Sparkplug minutes
5/12/2008
prepared by Jenny 5/19/08
First…an update:
Deborah and Josh welcomed little Zoë into the world on the Wednesday, the 14th. Everyone is doing well. She weighed 6lbs 3 oz and was 19.5 inches long.
Now down to business…
Members present: Karen, Lisa, Mike, Mark, Jenny, Kathryn and Peter. New people Christian Benefiel and Eva Hennessa.
Discussion:
Membership – It was discussed how to move forward with projects and still get the maximum enthusiasm and strength to continue in each project. The question of how large is too large was brought up and also if there should be criteria for membership. Several characteristics were discussed of fellow artists that we would hope to look for in someone entering the group. Development of a body of work, accomplishment, seriousness and commitment to working practice of art were all qualities and criteria we would like to look for. Further discussion will happen at the June meeting.
Blog – it is now public. The question of how it can benefit the community as a whole was discussed, as our findings from Learnapalooza were that there were some people that were really enthusiastic about creating, but may never actually want to join Sparkplug. Our question is how do we continue to reach out to those individuals?
E32 presentation draft: Lisa and Lea-Ann have done a great job in getting the draft of the presentation together. Lisa compiled all the images curated by Lea-Ann and put them together in a running slide presentation; each artist has 4-5 images. We did a couple run throughs of the presentation and made any necessary change notes. It was discussed that the show may run in June or September in New York. The general consensus was we would rather have it run in September to allow everyone to possibly get the time off to go see it. Lisa needs all info ASAP to complete the presentation. The presentation will be in it final format for the next meeting.
Cuisine des Artistes presented by Karen: DCAC’s biannual fundraiser is coming up on Wednesday May 28th. Sparkplug members are highly encouraged to participate in some way. Please contact Karen as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. If you are contributing food/art, Blair needs a paragraph bio and the “title” of your piece for the event by TODAY.
Arlington Arts Center proposal presented by Peter: We will be putting together a proposal for the Arlington Arts Center Community Gallery. The space is 13’ x 35’. Jeffrey Cudlin, director of exhibitions would like us in there in early 2009. Some issues to address in the proposal are: site specific to Arlington, how is Sparkplug’s mission different from DCAC’s, What is our idea of a collective. Several of these will necessitate a meeting with Mr. Cudlin to clarify. The idea of a sub-committee to take care of the initial dealings and proposal was brought up to make sure we submit a clear and concise proposal.
Eve Hennessa presented her work.
Next meeting Sunday, June 8th at 3pm at Jenny’s house in Kensington; poolside with potluck BBQ to follow. The meeting will happen from 3pm to 4:30pm then let the potluck begin! I will be inviting other artists to the potluck as a social art gathering. The pool should be open by then so bring your suits if you are interested in swimming. Please RSVP to jenny.walton@gmail.com this meeting and I will forward directions.
AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING
i. Continue discussions of membership
ii. View final presentation of E32 submission
iii. Arlington Arts Center proposal
iv. artist presentations (if any)
v. exhibition exchange with San Francisco collective Agent Peach
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Showing posts with label Meetings. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Next meeting is planned for Monday May 12, 730 PM
Hello - Next meeting is planned for Monday May 12, 730 PM at DCAC,
definitely in the gallery - we need to de-install. For the 7 that
were in the show - if you can’t make this meeting you need to let me
know ASAP so I can arrange to get you in to pick up your stuff on
Sunday nite.
Agenda items for next meeting
1- deinstall - post-mort show & learn-a-palooza and document what was
great and what we need to do better
2- presentations
Kofi Dofour cannot make the meeting on Monday so will have to present
later.
I have had inquiries from five or so new people. If you are one of
those new people and would like to present some slides let me know
ASAP. Bring a CD of only five or so jpgs representing your most
current work and plan to talk for 5-10.
3- Working on getting a draft of the E32 project to screen - but not
sure that is going to come through in time for Monday - if it does
we’ll show it
4- Talk about Cuisine des Artistes - DCAC really needs everyone to
help with this. I am glad many of you have mentioned ideas to me, but
you really, really need to email bstan...@dcartscenter.org so he knows
you are confirmed and can put you in touch with the coordinator for
the event. We can brainstorm more ideas at the meeting as it would be
fantastic if everyone that was just in the exhibition could do
appetizers and talk about your experience so far with Sparkplug to the
guests (those that can ‘show us the money’) at this event
5- Talk about my draft for the new Sparkplug web page on
dcartscenter.org as well as possibility of documenting the 1st show
with an online publication
6- plan a June meeting some where other than DCAC (the show that comes
in after us will be de-installing both Sunday and Monday) - options
could be another party or meet at a museum or someone’s studio,
7- decide what you want to do about meetings for July & August so I
can let B & DCAC know
8- ~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk
about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND
ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
definitely in the gallery - we need to de-install. For the 7 that
were in the show - if you can’t make this meeting you need to let me
know ASAP so I can arrange to get you in to pick up your stuff on
Sunday nite.
Agenda items for next meeting
1- deinstall - post-mort show & learn-a-palooza and document what was
great and what we need to do better
2- presentations
Kofi Dofour cannot make the meeting on Monday so will have to present
later.
I have had inquiries from five or so new people. If you are one of
those new people and would like to present some slides let me know
ASAP. Bring a CD of only five or so jpgs representing your most
current work and plan to talk for 5-10.
3- Working on getting a draft of the E32 project to screen - but not
sure that is going to come through in time for Monday - if it does
we’ll show it
4- Talk about Cuisine des Artistes - DCAC really needs everyone to
help with this. I am glad many of you have mentioned ideas to me, but
you really, really need to email bstan...@dcartscenter.org so he knows
you are confirmed and can put you in touch with the coordinator for
the event. We can brainstorm more ideas at the meeting as it would be
fantastic if everyone that was just in the exhibition could do
appetizers and talk about your experience so far with Sparkplug to the
guests (those that can ‘show us the money’) at this event
5- Talk about my draft for the new Sparkplug web page on
dcartscenter.org as well as possibility of documenting the 1st show
with an online publication
6- plan a June meeting some where other than DCAC (the show that comes
in after us will be de-installing both Sunday and Monday) - options
could be another party or meet at a museum or someone’s studio,
7- decide what you want to do about meetings for July & August so I
can let B & DCAC know
8- ~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk
about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND
ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Meeting Minutes 04/13/08
SPARKPLUG 4/14/08 minutes (taken by Karen) There were 12 people in attendance : Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, Lea-Ann, Philip, B, Kofi & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RESPOND WITH QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS –WE COVERED A LOT!:
1-introducing
We had one new prospective member attend the meeting. His name is Kofi Dofour and we will plan of having him do a short presentation of his work at the next meeting. In the meantime his website is http://kofidofour.com/splash.html
2-Slides “E32”
Lisa was kind enough to volunteer to take everyone’s images and burn them to a CD so Lea-Ann could take them home and work with ordering them – at this point we did not put a dead line on this.
• Lea-Ann will put them in a power point so we can all take a look at the presentation.
• Once the presentation is OK’ed Lisa will work on sizing the chosen images (and syncing the music choice),
• Karen or Kathryn need to go back through their emails and get the submission format requirements for resolution to E32 and send to Lisa,
• When we have uploaded to E32 we let Kathryn know so she can let her contact Linda Griggs know,
3-Sparkplug the exhibition
Lea-Ann will be contacting people in this first exhibition (Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, & Karen) to schedule studio visits to get a dialogue going about what work we should be bring for installation on 4/30. She will post these times as open studio times if others are available at the set times and want to participate in the studio visit.
Peter will work on formatting resumes, etc. for a gallery binder for the show. Please send him a resume and statement in Word ASAP so he has time to mock up everyone’s resumes in a similar format.
Karen will work on getting an email phone list distributed for this show so we can contact each other directly rather than through the group in the next two weeks. (You should have received this already) She should also be able to send you a pdf/html of the show postcard for you to send to your individual email lists between the 16th & 18th. Hard-copy postcards should be available the week of the 23rd. Stay tuned for more details on dealing getting hard-copy cards.
