July 2010
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October 2009
17 posts
WEEK 7: BAKE A CAKE
This week, I introduced the class to Sara Savannah Roach, a visiting artist from Portland Oregon who has been spending October at Elsewhere. Sara’s project at Elsewhere has been an ongoing bake sale and cake decorating company. Sara has been decorating cakes to look like Elsewhere objects, both 3-D and relief, and then selling them out of our front window for a paltry $3. While business...
WEEK 6: SCREEN PRINTING TIME
Well, with only a couple weeks to go I shared a final project with the class, a collaboration with Trees NC to plant trees (4 crape myrtles) on the Weaver campus to help beautify Weaver and make it more aesthetically integrated with downtown Greensboro.
We read the proposal to the school together, and then discussed a bit about the event.
I’ve tasked the class with raising 1/2 the cost of...
WEEK 5: GUERRILLA GARDENING
This week was a super phenomenal one for Art Everywhere. We talked about gardens as art, from The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, to Versailles, to the Rebar Collective, Park Day, and Guerilla Gardening in general.
Then the good part. We headed out Elsewhere’s front door to a spot where we used to have a city tree and until today was a large pile of dirt. The first large tree we used to have...
WEEK 4: BRIDGE
This week we decided to connect with a new Elsewhere project, a mural for under the bridge under the Hamburger Square Railroad Tressle. We spent a long time in class talking about how communities connect with an image in their downtown. George went into detail about his intimate relationship with the Public Art Endowment and what kind of languages we are using to explain our case for art —...
WEEK 3: LOUNGING
I met everyone at the Greensboro Public Library. The intention was to go on a public art walk around downtown, stopping at key sites along the way. We wandered up the Green Street Parking deck first, where two years ago the United Arts Council commissioned a mural in the stairwell. The mural is in spanish and english, and stretches across the four floors of the deck, and can be read in any...
September 2009
6 posts
day 2: andy warhol
Elsewhere’s celebrating its receipt of the Andy Warhol Foundation grant for the next two years, and we worked with the Weaver class to create a window installation recognizing the Warhol grant. Andy’s said: “someday all department stores will become museums,” so we decided to put a department store in our front window. Andy’s love of the commercial object as a...
day 1
Last Thursday was our first session of Art Everywhere. I was delighted to meet everyone in the class. We outlined the basics of the course, introduced ourselves, and then students went on a whirlwind tour of Elsewhere. I’m really looking forward to next week; everyone seems pretty ready to get in there and start making things. horray!
syllabus
ELSEWHERE ARTIST COLLABORATIVE
ART EVERYWHERE SYLLABUS
THURSDAYS 4:30-6:30pm
September 10th to October 29th 2009
Week 1: September 10th
ART CONCEPT: WELCOME TO ELSEWHERE. Tour of the museum. Curriculum overview through related museum and collective themes. What is public art, community art, site-specific art?
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: What is a non-profit? Models for public art production,...
affinities (weaver, elsewhere, public art)
This afternoon, 15 Weaver High School students will come over to Elsewhere for a 2 hour after school program exploring public art and leadership. We decided to lead this program for a few reasons.
#1: It seems timely considering that Chris Lineberry, Elsewhere’s first intern (joining us in 2004), Weaver student who grew (and grew and grew) from orchestra kid to visual arts genius and...