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In October, Rockpoolcandy and Mytarpit visited campus. They workshopped with SLU students, created scads of cool stuff, and instigated an outdoor giveaway art exhibition. Rockpoolcandy even made a loom!
Our dear friend Tenzin Yignyen is on Facebook! He came to St. Lawrence three times in the past decade to create intricate Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas. This reminds me of a time in Kathmandu when a few SLU faculty who were studying there were granted an audience with the Venerable Chokyi Nyima, and he stopped midway through his teaching to take a call on his cell phone.
Tenzin has been teaching at Hobart for several years, and every time I talk with Hobart students and faculty, they value his work very much there. Tenzin teaches courses on the meaning and signifiance of sand mandalas and other sacred arts.
Carole and I attended the Artists Books Conference in NYC last week, which was superb. One of the best sessions was on ‘zines and alternative presses and institutional approaches to collection development in this genre. Both Barnard and Pratt have been developing ‘zine collections for teaching and research. The presenters seemed opposed to digitizing their collections, as if digitizing compromised the original intentions of ‘zine artists who often want to lay low and/or underground. The Brush Art Gallery has been collecting ‘zines for several years, mostly from Printed Matter, where David Platzker (SLU alum) was director for several years.
The Gallery will bring Rockpool Candy to SLU this fall. Carole and I met her and her husband Mytarpit by chance at the Pictoplasma Conference in Berlin last March and have stayed in touch ever since. The Gallery will be putting together a posse of fiber activists to work with her to create public installations around campus and in the community in late October. Stay tuned!
Check out this series of her fiber reef sculptures made from recycled materials.
I love the Internet. Check this out.
Lauri Lyons will be showing her Flag photographs at the Gallery during January – March of 2010.
From her Web site:
“Flag reveals what is beneath the surface of the American dream by looking beyond stereotypes and into the minds of ordinary citizens whose feelings about America not only tells the viewer what America really is, but also what it can become. Through each person’s photographs and hand-written statements about America, the viewer becomes aware of the beauty, inequity and hope that have created the American cultural fabric.”
On Saturday, the gallery held a reception for the Wild Things exhibition of wildlife photography by Melissa Burchard. The turnout was fantastic!
Melissa with Bart and Margaret Harloe
Melissa with her friends and family
a few vinyl toys
Dianne Drayse-Alonso brought some students from Ogdensburg Free Academy at the tail end of the spring semester to see some of the toys from the SLU Permanent Collection. The students were making plushes and thinking about how artists view the relation between commercial and fine art.
and gloomy bear
Carole Mathey, Amy Hauber, and Cathy Tedford attended the third Pictoplasma conference in Berlin last week–three full days of artists’ lectures, videos, exhibitions, and character walks. We’ll have pictures and other responses soon.
CT met with photographer Rachel Sussman in Brooklyn yesterday. Rachel is working on a project to document The Oldest Living Things in the World (OLTW). She’s got a blog for OLTW, describing the sites she has visited in Japan, Greenland, Chile, US, etc. I’ve invited her to show her photographs in an upcoming exhibition called Deep Looking: Cultural Landscapes in Photography and New Media (working title) and hope/plan to purchase one of her photographs for SLU’s Johnson Hall of Science. Rachel works closely with biologists and archeologists to identify and document various sites around the world. Her Web site doesn’t do full justice to the photographs themselves, which are stunning as visual objects. This image documents a well-known jomon sugi japanese cedar #0507 02 (7,000 years old, yaku shima, japan)
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