Winter Break!

Congratulations on finishing your first/third semester! Enjoy the break, travel safe, and remember the studio is open all break. 

Michael Kareken's MAEP Exhibition Gallery Talk

Thursday, December 17
7:00pm
@ the MAEP galleries in the MIA

In “Scrap,” Michael Kareken’s oil paintings memorialize democratic piles of recyclable glass and metal, each performing as both a portrait and a landscape. Originally intrigued by the Rock-Tenn recycling plant seen from his studio window, Kareken began painting landscapes of piles of paper, glass, and steel, documenting their endless shifts as they mysteriously work their way in and out the facility. Kareken’s painterly brushstrokes can evoke the Excavation paintings George Bellows made while New York’s Penn Station was being built. These captured the landscape and spirit of the Industrial Revolution. Kareken, like Bellows, portrays the drama and stark beauty of a new American scene. His refuse heaps are lovingly rendered, monochromatic studies of twisted metal, as in Scrap Engines (2009), or large, scrap-carrying magnets whose painted heft dissolves in a mass of swinging energy at the canvas edges. Scrap Bottles, a 9 x 14-foot canvas, is an up-close view of a mountain of glass—green, clear, and brown, broken and whole. Kareken has worked the paint into a composition that hovers between figurative and abstract.

This Week at Whittier

Megan Frauenhoffer

Robert Algeo

Galen McDonald

Monster Drawing Rally

Saturday, December 12, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Midway Contemporary Art
527 Second Ave SE

Minneapolis, MN

Artists will draw live and everything will be for sale for $35


LIST OF ARTISTS:

Skowhegan Summer Residency

Applications for the summer's residency program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture are now available.

Deadline for application: Feb 1

The 9 week residency in Maine runs from June 13-Aug 15.

More info: http://www.skowheganart.org

MCAD provides 2 matching fellowships for successful applicants. This opportunity is highly competitive. Residents will have access to a sculpture shop, darkroom, multi-media lab, and library, along with crits, performances, and swimming in the lake. All residents are over 21, and I don't think you have to be enrolled in school to apply so 2nd years can also apply.

Winter Carnival Call for Art

Deadline: December 20

Entry fees go to cash prizes for the 3 best of show artists

This Week at Whittier

Nick Tews

Leo Winstead

Song Thao

Jackson Schwartz & Mark O'Brien

(Sorry Jackson and Mark, I didn't know exactly who did what, and a lot of the images captured both of your work so I grouped you together. Also, I missed getting pictures of the furniture that was in the gallery, by Levi?)

Post-it Creativity

Stress Relief

We have been getting a lot of e-mail about stress relief aimed toward the undergrads with their finals coming up. As you know stress in grad school is not always at the end of the semester, it fluctuates throughout (lucky us). Some things to keep in mind when things get rough:

SLEEP! This is the first thing people skimp on to get work done, but in order to function at your best you should be getting 7-8 hours a night. Sleep will also help you stay healthy and keeps you metabolism going.

EAT! Along with sleeping, keep up with healthy meals to power you through the long hours. Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, try to get some protein in there for a jump start.

EXERCISE! If you can find the time to get a walk/run/bike ride in during the day it will release endorphins which will help with stress relief. This is probably the hardest to find time to do, but try. (I am a total hypocrite writing this one)

Meditate? I have found this as a suggestion, but just take some time for yourself. If you are stressing about something and working on it all day, take a little time to do something you enjoy, even if it is just watching a quick TV show.

And now I am done sounding like an RA bulletin board posting.

Thesis Proposal Presentations

For the first years, I would suggest going to at least one of the days of presentations. They are all at noon this week and next monday in auditorium 140. There are not a lot of guidelines for this presentation so it is nice to see what people do this year to help you when it comes to be your time (which comes up much faster than you anticipate).

Here is the schedule:

Already done - Chris, Mary, Thomas

Tuesday - Branden, Tim, Lu

Wednesday - Sarah, Adam, Amy

Thursday - John, Garrett, Amanda

Friday - Aaron, Megan, Ginny

Monday - Sara, Nick, Leo

Thanksgiving in Minneapolis

Sticking around for Thanksgiving? Here are some options to get a Thanksgiving meal without making it yourself!

Cosmos: Cosmos serves Thanksgiving brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 26. You may choose one starter, entree and desert from a special Thanksgiving menu. See the full menu here. $15 per person. Reservations 612-312-1168. 601 First Avenue North, Minneapolis MN 55403. Click here for directions.


