February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
July 2011
4 posts
Directory
Internal links to each of my projects developed over the past 18 months.
Sacred Spaces
Snow Writing
Private Medicine
Private Medicine: Video
Behind Their Backs
Behind Their Backs: Video
Take
Dada Escape
Mirror
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
Suburban Rebels →
It’s been a little while since I’ve written a non-interview article for Sixty Inches From Center, and it feels great to be back into editorial mode. Staring at images, contemplating their meaning and value — I never imagined in college that I would receive so much satisfaction from these activities. To me the responsibility of an art historian is to find meaning in images and...
Visual Creativity - Revisited
Months ago I wrote about visual creativity and how I understood it as a concept broken into five often overlapping categories: Art, Craft, Design, Folk Art, and Illustration.
In the past week, I’ve spent a lot more time focusing on this idea and feel like I’ve refined it a bit more. I now see each of the four categories other than art defining themselves against art through a...
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
Art History Education →
Lately I’ve been feeling more and more grateful for my position as a Sixty Inches From Center correspondent. Somehow I never realized how much writing about art would change the way I look at and understand it, but it truly has. By writing about art for the public, my thoughts and interpretations gain a weight that they didn’t have in art school. I understand that I have a...
January 2011
2 posts
“We are anthropologists of commerce. We’re curious about people and what they...”
– http://www.etsy.com/storque/about/
December 2010
2 posts
My first full-length SIFC post →
These days nothing fulfills me as much as writing for Sixty Inches From Center. Talking to artists about what inspires them has been so enjoyable and I really value the feeling that I’m contributing to my city’s art history. I’m excited to continue to be a part of this project and see how it evolves.
November 2010
4 posts
October 2010
3 posts
What’s more dangerous than the cessation of personal moral development? Maybe nothing.
This is the issue my next art piece will address. if I’m on task, it’ll go down next weekend.
Sixty Inches From Center Correspondence →
I’m quite happy I hooked up with Sixty Inches From Center, Tempestt and Nicki’s ambitious art archive project. Though I’m not as involved as I’d like to be, I’m grateful for the opportunity use the art historical knowledge I learned in college and just to have an outlet for writing about art. I feel like I was trained to understand and interpret this great, passionate...
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
4 posts
July 2010
3 posts
“[Folk art], in the radical definition, is a positive projection from a negative...”
– Henry Glassie from The Spirit of Folk Art.
Visual Creativity
Lately I’ve become more and more aware that my subject of study in college, fine art, is just one among several large categories of visually manifested creativity. Illustration, design, craft, and folk art, four other large categories, run parallel to fine art, occasionally intersect with it, but ultimately retain much different connotations.
On the surface, fine art seems to contain the...
June 2010
1 post
The Culture Project
I predict my biggest project of the summer will be what I’m currently calling “The Culture Project”. Inspired by my partial frustration with globalization and its homogenization of some aspects of culture throughout the world (clothing and pop music being two visible examples), I want to create a completely fabricated culture that resembles existent ones as little as possible....
April 2010
9 posts
“I’m interested in the idea of the exclusive nature of the art world. For those...”
– “Participation Required” Artist Statement
WatchThe piece included four performers and lasted for just under an hour. Dancing for over ten minutes was really exhausting, but the audience really seemed to enjoy themselves!
WatchDestroying the piñata was more violent than I expected.
March 2010
4 posts
Participation Required
After Saturday night’s guerilla art excursion, Shauntal expressed that she’d had a lot of fun and that she felt that we had contributed to change, albeit in a small way. Similarly, a few weeks ago, a friend shared with me that the snow writing project had really helped her feel relieved over a phrase she’d had locked inside for a long time.
I didn’t expect either of these...
February 2010
3 posts
