Sorry about the late posting but there were technical difficulties after class which is my only window except for times like this at 7:33am. Joey is helping Windy cook eggies.
So SHOW REVIEW- Everyone needs to post about the entire process of the show from volunteering on Jan-26th to the SHow on Feb 18th. Talk about your work(titles) what they mean about others work, what your involvement in the PR blast was, networking at the exhibit(did you meet anyone new & did you take advantage of the situation), and don't forget the food and the band or anything else that was part of your experience. I know I said everyone got an A but that's contingent upon following through on this part of the process(REFLECTION YO).
2X4 Project- Post(mandatory) on Russel's blog- tonofbrix (sorry my computer won't let me add a link) and check out some great wood sculptors. Do this by next Monday. Rules- 1. Stain but no paint 2.Must use the entire 2x4(but only 1) 3. Wood Burning and Carving O.K. 4. Nails, Screws and Soccer Balls(found objects) O.K. and 5. FSS No Glitter!!!!!
CFAR and SOCC Presents-Pancake Station-Let's keep talking about it.
Betty Griffin Project-Malea Guiriba is going to come and speak to the class so ya'll can meet,measure, poke, prod, question etc. so you can design her collapsable, portable, public art piece.
See you Tonight.
mikewindy
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ReplyDeletevolunteering was cool, something i've kinda done before so i was sort of used to it (i volunteered at a children's museum from when i was 13 to 18, doing whatever they needed us to do). my piece (the wedding dress boxes) was about lost and found opportunities as represented by objects. with pr, i contacted a friend at the Drift to post the show in current events. i probably didn't take as much advantage of the situation as others due to leaving early because of my family being in town, but the people i did get the chance to talk to had some great observations. like this one woman asked about an egg i had in my display and if it was a fertility symbol which was something i hadn't even considered in all honesty. to me, it was a punch of color and kind of went with the theme of potential-ness. another guy i talked to mentioned future classes becoming involved with local schools talking about assemblage sculpture or something, i couldn't really follow what the guy was saying. it was my first show, and for me it was really just amazing to see people there and actually interested in what we did. i guess it was validating.
Day one (volunteering):
ReplyDelete"Good evening, my lord. Your uncle has called. He’s awaiting you in the library."
If you’re not writing, you’re certainly not living hard enough. Some people just do it more successfully than others. Mandy, for the answer to all of your unrequited hopes and dreams, please point your cursor here and click in one short, solid movement (do not mistake this for thrusting): http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Graphics-Life-Size-Standup-Poster/dp/B000YLCL4I/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t.
All of the days between volunteering and showing final pieces:
“Father Ryan was no ordinary priest.”
This was a tale of (forbidden) single-blind experiments, and one cannot un-happen the happenstance. We will grind the hairy, photograph the poop (or poop the photographs), pine for that sweet-eyed Lil’ Debbie, install the coffee bean call button (do not dare prosecute the percolation), and we scoff at the irony of it all. By observing, we alter, and by altering, we resolve ourselves to holy silver plates and collapsible picket fences. Touch on, touch off, and we are all now defined. Kiss my brass; I am an individual and so are you. And you. And you and you and you.
PR (not like PU):
'Feed me your quarters, my son, and I shall feed your basest desires, and make you whole again! This is my promise to you!'
Reading the first line in Becky Greenberg’s article announcing our show was the first time I fully realized the magnitude of what we were doing. St. Augustine’s art scene should be boiling over with the ever-so-delicious product of intelligent thought and creative ingenuity, pushing the limits and redefining the schema. Unfortunately, however, our parking meters get more action than we do. (Feed me your quarters, my son!)
Food/Music/Other:
“I love picking mangoes, Mother!”
I think it’s safe to say that the bean dip was good. (Shall we title the next show, “Bring Not the Dog”…?) I do wish Aslyn and the Naysayers had some kind of amplification. What was going on inside felt detached from what was going on outside, and a couple of microphones would have probably done the job. What a beautiful sound they have, though. Wow.
Touch Not the Cat!:
“Take your ivy-league hogwash and shove it where the sun don't shine!”
