Mudslingers Pottery Sale- Valentine's Day

The Mudslingers will be having a Valentines Days Pottery Sale

Feb 13th and 14th from 10-3:30 in the main lobby.

The Mudslingers are going to be selling pottery and other student made ceramics. A portion of the proceeds will be going to Tails Humane Society. As always the students will also receive a portion of the proceeds. This is a great opportunity to support student artists and the Mudslingers Club.

We will also have cocoa and baked goods for sale.

Hope to see you all there.

The kinetic artist/engineer: Theo Jansen

What is art? Something visual that usually involves creativity, vision, craftsmanship, and involves problem-solving. Da Vinci and all the great artists are not men and women who know how to push a brush or shape clay. They are intellectuals, poets, philosophers, and dreamers. And they bring their mind to their craft and materials. Check out Theo Jansen. Kinetic Art that involves engineering, space, hardwork and all those other qualities. I may post a short story I wrote about an artist sometime soon, but more importantly, I am curious what interests you. Cheesy music in the video, but what are your thoughts on Jansen's work, etc.?

Mudslinger's website

A few of us are mulling over the idea of putting up a Kish ceramics website; if anyone is interested in helping or has any helpful info/ideas, feel free to email me.
thanks!
-Hannah

Cartoonist/Illustration blogs

I guess I thought I'd make my first post if that's cool with everybody. I thought I'd share some blogs. These are all blogs for professional cartoonists, animators, or sequential artists. It's interesting to see their stuff, especially the rough cuts and concepts. It's an interesting side to the art world in my opinion. Also, if anyone wants to check out my comic blog, here it is

Checkmark Art

It won't make sense because it's in the middle of an issue, but I thought I'd put it up here anyway. Thanks a lot.

Grant Gould

Ovi Nedelcu

Chris Battle

Brianne Drouhard

Ben Balistreri

Vera Brosgol

Sean "Cheeks" Galloway

Artist to build four giant waterfalls in New York

Artist to build four giant waterfalls in New York

Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.

The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.

"It's about seeing water in a different way," Eliasson told a news conference on Wednesday, unveiling plans for the waterfalls, which will range in height from 90 to 120 feet -- around the same as the Statue of Liberty from head to toe.
Three of the waterfalls will cascade into the East River and New York Harbor from free-standing scaffolding towers that Eliasson said were part of his artistic vision, mirroring the scaffolding towers that sprout up throughout New York. The falls will be in place from mid-July to mid-October.


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SNAG Conference 2008

Have you taken A235? Are you interested in Metals/Jewelry? Some funding is available to help you attend the SNAG08 conference in Savannah Georgia.

Today is the final day to submit art, poetry, short stories...

to the Kamelian Art and Literary Magazine at Kishwaukee College. There are submission slips in the halls near the art classrooms. I hope you all have something to contribute to this exciting publication that gets seen by many!

Hi Kishwaukee Art Bloggers,

Many of you should now be invited as authors and members of the ART and KISH blog.

This is a place to share Kish Art News, Art ideas, Projects, Collaborations, Research, and Interesting Art related Articles or links to share for the good of the community.

Have fun, be creative, share, and learn from each other and what's out there. Be courteous and respectful to each other and the site or your diaries, comments, etc. might be deleted.

Have an art manifesto kicking around that you want an opinion on? Post it. It is also easy to share pictures by clicking on the picture icon (allows you to upload images, although try to make sure the images are not enormous). You can even embed or upload videos.

Weclome.

This is your place so make it great.

Metamorphosis

Daily Chronicle
Creative passion

Kishwaukee College art exhibit allows students opportunity for expression
By Benji Feldheim - Chronicle columnist

KC art students are invited:

To participate in this blog. Folks are invited to join so this is not open to the general public via the web. We have started to invite students, but do not have many emails. If you are interested, please participate and spread the word to your classmates. Have them email Miles and I at: artandkish@gmail.com so we can add more students to the invitation list.

Call for Entry

Please consider applying for juried shows. A growing exhibition record is part of being a professional artist.

The Illinois Community College Juried art exhibition will be hosted at Governors State University.

The call for entries and the entry forms, are posted on the art wing bulletin board.

All entries, cd’s, slides or actual work, must arrive to the gallery or by Wednesday, February 13.

Please note a change in the gallery hours from the call for entries. The new gallery hours are:
Monday, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday & Wednesday 4:00 p.m. – 9:00pm
Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Gallery Telephone: (708) 534-4021
Gallery email: artsgrad@govst.edu