way back in the day i promised to make a blog post about chinese moveable type so here i am! i found this very dramatic 5 minute video which claims that this studio in zhejiang province is solely responsible for keeping the wooden moveable type tradition alive in china today. Read more…
The still life tradition may have changed but it lives on. When I heard about our still life assignment, I was reminded of this instagram account that has amassed nearly 100k followers: @stillherestilllife The account hosts a weekly still life challenge. Each week, the prompt goes something like this: “Draw Read more…
My group for the intervention project is planning a projection artwork, so I wanted to look into how other artists have used the medium to comment on social issues. This article from 2017 discusses how projections have evolved as an alternative to graffiti, allowing artists to post protest messages in Read more…
Artist Vicki DaSilva creates artworks with light and long exposure images or videos. Many images of DaSilva’s work are available online. DaSilva’s light graffiti in particular tends to comment on social and political issues. DaSilva’s exterior pieces use light to alter the existing environment and architecture, creating partitions out of Read more…
Beginning in 2011 with the early uprisings against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the anonymous artist collective Alshaab Alsori Aref Tarekh (translated “The Syrian People Know Their Way”) has been posting numerous revolutionary graphics online. I thought this would be interesting to share as we are starting our moving poster project Read more…
Thinking about our upcoming project to make a college from found images, I wanted to share the work of a friend of a friend. She is a collage artist in Philly. You can check out some of her work on her instagram @avanialvarez Though she works in print mediums and Read more…
Occupy Wall Street in 2011, a protest movement against economic inequality, inspired artists Ivan Cash and Andy Dao to create these “Occupy George” currency stamps. They posted the designs to their website for anyone to download and use. The idea was to stamp dollar bills with messages about economic inequality Read more…
Another post about the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum has been closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, just recently opening its doors again. I got the chance to go this weekend, so I wanted to highlight one of the installations I really enjoyed that also connects to Read more…
When I was reading the chapter of Speculative Everything, I was reminded of an exhibition I visited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last Winter. The exhibition was called “Designs for Different Futures” (I’ve linked a page with images of some of the featured artworks). It featured designs that responded Read more…
OK, admittedly, this has nothing to do with what we’re learning, but when I saw these pieces on thisiscolossal.com, I couldn’t resist sharing them to the blog. These pieces are by Ava Roth. I highly suggest you check out her instagram for more of her artworks that are not featured Read more…