Todays Crit Group Meeting

Today’s meeting went extremely well!!!!! Lots accomplished!!!!!

 We decided on meeting ONCE A WEEK, on every TUESDAY,  at 7pm, understanding that this may be of difficulty for many of you….sorry. This is why we are going be maintaining a blog which will have info of all discussions and accomplishments of the  meetings to keep everyone up to date. In addition the blog will be utilized as a means of communication, sharing of work and ideas, thoughts etc. Everyone will have access. Here is a link to the blog and from now on any and all info will be posted here.

 

http://artistartartcritique.blogspot.com

 

With that being said the next meeting will once again be at my house next TUESDAY, June 30th @ 7pm. Come with your ideas and thoughts and constructive criticism, no more Mr. Nice Guys @ crits ha ha j/k but not really. Be there or be square.

 

As far as the functioning of this weekly crit group, we decided that it would be best if everyone showed up with ideas or work, if possible to transport, to discuss. Sketches thoughts ideas whatever you are working on at the time that you feel like getting feed back on, this is where the blog will come in handy for one to post current work to give an idea of what you were talking about as well as for those who cannot often make the meetings to comment on. Studio or work space visits will be planned for future meetings for larger pieces. There will also be readings and or films handed out every now and then for further discussion. The reading I will be handing out next week is the intro and first chapter of Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space. I believe Kevin Tobin also had some readings he would like to suggest which will be posted sometime in the near future. Feel free to post or bring something you feel would be worth while to discuss at the meetings.We would also like to have some kind of tentative itinerary for each meeting to stay on track, this will kind of work itself out the more we meet and get used to running this group. So hopefully we’ll see you at the next meeting.

 

Studio Space

Note that the crit group is considered to be separate from the studio thing so those involved in the crits can still participate whenever they want. If you want to be apart of this Studio you definitely need to be committed and need to participate in any way you can, no dogs with a bunch of bark and no bite. This isn’t something that will happen right away but hopefully soon. What we need in order for this to happen is to decide exactly who is going to be down to commit to acquiring a studio space. This will help us decide how big of a space we will need, as well as what kind of space we can afford.

 

Some of the questions we came up :

What kind of space will you need? Sink? Large door? Distance from home? 

Different buildings were discussed none in specific, just where abouts and what kind we would prefer, like a house in Hamtramck or a possible building with some livable space so that someone may be at the studio at all times. Ashley Cook and myself have volunteered to be in charge of visiting and inquiring about possible spaces but everyone be on the look out. Write down numbers, take pictures and note of where these spaces are and Ashley and I will scope them out. This is another time where the blog will come in handy, post it on the blog yo! Hopefully after a  month or so we will have a list of spaces and possible financial situations to show everyone.

Fundraisers also came up in the convo but nothing solid yet. For right just save your pop cans and bottles for the we need a studio fund, if you want. Maybe throwing parties or something but we’ll see. If I missed anything please respond cause everything said was important but I could only take so many notes.

 

Another thing is coming up with some kind of show in the near future. So start thinking of ideas as this will not only motivate us to make work but also give us those deadlines we are so accustomed too, at least for those of us no longer in school. One possibility is for us to rent a space for little while and plan a couple of consecutive shows, group or solo.