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