Have a great summer!

I hope you have a great summer! Thanks for all your hard work this year.
Best,
Chris

Please Bring to Your Conference . . .

For your conference, print and bring with you neatly organized copies of the following:
- Response papers #1-6
- Hot Sheet
- Plan/Overview of Inquiry Paper
- Discussion of Evidence
- Curtain-raiser and Curtain-dropper
- First Draft of Inquiry Paper
- Revised Draft of Inquiry Paper
- Final Inquiry Paper (proofread and corrected)
- * Process Reflection

Process Reflection - Due at Your Individual Conference

Reflecting on a working process is a means of learning from experience. It’s an opportunity to acknowledge successes, register shortcomings, and consider how you can improve your working process in the future.

Write a 1½-2 page paper in response to the following questions.

1. What are you most proud of in the work you’ve done in this class since spring break? (Consider research, writing, discussions, field trips, etc.)

2. Looking back, are there any situations you would handle differently? If so, what? Why?

3. What have you learned in the course of the inquiry project (about yourself, research, writing, etc.)?

Please save your process reflection on your computer (or email it to yourself), and print two copies, one for yourself and one to turn in.

Upcoming Events in the Seattle Arts Ecology

Langston Hughes African American Film Festival: $5 - $7; all festival pass $75. April 21-29. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (17th Avenue South & Yesler Way), Seattle. Information: http://www.langstonblackfilmfest.org or 206.326.1088. Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com. or 1-800-838-3006.

Rainbow Bookfest: Features guest speakers, author readings, panel discussions, food, and local vendors. Featured keynote address by local author Kathleen Alcala, as well as panel discussions and presentations by 20 notable authors of color, including: Indu Sundaresan, Lensey Namioka, Ken Mochizuki, Linda Dalal Sawaya, Bharti Kirchner, Maria de Lourdes, Victoria Muguira. Free. April 28. Asian Resource Center (1025 S. King St) International District/Chinatown, Seattle. http://www.rainbowbookfest.com. 206-223-0623 or info@nwasianweekly.com

How the Soy Sauce was Bottled: One-hour exhibition walkthrough with Jason Huff. April 28,1 p.m. Wing Luke Asian Museum (407 7th Ave. So.), Seattle. 206-623-5124 ext. 114 or http://www.wingluke.org.

Aureliio Martinez: Honduran Garifuna musician, the new voice of “Paranda,” the musical tradition of descendants of shipwrecked African slaves who settled in the Caribbean 400 years ago, plays and sings preserved and modernized version of this music. $30. April 28, 7:15 p.m. Meany Hall, University of Washington Seattle Campus. 206-543-4880 or uwworldseries.org.

You Can Write Haiku!: Listen to seasonal haiku poems written by Japanese poets of old and combined with the music of the ktoo. Learn simple techniques to write these "instant poems". Free. April 30, 7 p.m. Fall City Library. http://kotoworld.com/calendar.html

Crossing East: Asian-Americans in the United States: An eight one-hour documentary series on the history of Asian American immigration, from pre-America to post-9/11. Because of systematic exclusionary laws, Asians immigration was restricted over the course of America's history; Asians are now a low four percent of the population in the U.S. Though many are third or fourth generation Americans, Asians are viewed as perpetual foreigners and their history has largely been untold. Crossing East is the first comprehensive series on radio or television on Asian American history. For more about Programs 1-8, and hear music, oral history interviews/archival recordings: http://crossingeast.org/programs.htm. Listen for it May 2006 - May 2007 on public radio stations: Thursdays, 10:00 p.m. KUOW 94.9

Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles: Dyeing, tie-dyeing (shibori) and paper stencil–dyeing (katazome) are known worldwide for their diverse techniques and remarkable quality. This exhibition features strong and elegant design work created with tie-dyeing and paper stencil techniques, as seen on kimonos from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park. http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?WHEN=UPCOMING&eventID=10223

The Taste of Tea ("Cha no Aji"): A unique, gentle Japanese family portrait tackling the universal themes of time, people and their lives. $6 - $8. April 27 – May 3. Grand Illusion Theater (1403 NE 50th Street), Seattle. 206-523-3935.

Los Pinguos: Argentinian musicians perform using a mixture of latin rhythms performed on guitars, Cuban instruments, Peruvian box drums and vocals to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. $12-$24. May 5, 8 p.m. Edmonds Center for the Arts (410 Fourth avenue North), Edmonds. 425-275-9595 or ec4arts.org.

Cultures of Our Community Multi-Cultural Festival: The largest public celebration of diversity on the Greater Eastside. A family event featuring colorful parade, food, activities for children, world music concerts, dance, arts and crafts. Free. May 5, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bellevue community College (3000 Landerholm circle S.E.), 28th & 148th Ave. S.E., Bellevue. 425-564-6150 or multiculturalfest@bcc.ctc.edu.

Gem of the Ocean: August Wilson play. Through May 6. Bagley wright Theatre. 206-443-2222 or www.seattlerep.org.

Asian Pacific Islander (API) Heritage Month: Locally based groups from every spectrum of the API community will provide entertainment. Cold Tofu, Los Angeles based Comedy Improv group performs. Art displays, food, music, dance, activities included. Free. May 6. Seattle Center.

Judith Stone: Journalist and author reads/signs her work, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race, about a woman born to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner family. The book explores how the line of race – and fate – can be drawn. Free. May 9, 8 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company (101 S. Main St.), Seattle. 206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com/events.

The Unbearable Lightness of Style - Remaking the Master-Genre in Modern Chinese Art: Lecture by Josh Yiu, Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, Seattle Art Museum. May 10, 6:30 p.m. Seattle Art Museum (1st & University).

Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like: Through the world of puppetry, take a journey to ancient China where two people who have been cast aside find each other and save the day. For ages 5 and up. Through May 12. Seattle children’s theatre, Eve Alvord theatre (201 Thomas st.), Seattle. http://www.sct.org/browse/production.aspx?prod=1488

Música y Danza Exótica Concert: Eduardo Mendonça (Show Brazil) and dancer Dora Oliveira along with Hispanic American Music and dance performances (Salsa, Samba, Rumba and Tango). Benefit for Art Scholarships for low-income Hispanic students to pursue a career at the university level. $18 - $35. May 12. University of Washington Seattle, HUB Auditorium. 1-800-838-3006.

Wind in the Bamboo: Duo En! Presents the sounds of the zen shakuhachi bamboo flute and the classical Japanese koto in a mesmerizing program of music and poetry from Japan. May 12, 1 p.m. Kirkland Library. http://kotoworld.com/calendar.html

Jhumpa Lahiri: Award-winning author, The Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, appears in three public programs in Seattle: May 14, 7 p.m. Museum of History & Industry (700 24th Avenue E), May 15, 12 noon the Broadway Performance Hall (Broadway & Pine), May 15, 7 p.m. Town Hall (8th & Seneca). All events are free (no tickets) on a first-come, first-serve basis. www.spl.org.

Birth of the Monkey King: Adaptation of 16th Century masterpiece, Journey to the West, features colorful acetate puppets adapted from antique leather originals. Seattle International Children’s Festival. May 14-19. Seattle Center. http://www.seattleinternational.org/seattle/performers/chinese.html

Julia Whitty: Award-winning writer, born in Bogota to a Tasmanian father and Anglo-Indian mother, first won attention and praise for A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga. She reads/signs her new nonfiction book, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific. Free. May 14, 7:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company (101 S. Main St.), Seattle. 206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com/events.

Seattle Kokon Taiko: The drumming tradition of taiko is a dynamic synthesis of rhythm, movement and spirit originating in Japan and evolving as a folk art over the last several hundred years. Seattle Kokon Taiko combines the ancient with the modern in a repertoire that is a mix of traditional pieces and original compositions. May 17. Seattle International Children’s Festival. Seattle Center. http://www.seattleinternational.org/seattle/performers/taiko.html

Walter G. Andrews: University of Washington professor/translator reads/discusses of one of his newest translation projects, Seasons of the Word: Selected Poems, poetry by contemporary Turkish poet Hilmi Yavuz. May 19, 4:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company (101 S. Main St.), Seattle. 206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com/events.

A Touch of the Orient as East Meets West: Concert featuring traditional and modern Chinese music by the Seattle Chinese Orchestra, Washington Chinese Youth Orchestra and the U.S. N.W. Guzheng Orchestra. $15 - $25. May 20, 2:30 p.m. Meany Hall, University of Washington Seattle Campus. 206-762-8899 or 425-747-4121 or www.uschinamusic.com.

Russell Simmons: Pop culture leader involved with artistic, commercial, cultural enterprises such as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam, he has played a leading part in hip-hop scene. Simmons discusses his book, You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success. Free. May 23, 7 p.m. South Park Community Center, (8319 -8th Avenue South), Seattle. 206.386.4636 or www.spl.org.

Andrew Lam: journalist/author (Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora) discusses his writings and experiences as a Vietnamese American. Segments of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary featuring Lam, will also be screened. A frequent contributor on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” his essays have appeared in newspapers across the country. Free. May 23, 7 p.m. Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library (Fourth Avenue between Madison & Spring). 206.386.4636 or www.spl.org.

Seattle International Film Festival: May 24-June 17. Box office opens May 10-13. www.seattlefilm.com/index.aspx.

Northwest Folklife Festival: Annual celebration of folk music from around the U.S. and the world. May 25-28. Seattle Center. http://seattlecenter.com/events/festivals/festal/default.asp.

Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia: Journalist, poet and activist talks about her new book, Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, on homelessness, poverty and social justice. Free. May 26, 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company (101 S. Main St.), Seattle. 206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com/events or http://www.nicolemones.com/.

Vera Project Field Trip

Tenatively depending on the weather and how ambiotsus everyone is to walking to Seattle Center we plan on walking rather then taking the number 8 to the Vera Project. Just in case we do ask if you would bring bus fare which is techinally a 1.25 for adult fare and $.50 for "youth." Just an fyi to let you guys know.

Thanks!

Homework for Wednesday, April 18th

Curtain-Raiser and Curtain Dropper

Curtain-Raiser: an opening paragraph that hooks your reader with a pithy quotation, a vivid image, an eye-opening fact, or an expression of your own passionate connection to the material.
1. Read through what you’ve written so far. Consider how you might grab your reader’s attention and draw them in to your ideas.
2. Go through your research. Find an apt quotation, a great image, or a surprising fact that you might make use of.
3. Write a lively introductory paragraph that makes use of one of the items selected above.
4. Read your paragraph aloud. Invite feedback.
5. Revise as needed.

Curtain-Dropper: a closing paragraph that leaves the reader with something to consider, a vivid image, an apt metaphor, or a provocative statement.
6. Read through what you’ve written so far. Consider how you might bring your paper to a satisfying conclusion.
7. Brainstorm a list of images, metaphors, and concluding statements that you might make use of.
8. Write a lively concluding paragraph that makes use of one of the items from your list.
9. Read your paragraph aloud. Invite feedback.
10. Revise as needed.

11. Save a copy your paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Curtain-Raiser and Curtain-Dropper.”)

12. Also, add your curtain-raiser and curtain-dropper to the first draft of your inquiry paper. Save a copy of your paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Inquiry Paper, First Draft.”)

