Upcoming: Edgar Arceneaux MFA Workshop February 21, 2012

Edgar Arceneaux the director of The Watts House Project in Los Angeles will lead a workshop with the Art and Social Practice MFA students on financing in relationship to mission driven art initiatives, framing the discussion as "New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities." As part of the workshop he will be looking at organizations in relationship to the individual soul. He will be pre-sending an audio file to the students that is an analysis of Plato's Republic. The dialogues within the various districts of Plato's virtual city were metaphors for understanding the human soul. Arceneaux's will attempt to organize the social body in relationship to the understanding of the forces that rule the individual body.

Field Trip Diary: Center For Land Use Interpretation and the Bureau for Land Management

Matthew Coolidge from the Center for Land Use Interpretation was recently in town for a lecture as part of our Monday Night Lecture Series. The following day he organized a field trip for the SP MFA program to Willamette Stone State Park to visit the marker that commemorates the initial point for Oregon and Washington. We were met by a representative from the Bureau for Land Management that shared the history of the site with us, antique land surveying equipment and techniques, and taught us about the rectangular survey system.

Art Talk AM on Art 21 Blog

Check out this post on former graduate student Cyrus Smith's project Art Talk AM!

http://blog.art21.org/2012/01/03/bound-art-talk-am-on-the-radio/

Hard Times Double Feature with Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond featuring “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Wendy and Lucy.”

Join our friends at the Hollywood Theatre for this great double feature on December 17th at 7:00pm  I  Tickets $10

People are jobless, hungry and just plain fed up.  These are hard times.  Join Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond for a double feature exploring themes of economic hardship and the resilience of the human spirit, featuring “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Wendy and Lucy” both presented in 35mm.  This marks the second installment in the Hollywood Theatre’s En Route series, in which artists program films that are meaningful to them.  Reichardt and Raymond will be present to introduce each film.

“Wendy and Lucy” marked Reichardt and Raymond’s second collaboration. Based on a short story by Raymond, whose prose has been compared to Raymond Carver’s, the film follows Wendy over a few days in a strange town during which her life takes a series of dives we are not certain she can regroup from. Continuing in the meditative style of “Old Joy,” Reichardt and Raymond’s first collaboration, “Wendy and Lucy” is a careful, visually rich snapshot of a pivotal moment in one person’s life. The film confirms New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott’s assertion that Reichardt is “quietly establishing herself as an indispensable filmmaker.”

Widely considered one of director John Ford’s masterpieces, “The Grapes of Wrath” has enthralled audiences since its premier in 1940. When the film first screened in theaters, New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent wrote that ”In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema’s masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry … To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Don’t miss a rare opportunity to see this masterpiece of classical Hollywood as it was intended on 35mm film.

Walking Stories

"Walking Stories" is the final presentation of public walks by participants of the Walk Study Training Course which is co-organized by MFA candidate Dillon de Give. More here http://walkstudytrainingcourse.wordpress.com/walking-stories/