Paper Scultpure — fubiz.net
Découverte de l’artiste Jeff Nishinaka, originaire de Los Angeles et spécialisé dans de très nombreuses sculptures en papier. Ces oeuvres et compositions alternent jeux de lumière et jeux de relief afin d’apporter de la poésie. Plus de visuels dans la suite de l’article.
This year’s presentations included:
Kendall College in Grand Rapids plans $29M expansion into Old Federal Building — from Rapid Growth by Deborah Johnson Wood
Plans are far from complete, but officials at Kendall College of Art and Design say they’re working to get approvals by summer’s end for a $27.9 million reconfiguration of the Old Federal Building into a creative space where the college, the public and the arts intersect.
“Kendall is growing and like any flourishing college involved with the arts, creative space is so important,” says John Willey, Ferris State University’s vice president for university advancement and marketing. Kendall is Ferris State’s creative arts and design college.
“For about seven years we’ve been thinking about how we could expand in a meaningful way,” he says. “Because of the federal building’s proximity to Kendall (17 Fountain St. NW) and to our other building at 25 Lyon, we’re thinking it would help connect several pieces that we’re trying to do with Kendall College in downtown Grand Rapids.”
Preliminary plans include a studio for ceramics and sculpture, another for metal sculpture, classrooms and lecture spaces, and “significant public areas where the public can come in and engage art and be part of a vivacious creative enterprise,” says Willey. Those public areas may include a restaurant or café.
“We hope to have a major space dedicated to sustainable design,” Willey adds.
Ferris recently added a sustainable design degree to its list of course offerings. A component of the coursework takes place at Kendall, which Willey says will move the college’s expertise in forward-thinking furniture design to the larger built environment.
Paper Tunnel by Jen Stark
Digital art: Cool tools for encouraging creativity — from isteconnects.org
Why do we care about arts in schools? Students who are encouraged to express themselves through a variety of mediums exhibit higher self-confidence and increased creativity. In a speech presented by Jerome Kagan, Ph.D. at the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Summit “Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain,” suggests that greater focus on general art programs in schools could drastically decrease student dropout rates.
For students tired of fiddling with crayons and watercolors or who want to move beyond playing tunes on the recorder, the Web provides a wealth of tools that allow students to express themselves in non-linguistic ways.
The National Gallery of Art hosts a kids art section where young people can build their own still life, learn about American Folk Art by creating panoramic landscape creations, and populate a Dutch “poppenhuis” with characters and scenes from well-known Dutch artists.
lder students my enjoy the Architect Studio 3D, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, a free tool where users can design and furnish a house. Or try The Graffiti Creator, which give an introduction to basic graffiti art styles and techniques and offers an easy interface for students to develop their own art without defacing property.
For students who may be interested in a career as a curator some day, Museum Box is a beautifully designed site that encourages students to create and share their own virtual collection of items gathered to build up an argument or describe an event, person or historical period. Boxes can hold test, images, sound, and even video. The site even offers a handy lesson guide for teachers.
The Web also offers a variety of sites that turn the computer keyboard into a digital production studio. JamStudio, probably the most popular web-based music creation site, makes it easy for novices to begin composing a musical masterpiece.
Visual Acoustics combines the familiarity of simple paint programs with the intricacy of musical production. Brushes, consisting of one of four instruments, are painted across the screen to play notes. Brushes can be built up to create complex musical visions.
Even very young kids can compose original pieces using Morton Subotnick’s Creating Music. Just draw a song using a virtual sketchpad and your song plays back in real time using a QuickTime interface.
iPad review – An artist’s perspective — from doodl.es
What sorts of cross-disciplinary assignments come to mind when you view these items?
For these and other reasons, I’m trying to get a multi-touch wall built into our future smart classrooms.
Talk about keeping students engaged! Talk about working together in teams — very real-world!
“This is hauntingly beautiful” — from TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips
From DSC:
You have got to check out this “virtual choir”! (resource from TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips)
Not only is this a beautiful piece of music, but an excellent example of a cross-disciplinary project! Includes: art, music, videography, design, and more. Again, how awesome would this be to see on a wall-sized monitor!
I’m a former music teacher who still has a deep passion for beautiful music. I’ve often tweeted about listening to Beibl’s “Ave Maria” sung by the Turtle Creek Chorale when it comes on my itunes. And, I’ve posted about Bobby McFarren and about Perpetuum Jazille singing “Africa” that’s just VERY cool. And, I’ve posted about the Youtube Symphony orchestra and PS22 fifth graders, and the youth orchestra on TED and even a vegetable orchestra. I love beautiful music.
So, when I first heard these two pieces I first LOVED the idea of a virtual chorus – singers from 12 countries contributing virtually to a performance. Now THAT is a VERY cool idea. Then I started to watch the video responses to that video and I found myself completely blown away.
Here is the first video performance. It’s Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’