Coming Up on Your First Draft

On Monday, we will be working on the "curtain-raiser" and "curtain-dropper" of your inquiry paper, that is, writing an opening that hooks the reader and a closing that leaves the reader provoked, inspired, or persuaded. To get the most out of this session, you should be close to having a first draft of your paper written by that time. (Remember: your first draft--including curtain-raiser and curtain-dropper--is due on Wednesday.)

Response Paper #6 (aka what we did in class today, 4/11)

1. Read “The Second Line” by Sidney Bechet in Creators on Creating.

2. Consider Bechet’s description of his engagement with music, both as a child and as an adult. Note the concrete details in his description.

3. Freewrite for 15 minutes on one of your own childhood encounters with art. Use concrete detail to make the description vivid for your reader.

4. Read what you’ve written.
o Are your ideas clearly expressed?
o Have you illustrated your ideas with specific details?
o Does what you’ve written vividly express what you have to say?

5. Revise as needed. Proofread your writing. Make corrections as needed.

6. Save your paper on your computer, and print a copy. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Response Paper #6.”)

7. Share what you’ve written by reading it aloud to the class.

Homework for Wednesday, April 11th

Discussion of Evidence

1. Select several sources that you are using for your inquiry paper.

2. Write a descriptive summary of one source, boiling down the essence of the ideas expressed in the source. Keep it brief. Use your own words.

3. Write a paraphrase of a key sentence in one of your sources. Begin with a formal attribution and end with an in-text citation. Use your own words.

4. Write a sentence that includes a spot quotation of a particularly apt or original phrase from one of your sources. Set it off with quotation marks. Use formal attribution. End with an in-text citation.

5. Write a paragraph for your inquiry paper that includes a quotation from one of your sources. Set it off with quotation marks. Use formal attribution. End with an in-text citation.

6. Write a paragraph for your inquiry paper that includes a block quotation from one of your sources. Set the quotation off from the rest of the text by indenting it (no quotation marks). Use formal attribution. End with an in-text citation.

7. Read what you’ve written. Revise as needed. Proofread your writing. Make corrections as needed.

8. Save a copy your paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Discussion of Evidence.”)

How are you doing so far?

Response Paper 1- March 21
Hot Sheet - March 23
Response Paper 2 - March 26
Response Paper 3 - March 28
Plan/Overview - March 30
Response Paper 4 - April 2
Response Paper 5 - April 4
Discussion of Evidence - April 11

Sorry, I'm sick today . . .

Sorry, you guys. I'm sick today (Wednesday), so class is cancelled. I'll see you on Friday, though, for our field trip to Design Commission. Please read the guidebook and come up with several questions to ask. Any questions about DC in the meantime? Ask Sean, Kim, or Jessie.

Homework for Wednesday, April 4th

Response Paper #5

1. Read “Perfectionism” by Anne Lamott in your course reader, pp. 107-109.

2. Read actively: Mark passages that strike you. Note words, ideas, or images that resonate for you.

3. Jot down notes in response to the following questions:
o According to Lamott, how will perfectionism ruin your writing?
o What might be the value of “keeping yourself company” and learning “to be more compassionate company”?

4. Consider how Lamott’s views of perfectionism relate to your personal experience. Where do you fit on the spectrum between perfectionism one extreme and utter lack of discipline on the other? Do you hold tight to your work, fearful about making mistakes? Do you plunge in to your work willy-nilly, careless about what you create? Or do you fit somewhere between the two? How can you make use of Lamott’s ideas in your own work?

5. Freewrite for 15 minutes. (You may either write in direct response to Lamott’s essay, or use this freewrite to explore an idea for your inquiry paper.)

6. Read your freewrite. Find one phrase or sentence that gets to the heart of what you want to say. Write that phrase or sentence at the top of another sheet of paper.

7. Freewrite for 15 minutes, working from the phrase or sentence that you selected.

8. Read what you’ve written.
o Are your ideas clearly expressed?
o Have you supported your ideas with specific examples from your experience and/or reading?

9. Revise as needed. Proofread your writing. Make corrections as need.

10. Save a copy your paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Response Paper #5.”)

Homework for Monday, April 2nd

Response Paper #4


1. Read “The Creative Ecology” and “The Shape of Music,” pp. 126-130 in Creators on Creating.

2. Read actively: Mark passages that strike you. Note words, ideas, or images that resonate for you.

3. Jot down notes in response to the following questions:
o What does it mean to alternate between “immersion and isolation, openness and closure”?
o What does Sendak mean when he uses the verb “to quicken”?
o How does music stimulate Sendak’s work as a children’s book author and illustrator?

4. Freewrite for 15 minutes about the conditions that help to bring out your best artistic work.

5. Save your freewrite and do something else for awhile.

6. Read your freewrite.

7. Consider the parallels between your artistic practice and your work as a writer. What conditions help to stimulate your best writing? What is necessary to create those conditions? What elements of “immersion and isolation, openness and closure” are important to you?

8. Freewrite for 15 minutes about how to create the conditions to do your best writing.

9. Save a copy your freewrites on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Response Paper #4.”)

THE ACTION CHALLENGE!

1. Make a list of concrete action steps that are necessary to move forward productively on your inquiry project. Be ask specific as possible. Do you need to:
o sharpen the focus of your inquiry?
o discuss strategy with Chris or with a librarian?
o exchange ideas with members of your inquiry team?
o do further research online or in the library?
o dialogue with sources you already have?
o complete or sharpen the plan/overview of your paper?
o set up interview(s)? transcribe an interview?
o make a site visit? write up your observations and reflections on a site visit you’ve already made?
o draft a portion of your paper?

