Creative Loafing Mention by Megan Voeller

Pre-Opening Paparazzi

Top to bottom: Stephanie Hornsby; Katie Weber (l) and Denyce Coombs (r); Jonothan Maher in work mode; Lindsay Scoggins; Jacqueline Bayliss (l) and Iva Cepanec (r) filling the pool with water; Anita Rafat (far l) and her peers consider the options; Jonothan Maher's leaves.

More Opening Night! Paparazzi

Top to bottom: Gallery exterior at night, with Ben Hooper's sign blazing away; Interior; Jacqueline Bayliss and her mother admiring her work; Iva Cepanec and Katrina Bennett; Denyce Coombs and Victoria Miller; Katrina Bennett and Rebecca Flanders; Karen Tremmel and her daughter; Heather Gallman and Michelle Gubnau; Master Coombs ponders the situation with Victoria Miller; Victoria Miller, Elisabeth Condon and Jessica Carr; a very blurry Matt, Andy Nigon and Carmen Tiffany.

Grand Opening! Paparazzi Photos

Top to bottom: Gregory Green, John Byrd and Karl Kelly; Katie Weber's buttons in the waning daylight with Tony Palms passing by; David Gabbard and his muse, Beth; Timothy McMillan; Katie Weber's illuminated buttons by night with Jonothan Maher in the doorway; Viewing the reflecting pool.

Thank you YUENGLING BREWERY

Special Thanks to the local Yuengling Brewery for their contribution to our opening reception tonight!

Ready to Show

Moving counter-clockwise around the room, we begin with Stephanie Hornsby's maze, which yields beautiful surprises as one takes a closer look, Anita Rufat's mall bench recreated as a sculptural shelter and Jacqueline Bayliss' perch from which to view metalic vines and the creatures that live in them....spaces for rest and rejuvenation.

From there it is a brief step to Jillian Warren's vertiginous view out the Library window, framed by Victorial Miller's overflowing bookshelves.

To the left, Hiroki Haraguchi's tree swoops amidst free-standing windows creating patterns of movement echoing those in the library.

Denyce Coomb's and Timothy McMillan's flowering texts and petal steps lead us in shimmering circles to Jonothan Maher's cardboard palm trees and leaves.

Pivotal to the installation is a combination of marquee and gangplank, a bridge over water that introduces the space, created by Karen Tremmel and Jonothan Maher.

More Tuesday

Lindsay Scoggins' digital video of germs within Iva Cepanec's watery grotto evoke the underbelly of urban spaces...

Tuesday-At the Finish!

We end feasting our eyes on Jessica Carr's light-filled piece inspired by organic forms in the Botanic Garden. Read about it on the post "Questions About the Project" on the last (first) page of this blog.

Show Card 2.0

Here is the new show card with the changes we discussed in class. It's still open for tweaking, please give feedback.

Just throwing this into the stack of ideas. A simpler design to go on. Using Ben's Card Back Design with less type and eliminating extra type/text on the front.

Today's Tampa Tribune: Northeast Faces

Global comment on Critiquing:

Are there or should there be rules for critiquing? Do "rules" then unfortunately border on gag-orders or do planned restraints and perimeters face-off bullying? Should critics practice restraint? When do one's opinions cross boundaries of human acceptance? When do opinions become detrimental? Should anyone say anything no matter what comes out of their mouths based on the right to free speech? Shooting from the LIP. Where/when do societies/ groups/ artists/ writers/ critics-draw the line? What is destructive, false, reactionary or "harmful"?
Language? What is humane, constructive, creative, valuable, considered, thought out, truthful and productive?

Governments face these questions continually. In Canada for example: In practice, the right to freedom of speech is not absolute and the right is commonly subject to "limitations". This is because exercising freedom of speech always takes place within a context of competing values.
Limitations to freedom of speech may follow the "harm principle", for example in the case of pornography, or seek to limit "hate speech".

" Professor Lee Bollinger argues that "the free speech principle involves a special act of carving out one area of social interaction for extraordinary self-restraint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bollinger

Business Team Leaders face these dilemmas daily. The REAL WORLD… Perhaps some skills could be borrowed, with a grain of salt, from the Real World even if those skills don't directly apply to Art Critiques:

http://74.125.45.104/search?
q=cache:gYngkovlfEgJ:www.stabilitytech.com/documents/ConstructiveCriticism.doc+Guidelines+for+Delivering+Constructive+Criticism&hl=en& ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a

How can artists and writers maximize creative solutions and potential gains by addressing the problems productively without being degrading and bullying? To process: It is necessary for artists to be Reactionary and/or Ambiguous.
Artists MUST be able to "process" and that means OUT- LOUD at times to Think-Tank problems and solutions out. Is there a way to deliver information constructively, even emotionally within an artists' community or group without this information being delivered as or interpreted as a "personal attack"?
Thinking...

Nearing the Finish

Presentation issues

Iva wrote,
"I would like to get few clarifications on the schedule regarding the floors. Are we going to paint them as a class? Otherwise, I will come in on Sunday and paint ONLY the critical areas. If there is more people involved we could get the whole gallery cleaned. I think presentation is at this point crucial."

How to use this blog

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One post per topic. Reception date is one topic. Presentation is a separate topic.
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Keep replies limited to post topic.
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If you want to bring up a new topic, begin one.
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If you can't because you don't have access, contact me and I will give you access.

This will keep communication clear. When conversations spontaneously begin to cover various topics it becomes harder to maintain a thread of focus.

Fire Inspection today at 3:00

Just got a call from Carneal Smith. There will be an inspection at 3:00 today. I am heading over there soon.

Labor Day Weekend Cleanup

Hey guys! I just want to let you know that i'll be out of town for Labor Day. If we decide to do the show reception that day, is there anyway I can help clean up that Tuesday or something?

Thanks!

Show Reception Date

Hey all,

Are we going to have an opening reception Thursday? What if we could just have one reception during the CAM show since that's when more people will be there? We'll have more time to plug the party, it'll be on weekend day which draws more people, and we can save money.

What do u think? ;)

Show Cards

Here are the show cards Ben designed. He still has the Photoshop file so he can change the dates if needed. Please give feedback. :)

Thursday, Week 5