Who designed the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots?
Canadian-designed Vancouver 2010 plush mascot – Miga, the Sea-Bear. Miga is wearing the Vancouver 2010 must-have memento – Red Mittens.
The designers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic mascots (Quatchi, Miga and Sumi… and Mukmuk) is Meomi (MEOMI is Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy (Vancouver / Los Angeles).
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s
above image from Newark Museum website
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s, investigates the formative geometric abstract art movements of Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. On view from February 17 through May 23, 2010 at the Newark Museum, this exhibition is the first to explore the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists in the Americas.
Featured are more than 90 paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films drawn from the collection of the Newark Museum, along with loans from public and private collections and galleries across both continents. Artists include Alexander Calder, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Geraldo de Barros and many others. Constructive Spirit is organized by Mary Kate OHare, Associate Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum.
Newark Museum – 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102-3176 - www.newarkmuseum.org/
If you are unable to attend the exhibition, I highly recommend viewing their podcast which will give you a marvelous overview of this wonderful exhibition. – CLICK HERE
Link via: art agenda
Digital Art – Art Numérique
Above Image credit: artist/photographer “didier du 92″ as displayed
at online photo gallery www.zphoto.fr/
CLICK HERE to view more of Didier’s images
I came upon Didier’s incredible images above in a somewhat odd way. I thought to myself, hum…what if I did a Google Image search with the French translation of the term: Digital Art. And sure enough up popped some fantastic works that incorporated the title or tags “Art Numerique”. Perhaps you may want to try it sometime if you are seeking inspiration or specific research documents that may originate in a different language.
Imprint – A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Imprint – A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: January 21-February 21, 2010 • Reception: February 11, 6-8pm
Gallery Talk: 7pm with juror Jane Haslem • Printmaking Demonstration: 7:30-8pm
Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA, USA
Website: www.torpedofactory.org - CLICK HERE to view artwork in the exhibition
Image Credit: Artist – Meredith Setser (IN) – Angry Dragon II
Etching and Mixed Media – 26 x 25” from Target Gallery website
“Meredith Setser has two works in the show, one a magnificent combination of mixed media and etching, Angry Dragon II, and Crewel Wasting Disease, etching, resin polymer clay. Both colorful images seem to spring from an organic source. They appear to be something wonderful viewed through a microscope.”
Quote from Juror’s Statement by Jane Haslem
Works displayed in the IMPRINT Exhibition showcase the following printmaking processes (techniques):
- Etching and Mixed Media
- Mezzotint
- Monotype (Intaglio)
- Screen Print
- Collagraph
- Intaglio
- Cyanotype, Monoprint
- Softground etching
- Woodcut, Screenprint, Collage, Sewing
- Collograph with Oil Pastel detail
- Lithograph
- Monotype, Colored Pencil, Chine Colle, Thread, Ink on Paper
- Photoetching, Softground, Monoprint
- Monoprint
- Linocut, Hand Colored
- Multicolor Solar Intaglio with Drypoint
- Dry Point
- Lithograph, Guache
- Silkscreen, Collage
- Intaglio Etching, Relief, Mylar, Cut Paper, Grommets, Paint Markers
- Etching, Aquatint
- Serigraph, Mixed Media
- Soft-ground Etching
- Archival Ink on Paper
- Woodcut with Hand Coloring, Rice, Plastic Container
- Digigraph
- Archival Pigment Print, Screenprint
- Woodcut, Monotype on Kitakata, Stitching
- Etching, Resin, Polmer Clay
- Etching with Viscosity
Spring Cleaning – Online Stuff
Raw Emotion ©2008 Carol Cooper
This week I decided to pull some works from 2008 and set up an archive gallery to store them within this blog. If you would like to take a peek CLICK HERE or the permanent tab is located at the top of the blog heading, it’s titled “Archived Series”.
WP Photo Album Plus | Author: J.N. Breetvelt / Rubin J. Kaplan (up to version 1.5.1) is the plugin I am using. I found it quite easy to install and work with. You can even set up sub-albums within a main album. Customizing the CSS is a breeze with the plugin editor found within the WordPress admin section. I truly believe WordPress is one Very Cool CMS framework!
Oogly Woogly Miss Helen CJOH
Miss Helen drawing my favourite childhood character – Oogly Woogly (the little boy worm)
Another show – Uncle Chichimus
You Can’t DO that on Television – (yes, that’s Alanis Morissette in the second row, far right)
On January 29, 1979, CJOH aired the first episode of this television series. YCDTOTV aired live on Saturday mornings with musical guests, games, slap-stick humor and call-in segments.
I was so saddened to hear the news about the fire at the CTV Ottawa building, especially sad is the loss of the archives, read today’s CTV news article – so many great shows were aired on the ( CJOH ) station back when I was a child. I fondly remember the Miss Helen show which was my favourite!
image credits: CJOH 40th Anniversary photos
