French Street Artist JR's TED Conference talk.

French street artist JR's TED Conference Talk.  His wish: use Art to Turn the World Inside Out.  Interesting, and inspiring.  Enjoy.

Upcoming Show at Kish Art Gallery. Be Ready for Michael Reedy!

C'mon Folks, enter your artwork !!!

Greetings from the Kamelian!

The deadline for Kamelian entries is this Thursday-

They can bring their poetry/essay/short 

fiction entries to Connie or Quinn
in the ACSS office, 

and their 2-D, 3-D, and 

Photography entries to the Art Gallery.

Welcome Back!

Welcome to the Spring 2011 Semester!

The Locker Lottery will be held the 2nd week of classes.

Check this out for a crit reality check....

http://vimeo.com/11516546

Art Video on Fauvism

One of our students, Cory Cravatta, made a video on the artistic movement Fauvism for his painting class.  I thought I would share it.  Fauvism by Cory Cravatta

Enjoy

KC Art Department Spring 2011 Course Schedule

KC Fall 2010 Juried Student Art Show

It's that time again, for the Fall 2010 Juried Student Art Show.

We will have a best of 2-D & best of 3-D award this year.

Drop off dates will be the week after Thanksgiving Break.

Monday, November 29 1 - 5 p.m.

Tuesday, November 30 12:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 1 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Thursday, December 2 1 - 7 p.m.

The exhibition will be on display Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - Thursday, January 27, 2011, closed during Winter break.

The reception will be Wednesday, December 8 from 4 - 6 p.m.--awards announcement at 5 p.m.

Please Note: All 2-D work must be hanging ready - questions about that? Ask any Art Faculty member

Interntational talk from 2 Dutch Educators at Kishwaukee College Today

International Guest Artist Instructor from the Netherlands, Adam Saint, and Administrator Ankie Labordus will be giving a talk today about their country, the education system, and culture at 2:30 today in  room A 225.  The talk will not focus on art, but it will still be a good opportunity to hear from our international guests and listen to their world perspectives. Adam specializes in Photography, digital art, and art history. Hope to see some of you there!

Cricket & Sparrow: Art of Alfred Stark & Erin Nolan at Kishwaukee Art Gallery

reception on Nov. 3, 5-7 pm.

see you there!

P.S.

Here is a link to Erin Nolan's artwebsite

And here is a link to Alfred Stark's work n Etsy

and an interview with Alfred Stark on his craft.

Feedback Request

Dear Recent KC Art Graduates:

If you have transferred to a 4-year university art program, we would like your feedback via KC email.

Please share with us how well your KC art foundation classes prepared you for your Intermediate and Advanced level coursework and what KC could do to better to prepare future transferring students.

Thank you,

Carol-lynn Swol & Miles Halpern

cswol@kishwaukeecollege.edu

mhalpern@kishwaukeecollege.edu

Next show at the Kish Gallery: 4 Decades of the ceramic art of Steven Hill

Interesting Editorial Illustration video at NY Times

Op-Art-Ed at 40: Four Decades of Art at the NY Times.

Check out the link above. It is a 10 minute digital clip where artists and designers at the NY Times talk about how art has been a very important part of the Opposite Editorial section of the NY Times. Many of the artists are very interesting, and quite talented. I value how they came at illustrating editorials from an artistic perspective, which is very unusual in the world of political/editorial illustration/cartoons.

Enjoy.

The Frisbee of Art: How to draw ellipses

The New York Times just began a new series on drawing called Line by Line, aimed at helping the public understand basic concepts in creating and appreciating 2D art. Very simplistic, and not as useful as going to school for art, but I am glad to see something like this brought to the public. Check it out: The Frisbee of Art by James McMullan.

Michael Bennett Scholarship for Art -- deadline Oct. 15th

Hi Art students:

Please consider and apply for the "Michael Bennett Scholarship for Art" through the Kishwaukee College Foundation.

The deadline is October 15th Students have to be full-time at 12 credit hours

Letters of reference are optional, BUT please fill in the box for, "Please tell us why you believe you should receive this (these) scholarship(s):"

In the online application, please select the button for "Art/Communication/Social Sciences" and then select "Art" from the drop down menu. Then click on the button for the "Michael Bennett Scholarship for Art"

http://www.kishfoundation.com/applicationForm.html

Congrats to students Tonya Hardy and Michael Holland!

A Message from Michelle Erickson-Goettl

I'm very excited to announce that two KC students have been hired to begin teaching Ceramics at Art Attack in Sycamore. Susan Edwards, founder and director of the Art Attack, contacted me last month for recommendations of KC students interested in the opportunity to teach. I recommended Tonya Hardy, who has been teaching Ceramics through the KC Continuing Ed. program, and Michael Holland who is currently in his third Ceramics course and about to complete his degree at Kishwaukee College. Both Students were hired to begin teaching classes this Fall. Please congratulate them if you see them around campus!

The success of our students fills us with pride!

Michelle

Michelle Erickson-Goettl
Gallery Director/Art Instructor
Kishwaukee College

Welcome to the Fall 2010 Semester

If you are interested in posting to this blog, please let Miles or Carol-lynn know so we can authorize you for posting.

Kaleidoscope does article on Best of Show, at KC Art Gallery

In case you missed it, Kaleidoscope, Kish's Newspaper is now online. They have a nice little article on Suzanne Jackiw’s “Pawn” which took Best in Show in the KC Student Juried Art Show.

You can read about it here:

http://www.kishkscope.com/story/jackiws-pawn-takes-best-show

And, once again, congratulations Suzanne, and good luck in Sante Fe.