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December 24, 2008

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Along the banks of rivers

What will we do when we no longer have a supply of fresh water? For many in the world obtaining the minimum amount of water for daily usage is a constant struggle. Soon many more of us will find that this will become our communities' most critical challenge. Since the 1960's artists from all corners of the earth have been engaged in activist, collaborative and ecological aesthetics. A brief list includes: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Mary Miss , Betsy Damon , Basia Irland , Navjot Altaf , Patricia Johanson , Susan Jennings , Jaanika Peerna , Maya Lin and Simon Starling. Museums such as the Hudson River Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art's FLOW White River Festival celebrate and point to the need to protect waterways. Was it last year that the city of Boulder, CO celebrated their Ditches throughout the community including works by 40 local artists? (Note that you can click on names to learn more). Reading a recent blog by book artist Mia Leijo

Easy Transition

As we segue from texture to the final art element, color in our 2-D design class, the students needed an easy exercise. I think that this was the simplest method for conveying the concept of complementary color arrangements. Collage is stress-free, recycles printed matter and results in some wonderful small pieces of art. The objective of the lesson was to utilize complementary colors. Students could pick any hue from the color wheel and use it in any of its manifestations. They were to use the complement as an accent or focal point in their work. They were instructed to refrain from using humans, eyeballs, words and identifiable objects and instead focus on non-objective abstraction There is always one in every crowd who rejects the "rules of the game". All you can do is laugh out loud.

The Nature of Things

Time can cause one to change in both positive and negative ways. A blizzard can also provide time for introspection. While I have "quit" this blog and also no longer teach a section of 2-D design at Montgomery College, I read a comment by Paul Klee today that made me reflective. " Make your pupils acquainted with nature, let them see how a butterfly becomes a butterfly, so that they may learn to be as rich and versatile and original as nature itself." Klee was a great teacher and a prolific artist. The myriad colors, and the repeating geometric forms that he frequently combined with sharp lines were essentially abstractions that rendered the simplification of naturalistic forms. He sought out nature for inspiration. Paul Klee – Flowers in the Night – 1930 The following images are student works from a few years ago. They had learned about pattern making and also the qualities of line and shape. In this exercise they created patterns using biomorphi

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