The BEST female Sequential Artist of our time.

I got to meet Amanda Conner a while back and it was a treat (Read more here). Before I met here though I was enjoying her wonderful brand of humor and the awesome styling of her art. Amanda Conner guides us through her world of super heroes and heroines with excellent use of lines and expressive character traits. She is able to bring us into the characters head only by looking at his or her face. In a predominantly male dominated industry this fem-fatal stands out as one of the greats.

Freedom's not just a word

For my final in my design class we had to make an Art book illustrating a word. My word was freedom. I used a theme of a caged bird to show the longing for freedom. Freedom to me is only achieved after a knowledge knowing you don't have all you could have. Only then can you fight to have all that is yours.

The Risks of Rebranding

One thing I noticed as I was going about things today, is that many of the products and companies we surround ourselves with tend to go through some form of rebranding on a fairly regular basis. Not a rebranding in terms of the product's characteristics, but rather the designs that are associated with them. While shopping at Publix earlier this afternoon, I realized that Sprite had undergone a redesign in packaging. Being something I'd buy on a regular basis, it surprised me that it had taken me so long to realize the change.

After doing some digging around, it occurred to me that the most recent redesign was actually somewhat of a rehash of an earlier design I had nearly forgotten about. Compared to the previous design from a few years ago, this was a rather larger change, but having the familiarity of the one from a ways back allowed the new one to go by me nearly undetected.

Was the redesign decision a smart one? I'd say so; it was able to stand out enough for me to notice it and grab a pack. Of course this then brings up the question as to whether or not there have been any rebrandings that have proved detrimental to the product/company it portrays. One recent one came to mind, and that was the attempted rebrand of the clothing store GAP. Their signature serif logo has withstood the tests of time, and yet they decided a few years back to shake things up a bit. Turns out the reception of said redesign was so negative that GAP was nearly forced to reinstate the previous logo at risk of losing their strong identity.

It's interesting how a change in logo can completely jeopardize a company's reputation and following, which leads me to ask, are rebrandings worth the risk they carry? Especially for larger companies with much bigger followings, could you imagine the controversy that would exist if McDonalds were to undergo a major redesign? Pepsi's wasn't met with optimistic views a few years ago, although they seem to be invincible enough as-is.

Interesting things to consider.

"bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS (2005) performed by the Compagnie Marie Chouinard from Montreal

This is another piece whose meaning I am unclear of. Many browsers of the internet are probably familiar with one or two of the scenes in this performance art piece. Most dancers upon the stage wield types of forearm crutches and incorporate them heavily into the presence of the dancers onstage.



"Abstract art, whether it is painting, dance, film or any other medium Is never 'about' any one singular thing. It requires the audience to pay attention to its own reactions and to incorporate all that reaction - confusion, humor, fear, disgust, delight, disturbance, anger, erotic response, even boredom - into the piece itself. An abstract artist will generally never say, 'This is what it means' but instead, 'What does it mean to you?' I admire an artist that asks so much of her audience." user ELBSeattle

This is a piece done by contemporary artist, Femke Heimstra. Femke tends to use delicate layers of acrylic paint mixed with colored pencils. The use of the two creates a tight look while still keeping a loose feel to the painting. He usually will stick along the lines of keeping his work as dark surreal paintings. I enjoy this piece of work because it displays a variety of emotion, and it really makes you think about the meaning behind the painting. 

Geek Art

I found this art scrolling through my tumblr feed. I could not find anymore information online about the artist, Josh Ln, except for a few shops selling his (I'm assuming by the name Josh that the artist is male, I could be wrong) work. I'm very interested in work with anatomical or biological themes and I love the mixture of it with pop culture in this work. I particularly appreciate that they are robotic structures being fused with human parts which I think is representative of how a lot of fans of the shows feel about these structures. I also think the view points of the skeletons and the blending of the two forms is creative.

