Next Meeting Sunday April 13, 700 PM at DCAC

Hello - Next meeting is planned for Sunday April 13, 700 PM at DCAC, probably in the gallery.

Agenda

1-Get to work loading up people’s chosen work and formatting the presentation for E32. If Lea-Ann has not already contacted you she hopes to get to everyone by Wed., 4/9. Bring the absolutely highest resolution of the image(s) chosen; and hopefully we will be able to work out the sizing of our images for E32 as a group.

2-Talk about what is underpinning the choices of the photos in order that we all have something to bring to the show installation at DCAC on Wed., 4/30. As mentioned earlier it is likely that some of us may not have the exact works available that get chosen for E32 because the work is sold or destroyed or not printed or what-have-you.…
To recall last meetings discussion there are two major tangents that I remember: 1- entropy, 2-place.

en·tro·py, noun
1. a measure of the disorder that exists in a system
2. a measure of the energy in a system or process that is unavailable to do work. Symbol S
3. a measure of the random errors (noise) occurring in the transmission of signals, and from this a measure of the efficiency of transmission systems

Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

After looking at the definition of entropy, I think that although our discussion of ‘place’ focused on our experience of place as “Washington, DC” I think we all may start thinking about what guides the choice of works we can bring to install as:

1-entropy 2-place 3-systems.

These three words seem like more than enough to get people started.

3- thanks to Peter for volunteering to format a binder for this show – in the future we will want to make sure we keep this up as an electronic file available at DCAC too. I sent out a deadline of 4/25 to have information (A resume and a one to two paragraph statement) to Peter by, but as always the sooner the better. This is Peter's email: pgordon78@yahoo.com


4-Discuss Learn-A-Palooza. We communicated our short meeting about this event and the ideas for the three classes in another post. We will want to nail down the details like times and schedules at this meeting.

In order to post the classes on the Learn-a-Palooza website, have printed info available at the May 2 opening and get the event of the DCAC listserv I need the blurbs as soon as possible (definitely no later that April 15 for the blurbs-if I can get them before the meeting, even better) and canvas stretching and framing sizes (ASAP).

I’m working on developing a materials list to try and get donations from Utrecht but that is not a done deal yet– so if you have something in your studio that you are not going to use and want to bring it on 4/13 to donate, give me a heads up in an email about what it is. karenjoan@gmail.com


3-ideas about ideas 
(which I seem to be monopolizing this month)

a-I have some updates concerning the past month or so at DCAC. What brought on my card mock up that is posted on the blog and DCAC’s Cuisine des Artistes upcoming fundraiser and how you can help.

b-my experience at the conference in NYC and some ideas or opportunities that could be pursued in the future,

c-there are at least 3 new people that have requested to join the list serve, have asked me questions and are looking at our posts. I hope to see them at the upcoming meeting.

d-as this first exhibit gets off the ground, we by default will begin to form a particular public identity for DCAC’s Sparkplug. I urge you to look at the Sparkplug tab on the DC Arts Center website http://dcartscenter.org/sparkplug.htm and think about the specific aspects of the experience so far, what we have contributed to this discussion and where we want to go.


4-goals for goals

a-discuss curatorial development, where do we find more idea people to help craft shows and statements, etc. as well as give fresh perspectives from non-artists perspective and how do we entice them to like us?

Email me any additions you'd like to see on the agenda, any questions or corrections. karenjoan@gmail.com