powwow http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/ en Copyright 2012 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:44:28 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.24-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss THE GEM MINE

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]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2008/12/no_5.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2008/12/no_5.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:56:47 -0500 SUNDAY SOUP GRANT! In the spring, I was awarded the Sunday Soup Grant from INCUBATE. I used the money made from soup to finance the production of my very first oil painting! This collaboration with 1st Art Gallery [dot] com resulted in an exquisite miniature reproduction of The Phantom- a drawing from The Hall of Horrors collection. Here is the drawing (charcoal, crayon, and spraypaint).

SELECTED TESTIMONIALS FOR 1st Art Gallery

Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your wonderful work and your promptness, also please give our congratulations to your artist.
Sincerely,
Panagiotis Paloukas

David,
We just received our order for the reproduction of Days of God, by Gaugin. It looks awesome! We're putting it in a vacation rental condo we own in Waikiki and I'm sure it will be a big hit.
Aloha!
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Dear David,
Today I received my copy of a painting of Admiral Lord Nelson painted by Francis Lemuel Abbot. I have to admit I didn't expect much. I needn't have worried - It's superb. If I have read the signature correctly it was painted by D. Nasson, please thank him/her for me. It's a great job and I'm really pleased with It. Many thanks.
T. Owen

Sure enough, I must agree!

THANK YOU SUNDAY SOUP PATRONS!
This fine oil painting will be available to collectors very soon. Please let me know if you are interested in attending the premiere showcase event.

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]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2008/09/past_pages.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2008/09/past_pages.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:51:17 -0500 (moustache)

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/04/moustache.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/04/moustache.html Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:09:22 -0500 Elvis is a print!
The multiplity of Elvises in our world is undeniable. They pop up everywhere as variable iterations of the King, versions of an icon so dear to all of our hearts. TCB! Elvis is a print, folks, and this particular Elvis, the Mini-Elvis, can be seen every Saturday at Holly's Back Door Bar and Grill on 28th Street in Grand Rapids. Nestled in the Howard Johnson's Hotel, this joint brims with Karaoke on Saturday nights, and it has now been touched by the claw of the Mini-Elvis. He is no impersonator, he is one of an endless edition of superstars. Don't miss him.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/02/elvis_is_a_print.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/02/elvis_is_a_print.html Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:39:29 -0500 Relational Prints at FWD>>
A long time ago, during Calvin College's Interim, the Screenprint class paid a visit to Nick Stockton's fwd>> space. He talked with the class about some great DIY screenprinting techniques and described his T-shirt projects, where gallery goers are able to customize their own handprinted shirts by picking stencils and colors. Stockton also pulled out this screen featuring some amazing folk paper cut-out images. What a wonderful memory I have of that day, including full coffee service, Dada movies, jokes, day jobs, and screen drawing fluid.
Afterwards, we continued our field trip at Service Reproduction, Grand Rapids' own killer art supply store.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/02/relational_prints_at_fwd.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2007/02/relational_prints_at_fwd.html Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:19:51 -0500 TRANSFER!
Finally, the Calvin Print Group, led by Smith, experimented with Citra-Solv as a transfer medium. GOODNIGHT! Goodnight acetone, goodnight xylene, goodnight Goof-Off, goodnight wintergreen oil. The miracle of citrus- non toxic, impeccable results even on canvas. Printmakers prepare! There are toner transfers in your non-toxic, cruelty free future. Let's get that xerox machine cranking!

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/12/transfer.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/12/transfer.html Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:46:33 -0500 The Tea Party

Last night I met Fereshteh Toosi and Carolyn Lambert at Sports Pat's. They are in town for the opening of their piece, The Boston Tea Party 2004, at the uica. We had a nice time getting to know each other as we drank the Sports Pat's Special, and talked about art projects and Grand Rapids. Check out their relational printmaking work at the UICA!