Damien Hirst

After Googling "contemporary artists," I found it interesting that Damien Hirst appeared first on the list. I found out about him two quarters ago at school. I find some of his works to be very interesting like the dead animals preserved in formaldehyde, but some of the works like the spot paintings almost make you mad because you ask yourself "why didn't I think to do that?" As of recent, Hirst has designed the 2013 Brit Award. It's amazing how famous he's gotten. -Andra

http://www.damienhirst.com/home

The Golden Calf, 2008

Adam and Eve Exposed, 2004

For the Love of God, 2007

2013 Brit Award, Pharmaceutical Dots

dead roses

   One of my first projects at SCAD was in drawing I, was to draw a bouquet of dried flowers on the wall that our professor had. We could put them anywhere on the page and use whatever other materials we would like. I decided to leave them upside down and create a rain effect elsewhere. I stained the background with tea bags, and used tape to create rain drops. I then sprinkled charcoal over the top, and peeled off the tape to create the rain effect. Then I thought that the roses looked washed out, so I used watercolor and painted only a few roses, and an obvious red drop to draw the viewers eye around the whole piece. In the end it does create a disheartening effect, because I wanted the viewer to feel sorrow and remember back to a time that they wish they could have back and change something in their lives.

Richard Artschwager (American, born 1923)

Richard Artschwager (American, born 1923)


Richard Artschwager (American, born 1923) is one of the important American artists since 1965. He is a painter, illustrator and sculptor, Artschwager is best known for his stylistic independence.Yet, he has bonds with the Pop Art Movement, Conceptual art and Minimalism. I have never seen Artschwager's works before, I thought it will be nice for all of us to know about him.

Presentation Thursday night.

     Thursday night the presentation that Professor Alford gave was enlightening and unexpected. I have to admit I did not expect the criteria that Professor Alford to be so modern and entertaining. The show in Santa Fe "Trends in New Media Art" had very many unexpected displays. One display that really caught my attention was the family, each family member by themselves doing "typical" family functions, at least I thought.  The little boy was smashing plates, obviously letting out his anger like any young little boy. The sister diving in a pile of stuffed animals, seeking comfort and attention. The mother overwhelmed in laundry creates a wall barrier out of socks in her closet, her most loved room. And the father is outside with a hose trying to "put out the fire" or any fires the family might have between one another. I really appreciated this piece because it represents the everyday family and their typical issues. 

    Another piece I appreciated was a short film of a firework exploding, a balloon popping and wood logs falling. I did not understand the meaning right away until professor Alford told us it represented fire, water, and earth. Which made me wonder if she choose them exploding to represent the earth exploding to the fault of humans destroying mother nature. Not only the objects she choose and how she showed them falling apart, she filmed these actions in a 360 circle getting every view. 

     I was delighted by the presentation, because its great to see what modern day artist are coming up with and using different media is always nice to something new and different. As an artist I feel that, that is one of the hardest things as an artist, is to come up with a new idea or presentation that no one else has done before, as a modern artist I believe that is our biggest challenge is to create a completely new idea that has never been done before.   

    

Gillian Goldstein

Gillian Goldstein is a tattoo artist from New York who does some of his personal work on graphite, watercolor, inks and acrylics. I recently found out about her while looking for tattoo art and found her work inspiring. A lot of his illustrations seem to carry a vintage feeling, which I also enjoy. She is currently an apprentice over at Troy Denning’s invisible in NYC.

 

Announcements for Tuesday, January 22:

• Field Trip on Thursday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m., 4C

• Revised Thesis and Bibliography due on Thursday, January 24, at 11:59 p.m. Attach a Word document this time and follow the instructions on Blackboard.

• Exam 1 is next Tuesday, January 29th, from 5-6:15 p.m. Midterm conferences to follow.

I chose to do an image of Banksy's because his work is really out there, and stirs up controversy everything he expresses himself. The image above basically is extremely straight forward and simple, but sends a strong message to the world. What I get out of the image is that life isn't what everybody makes it out to be. Maybe the ''follow your dreams'' expression is to outdated and doesn't apply to everyone. And maybe the dream you always wish for is just a lost hope that will never be reached no matter how hard you try.

Interior Semiotics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lmvX00TLY

I have no idea what this piece means. I am hoping that by sharing that someone else might have some insight to share with me. This video is a performance art piece put on by a student up in New York. She performs this eight minute piece in front of a room full of her peers. In this video, she  opens a Spaghetti-Os can and covers herself in dark liquid. There is a shocking conclusion.

