tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67404801377371984682012-01-24T15:39:54.794-08:00MFA@AIB :: All Residency All The TimeRachel Woodburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872409876865192577noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740480137737198468.post-75623445504302749962009-09-26T17:34:00.000-07:002009-09-26T17:38:07.238-07:00

I am not sure exactly why I have been silent here this fall; it could be that I am overwhelmed with the amount of work that I need to do, both for AIB and with my return to my full time teaching position at SCC. I am sure that I do not know how to begin to say what needs to be said. It is quite probable that as the days grow nearer to graduation the perfectionist in me is winning, that in search

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It is an odd place to be at the beginning of the end, the last term, of a journey for me that has taken nearly a decade. Yet there is much to do and accomplish this term. I am surprisingly calm even in the face of an overwhelming amount needing to get done.My thesis paper needs to be researched and written because I have changed my materials and the presentation of my work. This was necessary. I

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For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for spring 09. If you are curious about any of these books I have most of them and could give you feedback before you decide to check them out or make purchases.Philip Armstrong :: As Painting: Division and DisplacementSylvan Barnet :: A Short Guide to Writing about ArtTerry Barrett :: Criticizing Photographs, An Introduction to Understanding

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For archival purposes I am publishing the museums and galleries that I visited during the spring 09 term.SMoCA :: Emmet Gowin :: Photography SymposiumPhoenix, AZ :: Janet Echelman :: Her Secret is PatienceCenter for Creative Photography :: The Photographs of Linda Connor :: OdysseyThe Gallery @ the Library :: Scottsdale Civic Center Library :: Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs :: The Institute for

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For archival purposes I am posting the artists I looked at the spring 09.Louise BourgeoisPaul ChanAngella EllsworthLarry FinkTierney GearonCai Guo-QiangMaria Adelaida LopezAnna MendietaJanice RedmanFrancesca Woodman

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Sharing a quote I found in a book called As Painting: Division and Displacement by Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville. These words again reference to this idea of the completion and the continuance of the creation of art."But this completion without end—or rather, this finite finishing, if one attempts to understand thereby a completion that limits itself to what is, but that,

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It is as the term comes to its resolution with final paperwork due and a body of work to complete, that my anticipation of what I wanted to accomplish become a long term laundry list of things to do. It feels like something I read on a blog called accidental creative by Todd Henry.“It will never be good enough. It will never cease, and there will always be more to do . . . Because the work of art

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I needed to examine the silenced experiences of my childhood. Ignored and forgotten, years of my life had been swept away, never to be acknowledged. These memories, like crumbs that were swept into the floorboards, crumbs eventually covered by rugs; the rugs became stories of replacement. My memories were traded for the pretense of perfection in order to create the flawless family snapshot.My

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Yesterday at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library I went to the opening of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs by The Institute For Figuring and Companions. The Institute For Figuring, directed by Christine and Margaret Wertheim, is dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts. It was amazing to see the community come together to create such a

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It seems like so much needs to be created in order to uncover art that speaks in our voice. When visiting SMoCA we went on a gallery talk by Claire Carter. While viewing the exhibit At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer, I was grateful to hear that Callahan had over 300,000 negatives as part of his estate when he passed away. Creating art is hard work, it is

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It’s been a full four weeks sinceI last wrote. Where to begin?When I returned from my residencyI began to help prepare for a workshop with Jill Enfield at the Tilt Gallery in Phoenix. We had a great weekend together creating both digital negatives and alternative negatives with Jill. One of the women in the workshop Linda Ingraham pulled together a number of artists for a show in the Jackson

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It has only been two weeks since we left the residency and somehow I feel like I am behind. I am still trying to finalize a mentor, have just finished my residency summary and working on my list of books. We have only just begun and I am sure this term will fly by.My goal this term is continue to find ways to create images that let the viewer feel what I felt as a child growing up in a

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For archival purposes I am posting the artists I looked during Fall 08 term.Diane ArbusTina BarneyDan EstabrookAnna GaskellLoretta LuxRaymond MeeksSarah MoonFrance Scully OstermanRobert and Shana ParkeHarrisonArthur Tress

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For archival purposes I am publishing the museums and galleries that I visited during the fall 08 term. The Norton Simon Museum :: The Art of War: American Posters from World War I andWorld War IIThe Norton Simon Museum :: Vermeer :: A Lady in WritingDesert Botanical Garden :: Chilhuly :: The Nature of GlassThe Ice House :: Barri Chase :: The Fiber of the MatterTilt Gallery :: France Scully

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For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for fall 08. If you are curious about any of these books I have most of them and could give you feedback before you decide to check them out or make purchases.Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families by Ann BeattieThe Contest of Meaning by Richard BoltonArt Photography Now by Susan BrightSo the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina

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I have lost track of my days as the end of the year approaches. It seems like a few nights ago we went to the desert botanical gardens to take an evening walk through the desert with paths glimmering from the luminarias. Last time we went to see las noches de las luminarias for the holidays it was so packed with people it was hard to enjoy. Last Thursday the experience was more intimate and along

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Having reviewed my terms work with my mentor Christopher and focusing on wrapping things up for the January residency I decided my objective will be to focus on creating images that let the viewer feel what I felt as a child growing up in a dysfunctional family. We had a great discussion of what he saw in my work that had impact, potential for further development, as well as keeping my work

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As this term nears completion I feel I am on the edge of approaching resolution on a number of issues that I have been working through this term. It seems in the program at AIB that we have our artist statement, bibliography, and residency summary due before I have completed all I intend to due for the residency. Or perhaps it is just my process of working up until the last moment possible. I do

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Last weekend was First Friday downtown Phoenix. I have been waiting for this weekend for sometime to see the closing reception of France Scully Oysterman’s show, Natures Second Course. Unfortunately I was out east when she spoke in Tucson and for her opening at the Tilt Gallery. I wanted to see her images from her series Bed and Sleep, I was especially looking at how viewers respond to her work

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"Fear makes the wolf bigger that he is." - German ProverbThis image is from Sarah Moons book Little Red Riding HoodI have been looking at dysfunctional behaviors and how that effects family relationships. I have been intently looking at anxiety and fear and the role that fairy tales, scary movies and psychological thrillers play in providing comfort and support for a child in an unstable family

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I have arrived safely home. It was good to be in Michigan for the fall and to see the colors change from green to yellow to orange and red. The apples were still clean and crisp as I remembered them from years ago. From them my sister Shelle and I made carmel apples, apple crisp, and apple pie. I left more apples for her to make into applesauce.My sister Becca was released from them hospital

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On the road again. I flew back east to take more family photographs, talk with my mentor, and continue to clarify my direction this term. I am finally feeling good about what I am focusing on in my work and after talking with Christopher. I feel that I am now headed in the right direction for me. We talked about what what happening in some of my images and also review some of the strengths that I

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Unrest has seeped into my life this month. It came from many directions from family issues to my struggle for direction with the disparate feedback I received at the residency in June. My sister Becca who is schizophrenic has addiction issues and has been in the hospital three times this past month. The last time she went in the hospital a friend called 911 and they have not yet released her.

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Last week with friends Valerie, Cheryl, and Wendy, I went on a two-day road trip in search for New Zealand orange chocolate chip ice cream. This quest was to mark the closing of my studio 2see that ran for a year with the help of Valerie, Cheryl, and my husband Bob.Why one would travel a thousand miles for this ice cream is debatable only to those who haven’t been in New Zealand and participated

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August first already. Time flies when you are not paying attention. I can’t believe it has been one month since we were in Boston. Life and school has been a challenge when on the road! Some places that I have been this summer have been extremely remote. Half the time I have been able to use my computer and connect, other times even my cell phone didn’t even work.I have finished my residency

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For archival purposes I am publishing the museums and galleries that I visited during the spring term. The Phoenix Art Museum :: Barbara Bosworth :: Human NatureLisa Sette Gallery :: William WegmanDesert Botanical Garden :: Mayme Kratz :: The Secret GardnerThe Gallery Project :: Painting 2008Shemer Musuem :: Black Box White Noise: Exploring New MediaPhoenix Art Museum :: Monet, Matisse, and

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I am off to rural Michigan to visit family for the next nineteen days. Most likely I will not have reception on my cell phone and I know I will not have access to the web unless we take a thirty-minute ride into town and visit the library. I hope to have time to reflect and write on my experiences at June’s residency. I also know it will be a time of creative play and hope to begin to discover

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For archival purposes I am posting all the artists I was looking at last term.You should really check out Colin Blakely's website and blog at www.colinblakely.com. Another amazing photographer is Jon Edwards at www.jonedwardsphotographer.com. While your looking on of my favorites is Cig Harvey at www.cigharvey.com.Colin BlakelyKeith CarterJon EdwardsWendy EwaldJesseca FergusonEmmet GowinCig

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We had a great celebration for my Aunt EB’s birthday last weekend. It was good to see so many people in my family that I haven’t seen in years. It was wonderful to get together, catch up, reminisce, ending with a great big slumber party at my Aunts home. We had the tastiest sliders made of chicken, beef, lamb and venison.The next day we took a seven-mile walk around Ann Arbor stopping by the Paul

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“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.” T S ElliotI traveled back to Michigan to reconnect with my family and to continue to create images for my upcoming residency. During this time I finished the last of my paperwork and academic requirements for the term and then returned home to finish

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It’s been a great while since my last blog entry and much had happened in the meantime. During this time Bob and I were grateful to be able to host Maori guests from New Zealand. It was great to reconnect with them and share with them a small portion of the graciousness we received when my students and I have visited their homes and communities.We saw the end of spring term and graduation at SCC

