On the long drive home from an inexplicably weighty day of teaching, I thought these things:
I teach the children to make the art to make the money to make the work to be an artist.
I must actively be making the art to earn the title of “teaching artist.”
When I am teaching so much that I [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Whose Art is it anyway?
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged art, catch-22, paycheck, sustainability, teaching artist on 27 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Loonar eclipse of the heart.
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, performance, tagged beer, grant proposal, lunar eclipse, money, sleep on 20 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am losing my fondness for writing today due to this hopeful/insufferable grant proposal.
I read an entire kids’ book out loud en español, and I do not speak the language.
I finally got paid this afternoon. One down, ? to go.
Kalamazoo Porter is delicious (the ex-Bells’ beer famine is over!). Thank you.
This lunar eclipse was brilliant [...]
Peepshow crows.
Posted in artist practice, observation, performance, teaching artist, tagged blue jay, burlesque, carcass, crow, great-tailed grackle, mourning dove, peepers, peepshow, performance on 19 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Before I dive into Everything today, I must say out loud that I have been thinking of incorporating more than just the sound of crows into my performances, I want to start using their imagery as well. I have used the angry, tattered din of blue jays and the lonely, resigned coos of mourning [...]
Yarrr! The Dreaded Artist Statement!
Posted in artist practice, performance, tagged artist statement, entropy, hairball, performance, pirate, process, revision on 18 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes feels like it will be the death of me, and I’ve only just begun writing several of them for my multitude of endeavours. Being a person who is rather thinky and branchy by nature, to ask myself to actually sit still for once and analyze the who what where when why of it all [...]
Everybody get stoopid!
Posted in artist practice, observation, performance, tagged episodic, irony, little bug, memory, performance, semantic, super8, therefore on 16 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In trying to remember what I learned today of note, then barely being able to remember the basics of what I even did all day, what I did remember was this interview I heard on Fresh Air yesterday (?) with a woman who wrote a book about the normal memory loss which accompanies growing older. [...]
I am my own community.
Posted in teaching artist, tagged community, empowerment, PSA, teaching artist on 14 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twenty-two degrees at 8am on a sporadically sunny Valentine’s Day. I’ll take it. Today I am taking to one of my classes a huge bag of my recyclables, not so the children can see what I eat, but as props for a Public Service Announcement project we are diligently working on. Yeah, [...]
Sunshine.
Posted in observation, tagged health insurance, nankeen cotton, sunshine on 13 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t remember when I last saw the sky. The sun is coming down so big I am pretty certain I can hear it ringing. The snow is great and all, tons of fun kamikaze sledding at the park sans health insurance, but nothing else is going to make my cotton grow this [...]
I never thought I’d see the day…
Posted in teaching artist, tagged chicago, jessi appleseed, muffins, teaching artist, why on 12 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…when I actually created a blog. Mm-mm. I was lying in bed this morning on random February day off #2 thinking, Why keep my experiences as a teaching artist to myself when they could be of help to someone? And, Maybe this will keep me in a good habit of learning to [...]
