Design

"Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary"

2009-01-05T17:21:00.000-08:00

Terese Agnew
Clothing labels, thread, fabric backing
94 1/2 x 109 3/4 in. (240 x 278.8 cm)

""Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary" is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in the new building at 2 Columbus Circle, which opened in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose."

changes

2009-01-05T17:17:00.001-08:00

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
-Maya Angelou

Austin First Night

2009-01-05T14:56:00.001-08:00

Metamorphosis Arte - The Migration of the Monarch Butterfly
“La Migracion de las Monarcas” is a bilingual interactive puppet show using puppets, theater, dance, music and graphic arts to illustrate the history of the migration of the monarch butterflies. The monarchs migrate each year from the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico, traveling through the U.S. and into Canada. As they travel and lay their eggs, the process of metamorphosis occurs and they return to Mexico with a new generation of butterflies. While tracing the migration of the monarch butterflies, our story develops various metaphors relating to international relations and communication, the US/Mexico Border wall, agriculture, pollution and resource conservation. The show is for all ages but attracts many children with its colorful puppets and dancing.

Park guell

2008-11-30T19:41:00.000-08:00

Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain is by far one of the most stimulating and beautiful places I have experienced in my life. I first visited the park in 2005 where I remember feeling like a child in Grimm's Fairy Tale, Hansel & Gretel. I immediately wanted to run and skip through the parks layers of mosaic walls, stairs, sculptures, walkways and elf like buildings. I returned again in 2008 as a participant in a summer graduate program covering mosaic arts and art history. The program gave me the opportunity to visit other great buildings done by Guadi and to learn about the natural forms that have influenced him. This park has also been a great influence for me because of my interest in public art, ecological design, and recycled art materials. Guadi used local stone from the parks site for its architectural columns, plazas, and stairways as well as recycled broken tile, ceramic, and glass pieces in the decorative skin of the walls and benches. His works throughout Barcelona have not only attracted people from all over the world to admire but have become a huge part of Barcelona’s identity and local pride.
Antoni Guadi a native to Catalonia was born in Reus on June 25, 1852. He received his architecture degree in 1878 from the Institut d'Ensenyament Mitja in Barcelona, Spain. His works are known for their expressive sculptural elements as well as his amazing use of space, color, and light. They are mostly concentrated in the Barcelona area. 1n 1984 seven properties of his were declared world heritage sites because of their exceptional creative contributions to architectural development of the late 19th and early 20th century. These properties include Casa Vicens, La Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo, and Colonia Guell. He was especially recognized for his influence; work in his original Art Nouveau style and how is style combines gardens, sculpture, decorative arts as well as architecture.

The Austin Open Green Map is Growing!

2008-11-28T13:14:00.000-08:00

This past summer while I was working at the Green Map Office in NYC I learned about their new online green map project. Its called the Open Green Map and uses an interface similar to map quest for the map makers to upload the Green Map Icons, site descriptions, photos, and videos of sites they want to map in their community.
In October I registered to start the Austin Open Green Map page and meet with the Austin Eco-network, Eco-wise, members of Real Art, Real Community and other interested participants to go over collectively uploading sites onto the on-line map. I was a little skeptical of the process at first but excited about how many people could upload map information with relative ease. Since October we now have over 10 people uploading sites to the Austin Green Map and have 125 places.
I am going to have my Digital Design Foundations students upload sites from their campus green maps. I like that the map is accessible to people on the internet and that the responsibility is shared to update and research Green Map sites for Austin.
Upload a site!
www.opengreenmap.org/en/greenmap/austin-green-map

“A Tapioca Da Tia Lu” by Lula Marcondes

2008-11-28T11:44:00.000-08:00

The East Side Studio Tour was lot of fun this year and great motivation to fix up my studio, celebrate my 31st Birthday and invite artist Lula Marcondes to exhibit his work with me. I have admire Lula’s work after seeing his large puppets and banners in the Austin First Night parade in 2006 and then seeing it in critique studio when I came to visit the UT Design program in 2007. Lula is from Olina, Brazil and is an architect, musician, and artist. His work is very influenced by the Brazilian folk art movement and Brazilian woodcutting art. He showed a new work of his at my studio titled “ A Tapioca Da Tia Lu” that is a tribute to one of the oldest tapioca (taco) sellers in his home town. He created this addition with the help of the Austin Series Project which works with artists to create limited edition serigraph print of their work. I like that he not only turned his painting into a print but added a section of fabric from Brazil for the women’s dress. He has incorporated Brazilin fabrics into many of his works. During the studio tour I gave Lula a lesson in linocut printmaking and he is almost done with his new print!

“A collaborative workshop format is the setting used to foster diverse artists’ development and creativity through exposure to the serigraph technique. Each participating artist creates a limited edition serigraph print and The Serie Project, in turn, is able to make the fine art available to the public through these affordable, signed and numbered prints.”
-serieproject.org

You can see the Series Projects current show at the Mexic-Arte Museum from now through March 1st. I highly recommend it!