The Art of Overworlds

Since the days when the term "video games" was only familiar to a handful of people, said games have been taking us on journeys that exist only within the television set. Fighting through jungles, ancient pyramids, and even the depths of outer space, gamers have always been able to develop an emotional connection with their games. Even titles from the 1980s continue to take us where we would otherwise never be able to visit and experience.

But throughout these journeys that games can take us on, there's always been the need for something to hold it all together, and that's where the overworld map comes into play. Often taken for granted among gamers, the overworld is just that: an overview of the places one has been, and even places they have yet to reach. Just as a traditional map must condense the "highlight" locations found throughout the area it covers, overworlds must be able to connect specific places with certain experiences the player has come across.

One pioneer in the art of the overworld is Nintendo, beginning with games such as The Legend of Zelda to more modern titles like New Super Mario Bros. U. Within the past three decades, they've taken the simple idea of a virtual map, and turned it into an experience in itself.

One of my favorite current designers Andrea Lieberman, also friend of Prof. Jason Bunin, uses simple lines and her inspirations subtly in her collections. They have a classic, but modern style. A.L.C. 's Spring 2013 line draws upon Japanese inspiration in muted colors with her preppyish style. Here are my highlights.



This look is modern and extremely wearable.



I adore these mustard yellow leather pants from the Resort 2013.



This dress from the Fall 2012 collection is reminiscent of casual day dresses from the 1930s.

Simple, easy to wear yet chic. What's not to love?

Recently one of my favorite designers is St. Pucchi, she creates the most beautiful bridal wear. Her attention to fine detail is what really draws the attention to her gowns. She has a way of using modern ideas but still keeps bridal wear very romantic and feminine. She's unique because she uses different types of fabrics and unique jewels. She started her line back in 1985 and has been growing rapidly ever since.

This is a poster I designed in my Computer Arts class. It was for a contest for the Source of Strength, it is a suicide prevention group. I wanted to make simple yet powerful image. I like the way the figure help each other from falling show there is a lot of help .

Chauvet Cave Documentary

I just watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams directed by Werner Herzog. The film follows an excavation team of scientists, archaeologists and art historians and discusses their research within Chauvet cave, which was discovered only in the 1990's. It's an interesting film, which reminds me of the question: why do humans create art?

Here is a trailer for the film, if you have a netflix account you can watch the entire documentary there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFP5HfJPTY

Emily

ON | OFF: CHINA’S YOUNG ARTISTS

Art to me no longer contains 2D paintings because I've seen so many that it's like they're just starting to all look the same. Art to me is now video, photography, sculptural works made from non-traditional materials, and paintings with 3D elements. I like originality and fresh ideas. The article in the first link below discusses several young Chinese artists who are making their mark in the contemporary art world. I love the photo of the tank made from tan leather, and I can always appreciate when younger men and women dare to take chances. The second link discusses the ON|OFF exhibition in which they participated.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2013/01/contemporary-art

http://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/onoff/

Art runs in my family and my uncle owes me a unicorn.

I was but an Above Average lad of nine or so and I went to Puerto Rico to visit my grandma and my uncle. He was and is a very interesting man, so it was always fun to see my uncle. My Grandma was less interesting because she was very old and didn't really do much or speak English. I didn't speak Spanish, so my uncle was the more interesting of the two.

My uncle sculpts wood. He sculpts wood real good (Poetry). I guess he has a gimmick he's been following for a while. He sculpts these really nice wooden Unicorn heads. They are about 5 feet tall or so and they look really nice.

When I was young and adorable my uncle promised me I could have one of his unicorns. I have never received my unicorn to this day and I am growing bitter about it. Just because someone grows up and ceases to be a cute and adorable kid does not give a person the right to renege on a verbal contract.

Uncle Johnny I want my Mother !@#$ing unicorn! I'm coming for you old man!

Check out some of my uncle, JUAN HERNANDEZ's work.
You can always see my Above Average work at www.aboveaverageart.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXlB1CHmOQ

When we look at in 70s, publication was one of the most powerful tools in that time period . In this video Beryl Korot, an early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, talks about “Radical Software” in 1970-74. I thought it would be good to see this video to understand the early stage of digital art.