Once you have spoken with Lea-Ann make sure that you have the following information for all the works she has selected/suggested you bring to installation
Your name,
title of work
Medium
Dimensions h x w x d
Year
For all future projects – make sure you provide this information with any images that are collected!!!!
critical details as discussed:
Submit resume/statement for binder Sun., April 20
Drop off work and hang the show Wed./Thurs., April 30 & May 1
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza/Meet the Artists Sat., May 10 – 2 PM to 5:30 PM
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (730 PM & after-this is also our next meeting day)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
link to last years Learn-A-Palooza http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
It was agreed that the format of offering the three workshops we are brainstorming as 25 minutes classes in the following order would be preferable:
230 PM – materials show & tell
330 PM – stretching a canvas
430 PM - Now you want to frame it
If we get a good turn out this will leave us plenty of time to answer questions so we don’t run over out time limit. Right now we can still use the theater for the workshops. The gallery opens at 2 PM.
Lisa and Kathryn can help with set and break down and then assist in the gallery if people come to the meet the artist (though we need to clarify times for them as I don’t think either of them can stay the whole time). We need to be cleaned up and out of the theater by 5:30 PM.
Karen will work on getting the class descriptions posted to learn-a-palooza and the DCAC listserv and approach Utrecht for material donation. Hope to have an answer about that by the end of the month – if not we will need to get stretcher bars to fit in Mark’s 11” x 14” frame.
3-goals for goals
Cuisine des Artistes – is DCAC’s major fundraiser. This year it is on Wed., May 28.
There is more information on the dcartscenter.org website about how to participate. If volunteering artists services will not fit into your schedule please see if you can volunteer in some other way for the event: like help set-up, clean-up, sell memberships. Volunteers are critical to making this a success. Passing on information to people that might attend is also really important to expanding our membership.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
a-Suggestions for the short term to get it ready for the show on the May 2: Post the html of the show card and details and make it link to the blog ASAP before the postcards go out.
Not ASAP but sooner rather than later - we talked about what we needed to add to the Sparkplug page of the DCAC website to more accurately reflect how far we’ve come. So far the belief is that focus, themes and discussions will change and ‘prospectives’ should feel comfortable with working in the collective for the duration of their interest (I think the idea here is along the lines that commitment is only required for ‘projects’ not for participation-does that sound right?)
Participation in the monthly meetings was critical to motivating projects and the artists & curators that were participating so far would welcome anyone that makes the effort to ‘be there’. It is this sharing of experience and idea and being able to lend you individual skills at what you are good that is making this venture collective and a much greater motivating factor than just being a ‘member of a group’.
In general making the blog public was Ok with everyone. Adding a list of shows or some kind of group resume to the blog was suggested that lists the projects we complete. Karen will work from her notes from this discussion to draft something for dcartscenter.org/sparkplug. Be on the lookout to respond with comments to the ‘updated description’ that she will send out on the Google group.
b-curatorial development. Lea-Ann noted that at the first meeting at Bedrock Billiards A LOT of curators showed up and that perhaps we needed to comb through the list and work at re inviting these people to try coming to the set meeting times and get involved in the dialogue. DO we need to also try to develop in the area of writing too?
c-In the future if we want new people to come – we may have to strike doing so much administrative business at the monthly meeting and set secondary meeting times or REALLY use the web & phone ….
4~ACTION!
-Make sure you get in touch and set up your studio visit with Lea-Ann
-Make sure your schedule is clear AT NIGHT in the 30th & 1st so you can help out with the installation – keep both days free in case we can’t hang everything Lea-Ann chooses you will need to get it out of the space on Thursday nite
-Make sure that you come to DCAC with all the price list info-title dimension, etc….
-make sure that you can or arrange for someone else to pick up your works for De0install on May 11 or 12 (we will do our regular meet up on the 12th, 730 PM)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Monday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~De-Install works from the show that ends on May 11
~Kofi Dofour will present
~hopefully see a draft of the E32 presentation in power point
~plan summer meetings
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Agenda items were covered as follows AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RESPOND WITH QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS –WE COVERED A LOT!:
1-introducing
We had one new prospective member attend the meeting. His name is Kofi Dofour and we will plan of having him do a short presentation of his work at the next meeting. In the meantime his website is http://kofidofour.com/splash.html
2-Slides “E32”
Lisa was kind enough to volunteer to take everyone’s images and burn them to a CD so Lea-Ann could take them home and work with ordering them – at this point we did not put a dead line on this.
• Lea-Ann will put them in a power point so we can all take a look at the presentation.
• Once the presentation is OK’ed Lisa will work on sizing the chosen images (and syncing the music choice),
• Karen or Kathryn need to go back through their emails and get the submission format requirements for resolution to E32 and send to Lisa,
• When we have uploaded to E32 we let Kathryn know so she can let her contact Linda Griggs know,
3-Sparkplug the exhibition
Lea-Ann will be contacting people in this first exhibition (Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, & Karen) to schedule studio visits to get a dialogue going about what work we should be bring for installation on 4/30. She will post these times as open studio times if others are available at the set times and want to participate in the studio visit.
Peter will work on formatting resumes, etc. for a gallery binder for the show. Please send him a resume and statement in Word ASAP so he has time to mock up everyone’s resumes in a similar format.
Karen will work on getting an email phone list distributed for this show so we can contact each other directly rather than through the group in the next two weeks. (You should have received this already) She should also be able to send you a pdf/html of the show postcard for you to send to your individual email lists between the 16th & 18th. Hard-copy postcards should be available the week of the 23rd. Stay tuned for more details on dealing getting hard-copy cards.
Once you have spoken with Lea-Ann make sure that you have the following information for all the works she has selected/suggested you bring to installation
Your name,
title of work
Medium
Dimensions h x w x d
Year
For all future projects – make sure you provide this information with any images that are collected!!!!
critical details as discussed:
Submit resume/statement for binder Sun., April 20
Drop off work and hang the show Wed./Thurs., April 30 & May 1
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza/Meet the Artists Sat., May 10 – 2 PM to 5:30 PM
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (730 PM & after-this is also our next meeting day)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
link to last years Learn-A-Palooza http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
It was agreed that the format of offering the three workshops we are brainstorming as 25 minutes classes in the following order would be preferable:
230 PM – materials show & tell
330 PM – stretching a canvas
430 PM - Now you want to frame it
If we get a good turn out this will leave us plenty of time to answer questions so we don’t run over out time limit. Right now we can still use the theater for the workshops. The gallery opens at 2 PM.
Lisa and Kathryn can help with set and break down and then assist in the gallery if people come to the meet the artist (though we need to clarify times for them as I don’t think either of them can stay the whole time). We need to be cleaned up and out of the theater by 5:30 PM.
Karen will work on getting the class descriptions posted to learn-a-palooza and the DCAC listserv and approach Utrecht for material donation. Hope to have an answer about that by the end of the month – if not we will need to get stretcher bars to fit in Mark’s 11” x 14” frame.
3-goals for goals
Cuisine des Artistes – is DCAC’s major fundraiser. This year it is on Wed., May 28.
There is more information on the dcartscenter.org website about how to participate. If volunteering artists services will not fit into your schedule please see if you can volunteer in some other way for the event: like help set-up, clean-up, sell memberships. Volunteers are critical to making this a success. Passing on information to people that might attend is also really important to expanding our membership.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
a-Suggestions for the short term to get it ready for the show on the May 2: Post the html of the show card and details and make it link to the blog ASAP before the postcards go out.
Not ASAP but sooner rather than later - we talked about what we needed to add to the Sparkplug page of the DCAC website to more accurately reflect how far we’ve come. So far the belief is that focus, themes and discussions will change and ‘prospectives’ should feel comfortable with working in the collective for the duration of their interest (I think the idea here is along the lines that commitment is only required for ‘projects’ not for participation-does that sound right?)
Participation in the monthly meetings was critical to motivating projects and the artists & curators that were participating so far would welcome anyone that makes the effort to ‘be there’. It is this sharing of experience and idea and being able to lend you individual skills at what you are good that is making this venture collective and a much greater motivating factor than just being a ‘member of a group’.