East Side Studio Tour

2008-11-28T11:04:00.001-08:00

Metamorphosis Arte East Side Studio Tour

2008-11-28T11:04:00.000-08:00

“Bambi meets Godzilla”

2008-11-28T09:49:00.003-08:00

The animation, “Bambi meets Godzilla” was suggested to me in relation to my border wheat past video project. Its a little harsh but gets the message across fast. I like that the original animation by Marv Newland is done in black ink and is very simple. It is easily found on YOU TUBE along with newer additions that have used his original concept. These other versions use a very different graphic style and add new chapters to the short story. I like how in some of the new versions Bambi has revenge on Godzilla.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w&feature=related
by marv newland

new versions
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99n-F1QP7E&feature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lces8YVhI4&feature=related

2008-11-28T09:49:00.002-08:00

US/Mexico Border Fence Wheatpast project in Marfa, TX

2008-11-28T09:49:00.001-08:00

Oct. 26, 2006: President Bush signed a measure authorizing
the construction of a fence along 700 miles of the 2000 mile
U.S.-Mexico border. As of Oct. 2008, 344.3 miles have been
completed.

"The fence would have a negative effect on everything from the
insects that would now be flying around the lights instead of
pollinating the cactuses, to the birds that eat them, right up
to the large predators like the jaguars,"

-William Radke, Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge

The Market Street Railway Mural size: 12 by 38 feet

2008-11-27T20:00:00.000-08:00

Mona Caron is a freelance illustrator and public muralist based in San Francisco, CA. She has received several awards for her murals and has become a colorful part of the Bay Areas art activist and mural community. Her mural titled “Market Street Railway” shows the history of market street thought different color coded sections that show important scenes that have taken Market Street. They include: the bloody labor riots of 1934, an early Pride Parade, and the massive February '03 peace demonstration, and a futuristic eco-city illustration. I have been very insired by her eco-city image as well as her bike art.

"I chose these moments that show a radically different use of the public space in a continuum that wouldn't put too much emphasis on one or the other," Caron explains. "The implication is that all of these are things that make the city vibrant, and this is what the street is for."-Mona Caron

Kara Walker's piece “Darkytown Rebellion” (2000),

2008-11-27T19:41:00.000-08:00

Kara Walker

2008-11-27T19:39:00.000-08:00

I am drawn to Kara Walker's work because of her ability to draw life size silhouettes with a knife and her use of the overhead projectors in her work. Walker is best known for her black paper silhouettes whose subject matter shows a complicated mixture of race, sex, and African slave history. Her provocative paper cutout images show an antique quality that reflects the plantation era of the south. Walker claims she found fuel for her subject matter from movies like “Gone with the Wind” and old historical novels about the south that both glorify and distort interracial sexual relationships.

In Walker's piece “Darkytown Rebellion” (2000), she creates a theatrical space in her show by using overhead projectors to throw color and light onto the ceiling, walls, and the floor around her life sized black silhouettes. She makes the audience participate in this piece by setting up ceiling projectors that cast the viewer's shadow onto the walls along side her silhouetted cutouts. The visual outcome becomes a mixture of historical prospective with the live silhouettes interacting with each other. I admire Walker's ability to make the public activate themselves with her pieces and thus helping to trigger their thoughts about the message content of the images.

Walker has exhibited her work at the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has received many fellowships and awards for her work and currently teaches at Columbia University in NYC.

“There’s a sweet violence in the act of cutting, of accepting and rejecting cultural stereotypes.” -Kara Walker

"Overhead projectors are a didactic tool, they’re a schoolroom tool. So they’re about conveying facts. The work that I do is about projecting fictions into those facts." -Kara Walker

"...I wanted to activate the space in a way and have these overhead projectors serve as a kind of stand-in for the viewer, as observers." -Kara Walker

“There’s an understanding within America about where that resolution is, you know, what that means to have a "Color Purple" scenario where things resolve in a way and a female heroine actualizes through a process of self-discovery and historical discovery and comes out from under her oppressors and maybe doesn’t become a hero, but is a hero for herself.”

UT Blue Bin Recycle Green Map

2008-11-26T17:34:00.001-08:00

This recycling Green Map gave both the student and myself a great chance to learn about UT recycling. We found that paper and plastic were recycled but not glass. We also found out how difficult it has been for the UT recycling department to get nice recycling bins around campus because of the campus beautification committee. They want the recycling bins to be invisible. Would that help get people to recycle it the bins were unnoticeable? Would that be better then not having bins at all?

Kellys UT Food Green Map

2008-11-26T17:33:00.000-08:00

live painting Mona Caron: performance at The Independent, San Francisco

2008-11-26T17:29:00.000-08:00

Mona Caron, the 24th Street / Noe Valley murals SF

2008-11-26T17:28:00.000-08:00

sarah joy jordahl verville

2008-11-26T17:08:00.000-08:00

I really like the color layers that Sarah has used to show the movement of this dancer.

learn grow belong friend

2008-11-20T10:00:00.000-08:00

Here are my final hand signs. I found adobe illustrator to be helpful in tracing the hand signs.

louise bourgeois arms

2008-11-04T13:43:00.002-08:00

2008-11-04T13:43:00.001-08:00

Butterfly closed

2008-11-04T11:35:00.000-08:00

Butterfly

2008-11-04T11:13:00.000-08:00

Kara Walker

2008-10-28T12:07:00.000-07:00