Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Final Notes for Last Project
I enojoyed making this art work sooooooo much. I loved the fact I was making it for my boyfriend because I don't know how I would survive UNCC without him. I felt that my piece being in a frame looked like one of the most complete pieces out of the critique on Monday. But then again I know that I have had trouble with people thinking my art looks crafty but I have come to the conclusion that I don't care. I feel the art and that's what comes out so I don't care what anyone says I am going to continue doing what I do.
My photos for Wearable Project and final thoughts
I had never thought of making any clothing before this project but now I am seriously considering working with fabric. This piece felt very fluid when making it. I didn't get snagged on any details of the concept. It was a start and finish all in one sitting and that was fabulous. I love this piece and will be making more.
Project Notes for Final Project
I decided very early on that I wanted to make a piece for David, my boyfriend. He is a major inspiration in my life and keeps me going when I feel my creativity is running dry. I also wanted to incorporate the materials and odds and ends I picked up and used from my first semester at UNCC. I feel at need to use and reuse everything I can to save and conserve so I used my palettes and wax paper with paint on them in my piece.
Materials
1.cardstock
2. scrapbooking paper
3. peeled paint
4. wax paper with paint
5. fortunes from a fortune cookie
6. lock from $.50 prize machine at grocery store
7. magazine clippings
8.ribbon
9.metal cupcake tins
Materials
1.cardstock
2. scrapbooking paper
3. peeled paint
4. wax paper with paint
5. fortunes from a fortune cookie
6. lock from $.50 prize machine at grocery store
7. magazine clippings
8.ribbon
9.metal cupcake tins
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Alfredo Jaar Lecture 11/18/09
Alfredo was born in 1956, the same year as my mother, and has been making art for the last 30 years. He divided his art work into three main areas and only 1/3 of the work fit into the mainstream gallery work seen at the time. The other 2/3 of his works are called public interventions. In his public interventions he considers himself an architect making art. He feels for the essence of each location he works at and in turn makes art to interpret what he feels and observes.
First started work in Chile and used trash can lids and flags to show his opinion of the disappearances of people in Chile who were rebelling politically. He then did the piece in Manhattan were he showed text and symbols of the U.S. and America. He stated that people would assume if you say America that means the United States only and Jaar wanted to put it out there that there is more to America than the United States.
After that contract Alfredo went to Sweden for the paper mill project. He designed the first museum for this small city and it was made out of paper. On the grand opening he had students display art with direct correlation to paper. A popular display was the origami table for children. In the plan the Alfredo created the museum was to be burnt down in a short amount of time and town members came to him and wanted Jaar to changed his mind and not set fire to it but Alfredo was against it. Even though there are now plans for him to build a permanent museum there which will be open around 2012.
Another piece done in Europe was Finland where they have very strict immigration rules so Alfredo was able to get one million passports printed off and set them up in a gallery space to show the significance of blending and melting cultures together. They would have that many more people who would be artists, geniuses, and millionaires.
My favorite piece was the museum made from handing out 1,000 disposable cameras to the public and then around 740 camera were turned in so he had to go in and decide how to display the images. The ones he thought had some real artistic value got blown up but every single photo was shown in the museum and every single person was given credit. I enjoyed this piece so much because no one in the community wanted this museum, they would have preferred a sports complex but in the end they all loved it because they were the artists. Also I enjoyed this because it made the area look better for this community considering there was a dangerous prison located adjacent to a park where small children would play.
Alfredo Jaar then accepted to go back to South America where he worked in Venezuela on a piece of art for former President of Chile Salvador Gossens. In a park he set up multiple canvases in a park beside a school. You could go to the school ask for paint and then go create anything and share it with the world. It enabled so many to be creative when they did not have the funds to paint.
He then did a piece about the killing of people trying to cross the American border. It consisted of a stringed band playing music, people reading poems, biodegradable balloons set off into the air from the “cloud,” and then the lonely musician playing a stringed instrument on the other side of the border. It was as if the two sides were communicating by music. This piece was very sad for me and I felt a small amount of what the families were having to go through.
In former East Germany this Art Council bought a broken down church and wanted Alfredo Jaar to come there and make a piece of art to reflect on the disintegration of that area economically. He cleaned up the building some what like the stained glass, chairs and chandelier. He first drew attention to the center by turning on the chandelier and moving it up and down which was effective to get people in the building. But he then decided to make it a town meeting location and this plan failed completely. No one even talked when they came much less about saving the community.
Finally he showed us a public intervention he did in Montreal making a statement about the amount of homeless people in this area. He first talks about how this one building was burnt down 5 times before the people decided to more this government building. So they had Alfredo come in and for a long time he couldn’t figure out what to do with the place. One day he was walking and saw this trucking delivering food to a homeless shelter and thats where the idea originated. His plan was to fill the location with red lights and buttons at two homeless shelters and every time someone walked in to stay for the night they would push the button and the dome building would light up bright red. This piece got lots of attention from the TV, newspapers, and magazines.
First started work in Chile and used trash can lids and flags to show his opinion of the disappearances of people in Chile who were rebelling politically. He then did the piece in Manhattan were he showed text and symbols of the U.S. and America. He stated that people would assume if you say America that means the United States only and Jaar wanted to put it out there that there is more to America than the United States.
After that contract Alfredo went to Sweden for the paper mill project. He designed the first museum for this small city and it was made out of paper. On the grand opening he had students display art with direct correlation to paper. A popular display was the origami table for children. In the plan the Alfredo created the museum was to be burnt down in a short amount of time and town members came to him and wanted Jaar to changed his mind and not set fire to it but Alfredo was against it. Even though there are now plans for him to build a permanent museum there which will be open around 2012.
Another piece done in Europe was Finland where they have very strict immigration rules so Alfredo was able to get one million passports printed off and set them up in a gallery space to show the significance of blending and melting cultures together. They would have that many more people who would be artists, geniuses, and millionaires.
My favorite piece was the museum made from handing out 1,000 disposable cameras to the public and then around 740 camera were turned in so he had to go in and decide how to display the images. The ones he thought had some real artistic value got blown up but every single photo was shown in the museum and every single person was given credit. I enjoyed this piece so much because no one in the community wanted this museum, they would have preferred a sports complex but in the end they all loved it because they were the artists. Also I enjoyed this because it made the area look better for this community considering there was a dangerous prison located adjacent to a park where small children would play.
Alfredo Jaar then accepted to go back to South America where he worked in Venezuela on a piece of art for former President of Chile Salvador Gossens. In a park he set up multiple canvases in a park beside a school. You could go to the school ask for paint and then go create anything and share it with the world. It enabled so many to be creative when they did not have the funds to paint.
He then did a piece about the killing of people trying to cross the American border. It consisted of a stringed band playing music, people reading poems, biodegradable balloons set off into the air from the “cloud,” and then the lonely musician playing a stringed instrument on the other side of the border. It was as if the two sides were communicating by music. This piece was very sad for me and I felt a small amount of what the families were having to go through.
In former East Germany this Art Council bought a broken down church and wanted Alfredo Jaar to come there and make a piece of art to reflect on the disintegration of that area economically. He cleaned up the building some what like the stained glass, chairs and chandelier. He first drew attention to the center by turning on the chandelier and moving it up and down which was effective to get people in the building. But he then decided to make it a town meeting location and this plan failed completely. No one even talked when they came much less about saving the community.
Finally he showed us a public intervention he did in Montreal making a statement about the amount of homeless people in this area. He first talks about how this one building was burnt down 5 times before the people decided to more this government building. So they had Alfredo come in and for a long time he couldn’t figure out what to do with the place. One day he was walking and saw this trucking delivering food to a homeless shelter and thats where the idea originated. His plan was to fill the location with red lights and buttons at two homeless shelters and every time someone walked in to stay for the night they would push the button and the dome building would light up bright red. This piece got lots of attention from the TV, newspapers, and magazines.
Project 4 Notes for Humorous Piece of Clothing
Brainstorming:
ankle bracelet-bracelet made of ankles
toe ring- ring with toe on it
diaper bag of of diapers
Having an eye on your watch
Charm Bracelet with actual charms on it(beauty, personality, sexuality, confidence, intellegence)
Choker- necklace with little people choking the person wearing the jewelry but not really.
Decide on bubble wrap corset
Got my sizes for construction.
I was at a friends house telling them about the assignment and they remembered they had these fasteners that worked perfectly and I made the whole back part at their house in about an hour.
Materials:
Small bubble wrap
yarn
ribbon
tacky glue
fasteners
eyeball stickers
oxygen nose thingy
ankle bracelet-bracelet made of ankles
toe ring- ring with toe on it
diaper bag of of diapers
Having an eye on your watch
Charm Bracelet with actual charms on it(beauty, personality, sexuality, confidence, intellegence)
Choker- necklace with little people choking the person wearing the jewelry but not really.
Decide on bubble wrap corset
Got my sizes for construction.
I was at a friends house telling them about the assignment and they remembered they had these fasteners that worked perfectly and I made the whole back part at their house in about an hour.
Materials:
Small bubble wrap
yarn
ribbon
tacky glue
fasteners
eyeball stickers
oxygen nose thingy
11/18/09 Daily Notes
Go to Drive By Press lecture. drivebypress.com
I really enjoyed this lecture and listen to their story. I believe his name was Joseph and he did a wonderful job at being real and kickin it but also having so much information for us I couldn't even write everything down.
I was very excited about the printing of the shirts and got one for me and my boyfriend.
I got him the huge skull print because he is into zombies and I got the tree/brain print.
I thought it was super awesome that they let the customers spin the wheel and the fact it was a chain link wheel like a gangsta.
I really enjoyed this lecture and listen to their story. I believe his name was Joseph and he did a wonderful job at being real and kickin it but also having so much information for us I couldn't even write everything down.
I was very excited about the printing of the shirts and got one for me and my boyfriend.
I got him the huge skull print because he is into zombies and I got the tree/brain print.
I thought it was super awesome that they let the customers spin the wheel and the fact it was a chain link wheel like a gangsta.
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