In general making the blog public was Ok with everyone. Adding a list of shows or some kind of group resume to the blog was suggested that lists the projects we complete. Karen will work from her notes from this discussion to draft something for dcartscenter.org/sparkplug. Be on the lookout to respond with comments to the ‘updated description’ that she will send out on the Google group.
b-curatorial development. Lea-Ann noted that at the first meeting at Bedrock Billiards A LOT of curators showed up and that perhaps we needed to comb through the list and work at re inviting these people to try coming to the set meeting times and get involved in the dialogue. DO we need to also try to develop in the area of writing too?
c-In the future if we want new people to come – we may have to strike doing so much administrative business at the monthly meeting and set secondary meeting times or REALLY use the web & phone ….
4~ACTION!
-Make sure you get in touch and set up your studio visit with Lea-Ann
-Make sure your schedule is clear AT NIGHT in the 30th & 1st so you can help out with the installation – keep both days free in case we can’t hang everything Lea-Ann chooses you will need to get it out of the space on Thursday nite
-Make sure that you come to DCAC with all the price list info-title dimension, etc….
-make sure that you can or arrange for someone else to pick up your works for De0install on May 11 or 12 (we will do our regular meet up on the 12th, 730 PM)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Monday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~De-Install works from the show that ends on May 11
~Kofi Dofour will present
~hopefully see a draft of the E32 presentation in power point
~plan summer meetings
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Saturday, April 5, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
SPARKPLUG 3/10/08 minutes
SPARKPLUG 3/10/08 minutes (taken by Karen) There were 9 people in attendance : Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, Lea Ann & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Everyone that came to the meeting managed to get a number of images loaded into the flickr group – We let it run as a slide show on projection as we discussed the similarities; focusing largely on Lea Ann’s observation of a commonality of “subtle entropy” in the theme, execution or process of all of the work, regardless of the style. This is the crux of how the curatorial aspect for this particular curated slide set all inclusions will come from this recently posted group of work. Lea is going to work on a “slide list” indicating which photos she is selecting and will try to have that to each of us by the beginning of next week.
Hopefully by the time she makes the decisions known to us, we will have communicated with Linda Griggs at E32 to check what technical requirements there are for the jpgs. In short though we should all plan to bring CD’s of the photos Lea selects-we will download all of them at next meeting to one computer then work on getting the presentation in whatever format it needs to be sent to E32 in. Downloading the photos at the meeting will also serve as the MASTER file for any other opportunity we may have to present this work.
2-Slides “The Show”
An unexpected opportunity to use the gallery for a Sparkplug Exhibition has arisen in May. It would only be for a two week slot, but there seemed to be a general consensus that in developing and preparing for the E32 submission we could also test out the developing theme in the gallery.
We will be hashing out the logistical and curatorial details over the coming weeks, but the critical details will not change.
Drop off work and hang the show Tues./Wed., April 29 & 30
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza Sat., May 10
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (until 5 PM)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
Here is the link to last years Learn-A-Palooza.
http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
I (Karen) talked more about my experience last year and the different approaches we could take to participating. Given that this event would occur during the period that we would have our work in the gallery we could schedule gallery talks or talk about Sparkplug; we could get on the schedule and look for other instructors to do art related classes and just serve as hosts, individually we can work on developing classes.
Peter’s suggestion of showing “how to stretch a canvas” was a great idea. I’ve already elaborated in an earlier email about “painting show & tell”. In my experience last year – do not underestimate your potential to teach something small or simple.
Here is last year’s organizer that will give more info on how to think about being a teacher
http://wiki.learnapaloozadc.com/index.php?title=FAQ
Last years rules of participation were as below and I am guessing they will be very similar this year:
• classes are on April 28, between 10AM and 6PM
• classes must start on the hour or half-hour
• they must be 25 or 55 min long
• they must be free and open to the public
As about 1/3 to ½ of us were engaged in other activities between now & April 1 - we will try to have a mini-brainstorming meeting just on Learn-a-Palooza for those who are interested or available to help sometime in the last week of March or first week of April – more details later.
3-goals for goals
none come to mind that are not related to the above two items
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
none come to mind that are not related to the above two items
Except for fact there was a lot of interesting things said relative, tangentially and in support of Lea’s bringing up tension, place and entropy as a theme. I don’t have time to put them down but think this would be a completely appropriate topic to try and capture what many of you said by going on the blog and posting about the other things we brought up when discussing the slide project.
4~ACTION!
Lea presents us with a preliminary slide list so we can all get out highest resolution images ready to bring to the meeting on CD’s or thumb drives.
Plan a mini-meet-up to see if it is of interest to develop anything for Learn-A-Palooza
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Sunday, April 13 at 7:00 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~bring photo files for download
~go over curatorial statement and set schedule for any extra PR that we want other than the DCAC weekly list serve news letter
~get specific commitments from people for the exhibition and Learn-a-Palooza
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT-I am too sleepy today!
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Everyone that came to the meeting managed to get a number of images loaded into the flickr group – We let it run as a slide show on projection as we discussed the similarities; focusing largely on Lea Ann’s observation of a commonality of “subtle entropy” in the theme, execution or process of all of the work, regardless of the style. This is the crux of how the curatorial aspect for this particular curated slide set all inclusions will come from this recently posted group of work. Lea is going to work on a “slide list” indicating which photos she is selecting and will try to have that to each of us by the beginning of next week.
Hopefully by the time she makes the decisions known to us, we will have communicated with Linda Griggs at E32 to check what technical requirements there are for the jpgs. In short though we should all plan to bring CD’s of the photos Lea selects-we will download all of them at next meeting to one computer then work on getting the presentation in whatever format it needs to be sent to E32 in. Downloading the photos at the meeting will also serve as the MASTER file for any other opportunity we may have to present this work.
2-Slides “The Show”
An unexpected opportunity to use the gallery for a Sparkplug Exhibition has arisen in May. It would only be for a two week slot, but there seemed to be a general consensus that in developing and preparing for the E32 submission we could also test out the developing theme in the gallery.
We will be hashing out the logistical and curatorial details over the coming weeks, but the critical details will not change.
Drop off work and hang the show Tues./Wed., April 29 & 30
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza Sat., May 10
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (until 5 PM)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
Here is the link to last years Learn-A-Palooza.
http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
I (Karen) talked more about my experience last year and the different approaches we could take to participating. Given that this event would occur during the period that we would have our work in the gallery we could schedule gallery talks or talk about Sparkplug; we could get on the schedule and look for other instructors to do art related classes and just serve as hosts, individually we can work on developing classes.
Peter’s suggestion of showing “how to stretch a canvas” was a great idea. I’ve already elaborated in an earlier email about “painting show & tell”. In my experience last year – do not underestimate your potential to teach something small or simple.
Here is last year’s organizer that will give more info on how to think about being a teacher
http://wiki.learnapaloozadc.com/index.php?title=FAQ
Last years rules of participation were as below and I am guessing they will be very similar this year:
• classes are on April 28, between 10AM and 6PM
• classes must start on the hour or half-hour
• they must be 25 or 55 min long
• they must be free and open to the public
As about 1/3 to ½ of us were engaged in other activities between now & April 1 - we will try to have a mini-brainstorming meeting just on Learn-a-Palooza for those who are interested or available to help sometime in the last week of March or first week of April – more details later.
3-goals for goals
none come to mind that are not related to the above two items
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
none come to mind that are not related to the above two items
Except for fact there was a lot of interesting things said relative, tangentially and in support of Lea’s bringing up tension, place and entropy as a theme. I don’t have time to put them down but think this would be a completely appropriate topic to try and capture what many of you said by going on the blog and posting about the other things we brought up when discussing the slide project.
4~ACTION!
Lea presents us with a preliminary slide list so we can all get out highest resolution images ready to bring to the meeting on CD’s or thumb drives.
