Official spring season starts next Tuesday, but it's close to 80 degrees outside in Chicago today and here is my Spring update:
Last semester was very busy, I took four courses at SAIC where I am working on my B.F.A.W. right now.
Form/Formlessness was a cross-listed course between Writing department and Sculpture with talented artist, Stephanie Brooks. It was a very worthwhile course; it expanded my knowledge and creativity away from the written page and typical narrative.
The Cut: Through Literature, Film, Music, & Art was a Topics course dealing with Art History that was a real challenge and addition to my education. I learned about modalities throughout history, politics, and art. Reading everything from Hal Foster, Lawrence Cahoone, Kuhn, Nietzsche, Venturi, Frederick Douglas, Sartre, & Edward Said - it was definitely a multi-cultural, widely ethnic, and diverse learning environment. Identity, Race, and Hybridity are topics that I have grown very interested in, thanks to immensely interesting Professor, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, Romi Crawford.
Art History II Modern/Antimodern/Postmodern was a dynamic survey from year 1850- Contemporary Art being made today! Got a chance to see the Soviet war propaganda posters at the Block Museum at Northwestern & Eva Hessa's work at AIC.
Painting the Dream ended up being a subconscious-minded travel into collage-making where I made several collage based on my inner thoughts and dreams (maybe nightmares).
So, I dropped my one and only real writing class because the teacher was a yoga fanatic and lectured about running from assassins while making the students chase each other around the room on the first day but it turned out really well and this semester is going great so far.
My goals: Continue to work on bringing my work to new media forms. I want to scan in my collages and upload them, work on a professional website, continue building my portfolio while I have this amazing opportunity at "the most influential art & design school in America" :-) Currently working on a drawing portfolio, writing cabinet, analysis of Literature in two courses, and will be writing my first ethnography about Language Revitalization in American Indian culture in and beyond Chicago. I am def. looking forward to future work for that project.
p.s. someone hacked my blog last semester, so if the hacker is reading this please find something better to do. Thanks!
