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hey I made a mistake, for week 1 reading, scratch the chapter 1 of art and artifact. Read just the introduction (it's already thirty pages) + chapter 1 of poetics of space.

Summit!

Everybody:

If you're still scrambling for your books, get on Summit immediately. All but one of the books on the list are on there. Here's the Summit availability for all the books, and links to their page on the UW Library website:

The Poetics of Space: No copies available (I got the only one.)
Art and Artifact: 9 copies available
Art Objects: 8 copies available
Image, Music, Text: 9 copies available
On Longing: 7 copies available
Madonna of the Future: 6 copies available
Air Guitar: 6 copies available


Kate Winslet implores,
"What are you waiting for?"

Things that we determined last meeting

Hey Everybody, here is a recap to stuff that we talked about last meeting, which I have finally posted. we had a lot to cover and it was rather difficult because everyone had holiday stuff.. so all of this info still needs to be gone over with everybody democratically, if that is the political system we are going for anyways.
I suggest that we have a meeeting to finalize stuff before school starts. What day does everyone return? Could it work to have a meeting on the 4th or so? Reply to this post and let us all know.

Reading:
It was determined that 60 pages a week was reasonable for the group reading. This can be further discussed though.

Books that are to be read thoroughly:

Poetics of Space- Bachelard (get this soon- reading for week 1)
Art& Artifact- James Putnam (get this soon- reading for week 1)
Art Objects-Jeanette Winterson (seminaring on text week 6+7)

excerpts:
Image, Music Text-Barthes (seminar week 6+7)
On Longing- Susan Stewart (seminar week 8+9)
Madonna of the Future-Danto (t.b.d)
Air Guitar-Hickey (t.b.d)

Potential Schedule for the Week:

MONDAYS: all w.f.s meeting (this is the time when decisions for the rest of the week get finalized so everyone needs to be there) Reading Seminar afterwards.
WEDNESDAYS/FRIDAYS: critique. Depends on faculty's availablility. E-mail your faculty!
THURSDAY/FRIDAY EVENING: Event fun. Hopefully Vanessa can hook us up with film viewings at the Grand Ol' Olympia Film Society's Capitol Theatre.

SCHEDULE for WEEK 1 + 2

Week 1: ALL GROUP MEETING: Powerpoint presentations, finalize and sign covenant. Decide what Event will be+ other items of necessity
SEMINAR: Introduction and Chapter 1 of Art and Artifact, 1 Chapter of Poetics of Space.

Week 2: ALL GROUP MEETING: Decide what Event will be + other items of necessity
SEMINAR: Chapter 2 Art and Artifact, Chapter 2 Poetics of Space, Selected Excerpt (to be determined)

We need to further discuss the concrete reading schedule. But this is a headstart for reading. If anyone doesn't want to purchase Art and Artifact, you can photocopy it from me during the break. Just let me know.

Fundraising: Bakesales! 5 times during the quarter in the Cab. We decided a day. I can't remember which one though. Once we have enough start-up capital- let's have a SECRET CAFE! that's good moneys and we all love food too. Also people sell your stuff on etsy.com. We can fundraise as a group or do it independently. The goal is 1,000. that is 100$ per person which is not so bad spread throughout 9 weeks if you think about it.


ye gads I don't want to do this note taking thing anymore. Anyone else want to take the reigns? someone with more legible handwriting? Ryan Hudgins? hmm?

love
kate

We Fashion Swankery?

Hey Kiddos

Merry (insert holiday)! I hope you are all gorging, as I plan to do.
Other than art and artifact, what were the books we intended to fully read (that I may pick them up and read them...) I wrote them all down, but Dalton had my planner until I can start remembering that I forgot it.

Take Care

le n.a..me

Wickett for Snuggles
Western Film Salesmen
Western Felled Stump
Western Fido Society
Wonkers w/ Fistfulls of Staples
Wonderbread Frontier Survivors
Western Fright Squad
Willful Fog Survivors
We Fight Socialists
We are French Sobriety
We're Friendly & Sneaky
Wandering Forest Stumps
Wandering french Salon
Western French Salon
Western Frontier Salon(Saloon?)