Plan a mini-meet-up to see if it is of interest to develop anything for Learn-A-Palooza
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Sunday, April 13 at 7:00 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~bring photo files for download
~go over curatorial statement and set schedule for any extra PR that we want other than the DCAC weekly list serve news letter
~get specific commitments from people for the exhibition and Learn-a-Palooza
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT-I am too sleepy today!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2/10/08 Meeting Minutes
SPARKPLUG 2/10/08 minutes (taken by Karen) There were 7 people in attendance :
Jenny, Kathryn, Philip, Mike, Deborah, Peter & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Mike Matason & Peter Gordon presented their work. (Disclaimer: I am going to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences - (if anyone thinks I have severely misrepresented email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed or what you thought.)
Mike Matason works in the medium that he describes as “visual light painting photography” using a black and white film camera he investigates how film is capable of arresting how sensory perception makes the intangibility of light tangible. Capturing bursts of light in abstract patterns and “painting” in the features of his portrait sitters with a focused beam of light by using the ‘bulb’ shutter setting, Mike is also finding that he catches many intangible qualities of time and motion and the personalities.
Peter Gordon is painter that does very heavily textured oil paintings inspired by the varied micro and macrocosmic visual shape and masses found by looking at landscapes. In the process of translating a seemingly horizon less landscape the process of laying down the media of paint or drawing materials strongly reflects his viewpoint that circumstance of both art and life are driven by uncontrollable interruptions and respect for what cannot be controlled.
2-The Party
We talked about the impending inaugural Sparkplug party on Saturday, 2/23/08. Details on the party were posted to the list and the blog on Feb. 3 Feel free to ask me questions, coordinate rides or potluck thru me and please RSVP to karenjoan@gmail.com by 2/18/08 so I know we will have enough soda & pretzels.
3-Shelfari
I have set up a book group for SPARKPLUG on Shelfari. http://www.shelfari.com/
The group is called SPARKPLUG. You will need to create a personal login to use the website. You can search for SPARKPLUG in a field in the top margin of the home page (but make sure to switch the search parameter from books to groups.)
http://www.shelfari.com/clubsearch.aspx?keywords=sparkplug
We can use the group to write responses specific to the discussions we are having in meetings. I encourage you to set up and account and write down your responses regarding the books that you have read and recommended at the last meeting or add books you have thought of since then.
3-goals for goals
Possible project to think about…In planning the party Kathryn & I began talking about a good possible fist project of putting together a ‘curated’ slide show in earnest for a call for projects found here : http://e32.hitart.com/
Pre-screening the web site and thinking about how to approach this project is something we hope getting informally discussed at the party in addition to more people getting to know each other better as we start thinking about working collectively on something.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~Philip has suggested doing critiques of how we might present our work as individuals if we were sending images to a jury panel. We had an extensive discussion about how these panels resemble“cattle call” type actor’s auditions – if 100 people send 20 slides - each that is 2000 (!) slides that need to be viewed in one sitting. With that many slides to view, artworks (and the artists that paid $20 to be reviewed) are quickly cut out of the jury process for reasons such as:
*unfocused slides
*slides of 2-d work where the work is photographed crooked
*using jpgs that were watermarked for use on the web
*not sending a ‘slide list’ with your jpgs or pdfs listing the medium, size, title of the works
*sending slides of work that show too many different ideas
*sending useless details that don’t show any more content then the picture of the whole work
*not sending details when you really need to – esp. for installation & sculpture
The first 4 items apply to everyone. The last 3 items need to be handled differently by everyone. There are many subtle things that you may not think about because you are so intimate with your own work. A jury that has never seen it does not take anything for granted. Re-doing our slide presentations and running a jury panel on OURSELVES is the suggestion that is on the table. Think about how much time you need to prepare and if this is something of interest, we can pick a deadline for SUBMISSION to our ‘fake’ jury.
~Jenny has started working for International Arts & Artists and can get you information about getting group insurance coverage from them.
~Lisa McCarthy (who many of you have already met at Sparkplug meetings) is having an opening of a solo show called Astral Bodies at …..Tada……DCAC! The opening on Friday, 2/22/08. Please come out and support her and see her paintings in the ‘flesh’.
Info: http://dcartscenter.org/event.htm#Gallery
(Aside: In general it would be great to see more Sparkplug people at each & every DCAC opening, not just those of Sparkplug members. It’s a convenient ‘extra’ collective building time. I am at almost all of them and it would be great to dialogue about what people think about the shows that are being put on at DCAC and meet more of the DCAC staff & board.)
4~ACTION!
~COME TO LISA’s OPENING (2/22/08) & THE PARTY AT KATHRYN’S (2/23/08)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Monday March 10 at 7:30 PM at the DCAC gallery
~talk about the party, Astral Bodies and curated slide show idea
~set possible deadline for ‘fake’ jury panel
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
keep forging ahead towards "Meatier Discussion"
(ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda)
Jenny, Kathryn, Philip, Mike, Deborah, Peter & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Mike Matason & Peter Gordon presented their work. (Disclaimer: I am going to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences - (if anyone thinks I have severely misrepresented email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed or what you thought.)
Mike Matason works in the medium that he describes as “visual light painting photography” using a black and white film camera he investigates how film is capable of arresting how sensory perception makes the intangibility of light tangible. Capturing bursts of light in abstract patterns and “painting” in the features of his portrait sitters with a focused beam of light by using the ‘bulb’ shutter setting, Mike is also finding that he catches many intangible qualities of time and motion and the personalities.
Peter Gordon is painter that does very heavily textured oil paintings inspired by the varied micro and macrocosmic visual shape and masses found by looking at landscapes. In the process of translating a seemingly horizon less landscape the process of laying down the media of paint or drawing materials strongly reflects his viewpoint that circumstance of both art and life are driven by uncontrollable interruptions and respect for what cannot be controlled.
2-The Party
We talked about the impending inaugural Sparkplug party on Saturday, 2/23/08. Details on the party were posted to the list and the blog on Feb. 3 Feel free to ask me questions, coordinate rides or potluck thru me and please RSVP to karenjoan@gmail.com by 2/18/08 so I know we will have enough soda & pretzels.
3-Shelfari
I have set up a book group for SPARKPLUG on Shelfari. http://www.shelfari.com/
The group is called SPARKPLUG. You will need to create a personal login to use the website. You can search for SPARKPLUG in a field in the top margin of the home page (but make sure to switch the search parameter from books to groups.)
http://www.shelfari.com/clubsearch.aspx?keywords=sparkplug
We can use the group to write responses specific to the discussions we are having in meetings. I encourage you to set up and account and write down your responses regarding the books that you have read and recommended at the last meeting or add books you have thought of since then.
3-goals for goals
Possible project to think about…In planning the party Kathryn & I began talking about a good possible fist project of putting together a ‘curated’ slide show in earnest for a call for projects found here : http://e32.hitart.com/
Pre-screening the web site and thinking about how to approach this project is something we hope getting informally discussed at the party in addition to more people getting to know each other better as we start thinking about working collectively on something.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~Philip has suggested doing critiques of how we might present our work as individuals if we were sending images to a jury panel. We had an extensive discussion about how these panels resemble“cattle call” type actor’s auditions – if 100 people send 20 slides - each that is 2000 (!) slides that need to be viewed in one sitting. With that many slides to view, artworks (and the artists that paid $20 to be reviewed) are quickly cut out of the jury process for reasons such as:
*unfocused slides
*slides of 2-d work where the work is photographed crooked
*using jpgs that were watermarked for use on the web
*not sending a ‘slide list’ with your jpgs or pdfs listing the medium, size, title of the works
*sending slides of work that show too many different ideas
*sending useless details that don’t show any more content then the picture of the whole work
*not sending details when you really need to – esp. for installation & sculpture
The first 4 items apply to everyone. The last 3 items need to be handled differently by everyone. There are many subtle things that you may not think about because you are so intimate with your own work. A jury that has never seen it does not take anything for granted. Re-doing our slide presentations and running a jury panel on OURSELVES is the suggestion that is on the table. Think about how much time you need to prepare and if this is something of interest, we can pick a deadline for SUBMISSION to our ‘fake’ jury.
