Critical Response

"Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18'
Douglas Argue
"Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18' - showing scale of the painting
Douglas Argue

Detail of "Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18'
Douglas Argue

This 5-minute audio (with pictures) is a fascinating example of an educator taking a student (who states that he is indifferent to art) through the critical response process. The level of understanding that he reaches during this process is amazing. His initial statement was, “I don’t get art.” The artwork is "Untitled”, a painting by Douglas Argue which is on exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum.

http://junocollective.org/movs/alstons_cr_keynote.mov

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To view more of Douglas Argue’s art, please visit his website:
http://www.dougargue.com/

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“Critical Response is a structured process that allows responders to pay close attention to a particular piece of art, text or a performance.” This process is one that we as artists can use when dialoguing with a viewer about our art, or on our selves when we find ourselves engaged with someone else’s art that we may or may not “get”. Five questions are to be asked and responded to (with emphasis on “There are no wrong answers”) - The Critical Response Tool:

http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/sites/daf1e7b3-5a92-4df1-9b5c-67189b22643f/uploads/Critical_Response_Protocol_2.doc

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Additional examples of Critical Response in action:
http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/Tool_in_Action_CR

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Developed by Minnesota’s Perpich Center for Arts Education for the Minneapolis Public School System, Critical Response was designed for artists who teach and for “artful” teachers.

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Also available is the Artful Teaching and Learning Handbook

this 158 page free e-book (http://www.pcae.k12.mn.us/pdr/HANDBOOK6_7.pdf) is “Full of tools, processes and examples from its field sites, the handbook offers the practitioner research-based support for building arts based and arts infused learning.” (a hard copy version also is available).

Dottie Moore Interviews Hollis Chatelain

"Precious Water"

85" x 77"

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The work of Hollis Chatelain is evocative and emotional, mesmerizing by its beauty – compelling in its message.

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Working deeply, Hollis Chatelain infuses her art with power and meaning speaking elegantly and eloquently about many difficult and pervasive social, political and environmental issues that occur worldwide.

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In her work, Hollis also provides us with a glimpse into the richness and traditions of other cultures, evoking a sense in the viewer of the inherent dignity and worth of each person portrayed.

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A 36-minute audio interview of Hollis Chatelain by Dottie Moore on the LadybugLive! Internet Radio website can be accessed via: http://ladybuglive.com/audio/gallery9.wma

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To learn more about Hollis Chatelain and

to view more of her art, visit her website:

http://www.hollisart.com

Dottie Moore Interviews Bernie Rowell

Nests x 25

(canvas, paint, thread nests, transparent overlays)

Each month, Dottie Moore publishes interviews of women artists around the world about their creative processes on the LadybugLive! Internet Radio website.

A 35-minute audio interview of Contemporary Quilt Artist Bernie Rowell can be accessed via:
http://ladybuglive.com/audio/gallery26.wma

On her website, Bernie Rowell states that her "mixed-media canvases are painted, pieced and then quilted. This quilted presentation gives tactile references to home, family and the whole history of women's work." To learn more about Bernie and her work, visit her website:

http://bernierowell.com/

Gee's Bend Quilters - A National Treasure

Innumerable amounts of money have been and continue to be made off the art produced by the Gee’s Bend quilters . Now coming out into the light are details about how very little of it these national treasures have received.

An article published in the June 5, 2007 issue of the Press-Register announced the lawsuit filed by Annie Mae Young against Tinwood Ventures and others:

Gee’s Bend Quilters Claim Big Rip-Off
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1181035097167800.xml&coll=3

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/2fho5j

Published in today's (June 15, 2007) Press Register, an extensive article gives more details:

Gee's Bend: A Fight for Rights
http://bama.live.advance.net/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1181899233121920.xml&coll=3&thispage=1

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/39f3kx

For more information about the Gee’s Bend quilters:

Fabric of Their Lives – Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/geesbend.php

Quilters of Gee’s Bend – 60 minute audiocast – June 3, 2005
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2005/06/20050603_b_main.asp

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend – NPR audiocast – February 4, 2003
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=970364

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend – PBS Streaming video – July 1, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec03/quilts_07-01.html

Quilts of Gee’s Bend Catalogue – Images of 61 of the Gee’s Bend quilts
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/explore/catalog/slideshow/index.htm

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Article (2000) about Mary Lee Bendolph by J. R. Moehringer of the Lost Angeles Times – August 22, 1999
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2000/feature-writing/works

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend in Context – Auburn University
http://auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/home.html

Freedom and Order: The Masterpieces of Gee’s Bend
http://www.aestheticrealism.net/Quilts-Gees-Bend-AB.html

Drop the Needle
http://www.thecoast.ca/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-05-03&-token.story=150495.113118&-token.subpub=

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend – Tinwood Ventures website
http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/

From Museum to Housewares: Marketing Gee’s Bend Quilts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A13948-2004Feb27¬Found=true

Interview with Bill Arnett – Alabama Public Television
http://www.aptv.org/AS/GeesBend/QuiltmakersTranscripts/billarnett.asp

Quilts of Gee’s Bend – videoclip
http://www.centerforthequilt.org/specialfeatures/quiltsofgeesbend.html

2-Minute Vidcast Preview of The Quiltmaker’s of Gee’s Bend 60-Minute DVD Produced by Alabama Public Television
http://www.aptv.org/AS/GeesBend/Preview.asp

Where Quilting Becomes Art – Barbara Sloan
http://www.edpa.org/docs/partners-magazine/w06art6.pdf

The Culture of Civil Rights: “Now They Call it Art”
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/civil5_gees_bend.html

The Power of Color in the Art World – This is a book review of The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit by Andrew Dietz http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200603/ai_n17184448

YouTube videos:

The Quilter’s of Gee’s Bend, Alabama Clip 1 – 1 ½-minute YouTube video – Quiltmaker Revil Mosely of Gee's Bend, Alabama, talks about how she got started quilting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLxIGZNLt_Q

The Quilter’s of Gee’s Bend, Alabama Clip 2 – 30 second-minute YouTube video – Loretta Pettway of Gee's Bend, Ala., talks about her community's internationally acclaimed quiltmaking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvNLX3xRSDs

The Quilter’s of Gee’s Bend, Alabama Clip 3 – 40-second YouTube video - Louisiana Bendolph talks about how quiltmaking is inherited in the celebrated community of Gee's Bend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72kMuLX2uCQ

The Quilter’s of Gee’s Bend, Alabama Clip 4 – 30-second YouTube video – Matriarch quiltmaker Mary Lee Bendolph explains how the women of Gee's Bend, Ala., never thought of their beautiful quilts as works of art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxGvFxSjYE

Year of Alabama Arts – Gee’s Bend Quilters – 30-second YouTube video – The beautiful quilts of Gee's Bend, Ala., speak a language all their own. To learn more about these incredible women and Alabama's many other creative talents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdpOkLdtM50

Incubating the Innovative Quilt - Michael James

This is a 30-minute talk by Michael James that was presented February 15, 2007 at the opening of the "Give and Take" exhibit. This exhibition paired quilts created by Quilt Surface Design Symposium instructors with those created by their students. http://g2.unl.edu:8080/ramgen/programs/IQSC/QSDSLecture.rm