2. Prioritize the items on your list. What do you need to do first? What is most crucial for you to undertake now? What is the one task that, when you complete it, will make you feel a sense of progress toward your goal?

3. Do a reality check. What is possible/achievable in the time you have? (3 weeks to first draft) Adjust priorities, if necessary.

4. Choose one or more action steps that you can undertake now, today, in the next 2 hours. Do them.

Homework for Friday, March 30

Plan/Overview of Inquiry Paper

So far this semester, working with your team, you have researched a local arts organization, compiled a guidebook, and prepared a group experience (field trip, film, or panel discussion) to introduce the rest of the class to your organization. It is safe to say that, at this point in time, you know quite a bit about the organization.

Now that you have explored a wide variety of sources (web, print, interviews, and site-visits), contemplated the implications, developed a preliminary question, done some further research, and done some exploratory writing, you are ready to plan your inquiry paper.

First: “What kind of paper are you writing?” Your inquiry paper will be a presentation of your own thinking supported by evidence from your research. Your paper may be ANALYTICAL (using evidence to analyze various facets of an issue) or PERSUASIVE (using evidence to attempt to convince the reader of your particular stance on a debatable topic). This choice will affect your strategy as you move forward with the paper.

Analytical Paper
Begin by writing a question that simply and clearly defines the issue you are exploring. (e.g., “What impact does Seattle Children’s Theatre have on the development of local theatergoing audiences?”) The paper will then go on to analyze and explore the range of answers to the question, and you will contribute to the discussion by drawing your own conclusions based on the evidence.

Persuasive Paper
Begin by writing a declarative sentence that states your point directly and clearly. (e.g., “Seattle Children’s Theatre contributes to the long-term health of the local arts community by introducing young people to theatergoing and nurturing a lifelong love of the art form.”) The paper will then go on to argue your point, presenting supporting evidence and refuting opposing views.

Second: Apply the “So what? Who cares?” test. In order for your inquiry paper to be worth writing and reading, the topic needs to be worth analyzing or arguing about. Re-read your analytical question or persuasive point and ask yourself, “Why does this matter? What’s new, meaningful, or interesting about what I have to say?” Once you’re satisfied with the answer, you’re ready to move on. (If not, you may need to revise your analytical question or persuasive point.)

Third: Map it out. You have a starting point: your analytical question or persuasive point. You have a destination: a thoughtful conclusion. How are you going to get from one to the other? You need to create a map: the plan or overview of your paper.

Working in broad strokes, make a map of the journey on which you plan to take your reader. Draw pictures, place blocks, or use Post-Its to construct each of the stops along the way. Each “stop” represents a specific argument, observation, or point that you have to make.

Look through your research. What evidence do you have to support each of your ideas? Mark specific references that you would like to quote, and note any points for which you need more support.

Consider the sequence of your “stops.” Do your points flow logically from one to the next? If you are writing a persuasive paper, do your arguments build, becoming more and more persuasive with each point that you make? Move the “stops” around until you find a satisfying sequence.

Finally: Write a plan or overview for your paper, briefly noting:
o your analytical question or persuasive point
o your answers or arguments
o your conclusions

Save a copy of the plan/overview on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Plan/Overview.”)

Opera . . . featuring our own Katya Kalfov!

Dido & Aeneas
Presented by the Cornish Music Series
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:00 PM

PONCHO Concert Hall
Cornish College Capitol Hill Campus, 710 East Roy Street
Seattle WA 98102

March 29 - 31 at 8pm

Cornish Music Series in collaboration with the Cornish Performance Production Department presents Dido and Aeneas, an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. The opera tells the story of Dido, the legendary Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, the Trojan refugee, who fall in love when Aeneas and his crew become shipwrecked in Carthage. Stage direction and choreography is provided by Cornish Dance Professor Gérard Théorêt and musical direction is provided by Cornish Associate Music Professor Natalie Lerch. Cornish students Vanessa Ament and Sage Price play the role of Dido and Aeneas.

$15 general; $7.50 students, alumni and seniors

Tickets can be purchased through Ticket Window at 206.325.6500, www.ticketwindowonline.com, or in person at one of the three Ticket Window box offices (Broadway Market, Pike Place Market, and Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center).

For more information please contact 206.726.5011 or email events@cornish.edu

"GONNALETITGETCHA . . . AGAIN?"

Anti-Procrastination Discussion 12:10 to 12:50 this Thursday, March 29, in the Counseling Office (MCC308).

* For students only. Bring your lunch!

For more information call Barry Eben at 726-5047

Homework for Wednesday, March 28

Response Paper #3

1. Read “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott in your course reader, pp. 103-106.

2. Read actively: Mark passages that strike you. Note words, ideas, or images that resonate for you. Consider how Lamott’s idea of the “shitty first draft” could be useful to you in writing your inquiry paper for this class.

3. Jot down notes in response to the following questions:
o According to Lamott, what is “the fantasy of the uninitiated”?
o What does Lamott mean when she says that she needs to “quiet the voices in [her] head”?

4. Take a few moments to get ready to write by quieting the voices in your head. Then, freewrite for 15 minutes, laying out in broad strokes the points that you want to cover in your inquiry paper. Work fast and don’t stop to edit. Share what you know, what you think, and what you need to find out more about. Tell yourself that it doesn’t have to be great—it can even be, in Anne Lamott’s words, “shitty.”

5. Save your freewrite and do something else for awhile.

6. Read your freewrite. Note what is good in it. Note vivid, specific, concrete references. Note persuasive arguments. Mark phrases and sentences that are worth saving. Make a list of the questions it raises for follow-up research. Save these notes.

