Kathy Forer on thu 21 feb 08
On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:23 AM, primalmommy wrote:
> I'm thinking about building a shoebox
> gallery on my break and filling it with mini versions of pedestals,
> vitrines and pots.
A cut-out plan or model can be really helpful, especially if you're =20
better visualizing in dimensions than graphically. I print small =20
photos or draw thumbnails of my work and move those around. 3d =20
thumbnails are terrific, too, like mini-teapots, they have a life of =20
their own.
If you make a shoebox model, take a gander at Art Mini, "the world's =20
smallest international art fair," http://bloggy.com/mt/archives/=20
006248.html
While the original artmini submission site is down, the Flickr and =20
ArtCal links work.
=46rom http://web.archive.org/web/20070301102443/http://artmini.net/
Because ART MINI is an artfair of dramatically reduced
scale, viewers confront the fair from a bird's eye view,
revealing it as all-approachable=97yet from this view its
details are equally unapproachable. No longer surrounded
by the labyrinth of the fair, overwhelmed by its stimuli,
and confronted by the vast yet sequestered space it is
possible to think of the art fair in a new way=97as a model.
Kathy
--
Kathy Forer
http://www.kathyforer.com/
primalmommy on thu 21 feb 08
Dannon's advice on setting up a gallery show is now tucked into my
sketch book.
I am looking at a spring break week with no clay (twitch) so I plan to
write my art critic research paper and do some book work for my
seminar.. but I would love to put my hands on a book (or website) about
-- what's it called? Installation? Gallery design? If anybody has a
recommendation -- or just more advice like Dannon's, if this is your
"thing" -- I'd be grateful. I'm thinking about building a shoebox
gallery on my break and filling it with mini versions of pedestals,
vitrines and pots.
Patrick has been working for the gallery director and
curating/installing shows for two years now, and has some clue about
this stuff -- placement, lighting -- but he'll be back in the sunny
south before my show. ;0P
In answer to some clayarters questions: I have no idea why MFA shows are
scheduled the way they are. Eight of us are graduating this spring, and
each gets a week-long show (and for the MFAs, a defense) in one of two
available galleries. The University has a 3000-member mailing list with
faculty from U of M and other area colleges, local media, potters at
Pewabic -- but I'm buying the stamps so I will be a bit selective. I'll
send cards to my own crew, my students and fellow guild members and
customers, and the grad students I've come to know and care about will
probably come -- (we always check out each others' work). I'll also
likely send a lot of cards to people who are never going to come --
clayarters in Texas and Canada and Minnesota and such, just to show off.
Patrick.won't see my show ;0( For two year he's been my friend, my
roomie, my stoking companion, my confidante, moral support and surrogate
brother. But soon "school's out" and we'll scatter like summer camp
buddies. At a gallery opening the other night, three profs were standing
around him (he's a really big guy, like a younger, more cheerful version
of Hagrid) and they were wondering what the university would do without
him. His absence from the galleries, the Art masters Association and the
EMU ceramics studio will leave enormous shoes to fill...
And I'm not likely to find myself at the Side Track tavern once school
is out, across from his empty chair, missing my
therapy-and-a-cold-woodchuck sessions. But Patrick will be missed. When
I told my kids he's likely be going back to the South when school was
out, it was like telling them Santa Claus was retiring to Hawaii.
They're going to miss him, too.
Yours,
Kelly in Ohio
(Wondering now which bus tour tickets to buy for NCECA...it seems that
whichever tour you choose, everybody's raving about something on the
OTHER tour...)
Marta Matray on thu 21 feb 08
, primalmommy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>). I'll also
>likely send a lot of cards to people who are never going to come --
>clayarters in Texas and Canada and Minnesota and such, just to show
off.>>>>>>
yes kelly, send card to minnesota! i'll treat my mail man with
hot chocklate... yes, i do it often when its way way way below zero.
poor guy have to climbe thru snow piles in this awfully cold winter.
-
if your invitation cards are ready by march, bring some to pittsburgh!
xoxo, marta
David McBeth on thu 21 feb 08
Kelly - check out Taking The Leap - Cay Lang, the book is a light read we
are using in our senior thesis/professional issues course. There is a whole
chapter on setting up an exhibit.
Dave
David McBeth, MFA
330 B Gooch Hall
Department of Visual and Theatre Arts
UT Martin
Martin, TN 38238
731-881-7416
On 2/21/08 9:23 AM, "primalmommy" wrote:
> Dannon's advice on setting up a gallery show is now tucked into my
> sketch book.
>
> I am looking at a spring break week with no clay (twitch) so I plan to
> write my art critic research paper and do some book work for my
> seminar.. but I would love to put my hands on a book (or website) about
> -- what's it called? Installation? Gallery design? If anybody has a
> recommendation -- or just more advice like Dannon's, if this is your
> "thing" -- I'd be grateful. I'm thinking about building a shoebox
> gallery on my break and filling it with mini versions of pedestals,
> vitrines and pots.
>
> Patrick has been working for the gallery director and
> curating/installing shows for two years now, and has some clue about
> this stuff -- placement, lighting -- but he'll be back in the sunny
> south before my show. ;0P
>
> In answer to some clayarters questions: I have no idea why MFA shows are
> scheduled the way they are. Eight of us are graduating this spring, and
> each gets a week-long show (and for the MFAs, a defense) in one of two
> available galleries. The University has a 3000-member mailing list with
> faculty from U of M and other area colleges, local media, potters at
> Pewabic -- but I'm buying the stamps so I will be a bit selective. I'll
> send cards to my own crew, my students and fellow guild members and
> customers, and the grad students I've come to know and care about will
> probably come -- (we always check out each others' work). I'll also
> likely send a lot of cards to people who are never going to come --
> clayarters in Texas and Canada and Minnesota and such, just to show off.
>
> Patrick.won't see my show ;0( For two year he's been my friend, my
> roomie, my stoking companion, my confidante, moral support and surrogate
> brother. But soon "school's out" and we'll scatter like summer camp
> buddies. At a gallery opening the other night, three profs were standing
> around him (he's a really big guy, like a younger, more cheerful version
> of Hagrid) and they were wondering what the university would do without
> him. His absence from the galleries, the Art masters Association and the
> EMU ceramics studio will leave enormous shoes to fill...
>
> And I'm not likely to find myself at the Side Track tavern once school
> is out, across from his empty chair, missing my
> therapy-and-a-cold-woodchuck sessions. But Patrick will be missed. When
> I told my kids he's likely be going back to the South when school was
> out, it was like telling them Santa Claus was retiring to Hawaii.
> They're going to miss him, too.
>
> Yours,
> Kelly in Ohio
> (Wondering now which bus tour tickets to buy for NCECA...it seems that
> whichever tour you choose, everybody's raving about something on the
> OTHER tour...)
>
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