~Jenny has started working for International Arts & Artists and can get you information about getting group insurance coverage from them.
~Lisa McCarthy (who many of you have already met at Sparkplug meetings) is having an opening of a solo show called Astral Bodies at …..Tada……DCAC! The opening on Friday, 2/22/08. Please come out and support her and see her paintings in the ‘flesh’.
Info: http://dcartscenter.org/event.htm#Gallery
(Aside: In general it would be great to see more Sparkplug people at each & every DCAC opening, not just those of Sparkplug members. It’s a convenient ‘extra’ collective building time. I am at almost all of them and it would be great to dialogue about what people think about the shows that are being put on at DCAC and meet more of the DCAC staff & board.)
4~ACTION!
~COME TO LISA’s OPENING (2/22/08) & THE PARTY AT KATHRYN’S (2/23/08)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Monday March 10 at 7:30 PM at the DCAC gallery
~talk about the party, Astral Bodies and curated slide show idea
~set possible deadline for ‘fake’ jury panel
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
keep forging ahead towards "Meatier Discussion"
(ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda)
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
1/7/08 Meeting Minutes
SPARKPLUG 1/7/08 minutes (taken by Karen)
There were 6 people in attendance
Sean, Jenny, Kathryn, Mark, Lea & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Sean Hennessy presented jpgs of his work. (Disclaimer: I am going to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences – (if anyone thinks I have severely misrepresented email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed or what you thought.)
Sean Hennessy does mixed media constructions using materials like plaster, concrete (raw and pigmented) and glass casting of items like toys, light bulbs, tools and hardware. Inspired by mythology, industry, religion, energy, and archeology he frequently engages in the retelling of classic stories with common contemporary objects, instilling in them a “Narrative of Relics” as a way of contextualizing their cultural content, meaning and identity.
2-surveys
Six individuals have responded to the survey, which gleaned in 4 pages of results, expertly compiled by Jenny. Two mentionable items are the varied skills and resources that were listed by us and the overwhelming interest in being connected to an engaging community of artists that is interested in “cultivat[ing] new ideas” and discussing art on a professional level. These surveys so far seem to justify the conversational discussion format that is continuing to develop as this community becomes more “collective”.
[While it was not discussed at the meeting I do have copies of the results if you would like one, please ask me for it at a meeting. While I presently do not foresee results being compiled again until some yet unknown milestone, having individual record of peoples interests will be helpful to have on file in the future. If you have not filled one out you can get a blank survey in the file section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. When complete, bring it to a meeting email it to Jenny Walton (Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) or myself (karenjoan@gmail.com).
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~HAVE A PARTY! try to bring together the Monday people and the Sunday people and some new people in a more relaxed venue-like someone’s home. Stay tuned, more on this very, very soon
~Sean offered to post information regarding an upcoming film series about sculptors (films
on Richard Serra may be some of the first to be scheduled), be on the lookout.
~We started talking about the WACK! Exhibit, but it seems that of the six people in attendance only Kathryn & I went and we saw each other at NWMA so we had already talked about it. (WACK! will be at NYMOMA at the PS space, you should still try to see it)
~after Kathryn & I gave our synopsis of WACK! the discussion turned into a sort of – “one that got away” reminiscence by everyone else that was there – (you know, the exhibitions that you really meant to go to, know would be important to your development, but still missed going to see.)
~as some of us filled each other in on what others had missed at certain shows like Richard Serra in MOMANY this summer, Julie Taymor at NMWA, Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting at MAD, NY the two following ideas came up
~ Lea had suggested a reading list as well as maybe trying to pick one book that none of us had read and all try to read it – the suggestion is NOT for a book club, (I don’t think any of us has time for that) but for one book that we can all try to get into and draw discussions out of.
Suggestions so far are
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Art & Fear
The Shape of Content (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Ross King The Judgment Of Paris (the Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism
What Painting Is
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Regarding the Pain of Others
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist - (Not for discussion purposes, but recommended by Sean & myself as a very practical book to have about doing your own PR, taxes, exemptions, budgeting and all kinds of stuff)
Certainly check out these books and try to think of others and post them to the group – I am suggesting now that at the February meeting we try to narrow it down to 5 books and then pick one that we can all try to read this YEAR – just one book –
~In discussing setting up a book list it was suggested that a tag/bookmark lists for books & websites would be good – in hindsight I have thought of linking to exhibitions past present & future that come up in meetings given that there are permalinks on many websites not – it would be a great resource to have)
Sean has already suggested a bookmark site and set up a flickr group for us. We could also set up a book list on amazon.com, shelfari.com or goodreads.com or explore using http://ma.gnolia.com or http://del.icio.us/
(don’t want to get too many web things going here – everyone take a look at these sites, Mike checked in with me and he’s exploring ways for setting up better blog discussion threads, I have given him a heads up about trying to incorporate these other lists to the blog as well so stay tuned)
4- goals for goals
~HAVE A PARTY !
~consider hosting practical artist workshops on taxes/business sides. Sean mentioned a workshop he attended in the past run by Lenny Campello / Frasier gallery a few years ago that was very, very good. The names Sarah Stout and David Furchgott of International Art & Artists were mentioned as people that might be familiar with Lenny’s workshop and be able to come up with something similar.
4~ACTION!
~Recommended openings this Saturday (on January 12th) on 14th Street
Phil Nesmith at Irvine: http://irvinecontemporary.com/index.php
and
15 ways of looking at Philip Barlow at Curators Office: http://www.curatorsoffice.com
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Sunday February 10 at 7 PM place TBD (tho’ probably will be in the DCAC gallery
~Mike, and maybe Pat present their work
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~talk about the 14th Street openings, discussion ideas and headway on virtual tools to assist with our development of ideas
~keep forging ahead towards “Meatier Discussion”
There were 6 people in attendance
Sean, Jenny, Kathryn, Mark, Lea & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-presentations
Sean Hennessy presented jpgs of his work. (Disclaimer: I am going to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences – (if anyone thinks I have severely misrepresented email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed or what you thought.)
Sean Hennessy does mixed media constructions using materials like plaster, concrete (raw and pigmented) and glass casting of items like toys, light bulbs, tools and hardware. Inspired by mythology, industry, religion, energy, and archeology he frequently engages in the retelling of classic stories with common contemporary objects, instilling in them a “Narrative of Relics” as a way of contextualizing their cultural content, meaning and identity.
2-surveys
Six individuals have responded to the survey, which gleaned in 4 pages of results, expertly compiled by Jenny. Two mentionable items are the varied skills and resources that were listed by us and the overwhelming interest in being connected to an engaging community of artists that is interested in “cultivat[ing] new ideas” and discussing art on a professional level. These surveys so far seem to justify the conversational discussion format that is continuing to develop as this community becomes more “collective”.
[While it was not discussed at the meeting I do have copies of the results if you would like one, please ask me for it at a meeting. While I presently do not foresee results being compiled again until some yet unknown milestone, having individual record of peoples interests will be helpful to have on file in the future. If you have not filled one out you can get a blank survey in the file section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. When complete, bring it to a meeting email it to Jenny Walton (Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) or myself (karenjoan@gmail.com).
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~HAVE A PARTY! try to bring together the Monday people and the Sunday people and some new people in a more relaxed venue-like someone’s home. Stay tuned, more on this very, very soon
~Sean offered to post information regarding an upcoming film series about sculptors (films
on Richard Serra may be some of the first to be scheduled), be on the lookout.
~We started talking about the WACK! Exhibit, but it seems that of the six people in attendance only Kathryn & I went and we saw each other at NWMA so we had already talked about it. (WACK! will be at NYMOMA at the PS space, you should still try to see it)
~after Kathryn & I gave our synopsis of WACK! the discussion turned into a sort of – “one that got away” reminiscence by everyone else that was there – (you know, the exhibitions that you really meant to go to, know would be important to your development, but still missed going to see.)
