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Art, Culture, The AP Poster & You //February 11, 2008// http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id Vivi says //A friend sent me this site, and the artist's work is fantastic. It's very very impressive// Thanks Vivi!

//February 8,2008// Mid Year Assessment is due Feb. 11. Download the details from Edline.

February 5, 2008 //Here's a little quote passed on by one of my colleagues in AP:// Everything revolves around the stillpoint. Everything unique and beautiful grows out of the stillpoint. Without a stillpoint in the middle of a life, it starts to spin out of control. The stillpoint is that place for quiet reflection, meditation or prayer—whatever your practice is—there are lots of ways of getting there. It can be lying on a hammock in the summer listening to the birds. It can be daydreaming in bed for an hour in the morning.

Except for the point, the stillpoint, There would be no dance, And there is only the dance. - T.S. Eliot

Rod MacIver A Pause for Beauty #236 http://www.herondance.org/index.aspx

//December 15, 2007// End of Semester One, End of Breadth Section Begin Concentration. Complete 2 concentration pieces DUE the first week of school in January. Along with your sketches and research for the two pieces.

Visit a sculpture exhibit over the break - Use the same format from the summer- //Approximately one page should be an overview of the collection / exhibition that you are critiquing…general observations.

Approximately one page should be addressing one favorite piece of art. Go into detail with this critique, explain well, NO bullet points.

Include two visuals with this paper and __AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTATION__….photo of yourself there and original ticket. One of the 2 visuals must be of the art work that you are critiquing in depth. If you are not allowed to take photos, get a post card, brochure or do a drawing of it yourself.//

//November 15, 2007// http://davidreport.com/blog/200703/more-paper-art-from-jen-stark/ http://www.jenstark.com/index.html || ||
 * You know those pads of multi-colored construction paper you can buy anywhere? Jen Stark takes those and makes them into awesome paper art.

//October 19, 2007// Thanks everyone for posting ideas about your concentration. Research artworks that relate to your theme. For example, Global Environmental issues, Kim Abeles. Portraits of U.S. Presidents from McKinley to Bush, created from smog with their historical quotes about the environment and business. http://www.kimabeles.com/artPages/smog.html
 * Presidential Commemorative Smog Plates**, 1991

Abeles collected trash washed up on Venice and Dockweiler State Beaches to construct the dolphin-shaped suitcase. Her goal was to educate people, particularly children, on the effects of run-off in Santa Monica Bay in order to convey a message of pollution prevention. For many years, Abeles carried the //Dolphin Suitcase// into classrooms. The performance with the sculptural "prop" was typically followed by an art workshop with kids using recyclables as art materials. In 2001, Lux Art Institute purchased the sculpture as part of their school outreach program, and volunteers take it into classrooms with other valises commissioned by the Institute. http://www.kimabeles.com/
 * Run-off Dolphin Suitcase**

Look at Edline for a description of the Gesture Figure assignment.** Click on Breadth in right column. Use your time this weekend to brainstorm and wrap more objects and body parts. Pay attention to number of wraps. Some of you didn't do enough layers for the weight bearing parts of your sculpture. //October 7, 2007// [|Chris Caccamise], 2007
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**Mei-Ling Hom**, 2006, [|Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds] "Hom's 30 cloud-like forms and an original Chinese flute (xiao) composition by American composer [|Eli Marshall] create a landscape-in-space that translates traditional Chinese landscape paintings into the contemporary register of installation art." I met Mei-Ling in Insadong today at the Craft Promotion Gallery. Click the link above and then click on the Clouds Interactive link on the right. This is a flash file that plays the music composed for this installation and there is an interview with the artist and composer. Mei-Ling is in Seoul as a Fulbright Scholar, doing research on contemporary Korean Ceramic artists.