Thursday Night Drawing Club at the Walker Art Center This Summer

Millet at work in his studio, photographer unknown. Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912

From Scott Stulen's post on mnartists.org: "Drawing Club occurs every Thursday and Free First Saturday throughout the summer from 2-5 pm on the Walker Open Field. No invitations, special talents or art experience are needed to participate and contribute. Please check back on the Walker and mnartists.org sites in the coming weeks for more information of special drawing club news and guest artists. If you are an artist that would like to participate and would like to be featured on the Drawing Club calendar please email me (scott.stulen@walkerart.org) with your name, contact info and desired Thursdays to attend." READ MORE HERE.

Be there Non-Traditional Drawers!

Mural In-Progress

Jamie's section detail.
Originally uploaded by Amy DiGennaro

For the last few weeks we've been working on a group mural with non-traditional materials and approaches. The idea was to give each student/artist in both sections of Non-Traditional Drawing two pieces of wall to create a mural that would riff off the environment built as the work was developed over time. Some very cool things are happening, but I think if we were to do it again we'd go for one big substrate and working across the whole space as the individual sections never really melded into a whole. The result is a related grouping of wall works. Finished work is due tonight, so come back soon to see finished photos.

PS: As ever, click on the photo here to access the full Flickr album of all the work-in-progress.

Semiotics!

Joshua Mercil, Semiotics Project, Installation detail
Originally uploaded by Amy DiGennaro

The class once again rocked the project for our Semiotics pieces. We started by reading selections from Daniel Chandler's "Semiotics for Beginners" then the student artists just ran with it, exploring the multiple ways that things and images and all sensory data means. Some fantastic projects came of it. Click on the photo of Josh Mercil's installation in progress here to see more of his and the others' works. I still need photo doc from some of you...you know who you are! Give it!

View from the Boardroom

Boardroom 1
Originally uploaded by Amy DiGennaro

We pondered our creation and its destruction after pulling down both paper and tape installations, which took a matter of minutes. Kind of unbelievable after weeks of work to get them installed. Full photodocumentation in the Flickr web album. Click on this photo to see more than you ever wanted to see of us creating and destroying these installations, including a video that sounds like static.

Our Amazing Paper & Tape Installations

Interior view "Science"
Originally uploaded by Amy DiGennaro

One of the many installation views of our Paper & Tape installations in the basement of the Western building. I'll repost the statements each group wrote for their pieces below. They totally rocked this project, creating all-encompassing environments. Check it out! You can view the full album on Flickr by clicking on the picture at right.