and the Phampersand Press
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Warren Seelig, one of my mentors from grad school and major influences, is exhibiting a retrospective of his work at MICA! This is awesome news, and I can’t wait to see his fiber pieces in the space. Aww. His critiques were really pivotal in helping me shape my thesis and body of work of the last 3 years. This is so great.
More info at the Bmore Art Blog.
I feel like my life has erupted with gifts, some tangible and some not, in the last 48 hours.
I discovered this great artist, Julia Pott, via Book By Its Cover, and now I have a total brain/girl-crush. I am, by nature, a little over-critical of how illustrators use text/humor/emotion with their work and I admit that I may prematurely dismiss something as a bit too “twee” for my tastes, but GOSH. I love her funny animals and squinched up faces and quick passing thoughts in messy block letters. They almost seem even more honest that they’re against these drawing collages. She’s even got an Etsy shop where you can purchase some of her prints. Do check out her pages and animation, I think her work is just so charming:
ooh and if that weren’t enough, I come with more! I have been working with Mark on new goodies for this here blog, and we now have a widget for making playlists! I doubt I’ll have time to make a regular mix every week, but I’m always picking up/gifting/receiving new tunes and I like to share. This week is just a two-song shorty, as I keep playing around with the features. Enjoy a little soul in your step. (oh by the way! if you’re reading this via Reader or a feed, you may need to out-click the link to view the widget player thing. sorry for the inconvenience!)
…and probably no more blogging till next week, as I head out on an adventure to the Hudson River Valley. Nature and my favorite people! yes!
I had an insane whirlwind of a weekend and want to gush all about it, namely Jenny Holzer at the Whitney and easy-breezy-Philly, but I’ve had a bit of a family emergency that could interfere with my ability to blog regularly for a time. So meanwhile, check out some links I’ve been digging these days:
Who doesn’t love school supplies? Pencil Blog
My favorite art blog these days Bright Stupid Confetti (noticing lots of Bmore and Philly artists there, <3)
JP Art Brut(e)
happy clicking… will be back blogging when I can clear the mental space.
I’ve been following the Jezebel vs. DoubleX (well, Jezebel-awesomeness vs. Linda Hirshman) debates pretty closely, this back and forth of Moe and Tracy essentially Handing It to her, and then, gloriously, some DoubleX writers agreeing and moving the debate even more forward (my favorite zinger, “With fellow feminists like this, who needs the patriarchy?”)… but anyway, through a series of meta-clicking, I found some great reads on kyriarchy, a better and more progressive take on Hirshman’s take on “intersectionality”, and this amazing and informative blog, Muslima Media Watch. Check ‘em out!
I have been following Rain Noe for years. He was dormant for a while, and then his most recent travels/photo essays popped up in my reader and I couldn’t think of more perfect timing.
I don’t even know this dude, but through his mottled web-presence I do admit I’ve got a bit of an e-crush on this writer/bachelor-cook/photographer/blogger/Kim Jong Il impersonator/sassy New Yorker type. I’m sure it’s a hip-companion cliche; I don’t care.
Do check out his blog and his photo essays. He’s got this way of capturing something magnificent as it exists in what is typically mundane. Urban, blue, clouds, funny pothole covers, that kind of thing. Do you ever find yourself walking around on a beautiful day, dragging your feet out of whatever it is that’s making you glum, and you see… the big hair sheep dog staring at you out of someone’s window begonias, or a little old man with his grocery cart, repositioning his hat just so… and you half smile/smirk without thinking that you’re supposed to be feeling glum. It’s a little like that.
happy spring/[already] summer, friends.
Openings and closings, windows open, outdoor music.
Jot all these goodies down and get yerself the heck outside! So much going on this weekend!
Tonight!
MICA presents MFA Thesis III, featuring work by:
Amita Bhatt
Nina Glaser
Kat Rohrbacher
Katherine Mann
Scott Shanley
Karla Cott
Clarissa Gregory
Judy Stone
Pete Cullen
Alan Callander
Robby Rackleff
Emily Wathen
Sandy Triolo
Janna Rice and Charlie Hahn will also be presenting their MFA Exhibitions at the Center for the Arts, Holtzman MFA Gallery at Towson University, with receptions from 7:30 to 9 PM.
Andrew Geddes exhibit, Conventionalized Calculations for Primary Structures closes tonight at the Hexagon (1825 N. Charles St, from 6:30 to 8), as does Wise Guise, the inaugural exhibition at the new Nudashank Gallery, on the 3rd floor of the H&H Building.
If wine and mingling aren’t your thing, you can still entertain your eyes at
and The Charles Theatre will be showing John Carpenter’s film, They Live as a part of their midnight movie series.
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Hope to see you there!
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