Paul Chaney talking about his drawings made recently at Donetsk. Super interesting diagrams of nature-culture interactions, going back to the Big Bang, and forward to this coal town in the Ukraine.
http://tranzitdisplay.cz/cs/vystavy/paul-chaney-donetsk-syndrome-diagrammatic-vernisaz-15-12-1900
If anyone is around! We do alot with community of Kingston
http://www.art21.org/videos/segment-kerry-james-marshall-in-identity
Artist Kerry James, born in Birmingham Alabama, integrates African American pop culture as his subject matter into public art installations, paintings and sculptures. He pays tribute to the geography of his up bringing while also expressing frustrations of peoples.
Ryhthm Mastr is a comic book he designed that pairs African sculptures as in competition with the ” cyberspace elite” that suggests people are losing sight of traditional values. I admire this artist for his ability to convey feelings of empathy through his works ( especially his characters ) as he suggests feelings of invisibility many African American people are feeling during these tumultuous times. This is an artist I would implement when teaching identity/ popular culture… I plan on investigating his comic book soon, more posts to come!
Unfortunaly I couldn’t find the actual files from my conference day, but I do have the actual hand outs and I will post them in my next post. If anyone has any questions about them, ask me 🙂
Has anybody heard about this before?
Checked out this pretty interesting exhibition today at CAS art gallery in Livingston Manor. 
Ok Ladies.. so hallway murals? Has anyone had any issues in regards to copyright ? Im in a bit of a pickle, my kids did a really nice mural last year based upon a literature review of the Maurice Sendak classic, Where the Wild Things Are. As of until today, it is enjoyed by students, visitors and staff. I was approached by central office personal and questioned whether I had permission of publishers to “re-create” this painting. The Beatles mural is from the late 60s and is the last remaining mural at ketcham high school- the others have been painted over since ” copyright issues”, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, all of them. I am outraged! I will be devastated if I have to paint over the wild things, as I imagine the kids will be upset as well. Anyone has experience with this ???
Hey ladies…… just a reminder the Google for Doodle contest is upon us!
Submissions due DEC 2!
https://www.google.com/intl/ja/doodle4google/rules.html
Hey ladies.. so, I was planning on doing some scratch board projects next week to teach a different type of engraving process. I am short on the pre-ordered boards but I have heard of people making their own by coating a piece of illustration board with layers of acrylic gesso, and sanding between the layers. Then , the last two layers are done with black india ink. Any thoughts?
