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future fair may 1 - may 4, 2024 chelsea industrial booth T9 535 w 28th st, new york, ny Join us on May 1st at Future Fair where we will be presenting a solo booth with works by Joaquín Stacey-Calle from his ongoing series ‘Controlled Decay (Intimacy of Strangers).’ In this series the Ecuadorian-born and Los Angeles-based artist dives deep into the concept of forgetting by exploring the selective acts of omission, confusion, and ignorance in his own creative process. By consciously layering and omitting paint, the works delve into the deliberate choice to overlook and not represent certain aspects of images, questioning what deserves remembrance and what can be discarded. The practice simultaneously examines both the neglected and the highlighted aspects of our recollection, serving as a visual metaphor for the fragility of memory. The works also serve as a medium for contemplation, aiming to slow down the thought process and construct a new visual realm capable of encapsulating the artist’s ideas. Embracing ignorance as an essential element, Stacey-Calle utilizes it to provoke questions and nurture curiosity, constantly exploring the role of confusion within our memories. The artist also reflects on the significance of forgetting while exploring concepts of intelligence and thought. He finds inspiration in Jorge Luis Borges short story ‘Funes the Memorious.’ Here, Funes, after sustaining a head injury from a fall, gains the ability to remember everything. Initially embracing this as a gift, we ultimately begin to see that it slowly becomes a curse. -curated by homework. . . . . #homeworkgallery #experimentalartspaces #futurefair2024 #joaquinstaceycalle 

The next generation of #servicedesign practitioners can teach us great lessons. Here are 5 tips from Idoia Paucar Herrera on overcoming the complexity of research projects and boosting your motivation when projects get difficult.

When you hear the word museum... I bet you think of stately buildings where you JUST look to learn. Even the emoji selection for museums reflect this! 🖼 🏛 Museums have played it safe for too long with the same ol' exhibits behind glass. But that observation only approach is kind of boring. It's time to ditch the beaten path and get creative with how we engage visitors: 1. Immersive story worlds that make you feel transported, breaking down the barrier between you and the displays. 2. Hands-on maker spaces for visitors to tap into their creativity by crafting their own inspired pieces.  3. Interactive storytelling sessions where you're prompted to share your personal reflections sparked by the artifacts, fostering deep connections and enabling you to weave your own narratives. With innovative twists like these, museums become way more than dusty collections. They spark personal metamorphoses through active participation, human connection, and thought-provoking surprises. Let's turn museums into vital, mind-expanding purposeful playgrounds where visitors craft their own meaningful experiences - not just passive info consumption. You'll walk away personally empowered, emotionally resonant narratives brewing in your mind's eye. The possibilities are endless when we're willing to color outside the lines and let imagination bloom. Who's game to remake the museum experience? Peek Kohl Children's Museum and KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION who are about ready to open an ART exhibit... that has play elements! Love it. Big thanks to Vito Gioia, Jr. for the behind the scenes tour! #museum #innovation #changemakers #playbasedlearning #inspiredimpact

We started Compass North because we love making our community more art literate.  Ok, big term, homie. What does that even mean?  It’s the ability to engage critically with art and culture. It’s feeling comfortable and excited talking to your friend about the movie you saw together. It’s understanding how a piece of art created today relates to one from two hundred years ago. It’s being able to easily and clearly write about the concepts and intentions behind your own art.  Art can be weird and vague. Being art literate, you can view, process and contextualise it. It isn't about being a theory junkie. It's about moving toward a more fulfilling connection with art by being able to make meaning from it (and the larger world it connects us to). The more you do the following, the easier it gets: 1. Read more about art. Look up reviews after you visit a show. Subscribe to arts media newsletters for their latest articles (or to our sticky teeth reading lists!).  2. Practice sharing your thoughts and knowledge about art. Bring a journal to galleries and jot down notes, or chat with your friend describing what you do and don’t like about certain pieces.   To go a step further: book a consultation with us on how to build art literacy into your art space or art practice, whether for yourself, your team or your audiences. https://buff.ly/4eo81rN Image ID | A beige background with black text reading, "WHAT IS ART WORLD LITERACY?" above a photo of a stack of books. #ArtWorld #ArtistSupport

🔊 Call for Pitches to MMF: Publications Are you a museum worker, activist, scholar, or leader with a unique perspective on art museum workplaces? Submit your pitch for MMF: Publications! We’re now accepting pitches for articles that explore and expand our understanding of museum work through two primary lenses: 1. Voices on the Ground: Personal stories and insights from current and former museum workers. These narratives should illuminate opportunities for individual and collective change-making in the workplace. 2. Solutions-Oriented Analysis: Research and analysis that broaden and deepen our understanding of opportunities for change-making in art museums. These articles should connect with one of MMF’s research areas, including our biannual data study. If your piece does not fit into either of the above categories, you are still welcome to submit. We will work with authors who demonstrate a clear and urgent perspective on the field, regardless of format. Join us in shaping the future of museum work through writing and collaboration. We look forward to your contributions. 🔗Read more and submit a pitch here: https://lnkd.in/gnbVpmgN Deadline to submit: November 4, 2024

🎨 Calling all Artists! 🎨   Shaping the Future of Public Art: Join the Conversation! Are you looking to develop your art practice in the public realm?   Want to take your career to the next level and learn from public art consultants FrancisKnight? We are excited to announce the development of an innovative Public Art Practitioners Professional Development Programme, set to launch in early 2025! For over 20 years, FrancisKnight has led over 60 public art projects, and now, we’re building a dynamic new programme designed to support artists who want to grow their practice in the public realm. But we need your input! 🗣️ Your Voice Matters We’re reaching out to artists like you to help shape this programme. What do you need to develop your skills? What challenges are you facing in the sector? This is your chance to influence the creation of a unique, practitioner-focused learning experience tailored to elevate your work in public art. 💬 Take Our Quick Survey! We’re asking for just 5 minutes of your time to share your thoughts. Your feedback will be invaluable as we design a programme that truly meets the needs of emerging and established artists alike. Click here to take the survey: https://bit.ly/3BKMOuw 💡 Why Participate? Not only will you have the opportunity to influence this exciting programme, but by completing the survey, you’ll also be among the first to be notified when the programme launches.              Help us make this programme something special, and let’s work together to inspire, support, and develop the next generation of public art practitioners. 🗓️ Survey Deadline: Get your responses in early to stay informed! Please click https://bit.ly/3BKMOuw to give us your opinion by 6 November 2024. #PublicArt #ArtistDevelopment #FrancisKnight #CreativeCommunity #ArtInPublicSpaces #ProfessionalDevelopment #PublicArtPractitioners Image description: This image promotes the Public Art Practitioners Professional Development Programme Consultation Survey by FrancisKnight. It features photos of artists at work, collaborative planning sessions, and public art installations, highlighting the hands-on and educational focus of the programme.

Collaboration is a key value at CMYK Art Studio. Art Education tends to be a very individually focused—developing your skills, growing your creativity, showing your work. But I imagine something different. What if young creatives learned to work together, bringing each of their individual strengths to the table, to create in partnership, and learn from one another? We’d end up with some pretty crazy amazing ideas and projects! And if those young creatives grew up to work in creative fields, we’d have creative professionals that saw value in collaboration and not solely pushing forward their own ideas and concepts. That’s the fuel for innovation. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ekKdEu6g

Have you ever had times when you just can not get on the same page with your team when solving a problem? I wanted to share about this great human-centered design tool shared by Dana Silver on the American Alliance of Museums website. In this tool, she shares how you can embrace convergent and divergent thinking as central to both your problem space, "aka what really is the problem you are solving," and the "solution space." https://lnkd.in/gGFcCeFj

My friend Andi Cuddington introduced me to the idea of your Museum of Almost a few weeks ago. The Museum of Almost is the space in your mind where all of those projects that you almost launched or ideas you almost sketched out or books you almost wrote or trips you almost took are on display. Your museum might be a prominent spot, where the exhibits are well-tended and have lots of detail. Or it might be a more out of the way space, where dust gathers and the lights are flickering. I like this metaphor because it acknowledges the work that is involved with hanging on to almost finished projects. Sometimes it takes a while for the moment to be right or for an idea to develop. But what amount of time and energy is lost on these museums to inertia, to not just getting on with things? Talking through the Museum of Almost with Andi and some other Design Thinking Zeal colleagues did get me moving on a few illustration projects that have been kicking around my museum for a while. With the nudge of our conversation, I drew a few of them and felt true satisfaction and openness. Creating a bit more space in my Museum of Almost is freeing up energy to get some of those bigger projects moving. My museum has a few projects that I'm working away on, that will likely leave the exhibition space in the next year. There are others that are receding into the shadows. And there are a few in-between that I am truly unsure about. Here's to curating the Museum of Almost with care and attention. And to the projects that are ready to get booted out. #DesignThinking #Illustration #Research #PhDCareers #Facilitation

[CONCEPT] [REDO*] The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) is one of Seattle’s longest running artist-led exhibition platforms.  Founded in 1980, with James Turrell creating the inaugural exhibit, the organization has brought truly cutting edge artists to Seattle, including new media artists such as Nam June Paik, Einsturzende Neubauten and Survival Research Labs.  In recent decades the momentum of community led arts organizations has fluctuated in Seattle seeing closures of beloved institutions like MoM, Consolidated Works and 911 Media Arts.  CoCA recently survived yet another brink of collapse, with now Interim Executive Director Ray C. Freeman III preventing the previous board from shuttering the organization altogether in 2023. I’m imagining an exhibit here, partially because I’m planning on proposing one to include myself and other new media artists whom I’ve worked with in the past, but mostly because I believe we, as a city, are enriched when cultural organizations with an entwined history such as CoCA thrive. As usual this concept is multi-channel projection of custom generative software written by the artist in the Processing programming language. #art #installation #concept #architecture #processing #customsoftware #generative #projectionmapping  – - - * The original version of this concept rendering used a modified photo from another artist’s documentation that they considered to be inappropriate use.  I admire this artist’s work and honor their view on this usage, even if I don’t 100% agree with their perspective on fair use.  This new background image is modified from CoCAs own photo posted to Google Maps to represent the space.