I love the work of Audra Woloweic. We had a year overlap at RISD (she graduated in 2007). Here are instructions for her piece Freckle Exchange (which I really want to do!).
Freckle Exchange
Choose a freckle on someone that you love
(Don’t let any blemish go unnoticed)
Ask them to choose one from your body
Find a willing tattoo artist
Tell her your story
Exchange
My pre-college sculpture students have their opening tonight!! At Woods-Gerry, from 6-8.
Screaming into molten glass, over a year ago, for a piece by RISD Glass professor Jocelyne Prince. (After the glass cools, you can see the sound waves.) Full piece here.
Proof that if you tied my hands behind my back, I would not be able to speak.
Library - 0271, originally uploaded by bonnieblueshealingdolphins.
Library - 0280, originally uploaded by bonnieblueshealingdolphins.
Library - 0272, originally uploaded by bonnieblueshealingdolphins.
Nathaniel Katz and I remain undecided as to what to name our thesis papers. So, we decided to ask Christopher Robbins, DM ‘07 and the wittiest man alive, for help.
From Chris:
you can fill in the academic byline, but here are some perhaps catchy titles
i feel like i’d do better if i knew more; these are prettymuch based on your $5000 videos.
and let me know if you wrre looking for academic titles
BUT: I am off to czech for 2 weeks, so wont be looking at my computer for awhileMy fave:
JJ don’t stop belieiving - something about hope
NK disparate connections desperate connectionsJJ
-tiny impossible have-to-do’s
-little essential escapes
-tiny essential escapes
-what lasts most is most fleeting
-finding forever in
-everyday escapes
-don’t stop belieiving (- the mispell is on purpose)NK
-ulterior links
-coming together so far away
-distant meanders
-disparate connections
-desperate connections
-linked obliquely
-oblinqued
I am the recipient of a RISD 2008 Graduate Award of Excellence. The Fine Arts category was juried by Ian Berry, Associate Director and Curator of The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
Juror’s Statement
We are living in unsteady times. One of the things we look to artists to do is to be on that first line of cultural criticism, reflecting our world back to us, helping us to see. This year’s group of RISD graduates reacts to our world’s uneasiness, volatility, and unclear future by looking carefully at their most intimate surroundings - cracks, breaking points, shadows, crumpled paper, nooks, cubicles, wires - and responds with actions such as bike riding, hand shaking, walking, braiding, drawing. These are ways of working that support a quiet, not wholly melancholy, but concentrated view into everyday life. The subtle turns in their artworks-from one thing to another, from one emotion to another-makes for complex work that rewards repeated viewing. For me, that is the test of a successful artwork. All the award winners have some element of that “turn” in their presentations, a shift that makes what I thought I was looking into something else, moving me too.
Jeanne Jo’s “My First Punch” is a harrowing video to watch. Jo then takes that intensity and enlarges her ideas through performative tasks that witness her writing a plea in the darkness, escaping down a hand-wound rope, and training her yarn to stitch together unusual places and objects. Moving her site from the most personal (her own face and hands) to the most public (city street, public park, or row house) Jo tests her ideas on wildly different-scaled stages.
See my submission here.
Some of my brilliant friends also won awards:
Nathaniel Katz
Lucas Roy
Caleb Larsen
Elizabeth Skadden
Artists:
Elizabeth Ferrill
Kelly Goff
Jeanne Jo
Caleb Larsen
Heather McPherson
Luke O’Sullivan
Yuka Otani
Sunita Prasad
Tonight is the opening of Body and Ritual, curated by myself and Nathaniel Katz.
My piece in Micromediations:
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