Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life

only in the south do they cancel school for one inch of snow. well it is that icy, crunchy, kind of snow and we would so totally crash as we tailgated and texted our way to school on that slick stuff! we’ve no experience on...

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really–a frozen load!
NO classes today, Friday, Feb 4.

04 Feb 2011

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WASH 2011

YES! more time to work on your cardboard projects and get your blogs up to date!!! Well and to roll over and sleep in. I know you guys are so sad because now you’ll have to wait for my three hour lecture on inspiration/creativity. I...

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tickle tickle clang clang

04 Feb 2011

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I get this daily email from a Christian organization that is suppose to help me through this transition. Much of it is very helpful and timely. I am grateful for the service and have found it immensely helpful. But parts of it I can’t decide...

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Weather Update

03 Feb 2011

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WASH 2011

www.shsu.edu Sam Houston State University has canceled Thursday evening classes – those beginning after 5 p.m. – due to anticipated deteriorating weather conditions. Other university functions, such as the library and dining facilities, will remain open until 8 p.m. It is a great night to...

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Faculty [art] Film Night hosted by SAA
All students are invited

02 Feb 2011

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WASH 2011

Wednesday, February 2 at 5pm Art History Auditorium (our Friday lecture room) ALSO SOFA SAA call for entries Photography Exhibition, Feb 7-11 It is an open call but S.O.F.A. shows are for SAA members [become a member] See flyers currently posted in SOFA gallery0

Thursday night, February 3. Bring your artcard.

01 Feb 2011

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WASH 2011

WASHers come out for Bill Davenport’s artist talk Thursday, Feb 3, at 5pm in room 108E (our lecture room)! Bring your artcard. Also this week only! Ephemeral Bodies SOFA Gallery, SHSU Art Building A January 28 – February 4, 2011 Exhibition Artists (fellow shsu students):...

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OMGosh BAM

01 Feb 2011

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Before I even open the WASH studio door this morning, I can see Nic’s ring made from cardboard because it will barely fit out of a supersized garage door. It still needs work, but, dang it all, good for Nic on ambition. Then at lunch...

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OMGosh Cardboard Spheres

31 Jan 2011

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I haven’t even stepped through the WASH door and BAM I see ambition in scale! Nic has thrown down the bigger than life gauntlet of going for it. Come throw down your own in your own way unique to you! Come and play! Well and...

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Don’t know what to blog about for WASH

30 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

here are some of your fellow WASHers’ samples inside a WASHer’s head as creating work (Sarah) raw honest narrative (Nic) experience with materials (Katy) analytical response to lecture and readings (Brian) great image sampling of process (Zack) critical analysis narrative (Emily T) check out other...

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today’s arugula harvest

30 Jan 2011

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the potential of cardboard

26 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

found this vid online. Emily found the following work worth looking at closely, cardboard sculptures by Chris Gilmour, to see if how he worked the cardboard applies to you. Thanks Emily for finding him.0

and another

26 Jan 2011

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another full load for my WASH

26 Jan 2011

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

I’ve presoaked them with nightmares, fantasies, dots, spheres, sound performances and human tableaus all in just two studio days! no one has cried uncle yet! they created three kinds of spheres without guidance other than go do it–sphere one was to be created considering...

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so many spherical solutions
(the good, the bad, and the ugly piled high and deep)

25 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

Katy puts here office clips (on your supply list and OH so useful) to work for the sake of art. two image from emily t’s blog0

Cardboard spheres starting to post up!

24 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

Sarah has a good sampling of how to post images of your work and write about your experience. January 19th 2011 – January 22nd 2011 Contrary to my initial thought before working with it, cardboard in its essence is a very proud and noble material...

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crispy again

22 Jan 2011

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textabating

22 Jan 2011

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new word (perhaps it is already in use). textabating is when you reach with both hands under the table as to service your… phone, with the illusion that this self stimulating lap moment of self edification is private and goes unnoticed. textabating in public is...

