December closes with a happy heart and new paintbrushes!

Dearest Kirkland House...I hope you have all enjoyed a happy and joyful holiday full of family and hot apple cider. Now that the new year is upon us, I urge you all to take advantage of wherever you are and share some art experiences, good or bad, with us. Please let this be a forum for all of your art related adventures, no matter how abstract of surreal during your travels or staycations or otherwise. Cheers and Happy New Years!

I went to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, where I used to work. My favorite part is always watching the glass blowing team, but the current exhibition called, Kids Design Glass, is awesome. Here are a few highlights...

xoxo, k

Kirkland's own Hassenfeld wins harvard/yale music mix competition

Listen to Noam's winning music mix here!

LINO Prints TONIGHT!

LINO BLOCK WORKSHOP
6:00PM-8:00PM Dining Hall Sunday 12/6

Learn how to cut and print a lino-block. All of your fine Art tutors will be there to show you whats what. Make one design and print 20 cards, give them away or hang them up.

also at the arts table...
work on your drawing skills
fold some cranes
paint an ornament
we have ribbon, pine cones, sparkles and glue, so whatever you're into we can help :)

Fusing Art and Technology
Like YouTube, they are accessible and cheap.
Artists keeping it real

Art Basel Miami closes today...
painting by Sara Landau titled Venus.

Art shows are loud and crowded and pretty much the worst place to actually enjoy the artwork, but its a who's who in the art world, and basel miami is probably the biggest in the U.S. so check out some of the work coming out of there, because these are the new art stars of 2010 :)

wish list

need good ideas for your holiday gifts? here you go!

these prints will brighten up someone's suite! (give one to your roommate and you can enjoy it too!)

give a llama.

loan some $$$ on someone's behalf. Kiva allows you to give the gift of a loan. Give a gift certificate and your giftee can chose who they want to donate the loan to. Better yet, when the loan is paid back, they can keep lending it out to others.

give this: learn how to stencil on some interior design. the bigger the better.

build that someone special a compost bin!

give a backrub

give yourself.

really want to impress that girl? buy her a solargon...

Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction firmly believes in empowering artists producing high quality work marked by fine craft and intellectual rigor. They have some nice things and the proceeds go to helping starving artists run this cool gallery in Philly.

Score some goods and some good karma with this etsy-for-charity site. Proceeds go to a good cause!

A.R.T. Art for refugees in transition.

Best, best, best place to buy Prints!

everyone loves polarbears

recycled presents are so good for you!

Green Toys make milk jugs into dump trucks and other kiddie stuff.

great list from treehugger...something for everyone.

disclaimer: just remember, green consumption is still consumption. the most important holiday experiences involve eggnog, clark griswold and your family and friends.

photo contest results...

Well, these photos were submitted to the Kirkland Art Lounge Thanksgiving Photo contest.
Judged by your trusty tutors Ana, Brett and Vanessa.

The Winner of $10 Peet's Coffee and Tea certificate is #1!












#1 "Lobster Boy meets Peter the Software Pirate" by Abel Acuna.






















#2 "Still Life" by Katherine Huang.





















#3 "Untitled" by Joanna Naples-Mitchell.















#4 "Bella" by Iris Lee.

Thanks for playing!

late night reading

Art in Hand: A Conversation with Lawrence Voytek and Peter Ballantine
Great article and interviews by Kirkland's own Madeleine Schwartz!

santa baby i want a new convertable too, light blue

K-house....

This crazy week of skits and rhyme,
Hey, its secret santa time!
So come make something for your Santee
or something for the Kirkland tree!
A gift, a treat, an ornament ?
Whatever you make it is time well spent.
Ribbons, bows and sparkles bright!
Cookies and art supplies in the night.
You'll find this in the dining hall,
So come on Kirkland, one and all!

