Hi guys,

This is one of our exhibitions at Gallery 297 in Bristol.
It's coming up very soon.
Support the senior VARTS ladies!

EXTRA CREDIT for all any VA class is welcome

Work on the Matt Bua project will commence MONDAY at 12 noon! For any1 interested in extra credit this is a great way to get it even for ur other VA classes.
I have sourced a bunch of scrap wood for this project, and am still devising a plan of how to get it there, If anyone knows where we can get a pickup or something that would be great, i will throw sum $$ down for gas, if not i will see about renting a U-haul or something for the day i dont think its that expensive. (I will be transporting it this weekend so it is ready for us MONDAY)
Bring tools if you have any, things you like to work with, proper clothes and shoes, we will be working with power tools, and most important bring ur creative minds, we need to get this thing ready for graduation, we got the ok to keep up till then, so this is a great opportunity to show them what we can do, most campus projects get taken down before graduation.
Also if you know of any wood sources feel free to bring them too or contact me and when i have a form of transport we will get them.

Nick
Nickse30@gmail.com

matt bua

hi all

here is a link for matt bua

this is a link for matt's visionary drawings book + archive.  if you sign up, you'll get an email inviting you to contribute your drawings to the online project

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Robin Rhode X Damien Hurst

I saw these images of Rhode's BMW, then I saw the images of Hurst's Harley Davidson. What do you guys think of this? Is Harley just riding BMW's coat tails with their "art bike"? Also Rhode's was a performance piece, which created a painting with the BMW.

-Brent

next week and the week after

hi guys

 i hope you're enjoying this awesome weather.

please bring cameras to next week's class, and video cameras if you can...i am trying to schedule an off campus activity weather permitting.  we will critique austin's project, briefly chekc in with nick and rob,  and then jump into cars so please park nearby.

also, a reminder: roey and rob have appointments with me during my office hours on tuesday, nick has a phone meeting with me tomorrow at 11:50.

next week i will give you all guidelines for self-evaluations and explain the process we will use to evaluate and put a letter on the work we have done this semester.  it also turns out i need at least 2-3 good images of works you have created for this class, eg, your models from memory or works from your self-directed projects.  please get these to me as soon as possible.

the last week of this class will be the final critique, please bring everything you have done on your self-directed projects.  nick, you 

finally, you guys are invited to continue working on the tp from space project from the matt bua workshop, i am happy to give credit for any additional work done on the structure including but not limited to:

-finishing the back side (i bet we can get more wood from the construction, and there is some in the materials lab)

-painting the inside or the outside

-landscaping? wallpapering? interior decor? electronics?

ok, see you soon

deborah

help wanted

hey guys

i need someone to review beeper cards with me.  it's pretty easy- they just show me cards and write down what i remember, but they have to be sort of organized and responsible and have decent handwriting.

also, the person for this job can't be a student in one of my classes or someone i know really well.  it's a great job for a psych major because it is based on a psychology experiment from the 1980's.  

if you know anyone who might want to help me, have them get in touch with me at info@deborahaschheim.com.  it's 2 or 3 hours of work at $10/hr, and ideally we'd do it next week or the week after

thanks

deborah

Roving Eye Film Festival

If you guys are interested, if you haven't got the email already. This looks like fun!

Hive Gallery Show {Show Nomadic}

E-mail me if you would like to submit:

bgentile109@gmail.com

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Roey's Reading

In addition to my short reading, here is a really simple (40 Questions) test to see which Multiple Intelligences fit you. I've mentioned this a little in class before, but this is kind of the methodology behind my teaching philosophy, that people have multiple intelligences--not just one IQ. I'd suggest taking the survey before reading my article, so it's less skewed. Some people are entirely split across the board, like me, (see image below) but some people are heavily one MI or another.

Here's the link to the survey:

MI Test

Here's my results: Unfortunately, I have no musical intelligence. :(

Hey Rob...

I was looking over the readings everyone emailed, and I think it's so funny you chose that book. My aunt has it, and I used to look at it all the time when I babysat for my cousin, wondering wtf it was. I'm surprised I never even asked my aunt about it. Anyway, I was at her house this weekend and asked to borrow it, so I could look at it again. I'll bring it into class for your crit, cuz the pdf's don't do it justice. Anyway, just thought I'd share.

READ ME AND PLEASE RESPOND! :)

Hi everyone,

On April 24th, there will be a class full of elementary school students coming to RWU to participate in an art program. I am hoping that you all would be willing to support the project by having the students come into our class from 10-12PM on that day. If you are interested in letting them come into our class, please let me know! They would be doing various things, including a collaborated art project (2 el ed students to 1 RWU student), FUNDREDs, touring campus, and asking you questions about art. Perhaps we could show them some of our art too??