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For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for spring 08. If you are curious about any of these books I have most of them and could give you feedback before you decide to check them out or make purchases.Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional ValuesAtkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and BuzzwordsBarthes, Roland. Camera

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"Except when you don't. Because sometimes, you won't. I am sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you. You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a lurch." Dr. SeussI started this blog entry a few weeks ago . . .I met with Betsy my mentor again yesterday. I went not knowing how I could possibly succeed. I was

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I have greatly admired art that is temporary, that exists for a short time and let let go by the artist, native american sand paintings, time based work, or photographers who take polaroid images of others and give them the person in the image. What is it that happens when we take an image with a polaroid camera, play and take something spontaneous, and give it to the person in the image. Why

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Last night I went to the Shemer Art Center and Museum to see the opening of Black box White Noise: Exploring New Media. I love the venue, an older home in a historical district of Phoenix. In each room and one or two artists displayed their work, and in the center courtyard was live music.I was there by invitation of Becky Ross who taught has taught at SCC throughout the years. She is a great

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This week was one of those weeks that everybody has had. It started of very nicely with a great meeting with Betsy my mentor, like the snow falling gently to the ground but the same day work took over and one bit collided with another and grew into a landslide at the bottom of my week.I am so happy its Friday.Betsy and I looked through my best images of the term and started playing with them,

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New images in the middle of the term. The images in "everyday" have been through only one edit. I have been trying to eliminate the editor in my head in an effort to find what the content of the images I love to create. I feel as if these images are diverse in subject matter. In support of my exploration they are images that caught my eye, something about these images drew me to them. They are my

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I am back from Michigan where I spent ten days photographing my family. During this time my sisters children experienced two funerals, one the unexpected death of a cousin, and for her stepchildren the loss of their first grandparent. These events took us back and forth between the Detroit area and mid Michigan. I spent more time in the car, but was able to spend some additional time at my

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I want to share a project that my academic advisor Judith gave me while at the January residency. She asked me to make a list of ten artists that I love and ten that I hate. Since the word hate is so loaded for me I changed it. I decided to make a list of my top ten artists and the bottom ten. I will also add if I can the body of work that I am responding to from this artist.After seeing my

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As a child I used to climb into our little brick house through the milk door whenever I found myself locked out. I am reminded of this while facing challenges both in writing and creating images that sometimes the most important things come in sideways under our peripheral vision.Bob is better and after a bit of testing and follow up appointments his diagnosis is that his heart is normal and that

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Personally it has been a difficult two weeks. During this time my husband had been sick with what we thought was the flu, followed by two days with a fever of 101 along with a chest cold.  The fourth day he woke up and asked me to make him an appointment with our GP. By 11am he was exhausted, lightheaded, and started to have a fast irregular heartbeat. So I started to take him in to the GP but

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I have been working on my project to shoot, shoot, shoot. I have experimented with different cameras to see what i could do to let my imagery flow from my camera. I have moved from my pinhole, experimented with my two and a quarter, and finally started flowing with my digital camera. I spent some time trying to discover which new camera would begin to help me create in a new more immediate way

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The sky is crying today sometimes with small tears and other times sobbing . . . as the rain pours down.It has been a good weekend regardless of my observation on the rain. I had a wonderful artist at my home on Thursday and Friday Rene Westbrook who had an opening exhibit at 2See Studio downtown Phoenix. Her Friend Melanie joined us from the Grand Canyon for late Friday night political

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I had a difficult weekend trying to finish my paper but it is completed and it will be posted on my blog shortly. It may be more of a narrative than the rest of our research pieces but it is a summary after all, at least I wrote something meaningful to me. It is finally finished . . . on to the critical theory paper .Last night a few friends, Valerie and Breanne went to the Phoenix Art Museum. I

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Yesterday was a great day. I went with my friend Jodi and visited a salvage yard, mostly she explored the area looking for junk for her art and I took photos. This is the first time that I have used my two and a quarter since at least 2003. It is going to be a difficult transition because this cameras lens sees the world so differently that I do. Perhaps the real question here is if I see the

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OK . . . so I am back and trying to get all my ducks in a row. I feel like I am making progress but wish that I could have finished more of my goals this past weekend.I met with my new advisor Betsy Schneider at ASU last week and have the paperwork ready to send to Louise this week. We had an excellent talk and I will be meeting with her every 3-4 weeks. We discussed the feedback I received at

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As start my new masters program at The Art Institute of Boston it seems like blogging is an important part of the process. It is something that I have ignored in the past but now I will have to dive in head first at the deep end of the pool. It makes me smile and feel a bit old to realize that most of my students are communicating with these new technologies as easy as fish swim in the ocean.

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