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Repository 227: Things to Do with Your Hands and Head
This week I am a panelist for the inaugural Digital Scent Festival. I have been asked to speak with two other panelists about scent, art and design. No small feat to do virtually, I’m excited for the challenge. It’s informal, so that’s the good news. Send me in advance questions you might want discussed. I will be sure to post highlights of topics covered. The event is May 7, 10 AM PST, here are the details and please RSVP. The…
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Repository 208: An Art Game Inspired by Tolerance and the Five Senses | Interview with Sally Taylor
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton Before diving in and presenting you with a project by and conversation with the visionary artist and musician Sally Taylor, it’s important to be precise and set the tone about the current nature of art whether in schools or our culture. Basically let’s widen our idea of art. The Western world currently associates art with status, high culture,…
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Repository 182: Top 10 Exhibits to See in 2015/16
I’ve been remiss in posting though I have not been slacking – just collecting a bevy of research to share on 1. changes in art consumption, 2. creating art for longevity and art against passivity, and 3. why drawing is a necessary tool for thinking and how the lack of drawing instruction is correlated to the rash of irrational thinking in our society now (even MFA art students do not need to know how to draw to graduate!!). Meanwhile a short and…
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Repository 176: Top 11 e-Tools for Your Art Box | Bookmark Now
I’ve just completed an art history lesson for my local 3rd graders. The art history lesson will be accompanied by an exercise. Unlike the massive number of exercises out there, I am hoping a heavy history lesson will inspire them to look at art differently – specifically Monet and Impressionism. What I will deliver to these 8 and 9 year olds will likely give them an edge in understanding that no, in fact, it’s not just a pretty picture, but…
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Repository 168 | Copyright, Appropriation, Stealing and Radical Democracy
It’s been over a year and a half that I have tried to find a willing bookstore for my coloring book – a swan song to a book I wrote and could not afford the copyright, a red flag to artists to stop working in isolation, an homage to the shoulders of giants on which we stand. While a handful have said the book was too special and to try museum bookstores, the majority of artist friendly, curious book shops…
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Repository 167: Fragrance Wunderkammer | Learning from Master Mandy Aftel
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein As stated in my last post on learning my olfactory alphabet, I’ve been on a quest to learn the art of perfumery so I can design a fragrance on forgetting. Forgetting is indeed an illusion, and most definitely wearing a fragrance that makes you forget is an illusion. Impossible one might say. Though I’m persisting…
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Repository 150: Artist Maira Kalman on the Importance of Children Meditating
Below is a lovely reminder from Maira Kalman of why children, now more than ever, should find space and time at school to meditate. Found in the August issue of “Mindful”. Enjoy (click on it and it will enlarge so you can read it;-):
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