Announcements for 1-15-13

Topic and Thesis Statement for research paper due on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 11:59. Submit on Blackboard under Assignments > Research Paper > Topic and Thesis Statement. Do not attach a document; just place in the Comments box. 

See the sample thesis statements under Assignments > Research Paper > Sample Thesis Statements.

Please post your picture, name, and major on Blackboard (under Photograph and Information). This is part of your grade.

Field Trip on January 24th at 7:30 p.m., 4C.

Job

This sculpture is of the bible character Job. I had originally planned to make Joseph when I first started. However God had other plans for my sculpture.while I was making him he looked less and less like Joseph to me.So after praying and searching in the bible I found the book of Job. I really love his story. I love how no matter how difficult life got he still trusted God. I mean who has enough faith to get up and praise God after he kills your servant, your livestock, and all your children and then says praise be to God he gives and takes away. And I think my sculpture’s face is the mixture of mourning and hard core trust in God Job had at the time.

Adrian Piper

             

December 24, 1999

ART REVIEW

Adrian Piper: A Canvas of Concerns -- Race, Racism and Class

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By HOLLAND COTTER

ALTIMORE -- For art, the 1990's started in a mood of agitation. The market went down the drain. AIDS was rampant. The 1993 Whitney Biennial, the most important American contemporary showcase of the decade, was a full-voiced chorus of long-excluded voices, black, Latino, gay and feminist among them.

	University of Maryland Fine Arts Gallery
	Adrian Piper's "My Calling (Card) No.2"(1986-90)

What a difference a few years make. The 90's are ending on a complacent, upbeat note. Economics are back on track. AIDS has become the scourge of the silent poor at home and abroad. The art world has joined the rest of the world in dismissing politically concerned art as "politically correct."
All of this provides an interesting context for the traveling midcareer retrospective of work by the American artist Adrian Piper, making its inaugural appearance at the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a half-hour drive from the center of Baltimore.
Her work is about consciousness-raising. Her primary subjects are race, racism and their links to class and gender. Her forms are spare, unsensual, but for the most part attention-holding. Her method is interrogatory: she asks unsettling questions to evoke revealing responses. Sugar-coating isn't her style.
The retrospective, organized by the art historian Maurice Berger and accompanied by a solid catalog, covers roughly 30 years. A few crucial pieces are missing, notably the photo-and-text-based drawings of the 1970's known as the "Mythic Being" series. (They will join the show at a later venue.) But the show is still as complete a view of this influential artist's career as we have had.
It begins with paintings from 1966, when Ms. Piper was barely out of high school. One, titled "LSD Self-Portrait From the Inside Out," is period-piece psychedelia: an image of a black woman surrounded by an aura of high-color, splitting-apart geometric shards. The other, "Multichrome Mom and Dad," is a snapshotlike portrait of her parents, done in shades of gray except for the faces, which are biscuit-brown.

University of Maryland Fine Arts Gallery
Adrian Piper's "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981)

