How it Went

I'm a part of the show Multiplicitocracy at American University's Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in DC. Super person Kendall Ladd curated me into the show that was organized by students of AU's Arts Management program.





The show will be up through July 27, hope you get a chance to see it.

Older Michael Writes About Younger Michael

The puff balls of the few cottonwood trees in Richmond are blowing around and reminding of my years living in Fort Collins, Colorado. I had never lived near a river before and loved the Cache La Poudre river which runs through the north part of town and through Lee Martinez Park. During the summer months a young Annabelle (and a younger Michael) would walk, run, jump, and lay around the park. She would run in the long grasses that were alongside the trail, occasionally popping her head up above the tops of the blades to make sure that I was still close by.

A sweet one, that dog.

AND HERE'S ANOTHER...

Has anyone assembled a list of all the people* doing year long web projects? Here are the three I pay attention to and a shameless plug of my own:

Skull-A-Day

Skull-A-Day is the work of Noah Scalin, a fellow Richmonder, designer and seemingly all around conscious and fascinating guy. I started paying attention to him a few years ago when he and Christopher Humes began another year based project called Swords into Plowshares. We met last summer at the Art-O-Mat ten year anniversary. He's a busy fellow, follow the links and you'll find Another Limited Rebellion, his "socially conscious graphic design firm". They also maintain a great blog.


will.love.logic


will.love.logic is the blog of New York artist Elin Waterson. I also met Elin at the Art-O-Mat event last summer and she has committed to making a block print everyday for all of 2008. She's had some time to focus on different themes and is currently making prints of mythical beings. All of her prints are really pretty amazing... you can go here to see a post where she grouped them by months to see a bunch at once. I don't know Elin well, but by the looks of it she can do most things very well and may be the biggest Old 97's fan to have ever existed.

Aesthetic to Ascetic

This project is brand new and by Kristin Kaskey, a fashion designer, prof at VCU and artist who also lives in Richmond. From her first blog post: starting on may 12th i will wear each item currently in my possession once before any garment can be re-worn... my preliminary count looks like i can make it 306 days without repeating a dress, sweater, top or fitted jacket. skirts and pants will be worn once then will be allowed to re-enter the rotation since i have considerably fewer of these items... each day i will post a photo of the look of the day. at the end of each day garments will be tagged and stored for exhibition, re-fashioning and sale/giveaway.


SAMETIME 7:15


I'll keep the shameless plug to a minimum but I am happy to report that SAMETIME 7:15 will be included in the exhibit Multiplicitocracy which opens at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in DC May 31.

More to come about that in a few days...

Happy May Day

I'm pretending that I wasn't the only one out there that didn't work today and that all of you spent the day in the sun, talking, eating good food, playing music, and letting the ways of Spring have its way with you and her, and him, and them...

SATURDAY WORKSLOP

I taught a silhouette-wheatpaste workshop Saturday to a bunch of kids who are a part of VACR's Young Artist Society. This is the same group I taught a little over a year ago.

We wrote a bunch of exquisite corpse poems and then set about illustrating them, making silhouettes, and pasting them onto the side of Paradise Garage on Main Street in Richmond.

It was a great day and if I was a super blogger (and teacher) I would have made sure I knew the poems they illustrated and would have put them under each picture BUT THAT'S JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH WORK.

Question

Kim and I are back from our whirlwind Raleigh NC - Brooklyn NY tour and I'll post pictures soon. But for now, look at this short article from the Washington Post about an April Fool's joke:

Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page B03

An "in memoriam" ad about a former U.S. ambassador that was placed as an April Fools' Day joke backfired yesterday.

A photo of Edward M. Gabriel, a very much alive international business consultant who was the U.S. ambassador to Morocco from 1997 to 2001, topped an ad on Page B8 in yesterday's Washington Post.

In language reminiscent of the movie "Brokeback Mountain," the $322.20 ad said, "Though I no longer have you as my partner, this day will always be OUR anniversary. . . . I could never quit you."

