Read More The Gutai Art Manifesto’s relationship to the Western Avant-Garde
Utah’s Salt Flats are a striking natural feature in the state’s West Desert. It is one of two places on the earth so attuned to the earth’s gravitational pull it is said you can see the curve of the earth on the horizon. After living in Salt Lake City for four years Karrie and I had yet… Read More Karrie Higgins’ Performances on Salt
One of my favorite courses to teach is a course on Outsider Art. This tradition lumps together several categories – contemporary folk art, art of the insane (we could start calling this art of the cognitively divergent, one would suppose), the European Art Brut, and sometimes even graffiti and street paste-up art, but it can… Read More The Art of Ben Wilson and the Tradition of Outsider Art
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