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.