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Cardboard spheres

21 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

WASHer Katy found this great sample of cardboard sphere (no glue?) by Kirsten Bradley I await links to the rest of your blogs. email the web address (that is your www.____) for your WASH blog.0

prepped for faculty show.

21 Jan 2011

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opens on Thursday, January 27 Artist talk (me) 5:00 room 108e Sam Houston State University0

First weekend studio to do list — prior to Monday, January 24

21 Jan 2011

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WASH 2011

first day performances–nightmare or daydream! 2D (am) acquire textbook and supplies make 30 thumbnail sketches in visual journal read download from blog Theory of Human Perception respond to first day activities, talk/discussions (tension, composition, elements, perception) and reading in visual online journal (your blog) setup...

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I over work my art; I over work my body; ouch. rough cut 4×4 oak hurts when it bounces to the ground grazing my shin. I have never figured out how it is my jeans don’t rip but what is beneath…ouchy! I tried to make...

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meant to sew a tire nipple but

06 Jan 2011

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instead ended up with a male body part. hmmm, how did that happen? dang. hope it isnt offensive since it’s headed for an AIDS fundraiser. http://www.aidshelp.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AFH_event_list Art4Life Saturday, January 22, 2011 Celebrate Art4Life featuring internationally and nationally acclaimed artists in a curated silent auction with...

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spectacular

06 Jan 2011

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Collect lots of cardboard NOW

02 Jan 2011

kathy wash 2012

WASH 2011

Bring to class Monday, January 24 (used is fine–pottery barn and similar stores’ dumpsters are heaven for free pristine cardboard but don’t climb in–safety first!) we will being doing something else with our cardboard, but i thought an image or two will stir your imaginations...

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i feel like a rat to the glittery!

01 Jan 2011

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my mom’s antique (great?) grandmother’s junk, oops, I mean fine costume, jewelry, that, I really like. I’ve always been an unjewelry person, but I really like all these glitteries. I can’t decide if it is the ancestral emotional umbilical cord that links me to the...

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WASH Required Textbook (ONE)
–order now and start reading!

30 Dec 2010

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WASH 2011

In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub ISBN13: 9781891024597 Order now from Amazon Barnes & Nobles Artbook.com Pick up from store: Bearkat Books, 1108 16th Street, (936) 295-5771 Bookstore in SHSU student center has a handful of copies.0

Before January 19 LISTEN + RESPOND

30 Dec 2010

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WASH 2011

Listen to the following podcast / mp3 and answer questions (in orange). prior to the first day of WASH, Wednesday, January 19 @ 9:30 am LISTEN Janine Antoni (audio lecture @ School Of Visual Arts, 2006) or download it from itunes OR WATCH VIDEO Janine...

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hmmm. cough. blah.

26 Dec 2010

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when you finally, after looking at the house warming gift your mom has had sitting on the kitchen counter for a little over a decade, decide to open it and cook its contents, hmm, well cough, blah, hack. so I unwrapped the cellophane from the...

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really–a frozen load!
NO classes today, Friday, Feb 4.

tickle tickle clang clang

Weather Update

Faculty [art] Film Night hosted by SAA
All students are invited

Thursday night, February 3. Bring your artcard.

OMGosh BAM

OMGosh Cardboard Spheres

Don’t know what to blog about for WASH

today’s arugula harvest

the potential of cardboard

and another

another full load for my WASH

so many spherical solutions
(the good, the bad, and the ugly piled high and deep)

Cardboard spheres starting to post up!

crispy again

textabating

Cardboard spheres

prepped for faculty show.

First weekend studio to do list — prior to Monday, January 24

crispy evening

like driving into dream worlds

I hate hematomas on my tibialis anterior. ouch!

meant to sew a tire nipple but

spectacular

Collect lots of cardboard NOW

i feel like a rat to the glittery!

WASH Required Textbook (ONE)
–order now and start reading!

Before January 19 LISTEN + RESPOND

hmmm. cough. blah.

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