Here is a collection of many types of dolls, some he has made, others he has collected.
He has a tiny studio called JoJo’s Closet, filled with dolls and costumes that he has made or collected. This is something that he’s been doing for years, and many of the dolls are made with human hair, horse teeth, and stitched up with voodo love oil, so whoever ends up with the doll will love it and be loved by it. This detail is of a large doll that is worn by a stilt walker, towering above the crowd.
But the main reason we went was to meet JoJo Baby.
At the end of this little video you get a glimpse of JoJo baby, he’s this amazing artist who we went to meet and he gave us a tour of the whole building. There is a little bit of everything here, I’d say overall conceptual artists, painters, photographers and film makers, one place we stopped into was POP Chicago Gallery which was in the style of Roy Lichenstein. Some pretty cool stuff.
to the The Flat Iron Arts Building, which is a funky old place, mostly artist’s studios and a drama collective with a few private businesses. I can start the tour backwards with what we ended up looking at, which was the remnants of a mural project called “Now You See it, Now You Don’t”. For a big gallery festival awhile back a bunch of muralists came in and covered the walls in the corridors with their work, most now has been painted over (art is not eternal) and a few remain~
Flat Iron Arts Building in Wicker Park
“Father State” sculpture by Thomas Shuute, 2009
Next: Lunch with Visiting Sound Artist Nick Collins
There we looked at exhibits in sound, video and fashion art (sorry no pictures were allowed of this) as well as the current exhibit on Roy Lichtenstein.ВP It was a great way to end of the day by taking in a lot of art.
Entering the Contemporary Wing of The AIC
and . Both are graduates of the MFA program at SAIC and both are working artists in teachers in new media, sound art, image processing, video, and much more. Lets just say multi-disciplined. After a welcoming meal on Sunday evening we went to our main classroom on Sunday to meet Matt and Alan. They gave us the lowdown on what the coming week would look like, lectures, visiting artists at lunch, lab work, and lots of demos on new equipment, technology, building stuff, programming, and image processing. Subsequent posts will go into greater detail on all of this. After lunch and a briefing of the week ahead we went across the street to the contemporary wing of The Art Institute of Chicago.
Extraordinary Instructors with a great sense of humour
So I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in this week long workshop with fellow Visual Art teachers from throughout the U.S. Sponsored byВP Continuing Education at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, we had a PACKED week of instruction with two fun and very knowledgeable teachers:
next post: Nick Collins,ВP visits on Tuesday
This included a review of some of the projects that they have worked on. You can see a list of Alan’s on his cv at http://alanstrathmann.com Matt talked about his work with electro composing music and the creation of “acoustic ecology soundscapes”. Matt is the co-founder of , based in Toronto, which was originally intended to be a vehicle to release their own music and grown into a curatorial project. Matt finished up his talk with a description of an all night event in Montreal that incorporated large raw speakers spread over a large area and the need to use semaphore flag signaling to communicate cues to the various performers.
After a busy morning we went back to the classroom for lunch and to have our brains stuffed with ideas and information by Alan and Matt.
Our group of 12 split in two; half of us went in for a laser cutting demo while the other got instruction on the 3d scanners. Both were very informative, and I’m in the process of editing the videos that I shot of these demos. The laser cutting can be seen here (right now four of five parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3IFjJwm_s&feature=youtu.be I will update this blog when I’ve completed all of the videos. Some bits and pieces that a got from Jordan at the High Output Center: You can make a 3d scanner from an easily modified Xbox connect ($100) and freeware from Matherix 3dify http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rL7o3OX8LEВP I also learned the difference between a cracker (evil one who does malicious things with computers) and a hacker (cool people who break stuff apart to build even cooler things).ВP And check out the thingavirse http://www.thingiverse.com/ВPВP website to see really cool things made from scanning and outputting to 3d printers. You can also check out Makerbot http://www.makerbot.com/
Monday July 16th:12 We started right in with a visit to the
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