Some really bad ideas have at em'

titles that read like mottos

We could also consider
Working For Standards
Sex
Something
Society
We'll Forget Standards
Sex
Something
Society

Hmmm, I still like the word Pilcrow

week 1

hello lovers
this is just the beginning of i'm sure a lot of updates to come from all of us concerning the beginning of the quarter. one thing that we discussed during our previous meeting was a way that we could better familiarize ourselves with eachothers influences, previous bodies of work, etc.

it was suggested that during week 1 we all give short powerpoint presentations talking about our work. no sweat on this business, if any of you have never done powerpoint its a piece of cake and I can help (along with probably half of the group)
just something to think about compiling if you are ever bored during the break

hope you are all well!

p.s. in lieu of Ryan's list,

Working artists For Society
or
We're Fanciful, Sucka

Brainstorming for the Name

Here's some words that iTunes and Word helped me and Kate Winslet find?

W
Work
Working
Want
We’ll
What
Whatever
While
Who
Why
Wild
Without

F
Fine
Free
For
Forget
Fail
Feel
Family
Fancy
Fate
Feedback
First
Fool
Fun
Forever
Friends
From
Future

S
Solitude
Self
Same
Satisfaction
Sex
Save
Say
Show
Simple
So
Society
Something
Sound
Start
Sweet
System
Style
Standards

y'all have inspired me

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Thomas Allen

Bromoil Color Photography

Gabriel de Montmollin

Cynthia Greig

Julia Blackmon

Gilbert Garcin = b+w photo

Archive of Images

Fun

I love nature

um hey, how do I create links?

until then, I guess just copy and paste if you want to look at this.

http://hdt.typepad.com/botanical_time_lapse/

xo
kate

Well, we could always do this:

http://kk.org/ct2/2007/12/original-hyper-fake-reproducti.php

I hope you are all getting plump and staying warm while doing nothing for a while...
-Nick-

I've gone missing

Hey Everyone!

Sorry I have been unable to attend the last two meetings. I am in Illinois... soon to be in Hawaii, and I would love if someone could catch me up on what I missed. I think everything posted on the blog sounds great (covenant, etc.). If there is anything really important, call me, or email me.

Have a great Holiday.

p.s. I invested in a new camera, and took some photos of miniatures in the snow. I will post them soon, they're funny. I'm pretty obsessed with miniature objects right now. Got a mini grand piano yesterday... it's a hoot.

Love,
Nat

contact list

Name E-mail Medium Phone #

all have been printed out - the internet in no place for private things y'all

we will be working on maybe a group email for those of you who are not in the group to contact us

- benjamin that means you
- also thank you for your wonderful letter we all thoroughly enjoyed it

critique room schedule

So I spoke to Miss Judy and we have the critique room in the art annex reserved for Wednesdays in the morning, i.e. 9 am to noon. She said that that day is wide open and it most likely wouldn't be an issue to go over time wise since professors have governance in the afternoons. We could also check week to week if there is anything we need to clear out immediately at noon for.

schedule

Hi everybody.
Nick was kind enough to supply his schedule for next quarter, and that is what everybody else should do, too. If we have a list of everybody's obligations, then when we are finagling access to an AV room, when can find a time that works for the most people. It will probably be easiest if everryone just replies to this in the comments section, so we have everybody's obligations in one place.
Thanks a lot.
Alicia

thoughts and things

you should all check out my blog i just made, it was fun, you should try it!
jacobsthoughtsandthings.blogspot.com
the covenant looks great, sorry i wasn't able to make it, i was being searched by canadian customs.

hope all is well.

jake

hey yall

I just created my blog, its a lot of fun, you should all do it.
I like the covenant, sorry i couldn't make it.
have great weekend!

jake

Work!

So right now I work Mon. 8-12, thurs is either 8-12 or 1-5 (erica's A/B thing) and fri.8-12. This is all able to be shifted, so it isnt too big of a deal if stuff needs to be scheduled that time. However, that block of time(8-12 or 1-5) is pretty crucial not to break up, so I can work before or after our madness.
Drink hot chocolate!
-Nick-

Covenant.

What do you think about this covenant? If there are anythings you want to change please do voice it.
Once we have it finalized we can print it out and sign it week 1.


