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With 3Arts at GIA

I just returned from Philadelphia, where I attended the GIA Support for Individual Artists Preconference as an artist respondent, and then introduced the image below at the main conference, on a panel that centered on communication between artists and grantors,

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SAIC Sabbatical Exhibition

Coming in December 2013: I will show new work at SAIC Faculty Projects at the Sullivan Galleries. December 14, 2013–February 15, 2014 Reception: Friday, December 13, 4:30–7:00 p.m. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council

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Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center

Here’s documentation:  Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center, featuring the first Fractal Matrix:

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Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center, September 9 – 22, 2013

Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center September 9 – 22, 2013 In the context of an Arts Economies seminar, a group of SAIC Arts Administration and Policy graduate students, with professor Adelheid Mers, were invited by the Evanston Art Center

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Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Philadelphia, October 5-9, 2013

Catch me twice: Sunday: Preconference Panel – http://conference.giarts.org/preconference-support-individual-artists.html Monday: Conference Panel – http://conference.giarts.org/sessions/mon22.html

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At the Evanston Art Center with the Arts Economies course

This summer, a group of SAIC grad students and I are looking at Arts Organizations and audiences in Evanston, on invitation of the Evanston Art Center. In September, we will mount an exhibition there. Here is a first response to conversations

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Repertoire as the basis of Critique

This one (from last summer) is based on Donald A. Schön’s “The Reflective Practitioner – How Professionals Think in Action.” His studies of professional conversations also include a studio critique setting.

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Process Aesthetics

Continued reading on theories of knowledge led to Nicholas Rescher’s writing on Process Philosophy. Here’s a first stab at connecting it to my thinking about critique, about Baumgarten’s aesthetics as a discussion of art making and appreciation, artist’s individual epistemes

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Adapting Techniques of Studio Critique for Arts Management Pedagogy

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Volume 43, Issue 2 Special Issue: Arts Management Education Adapting Techniques of Studio Critique for Arts Management Pedagogy Adelheid Mers pages 88-97 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10632921.2013.775980#.UciM6z6Uvip

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ETSU Outer Regions Follow-up: on diagram use

A discussion of diagram use throughout the roundtable conversations, “Complex Models”, Posted in Temporary Art Review.

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