7. Using elements that you selected from your freewrite as the foundation, write two paragraphs of your inquiry paper. (You don’t have to know yet where these two paragraphs will fit into your paper. They can be for the beginning, the end, somewhere in the middle, or somewhere that you don’t even know yet.)

8. Save a copy of these two paragraphs on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Response Paper #3.”)

Hugo House

If I could get involved with anything at the Hugo House, it would be ZAPP. I fully intend to do volunteer work, once things slow down a bit... it's so hard to do in college. But listening to Kate talk about it made me even more excited -- both about my paper and about possibly volunteering. I also really want to have a theatre intership there! How totally awesome thatwould be ::Hannah floats off to fantesy land:::

As far as how the field trip went, it could have been much better. I think I was under prepared and I apologize to my team and the whole class. I love that Kate talked to us for so long, and that we got to see ZAPP even though it wasn't open (I wish we could have spent longer down there, but that's just me :)

Something I think would really help the field trips would be participation. Maybe as you are reading the guide books, jot down one or two questions you have about the organazation and then ask them on the field trip.
And then there was the almost transportation disaster... but it wasn't too bad, so that's good.

Okay all, we were the guinea pigs... it's your turn

Homework for Monday, March 26

Response Paper #2

1. Read “Living in the Medium” by J.G. Bennett, pp. 74-79 in Creators on Creating.

2. Read actively: Mark passages that strike you. Note words, ideas, or images that resonate for you. Consider how Bennett’s idea of “living in the medium” applies to your inquiry paper for this class.

3. Jot down notes in response to the following questions:
o According to Bennett, what is the difference between memorizing information about a subject and “grounding oneself in the subject”?
o How does Bennett suggest that a person can create the conditions necessary for a flash of insight?

4. Write a short paper (1½-2 pages) describing the “ground” you are preparing for your inquiry paper. What do you know about your subject, and what do you intend to do with the knowledge? Why is it important to you?

5. Save a copy of the paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Response Paper #2.”)

Homework for Friday, March 23

Before the field trip, please read the "Richard Hugo House Guidebook" that was placed in your Cornish mailbox.

The Hot Sheet (revisited)

Your hot sheet will contain three sections:
- A brief description of your project.
- A list of key words and phrases (terms, features, images, ideas) associated with your subject.
- A collection of “what,” “how,” and “why” questions about your subject.

1. Write your name and the date at the top of your sheet.

2. Title your project. (Keep in mind that the title of your paper may change as you work.)

3. Describe your project in 50-75 words. (What are you exploring? How will you approach the inquiry? What’s involved in the work? What do you hope you or others will “get” from your paper?)

4. Brainstorm a list of key words or short phrases that relate to your project. Aim for 15-20 words or phrases.

5. Make a list of “what,” “how,” and “why” questions about your subject. (Or, translate your project into “what,” “how,” and “why” questions.) Aim for 10 questions.

6. Save a copy of the hot sheet on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your hot sheet should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Hot Sheet.”)

Homework for Wednesday, March 21

Response Paper #1

Read “Short Assignments” from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott in your Course Reader: pp. 101-102.

Read actively: Mark passages that strike you. Note words, ideas, or images that resonate for you. Consider how Lamott’s idea of “short assignments” applies to your inquiry paper for this class.

Brainstorm a list of “short assignments” for yourself on this semester’s inquiry paper. “Short assignments” might include writing
- a description of a place or person
- a brief account of an interview you did
- a brief comparison of your arts organization with another
- an explanation of one key argument you’d like to make
- a one-paragraph “dialogue” with a source
- an introductory paragraph, or “curtain-raiser”
- etc.

Write. Choose one of your short assignments and write it.

Save a copy of the paper on your computer, and print a copy to bring to class. (Your paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the page, please include your name, the date, “Seattle Arts Ecology,” and “Short Assignment.”)

* Save your list of short assignments! Keep working your way through the list, one at a time, over the course of the next few weeks. Before you know it, you’ll have written your inquiry paper.

Fire on the Mountain

I just saw Fire on the Mountain at the Rep, and I loved it... it's the story of coal mining in the Mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia, and it's told through music -- real, live, blue grass, country music. There's 3 fiddler players, a banjo player, lap steel player(he's amazing), and everyone sings. If you like this kinda music, I very highly recommend it -- and it brings to light the horrors of coal mining in an engaging way.

And you can get in for $10 if you're under 25, $6 with teen tix :)

Go see it!

Upcoming Events featuring . . . us!

Check out upcoming events featuring the work of our class members:

Roll Call: Year One
A juried exhibition of first year art students who are competing against members of their own class for merit scholarships ranging from $500-$10,000 towards tuition.

Feb 27-March 2
Cornish Main Gallery 1000 Lenora Street, 1st Floor

Free. Cornish Main Gallery hours are Monday - Friday, 9am – 4pm.

BFA Dance Concert

March 1-4

Broadway Performance Hall

1625 Broadway at Pine
Tickets are free but required for admission. Ticket reservations are made by calling 206.726.5151, Ext 1018

Myth Projects

Performances created by first-year theater students.

March 6 at 8PM

Raisbeck Hall

Free.

Other events? Please post!

For people who loved the Vivarium . . .

The "Other" Life of a Tree

by Mark E. Harmon

A tree's life is not over once it falls to the forest floor. An entirely new life is only beginning.

Releasing small quantities of stress-related chemicals into the air, the tree announces its new life. Sensing minute concentrations of these compounds on their antennae, many insect species hone in on these recently fallen trees, in which they make a home and provide food for their larvae. Those locating a new home release scents which encourage others to join them. Insect predators, cued into the chemical "chatter," arrive and scurry along surfaces to ambush new arrivals. Other large and colorful beetles or wasp-like insects arrive to lay eggs that develop into large larvae, which bore deep into the wood. As the insect larvae mature, they leave holes up to one inch deep in diameter which provide access to salamanders, centipedes and other insects.

