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I have to admit that I had so many feelings pop up while reading the pieces for this week.

I was excited to see how a range of different art forms from poetry to photography to collage to pop up books were used […]

Hello lovelies.  I landed upon this page  on African-American folk artists this week and while I have not fully immersed in all of it…it’s a very rich page on a very rich site, I had to share it before class!

Enjoy!

Hi all…here are a few things I have been playing with, trying to feel more comfortable with experimenting with the kids’ words and some images along with my own ideas and layers…

Playing with […]

“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”

—Toni Cade Bambara, via Adrienne Maree Brown’s book, Pleasure Activism

What I love about revisiting well-loved works is how we see and experience the piece differently based on the new moment of passing we are in.  In keeping with the idea of audiencing, I also realized that the […]

Hello all! I am looking forward to seeing you all today! It just hit me that I never posted my art pieces to the group…so here they are and here are more that are capturing my attention right now!

Clearly I […]

In thinking about Victoria’s work (work sounds too small to encompass what she has created/experiences/put forth) I kept coming back to the ideas of collage and assemblage and how they can be used to honor the […]

This week’s readings brought up so many emotions that seemed to conflict with each other…I found myself nodding my head in agreement and then sitting in discomfort with a phrase I found unsettling. I think […]

A couple of ideas that have been meandering through my mind in relationship to next week’s class (and life, in general, really) are those of “with-ness” and messiness.

The pieces by Pink and Jordan discuss in […]

A question that keeps popping up for me is how the “form” of inquiry shapes / enhances / constrains what we “see” and experience.

The piece by Wang and her colleagues was a helpful introduction to arts based […]