Inspiring Quote: Art Rituals

"Can we ritualize the art experience? The art class needs a devotional time to cleanse souls and center consciousness. Life outside the class and inside the student is turbulent, disorientating, sometimes violent, often depressing, and always confusing. How can we better help today's youth, than to give them a ritual liturgy to focus on learning art? Repeat the practice every day."


- Marvin Bartel 

 

"The Everyday Work of Art" by Eric Booth

Why don't we group our thoughts on this specific book via the comments button at the bottom of this post?

WASTELAND, a documentary about art & community

Vic Munez, who's work I first saw and liked at MOMA in NY, decided to go to the world's largest landfill facility in Rio di Janiero and make his particular brand of art with the people who pick over the site for salable refuse. He fits my category of "Front Door" artist, the inaccessible heroes in major museums. But this movie surprised me with how it embodied and dramatized many of the themes we discussed last month. He changed a community in surprising ways and he, to his surprise, was changed too. Yay! I recommend it highly. Watch the trailer at www.wastelandmovie.com. It will give you new stories to tell about the work that we want to do. And you will be moved.

"Art is a verb" - thoughts by Julie Gieseke

"I think that many of us get intimidated to engage in the creative process because the expectation is that "Art" will come out of it. It is my feeling that if "art" were viewed on the continuum that it is, with the artifacts that are in museums etc. seen as merely moments in that continuum, there may be more creative engagement by everyone, which is what is needed in the world. Just to sum up my thoughts..." 



- Julie Gieseke 

Closing Charts - June 28

Band of Eight

Mariah Howard, Ann Swanberg, Amy Bogard, John Ward, Peter Block, Julie Gieseke, Nick Nissley, Kelly Richey - Transfiguration Spirituality Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 27 & 28, 2011

Art In Transformation: PURPOSE

• CONSTRUCT a language of metaphors for how ART plays a central role in TRANSFORMATION.

• Our focus is on COMMUNAL transformation. How Art works in group settings, conferences, workshops and organizational gatherings.

• Make the INVISIBLE VISIBLE.

• Make our work MOVE MORE POWERFULLY.

• CREATE rich DESCRIPTION

• PARTICIPATE in creating a NEW NARRATIVE about making Art CENTRAL, not nice.

• RELOCATE who is authorized to SPEAK.

• CONFRONT the taken for granted idea that art is for experts, talented ones & professionals.

Excerpt from "Everyday Art" by Eric Booth