Let me know what you think!!!


Roey

Incase anyone is interested...

Providence Palestinian Film Festival 2009

The first annual Providence Palestinian Film Festival will take place this April 9-15 2009 at the Avon Cinema. This festival is the first of its kind in our city, and to our knowledge, the first entirely student-run Palestinian Film Festival in the United States.

The festival will open with a screening of Slingshot Hiphop, Jackie Salloum’s award-winning documentary on the topography of the socially conscious rap movement in Palestine. It will go on to feature such recent films as Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea and Adam Shapiro’s Chronicles of a Refugee Part 4, in addition to some student film work and an afternoon of documentary shorts presented by Nitin Sawhney of the Voices Beyond Walls project, which engages youth in Balata and Jenin refugee camps in autobiographical film-making workshops.

All screenings are free and open to the public. The festival is organized by Common Ground: Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel.

For more information and a detailed schedule, please visit providencepalestinianfilmfestival.blogspot.com.

RISDI TRIP

Hello All...

So the RISDI trip was a success i guess... I meet some cool people that im still in contact with , exchanged some of my art with people for random things and got some feedback as well! I even ate the same food that REAL art students eat at the RISDI cafeteria, it wasnt as satisfying as i had dreamed though, we have much better pizza in the RWU commons. As you all know im a man of few words so i documented all the exchanges that took place.


So i had a couple of works with me and I let the people choose what they want to keep from my work as long as i got something in exchange. This is the first one, its a 5 layer/color print.





In return for this i got this unfinished crossword puzzle that the girl who gave it to me says she was really exited to finish, I guess ill try and finish it for her...




The next art piece that i exchanged was this second print just one layer.



In return i got this post card, and This is from Francesca. BRENT, u and Brandon met her at my bros place on sat remember.



Francesca was apart of a demonstration to free Palestine in Brown UNI, Now u guys probably understand why im still talking to her. She's as crazy as me and actually wants to stop the murder of innocent woman and children by the terrorist state of Israel and its U.S. supporters. Wow arnt we a bunch of crazies its too bad the media reports people who fight for freedom and basic human rights as terrorist. Just so u know the facts i was in Lebanon over x-mass brake and and there was a month long siege by Israel into Palestine Let me remind u Palestine is the most densely populated area in the world, and Israel was using air strikes with white phosphorus which is a chemical weapon for thoes of you who dont know and its against the Geneva Convention which make it a war crime. They were dropping these bombs on highly populated civilian areas. Death toll for Palestine, 2000+ Dead most civilians, 500 children and 5000 injured which half of them died............Death toll for Israel 13 dead 10 of them soldiers and 2 were Arabs living in Israel. How balanced is that sounds more like genocide to me. And this sorta thing happens more than u think. And i say all this here because it has everything to do with my art and i would like some of you to understand why, Its happening in my back yard as Brent puts it and i cant just sit back and watch. In lebanon they actually show u the dead children that have been blown to bits, on the News.

here's a short article dont worry no graphic pics even though u should c them to understand the severity of this situation,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14208.htm

ANyway she (Francesca) came up to me and gave me this flyer...



In return i gave her this Mondrian copy that i made, and i hung it at the demonstration.




I also received this ticket in exchange for a painting i did, sorry i dont have a pic of the painting to show.




In conclusion i think it was a good trip even though it was raining and we had to highjack students to let us in the buildings, I think if were to go again we need to organize a lot more.

Gnight friends...

Nick

Interview in Providence

Friday was an interesting day, I got some decent feed back from 3 RISD students and 1 Brown Professor. With the RISD students I didn't tell them anything about my self or my work just had them simply critique it as it they were at a gallery. I was pleasantly surprised as my ideas of graffiti/sub culture juxtaposed with victorian patterns were understandable to the students. The RISD students commented on my color being a little drown out, perhaps more vibrant choices. The Brown professor thought fondly of my work (ask Lauren she was there!) She would like me to push my paintings further perhaps pointing out more juxtaposing elements that exist in society. She also commented on my colors as well, less muddy and more defined. Finally she spoke about the lack of touch in my paintings, I interpreted this as the lack of my own hand in the work, since they are very 2D. All in all I was great to get out of the RWU environment, wish it had not rained, but my paintings are fine and I am dry.

Also I am going to follow up what that professor said about being critiqued by RISD painting faculty.

-Brent G.