Todd Stands Interview: Documenting the Chicano Park Mural Restoration
Todd Stands is a multi-skilled artist with 30 years of public art experience. He was invited to be a part of million dollar restoration project of the murals at Chicano Park. Lucky for history he is also an excellent photographer. While working on the murals Todd would bring along his camera and document the painstaking...
Leonard Koren Interview: Making WET
Leonard Koren published WET Magazine for 5 1/2 years between 1976 and 1981 as part of a creative and philosophical experiment he called “gourmet bathing.” WET Magazine became his primary vehicle of expression during that time. Overt definition equals death for artistic ideas so Leonard has maintained a refusal to define explicitly what gourmet bathing...
Reclaimed Library at UCSD
From SignOn San Diego: Students ‘reclaim’ UCSD library By Pat Flynn Originally published December 5, 2011 at 1:59 p.m., updated December 5, 2011 at 5:38 p.m. LA JOLLA — Students forced open the doors of a shuttered University of California San Diego library Monday and rushed inside, vowing to stay around the clock until the end of...
Reading Series: Kim Koga & Ken White, Saturday 12/3, 7pm
We hope you can join us for our last reading of 2011 on Saturday, December 3 at 7pm for a reading at Agitprop by poets Kim Koga and Ken White. Kim Koga is the author of Ligature Strain (Tinfish Press 2011). She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame where she co-edited two...
Épater La Jeunesse
Like other art museums The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles hosts an annual gala event, with the goal of extracting surplus wealth from donors. The time-honored quid pro quo in this transaction is entertainment, and MOCA’s newly-acquired director Jeffrey Deitch has proven himself a master of pushing the notion toward the poles of art...
Thanks for the experience
Turn on/Tune in/Drop out/Log on The awesomeness of Steve Jobs has been given a canonical accounting with the publication of Walter Isaacson’s 570-page authorized biography of his life. So just how did Jobs transmogrify the world? The CEO Messiah of User Experience claimed he did it by standing at the intersection of technology and liberal...
CALL FOR ENTRIES AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS 2012
CALL FOR ENTRIES AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS 2012 JURIED PRINTMAKING & BOOK ART EXHIBITION All Traditional and Digital Print Media Exhibition Dates January 30 – March 9, 2012 Submissions Deadline Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Organized by the University Galleries at William Paterson University, American Impressions is an annual juried printmaking exhibition featuring traditional and digital print media...
Call for Papers Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
Call for Papers Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Volume 6, Number 3 (Spring 2013) Grassroots Politics in the Postcolony Papers must be received by September 15, 2012 to be considered for publication in this issue. Please send manuscript publications to the managing editor: Leslie Shortlidge shortlidge.2@osu.edu. See Style Guidelines at www.raceethnicity.org. Submission of artwork for the cover that...
Mini Mobile Museum of Sweeteners -Kickstarter deadline Nov. 29th
From The Sugar Museum’s Kickstarter page: “My project is a mini mobile museum of sweeteners, which I call MMMsweet cart. The mobile cart presents information about artificial and natural sweeteners by traveling the streets of San Diego and possibly other cities in the future. Adults and kids will be invited to participate by taste testing sweeteners,...
11/5 Agitprop Reading & Performance Series: Kristi Maxwell & Stephanie Balzer
We hope you can join us, Saturday November 5th, for November’s exciting Agitprop Reading & Performance Series event. This month, we are lucky to have two poets hailing from Arizona: Kristi Maxwell and Stephanie Balzer. Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008), Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl Press, 2008), and Hush...
Exit interview: Susan Myrland looks back on Art San Diego 2011
Susan Myrland‘s career is difficult to put into a box. Her resume includes stints with both for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has done TV production, interactive video communications, internet and management consulting and has her own consulting firm, Silvergate. The most recent chapter in her career was marked by her completion of a Museum Studies...
Art(ist) in Context II: Encore Performance 10/28/11 8pm
…a short performance by Collective Magpie (Melinda Barnadas and Tae Hwang), Andrew Printer, Eddie Miramontes, Jessica Sledge and David White. Art(ist) in Context II: or How I Learned to Scrub the City of Undesirable Elements and InScribe Economic Viability onto the Urban Landscape imagines the stage of the Agitprop space as a speakeasy and a...