Although little more than juvenilia, the pictures point up essential aspects of Ms. Piper's work as a whole. The human figure and abstract forms play interactive roles. Autobiographical data recurs but is kept impersonal, always about something else, ideas as well as emotions. For example, the artist uses the fact that both her parents were of mixed-race heritage as a strategic point from which to attack essentialist concepts of race itself.
In the late 1960's Ms. Piper aligned herself with the nascent Conceptual art movement, attracted to its intellectual rigor and speculative logic. At the same time, her political convictions were growing acute and specific. She brought these strands together (she was among the first artists to do so) in performance pieces executed in private and in public.
"Food for the Spirit" (1970) was among her early private solo pieces, done when she was finishing a degree in philosophy at City College in New York. She approached an intensive study of Emmanuel Kant as a kind of yogic discipline, fasting as she worked. She recorded her appearance during this hermetic period in a series of remarkable photographs in which her body seems to be gradually dematerializing.
Her public performances, by contrast, were often assertive and disruptive. For the "Mythic Being" series, she disguised herself as a black or Latino teenager in an Afro wig and acted out stereotypes of antisocial behavior, cruising women in the street, even staging a fake mugging. A single piece in the show catches the spirit: it is a head shot of the bewigged artist with a thought balloon that reads, "I embody everything you most hate and fear."
Ms. Piper repeatedly appears in her own work, assuming different personae (she's a skilled and witty performer) and changing her looks as if she were herself a kind of malleable conceptual object.
Sometimes she is just a voice, as in the installation titled "Art for Art World Surface Pattern" (1976). The piece consists of a walk-in white cubicle resembling an abstract sculpture. The interior is papered with photos of calamitous third world events for which Ms. Piper supplies an exasperated-sounding taped commentary that begins: "Oh, I get it. O.K. Got it. This is social conscience art. Right. O.K. You know, I mean, I don't need this when I come to an art show."
Most of her role-playing, however, is visual. In a 1981 pencil drawing titled "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" she gives a cosmetic makeover the grim and haunted look of a mug shot. Elsewhere she plays with the educational aspects of her career as both didactic artist and professional academic. (She teaches philosophy at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.)
In a terrific, funny video titled "Funk Lessons" (1983), she earnestly uses diagrams and personal demonstrations to instruct students in the how-to's of popular music and dance, generating lively class participation in the process. In "Cornered" (1988), she is filmed sitting behind a desk and explaining with unflappable, schoolmarmish composure that most Americans are, like her, genetically black, even if their physical appearance seems to say otherwise.
This information also forms the basis for performance pieces she executed in social situations in the late 1980's. Their occurrence was spontaneous, their format simple: when she overheard casually dropped ethnic slurs at parties or dinners, she offered the offending speaker a business card printed with the words: "Dear Friend. I am black. I am sure you did not realize this when you made/laughed at/agreed with that racist remark."
Ms. Piper has placed a supply of these cards in the Baltimore show under the words: "Join the struggle. Take some for your own use." The implication is that any viewers, whatever their preferred racial self-identity, are eligible to pass them out. And that assumption gets to the radical core of what Ms. Piper's work is about.
On the most obvious level, her mission is to reveal racist attitudes and behavior, overt or hidden, and call them by their right name. But she also provocatively suggests that such attitudes and behavior actually create race as a perceptual category and that that category, however illusory, reinforces hierarchies of socioeconomic power and exclusion.
The idea of race as a construct, one producing tightly scripted and limiting roles, is being closely examined these days, with important implications for art.
Although increasing numbers of young artists of African-American descent are forging careers, their number is still small and most are faced with "ethnic" expectations in terms of subject matter (colonialism, spirituality) and materials (elephant dung, for example), as were artists before them, including a whole generation of abstract painters.
But the issue of ethnicity and post-ethnicity, intrinsic to the multiculturalist thinking of the 1990's, is far from being resolved and may stay that way. Racism, meanwhile, remains a fact. The black middle class is growing, but so is the black prison population. American consumerism is more and more an equal opportunity affair, but the hard-won benefits and protections gained by blacks during the civil rights era are now being legally dismantled.
And so Ms. Piper's role as agent provocateur is as valid as ever. Her persistence in exposing the mechanics of prejudice, her insistence on the double-edged dangers inherent in the perception of difference, and her passionately instrumental view of art as a mind-altering and expanding substance make her just as much an artist of the moment today -- a stimulating and prophetic one -- as she has been for the last 30 years.

http://www.asu.edu/cfa/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/piper-art-review.html
This week I decided to add an article ,which is  about Adrian Piper, who is an artist and a philosopher, and her point of view of racism. It published on The New York Times, December 24, 1999.  Adrian Piper has an interesting approach on Racism, and I wanted to share her point of view about racism with my class mates.

ASCII Art - Where the keyboard is the material

ASCII art is the computer-based creation of graphics and images using only characters of type in specifically arranged manners. While the concept originated well before the 1970s, it was not until later that it was truly considered by many to be a legitimate type of art. The reason ASCII art began to trend originates from old-style printers which lacked the ability to print images. As a workaround, users would use ASCII character art for anything from sprucing up a corporate memo to improving the appearance of an application's "readme" file.

Today of course, we have the ability to print all types of graphics with even lower-end consumer technology. However, there are still many places that ASCII art can still be found around the internet. Users may utilize the technique on forums and message boards which lack image embedding features, or a multimedia release group may incorporate their logo into an attached information file using it. Most of those who create ASCII art today, however, are simply enthusiasts who enjoy the unique and flexible appearance that the technique offers.