Fungi, protozoa, nematodes and bacteria also hitch rides on these insect "taxi cabs" from one dead tree to the next. Wind and water carry these decomposers to the new feast, too. Among these are the fungi, the world's foremost experts in breaking down trees. They weaken the wood and thus provide food and shelter for other organisms, such as dampwood termites.

The tree is gradually decomposing.

As life changes inside the tree, so it also changes on the outside. Lichens, mosses and liverworts draping the log's surface trap falling needles and leaves from trees above. As these leaves accumulate, they form deep rich organic soil both around the dead tree and on its surface. This rich soil traps seeds and spores, begetting ferns and shrubs. New trees seed themselves and are nourished by the tree we called "dead."

Trees and plants that root and live on the "nurse log" receive nutrients from what is left of the original fallen tree, which has been altered by insects, fungi, bacteria and other decomposers. In time, the growth and life of such nursing "babies" further reduces the original tree to a small fraction of its size.

It now has a new life--as a nurse log.

Long after the nurse log is only a brick-red residue, the plants and trees it has nurtured remain, beginning anew the cycle of life in the forest.

Mark E. Harmon is the Richardson Chair and Professor, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University.

Myth Projects!

So, I'm not sure anyone would be interested, but I'm going to tell ya all anyway...

March 6 at 8 in Raisbeck, a night of ensmeble generated MYTH PROJECTS! It should be freakin' awesome -- the whole freshman theatre class has been working on putting these together for the last few weeks... you've never seen aything like it.

So come and watch! It's free, it's fun, and you'll get to see Jessie and I act!

score

I'm scoring free tickets. look at the kitty!!

SUCK IT WORLD!

Hells yes! I get free tickets!!!

Time to be creative i spose...

My neglect of writing about the OSP is for one reason. I didn't like it (big surprise?).

I liked things about it. The Vivarium was pretty awesome I thought. It's like that song from the Lion King, The Circle Of Life. I just thought it was cool how it showed the existence of everything, dead or alive, can impact our surroundings. Weather it is a passed away family member of friend, our presence in the material world will always have an impact, even when we no longer are in this realm of existence. And maybe that's what I saw from this dead rotting tree. Kind of funny how one can get something deep like that from something like a dead tree log. no?

When I think of sculpture parks, I think of massive, FINISHED, spaces with large works of art. They had impressive sculptures, yes. And wonderful architecture, with the design of the buildings. But it was like the sculpture park in Leningrad, Russia (which was never completed). I don't know... maybe I'm an ass. If you're going to half ass something, at least clean up the edges and make it look somewhat pretty. Whatever.

It was a good bonding experience.

Here is a story.

I remember when I was little I had Burt and Ernie dolls from Sesame Street. I liked Ernie better and decided one day he needed a hair cut so he could be even better than Burt. Burt was really suck. He looked like a banana, his colours on his shirt were ugly, and he couldn't hold the gun from my G.I. Joe action figure(sometimes Burt and Ernie had to help kick some ass with G.I. Joe).

Anyways... I went and got my two tone, red and white, safety scissors and proceeded to give him a nice short hair cut. After I was finished... well... lets just say Burt was my favorite from then on. You could see Ernie's weave and look down into his hollow, orange skull. I ruined Ernie. He looked like he had just had a lobotomy. Oh well. I think those two are up in my parents attic now. I gave other things hair cuts too. The neighbor girl, my cat, my mom, and even myself. Eventually I spose I grew out of that phase.

Art With No Walls

The first thing I thought about when we got to the park was, "The only problem with art with no walls is the fact that there is nothing shielding me from the rain." I will be honest and say that I was wishing for the sun a lot of the time we were at the park but the more I think about it, the more I realize something. I realize that the weather is part of the art. It is part of the concept, "Art With No Walls."

Art within a museum doesn't really change. It is not meant to. It is meant to stay exactly as it was installed. Most of the time, the environment in which it is viewed will never change. The environment that we are in has a huge effect on us. So, with the ever-changing art of weather, we will never see these sculptures in the exact same environment. I think that's pretty amazing. It's almost like the art changes with the environment around it...completing a circle where the art is displayed exactly as it was meant to on that particular day.

As we leave the park, we can imagine the sculptures asking us to come back and see another side of who they are.

The park

I loved the park... it was my favorite field trip of this year, and may be even of last, although I loved Seattle Rep....

I come from Oregon, and I've grown up surrounded by trees. Now I'm in Seattle, and I'm surrounded by art. And at the OSP, I found both, in a way I was not expecting. The walk through the trees, discovering giant scupltures that look klike they'd grown there, rather than been placed, the sounds of the cars and train, the smell... there's no place like it.

It's hard to pick my favorite one... I could talk about anyone of them passionately. However, I choose the Wave for this current post.

There was something safe feeling about it -- like it was protecting me from the world, but not enclosing me. I look up and it pierces the sky, I look to either side and it surrounds me, keeping the sky from falling down on me. I walk to the end, but then I turn and it's there again! Everywhere I look, it's there... I walk around in circles, around it and beyond it, longing to touch it but the signs beg me not to, so I don't... I let it touch me instead.

And I loved the cocouns(sp)! Super fun -- I hope that everyone got a chance to sit in them, cuz they were awesome --- fun art :) I want one for my bedroom :)

Too Bad

I don't know if blogger.com just doesn't like my mac, or vice-versa, but uploading pictures has proven to be extremely time consuming and generally unsuccessful. This reminds me of the Olympic Sculpture Park. I imagine that they opened it when they did to prompt the public to donate enough money so that they could finish it, however I think this was a poor decision. For the amount of hype that the park received, showing up at the park only to find that there were chain link fences, excavators, and large expanses of dirt covering the area, I found it difficult to appreciate the sculptures in their bleak surroundings. I found it depressing to know that this is the best they could do. Typical of Seattle to talk something up solely for the purpose of attaining funding and press.

