Week 12: Open (Trust)

Can't quite fathom how this semester has sped by, and here we are, the last pair of words for the time being. But that's also as it should be. A pleasure to see you each week, share the things we've looked at together, the conversations, the new work. Interesting, too, how talking about work makes a lot more sense when we've each put our shoulder to the wheel--that is, when we make things guided by openness and a sense of trust. That is, sharing. They go together with the feeling of the hand, the sense of touch...

Drawing by Gwen John

Exhibition Plans

Note on End-of-Semester Exhibition. Because of Dean's office events, we won't have the gallery available this semester. Which means we'll use our own Room 170 for an Exhibition and Open-House--on view, a good selection of your work from over the semester, with refreshments--and a chance to invite all your friends to see what's been happening in VS 280! The date: Tuesday April 28, 6-9pm.


Visual Studies 280: Graduate Seminar
Exhibition and Open-House
Tuesday, 28 April
6-9pm, Room 170

All guests welcome--share refreshments, see the work--this is a good way for students to see what the class is about for F2015!

Students' Individual Online Notebooks

Lauren McQuiston             http://iamherenowiii.blogspot.com/?view=magazine
Kasey Elliott                      VSxK.tumblr.com\
Mike Mendoza                   http://mikomendoza.blogspot.com/?view=classic
Zara Drapkin                      http://zaradrapkinvisualstudies.blogspot.com/
Alisa Boyko                        http://vs280alisaboyko.blogspot.com
Isabella Warren-Mohr          http://warrenmohr280.tumblr.com/
Patrick Webb                       agentlerarefactionii.blogspot.com
 

Week 11: Hope (Support)

Lore Krüger, Gitanes: Boy with Jug, 1936.

Lore Krüger photographed in Berlin in the 1930s. Her work, largely unknown, has been the subject of a recent exhibition there,  "A Suitcase Full of Pictures." We looked at some of them in relation to the work (also unknown in her lifetime) of Vivian Maier.

Week 10: Borrow (Mend)

Giulietta Masina, in La Strada, 1954

Giulietta Masina, as Gelsomina, in Federico Fellina's La Strada:

▶ Gelsomina - YouTube