This crazy week of skits and rhyme, Hey, its secret santa time! So come make something for your Santee or something for the Kirkland tree! A gift, a treat, an ornament ? Whatever you make it is time well spent. Ribbons, bows and sparkles bright! Cookies and art supplies in the night. You'll find this in the dining hall, So come on Kirkland, one and all!
Late night decoration station Tuesday at 8:00pm in the dining hall
Design ornaments for the Kirkland tree. Pick up a lino-print block for carving (we will make prints on December 6th- for holiday cards) reindeer design via tuttistudio Make your Santee something from the heart...a painting, sketch or portrait!
Is your house on fire, Clark? No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.
Extra Special PhotoContest!!! You can win a $10 gift certificate to Peet's Coffee and Tea! And then you can give it to your secret Santee or buy yourself a double tall, cinnamon, gingerbread, non-fat with whip and nutmeg sprinkle latte... mmm.
Contest: Best Thanksgiving Break Photo. Due, Nov 30th, Monday by 9:00pm. Winner will be announced on Tuesday the 1st.
Rules: It just has to be a photo that you took. Photoshop, okay. Click and Run, okay. Poloroid, Digital, Film, okay, okay, okay!
What are we looking for? Originality and creativity. This doesn't have to be a Thanksgiving-y photo, you just have to have taken it during the break :)
How to submit: Just send your photo to Kirsten.
Good luck photogs and shutterspeed!
and now your Kirkland Art roundup...
Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art at the MFA. also The SMFA's celebrated annual sale, with thousands of pieces of fine art from one of the best art schools in the country is on tomorrow! bio diversity
artist of the day: Jeff Sheng! I taught with Jeff in California, he is a cool guy. He is a photographer, portrait artist and commercial fashion photographer. He also went to Harvard as an undergrad, at VES. Here is his website.
enjoy! xoxo
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
One day in the mid-1980s, Dakis Joannou, a Greek Cypriot industrialist, was exploring the art galleries of the East Village in Manhattan when he came upon a basketball suspended in a tank of liquid...NYT
The Kirkland Drama Society presents William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST Friday, November 13, 8pm Saturday, November 14, 8pm Kirkland Junior Common Room Free of charge. Refreshments served.
Image is German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's “The Wreck of the Hope” (1824) via Tempest at Novella review.
ReadMiddle Groundan article in The Crimson by Meredith Steuer, Aiming to educate a Western viewer, Islamic art on campus balances social and aesthetic value.
The First Friday of each month, over 3 dozen Guild member artists and others open their studios at 450 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118. Meet the artists in their element and view their latest works.
There is a lot going on in the fascinating world of art Kirkland! Now that midterms are over, costumes are shed and all is well in K-house, you must have so much free time on your hands for art events! Well, maybe not, but please check out some of these links and get your daily dose of art culture... one little link won't hurt you!
Thursday, Nov 5th, 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations across Disciplines M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. This gathering will explore recent trends in which art museums collaborate in training health-care professionals. Some of the programs support the development of observation and diagnostic skills, while others foster empathy, build community, or enhance cultural understanding.
Interested in the Graduate School of Design? This Friday, Nov 6th they are having an admissions open house!
Also, check out talk with landscape architect Patrick Blanc on Nov 3 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm in Piper Auditorium.
NEED $$$MONEY $$$ FORYOUR ART??? Be sure to apply by the Wednesday, November 18th deadline for Harvard's Office of the Arts grants and subsidies submissions! Contact your art tutors for help and tips on how to make a great grant proposal. Click here for a link to the information and good luck!
Dia de los Muertos fiesta today!!! Presented at Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology An evening of music and dance. La Tuza plays their signature Son. 5:30pm!FREE!
Workshop with Tim Miller today! Harvard Dance Center Internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller teaches students methods for generating autobiographical performances, using creative exercises from a range of disciplines, including drama, contemporary dance, physical theatre, and contact improvisation. FREE!
Miller's creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller's performances have been presented all over North America, Australia, and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS and 1001 BEDS, which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. His solo theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of Theology at Claremont and at universities all over the US. Legendary Susan Vega at 8:00 on Friday in Sanders Theatre! Artist of the Day: Lori Nix Lori Nix LOST, Nevada Lori Nix SOME OTHER PLACE, Floater
For upcoming Art Workshops and Events in the dining hall, please check this site and your Kirkland House calendar. Please give us feedback on your interests and what you would like to see happen with the arts lounge and your art tutors!
Design ornaments for the Kirkland tree.
reindeer design via tuttistudio