My sculptures were strategically placed, but they were also on the road less traveled. I’m not sure if they were viewed as much as some of the other pieces. Thankfully, my performance piece (which became a performance piece the night of the show…when someone asked me if it was, in deed, a performance piece) was a success. (It is NOT for sale, might I add, for the creepy old man who thought it might be appropriate to attempt an affectionate knee between my legs, from behind.)
Much of my art lately is very personal, very autobiographical. “The Birds and the Bees,” found in the maternity section, was a representation of the heavy burden assumed in motherhood. For reference, each of the two smaller blocks weigh about 40 pounds, while the one larger block weighs about 80 pounds.
“That Godforsaken Love Organ” is fairly self-explanatory; it was placed in the war books section, in between the political novels and the westerns.
I’m certainly not a 3-D artist, but I did get into a really insightful conversation with a local artist who co-directs a gallery in uptown St. Augustine. She asked that I come by this Saturday (for uptown Saturday night) with a few of my paintings, as they’re always looking for new artists to feature. We also talked in length about art therapy, especially in relation to children with “learning disorders,” which coincidentally is an interest for both of us. She has the studio space and wants to organize a type of instructional workshop, but she’s looking for another artist to partner with her. I will certainly go check it out on Saturday.
“Thus begins Daphne’s sweet secret…”
Hey my blog just messed up and i just wrote like a whole page errrrgh. This is Christine by the way. What I was saying before is i enjoyed the volunteering experience because it opened my up to a whole new genre : romance books, and their awesome titles, and it also opened my up to how much I love using found objects. The people were great and I got to talk to Uncle Stevo from Simple Gestures. The bean dip was a- freakin- mazing. I really like how we had our art next to all of the merchandise because it gave us a way to enhance the pieces by the objects around them.
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ReplyDeleteI think the show was very successful. I enjoyed volunteering a lot. Thrift stores are always fun, and helping out let's you see more and be a part of the process of helping others through Sertoma. I met a lot of interesting people who were very interested in what we were doing as a class. I got a lot of comments about what kind of bug my piece was supposed to be and I got reactions about the lego man in its mouth. I think everyone's final product was very creative and successful.
The food was awesome! I left that night with a major sugar high :) Aslyn and the Naysayers sounded great acoustic and created an inviting environment at the front of the store. As far as PR, I helped with writing the announcement for the paper, but I feel like I could have been more involved. I thik that Facebook was a great outlet for getting the show out there and recieved a lot of attention.
Good Job Everyone and Great Show!
I am so happy about the show. It was so great to see everyones final project together. Its also so cool how everyones was completely different.
ReplyDeleteVolunteering (which i did by my self) was really cool. I love the feeling of helping people out. Every summer I volunteer and it's always a great experience.
The show was really great and it was exciting to see all the different people that showed up to see the crazyness. My favorite part was when two elderly people walked up to Taylors bug and said "this is soo crazy! they should put a noise maker in there... so it meows or ribbits when you walk by!" ...so great.
My piece reminded me of a lot of work I have done in the past. The lamp part was definitely my favorite part and I made sure to put most effort in making that stand out and pull the piece together. I really started completely clueless at first, but as I kept building and thinking of ways to combine all the pieces, it was really surprising to me how it turned out in the end.
Everything was a great experience,
ciao!
Mary
So this is what's what. We all went to the most awsome trift store and put away dozens of used naughty books. Touch Not the Cat became my all time favorite phrase. We all gathered together some steller items, including my amazing grandfather clock, Libstick's rockin' lamp, and Christine's twisted sweet baby dolls.
ReplyDeleteFrom the begining, we all had our own ideas and concepts and together we developed them, some of us quicker than others, Steve who was done like the next day, not that I'm bitter or anything. Just kidding Steve, love you bunches.
I was working and re-working my clock til installation and day because it didn't look finished to me. Then I saw it in the space and I was extactic. Yey, it was finally done! The way I would describe it would be it is a piece about how I put constraints on my life and it makes me feel trapped. I don't know if any of you got that impression but let me know. I love input.
