Tuesday, March 8, 2011

emily prince sez...

andrea bowers sez...

art 21: protest

The following links are to excerpts from the Art:21 episode on Protest.
To access the full-length videos, click here.


Nancy Spero





An-My Lê





Alfredo Jaar






Jenny Holzer

protest artists

These are images from the PowerPoint shown in class. To access the entire slide show, click here.

All information is from the article, "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art," by Claire Gilman, in Art Journal, Fall 2010.

protest

from "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art,"
Art Journal, Fall 2010, pp. 115 - 127.


The second project of this semester is to create a drawing based on the current political/protest events occurring in Wisconsin. 


Andrea Bowers, Diabloblackade, Diablo Nuclear Power Plant, Abalone Alliance, 1981,
2003, graphite on paper; 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm).
Collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schurmann, Germany
(artwork c Andrea Bowers; photograph by Jens Ziehe,
provided by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects).

Your assignment is to use drawing as translation as you address this subject matter, as written about by Claire Gilman, curator at the Drawing Center in New York, in the article "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art."

Accompanying your drawing will be a 750-800 word essay that describes your project's inception, its main theme(s), your process of creating. Use at least two artists from the reading and/or PowerPoint with which to compare and contrast your work. In other words, use these artists' works to give context to what you are doing. Consider also referencing some of the other articles and authors linked to in the PowerPoint, for example, Mark Nash's article, "Reality in the Age of Aesthetics," from frieze, Issue 114, April 2008.

The drawings and papers will be due on Tuesday, March 29. 

  • We will have work days Tuesday, March 8, and Thursday, March 10.
  • Spring break is Saturday, March 12 - Sunday, March 20.
  • We will begin a new unit on Tuesday, March 22.
  • We will have a Game Design candidate on campus Thursday, March 24. I will let you know details about class as we get closer to that date.
  • We will critique these projects the week of March 29 - 31.

Click here to find the entire article and related items on the Blue Drive.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

prometheus entries due this friday

I encourage each of you to submit one to three pieces to Prometheus, UW–Stout's fine art and literary publication. Entries are due no later than Friday, February 11. You can drop off your work (2D, 3D, Photography, Video/Installation) in the Furlong Gallery Thursday, February 10, and Friday, February 11.

Find submission rules and entry forms at the Prometheus website.


Furlong Gallery hours are:
10-6 Mon thru Fri & 12-4 on Saturdays

assignment for tuesday, february 8



  1. Regular weekly reflection on your blog, including 300+ words and one image.
  2. One map revision. Take an existing map and change it somehow to give it new meaning.
  3. At least five sketches of your idea for your mapping project. This can be five separate ideas, five iterations of the same idea, or any combination thereof.
  4. Re-read the article, "GPS Tracings – Personal Cartographies: Tracey P. Lauriault in Conversation with Jeremy Wood," and re-visit Jeremy Wood's website http://www.gpsdrawing.com/.

marauder's map