Social Event! This Friday, April 2, 5:30, Delaware Contemporary Opening!

 

DCAD Event! Meet me at the front of 600 Market St. this Friday at 5:30 pm. It's about a 15-20 minute walk. If it's pouring down rain, bring an umbrella. You are also free to drive yourself. You can experience Jasmine Combs's "Object" directly (not through your computer monitor). Next month, May 7, we're

 participating in this opening, "Definitive Work." See below for details.

Lecture/Interview with Andy Grundberg: How Photography Became Contemporary Art

 

This event takes place this Thursday evening, April 1, at 6:00. No registration or anything is needed. Just go to this page and the event will be live-streaming. 

This will be a great talk not only for photo majors but for all artists and designers. We now live in a world that is saturated by lens-based art. Everybody captures images every day. Tune in to this talk and learn more. 

Welcome Back! Check out these Art-Comics!

 

I know that I constantly refer to this art-blog, Hyperallergic, all of the time. To be honest, the site itself could serve as a textbook for this class. Everything about it is focused on "Writing for the Arts," which happens to also be the title of this course.

Here is a link to a long list of comics that deal in some fashion with art and design. Maybe some of you still need a jolt of inspiration for the Jasmine Combs project we're doing with the Delaware Contemporary? Why not a single page of a graphic novel or comic art? That could be really cool.

Maps Glover! Awesomesauce Artist Talk

A couple of weeks ago, Micahel Loria, an arts journalist writing for the Washington City Paper, published an extended piece about his work and life. His participation in the Awesomesauce gets extended treatment. Read the whole piece here.

And don't forget to attend our final individual artist talk of the series featuring Maps Glover.

This afternoon, March 20, at 4:00 pm

Topic: "Face/Mask/Window" : A Virtual Talk with Maps Glover

Time: Saturday, March 20th at 04:00 PM EST

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/98907960495?pwd=N015cEpzOFBwc1UxWGNYUHFSN2F2dz09

Meeting ID: 989 0796 0495

Passcode: window

 

Delaware Contemporary Project!

 

We introduced this innovative assignment over a month ago, and we've talked a lot about Jasmine Combs's video-performance-poem, "Object."

The due date for your work is Thursday, April 8. 

Along with your artwork, you will submit a piece of writing, maybe a poem, maybe a brief essay, maybe something else that's hard to classify. Your text should be at least 300 words, but you might have a good reason to make it longer or a little bit shorter. 

Please carve out some time during Spring Break to work on this. Reach out to me with questions (as some of you already have): csmith@dcad.org.

Have fun with this! Take some risks.  

You can submit the work physically at a drop-off location in the lobby of 600 Market St. or you can submit the work as a digital file.

What is an NFT? Beeple's "The Everydays: The First 5,000 Days"

 

This course is designed to highlight current events in what is sometimes awkwardly called "The Art World." One of these events that seemingly everyone is talking about but nobody really understands is the recent blockbuster sale of a computer file (see image above). The artist is a 39-year-old graphic designer from South Carolina who goes by the name Beeple. His digital collage, "The Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" sold at Christies auction house last week for more than 69 million dollars. The whole thing depends on the same technology that fuels bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It's called "blockchain" and it's fairly confusing to almost everyone. One of the artists in Awesomesauce knows all about it. Can you guess which one? Yep, Maps Glover. 

Many people have questioned the value of Beeple's work. See this take-down in The Washington Post.

DC ZineFest!

 

Check it out! Free workshop tomorrow night!

Register Here.