--
W.F.S Covenant
Winter Quarter 2008
Members:

Vanessa Lang
Nick Goetling
Alicia Lewis
Dalton Cannizo
Kate Clark
Ceradwin Bacon
Ryan Hudgins
Natalie Miller
Kim Rutherford
Jake Smith

-Every person is obligated to attend each critique

-Every person is obligated to attend Monday meetings

-Decisions are determined by the majority of the group on the weekly Monday meeting.

-At the end of the quarter, we will all participate in the promotion, curating, and reception of a group art show

-Each person is obligated to commit 10 hours of fundraising work for money for the art show


________________________________________________________________

(Signature)

Two blogs I read religiously

AND YOU COULD, TOO!

Bezembinder's Illustrated Links

Agence Eureka

those kitties needs to calm down

In the beggining, there was the Pilcrow = ¶

Here is my first ¶ of my contract, the unifying ¶, call it what you may... here it is:

A group of students are banding together to create a small artistic community at evergreen. We will be doing independent work, with an emphasis on studio practice. There will be some shared readings based on the applicability to each artist respectively. There will be weekly seminars, critiques, and field trips to major art events such as First and Last Thursday in Seattle and Portland. Also there will be a community aspect to lend support to the other artists, this will include but is not limited to, movie screenings, and cultural happenings. At the end of the quarter we will host a show of our work.

Meetings

Let's meet this Thursday @ 12 in theThird floor of the Library by the Stained Glass. This is for finalizing the reading list and covenant. It will be short. But please try and come! we need to make decisions with everyone present. Also Please e-mail your faculty and ask them what day they are available for critiqes.

Here are:

Notes on Dinner Meeting, December 5, 2007

Reading:
Each week group readings will be about 60 pages a week

Each week, one person will be picked to facilitate the readings. This person will mediate the readings (make sure we stay on track) and will also compile a selection of images to illustrate the themes of the readings. (this can be informal, if we are reading about a specific artist, just have some images available of their work)

Books to be read cover to cover:

The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard- Read one chapter a week
Art and Artifact, James Putnam- One chapter a week, (first week read the intro too, last week, read the epilogue too)
Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson- Seminar on Parts 1 +2 of the book week 6, Seminar on section 3 week 7


Selected Excerpts: (this is an unofficial list) Excerpts will be spread out throughout the 10 weeks in order to achieve 60 page quota and to smarten ourselves

Dave Hickey, Air Guitar
Roland Barthes- Rheteric of the Image
Danto- Madonna of the Future
Susan Stewart- On Longing
Virginia Wolf

Schedule-
Monday: Seminar
Wednesday/Friday rotating: Critique (plan on three hours)
Thursday evening: Art Event Sexiness! (art show, first Thursdays, film viewing, presentations, etc)

Critique: If there is any pertinent information that people should know/read, bring texts/info on the Monday of your critique to share with people. Or post it on the blog.

Things to be put in our group Covenant:
-Every person must attend critique
-Plan on culminating Group show
-When the group gets together to plan for a meeting, majority rules, even if not everyone is there. We gots ta get shit done yo.

meeting on monday?

let us do have a meeting soon.

monday night?
my house?
7:00?
same potluck sort of deal?



reply to this post if you can come!
-kate

an inspiration

i will write up a paragraph soon, and maybe everyone else can write a sample one and we can figure out the best wording, but i have a more pressing thing to post about. This web site.
http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp

was anyone wanting to read "On longing" by Susan Stuart ?

"The Unifying Paragraph"

We should definitely meet this week or next to solidify our official literature (official unifying paragraph, official title, official e-mail, official group photo and trading cards) before break. If we're fucking serious, we should sound that way, right? Any ideas for meeting times and places? 

Art Opening this Friday

You are Cordially Invited To:

Bad News for Paris!
opens Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. In the famed words of Erica Lord, "The biggest thing to hit Olympia since stirrup pants became popular again."

Who: SOS: Visual Arts artists extraordinaires

Where: 312 1/2 (down alley) Columbia St., (behind Copper Moon & BuyOlympia.com)

When: Friday opening, Dec 7, 2007, 7-10 PM and Saturday, Dec 8, 2007 1-6 PM.

Why: We are fabulous. and pretty. and smart. Damn! Triple threats!

plus, you can familiarize yourself with the art work of the likes of: Alicia, Ceradwin, Dalton, Nick, Natialie, Jake, and Kate
woo wee thats more than half the group.

http://www.amystaxidermy.com/