Inspired by Indexed. (Auxiliary thanks to GraphJam.)
In a nutshell, I've upped and moved myself from Norman to Oklahoma City to be with The Guy. It's awesome.
Oh, and by the way, the NaBloPoMo theme for June is "Home." (Not like I'm putting 30 posts on the web this month or anything. Pshaw! Who has that kind of time?)
Related: Sarah's del.icio.us sites tagged visualization.
As part of the year-long Art 365 process, filmmakers Melissa Scaramucci and Cacky Poarch produced a documentary film about the seven artists. You can see a 15-minute preview online at Google Video. If you're new to Art 365, this is a great introduction. The film premiered in its entirety at the Art 365 opening in Tulsa last month. There will also be a screening in Oklahoma City on July 3rd.
Click here to read more about Normal, OK, my series for Art 365.
Related: Sonarta also has footage of the Art 365 process. Part 1 is below; here are parts two, three, and four.
Click here to support the Iowa Artists' Relief Fund.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is currently underwater. One of the institutions affected by this tragedy is Legion Arts, who was kind enough to agree to host the Art 365 show this coming Fall. Right now nobody knows exactly if or how that will happen, but that's not our most pressing concern.
Legion Arts has set up an emergency fund to help Iowa artists whose lives and work have been affected by the flooding. Please give if you can, especially you Oklahoma artists: Legion Arts is like our OVAC. We need the help of support systems like these to make our unique, talented, relevant voices heard.
The above photo, taken by CRArtist, is titled June 12, 2008 (2). It is part of this Flickr set titled Flood of 2008.
Related: The Simple Dollar lists seven things you can do right now to help flood victims.
Sagrado Corazon, t-shirt design for the Red Line Foundation, 2008.
Red Line Foundation Presents: Infectious T-Shirt Fashion Runway Show. The party will be at Angles, 2117 NW 39th St, OKC, 7 to 11 pm tonight, 06.13.2008.
The T-shirt fashion show will benefit the Red Line Foundation, who seeks to increase public education about HIV/AIDS in the Oklahoma City area.
Lawton Amarillo, acrylic, ink and collage on canvas, 2007.
This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are the last days that the Art 365 show will be on display in Tulsa. My project, Normal, OK, is showing at Liggett Studios, 308 S Kenosha Ave. Betsy Barnum's introspective self-portraits and Live4This' candy-coated wonderment are also at Liggett. Better get there by June 14.
One venue was not enough to hold all of the Art 365 awesomeness. Ashley Griffith's large-scale photographic grids, Joe Daun's kinetic sculptures, and Liz Roth's exhaustive United States landscape survey are showing at Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, 2930 E. 5th St., Tulsa (M-F 8:30-4:30) through June 27.
After this month, the Art 365 works will be put away until October, when they go on display in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.