I hope the art is going well for all. Cheezburgers help...
My roommates and I are having a party Sat night and you are all quite welcomed. If you want to come by give me a call.
-Nickalapogos

friday crit

hey just to let you guys know haley gronbeck will be coming to our critique with potentially some of her artwork as well as words and ideas to share about our artwork.

love kate

artist critique: michael magrath

Hey everybody, here is an e-mail that anne friedman sent me about getting a crit fom a guest lecturer. he is in to critiquing us. perhaps you know his salt sculptures from pioneer square.
let me know if you are interested in receiving a crit from him by tomorrow!


Hello Kate,

I talked with Mike and he had some questions, so please let me know what you
and the other students think.

He could probably come talk with your group before the lecture, say noon-ish
till 2:30 on Tuesday May 20.

As I recall you said there are 9 students in the group, right? Are you all
working on similar projects or are you working in very individual
directions? Mike likes to spend about 20 minutes on each individual crit,
which doesn't leave enough time for 9 people. Or a group crit if people are
working on similar projects (which I assumed you weren't). One idea was
maybe shorter individual crit's with the group of 9 all listening in, so
maybe they build on each other and everyone benefits from each person's
crit. Each person would have 2-3 artworks to show, everyone showing in
close proximity (as I recall you all are working in the studios in the
annex?).

So, let me know. Call if that's easier, 867-5425. I should be around early
afternoon tomorrow; morning and early afternoon on Wed.

Ann


Ann Friedman
Director, Evergreen Galleries
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505
360.867.5425
www.evergreen.edu/gallery

The work of Adrian Arleo

CIEL Paragraph (Rough and Dirty)

Our primary goal involved putting on a group art show. In preparation for this we faced the challenges of fundraising, art making, group organization, and curating. We had bi weekly bake sales, and a Valentine’s Day Secret Café raising enough money to rent an abandoned store front on a busy street in downtown Olympia.(Picture of secret café, then of empty space). In two days time we turned a white room with ugly carpet into a well curated gallery space. With each of us bringing items from our own houses we transformed this sterile environment into a comfortable home-like setting, utilizing the theme “The Feeling of Being at Home in the Universe.” (Picture of everything set-up). We split our group into teams to ensure that public relations, clean-up, set-up, design, and curatorial were all given proper attention. The show was packed opening night, exposing our art to more people than we had ever anticipated. (Picture of people at show). By banding together as a group of ten and taking control and responsibility of our own show instead of relying on the college, we maintained a high level of professionalism, considering every decision and detail that faced us. As a result we put on one of the most impressive art shows that Evergreen has seen.

I won't have my hard copy tomorrow until we go to the school. Maybe we can edit there?? While organizing the photos??

introduction to ciel

hey lets edit hard copies all of these writings on monday meeting
here is what i have for the intro so far
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hey everyone. its an honor to be in front of you.

We are 4 members of an upper division art group that goes by the newly anointed title Wunderkammer. We consist of 10 upper division art students from The Evergreen State College :

Alphabetically, we are:
Ceradwen Bacon, from Friday Harbor, Washington
Dalton Cannizo, from New Jersey
Kate Clark, from Anacortes, Washington
Nick Goetling, from Gig Harbor, Washington
Ryan Hudgins, from Seattle, Washington
Vanessa Lang, from North Hampton Maine
Alicia Lewis, from Boulder, Colorado
Natalie Miller, from Tennessee
Kim Rutherford, from Washington D.C?

Our group used to go by W.F.S which stands for we’re fudging serious.
--how do I say this guys?? Do I say fuck at a conference?!-

Though tongue in cheek, the sentiment is also whole-hearted. However, after the quarter progressed and we experienced critique, fundraising, seminaring and curating an exhibition together, our group is now called Wunderkammer.

-show of Ryan’s illustration of each member of the group)

As students at Evergreen and like some of you from Fairhaven, we get the experience of being able to construct our independent curriculum. Also, as upper division art students attending a college that is focused primarily on the sciences, we found ourselves desirous of more community. Though independent contracts allow one to focus on their passion, it can at points be cloistering. We decided to form a group contract and critique, support, and further our work as well as each others.

CIEL paragrph

here is my draft on the critique section. i tried to write it as if someone were going to read it. tell me what you think....

As upper division contract students we work independently, without the structure of a program or class, so as we started the group one of the main focuses was to gain feedback from our peers and the arts community. To accommodate this we established a critique schedule in which we could display our work to each other, our own faculty sponsor, and occasionally other arts professors that were not as familiar with our own work. Since each person came from a different background, and a different medium, these critiques were extremely unique with a variety of input. How does a photographer critique a sculpture or a ceramicist view a painting? It was both challenging and enlightening to so regularly consider another’s medium. The artist always had a choice on how his or her critique was run leaving it up to the artist to ask for feedback on particular questions or concerns.
Critique became a time to reflect. We began to draw connections not only between our own work, but also in the books that we were reading. Strangely enough many of the artists seemed to have an epiphany with the works On Longing by Susan Stewart and Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. This running dialog between critique, reading and seminar eventually carried itself right into our end of the quarter show.