Late night decoration station Tuesday at 8:00pm in the dining hall

Design ornaments for the Kirkland tree.
Pick up a lino-print block for carving (we will make prints on December 6th- for holiday cards) reindeer design via tuttistudio
Make your Santee something from the heart...a painting, sketch or portrait!



Is your house on fire, Clark? No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.

Sign up to make Linocut Holiday Cards!

via mcgill duncan gallery

Want to make your own greeting cards? Want to learn to make a linocut and print?

Sign up for the linocut workshop on December 6th!

We will meet in the dining hall at 7:00pm. Make as many prints as you need to send!

go harvard! woohoo! yay!

Happy Saturday Kirkland!

Extra Special Photo Contest!!! You can win a $10 gift certificate to Peet's Coffee and Tea! And then you can give it to your secret Santee or buy yourself a double tall, cinnamon, gingerbread, non-fat with whip and nutmeg sprinkle latte... mmm.

Contest: Best Thanksgiving Break Photo. Due, Nov 30th, Monday by 9:00pm. Winner will be announced on Tuesday the 1st.

Rules: It just has to be a photo that you took. Photoshop, okay. Click and Run, okay. Poloroid, Digital, Film, okay, okay, okay!

What are we looking for? Originality and creativity. This doesn't have to be a Thanksgiving-y photo, you just have to have taken it during the break :)

How to submit: Just send your photo to Kirsten.

Good luck photogs and shutterspeed!

and now your Kirkland Art roundup...

Bharat Ratna!
Jewels of Modern Indian Art at the MFA.
also The SMFA's celebrated annual sale, with thousands of pieces of fine art from one of the best art schools in the country is on tomorrow!
bio diversity

seeing stars

submit art to the 2010 Auction at MassArt!

phoebe washburn

tiny flats in hong kong

taro shinoda at ISGM.

go see Alex Soth at MassArt.

Bostonians in Italy.

empty LA

studio violet

La Chaussettologie - Challenge your world from Desrumaux Celine on Vimeo.

my parents were awesome

get yourself some project runway

watch yourself some stephen wiltshire

american cemetery landscapes.


artist of the day: paloma crousillat!

no papercuts

Watercolor workshop with Kat!!!
Tonight after dinner 8 to 9:30 or 10pm stop by the dining hall for cookies & watercolor painting!

this painting via here.

To check out Kat's watercolors, visit her site at kathleenbreedon.com

the lemons and honey in the bottom of my tea cup

get LOST


via artistssin. via design for mankind.




















patrick winefield.


pretty water
controversy in the new white building
sculptures inspired by quantum physics.
Still Life, interview with Jon Feinstein
heroes for sale?
check out 'stranger fruit' by installation artist Sanford Biggers
ecoshack, it is what is says

artist of the day: Jeff Sheng! I taught with Jeff in California, he is a cool guy. He is a photographer, portrait artist and commercial fashion photographer. He also went to Harvard as an undergrad, at VES. Here is his website.























enjoy! xoxo

One day in the mid-1980s, Dakis Joannou, a Greek Cypriot industrialist, was exploring the art galleries of the East Village in Manhattan when he came upon a basketball suspended in a tank of liquid...NYT

A Quiz of thought.

Bird Lover Leaves Millions!

Levers for your heart

Click on over to glowlab!

Artist of the Dia...Emily Henretta. more here!

Artist of the Day, Noah Sheldon

Noah Sheldon
Untitled, 2009
C-print, framed

See more nice photos and read about Sheldon's artistic philosophy here. Via Cherry and Martin Gallery.

get excited!

The Kirkland Drama Society
presents
William Shakespeare's
THE TEMPEST

Friday, November 13, 8pm
Saturday, November 14, 8pm

Kirkland Junior Common Room
Free of charge. Refreshments served.

Image is German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's “The Wreck of the Hope” (1824) via Tempest at Novella review.

one more thing and that is this

this

You are my sunshine

Artist of the Day: Theo Jansen



Read Middle Ground an article in The Crimson by Meredith Steuer, Aiming to educate a Western viewer, Islamic art on campus balances social and aesthetic value.