~as some of us filled each other in on what others had missed at certain shows like Richard Serra in MOMANY this summer, Julie Taymor at NMWA, Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting at MAD, NY the two following ideas came up
~ Lea had suggested a reading list as well as maybe trying to pick one book that none of us had read and all try to read it – the suggestion is NOT for a book club, (I don’t think any of us has time for that) but for one book that we can all try to get into and draw discussions out of.
Suggestions so far are
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Art & Fear
The Shape of Content (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Ross King The Judgment Of Paris (the Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism
What Painting Is
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Regarding the Pain of Others
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist - (Not for discussion purposes, but recommended by Sean & myself as a very practical book to have about doing your own PR, taxes, exemptions, budgeting and all kinds of stuff)
Certainly check out these books and try to think of others and post them to the group – I am suggesting now that at the February meeting we try to narrow it down to 5 books and then pick one that we can all try to read this YEAR – just one book –
~In discussing setting up a book list it was suggested that a tag/bookmark lists for books & websites would be good – in hindsight I have thought of linking to exhibitions past present & future that come up in meetings given that there are permalinks on many websites not – it would be a great resource to have)
Sean has already suggested a bookmark site and set up a flickr group for us. We could also set up a book list on amazon.com, shelfari.com or goodreads.com or explore using http://ma.gnolia.com or http://del.icio.us/
(don’t want to get too many web things going here – everyone take a look at these sites, Mike checked in with me and he’s exploring ways for setting up better blog discussion threads, I have given him a heads up about trying to incorporate these other lists to the blog as well so stay tuned)
4- goals for goals
~HAVE A PARTY !
~consider hosting practical artist workshops on taxes/business sides. Sean mentioned a workshop he attended in the past run by Lenny Campello / Frasier gallery a few years ago that was very, very good. The names Sarah Stout and David Furchgott of International Art & Artists were mentioned as people that might be familiar with Lenny’s workshop and be able to come up with something similar.
4~ACTION!
~Recommended openings this Saturday (on January 12th) on 14th Street
Phil Nesmith at Irvine: http://irvinecontemporary.com/index.php
and
15 ways of looking at Philip Barlow at Curators Office: http://www.curatorsoffice.com
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Sunday February 10 at 7 PM place TBD (tho’ probably will be in the DCAC gallery
~Mike, and maybe Pat present their work
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~talk about the 14th Street openings, discussion ideas and headway on virtual tools to assist with our development of ideas
~keep forging ahead towards “Meatier Discussion”
Monday, January 7, 2008
Great Meeting!
Just wanted to say what a great meeting we had tonight with awesome discussions and ideas happening! Thanks everyone!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Hello - let's go for it and have a January meeting, I could not get my studio ready for a visit in time so it will be in teh DCAC gallery again, Monday, January 7, at 7:30 PM.
Agenda for 1/7/08 SPARKPLUG meeting
(feel free to email me at karenjoan@gmail.com with other suggestions before Monday as this may be a 'lite' meeting if no one presents) This fact will give us more
time to talk about the NMWA and the Corcoran though.
items are as follows:
1-presentations
Not sure if anyone else is ready to show work - please speak up or
just show up with 1-5 jpgs or a short form of audio or video or what
ever it is you do and we will accommodate that first.
Tim, Mike, Sean or Lea Ann are natural candidates. Are any of you
ready or even able to make it on Monday?
Sorry I still haven't gotten to posting the power point with notes on
the Google group, I am going to try to get it done for this for this
month.
2-surveys
Still working on the statistical part of this one...so we will try for
the next meeting to see if it shows us anything different than what we
have been talking about in person.
If you still need to fill one out you can get a blank one in the file
section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. Email it to Jenny Walton
(Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) when it is filled out.
3-ACTION!
Talk about WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and
a piece called "Venus" at the Corcoran.
Hopefully there were some takers for this action, we'll talk about it
and see what was good or what could have been better.
4-ideas about ideas-
Fresh & new brainstorming or habituating group think, you decide
4- goals for goals
Most of the goals from last meeting had to do with skills, games &
'meatier' discussions. We'll see if the Action! Assignment SPARKED (ha-first time that happened) anything meaty, and go from there.
Agenda for 1/7/08 SPARKPLUG meeting
(feel free to email me at karenjoan@gmail.com with other suggestions before Monday as this may be a 'lite' meeting if no one presents) This fact will give us more
time to talk about the NMWA and the Corcoran though.
items are as follows:
1-presentations
Not sure if anyone else is ready to show work - please speak up or
just show up with 1-5 jpgs or a short form of audio or video or what
ever it is you do and we will accommodate that first.
Tim, Mike, Sean or Lea Ann are natural candidates. Are any of you
ready or even able to make it on Monday?
Sorry I still haven't gotten to posting the power point with notes on
the Google group, I am going to try to get it done for this for this
month.
2-surveys
Still working on the statistical part of this one...so we will try for
the next meeting to see if it shows us anything different than what we
have been talking about in person.
If you still need to fill one out you can get a blank one in the file
section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. Email it to Jenny Walton
(Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) when it is filled out.
3-ACTION!
Talk about WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and
a piece called "Venus" at the Corcoran.
Hopefully there were some takers for this action, we'll talk about it
and see what was good or what could have been better.
4-ideas about ideas-
Fresh & new brainstorming or habituating group think, you decide
4- goals for goals
Most of the goals from last meeting had to do with skills, games &
'meatier' discussions. We'll see if the Action! Assignment SPARKED (ha-first time that happened) anything meaty, and go from there.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
12/09/07 meeting minutes
SPARKPLUG 12/09/07 minutes (taken by Karen)
There were 7 people in attendance
Jennifer, Jenny, Mike, Lisa, Philip, Kathryn & Karen
(These will be posted in the file section of the Google Group – if I have missed something please feel free to download the notes and add or correct, just make sure to date & initial the newly posted document)
Agenda items were covered as follows:
~assess Sunday Monday meeting times
1-presentations
Lisa McCarty and Kathryn McDonnell both gave presentations and like the members that went last month I am going to attempt to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences – if I have severely misrepresented you email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed.
I am going to try to get the PowerPoint presentation with notes up on the Google group before the end of the month so anyone that is interested but has not made to a meeting can take a look.
Lisa McCarty
Lisa McCarty does mixed media work on canvas inspired by the experience of live performance and independent music. She incorporates original photos of performances she attends at intimate rock & roll venues and transfers then to canvas using iron-on paper. She then paints into the resulting grid and images being conscious of both the image and the elements of painting like color and gesture as she also tries to capture elements of experience, perception and memory.
Kathryn McDonnell
Kathryn McDonnell paints abstract expanses of saturated color on canvas. She builds up rich textures and experiential moments in the canvases that are inspired by direct experiences. In translating her experiences into paint she is also inspired to name the language and objects in her titles and prose writing that enforce the visceral experience that she is investigating with paint and canvas.
2-surveys
Still working on the statistical part of this one…so we will try for the next meeting to see if it shows us anything different than what we have been talking about in person.
If you still need to fill one out you can get a blank one in the file section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. When complete, email it to Jenny Walton (Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) when it is filled out.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~we batted around ideas about the commonality in Lisa’s & Kathryn’s work, as well as the work we had seen before. In no particular order this list of ideas / works came up:
Breath, layer, layering, layers of meaning, performance, mapping, sky, air, projection, and drawing
This last item, drawing, brought up some interesting comparisons of how we define drawings and some other tangents that lead to the idea to attend an exhibition together to spark discussion topics.
Some of us already wanted to see the WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts before it closes on Sunday so we are going to meet there THIS SATURDAY 12/15/07 from noon to 230 then go to the Corcoran from 300 to 5 to see a “projected drawing” that Jenny described.
This is not like a guided tour, you can casually come for as long or as short as you like. The idea is that by seeing the same show we can all start appreciating the “Thrown-Togetherness” (Lisa’s excellent term) of our personalities and backgrounds.
