Workshops we did with the New Genre XIX visting artists

Every year, Living Arts of Tulsa has something called the New Genre Festival. Several artists come in from around the world to present their work to the Tulsa public for 3 weeks.

WHAT IS NEW GENRE?
New Genre refers to non-traditional forms of art, which are experimental
and fresh.  The New Genre Festival presents a diverse range of artists, many
of whom cross disciplinary lines, to create exciting new art works.  These
works push the limits of traditional media while incorporating the new media
made possible by today’s technology.

Artists and Artist group from the past include:
Cloud Eye Control
Kristina Wong
Emily Johnson
Eileen Doktorski
José Torres Tama  
Dave Gedosh
URSULA SCHERRER & MICHELLE NAGAI 
and many, many more

Some of the artist from New Genre Festival XIX (2012) include:
Kathy Rose
Lindsey Allgood
Erica Mott 
tEEth 
Benjamin Entner 
Laura Tanner 
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Artist Benjamin Entner instructed a workshop with the ArtCore students and guests on how to create inflatable sculpture and installation artwork.

 The students first created a shape that would be simple to turn into a 3D form (i.e. a cube, pyramid, bannana), by drawing it on a piece of paper. Then, they carefully cut it out, brought it over to the projector, set up a large piece of Tyvec on the wall, then adjusted the shadow of their projected shape to where it fit on the piece of Tyvek. They then traced the shadow, cut it out, sewed the seams, leaving a small opening for something to blow it up (i.e. a blow dryer).

The kids had a blast with this!

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Artist Erica Mott encouraged the students to think outside the box with incorporating performance and objects:

Artist Kathy Rose teaches the students about using projections, objects, and shadows to create art:

The ArtCore Program at Living Arts

The Spring 2012 ArtCore Studio project is entitled “Color My Dreams”. The students are exploring various subjects and imagery of dreams (such as flying, falling, loss, happiness, safety, etc) , all either positive and/or negative. We are conveying this imagery through the use of projections and artworks created by the students to be set up as a “dream-like” environment, inviting the onlooker to step into their dreams.
The students have chosen to create imagery of nightmares and dreams. Colors that are associated with both the positive and negative are explored through sculptural, 2D, and video work. Warmer colors, such as red and orange, are associated with nightmares, and cooler colors, such as blue and purple, are associated with dreams.
The video projections created were made to represent dreams being projected from one’s mind. There will be an area for the audience to lie down and view some projections, as well as on the walls and various objects. The students will also be creating shadows on the live projection screen, over the video that was made earlier of them doing the same thing. This is meant to create a sort of “dream with in a dream”.
-Mery McNett

Made possible with assistance from the Oklahoma Arts Council.

NEW paintings

Working on a new series of paintings, hoping that they turn out better than my last.

My NEW art videos

"Mannlegur Garður" or "Human Garden"  

by Mery McNett

Experiments in Color

by Mery McNett

NEW FORMAT

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN CHANGED DUE TO A MISTAKE ON MY PART. IF YOU HAVE COME HERE LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, YOU WILL NOT FIND IT.

Deuteronomy

This is very interesting...Here is the whole of Deuteronomy 22: 5-12 (NIV). Should 5 even be taken seriously when grouped with the others?

(5) A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.

(6) If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.

(7) You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that all may go well with you and you may have a long life.

(8) When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.

(9) Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.

(10) Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

(11) Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

(12) Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

So, I better not go to the store and buy chicken and eggs together....plant tomatoes and spinach in a garden which I should not plow with a donkey and an ox...and oh yea...I shouldn't wear pants.