Go see the Boston Jewish Film Festival, on now from Nov 5-15th.

The First Friday of each month, over 3 dozen Guild member artists and others open their studios at 450 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118. Meet the artists in their element and view their latest works.

Cambridge Arts Council Grants!!! $$$ 4 Ur ART!!!

The Harry Potter Exhibition at the Museum of Science is supposedly kind of awesome...


Listen to Where the Wild Things Jam, Harvard Glee Club Lite.



















Check out the latest work from the Harvard Design School's graduate design students' portfolio...oooh, ahhh!

Science, Art and Mystery.

Works from the Dakis Joannou Exhibition.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, illustrations by Lizzy Stewart.

Monday Mondaayyy so good to me!

Urs Fischer exhibition.


There is a lot going on in the fascinating world of art Kirkland! Now that midterms are over, costumes are shed and all is well in K-house, you must have so much free time on your hands for art events! Well, maybe not, but please check out some of these links and get your daily dose of art culture... one little link won't hurt you!

New Poems by Talia!

My son, the nude model.

Happiness hat stabs you in the head if you don't smile.

Optical illusion village.

Capture #4 from David B. Smith on Vimeo.

watch video of artist Gregory Euclide pour his natural dioramas. And read more here.

LA Art roundup.

Thursday, Nov 5th, 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations across Disciplines
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium

Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. This gathering will explore recent trends in which art museums collaborate in training health-care professionals. Some of the programs support the development of observation and diagnostic skills, while others foster empathy, build community, or enhance cultural understanding.

Interested in the Graduate School of Design? This Friday, Nov 6th they are having an admissions open house!

Also, check out talk with landscape architect Patrick Blanc on Nov 3 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm in Piper Auditorium.

NEED $$$ MONEY $$$ FOR YOUR ART??? Be sure to apply by the Wednesday, November 18th deadline for Harvard's Office of the Arts grants and subsidies submissions! Contact your art tutors for help and tips on how to make a great grant proposal. Click here for a link to the information and good luck!

Dia de los Muertos fiesta today!!! Presented at Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
An evening of music and dance. La Tuza plays their signature Son. 5:30pm! FREE!

Workshop with Tim Miller today! Harvard Dance Center
Internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller teaches students methods for generating autobiographical performances, using creative exercises from a range of disciplines, including drama, contemporary dance, physical theatre, and contact improvisation. FREE!

Miller's creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller's performances have been presented all over North America, Australia, and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS and 1001 BEDS, which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. His solo theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of Theology at Claremont and at universities all over the US.

Legendary Susan Vega at 8:00 on Friday in Sanders Theatre!

Artist of the Day: Lori Nix
Lori Nix LOST, Nevada
Lori Nix SOME OTHER PLACE, Floater

haunted hallways

Coming soon to a K-House near you...

Haunted Halls Art Station

We will be making art at the Halloween Party...crazy!

Come make El Día de los Muertos icons at the Halloween Art Station on Thursday Night!

What IS El Dia de los Muertos? come find out!

We will have traditional Mexican crafts and you can make one and take it back to your suite for good luck!

See you Thursday!

Halloween Art Table... Sunday Oct. 25th

Come help us out, MAKE STUFF for the Haunted Hallways study break and Halloween Stein Club (October 29th)

Then, after the party on the 29th, you can take MADE STUFF back and decorate your suite just in time for Halloween!

There will be a table in the dining hall from 5-8:30pm, Sunday the 25th.

There might also be some pre-halloween candy to bribe you to sit and MAKE STUFF :)

Monster Drawing contest...draw one now and find out who wins at the Haunted Halls Party.

Sit for a Ghostly Portrait...use these later to decorate your suite.

and ... A workshop on how to draw Creepy Lines like the creepmaster, scary stories illustrator, Steven Gammell!













Or just make anything you want to add to the haunted hallways of K house!