Below you'll find a compilation of ten works that Mashable recently posted, demonstrating the potential that ASCII art has to offer.

http://mashable.com/2013/01/13/epic-ascii-art/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOMgDbcA84A

This is a video about an artist that makes sand animations as a performance. This performance is from the Ukrain's Got talent. In the performance there is a story being told though out with the use of images and music. the story is about WWII that goes though the times of the attacks on the Ukraine. the animations is a very beautiful and thought provoking piece of artwork.    

Gonkar Gyatso

Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso uses the Buddha image as a canvas for commentary on identity, capitalist forces, consumerism and world hegemonies. Born in 1961 in Tibet, Gyatso has spent much of his life in the west, primarily in London. In my opinion his work speaks on many levels, but the most direct statement I found from his Buddha image work adresses the appropriation and adaptation of Eastern philosophies and imagery by western contemporary society. His sculptures and screen prints are usually collages of colorful stickers and text from western newspapers or magazines. When looking more closely at his work, the layers of meaning unfold. He uses brand names such as Coca-Cola and inserts fragments, which alone stand as statements, such as "US Dollars." He also incorporates numbers and percentages, leaving the viewer thinking of money and capitalist societies. 

by Emily Szabo

photos and info via:

here and here

Excuse me While I kiss the Sky, 2011
 stickers and paper cut on resin sculpture
 48 x 32 x 28 in

Buddha Sakyamuni, 2008Mixed Media Screen Print, Silk Screen varnished with silver and gold leaf on fine art paper
85 x 65 cm

The Shambala in Modern Times, 2008 (detail)
Stickers, cut paper and pencil on paper 
In 4 parts, overall 200 x 219 cm

Making art as a form of bribery.

I'm not rich and I'm not bad looking, but I'm not good looking enough to sway peoples opinions. When I need something from someone and I can't get it by just asking nicely I offer my services as an artist. From time to time it works.

I wanted a letter of recommendation from someone important to help me get into SCAD. I called on the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. If you follow the link below you can read my story. . .
Above Average Art

Class,

Many of you have responded to my email inviting you to be able to post to the blog. Thank you for that. If you have found your way here without doing this yet, check your SCAD email so you can post to the blog.

John Alford

Pascal Dombis, SpamScape

Pascal Dombis is a French digital artist that is known for being inspired by the computer and the excessive repetition that can be accomplished through it. This is one of the many installations that he has. In this installation he uses three monitors to showcase the abstraction due to the repetition and accumulation of words commonly found on spam emails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbP4007Ovc 

Basquiat's Birthday

Basquiat is my most favorite artist of all time, and I thought the 15 facts included in the article below were interesting. As a fashion marketing major, I especially found it interesting that Basquiat used to wear Armani suits while he painted then wore the same paint splattered suits for public appearances. -Andra Hiles

Basquiat Birthday: 15 Fun Facts

Assignments for Monday and Tuesday:

Make your first post on the blog by Monday, January 14, at 11:59 p.m.

Read the following article by class time on Tuesday, January 15:
 LeWitt, Sol. “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.” In Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, 822-827. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Available on Blackboard.

The purpose of this blog is to provide a forum for class announcements, professor postings, student postings, readings, and responses to readings. The blog will be open only to members of the class. Each week all students are required to post something on the blog (images, videos, links, etc., or their own original work or thoughts). All posts must be accompanied with a brief explanation (45-word minimum) of what each posted or linked item is about. No explanation is required for posts of original thoughts (it’s assumed that such posts will be more than 45words). If an original post uses sources for information and/or ideas, these must be cited in footnotes. Students should link to articles rather than copy and paste entire articles on the blog (to comply with copyright laws). Topics must be related to the art of the contemporary period (post-1970). Students may also be required to respond to readings or specific professor postings. Student posts are due each Monday at 11:59 p.m. beginning with the second Monday (January 14, 2012) and ending on Monday, March 11, 2012. Late posts will not be accepted. More information and more specific instructions are on the course Blackboard page. This information and those instructions must be strictly followed.

John Alford