The importance of preservation and conservation is evident in every corner of the web of life. The difficulty does not arise from making it known but rather making each member of society feel personally responsible.
The object is for each to take action - just as Margret
Meade stated that you should never question the power of a small group and their interest to change things - by empowering one person with the passion to protect and preserve their habitat you are enabling change to take place!
There are three types of learning styles - the visual, the audio and the tactile. Good and True School Teachers find ways touch all three types of students in an effort to get their point across. As members of the conservation movement, it is our duty to the planet and all the species that share it to find ways to 'touch a nerve' and connect with all humans.
The use of art is a way to approach members of our civil society in unique ways and allow that experience to resonate in their soul.
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught" - B.Dioum
Friday, April 9, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Blog Guests with Issues Posting
You may be having issues posting to my blog. I apologize and am trying to work through my settings to remedy this. You can also email me at artfortheplanet@gmail.com, where I will assimilate messages and turn them into posts. Once again, I look forward to hearing from you.. with ideas, questions, images, and stories.
Thanks for checking out this blog and following it.
-Jocelyn
Friday, April 2, 2010
Last Friday's Final Friday, Cincinnati Ohio
Ok.. so after letting last weekend's experience simmer.. I am back to tell you about it.
I set out for Final Friday in Over The Rhine, downtown Cincinnati--Main Street. I had high hopes for simply running into artists and art go-ers and sharing some info so that they could become involved in this discussion should they choose. I sorta targeted apparent "art go-ers" that were in the action of taking a photo (of anything at all) with their cell phone--you know.. gotta tap into that technology, linking people through electronics. Wow, and ok.
In some respects I am a little shy.. but I was able to say.. "hey, are you taking a picture with that there cell phone of yours?" .. of course they were, and of course I got a couple funny looks, but the ice was broken and I could at least share a bit of info. I think it went over ok anyway.
First stop, Art Beyond Boundaries- 8:20pm (1410 Main St.)
1 chocolate chip cookie, 1 brownie/blondie "bite"
Stop #2, C4yourself-8:26pm (1406 Sycamore St. #1)
6 tortellini, 1 pepper jack cheese cube, 1 wrap bite
Spoke with Angela Morrow, gallery director
Angela shared with me a piece that she felt has resulted in a direct and positive impact on our community, a collaborative quilt show casing downtown streets of Cincinnati and the Over the Rhine area. We spoke briefly about what aspects of art have the potential for action, any action in this case, to result from an interaction with art. Participatory art forms, where the a group of people work together towards an end goal or finished artwork, were noted as highly effective for creating lasting impacts.
I hope to post a picture of this quilt in the near future.
Destination 3, Atomic Number Ten-8:37pm (1306 Main St.)
1 twisty pretzel thingy
Stopped in, spoke with lady behind the desk, left some little green flyers
4th stop, 1305 Gallery-8:43pm (1305 Main St.)
7 little chocolate, candy shelled, Easter eggs (my fav)
"Friendly Fire, new works by Chad Cully" This was an opening event, displaying one individual's glass and fabric pieces. While awaiting my "turn" with the artists, I ate more candy and read his statement... which, in short, had to do with the end of the world.. sorta?
Environmentally connected, charged, creative, emotional, engaging. That is what I derived.
I am happy to congratulate Chad on being my first artist to respond to my call to bring artists together in a community discussion (as mentioned above).... he even emailed me some video links... inspiration and whatnot..
"It's difficult, in fact, to reconcile my love for the hot and shiny (hot glass) with any sane conviction toward ecology, stewardship, etc. But alas the human condition is full of irony and contradiction. Maybe it's even our charm as a species?" (Chad C.)
I know what ya mean.. ceramic art.. its so earthy-yes.. its minerals are so totally strip mined. yes.
Low and behold... a video about community involvement and expression in Portland, OR--and I was there too! Just a couple weeks ago! I mean really there... at the same locations in the video.. same streets. Imagine that.
Check them out: (let me know what you think)
It seems to me, that we will draw on many different forms of community involvement to incorporate into an eco-stewardship-art movement such as this. Its super cross disciplinary.
#5, Urban Edu.??????-8:58pm
(don't exactly remember this one..oopse)
Last stop-6, Creative Gallery-9pm (1319 Main St.)
"Kindof, Almost, Not quite," by Anthony Birchfield
I spoke with Anthony.. about conceptual art. About making something with a particular meaning, and about making something purposefully to have no particular meaning (or at least that is what I got out of it-my thoughts combined with his artist's statement).. and yet, to me.. there is a specific meaning implied by purposefully working towards not having meaning. Art School. Man, the man's got us down, no matter how much we wish we could choose not to think.
And that was that.
Next stop.... more shows, more galleries, more mass emails, inviting others to join me. I can't create a community discussion all by my onesies.
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