My other piece, with the heart rate reader thing, I finished in to days because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I had a blast and a half shattering those records, anything to destroy something, then working with the papers to show the right amount of information. I would describe this piece about doing your reseach before coming to a conclusion. I laid out the papers to represent all the information we have now a days. But those papers are easily missed because the small box monster that get the viewers attention first. We tend to take what we see or hear first and base our opinions on it and then ingore any other information. Alright enough of that.
I had a few people ask me about my clock and it was awsome. One guy who was a machanic was telling me about the different screws and things that were hanging so it had a very different meaning for him, which I loved. It was special to him and I felt proud to have made it.
About everyone else's sculptures, you guys rocked the house, yeah I'm bringing it back. But serioulsy, awsome. Mandy, you walk a thin line with grace and pazzazz. Ashley, you suprised everybody with your killer Birds and the Bees piece,(in a good way). Mary, your lamp was b-e-a-utiful and feminane. And Taylor, your bug was killer, literally for the lego guy. Awsome show everybody, and I can't wait for the next one.
This has been a Capt'n Gabbie Rant. You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled lives.
MANDY'S SHOW REVIEW....
ReplyDeleteVolunteering.....
You were all strangers to me when first went to the Second Time Around the first time around. I liked working with strangers to organize old books. Volunteer work is funny. You do it to help others, but you almost feel guilty for how good it makes you feel.
My Work...........
What do the Virgin Mary, Fabio, and baby doll parts all have in common? I'll tell you. They are all funny and/or disturbing after I play with them for weeks in a studio at Flagler College. I have the AWESOME advantage that none of my family lives close enough to attend any of our shows, so I never have to consider their feelings or worry that I will be disowned. This allows me to explore my subversive side with no real consequences. Woo Hooo! Warning: There are to be absolutely no brown m&m's.
I was pleased with what I showed. I was SUPER happy with my sizzling spots. I moved "Pedal me Pretty" like 16 times because the layout of the store kept changing due to weather. I wanted her to be somewhere obvious, because she easily gets lost on the floor. "Peep Show Mary" had to be on a shelf high enough to be around average eye level and since I am a self-absorbed brat, I assume this is MY eye level. Some tall people whined that they had to bend too far to see in there. I wasn't too worried about it. The obvious choice for my Fabio piece was with all those weird dolls, which was perfectly across from the peep show. I liked having my shit in front, just for the logistics of it. I liked greeting people at the door, showing them my shiz and then sending them on their way to explore and create their own shiz. I'm lazy.
PR Blast......
I had fun making the pre-flyer that turned out to be THE flyer. HAHA. That was funny. Even though the flyer was thrown together quickly, I got several compliments on it whilst passing them around. I was at this bar downtown and this guy asked me all these questions about what kind of paper it was printed on and what kind of printer was used, and I was like, dude, this guy is totally making fun of me. So I was like, "Are you serious dude? I know it's totally low budget, but you don't have to make fun of me." And he was all confused and was like, "no I'm totally serious." Then he bought me a drink and I explained my whole process of creating the flyer. Turns out he was just trying to pick me up. Sleaze. But he did come to the show.
Networking at the show.....
This lady asked me if I felt like I was a cracked person inside. Turns out she's dating a psychologist. I told her I was not cracked inside. I don't think my work represents my damage or resentment for those who cause damage. So I made some stuff up about how the Pedal me Pretty piece was a commentary on the way we step on our children and force them into growing up too fast. Which is kind of true, but not exactly what I was thinking while making it. Meaning for my pieces is always conjured up by me after the shiz is finished. Anyway, she turned out to be a really rad person. We sat on the curb out front and had a nice long conversation. She told me about her art and how she had been collecting bird feathers to make something out of.
Food.........
Excellent. You guys are impressive.
Band.........
Love those guys.
YOU GUYS.........
I have to say, I learned alot about all of you from the first time we went to the Second Time Around to the second time we went to the Second Time Around. The first time around at the Second Time Around we were students. The second time around, at the Second Time Around we were artists. That's deep.
I really enjoyed volunteering at Sertoma. There are so many little places like the 2nd Time Around Store in St. Augustine that I just don't know about. I feel like 2nd Time Around was a great place to go for inspiration. The Titles to some of the novels were hilarious and I know when I'm laughing I'm usually feeling very creative.
