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Kickoff 2010 with Calef Brown and Clementown
Field Guide
Dec 2009
I love the work of Calef Brown. For years I have been amazed as a room full of kids suffering from some serious cabin fever listen intently to Brown’s poems, or stories as he calls them. But seriously, how could they resist bats pooping on people? The illustrations and words weave together and create stories within stories. It’s magical how Brown inspires kids’ imaginations. The kids would take a poem…
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There’s still time to submit your Inquisition Question!
Field Guide
Dec 2009
If you haven’t heard already, we are gearing up to play our own brand of quiz show fun right after the holidays. What better way emerge from the holiday haze of sugar and egg nogthan coming to the Walker Art Center to play the Inquisition! It’s a quiz show about the arts, and it needs your input for a segment we’re calling “The Audience Wants to Know”. Skip the gym and all those pesky resolutions to…
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Phone calls as performance … OK, how weird does this piece get?
The Green Room
Dec 2009
The questions and puzzled looks continue to mount each day.
“Do I really have to go alone?”
“If I don’t like it, can I walk out?”
“Are they really in India? Do I call them or do they call me?”
Our presentation of Call Cutta in Box in January has people intrigued and perhaps a bit anxious. Allow me to allay some fears. I caught the work last January in NYC but before I made my appointment, I waffled through…
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Art to Go: Andy Ducett’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Field Guide
Dec 2009
December’s Free First Saturday art-making activity featured local artist Andy Ducett, who’s know for creating 3-D environment of carefully arranged thrift store objects. Below, Andy shares inspiration for the project and steps for how to create your own Cabinet of Curiosities at home.
Getting Started Artist Joseph Cornell took everyday objects to used them in mysterious ways. Cornell let dreams and…
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Daniel Foster on capturing L.A.’s Watts Towers on film
The Green Room
Dec 2009
I had not seen the Watts Towers since 1984, and even then I viewed only the outside of the skeletal forms rising like sci-fi creatures from the bleakest of Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Like most Los Angeles residents, I didn’t understand the Towers, and I didn’t make much of an effort to do so. I knew they were a National Historic Landmark, a set of 17 interconnected sculptures, the tallest 99 feet…
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WACTAC Pitches a Tent
Field Guide
Dec 2009
Over the past months WACTAC has been talking about the ways that people make art together and interact socially in public space. To further the discussion, I invited artist Peter Haakon Thompson to meet WACTAC and present his work. Honestly there isn’t an artist that fits the bill as perfect as Peter. His resume includes curator of the 55408 exhibition at Intermedia Arts, a totally inclusive…
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WAC Video Killed the Radio Star
Field Guide
Dec 2009
Over the past five-weeks local director Maria Juranic has been dropping knowledge on emerging teen video makers in the Music Video Workshop in Teen Programs. We met twice a week, starting off with introductions in true WACTAC fashion where the group questioned each person for two minutes.
If you were there it went something like this Q: “Would you rather be blind or deaf?” A: “Blind” Q: “If you were a…