...from Carolyn's website
"Our project was inspired by the original Boston Tea Party, a direct action protest. We hoped to recall the spirit of the Tea Party Resistance to examine present day struggles. Globalization, gentrification and the so-called "War on Terror" are contemporary versions of colonialism. Referencing the early colonists' creative act of defiance was a way to instigate conversations about current domestic security conflicts and the 2004 presidential election."

also check out this news clip

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/12/the_tea_party.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/12/the_tea_party.html Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:36:42 -0500 Story of an Artist

This weekend we watched The Devil and Daniel Johnston. So beautiful and sad, inspirational and dark- truly amazing. I am a huge fan of Daniel's music and art. I was particularly struck by the moment of relational printmaking discussed in the film. Early in his music career, Daniel was distributing a lot of cassette tapes of his music, and since he had no dubbing capabilities, he would record the same songs onto each tape, each time.
They would be variable tape editions made for each listener, but not personalized- just made again. There is something so fascinating about the compulsion, the repetition, the multiplicity. Originals, copies, multiples, auras by Daniel Johnston, troubled genius.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/11/story_of_an_artist.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/11/story_of_an_artist.html Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:10:56 -0500 NORTH DRIVE PRESS Last weekend, in Chicago, I picked up NDP#2!
This is an amazing example of the book/multiple/art object/print/collaboration form.
NDP was recommended to me by Rowley Kennerk, and I found one at Quimby's.
The experience of "reading" this edition is so tactile, and includes a variety of audio- cd's and a record, amongst many other stuffs- art and writings.
The whole thing is very Dieter Rot.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/11/north_drive_press.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/11/north_drive_press.html Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:14:36 -0500 BEN AND BRUNO ROCKS THE WYCE!

BEN AND BRUNO played the WYCE Fall Fund Drive tonight. It sounded so good! Shattered my heart into pieces...ENJOY.

P.S. Click on the Ben and Bruno link to hear the songs and interviews.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/ben_and_bruno_rocks_the_wyce.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/ben_and_bruno_rocks_the_wyce.html Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:26:59 -0500 Helter Skelter

Carsten Holler's newest sculpture, Test Site, at the Tate recalls some of the questions raised at the Group Work Panel. Wittenbraker suggested that artists are responsible for the realm of imagination, and then we give ideas over to specialists, in order to execute and implement. Who does Holler give this idea to? We talked also about the artist using/manipulating the public as subjects for his/her own interests. This work suggests another relationship between artist and subject. We at powwow are really enamored by this Holler piece. A proposition for the future. A chance for play and thrills- a game. A better world through art, and pehaps a better art through the phenomenological moment. The disclaimer being that we at powwow haven't actually participated in/experienced the piece, only have we seen images which represent the idea. (Where's the art, here, anyways?)
Any thoughts, folks, on relating this work to the ideas of collaboration/relational aesthetics circulating from the panel?

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/test_site.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/test_site.html Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:42:13 -0500 Group-Work-Panel

Saturday's discussion at NEST was really a blowout. Feelings are mixed as to the coherence and effectiveness of the actual panel. Although, a few really interesting points of criticism about public art projects were made, and some thoughts about importing and exporting ideas were discussed in the context of G-Rad.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/groupworkpanel.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/10/groupworkpanel.html Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:29:50 -0500 PLACES OF PRODUCTION

The relational theme is strong in the printshop- group work in full effect, conversations, gathering around the pressbed, hijinx, etc. I am not a painter, and I wonder if the studio model is still based on the modernist paradigm of isolation and purity. The graduate studios at The University of Iowa, where I was groomed, mantain this model today. Painters have their own private space, and the Printmakers share rooms, with many desks, and share tools and acid baths and materials (ink). Public vs. Private? Does the print studio model Beaurillaud's notion of "dynamic agglutination?" I am also interested in the characteristics and defining traits of the studio space- what defines the print shop identity other than a press? What defines the painter's studio even more than turps?

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/09/places_of_production.html http://www.g-rad.org/powwow/2006/09/places_of_production.html Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:24:20 -0500