ReplyDeleteBuilding the sculptures was really exciting too. I just picked out a bunch of stuff that I liked. I had No idea what I was going to do to with it until much later. It was a little frustrating at first trying to tie the various metals together, but then I was told drilling holes might help and it did. I ended up using a lot of candles in mine which was awesome, but gave unexpected feedback. I was told it resembled a shrine or was religious in nature. This was not at all my intention, but it was really good to hear other people’s feedback. It was especially interesting to talk to different types of people. The two people that thought it was a temple/religious had completely different backgrounds: one was an artist and the other was not. I also really enjoyed talking to the boy that liked it just because of the "fiiyre" (And yes, he said it just like that.)
Oh, and the title “A Thousand Eyes” comes from the first stanza of a poem:
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
-- Francis William Bourdillon
I wanted this piece to be about wielding together a 1000 different things that may or may not regularly go together, but eventually through Libbization come together to form one sun/ giant candle stick.
Anyways, my installation changed a lot from Monday to the day of the show. There were originally two different sculptures: the lamp (A Thousand Eyes) and the silver serving platter. They were similar because they both involved light. The table that I was going to put A Thousand Eyes on went MIA the day of the show, so I had to use another table. I ended up putting both sculptures on one table. Also, the wire that was originally coming out of the drawer now had to be reworked. The result was that the lamp looked completely different from what I had previously imagined.
I was also really surprised at some of the things others brought in and the changes that were made in that last week. Where did "The Birds and the Bees" come from? It's awesome and I never saw it being worked on or talked about or anything! Mary, I loved the lips on the lamp and the title was perfect! And the picture the Mandy found to go around her "Peep Show." I also really like Steve's Proposal performance art. And Steve, I hope you meant it when you said forever….
P.R.
I think facebook got a lot of people to come to the show. I passed out A LOT of fliers, but I noticed that the people that came where the ones that received the invite on facebook. Also, I realized that I need to talk to multiple people if I want anything in the Gargoyle. I had asked one of their writers if we could get anything about Touch Not the Cat in the paper and was told that it was too late to submit anything. However the next class I was told that someone from the paper might come in to interview us.
Food and Music
The Food receives an Awesome Award. But I agree with Ashlee that you couldn't hear the band from the inside and that the music felt isolated from show inside.
Conclusion: Awesome...
P.S. YO' GRANDMAMA LIVES IN A SILO!
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delay on posting about the show.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed working on this project.
Volunteering was a lot of fun. I have volunteered many times in my life with various things. Being a former Boy Scout and working for Disney World being a "VoluntEar" which i wore my Disney shirt at the store.
It was difficult grabbing stuff to make a sculpture out of because i had no idea what i was going to make. So i just grabbed alot of similair in appearence objects. All shiny gold stuff. That night after volunteering i cleaned up everything and discovered that one of the lamps was a touch lamp. This I was very excited about. The fist class we had to work i took everything apart. (A ceiling fan, a hanging light/chandeleir, and a touch lamp). every screw every piece apart. then i realized that the screws and parts were identical, so i decided to screw it all together as one piece. I thought it looked really cool. So Gabby in a way i was done the first day, but i still made little changes, and unscrewed it all and tried different things many times.
I had no idea what to do with my fan motor. i could not get it open to see the parts inside. then i saw a few minutes of the Disney Pixar movie "Wall-E". then i decided i was going to make a cute robot. I originally was going to use marshmellows for the eyes but by chance i found those cool watches.
I am satisfied with my pieces, and got alot of good feedback.
I learned alot about PR. it helped that it was a group of us working on it.
Facebook is a good way to advertise since almost everyone is on facebook. I always use facebook event to invite people to my keg parties. fast way to get the word around. so i posted our event. I also printed out our PSA and posted it on campus and at my work. Amici Italian restraunt.
at the show i talked to a few people, I didn't want to leave my piece so i was in the back most of the time. almost had a buyer, but $25 was too much for the lady.
I think everyone did very well on their sculptures. Some had alot more meaning than others, some were more amusing to look at, some were beautiful, some were creepy. but all enjoyable and terrific.
High Five everyone!!!!! Smack!