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From the New York Times article: Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he thereby helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life. Tags: artist, collage, painting, photography, play, sculpture Got all of the pieces laid out over the weekend. Also got the 1st of 3 coats of paint applied. Postcard also designed. Next steps: –attach hardware on back of pieces before next coat of paint to prohibit the marring of the paint –paint – print errors –affix errors to photos –affix computer pieces to hardware/attach photos Tags: 59801, art, art in missoula, artist, arts and culture in missoula, collage, computer, creativity, erotic photography, fine art nude photography, love, painting, photography, reboot, recycle GET / LOVE/1.1 Host: Heart User-Agent: Future Female/5.0 (Conduit; L; XX Chromosome OS Life Mach-XY; fr; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Accept: touch/love,application/love,application/touch+trust,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: close HTTP/1.x 302 Found Location: heart Content-Type: love/emotion Server: CNS/2.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Encoding: gzip Cache-Control: private, x-gzip-ok=”" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:26:20 GMT Tags: 59801, art, artist, collage, creativity, erotic photography, fine art nude photography, heartache, love, process, sculpture Check out the art to be auctioned here. < Tags: 59801, activism, art, art in missoula, artists, arts and culture in missoula, community, inspiration, missoula, montana, performance art Destruction | CreationOriginally uploaded by love not fear Dismantled a laptop for the upcoming show. Expect to have around 15 pieces in it, 11 of them brand new. Stay tuned for details. Getting ready for the June show, 404: NOT HERE REDUX, featuring some work you’ve seen before, and some brand new work.
The 4th semi-annual Childbloom camp is an immersion into creative play and exploration of music, dance, visual art, and theatre for young people ages 7-11. Our week is a trip around the world, traveling through the traditional songs, rhythms, stories, and dance of the U.S., South America, India, Africa, and beyond. A week-long exploration of music, movement, and story telling for young people ages 7-12 Activities will include: There will be optional aftercare & recreation available in the afternoons until 5:30 p.m. (there will be an additional fee for this service). Please pack a brown bag lunch for your child. Campers are provided with a healthy mid-morning and afternoon snack. Heidi Junkersfeld grew up training in tap dance, musical theatre, jazz and madrigal choir, and piano. She graduated with a degree in Physics and a minor in Dance. She has produced various multi-media shows that include artistic mediums such as dance, theatre, spoken word, music and visual art. In 2002 Heidi moved to Ecuador, and proceeded to travel, work, and study in 8 different countries in South America. During her travels Heidi studied Ashtanga Yoga, Capoiera, dance, traditional South American music, contact improvisation, theatre, and contemporary clown. She taught theatre and dance in several schools and Universities, as well as creating travelling multi-media performances all over South America. She now lives in Missoula, teaches yoga, works as the music and movement specialist at the Missoula Community School and the Missoula Community Resource Coordinator for the Missoula County Public Schools. She is part of the art collective Open Field Artists, and is one of the cocreators of the music duo Sueno Lunar. Nathan Zavalney is a trained and licensed Childbloom guitar instructor. He has been director of the Childbloom Guitar Program of Missoula since September 2000, specializing in teaching guitar to young students. He has 15 years of experience with guitar in classical, jazz, and folk styles. He has performed as a guitarist, vocalist, and percussionist in solo and group settings, including the world music group Drum Brothers and the Mo-Trans modem dance company. During his musical studies at the University of MT. he focused on composition, jazz studies, and classical voice training. Nathan has taught music to students all over the northwest in educational assemblies and in-class instruction, including two years as the music instructor for the Missoula City International School. He has taught private lessons for the last 7 years in both percussion and classical guitar. Nathan also runs Burning the Midnight Oil Audio Productions, through which he has created a variety of music for film, television, dance, and commercial CD release. Tags: 59801, creativity, dance, learning, playI’ve discussed graf in depth here in the past. I was interested to see that the Graffiti Research Lab has “made it big”. Check out the video.
Ever since the OPP renovated the bar, one thing has bothered me and that’s the lOWERCASE ls on the beer signs. Now, I’ve always loved the artwork on the OPP’s chalkboard, don’t get me wrong. I think each panel is absolutely beautiful. I remember, just after the remodel, wondering when the chalkboard would return. Finally it did, and WTF. One of my favorites is the LAKE MISSOULA AMBER from the KETTlE HOUSE. I mentioned it to some of my friends, and we had a laugh about it, ordered another round, and (they) forgot about it. But I couldn’t. It was one of those things that was always slightly annoying. But I should just get over it, right? Well, I found some other folks who think lOWERCASE ls are equally as absurd. I guess this validation is enough to let it go.(yeah, another restaurant post. This one deals directly with local art, so cut me some slack, eh?)
Check out more lOWERCASE ls here. Why not buy me a MOOSE DROOl? Click below to buy me a beer. Thanks! Tags: 59801, art, art in missoula, bar, beer, lOWERCASEl Originally uploaded by love not fear The last drawing class I took was in 10th grade. Hard to believe, I know, but I’ve just never really drawn much. I like to doodle, but drawing realistically has never been my forte. Part of it was simply not practicing, but I’ve always been pretty uninterested in creating realistic art. Recently, though, I attended a life drawing session at the Missoula Art Museum. Every Wednesday night artists gather in the basement of the MAM and draw a nude model. I decided to give it a shot. I arrived with a graphite pencil, a charcoal pencil, a brown “liquid paintbrush” pen and a Sharpie. I wanted to draw using a variety of media, maybe even mixing all types on one page to see what happened. The session began with a series of 30 second gestures. The model would hold a pose for 30 seconds, the moderator would say change, and the model would strike another pose for 30 seconds.? While there was free paper available for us to use, I wanted to use the vellum paper I had brought with me, but I didn’t want to waste it. I decided it would be fun and interesting to draw each pose with a different utensil all on the same page. The above is the first drawing from the 30 second gesture series.
Still. I was encouraged to see that my drawings seemed to be getting better. Not by much, but definitely better. By the time the 10 minute poses began, I was deep in frustration. I stopped drawing before the 10 minutes were over and wrote, Huge frustration at not being better at this. Want to run out of the room now. Go outside. Originally uploaded by love not fear I’ll probably draw again, but not before practicing on my own for a while. The experience was a good one. Trying something new and being humbled by the drastic difference in what I expected I would be able to achieve and what I actually achieved. |
