Odili Donald Odita, Visiting Artist

Painter Odili Donald Odita paid us a visit on July 25, talking about his work in a variety of media and visiting studios. Your thoughts?

Visiting Artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons gave a fascinating lecture at UArts on Wednesday, July 18. While the faculty were stranded in a meeting, she made studio visits and spoke to several people about their work. What happened? You tell us.

Also, she mentioned her gallery - Gallery Artists Studio Projects - or GASP (founded with her husband, Neil Leonard) we thought you might like to visit. Follow the link.

Visting Artist Kukuli Velarde

Last week, sculptors, ceramics artists, and even a few painters got a chance to see and sit down with Kukuli Velarde. I know I was talking about her lecture to people for days, how did the studio visits go?

Do we need one of these...

I was just floating around the interenet, visiting the websites of other schools in the country to see what's goin' on in the MFA world when I stumbled across this interesting little gadget: The Roaming Art Gallery – a California College of the Arts invention.

Click here for more info.

Hiro Sakaguchi, Visiting Artist

Hiro Sakaguchi's lecture was Thursday, July 5, and we learned a whole heap about him, his work, and the cultural connections it draws upon. Some of you got to have Hiro in the studio (he's talking to Keith Gruber in the photo above), and here's where you can share your thoughts with the rest of us.

Visiting Artist James Hyde

James Hyde's lecture seems to have provoked a number of interesting reactions from students in the program. I had the chance to observe some of the crits he gave (in the photo, he's talking to third-year painter Tim Murphy). Carol and I thought it might be interesting if we shared some of the outlines of these conversations on this page, so look here after each lecture and feel free to post your thoughts and anything you might think helpful by hitting the "Add Comment" link below.

Next up, painter Hiro Sakaguchi on Thursday (Not Wednesday!) July 5 at noon.

(And, by the way, if the comments get out hand or someone starts advertising Viagra on our blog, we can make it necessary to have them approved before they go online...don't make me do that.)

Visiting Artist Kinga Araya

Kinga Araya's lecture on June 20 kicked off our summer lecture series and, before she started teaching Topics, she met with and critiqued a number of students.

You're invited to post reflections on her lecture or your crit here by clicking "Add Comment" below.

Hype

I wanted to give everyone a heads-up about an exhibit opening Friday at Gallery Joe. It's called INK! and includes work by William Anastasi, Astrid Bowlby, Emily Brown, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner, Simon Frost, Gil Kerlin, Linn Meyers, Sharyn O’Mara, Samantha Simpson, and Martin Wilner. The reception is Friday from 6-8 and the show closes July 28.

If past years - I'm thinking those in which the question 'what is drawing?' seemed like a mantra- are any indication, the show will give us a lot to think about.

Extracurricular Source Analysis

The sub-heading to a story in the New York Times this morning:

"The tiny island nation of São Tomé may have attracted oil-related corruption without producing any oil."

The headline read, "No Oil Yet, but African Isle Finds Dealings Slippery."
Only when it's convenient for compacting a lot of information into a headline does the New York Times take an "assuming stance" on the corruption of the oil industry. This sub-heading assumes the reader believes the corruption of the oil industry is factual. It also states the position of the Times as believing the same thing.
Taking these underlying meanings into consideration, it also says less directly that the New York Times chooses to not write about the war profiteering that fuels the Iraq war and our continued interest in the Middle-East. And still less directly, but undeniably the fact of the matter, this sub-head states that this media organization, like most major media organizations is controlled. The proof is in print, as Harry Shearer is so fond of saying - "It's time to connect the dots!"