Updating WordPress 

1. Updating WordPress

Damn, it’s really hard to write a blog post when Eagle Eye is on in the room. I thought one could rise above the noise and anxiety but hell, any threat to our national goodness with Shia Labeef and that Arkansas guy, Billy Bob,...
Road Trip! 

2. Road Trip!

Aldwyth on display in Chapel Hill at the Ackland Art Museum. She does some fascinating collages and assemblages. Her brain seems to go to places similar to mine as she recreates worlds and illustrates ideas with bits of deitritus and...
Summer and grandsons and art… 

3. Summer and grandsons and art…

Whenever anyone asks Oliver and Emmett what happens at Nana’s house, they say, “We have art projects.” Oliver sort of snorts when he says it, as if to say, “Stupid, what do you think we do — dig holes?” Today...
Assemblage Art 

4. Assemblage Art

What trips your trigger? For me, it’s abandoned metal, cracked and chipped paint on an old piece of wood, an old chest of drawers with the legs missing… rusted elements of some forgotten automobile. I re-purpose discards...
Micro-loans for Artists? 

5. Micro-loans for Artists?

Let’s all start a trend. This is not original to me but the idea needs to be circulated further. A micro-loan program for artists. Here’s the way I’d set it up: Similar to Kiva, artists would be loaned relatively...
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“Show Your Swine” art show/competition

Just when you think you’ve done it all – you get notice of a true opportunity like this one: Sampson County Arts Council The theme of the Anniversary Artists’ Show is “Show Your...

Fortunate sons

Fortunate sons
What constitutes a fortunate son? For my brother John, it was a judge and a pediatrician in Rockford, Illinois in 1953. The two men knew and admired my parents. The story of John the infant and the parental...

Updating WordPress

Updating WordPress
Damn, it’s really hard to write a blog post when Eagle Eye is on in the room. I thought one could rise above the noise and anxiety but hell, any threat to our national goodness with Shia Labeef and...

Does art help us maintain a democracy?

Does art help us maintain a democracy?
As many of you, I enjoy reading the Christian Science Monitor. When Mom was still lucid, we subscribed to the newspaper. She would devour it and we spent many hours at the kitchen table drinking coffee...

And then there was the time I tried to fuse...

And then there was the time I tried to fuse plastic bags.
I recently came across an old post of Rob’s on macewan.org. I’d forgotten about trying to iron plastic bags together, trying to make fabric — be all environmentally correct and wonderful....
Road Trip!

Road Trip!

Aldwyth on display in Chapel Hill at the Ackland Art Museum. She does some fascinating collages and assemblages. Her brain seems to go to places similar to mine as she recreates worlds and illustrates...
Summer and grandsons and art…

Summer and grandsons and art…

Whenever anyone asks Oliver and Emmett what happens at Nana’s house, they say, “We have art projects.” Oliver sort of snorts when he says it, as if to say, “Stupid, what do you...
Facebook Artists

Facebook Artists

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature has a Facebook page. It’s always a plus to belong to a group of literary dragons, so join today. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, three dogs and one cat later,...
Alltop and Art Blogs

Alltop and Art Blogs

It would seem, if one uses Alltop as a gauge, that most artists and art bloggers use wordpress or typepad or other free blog hosting services. This confused me at first. Owning a domain name seems so important,...

We’re almost to where how we got...

Short fiction coming soon – I am going to write an assemblage story… thus creating a new fiction genre. Collage fiction? Assemblage story? Must think of a good name for it. Will post it later...

Together, the Year of Assemblage

In the development of the Absolute, the definition of the substance evolves into a pluralistic tendency grounded firmly in the realism of the period. Celebrate multi-media 3-D talent by viewing assemblage art and seeing it for what it truly is.

Definition of Assemblagist:

One who provides the redefinition of displaced ephemera and found objects by allowing for the movement of spatial and universal concepts via placement, thus creating the intent of objects previously limited only by the influence of space and time. Assemblage Art re-purposes man's ephemeral detritus and gives it new life. It's found object art at its finest. The ultimate recycling tool, assemblage multi-media art incorporates the past, the used and the discarded with the treasures of the day. It's also a celebration of collage concepts combined with 3-dimensional elements.

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