Jax Cafe: Jax Cafe serves a traditional Thanksgiving feast that includes wild rice soup, homemade mashed potatoes, fresh oven roasted turkey, pecan pie, and more. $25 per person. Make reservations by phone at (651) 222-5878 or make online reservations here. 1928 University Ave. NE Minneapolis, MN 55418. Click here for driving directions.

Where have all the supplies gone?!

Hammers, screwdrivers, tape measures, pliers, levels, etc.

If you have any of the tools sitting in your studio please return them to the cabinet so everyone can use them, and find what they need.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Monday, November 23, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
College Center

For the vegetarians I have heard they have really good foturkey, which I guess is a pain to make, so take advantage! 

Please remember to bring a non-perishable food item for donation to help stock the food shelf at second harvest heartland, and feed those in need.

The feast will begin at 6:00 and finish at 7:30, and remember, there is time before night class to grab a bite! Also bring some tupperware to take extra food home!

Visual Studies Reader

An anthology of visual studies, art history, visual communications, visual anthropology, and visuality in general, including science. All graduate students, in any field, are eligible. The book will be published in 2013.

The first fully collaborative, student-run publication on visual studies. The visual world is changing so fast that no conventional anthology can capture it. This idea is to record the current shape of visual studies, across disciplines, as it is experienced by the upcoming generation of scholars and artists.

More info: http://visualreader.pbworks.com/
How to submit a proposal: http://visualreader.pbworks.com/How-to-submit-a-proposal 

Harvests of New Millennium

The mission of Cyberwit is to encourage and promote the visual arts and   poetry. Cyberwit's Harvests of New Millennium will be divided into three sections: (1) Photos, Paintings and Drawings, (2) Poetry and (3) Biography of Contributing Artists. The Journal will feature poems and artworks by the artists from all over the world. The poems and artwork selected for Harvests of New Millennium will surely compel our admiration. 


Guidelines for Artworks Submission:

• The artwork must be an original creation of the artist. Submission to Cyberwit will be assumed ownership of the submitter.
• Send your artwork to us via email with high resolution (Minimum 100 DPI) in JPG, BMP or TIFF.
• Each artist will be required to send at least 1-3 paintings (Photos, Paintings and Drawings).
• All artworks (Photos, Paintings and Drawings) may be in color or B&W. 
• Few words about your artwork.
• A 50-word note on yourself. 
• All copyrights remain the property of the artists and photographers. 
• There is no entry fee for artists juried in. We intend to donate this book to a few libraries of USA and UK. Further we will send its copy to Cyberwit members worldwide. This will surely help to build your image as an international artist. 

More info: http://cyberwit.net/harvestsjournal.htm

Gallery 148

A new student run gallery on main campus.

Exhibit your work
Curate a show
Be an emerging artist
Build your resume

Gallery 148 offers a professional experience for MCAD students to exhibit work and build their resumes, curate shows, collaborate with other artists, or anything else that is successfully presented to the jury. Four 2-week shows in the spring semester are up grabs, all you need to do is submit a gallery proposal, which will be reviewed by a jury of your peers (students representing each department, a SAC liaison, and a staff facilitator).

Feel free to email sac@mcad.edu questions if if you have them, or talk to your SAC representative.

Submit a completed proposal form to Student Affairs by Monday, November 30th at 11:00am.

Who is in SAC? Andrew Vomhof, Benjamin Kjos, Thomas Boyer, Liz Cunningham, Ethan Holbrook, George Folz, Louisa Fry, and Megan Leafblad

This Week at Whittier

Adam Caillier

Mary Davis

Graham Judd

Jessica Henderson

Thesis Presentation Blurbs

DUE to Kristin Anhorn (officially due yesterday, but just get it to her this week!) 

1.      1 - jpeg of work — include title, medium, size, date

2.     Title + 3-4 sentence description of your presentation (written in the 3rd person; he, she, first name):  excerpt from your thesis draft, if appropriate.

(hope the thesis writing is going well)

Forecast Public Art Grant

Forecast Public Art's annual grant program, established in 1989, supports emerging, visual artists residing in the state of Minnesota.

These grants provide artists the chance to develop and create projects for a public audience anywhere in the state, receive increased recognition, and advance their artistic careers.

2010 Application Deadline: February 6, 2010.
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Application forms will be posted at their website on December 1, 2009. Selected grants will be announced in March 2010.

This Week at Whittier

Tim Baias

(videos)

Shannon Brady

Re-Reviews

Aaron DeYoe

Amy Pleticha

Megan Frauenhoffer

Nick Tews

Sarah Haig