> STREET ART
A very sharp artist in NYC made me aware of a trend I had not been paying much attention to until this morning. I had some experience in the late 80s with graffiti art and artists in San Francisco, and with muralists in the Bay Area... but really can't say that I've seen or paid much heed to an aesthetic or movement that appears to be gaining some ground among the 20-40 year-old generation... At the following site that he turned me on to (as an example) I found links to more than 100 artists listed, 48 websites and 11 magazines on the topic of Street Art.
http://www.woostercollective.com/
> BOONVILLE, MO. FIBRE ARTIST
In the August 2006 "Missouri Life" magazine I came across JO STEALEY's work, a combination of weaving and paper-making which truly becomes majestic when installation-scale... really fine craftsmanship at any size though. She is head of the Fibre Department at University of Missouri/Columbia.
www.jostealey.com
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
July 2006 Page 18
> VISUAL ART ACCESS COMPUTER BLACKOUT COMING
The VAA computer and Arthrobs newsletter will go silent for a couple of days starting anywhere from July 30th - August 2nd or so... we are moving to new offices at 1617 Missouri St., Joplin 64804... so wireless modem and DSL and cable and yadda yadda yadda, plus finding the fuse box etc needs to take priority there for awhile.
The VAA computer and Arthrobs newsletter will go silent for a couple of days starting anywhere from July 30th - August 2nd or so... we are moving to new offices at 1617 Missouri St., Joplin 64804... so wireless modem and DSL and cable and yadda yadda yadda, plus finding the fuse box etc needs to take priority there for awhile.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
July 2006 Page 17
> BMW PUBLISHES SPECTACULAR ART CARS AD
In the current issue of the NEW YORKER you will find another stunning example of a) fine advertising graphic design, b) a great corporate concept for selling something, and c) a further tribute to the NEW YORKER magazine which, occasionally, comes up with truly remarkable ads.
This one has to do with BMW cars which were personalized by Calder (1975 3.0CSL), Lichtenstein (1977 320), Warhol (1979 M1), Rauschenberg (1986 635CSi) and Holzer (1999 V12 LMR)...
Amazing... "Some companies are patrons of the arts."
> CARTHAGE, MO. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
Discovered a really fine artist in Carthage, Missouri... ANDY THOMAS, Maze Creek Studio, who is able to produce outstanding pen & inks of very very complex buildings... this is one applied art I have always encouraged artists to consider as a potboiler if nothing else, IF they can really draw what they see. His stuff is fantastic!
> NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS - GRANT GUIDELINES
Since the current administration has been rather consistently generous with sustaining funding levels for the NEA, why not see if there are any grants for which you should apply, by going to:
http://arts.endow.gov
In the current issue of the NEW YORKER you will find another stunning example of a) fine advertising graphic design, b) a great corporate concept for selling something, and c) a further tribute to the NEW YORKER magazine which, occasionally, comes up with truly remarkable ads.
This one has to do with BMW cars which were personalized by Calder (1975 3.0CSL), Lichtenstein (1977 320), Warhol (1979 M1), Rauschenberg (1986 635CSi) and Holzer (1999 V12 LMR)...
Amazing... "Some companies are patrons of the arts."
> CARTHAGE, MO. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
Discovered a really fine artist in Carthage, Missouri... ANDY THOMAS, Maze Creek Studio, who is able to produce outstanding pen & inks of very very complex buildings... this is one applied art I have always encouraged artists to consider as a potboiler if nothing else, IF they can really draw what they see. His stuff is fantastic!
> NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS - GRANT GUIDELINES
Since the current administration has been rather consistently generous with sustaining funding levels for the NEA, why not see if there are any grants for which you should apply, by going to:
http://arts.endow.gov
Monday, July 24, 2006
July 2006 Page 16
> JOE BEELER native of Joplin
Beeler was born in 1931 in Joplin, studied at the incredibly fine Art Center School in Los Angeles, became a founding member of Cowboy Artists of America, spent a good part of the remainder of his life in Sedona, AZ and was given a retrospective at Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum of Western Art. He passed away recently. Several of his sculptures and early paintings/drawings are to be found locally, as he was highly regarded by people who live here and knew him. Steve Anderson, the proprietor of Anderson's Western Wear (established by his father in 1953) on Range Line remembers when the artist once lived for a time at his parent's ranch down near Tipton Ford, and traded some art for a Stetson and jeans.