This was my favorite sculpture in the park. I like the positive and negative space it creates from this angle. The only angle I enjoyed taking pictures of the sculptures from was pointing towards the sky, so you couldn't see all of the construction that surrounded these otherwise fantastic pieces of artwork.

GAP Grants -- Time to Apply

Do you need support for an upcoming artistic project? If so, take a look at Artist Trust's "Grants for Artists Projects" (GAP) program which provides project grants of up to $1500 to develop, create, or present new work. The awards are selected by a multi-disciplinary peer review panel of artists and arts professionals, and selection is based foremost on artistic excellence. Artists in the performing, visual, literary, media, and emerging/cross-disciplinary arts are eligible.

The deadline for the 2007 GAP application is February 23, 2007. Download an application at www.artisttrust.org.

Also, Artist Trust offers free workshops on how to build a strong application. For details, go to www.artisttrust.org/events/artist_workshops.

another quote for another day

"they started to know more and more about less and less
until they knew everything about nothing" -do you know where this quote is from?

Disappointing

From pictures: seeing a massive park filled with endless sculptures on pedestals and hidden in woods; from other people: hearing about being "enveloped in the art" and being in the "most amazing setting". I went to the Seattle Art Museum's Sculpture Park with the highest expectations, but only left with disappointment. I'm not saying the art was bad, nor was the park. Maybe I had psyched myself up too much or expected too much. Regardless, the park is too small and the sculptures too few. Every sculpture was already photographed, so that you went there to verify its installation rather than going there to find more. They advertised it too well. When I heard it was being built I was honestly fascinated, filled with wonder and ideas with pictures to preview my anxiously awaiting experience, but only to be let down. And i know there is more that's being opened up eventually, but for right now I was left thinking "was that it?”

Something Useless

Well. I am going to share my feelings with the whole select few who read this trash.

Yesterday was a waste of a completely good day I believe. My interview for class has been botch-fest 2007. I can't get a hold of this guy and it's irritating me beyond belief. And of course I felt like shit. Projects, homework riding up my butt, tromboning, and the endless struggle of being a human in the material world...

...That's my life

Valentine's day is a holiday that was invented to make the singles feel even more shitty about being single. Or maybe it was invented to make single people do stupid things like try and win somebody's heart. Whatever reason it was created... i think you might now know how i feel about it. I hate it. Of course! But that's only because i am single and bitter towards anyone that actually spent this silly holiday with the person they are in love with. See... i didn't spend it with anyone except a box of NyQuil...

Something inside of me told me to feel more like crap. A kind of crap I can only feel on Valentine's Day.

MY quote of the day

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." -Emily Dickinson

true and sincere friends

Well, everyone, I am loving my organization more and more as I go. Vera Project is so tight. It almost doesn't feel like I am researching for a class because I am so interested in what I am learning. For instance, did you know that Vera was started in response to a Teen Dance Ordinance that was passed in 1985 that outlawed all underage dance clubs? This sounds kind of ridiculous but they outlawed them because of all of the trouble with drugs, alcohol, and sexual abuse in relation to the dance clubs. This movement seeped into the underage music scene as well, hence Vera is the first all ages music venue in a LOOOONG time. Reminds you of Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon, yea??? I know. Only they were in a small town in like the early 80's and we are talking about the city of Seattle in the late 90's (when they finally abolished the TDO)

I would also like to thank Chris for giving us Friday to work on our projects. It was MUCHO helpful. Ashley and I are planning on being at Vera for their grand opening concert to take pictures and volunteer! That's right, first hand experience in the volunteer dept.!

Last thing...Vera is actually and acronym for Veri Et Recti Amici which translates to "true and sincere friends"

All The Angles

It's 08.00 am and I am sitting here, outside, trying to wake up. My eyelids are stuck to my eyeballs and my vision is blurred from being asleep since 6 o'clock the previous night. I can taste my breath and my stomach is moaning with hunger. This seems to be the routine I experience every Monday morning.

In the back of my mind I have the stuff I need to do eating at me and making me nervous. And yet... all i can think about is writing a stupid blog for my trip to the library.

The Seattle Public Library is perhaps the most interesting building I have been inside of.
I didn't realize that they utilized every possible section of the huge building. And yet when you go inside it seems even larger than looking at it from out on the street.

It is pretty different from the library in Boston. But just in a design sense. It seems to have more of a euro-flare. It also has less homeless, transient, types than the Boston library. The lighting and the design keep people more awake and interested in books rather than free lounging.

Our group headed back to grab some info for our project on our "super study time Friday". I must say the people that make this library run smoothly are also very informative and pleasantly ready to address you when you need help.

All in all. This library is very good and does not piss me off. So that's enough of this annoying blog.

Very successful Friday!

I hope that everyone had as much success on Friday as our group did! Thanks so much, Chris, for letting us have that day to visit our sites! We ended up going to the Hugo House and talking to Lyall Bush, the Ex. Director for a half an hour -- it was awesome! I'm super excited about our report... I'm also heartily addicted to ZAPP and I think I'll head down there right now to read some more zines... :)

Comic book artists/authors, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are going to appear at Fantagraphics

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003561564_fantagraphics08.html

we could all use a little more library in our lives...

The new library is very big...it made me feel very small. I do like it though. Except for those scary escalators with the neon colors and the faces staring at you. Those I do not like so much. But like Shaun said, "Atleast this library has something for you to turn away from." I have to agree.

