Nov 20, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
How do we learn? Further, how do we learn to be artists and educators to others that desire art as a way of life? The cultural moment we live in right now should be making us all take a step back. It should be making us all ask more of ourselves and our colleagues,...
Nov 13, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I’ve been thinking about the transition from drawing to cinema, how the practice of drawing from the live model informs ways of framing the body and establishes a kind of gaze that is recreated in cinema. Since the late 1970’s Sugimoto has been making...
Nov 6, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
Language is now the medium of choice in art schools. Rob Colvin, Hyperallergic I read a lot of writing by artists; manifestos, statements, quotes, interviews, and I listen to or watch artists speaking lucidly about their process and ideas in documentaries,...
Oct 30, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The Culture Wars again?? Really? There has been a lot of shaming, push-back, reframing, and appropriation lately in all areas of public discourse. In similar historical moments of the modern era, such uprisings have been framed as war-like; hence “Culture...
Oct 23, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I am conscious these days, as both a teacher and as an artist, of the increasing presence in our dialogs around the study of art, of language related to the notions of career or professionalism. I suppose that it is a logical extension of working in a university...
