February 2011
13 posts
Performance Projects Semester 2 Reader
Since my days as an undergraduate, the course reader has occupied a special place within my academic identity. These readers contain a variety of xeroxed essays that are usually compiled for classes by the teachers. They have a unique materiality that wears easily and just feels really good. There is something authoritative about their standard black tape spine binding too. One of the first...
January 2011
16 posts
First day of class (Wed)
Performance Projects taught by Tony Schwensen
Written proposal and signature required Email for information on deadline and content of proposal This course is for advanced students working in any media, who are using elements of performance in their work. This aspect of performance in their practice may be related to generating content for the production of video or photo, designing the public...
First day of class (Tues)
Grad Group Critique taught by Jonathan Calm
This course is designed to build verbal and written articulation critique skills in a group setting among the first second year graduate students. Led by a faculty member students examine the art work of their fellow classmates as the catalyst for critique. All first and second year Master of Fine Arts students are required to take this course each...
First day of class (Mon)
Professional Practices for Visual Artists taught by Jeannie Simms and Mary Ellen Strom
Entering the Public Sphere: Tools for Sustainability in Being an Artist This course is structured around a selection of accomplished, high profile, national and international practicing contemporary curators, administrators, artists, teachers, residency directors and organizers. These professionals will present...
First day of class (Thurs)
As I begin each day of classes, I hope to share with you all the course description followed by some thoughts. Tomorrow classes begin and I am headed to TA the following course:
The Digital Image in Contemporary Photography: An Introduction taught by Amber Davis Tourlentes
This course explores still photography as practiced in the ‘digital darkroom.’ Students can expect to acquire...
Arriving in Boston
It is with great excitement and sadness, I depart this evening, back to Boston to finish my last semester of coursework. Fulfilling the cliche that things seem to come together in the last semester, things feel pretty good moving into the spring and then my thesis year.
To (immediately) do upon arrival:
Begin searching for alternative thesis show spaces
Finally finish scanning/editing...
Santa Monica Artist Fellowship Conversation →
My mentor, Diane Meyer will be giving an artist talk at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, CA on February 7th. If you are in the area, I would highly recommend stopping by.
The Tourist's Political Baggage
I wrote the following statement/research proposal in a horribly short amount of time as I found out about this opportunity this afternoon. It fits nicely with the Finland proposal I hashed out two weeks ago so I thought I might as well give it a shot. If you find grammar boo-boos just don’t tell me… Nonetheless, this writing gives a mildly chaotic, yet telling look at the conceptual...
Kickstarter: The ABC Box →
The artist book collaborative I am a member of has recently debuted a Kickstarter page to help fund an interesting nomadic project. Please take a look and watch the video!
