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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 Mi...

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.

Horizontal and Vertical Lines

" With your unaided eyes you can look into a pond and see clear water. With a magnifying glass you look into the same water and see thousands of small organisms. With a microscope you see bacteria and detect viruses, and with the most sophisticated tunneling electron microscope you can see the atoms that make up the water and the creatures in it." Edwin Schlossberg, Interactive Excellence Please note: The artwork in this posting was produced by my students this semester. Please contact me should you wish to use it so that I can get permission. I am teaching two sections of two-dimensional design this semester at the community college. Students from all of the various programs must take at least one art course in order to fulfill their curriculum requirements. Therefore, I teach students from every discipline, and since our population is so diverse, from many parts of the world as well as different ages, cultures and backgrounds. Design is the gramm...

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