next meeting

our meeting scheduled for this tuesday, the 30th, will be held in art bldg f, room 107, where the potluck is held. bring samples of your work. we will be discussing the publication and the collaborative project for the gaddis geeslin gallery. see you there!

Cinephiles Unite

F.A.C.S.S. is back with its Fall 2008 / Spring 2009 schedule.
Visit: http://www.facss.blogspot.com/
Don't miss the special F.A.C.S.S.S. page!

Connect / Disconnect

New exhibition in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery.
More info: www.gaddisgeeslingallery.blogspot.com

The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will be able to fund a CDCC project! We can offer a budget of $500.00 to create a work that embodies the spirit cross disciplinary collaboration. Stipulation: The project must coincide with the 2009 10th Annual Juried Student Art Show reception and Art Department Open House.(See 3G blog for dates). Please develope a conceptual outline and a rough budget by the end of the Fall 2008 semester. This is the first multi-departmental student project sponsored by the 3G. Congratulations and good luck!

the next meeting will be 9.30.08, tuesday, in the LSC (tentatively).

minutes from 9.23.08 meeting

-a new facebook group has been made to facilitate communication and updates, you should be able to find it by searching "cdcc" on the facebook seach box

- the CDCC has been given the opportunity by the head of the SHSU art department gallery committee head (our faculty sponsor Matt Guest) to do a funded project to be a displayed/held in conjunction with the Annual Juried Student Show.

- we officially decided to try to produce an Arts magazine to be distrubuted locally that would possibly highlight local events, etc, tbd.....

-also raised for discussion:.

• Bich showed her portfolio and talked about her work
• we talked about the rise of concept in the arts: in the visual arts, work produced after Duchamp being based no longer on taste and aesthetics. also, in music, the rise of programmatic music, music that is about something, rather than just music about music.
• we talked about how the rise of concept led to artists racing to produce something new, like the first sculpture out of discarded macaroni from inner city kindergarten classrooms, but that work that was so focused on innovation often lacked substence. so we postulated that there is now a move from concept to content, pointing to the addition of meaning and significance beyond mere novelty.
• we talked about art as communication; how the perception of the viewer, the act of viewing itself is the second half of the artisitc process, how every piece is always open to interpretation
• we talked about art as human experience; creating meaning, metaphor- creating new meaning from two things you wouldn't expect, gaining meaning that you couldn't get on your own.
• art as connecting with other people
• then a looong discussion of right/wrong, good/bad....
• continue these discussion and arguments on the blog!

don't forget about the potluck! tuesday, sept 23rd at 7 p.m. in art bldg f, rm 107. i fliered all over campus today, so we might get some new people. i just finished making my dirt cake!

ike

yeah, let's postpone the potluck until next tuesday, the 23rd.

Hurricane

Since the university is closed monday and tuesday, are we going to post-pone this potluck so more people can take part in it?

potluck update

we wanted to have it in the lsc, but "the man" says that any food in the lsc has to be ordered through aramark - apparently you are not even allowed to bring your own food from home, or even food that you have gathered/hunted and prepared yourself... so it's going to be in art bldg f, room 107. also, the above-pictured flier does not mention the potluck-nature of the event for the same reason; however, it IS still a potluck, so don't forget to bring food!

potluck

i'll bring dirt cake.

the lsc has been giving me the run-around on booking a room, but i got the name of the lady i need to talk to and she is supposed to be in tomorrow, so we should be able to know by tomorrow whether we can have the potluck in the lsc or whether we'll have to have it in art building f. they might ask about what kind of media (projectors, etc) we want - does anybody have any special media needs for material they wish to present? if so, you can e-mail me or post here. also, i should know by then about plates and utensils...

Nathan Sapio Redux

Heres a rough idea of how Nathan's artwork would adapt to my style.

And here's the best sample of my animation capabilities thus far.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4539950

Lock Jaw

The Lawndale Art Center in Houston is having a fund raising exhibition of artist-made Retablos. They provide you with a piece of tin and you provide the art. My contirbution is pictured above.
For more info: http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/

Potluck

I'll bring a big plate of quesadillas! Are there already going to be plates/utensils there?
-Nathan Sapio

Welcome To The CDCC! First Potluck...

Not only is this post a test, it's to tell you about the CDCC! The CDCC is a student organization at Sam Houston State University, comprised of students from all disciplines of the Arts. The CDCC is an open forum to facilitate collaboration and discussion within said Arts. Our next meeting will be TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th and will be held in a (yet to be decided) meeting room in the LSC. The next meeting will be a pot luck, where members can eat, relax, have fun, but most importantly illuminate the members of differing disciplines to the artistic state of affairs within your own art discipline.

If you already know what you plan to bring to the pot luck, post what you're bringing so others can plan accordingly!