The ad was taken out by J. Peter Segall, a public relations executive and lawyer. Segall is paying for a retraction in today's Post. Segall said last night that he is a mature man who made an immature mistake.

"As I said in a correction that I hope is published [today], I engaged in a very stupid and ultimately cruel April Fools' joke against a man that has been my best friend for 30 years, and I deeply, deeply regret it," Segall said. (The retraction appears on Page B7.)

Gabriel said he fielded calls all day from friends who thought he had died. One woman told him she spent two hours crying after seeing the ad.

"He's an old friend who plays jokes on me every year, and some are hilarious, but they've been private," Gabriel said. "He's a good friend who went a little too far. He's apologized profusely, and I've accepted it, but not without being a little hurt. I think -- I know -- he had no ill intent."

It's the first time in 20 years that a spoof ad is known to have run in The Post, said a company spokesman. There is no formal process for checking the truth of the ads, he said. Unlike death notices or news obituaries, which are fact-checked, families often take out "in memoriam" ads to remember a deceased relative months or years after the person's death.

-- Patricia Sullivan

So, as some of you may know on April 10, 2005 I printed the following In Memoriam in the Washington Post:

In doing this I was wanting to have some tangible proof, to show the way I think photographic images and the words (often) alongside/under them function. To me, this pairing makes a package too tidy, and effortlessly undermines most of the complicated, messy, and beautiful history of the photographed. As you can imagine, not everyone who saw the Post that day was clued-in to why I was in the paper, and it caused a few headaches and a few people were pretty angry with me.

My question is, do I let the post know that this fake In Memoriam of Edward M. Gabriel in fact isn't the first fake obit in the past 20 years?

I Got Gustinitis

Correction and a Banana

Langdon wrote to let me know that I need to add one small correction to my previous post: The space where the Langdon is showing is "actually the Kantor/Feuer window, which is not a direct extension of Zach Feuer's solo project gallery (even though he's the boss of all of it)."

I have no idea who these Kantor/Feuer people are and if I were them I'd want to be associated w/ Ms. Graves but hey-- what do I know? Gee real estate in NY must be pretty expensive...

The Langdon did send along some pics of her window:






In other news, I went to a great lecture by the Guerrilla Girls last night at Longwood. Despite founding member Frida Kahlo saying "bitch" a million times and scaring some of my unbelievably pure students, I think a good time was had by all and we definitely learned a few things.

Kate MacDonnell, Migrating (2006)

I'd be remiss to not mention, brag or announce that two very good people, friends and artists have openings this weekend. First up, Kate MacDonnell, fellow SAMETIME7:15-er, neighborhood high-school friend, incredibly thoughtful, astute, talented, and compassionate human being is having an opening at Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC tomorrow night. Kim and I will be there, hope you are too.

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20004-2260
March 21-April 26


The amazing, enviable, and recent SAMETIME7:15 star Langdon Graves' opening is actually happening as I write this so this won't do much to get you to the opening but you can go check out her work 24 hours a day for the next month. She's showing in the window space at Zach Feurer Gallery. I don't know about Langdon but I love my work to be able to be seen as people are driving by...

259 10th Ave. Btwn W25 and 26 Sts
March 20-April 22

My mom's maiden name is Sturniolo which is a name akin to the word Starling in Italian. Indeed they/we are a chatty bunch...

Happy Birthday Donna!

Explain-O-Rama!

Since she was kind enough to care to ask, some pics for Paula to illustrate what One Scoop is Two Balls is/was...

It was an art show...


At an ice cream parlor in Hollywood called Scoops...


(I think) this is Paul Evans, the guy that organized the show and came up with the name...


Here's what I have in the show...


Hope this does the trick!

One Scoop is Two Balls

Art and Ice Cream! Opening tonight in L.A. Curated by Paul Evans.

CBF is TCB

What more do you want?

Gush! Gush!

And the winner of one of the 2008 VMFA Professional Fellowships is Kimberly S. Wolfe!!











My lady friend is much much more than awesome... this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Two for One Clicking Here

Langdon Graves.

(and so on...)