What artists do you rate? Käthe Kollwitz is my favourite. Partly because her drawing style is so beautiful, and partly because she thought being an artist was self-indulgent crap and became a doctor in an orphanage instead. –Banksy
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
June 9, 2010
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Oración a la Virgen de Guadalupe
By Alisa in Art, CrumbsI am convinced that everything you need to make pop art can be found at the dollar store.
May 1, 2010
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Time Collages
By Alisa in ArtI started making collages out of my old issues of Time. Each collage is made from one issue, on 8×10″ Arches rag paper, in 3 hours or less. Each title is a quote from that issue. Feeling the immediacy of each composition is important—news is always coming, always in your face, and always changing. In [...]
April 23, 2010
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Another photo for the Tucson Grid Project 3
By Alisa in Arizona, Art, PhotographyI’ve been so interested in cameras lately.
April 18, 2010
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Tucson Grid Project 3
By Alisa in Arizona, Art, PhotographyI’m super excited that it’s time for a third edition of the annual Tucson Grid Project. This is a photography exhibit that my church, Second Mile, hosts every year. In the first year, each the participant took a square of the city to photograph. In the second and third years participants took adjectives and photographed [...]
April 11, 2010
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Design, Share, Grow: Annual Viscom Exhibition
By Alisa in Art, Design, UofAMy poster for the Tucson Folk Festival was accepted into the Design, Share, Grow: Annual Viscom Exhibition at the Lionel Rombach Gallery! The show was juried by three successful UofA viscom alumni: Todd Fedell, Danielle Hull, and Rick O’Brien. It was encouraging to talk with the jurors about their journeys in the world of design [...]
February 27, 2010
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FACE: Four Seasons Review
By Alisa in Arizona, Art, Crumbs, UofATucson Weekly reviewed the Four Seasons show!
February 14, 2010
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All I’ve got
By Alisa in Art, Crumbs, School, UofA, WorkIf Larry Busbea can condense Adolf Loos’s essay “Ornament and Crime” to “Everyone who likes decorations is a sissy-baby,” then I can make my design history essay’s outline look like this: Rise of Industrial Revolution Eminem (Marx + Morris) Loos bein’ a hater.