Contemporary Issues in Graduate Studies

• 12/5/2016
• Meadow Jones
• PhD Candidate in Art Education
• Went to Graduate School
• High School Drop-out but came back to Parkland college
• http://www.designingasociety.org/
• http://www.patchadams.org/
• Asks major Questions:
• Who gets to make things? (works of art, architecture)
• How do they (artists) get out to the public?
• Advises:
• Talk to your professors
• Ask for their help
• Dulcee Boehm
• MFA Candidate in Studio Art
• Into Studio art
• New media department
• Technology
• normally seen as a thing to produce more work for less effort
• sees it as more of a performance art
• Ongoing overlapping parts of art practice:
• Food
• enacting identity
• Bodies
• because we all have one
• often uses body within work
• Place
• A place has truth based not just on the facts of its existence but also on the things believed to be true about it.
• Work
• Because I need to eat and have a place to live
• Music
• because it is a way places are shared though story
• becuase it employs bodies in complicated and often collective labor
• Had many overlapping jobs including:
• cashier
• sandwich artist
• sales stock manager
• substitute teacher
• farm hand
• Humor and Play are important

Contemporary Issues in Graphic Design

• November 29, 2016
• assistant Professor of Graphic Design
• www.racheleriley.com
• method and design research
• creates many mood boards on Graphic Design
• mood boards
• meshes things up
• gathering of images
• related to a given topic often by a client
• "Graphic design is the most humanist of the professions because it necessarily involves words, pictures depiction of human beings and their values. If we just recognize, as a community, that we shape what people feel about each other, I'd hope we can create a new kind of discourse."
• Images of old and new are important part of how the world changes
• Graphic Design is always something present 
• not always pure of clarity
• Visual Hierarchy- 
• influences the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees
• important
• The reach of Graphic design is microscopic

The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me

• November 17, 2016
• Jen Delos Reyes
• Played songs related to work:
• Dreams-Fleetwork Mac
• Wouldn't It Be Nice- Beach Boys
• Modern Girl-Sleater Kinney
• You Can Have It All- Yo La Tengo
• Sent emails to friends all over the world
• shows connection and unity
• Open Engagement
• Art After Aestheti difference
• open call for submissions
• networks of all artists
• delivers artwork
• very relaxed environment
• Group work is important
• "Together we may find some of the things we are looking for."
• Something special happens in groups of people working together
• group conscience is found in singing
• you loose yourself and become a compound made of the sum

SOFA Chicago exhibition: Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art

• Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art
• Many artists are in this exhibit
• I focused mainly on Christopher David White
• Although his work appears to be made with wood material
• He mainly uses:
• cermaic
• acrylic
• oil
• wax
• polymer clay
• plastic
• metal leaf 
• May of his works provoke thoughts of 
• a greater sense of being 
• transcendental thought
• Ideas of reality

Within Arm's Reach

The Great Motivator

Tipping Point

Microcosm

Pushing Up Daises

  

SOFA Chicago exhibition: Youyuusya GlaSeate

Hang (a), Hang, Hang (b)

• Shared between:
• Satoshi Nishizaki
• Kenjiro Kitade
• Mikiko Tomita
• Satsoshi Nishizaki
• works in glass
• very relevant for SOFA this year
• creates form like that to human form or birds
• Kenjiro Kitade
• works in the ceramics
• often creates statutes of unsettling baby looking figures 
•  Mikiko Tomita
• also works in ceramics
• creates unnamed ornamental orbs
• Overall this exhibit was bizarre but very interesting
  

  

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SOFA Chicago exhibition booth: Ben Young

•  This is the exhibition booth for the self-taught artist, Ben Young
• SOFA at the Navy Pier had some emphasis on glass work:
• with this being a booth near the entrance and having so much content 
• Each piece displayed was handcrafted from his drawings, layer by layer
• Ocean's are prevalent in his work 
• born in Australia and is currently living in the Bay of Plenty on a North Island of New Zealand
• he is a surfer and boat builder
• wanted to capture the perfection and raw power of the sea
• Often times puts man-made elements with bodies of water or the beauty of nature

Ocean Range

Infinity (top) and Entwined (bottom)

The Watchtower

Reflected Sway Pair

SEGMENT: El Anatsui in 'Change'

• El Anatsui
• imagines wooden carvings

• grouped together they look like a family
• each characteristic is shown in the carving and accents he family
• Wanted to show how wood has been used by humans
• created something out of wood to contemplate; not to use
• Destruction makes the way for new ideas and new approach
• Has a historical reference to his artwork
• bottle caps often to liquor bottles
• How did they get there?
• Was a link factor between continents in shipping them around
• Gets help from students willing to put some time in between classes to create art
• He gets more hands
• They get experience + money
• Little basic training required
• End process shows flexibility and freedom