INTRODUCTIONS / WELCOME session — BEFORE COURSE OFFICIALLY STARTS
SHARE IN ONLINE STUDIO BY SUNDAY JULY 14
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By SUNDAY JULY 14 answer the following questions in the ONLINE STUDIO:
- What are your pronouns?
- What are you reading and/or watching?
- What do you usually listen to when you are working?
- Who is your artistic soulmate? (who inspires you time-and-time-again, who are you always excited by — could be any artist, any medium)
- What’s the best meal you had this week?
- Please provide an image of yourself.
TO HAVE ON HAND – tips on photographing 2D work
studioELL.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/studioELL_photographing-work.pdf
looking forward to working with you all!
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What are your pronouns? / they, them
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What are you reading and/or watching?
reading: Writing in Space, 1973–2019 by Lorraine O′Grady
watching: six feet under, the hbo series from 2001-2005… never watched it before…
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What do you usually listen to when you are working?
mostly wqxr (classical music); or democracy now! or other news.
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Who is your artistic soulmate? (who inspires you time-and-time-again, who are you always excited by — could be any artist, any medium)
too many to mention… short list: agnes martin, adrian piper, mierle ukeles, anne truitt, hans haacke, bruce nauman to name a few…
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What’s the best meal you had this week?
i am obsessed with Spicy Slow-Roasted Salmon With Cucumbers and Feta — see attached recipe.
Hi Johnros, great recipe! I love the NYT cooking app.
What are your pronouns? she/her
What are you reading and/or watching?
I keep coming back to this small paperback called The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan. It helps me in my songwriting.
What do you usually listen to when you are working?
I am in love with this station called The Nightly Radio, the tag line for it is
sad.old.radio
It’s old and gloomy tunes from around the world. Most of it very haunting.
https://thenightlyradio.com/
Who is your artistic soulmate? (who inspires you time-and-time-again, who are you always excited by — could be any artist, any medium)
I’m very moved by photography and I would say Sally Mann is someone I have followed and admired, especially after reading her memoir Hold Still. The title cracks me up, of course she was photographing her young, squirmy kids, mostly. I especially love her dreamy landscapes and provocative shots of her children in high contrast light, what she calls the “radical light of the American South.” Plus she is so totally unapologetic about her controversial images. That really draws me to her even more.
What’s the best meal you had this week?
Seared tuna tacos with corn tortillas and a fresh guacamole, made with homegrown tomatoes and banana peppers, with a chipotle/fresno pepper mayo.
Please provide an image of yourself.
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I’m excited to hang out with you all for the next month!
What are your pronouns?
she/her
What are you reading and/or watching?
Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverI finished this last week. I kept seeing it around, especially after it won the Pulitzer, but resisted it b/c it’s about childhood poverty in Appalachia, which I felt like I had to gear myself up for. It ended up being one of the most beautifully written novels I’ve ever read.
Lincoln: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinI’m a history buff so I switch between fiction and history. It’s the book the Lincoln book the movie w/ Daniel Day Lewis is based on, which I haven’t seen.
Watching The Bear and RuPaul’s Drag Race Allstars 9
What do you usually listen to when you are working?
Lori Godwin, thank you for turning me onto The Nightly Radio! I listen to it all the time now. : ) I also listen to a lot podcasts – everything form drag queen gossip to history and philosophy
Who is your artistic soulmate? (who inspires you time-and-time-again, who are you always excited by — could be any artist, any medium)
Paulus Berhenson, Patti Smith, Amy Sillman, Fred Sandback, David Bowie, Joan Jonas and Jack Whitten are the people who are presently guiding me the most.
What’s the best meal you had this week?