Hope to see you there!

the art of medicine

Living In Sim: Justine Cooper's medical mannequin soap opera art.

The cabinet of Art and Medicine

doctors make good artists.

family tree genetics art

art and medicine

visual dictionary shmictionary

win a prize for a single photo?

via boing boing for halloween... pumpkin face,

dangerous art that warns of antibacterial everything...too much purell? (not in the dining hall!)

Artist of the Day: James Roper

Devotion
Making on average ten per day, everyday, for three years, Devotion consists of approximately 10,000 origami flowers
2002-2005

Until Tuesday came along things were a mess

Your Kirkland Art Lounger was slacking this weekend, so here are a whole slew of links for your viewing pleasure...

The 150

Dance Off near you!

awesome lineup for the Palestine film festival

museum of bad art, nuf said.

update: on Kahlo and other finds.

upcoming: 3-day activism, print media workshop, as well as a site-specific installation at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Oct 15!!! Its FIERCE.

Its rainy, and you don't have enough reading to do? Well, here.

boing boing says, skyscrapers, crop art, and Day of the Dead...oh my!

check out some awesome Cuban artists at galeria cubana

at Bromfield Gallery, pay special attention to...






































Gail Martin's "The Liberation of Superwoman"

Boston Atheneum is a good find.

And your artist of the day goes to... (drum roll please)















Michael Harrington!!! See his incredible paintings at Miller Block Gallery, one of Boston's finest.

Photo Thursday

check out Flak

Tabitha Gwyn Osler ANABEL & ERICA Polaroid

this is one talented Venezuelan.

a book with nice texture

would you wear this stuff?

its October, so its time for creepy...check out hooger brugge

p.s. the treehouse IS a legitimate structure, for those dining hall friends who disbelieve.

A Poem A Day!

Dear Kirkland, check out this lovely blog by your fellow sophomore Kirklander Talia Lavin. A free poem, every day!?
Who could ask for more?

So, check out Lavin's words here.

A sampling of one my favorites...

Night Poem
by Talia Lavin

I can only write poems at night
while the moon looks on like a lamprey's mouth.
The cold light settles at my window.
I want to bake black bread
and scatter the loaves in the street.
The kettle on the range sings like an urge
unspent, the last fruits hang, swollen bellies,
dripping their musk on ryegrass
yellow with seed. The ennobling question
sinks further and further in unseated hearts,
refused by speech,
while the moon gluts itself on the cobbles,
blanched teeth in too many pools of light.

Be sure to keep checking out A Poem A Day!

and remember, if any other talented or bloggy Kirklanders want to share the love, please send me a link to your site. Don't have a site?
We would love to post your artistic works here :)

side note: I was browsing flickr for a photo I could use to go along with Talia's poem, and found this image by daruma. Turns out it was a major inspiration for a 3rd grade class's poetry writing session. Coincidence? maybe. poem/photo soulmates? yes. their poem is kind of awesome too.

Tuesday I rang the alarm

After a timely fire drill you are all safely back inside, warming up with cupcakes and coffee from brainbreak...here is some art to go with.

lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

Kirsten Dunst + Murakami = art film?


















yes, celebrities are so crazy for art

Click here for a video on edible landscapes, and here for good readin'

Artist of the day: Bernd Haussmann at Chase Gallery in Boston























#1974 (Untitled Mountains and Ocean) oil and mixed media, Haussmann

day of brunch and blogging

Jamaica Plain Open Studios:Artists in the Arboretum
Get over there, this closes on October 9!
Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum

The Museum of Comparative Zoology announces its Photosynth launch!

Artists In Context 1:00pm at Sackler Museum, Friday 10/9

Artists In Context is a flexible organizational framework designed to assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.

Too busy to possibly get out of K-house to go to an art exhibit? No problem, check out these online exhibitions right here!

Harvard Art Museum Online
Smithsonian Feer Gallery
Peabody Museum
Whitney Online

Fashion Smashing

Dessert anyone?

