ART :: REFLECTIONS : COLLAGE AND (DE)CONSTRUCTION :: Caits Meissner in Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum
Caits Meissner, always inspiring poet-artist-educator-activist-friend, recently led a collage workshop at the Brooklyn Museum in coordination with the Mickalene Thomas exhibition, Origin of the Universe, [on view through January 20th, 2013]. Here she reflects on her experience as teaching artist in
COCO ONLINE :: 3RD ANNUAL HAIKU MONTH :: HALFWAY THERE
The haiku form stands in a precarious place in the contemporary world. Our collective mindset has adapted appreciation of shorter and shorter gratification cycles, which should benefit the haiku. However, the powerful rise of short form media (yes, twitter) has
SPECIAL EDITORIAL / AWESOME CREATORS EDITION:: "RENDERING THE OLD MODEL OBSOLETE" : 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE
"history is a living weapon in yr hand & you have imagined it, it is thus that you "find out for yourself" history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination what you find out for
CoCo ONLINE :: 3rd ANNUAL HAIKU MONTH :: 17 syllables, 30 days, and YOU
Let the syllabic somersaults commence! october returns and so too, haiku: seek out syllabic restraint In the fall of of 2010, before I had ever heard of any official NaWriMo of the No(vel) or Po(etry) variety, I found myself somewhat estranged from the muse
HELP US HELP YOU! SUPPORT EXIT STRATA's INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN
Well, friends, we've gotten this far on the proverbial shoestring, but now we need your help! Will you help Exit Strata survive for the next year as we continue to grow? Please give what you can to our INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN today, and
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS FRENZY INTO FOLLY : VIRTUAL GALLERY II :: BERUBE, SIMON, ALDERSON, HOLLARS, RUSTERHOLZ
In celebration of Awesome Creators OPENINGS Collective upcoming group show, Frenzy into Folly, Exit Strata is currently featuring the work of the 38 participating artists weekly in anticipation of and through the run [TONIGHT, September 14 - October 26, 2012]
AWESOME CREATORS :: OPENINGS : THRIVING AT THE LIMEN OF CREATIVITY AND TRANSCENDENCE
li·men; n. pl. li·mens or lim·i·na 1. The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. 2. The external opening of a canal; an entrance. limi·nal adj. [line] I consider it a really good sign that my gut impulse on starting to write up this introduction to OPENINGS is to begin with the word,
FIELD NOTES: WHAT WE ECHO::Perpetual Creation—Collaborative Momentum
This week Danny and I passed the three month mark of our journey across the United States. Three months in, the goal still centers on journeying outside of our selves. That task complicates itself at every turn, but the motion
Editorial:: THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS A VERB : Evolve Your Expectations
Intentions and Aspirations: If you've been hanging out by our lockers for a while you already know some of the language by which we define The Operating System. We've referred to this
ART: DESERT RAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY :: Capturing Creators "For the Love of ART"
Desert Raven Photography is a collaborative endeavor between Ashley Garvy and Audrey Helow - a company birthed out of their desire to be continuously making art together. Garvy and Helow took the time and made the effort to find a way. To