Art School: A Proposal
By Patricia Briggs and Monica Haller
Patricia Briggs and Monica Haller propose a model for an art and design school based on the mutually supportive and productive relationship they developed at MCAD as student and teacher. There they worked as an open-ended learning and thinking team. This team, and model of [...]
The Rustling Sound of Ordinary Speech
By Patricia Briggs
I’ve been reading Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, a book that has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me to pick it up for years. I’m particularly struck by De Certeau’s idea about the consumer as producer. For de Certeau, the consumer is not a passive receiver of cultural [...]
The Walker Art Center Performs its Permanent Collection
by Patricia Briggs
Although we all sometimes complain about the Walker Art Center—its lack of consideration of local artists, the dry tastes of its curators, the cost of admission— we are all nevertheless obviously its beneficiaries. I don’t always like Walker programming but I am always better for having visited. I use the Walker all of [...]
Savage Edge: Human/Animal in Roxanne Jackson’s Recent Work
Roxanne Jackson savors images of the “the kill,” the dead, and the undead in her exhibition “We Believe in Some thing,” recently on view in the galleries of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Disturbing body dismemberments and monstrous hybrids signal the violence that polices the cultural categories “human” [...]
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