Thank you for a good semester

Thanks for a good semester, and good luck next fall with new courses here, or wherever you may be and whatever you may be doing after graduation.  Please feel free to email me with new work or news of your creative life.  Remember Gnomon videos and subscribing to Lynda.com if you want to learn more, and remember to intentionally fight for personal creative time to continue develop your creativity.  Try working without deadlines, and working until the work is just exactly what you want.  No one knows how long you worked, they only know what you created.  You can use the 80% rule when judging others (ie let it go), but the 110% rule when judging your own work.  This is easier when you give yourself - take for yourself - the time for iterations, polishing, redoing after new inspration, throwing out, putting in, rethinking, refeeling,  reknowing.  Save flattened copies along the way. Good luck on your continuing creative evolution.

I will have the work at the Village in my office.  And I have the work from the VIST show there too. But I am gone to Berkeley CA for the summer.  If you are near there during June and July, send me an email at marysaslow@gmail.com and we can meet for lunch.  What will I be doing there?  Art!

Graduating Seniors should have all posted now including final

All others should too, but can have extension to Sun 5/13:  M 5/14 is last day to get in grades.

finals for everything, artist's talks

final work: playing with adjustment layers & blending modes

team : Caleb & the Kicklighter's

my role : color script, poster organization/design, intensity chart

Gnomon video: The Mechanics of Color (see write-up on March 1 post)

talks: Andrew Ellis Johnson, Thecla Schiphorst & Mike Levy

1. Andrew Ellis Johnson

 Of Andrew’s works, I think the easiest to understand was the “Charge,” the trumpet with the altered mouthpiece. The inspiration was clear, and he executed well making a visual pun out of the hypocrisy of the world’s reaction to the Rwandan genocide. 

I’m not sure if it was the aesthetics necessarily, but his apocalyptic piece with the millstone balanced on the wine glasses appealed to me. It would definitely intrigue me if I were to see the installation in person. I mostly enjoyed his emphasis on the materials employed–and how those ought to be significant to the idea behind a work, too.

2. Thecla Schiphorst

I enjoyed the fact that Schiphorst's large-scale pieces almost all stemmed from her postcard sketches, which I loved. I liked her beautiful linework, and was less interested in her later works which seemed to stray from that. Her "hobby"-comic strips-made me smile. I enjoyed seeing a little of her imagination. 

She seems to have a childlike view of art, in the best way possible: The representation of things she sees, the obsession with a very saturated color, the simplicity of using colors and shapes and subjects that appeal to her.

3. Mike Levy

Not exactly an artist, but an interesting lecture given by the founder of Texas Monthly at May's Business School. I enjoyed hearing about his life before founding the magazine, and how much perseverance it takes to start a business, particularly a visual one.

Because I'm interested in possibly pursuing graphic design, it was beneficial to attend this lecture. One thing I learned is that I should avoid going into print. It's dying.

Self Portraits - second thoughts

You know I have had second thoughts about self portraits for downtown show.

If you want to print yours somehow and mount it on board I leave outside my door,
You can go down to the Village any time and add it to the portrait wall.
The show will be up the whole month, so you have time.

Make a label using ones I put in the bag of boards outside my office.
Just write it in with pen by hand.
I particularly like Liz's first one, and Niki's in uniform
which are printed on not-very-good paper and in front of me right now.

Medicines worked.  I'm better.  I'll be in at c 10 am.  See you at 2:30 at my office or 3 downtown.  Mary

PLEASE DO: Titles for work

I can't fine the list of titles for the Scholarship Show Friday at The Village....
Please email me titles

It is up to Y'all and Donna

Hi, still sick.  Saw doctor, got drugged and cat (sp?)-scanned, still sick.
Here is what happens at 2:30 or so on Thursday.  Good Luck!  Mary

So Donna said she would help hang the show downtown. 
Pick up work at my office c 2:30, hang c 3:00.
TITLE, YOUR NAME, PHONE, EMAIL on back:  hope some of you can do this.
   USE PENCIL:  Don't let ink get on another image.  
STUFF NEEDED:  Pics and Posters in my office; laser thing to align work (Bill should have it),
Labels from Catherine or in my mailbox, sticky corner squares in my mailbox. Should also be a book where people can write what they think.  Anything can work.  I may not get to this.  Anyone have something?
WHAT GOES WHERE:  Make sure image Has clean surface, without dust, etc.
Information panel is to left of door when you look from inside to outside,
Probably self portraits arranged nicely on wall to left also, nearest bar.  Should be a lable for each - at least if I know about it.  We can wing it of need be.
Hang self portraits not perfectly in a row, but whatever looks good. Usually right facing on left side facing toward center, etc for other side. 
Probably art direction on right wall wall as you look out.  Also put nearby art based on that:  character design, etc.
Probably A&M future pics along wall after bar and toward back, probably in groups of 4: two above two with cross of space between 4 pics, and labels toward the outside left and right.  Got it?
What ever looks good.
Probably lots of your original art wherever space is left!
Posters with arrows pointing to Vizagogo show next door - back to back in window of door o rnext to that,  Arrow should point toward Federal Building across alley.
LABELS are with Catherine.  Stick on wall, to left of pic, bottom flush with bottom of pic or directly belowimage flush at left edge - or whatever Donna says.
STICK UP with little square sticky things I got at Michael's.  Hope this works.
Put more on pics that need more. Press hard after stuck up to help it stick.
SIGNATURE:  Should be in PSD file already.  If not, you can sign:   don't smear. Do't overpower image.
LEAVE WITH ME:  burn DVD of all work including these pics These pics should have a flat PSD file, so edition number can be added if any are purchased.
Enjoy party that evening.  Show up UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH.
Invite people to your  show.  Put it on your resume.

Hang in there.
... and THANKS to the good peple who put up Wednesday's show.

Hanging Show Today - I'm Sick

Hi,

 am not going to make it to Geren by 9 am today or later even.  Sick.  Weird.
All your work is on floor of my office.  Maybe Bill or Ricky Ferguson has a key. I emailed them.  You are on your own to hang a nice show.  Talk with Donna and Dick.  Probably on one side of grey panels.
Group like with like.  See how much you can get in.  Catherine has labels if you want them.  If they are too big you can cut them down.

I hope there is someone there to hear this :-)

Mary

Missing Monogriffin and Space Gretel

Don’t have 2 Art Direction Posters unmounted for Geren Show:  Monogriffin (one I have is cut wrong)
and H&G in Space.  Got them somewhere?  Can bring tomorrow, Wed, to put up??? Email me.
(VIPs will see this show - and probably other one too - on Friday.)

Thank you

Come by office at 2:30 Thursday to collect work and take it down town.
Or meet at The Village, 210 W 26 at 3:00 or so.
Here is a copy of the big poster that will be in show explaining it.