~ This falls under both ideas and goals-have a meeting that was devoted to the more raw side of the work – not an academic style critique, but a forum where each artist could talk about what troubles them about their own work or art practice (technical, philosophical, issues they have problems with, etc.) - so they can then hear other peoples responses to that one thing, I think the idea was that by letting each artist has to pick something that they are critical of in their own work and focusing on that it would be both helpful to the artist and help us get to know each other
~there is still interest in visiting people’s personal studio space, but we need someone to volunteer to get this going
4- goals for goals
~don’t get ahead of ourselves, get to know each other before we start trying to make proposals, get to know each other, figure out what is interesting about the ‘randomness’ of us meeting
~try to plan a meeting of artist – games – where the outcome may be a work of art, a drawing game or something to do with picture taking were mentioned, I think. This all boils down to actually making collaborative work.
~ get a “meatier” discussion going (Mike also volunteered to help with the blog to see if he can recommend a different format to use for discussion)
~ try to be more rigorous about discussions by having one person post an idea on the blog on a weekly/bi-weekly basis. Ideally we would respond on the blog as well as take the discussion from online into the in-person meetings
~ put into a future meeting agenda a mini – class on how to read and write using a blog template
4~ACTION!
See the WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts before it closes on Sunday.
Go to the Corcoran to see the “projected drawing” on the Venus
I will send more on these venues and what we planned under a different heading. If you can’t make it try to go see it on your own.
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Monday January 7 at 7:30 PM – place TBD (probably DCAC, but I may try to get my studio presentable to host the first studio visit
~Mike, Tim and Sean still need to present as well as anyone else that might be lurking out there that is interested.
~Status of returned surveys
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~talk about the WACK! Exhibition and this projected ‘drawing’ at the Corcoran (Hopefully this topic will be narrowed in the discussion that takes place at the museums & online)
There were 7 people in attendance
Jennifer, Jenny, Mike, Lisa, Philip, Kathryn & Karen
(These will be posted in the file section of the Google Group – if I have missed something please feel free to download the notes and add or correct, just make sure to date & initial the newly posted document)
Agenda items were covered as follows:
~assess Sunday Monday meeting times
1-presentations
Lisa McCarty and Kathryn McDonnell both gave presentations and like the members that went last month I am going to attempt to sum it up in just 1-3 sentences – if I have severely misrepresented you email me at karenjoan@gmail with what you want fixed.
I am going to try to get the PowerPoint presentation with notes up on the Google group before the end of the month so anyone that is interested but has not made to a meeting can take a look.
Lisa McCarty
Lisa McCarty does mixed media work on canvas inspired by the experience of live performance and independent music. She incorporates original photos of performances she attends at intimate rock & roll venues and transfers then to canvas using iron-on paper. She then paints into the resulting grid and images being conscious of both the image and the elements of painting like color and gesture as she also tries to capture elements of experience, perception and memory.
Kathryn McDonnell
Kathryn McDonnell paints abstract expanses of saturated color on canvas. She builds up rich textures and experiential moments in the canvases that are inspired by direct experiences. In translating her experiences into paint she is also inspired to name the language and objects in her titles and prose writing that enforce the visceral experience that she is investigating with paint and canvas.
2-surveys
Still working on the statistical part of this one…so we will try for the next meeting to see if it shows us anything different than what we have been talking about in person.
If you still need to fill one out you can get a blank one in the file section of the dcacsparkplug Googlegroup. When complete, email it to Jenny Walton (Jenny.Walton@gmail.com) when it is filled out.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
~we batted around ideas about the commonality in Lisa’s & Kathryn’s work, as well as the work we had seen before. In no particular order this list of ideas / works came up:
Breath, layer, layering, layers of meaning, performance, mapping, sky, air, projection, and drawing
This last item, drawing, brought up some interesting comparisons of how we define drawings and some other tangents that lead to the idea to attend an exhibition together to spark discussion topics.
Some of us already wanted to see the WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts before it closes on Sunday so we are going to meet there THIS SATURDAY 12/15/07 from noon to 230 then go to the Corcoran from 300 to 5 to see a “projected drawing” that Jenny described.
This is not like a guided tour, you can casually come for as long or as short as you like. The idea is that by seeing the same show we can all start appreciating the “Thrown-Togetherness” (Lisa’s excellent term) of our personalities and backgrounds.
~ This falls under both ideas and goals-have a meeting that was devoted to the more raw side of the work – not an academic style critique, but a forum where each artist could talk about what troubles them about their own work or art practice (technical, philosophical, issues they have problems with, etc.) - so they can then hear other peoples responses to that one thing, I think the idea was that by letting each artist has to pick something that they are critical of in their own work and focusing on that it would be both helpful to the artist and help us get to know each other
~there is still interest in visiting people’s personal studio space, but we need someone to volunteer to get this going
4- goals for goals
~don’t get ahead of ourselves, get to know each other before we start trying to make proposals, get to know each other, figure out what is interesting about the ‘randomness’ of us meeting
~try to plan a meeting of artist – games – where the outcome may be a work of art, a drawing game or something to do with picture taking were mentioned, I think. This all boils down to actually making collaborative work.
~ get a “meatier” discussion going (Mike also volunteered to help with the blog to see if he can recommend a different format to use for discussion)
~ try to be more rigorous about discussions by having one person post an idea on the blog on a weekly/bi-weekly basis. Ideally we would respond on the blog as well as take the discussion from online into the in-person meetings
~ put into a future meeting agenda a mini – class on how to read and write using a blog template
4~ACTION!
See the WACK! Show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts before it closes on Sunday.
Go to the Corcoran to see the “projected drawing” on the Venus
I will send more on these venues and what we planned under a different heading. If you can’t make it try to go see it on your own.
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is tentatively planned for Monday January 7 at 7:30 PM – place TBD (probably DCAC, but I may try to get my studio presentable to host the first studio visit
~Mike, Tim and Sean still need to present as well as anyone else that might be lurking out there that is interested.
~Status of returned surveys
~Ideas about ideas
~Goals for goals
~talk about the WACK! Exhibition and this projected ‘drawing’ at the Corcoran (Hopefully this topic will be narrowed in the discussion that takes place at the museums & online)
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Images for Tonight!
Just an all call for images for tonight. Please email them ASAP if you would like to be on the presentation schedule tonight! thanks!
Jenny.walton@gmail.com
Jenny.walton@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
MEETING REMINDER: MONDAY 11/12/07
The next Sparkplug meeting WILL be on Monday, November 12 at 7:30 PM (Yoinks-that’s about 5 days from now!!!!)
Agenda items for November meeting-
~Status of returned surveys
~10 – 12 people show slides-talk about work
~Schedule new group to show slides as necessary
~Ideas about ideas
~Do we want to start a list of possible goals for the next 6 months-year?
~Set Agenda for December meeting
The presentations are supposed to be no longer than 10 minutes a piece (which adds up to 1 hour and 20 minutes if we do all 12 people - add a half hour for other issues and realize this could be about a 2 hour meeting.)
We realize some of you may be bringing actual small works to talk about, but just in case you were thinking to have your jpgs projected Jenny has not received jpgs from anywhere near 12 people – so if you were at the October meeting and want you work projected make sure to send them to her ASAP!
Please submit your digital images (NO MORE THAN 5!) in jpeg format to me at jenny.walton@gmail.com before November 10th! Please make them a reasonable size and know that they will be projected.
The 12 presentation slots are already filled for the November Meeting. **However, to get your work in the line-up for December, please submit them here as well. Slots are filled on first come first serve basis.**
We will be projecting in the gallery-so if you are free and want to come 15 minutes early to help set up that's awesome. Snacks and beverages that people bought last time were also awesome.
Looking forward to continuing our discusions and hoping these first talks will assist us all in coming up with themes and working relationships with the groups work and give us an idea how and where to move from here.
Agenda items for November meeting-
~Status of returned surveys
~10 – 12 people show slides-talk about work
~Schedule new group to show slides as necessary
~Ideas about ideas
~Do we want to start a list of possible goals for the next 6 months-year?
~Set Agenda for December meeting
The presentations are supposed to be no longer than 10 minutes a piece (which adds up to 1 hour and 20 minutes if we do all 12 people - add a half hour for other issues and realize this could be about a 2 hour meeting.)