Go see a play. Here.

Artist of the Day: Timothy Basil Ering, one of my favorite children's book authors and illustrators, also an amazing painter.

its more or less what i've told you before

Artist of the day: Astrid Kruse Jenson, a Danish photographer, whose work often describes some place between imagination and reality. See more of her ambient and fairytale like works here.

Indefinite Spaces #06 and
Hyper Natural #04

A big shout out to all the brave souls who took part in the "Landscape Confessions" project last night. THANK YOU! We had a great group of confessors and it looks like our Kirkland video project is well on its way to success...now to the editing room.

For those of you who really wanted to participate, but had to run off to class or meetings, don't worry, we will be doing another installment of the confessions in the next couple weeks.

Remember, you can win a $10 Berryline for participating!

The finished product will debut at HATCH, Kirkland's November 7th art show.

And now some click-able art distractions...

Frida Fake?

Hanging Fire, contemporary art from Pakistan at the Asia Society, New York

Geniuses named for $500,000 'no strings attached' MacArthur grants. geez, wouldn't that be nice!

Without, a CA MFA show, but a good write up and links to new artists

Architecture of Fantasy?

Have an idea? Need some cash to make it happen? Harvard's Undergraduate Arts Grants - due November 18.

MadMen yourself...not art, but a good waste of time.

Wednesday I met you in the dining hall, we ate well and you talked about your Shangri-La, your ultimate landscape

What is your ultimate landscape? Do you see thick stretches of dark forest lined with sparkling turquoise lakes? An endless lawn of freshly cut grass, poolside? Or a cave of gemstones, with black moss and lime green ooze? What is your ultimate landscape, where would you go to escape? The Alps? The Everglades? Tahiti? Purple mountain’s majesty? Your grandpa’s fishing spot? Describe this place, however fantastic or real it might be. Tell us how it feels to be there. Describe the terrain, the colors, the lay of the land…

Confess your landscape, your Shangri-La.

Landscape Confessions
take part in the K-house wide video project
in the private dining room in the D-hall
TONIGHT!!!
5:00-7:30pm

Experience a landscape confession, and enter to win the secret prize, we promise it will be good! Reeaaal good...

Tuesday in the name of love

Your Art tutors went on a grand art adventure to Province town/Cape Cod on Saturday. This is what they found...

The good:

Tao Water Gallery. an awesome gallery, primarily consisting of contemporary Chinese painters. The man who runs the gallery was there, and is also a painter, and we loved talking to him. He had a lot to tell us about his process and the way he imagines his work before he begins. He told us we should never use photos to paint from, because its the idea of the place that matters most, the moment. We liked that, even though we both use photos sometimes. Shh.

The Studio on Slough Road was also a great secret find. The gallery is intimate and full of wonderful prints from artist, Kathleen Sidwell and others. The ladies who run the gallery are cheerful and warm, a perfect place to check out on our way back to Cambridge.

Provincetown is a beautiful place, so there are a lot of artists, landscapers and beach-painters. There is also a vast supply of ice cream, coffee shops, overpriced beach art and doggy clothing companies. We had to pull off the road a few times ourselves in the hunt for the perfect composition.

The Bad: Lets face it, there are always a few bad eggs, and we have to admit that there are only so many CapeCod sunset paintings you can look at before the sweet pink and yellowy colors kind of get to you. And this place...















The Ugly: This thing was outside a clothing/ home goods store in Provincetown. I don't think it needs an explanation, and if it does you are free to inquire yourselves because we did not.














The Art of the Prank?

Your artist of the day is... Kathleen Breeden! aka Kat, your art tutor! Here is her fabulous website.

Kat considers herself a landscape painter, she loves traveling and taking part in all things outdoors. Her work is a testimate to her pristine painterly skills as well as a love for nature. Kat uses oil on panel and watercolors and you can get a one on one lesson and learn from her fine skills during her upcoming painting study break - stay tuned for details!