Need Quikrete?

Can anyone use some fast setting Quikrete? 50lb bag. Creative possibilities. Up for grabs to whomever can lift it.

Paula_riddle@att.net

Look what can be done with an old plane

Fire Arms...Trash

Check this page out!

Junk Artist Extraordinaire

My absolutely favorite artist, a fantastic teacher, and a big user of junk in art, Michael deMeng.

http://michaeldemeng.blogspot.com/

Posting for Marsha

Hi Helen-

I have not been able to post to the Blog, but have really loved this…

I just Googled Marcel Duchamp and went through a fantastic webpage “Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp.”  I found it so fascinating, it goes through his whole life and art in chronological order.  I was especially excited getting to his last work.  What a phenomenal life!  Wow!  http://understandingduchamp.com/

As I have been contemplating playing with recycled or discarded objects, have thought about how to some people trash looks like something to be discarded, and to me, well I see potential.  To express differing points of view I have been considering using some peepholes to provide little “surprise bonus” to those who participate and look closely into the piece.  I like the idea even better now that I have seen Duchamp’s last project, the gate with the two peepholes. Love it!

Juggling Women

Thought you might enjoy this blog, about juggling art work and family, sound Familiar?

Trash for Treasure Exchange!

On the first night bring any trash you think someone else might want and we will do a trash for treasure exchange!

Tuesday Nights, Playing with Trash!

TUESDAY NIGHTS

Recycle, Reuse, Recover,

Reutilize, Recondition, Recontextualize.

  I’m inviting you and 19 other artists to play with Trash. I’m inviting you to create something beautiful, provocative and just plan fun out of something unloved, rejected, thrown away. In the tradition of Marcel Ducamp, we are going to work with the Readymade. We will end our fun with a Spring Exhibition, what better a time then the time of renewal! As always, complete artistic freedom is not only allowed but encouraged.

  “Tuesday Nights” is an Art Class/Workshop for local creative types, which is built around a project idea that ends in an exhibition. Mostly this is a way to advance your creative skills while socializing with others of your artistic ilk.

  We don't care about how long you have been at it. Some of us have been plowing the creative fields for a while, others are just starting, all that matters is your willingness to jump in and take chances; after all it's only art. If you have never played with us before check it out or blog. http://tuesdaynights-thegameroom.blogspot.com/

WHERE: Heidi’s House

WHEN: Tuesday Nights, February 28^th, March 27^th, April 24^th, May 29^th and An Exhibition in June.

TIME: 6:00PM - 9:00PM

$80 for four sessions and an exhibition.

$75 for artists who have re-enrolled.

The total price is less then the price of most one-day workshops!

The number of students will be limited to 20.

Enrollment will work on a first come first served basis.

Online consultation is included in the price.

You will be encouraged to team up with others students in a playgroup to meet between classes. The group can also communicate through the class blog.

Once you are enrolled in the class I will add you as one of the authors of the blog, which will allow you to post as well as comment.

Below is the link to the blog.

http://tuesdaynights-thegameroom.blogspot.com

I want this to be a social and communal art event. 

Goals for the class

1.    The building of an artistic community through socialization with other artist. (There is something to be said about breathing the air of other creative souls.)

2.    Building artistic community through exhibitions. (It’s not about selling; it is about developing artistic energy through sharing with a larger community. Think of it as A Happening.)

3.   To learn to Critique your own and others work effectively.

4.   To develop technical proficiency in a variety of media and/or methods,

       by planning, designing and completing projects.

Any further questions email me at helenwilsonartist@mac.com

Helen Wilson

MFA, SFAI

Adjunct Art Department, Palomar College.

Oh, the Places You'll Go

This is the spirit I want for our Group.


http://youtu.be/ahv_1IS7SiE

Save these Dates for Tuesday Nights

While you're checking out the trash links to the right, save these dates.

Feb 28th
March 27th
April 24th
Last Class May 29th.
Exhibition, June 1st.

Heidi has kindly offered her home, that means a huge room and beverages possible. 

Nov Exquisite Corpse Exhibition

Some of the photos from the show...the Town Hall was great!

Esquisite Corpse Exhibition, the postcard.

Equisite Corpse

The Third Annual Exquisite Corpse Exhibition plus Day of the Dead Altars.

PRESS RELEASE

The Third Annual Exquisite Corpse Exhibition plus Day of the Dead Altars.

What: Art Exhibition

When: Reception October 28th

Time:  5:00PM until 9:00 PM.

The show will be up through the weekend. 10:00AM 4:00PM.

Where: Ramona Town Hall, the East Wing.

729 Main Street, Ramona, CA 92065

Come dressed as your favorite dead person (famous or not!)

For the third year artist Helen Wilson invited a group of fellow artists to play the game "Exquisite Corpse." This is a game by which a collection of images is assembled by the group to form bodies. The game was invented by the Surrealists; and earned its name from one of the initial writings, "Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine). It is the perfect game for creating Art for a Halloween Exhibition.

            This group plays the game with a bit of a twist. The body is broken into proportionally correct sheets of paper, i.e. the head is around 1/8 of the body. First they word associated body parts to warm up. For example, what does an arm make you think of? Then they all draw, one body part at a time. The results are then put on the floor where each of the artists chose a body, one part at a time.

            This is where they really change the game; everyone goes home with his or her body and they agreed to reassemble for the exhibition. Once home, their body was the inspiration for a piece of art. Everyone is working with a 2’ x 4’ format, but materials are open ended. The only obligation was to their art and to keep the sense of play - after all it is a game. No one has seen all the finished work.

            In the mean time in October the group started a new project, constructing Day of the Dead Altars. More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death. It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing for at least 3,000 years, a ritual known today as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. In the United States and in Mexico, families build altars in their homes, dedicating them to the relatives who have passed. They surround these altars with flowers, food and pictures of the deceased. They light candles and place them next to the altar. In some homes the altar is not only dedicated to friends and family members who have died, but to others as well. These festivities show that syncretism is particularly important in cultural expressions like theology, mythology, and the representational arts, all of which are present in the contemporary diversity of Día de los Muertos. The group will be building artistic altars to people or causes that are important to them.