We realize some of you may be bringing actual small works to talk about, but just in case you were thinking to have your jpgs projected Jenny has not received jpgs from anywhere near 12 people – so if you were at the October meeting and want you work projected make sure to send them to her ASAP!
Please submit your digital images (NO MORE THAN 5!) in jpeg format to me at jenny.walton@gmail.com before November 10th! Please make them a reasonable size and know that they will be projected.
The 12 presentation slots are already filled for the November Meeting. **However, to get your work in the line-up for December, please submit them here as well. Slots are filled on first come first serve basis.**
We will be projecting in the gallery-so if you are free and want to come 15 minutes early to help set up that's awesome. Snacks and beverages that people bought last time were also awesome.
Looking forward to continuing our discusions and hoping these first talks will assist us all in coming up with themes and working relationships with the groups work and give us an idea how and where to move from here.
Friday, October 19, 2007
10/14/07 meeting minutes
SPARKPLUG 10/14/07 meeting minutes taken by Karen Joan Topping
(These will be posted in the file section of the Google Group – if I have missed something please feel free to download the notes and add or correct, just make sure to date & initial the newly posted document)
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-meeting times
We will try to maintain meeting on a regular schedule of alternating days at the DC Arts Center. Plans are to meet in the second week of every month, alternating between Sundays at 7:00 PM and Mondays at 7:30 PM. Following this proposed schedule the next two meetings are scheduled for Monday, November 12 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 9 at 7:00 PM. This schedule is subject to change based on the availability of the space and requirements dictated by the agenda of the meeting.
2-survey
Those in attendance agreed to fill out an introductory written survey, (you may have already seen it). The survey was posted in an email to the Google group by Jenny Walton or can be downloaded as word file in the files section of the Google group. The hope is that these surveys will help us in forming our first goals for sparkplug and be useful as a reference of skills for future projects.
3-ideas about ideas-(in no particular order)
~Set up an online photo group like flickr or yahoo photo
~Have everyone summarize their work in just one sentence without identifying themselves and then as a group begin categorizing these sentences to get ideas
~Have a meeting where we do a drawing project together (work/play nite)-like make posters for ‘fantasy’ art – i.e. shows that don’t exist yet that we could curate
~Discuss & form themes, do work about elevating the ordinary as an idea
~Have a slide night where participants show one slide of their own work and one by of another artist they admire/is important to their work
~Consider look for collective public art projects-like grants for art in pocket parks
~Come up with concepts that allow artists in the collective to interact directly with the public/viewer in an unexpected manner and document those interactions (presumably as inspiration for both audience and artists)
~Have additional meetings at people’s personal studios
~Investigate a theme show on planning vs. spontaneity
~Have a slide show and have people introduce and start talking about themselves and their work
It was decided that the last item on this list should be acted on immediately-so the following format was discussed and decided on by those in attendance:
There will be presentations of work starting on the Monday, November 12th Meeting at 7:30pm. There will be up to 12 presentations lasting no longer than 10 minutes a piece (which adds up to 1 hour and 20 minutes-add a half hour for other issues and realize this will be about a 2 hour meeting.) This should assist us all in coming up with themes and working relationships with the groups work and give us an idea how and where to move from here.
In order to accommodate the digital needs and reduce “fiddling with the projector/computer/changing discs between artists” time, Please submit your digital images (NO MORE THAN 5!) in jpeg format to me at jenny.walton@gmail.com before November 10th! Please make them a reasonable size and know that they will be projected. If you are unable to furnish digital images, please bring one (transportable up stairs) piece of work with you to the next meeting.
The 12 presentation slots are already filled for the November Meeting. **However, to get your work in the line-up for December, please submit them here as well. Slots are filled on first come first serve basis.**
4-agenda items for November meeting
~Status of returned surveys
~10 – 12 people show slides
~Schedule new group to show slides as necessary
~Ideas about ideas
~Do we want to start a list of possible goals for the next 6 months-year?
~Set Agenda for December meeting
(These will be posted in the file section of the Google Group – if I have missed something please feel free to download the notes and add or correct, just make sure to date & initial the newly posted document)
Agenda items were covered as follows:
1-meeting times
We will try to maintain meeting on a regular schedule of alternating days at the DC Arts Center. Plans are to meet in the second week of every month, alternating between Sundays at 7:00 PM and Mondays at 7:30 PM. Following this proposed schedule the next two meetings are scheduled for Monday, November 12 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 9 at 7:00 PM. This schedule is subject to change based on the availability of the space and requirements dictated by the agenda of the meeting.
2-survey
Those in attendance agreed to fill out an introductory written survey, (you may have already seen it). The survey was posted in an email to the Google group by Jenny Walton or can be downloaded as word file in the files section of the Google group. The hope is that these surveys will help us in forming our first goals for sparkplug and be useful as a reference of skills for future projects.
3-ideas about ideas-(in no particular order)
~Set up an online photo group like flickr or yahoo photo
~Have everyone summarize their work in just one sentence without identifying themselves and then as a group begin categorizing these sentences to get ideas
~Have a meeting where we do a drawing project together (work/play nite)-like make posters for ‘fantasy’ art – i.e. shows that don’t exist yet that we could curate
~Discuss & form themes, do work about elevating the ordinary as an idea
~Have a slide night where participants show one slide of their own work and one by of another artist they admire/is important to their work
~Consider look for collective public art projects-like grants for art in pocket parks
~Come up with concepts that allow artists in the collective to interact directly with the public/viewer in an unexpected manner and document those interactions (presumably as inspiration for both audience and artists)
~Have additional meetings at people’s personal studios
~Investigate a theme show on planning vs. spontaneity
~Have a slide show and have people introduce and start talking about themselves and their work
It was decided that the last item on this list should be acted on immediately-so the following format was discussed and decided on by those in attendance:
There will be presentations of work starting on the Monday, November 12th Meeting at 7:30pm. There will be up to 12 presentations lasting no longer than 10 minutes a piece (which adds up to 1 hour and 20 minutes-add a half hour for other issues and realize this will be about a 2 hour meeting.) This should assist us all in coming up with themes and working relationships with the groups work and give us an idea how and where to move from here.
In order to accommodate the digital needs and reduce “fiddling with the projector/computer/changing discs between artists” time, Please submit your digital images (NO MORE THAN 5!) in jpeg format to me at jenny.walton@gmail.com before November 10th! Please make them a reasonable size and know that they will be projected. If you are unable to furnish digital images, please bring one (transportable up stairs) piece of work with you to the next meeting.
The 12 presentation slots are already filled for the November Meeting. **However, to get your work in the line-up for December, please submit them here as well. Slots are filled on first come first serve basis.**
4-agenda items for November meeting
~Status of returned surveys
~10 – 12 people show slides
~Schedule new group to show slides as necessary
~Ideas about ideas
~Do we want to start a list of possible goals for the next 6 months-year?
~Set Agenda for December meeting
Monday, October 8, 2007
SPARKPLUG MEETING ON OCTOBER 14
Meet at DCAC at 6:45 PM on Sunday October 14th. Right now plans are to meet in the gallery. Help with setting up a table and chairs will be greatly appreciated. If you feel like bringing something to share, I'm sure refreshments would also be appreciated, but not required.
4 points for discusion:
WHERE to meet and do we set a regular schedule,
WOULD you mind filling out a survey, that way we can get a more quantifiable idea of the skills that are being brought to Sparkplug and what interests people are coming to Sparkplug to develop collectively,
HOW do we begin to develop the IDEAS that will hold together a collective of people, their respective art work and an eventual exhibition. SUGGESTION: Please write down one idea you have for collectively generating ideas,
AGENDA ideas for the next meeting
4 points for discusion:
WHERE to meet and do we set a regular schedule,
WOULD you mind filling out a survey, that way we can get a more quantifiable idea of the skills that are being brought to Sparkplug and what interests people are coming to Sparkplug to develop collectively,
HOW do we begin to develop the IDEAS that will hold together a collective of people, their respective art work and an eventual exhibition. SUGGESTION: Please write down one idea you have for collectively generating ideas,
AGENDA ideas for the next meeting
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