John Fenn, Assistant Professor in Arts and Administration has been awarded a UO International Affairs Global Scholars Program grant for his project “Rock Tradition: Mediating Cultural Influences in Chinese Contemporary Popular Music”.
Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to “manual” forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.
Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. He has performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), and the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago). Barrow is the 2007 winner of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award and the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize.
co-sponsored by THE CULTURAL FORUM AND DEPARTMENT OF ART
John Park posts many of his students projects online. His ‘Design For Life’ course keeps their own detailed blog. Be sure to check out all the work that his students and he have been developing – it’s a great way to see what we do in the Digital Arts.
http://redesignlifestyle.blogspot.com/
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Inspired by her summers spent in her grandmother’s garden digging for worms, Jill Kuehler still cannot keep the dirt out from under her fingernails. While in the Peace Corps in Guatemala she helped a rural elementary school install a garden that continues to provide food for school lunches. Commitment to connecting children with their food source has been her passion ever since.
Before becoming the Executive Director of FZF, Jill was managing the Lents International Farmers Market, a program of Friends of Zenger Farm, for two seasons. In addition to the LIFM, Jill also directed The Sauvie Island Center, a Portland non-profit organization teaching children about farms, the food they grown and the landscape in which they exist. Jill also spent two years as the Wellness Coordinator at Abernethy Elementary, developing a model wellness program centered on the school’s Scratch Kitchen and Garden of Wonders where students learn to grow, prepare and eat good food.
Carla Bengtson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art as well as an Associate Member of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon. Previously to coming to the UO in 1995, she taught at Yale University, Connecticut College, Wesleyan University, and was Head Curator of the John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art, and an MFA from Yale School of Art, and was a two-time participant in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. She has received numerous awards and grants, including an NEA Individual Grant for Artists, and is represented in multiple public and private collections.
Dear CultureWorkers:
In the Fall 2009 edition of CultureWork, we present stories of artists passionate about their ideas on current topics, particularly the personal as political and the political as personal. In each story, artists and curators work with new ways of storytelling culturally sensitive content within their chosen venues.
In The Bailout Biennial by elin o’Hara slavick and María DeGuzmán, we find curators and artists coming together quickly to create a large-scale art exhibit, which addressed the questions surrounding the government sponsored bailouts of large corporations earlier this year.
Likewise, in Creating & Performing Pinang & Ayu: A Love Story–A Lesbian Shadow-Puppet Performance, Summer Melody Pennell explores the dynamics of homosexual relationships in Indonesia, and how the artistic medium of performance can give voice to the normally unheard and oppressed. Pennell also explores the dynamics of what it means to be a spectator from another culture and the ways in which bonds can be formed through creative expression.
We hope these personal stories of experience with alterations of traditional presentation formats will spark your own creative thinking for exhibits and performances within your own community.
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Regards,
Julie Voelker-Morris
Robert Voelker-Morris
Editors
George Gessert was born in 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BA in English from U.C. Berkeley, and an MA in painting from U.W. Madison. Since 1985 his work has focused on the overlap of art and genetics. He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. In 2005 he was a awarded a Pushcart Prize, and in 2007 David Foster Wallace included one of his texts in Best American Essays. His up coming book Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, will be published by MIT Press.
For the lecture Ornamental Plant Breeding for the 21st Century, Gessert will discuss past and current uses of biotechnology to create new kinds of ornamental plants. Oregon is playing an important role in these efforts because of the red iris project, initiated by Cooleys Irises in Silverton. Engineered ornamentals such as the red iris raise many questions, but he will focus on just one: what aesthetic criteria or assumptions are shaping the new plants? Answers to this question suggest that the time is long overdue for ornamental plant breeding to be considered an art.
Join Ranger Jenny for a campfire program about the LA Urban Rangers’ past and current projects. The Rangers explore the complex human and natural workings of their home megalopolis, through art projects that have included a guided hike along Hollywood Boulevard and a field guide to the LA County Fair. Their current Malibu Public Beaches project equips people with the advanced skills required to find and use a public beach in Malibu.
Jenny Price received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University, specializing in the fields of the environment, the American West, and writing history. In addition to her work with the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, she is also a freelance writer. Her second book, Just Environmentalism, is in progress.
Please bring a lunch and join in the conversation!
How Your Community Can Thrive Through the Arts
November 6, 2009, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA)
110 W. Broadway, Eugene, OR
Through an informal town hall-style dialogue, Randy Cohen will describe how Americans for the Arts combines the strengths of research, advocacy, and professional development to ensure that communities across America thrive through the arts. At this session you will learn how Americans for the Arts can assist artists and arts organizations in our community to create an environment that supports a flourishing arts scene.
Roxy Thoren M.L.A., 2002, University of Virginia (2004). Professor Thoren holds a joint appointment in the departments of architecture and landscape architecture. She has worked for architectural firms in Boston, Charlottesville, and Philadelphia, and has professional experience in grayfields redevelopment, urban design, and housing at a variety of scales. Professor Thoren’s work explores the reciprocity of community identity and physical environment. Her work analyzes a site’s physical, ecological and cultural structure to inform the design of places that express and enhance the lives of their residents, perform ecologically, and respond to the changing demands of communities over time. Thoren is a Fulbright Scholar, and a recipient of scholarly and design awards including Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture paper of the year and design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards.