Author Archives: jolanta

Many of Mellencamp’s paintings are portraits of anonymous subjects known only to the artist.  However the varied facial expressions trigger a curiosity that becomes a desire which takes one into the medium and surface of the painting itself, showing how visually arresting subject matter does not have to be drawn from a commonly-known sign system.  […]

  Presented by director Jim Hubbard and producer Sarah Schulman, UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP documents the birth and life of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from the perspective of those in the trenches, who fought the epidemic, social indifference, government neglect, and corporate greed. Using remarkably insightful interviews from […]

In regards to art history, I think it’s both linear and simultaneous. I mean, at this moment all information and art is always already present, and it’s all interrelated to what we make now, like some non-prioritized google search, like buoys on the ocean. Of course, I have a team of artists I want to […]

  Scavenging bricks and wood for kiln-building, camping overnight at outdoor firing sites, throwing hundreds of pots a day, and making your own pottery tools. It’s difficult to imagine students embarking on a ceramics course like this today. Yet for the last half-century, teaching ‘hands-on’ skills to ensure self-sufficiency as a working potter was the […]