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Vest Poster Ever

Hello Friends,Eric, Charlie, and I met yesterday to come up with an idea for the poster to advertise for the show's opening and/or the Matter release event. We have come up with an idea and need your help! Intentionally leaving the larger idea of this poster a bit vague, and open for your own interpretation, we are asking for collages that are 11x17 (horizontal format). Specifics:11x17(horizontal)Collage Subject: people running (mood is open and not necessarily the same throughout the collage)Random collection of peopleA variety of sources for you collage pieces (old magazines, new magazines, newspapers, old photos, new photos, online found photos, any where else but try to use photos.)These collages will be scanned and used to help make the posters for the show, therefore we have kind of a tight deadline...However the original art you give us could be used to make a large collage for the show itself, and you can get them back at some point too. Please leave a note with your name on your collage, and let us know if you do want it back.So about that deadline...we would need the collages by next Monday at noon. You can drop them off in Stan's mailbox in the art office or in Charlie's mailbox in the English office. So chisel out an hour or two this week/weekend, snuggle up with a good magazine and a fine bottle of Elmer's and collage away! Any question, feel free to email Charlie, Eric or myself.Thanks in for your help!Susan (Charlie and Eric)

"Out #21"

General Syntax

In the name of a theme, and a very disturbing general, I give you, His Righteousness.

Also, remember the next Vestments meeting is this Saturday, March 29, 7pm, foyer
outside Hatton Gallery. We need to discuss the show, so show up for a quick meeting
or stay for the gallery talks, readings


General Syntax


A better world shall emerge on account of this. A general is just
as anybody, events, places, things I could tell you about to make
a nerve end squeal.

Age wrinkles the body, withers the tome. I want so much to become
meaningful, meaning to be understood, the events, places, things
which relay force. Always there has been some loss on some shore.

Americans never quit, 24/7 openness, we will be prepared to say
something meaningful, do things. I am an old soldier and so see
war from far away. I mean this literally, as I am on Venus watching
the unusual gas activity. There are interests about.

Build me a son, I say, and I will show you a river. There, in my dreams
I hear footsteps, crying, the green rustle of reeds. In a war there is
no victor if you consider the reeds. The sedges we encountered
there were always on the up and up unless we slept there.

It is fatal to enter the sedges, and it is part of life. Life is a lively
process to fail winningly. I meant victory, you win some and you
wake up with a feeling, as far as anybody is concerned

life is a lively process, as is concern, a general empathy. Syntax
you’ll have to do yourself, like an old soldier marching out orders
or was it barking? Age wrinkles the body…

Our government has kept us within our borders, as do governments
do by law. Part of the American Dream is in the borders, where they
hover. The best luck of all is to be born into some kind of dream.

The soldier, above all others, is an American who never quits.
The soldier, above all others, waves his bayonet. The world is in a
quandary over unusual gas activity. Interests lie. O build me
a son toward openness. There is no security on earth.

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Warm and Sharing

www.verderstudio.org/fair --This is a project of mine an Susan's, a little rough sometimes, but it is allegedly being revised...oh collaborations. I am oddly devoid of comments otherwise, just missed the Vestments vibe and thought I'd throw something up on the blog.

Maybe there is a detail of some Stanley Scott art?

Charlie

Aw shucks, the polls are closed...

This is my first post--and it's just some caffeinated rambling. I'm wondering about the "Voting" for a theme...why are these closed? Will they be opened? Could we start a discussion on themes, in lieu of, or in addition to a vote? I was enamored by the (awesome) democratic chaos of my precinct’s caucusing…as each resolution was introduced, someone would introduce the resolution, and then it would be opened for discussion. The discussions were invaluable in that so much research, passion, opinion, and perspective was shared, allowing for a much more informed (influenced?) vote.

That being said, I’m intrigued by the theme of “The News from Accidental Vestments.” It’s classic culture-jamming (in Kalle Lasn’s Culture Jam, he implores that culture jammers aren’t polarized…none of that conservative vs. liberal, hippie vs. banker b.s., instead, that culture jammers are a rich mixture of individuals and groups who are fed up with fill in the many blanks and are going to take the status quo media and perverse it, inverse it, use it, ignore it in an attempt to make people stop and notice…think Ron English’s billboards, the Daily Show, even the newest issue of Adbusters that arrived in my mailbox this morning—a mockup of a People magazine cover…). It implies that AV has “news,” or rather, should have news.

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
(William Carlos Williams, from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”)

And it begs the question, what IS news? East Timor? Britney? Who makes the news? Can we--should we--create and manipulate news (anyone listen to Malcolm Gladwell on This American Life this weekend?)? What happens when "news" is just spinning us in the direction the powers that be want us to go in?

Anyway, that’s my two cents. Maybe I'm drawn to this theme because of what I'm working on. Also, I’m all for the idea Aby brought up in Stephanie’s studio of bringing failed/incomplete/uncooperative objects/poems/paintings to a meeting and having a big adoption-fest for these poor abandoned pieces. When is our next meeting?

And thank you to Nikki, Stan, Charlie, Marius, and Stephanie for sharing your work/thoughts last week. I was blown away--it was pure inspiration!

Onward! because The sun isn’t yellow, it’s chicken!
Chloé

please and thank you :)

Hey all!

Thank you so much for your comments on my studio/closet work that I volunteered at the last minute. Really - your input is very valuable. Please more - the promised website is
http://mfanikki.freewebspace.com/
(I am actually new to uploading websites, so please don't judge any of my design by that! ;) I'm also specifically trying to correct any site problems via coding....aghrrrrr.)

Also, odd that I saw you all out later - 'twas an honorable thing I was doing...promise. I regret missing the other studio tours and readings. (Next time we say we'll meet at 7...let's meet at 7 for real!) Hope you all had a great evening and I'll see you next time!

-nikki

"...time may change me..."

Happy 2008! Don't forget our studio visit on February 8th. We'll be checking out the studios of Amy Reckley and Stefani Rossi. I look forward to seeing you all there!