> AMERICAN ART TOWNS
Tidbits, an upbeat free local newsletter given out in more than 200 Joplin businesses published (Vol 3 Issue 9) an interesting one of those "Magic Maze" letter games where you circle hidden words in any of four directions... on the topic of art towns in America (only ones not composed of two words, e.g. New York, Santa Fe or San Francisco). It was a fun thing, and a reminder about the OTHER places where art is a vital part of the local economy.
Beeler was born in 1931 in Joplin, studied at the incredibly fine Art Center School in Los Angeles, became a founding member of Cowboy Artists of America, spent a good part of the remainder of his life in Sedona, AZ and was given a retrospective at Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum of Western Art. He passed away recently. Several of his sculptures and early paintings/drawings are to be found locally, as he was highly regarded by people who live here and knew him. Steve Anderson, the proprietor of Anderson's Western Wear (established by his father in 1953) on Range Line remembers when the artist once lived for a time at his parent's ranch down near Tipton Ford, and traded some art for a Stetson and jeans.
> AMERICAN ART TOWNS
Tidbits, an upbeat free local newsletter given out in more than 200 Joplin businesses published (Vol 3 Issue 9) an interesting one of those "Magic Maze" letter games where you circle hidden words in any of four directions... on the topic of art towns in America (only ones not composed of two words, e.g. New York, Santa Fe or San Francisco). It was a fun thing, and a reminder about the OTHER places where art is a vital part of the local economy.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
July 2006 Page 15
> PRATT INSTITUTE SUGGESTS VISUAL ART ACCESS GUIDELINES FOR ARTISTS
It was brought to my attention that the illustrious Pratt Institute career center has taken the unusual step of adopting (by condensing and summarizing) several of the original 1987-1995 Visual Art Access guidelines for artist self-management. We are quite honored by their apparent high regard for the research.
Many do not realize that all those guidelines were the result of enormous input from artists themselves; gathered, sorted, interpreted, created and published by VAA... but moreover, the collective product of literally hundreds of people. For that reason, when not sold for money, the guidelines have been handled as coming under the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law.
See their version of our research at:
http://www.pratt.edu/career/booklets/Marketing%20Yourself%20As%20An%20Artist.PDF
> ART and BARNEY
By some miracle of timing, I managed to escape ever having to be forced to watch the "Barney & Friends" TV show with children, mine or anyone else's. Yesterday I found redemption, at a birthday party for a two-year old.
In 1999 Scholastic Books, Inc. published a very good thing titled BARNEY'S BOOK OF COLORS, by: Mark Bernthal, illustrated by Darren McKee. What caught my eye was that the book discusses color from the standpoint of artist paintbrushes come-to-life as colorful storybook people interacting with that fat purple dinosaur, in a sense... red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, white, and black ones; doing all kinds of things such as driving a fire truck and walking together on garden paths etcetera.
Nice book... good for conditioning kids about art tools and color.
It was brought to my attention that the illustrious Pratt Institute career center has taken the unusual step of adopting (by condensing and summarizing) several of the original 1987-1995 Visual Art Access guidelines for artist self-management. We are quite honored by their apparent high regard for the research.
Many do not realize that all those guidelines were the result of enormous input from artists themselves; gathered, sorted, interpreted, created and published by VAA... but moreover, the collective product of literally hundreds of people. For that reason, when not sold for money, the guidelines have been handled as coming under the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law.
See their version of our research at:
http://www.pratt.edu/career/booklets/Marketing%20Yourself%20As%20An%20Artist.PDF
> ART and BARNEY
By some miracle of timing, I managed to escape ever having to be forced to watch the "Barney & Friends" TV show with children, mine or anyone else's. Yesterday I found redemption, at a birthday party for a two-year old.
In 1999 Scholastic Books, Inc. published a very good thing titled BARNEY'S BOOK OF COLORS, by: Mark Bernthal, illustrated by Darren McKee. What caught my eye was that the book discusses color from the standpoint of artist paintbrushes come-to-life as colorful storybook people interacting with that fat purple dinosaur, in a sense... red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, white, and black ones; doing all kinds of things such as driving a fire truck and walking together on garden paths etcetera.
Nice book... good for conditioning kids about art tools and color.
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