JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK

Japanese

• Concept 1: Japan*, asia*, printmaking, ancient, orient*, east*
  Woodblock
• Concept 2: relief print*, woodcut, hangi
  In order to specify
• Concept 3: (geography, time period, gender, ethnic and racial groups
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RADICAL ART

Radical

• Concepts 1: underground, revolutionary, controversial, outsider, activist, nontraditional
  Art

• Concepts 2: media, performance, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, bookmaking, literature, theater, installation, site-specific, photography
  
• Concept 3: (geography, time period, gender, ethnic and racial groups)
  

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LIBRARY -- March 19, 2009

POSSIBLE TOPICS TO SEARCH

• Radical art
• Sustainable art/green art
• Environmental art
• Japanese wood block
• Ritualistic art/fluxus/gutai
• Contemporary artists/art theory
• Independent presses
• Art and science
• Psychological geographies
• Outsider art/art vs. crafts
• Interdisciplinary artists

NEWS YOU CAN USE -- March 12, 2009

• Chris Burden
• Recycled Art: Call for Submission – due March 13
• Fractured Atlas: discounted healthcare for CAA members
• Industry Night: the night before Manifest, register with Portfolio center to meet businessmen
• Grainedit.com: look for inspiration
• Artletter.com
• Otherpeoplespixels.com: $250 a year for portfolio website
• Learningtoloveyoumore.com
• Rooms Productions: roomsgallery.com
• Onion City Film Festival: due April 10

ED'S PRESENTATION

Successful Failure Movement
“Paper Ad”
Magazines: Fucking Good Art, Cabinet
ArtWar: Art Fair in opposition to Artropolis

Lumpen Magazine
Bridgeport – Co Prosperity Sphere
Book Stores: Queenbee’s, Myopic Books, Prairie Avenue (on Wabash)
Eastern expansion – Ruben Cancade
Public Media Institute: Non-profit
International Cab Fair: let him know if you have anything to show at the fair

Select Media Fest: infoporn – info visualization

Iraq suicide bomber project

Try to incorporate every kind of art style (what can you sell?)

Book: Outliners, The Phone Book

Portfolio Website: don’t put everything on it. Leave mystery

Writing for Proximity: creative writing. You can compare a show to someone else’s or somewhere else, be judgmental.

Laure Pearson: get to know her. Owner of Mule Magazine

Onthemake.org

Network: Incubate, Gallerycrawl Girl, Lumpen.com

ed@proximitymagazine.com
mairead.case@gmail.com

CLASS NOTES -- February 12, 2009

GRANT WRITING

• Fiscal sponsorship
• Submit 2 weeks before it’s due

MESS HALL

• Biodiversity
• The trace – what we leave behind
• Literature/form and content
• Rcycling/reusing
• Idea of home
• Memory / interconnectivity
• Socially based perception/mores
• Spatial and auditory recontextualization

NEWS YOU CAN USE -- February 12, 2009

• Mad Cat Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
• Deadline March
• Artcalendar.com: a section for free
• Woman made Gallery: June 19 – July 24
• Communityarts.net
• Ecoartsupplies.com
• Donorsforum.org/about/mission.html