I visited in 2012 and then again in 2014 the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park which is positioned as the “Creative Hub of Taipei” and has four key strategies of “Creative Lab”, “Creative Co-Op”, “Creative School”, and “Creative Showcase” to become a creative showcase window. In 20 14 there was much exciting construction and Taipei...
As technologies changes so rapidly, I often reflect on how the artifacts might be recycled. Inspired by artist Nancy Judd I begin to consider how I might use a set of old slides. In addition I started to look at artist that use clothing as the armature. In fashion, different styles and details of...
There is often flawed interpretation of the underlying conceptual acronym of STEM TO STEAM. The framework or rhetorical ploy of the acronym is often co opted by a variety of individuals and institutions and unknowingly continues to position art in the service of science. In an attempt to clarify, the commonality between art and...
I recently attended a workshop and lecture by Pablo Helguera in which he shared his practice of “social engaged art”(SEA) and social practices and its relation to art and pedagogy. According to Helguera SEA is a process based transdisciplinary practice, is performance in an expanded field rooted in the 1960’s and 1970’s, that temporarily...
Since 2009, Jane Ingram Allen has curated and organized the Chen Long Wetlands International Art Project. I had the privilege of meeting Jane, one of the artist, name ?, and educator, Chao-Mei in 2012 during my visit to Taiwan.
Ngrams: http://books.google.com/ngrams Explore Cultural Trends @ Google Books Ngram Viewer. Type in a word like art education or phrase in one of seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese) and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries. *dataset’s quality is highest for English between 1800 and...
Pinterest is a social bookmarking site where users collect and share photos of their favorite events, interests and hobbies. It is one of the fastest growing social networks online. Pinterest is a visual tool for collecting and organizing things that re of interest. You can collect and curate images or video to Pinterest. You...
Jentel Artist Residency http://www.jentelarts.org/ The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land. VCCA...
“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It...