Art School: A Proposal

Art School: A Proposal

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 16 10.1.11

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 [...]

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The Rustling Sound of Ordinary Speech

The Rustling Sound of Ordinary Speech

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 13 4.1.11

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 [...]

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The Walker Art Center Performs its Permanent Collection

The Walker Art Center Performs its Permanent Collection

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 06 2.1.10

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 [...]

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Savage Edge:  Human/Animal in Roxanne Jackson’s Recent Work

Savage Edge: Human/Animal in Roxanne Jackson’s Recent Work

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 05 11.23.09

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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Constellation 18

2.1.2012

In Quodibetica’s seasonally appropriate Icy Issue, our contributors explore winter’s art offerings in the Twin Cities: shanties on Medicine Lake, a flower show at St. Paul’s conservatory, photographs of fake blizzards and thin ice, Swedish wood carvings, and an eclectic mix of artwork that investigates the meanings of place and our relationships to landscape. Read our editorial here.

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