I had a slice of homemade strawberry rhubarb pie at a friend’s house that made me want to cry. : )
-She/her
-A Walk through the Forest of Souls by Rachel Pollack; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick and re-reading An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
-Grover Washington, Jr; Marvin Gaye; BTS; Steely Dan; Donald Fagan; CSNY; Eclectic mix…I put a song in and let the algorithm do it’s thing. My current favorite start song is Kool and the Gangs’ Summer Madness
-My artistic soulmate is color. I am not a trained artist but I have always made stuff. Clothes for my troll dolls, knitting and crochet around age 10, sewing age 12, spinning in my 20’s and dying fleece and yarn. Move to TN at age 29 and quiltmaking—dyeing cotton fabrics to get deep, saturated solids. Then rug hooking…taking apart clothing and over dyeing those wool pieces. Now that the house is full of those items I play with watercolors in my datebooks on blank, unused pages. Going for a walk outside, driving in the car, watching the light change as the day passes…remembering how the light was in the years I lived in Fargo versus the colors that surround me now. In all of this the attempt to capture the feelings the color invokes seems to underlie it all. Where does the eye go? What do you see? What do you not? Why and why not? What might this mean? in all of this color is the through line for me.
-Bibimbap with shrimp at Gogi Korean Kitchen in Knoxville for my husband’s birthday!
I looked up A Walk Through the Forest of Souls: A walk through the Tarot, and that looks super interesting to me. And what great imagery for pondering and sketching.
I look forward to meeting everyone and offer a gentle “cheers” to our Tuesday together.
What are your pronouns? he
What are you reading and/or watching? “Every Living Thing” by James Herriot; “The Republic” by Plato
What do you usually listen to when you are working? Lately I’ve been listening to some Lorette Velvette (fellow classmate Lori Godwin), Ichiko Aoba, Alice Phoebe Lou, classical music from the Baroque period, classic rock, etc.
Who is your artistic soulmate? Not really sure I have one; maybe Jackson Browne. I like Andy Goldsworthy’s sculptures too.
What’s the best meal you had this week? Seared tuna tacos with corn tortillas and a fresh guacamole, made with homegrown tomatoes and banana peppers, with a chipotle/fresno pepper mayo (prepared by Lori Godwin!).
What are your pronouns? she/her
What are you reading and/or watching? I’m currently traveling in Italy (Florence, Lucca), so I’ve been reading about the history of Renaissance Florence focusing on 1300-1500. This summer I have binge watched Ted Lasso, Girlfriends, and now Black-ish, also saw Kinds of Kindness in the theater and would love to talk to anyone about it to help me process ; )
What do you usually listen to when you are working? The New Yorker Radio Hour is my usual go to. I am listening to them all moving forwards in time but starting back in 2017, so it’s really fascinating to listen to their perspectives, questions, and projections but with the hindsight of listening to it from “the future.” Also very dumbfounding to listen and be reminded/learn more about the context for current events.
Who is your artistic soulmate? hmmm… Most fresh on my mind right now are the monumental alter pieces of Duccio and Cimabue with the most delicate and obsessive line patterning. I also love ancient Roman and Gothic frescoes found in “hidden” places, like the Triclinium of the Vila Livia (Palazzo Massimo), the oratory of Santi Quatro Coronati, and the monumental Archangel in Santa Cecilia, all in Rome. Hilma af Klint, Tim Hawkinson, the light and shadow of Daumier and Goya (los caprichos, the dark paintings). Seeing in person Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi.
What’s the best meal you had this week? Fagioli all’uccelletto (translates to beans in the style of little birds, lol) for dinner in Florence last night. Real, rustic, delicious Tuscan dish, no messing around. Delicate yet robust, earthy flavors reminded of my childhood blessed by the cooking of my Italian-American grandparents.
Please provide an image of yourself. Me on a recent river trip with friends on the south fork of the Tuolumne River in the Sierra Nevada of California
Example of ways of organizing a Sketchbook Page:
Thanks for posting. This so fascinating to me!
Here is the page from the William Blake tarot book that I read from last night. I enjoyed class very much. While making paste paper with friends today thoughts from last night’s discussion and exercises kept bubbling up. I didn’t stop to write them down but the paste paper I made today had a very different feel from that which I have made before. It is still drying but I will post some pics when it is finished.
thanks for posting!
how a drawing can evolve… attached .pdf
The importance to drawing in my practice is that I can “spew” lol
One random drawing of a bunny rabbit resonated so much that I have been studying it for four years in different mediums. I still do not know what it means but it drives me to keep making work. Muse? maybe 🙂