Alfred Foundations

Learn more about this inspired food art project by John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski.  Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with (and it’s right next to the Waffle Shop ) Here’s a link to an article all about it  We Make Money Not Art.

D. Chase Angier and The Site Specific Performance class, along with Marketa Fantova and The Principles of Theatrical and Performance Design class want to collaborate with YOU to create

HAPPY DANCES II

The second site specific dance in the Happy Dance Series, Wednesday, October 6 from 11:00am to 5:00pm second floor of Harder Hall (in the outside courtyard across from the Moka Joka).

Bounce away the gloom of midterms and Get Happy!  We can’t do it without YOU!

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We are ‘visiting artist rich’ this week, first Michael Ashkin, then Ruth Stanford, and Thursday at 6 pm Bridget Beck! BMH #106 (Room C)

Bridget Beck grew up in South Dakota where she  soaked in the plains and the sky until graduating from Augustana College in 2000 with a BA in English and Art.  She then spent some time at Franconia Sculpture Park in MN as an intern in 2001.  After finishing the internship, she went East and worked in the same capacity for Socrates Sculpture Park, Mark DiSuvero’s Spacetime Studio, and the Connecticut Sculpture Park.  After her time in the Eastern US Bridget returned to the Midwest where she continued to make sculpture in South Dakota and then Minnesota. She went back to Franconia Sculpture Park again as an intern in 2004.  Bridget then  supplemented her eclectic resume with an AS degree in geomatics (civil engineering) which she completed in 2006.  After receiving her AS degree she has been gainfully employed by Ramsey County, MN where she designs roads in 3D, surveys the lay of the land, inspects road projects, and tests soils when needed. Bridget has just finished a fairly colossal interactive sculpture through a fellowship at Franconia this past year called “Playstation.”  She continues to create new sculpture, mentor emerging artists, and writes a blog for Franconia Sculpture Park.  She looks forward to making new sculpture at the Vermont Studio Center in November.  Check out her Franconia blog at -http://www.franconia.org/artistpages/bridget/bridget.html

"Plaza (No. 1)," "Plaza (No. 2)," and "Prison (No. 3)," installation view at Secession

Artist Michael Ashkin prompts his audience to reflect on the complex meanings of the built environment. He exhibits both cardboard dioramas and video to investigate peripheral settlements, designs for public squares, and prison architectures, and his constructions operate as both “realist” documents and allegories.

Taking us elsewhere in the world, Ashkin also reminds us that the data we receive about “elsewhere” is often problematically coded.

Ashkin lives and works in Ithaca. He has had solo exhibitions at Andrea Rosen Gallery in NYC since 2002 and has exhibited internationally, recently at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and in 2003 at documenta 11, curated by Okwui Enwezor.