I really love how the new library is so tied to the community, especially the arts community. I appreciate all of the artwork that is incorporated into the structure of the building. One of my favorites art pieces was the foreign languages section which featured the floor with writing in all different languages. This really gave the building and the section a feeling of being bigger than ourselves. It reminds us that there is always more than what we understand and always more to reach for and more to learn about.

I was very impressed with the staff of the library as well. They all seemed extremely knowledgable, not just on the layout of the library but on life in general. They all seemed to genuinely care about the library and even more importantly, care about the people that walked in the door. I'm sure we've all been to those libraries and museums before where the people working there seemed to be more concerned about the scuff your shoe made on the floor than the knowledge you were taking from the organization. I did not feel that way at all at this library.

YAY for seattle public library.

Seattle Public Library-ness

I loved the library trip! I'd never been in there before, but Ive walked by it many times... it was so big! "I've never seen so many books in all my life!" (hint, it's a disney classic, and the only animated film to be nominated for best picture) I'm a book freak, as many of you know, and the only thing I wish is that I'd gotten to browse more! I just wanted to take off from the rest of the group and see what treasures were waiting in the stacks...

As a last note, I HATE the Dewy Decimal system... it's so outdated... but I know that it would take crazy long time to re-catalogue all those books... so I won't complain. Too much.

I still love my library back home the best though -- it was a little tiny thing in Alsea, Oregon. The building used to be a bank, and then it was the phone operator's office-y thing, and in my day it was a library. I knew every book in there, and I'd go in there and just chat with Mary, the librarian... that was where my first library job was, I was 7. Good times.

That was a little off topic... but yeah, I love libraries.

The Library

The library was pretty cool actually. I haven't been to that library yet, so it was surprising to see that it was actually that big. I love the way that they incorporated so much art into the architecture and interior design. The scary red hallway, the cool little spinning carved sculpture piece, the different languages carved into the wooden floor, the awesome glass windows, and just the way that the library was set up to operate were all really cool things that made this library different from most I've been to. It was very colorful and seemed like it was designed to keep you awake ...rather than to put you to sleep. lol, even the benches were designed so that you "Couldn't sleep on them". Really cool. Good thoughts.

Just thought you should know...

I <3 my penis

The Stranger on the OSP

Jen Graves of The Stranger has an intriguing perspective on the Olympic Sculpture Park (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=137180). Also, check out the Time magazine article on the OSP and similar urban parks (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580397,00.html).

Yay for Design Commission :)

cat on a keyboard in space

I am still working on uploading pictures from Pike Place last Friday. In the mean time, I bring you the cosmic cat.

Pike Place Marketiness

So, I've only been living in Seattle since school started and I've only made my way down to Pike Place Market once (I think) before with my sister. We were just wondering around and I didn't think it was anything spectacular... but this time I found it amazing! Just talking to some of the "shop" keepers, and how they've been there for 35 years and such... I just find it facinating. And the whole underworld of the market -- which I so didn't know was there until Blake pulled me down the stairs. The first thing I thought was "wow, I want to have a dance down here". Don't know why.

But I love the atmosphere of the place... it's so busy and bustling and exploding with an almost antique energy... I love it.

Great field trip :)

chocolate soup and....rachael

Aaaaaaah the picture thing on here is driving me crrrrrrrazy. I don't know what's going on with all that...but i'll figure it out eventually. In the mean time, there it is. Awkward but whatever

SO, PIKE PLACE!!!
Yea...i have been there quite a few times. Spending summers dancing in seattle since I was 14, plus living here

for the past three years, I love pike place but it does get really touristy. It seems like some people think that pike place is so seattle and they go there to get a real taste of the city but it seems funny because no one from seattle really hangs out there. It has become just one huge tourist spot. However, it is a lot of fun.

I had some columbian hot chocolate for the first time! It was SO good. The texture was more like chocolate soup but it was amazing. Our team also got some doughnuts from the stand near the fish throwers. Yea, to me Pike Place is a lot about good food. For real, they have such good food down there!

You can see above a man with a tennis ball. Yes, they put people's payment into the tennis balls and then they throw it to the cashier. It's supposed to be more efficient I guess. If it were me throwing the credit cards around, i don't know how efficient it would really be.

Aren't my teamates the cutest?? They are a good time. yes they are.

-abby

On Broadway!

So i found some interesting stuff...

Check this out...

Society Theatre, c.1913

According to the Junchen opus lists, the Broadway Society Theatre originally had a 2/7 tubular pneumatic Kimball organ, installed in 1909. In 1921, the Society Theatre was renamed the Broadway Theatre.

Broadway Theater in 1948

Broadway Theater...errr Rite Aid Today.

....I have a feeling I'm going to become the "Blog nerd" in this group.

C'mon ppl! BLOG BLOG BLOG!

The Market Of Death

How could the weather be so shitty and it not rain? That's what i remember thinking when we were walking to the Pike Place Market. Afterwards I called to order a pizza from Pagliacci and their greeting message said that the classification of the weather that day was "dreary". I sat there and listened to the hold music and decided that I agreed with them. Huh...

Our group consists of Ka-Bing, Aimee, and myself.

My name is Greg Larson and yes, I am from Seattle. Pike Place is just another spot where outsiders like to shop for food while I just go to QFC. It's okay though. I like walking around and seeing the people that come and visit Seattle. They act like little kids in a toy store. Awestruck by every little detail in the 100+ year old structure, they walk around from booth to booth, shop to shop and enjoy every part of it. Or at least that's what it seems like to me.

This time i got more of a feeling that it is a tourist point. Postcards, thimbles, shot glasses, and t-shirts stands seem to stick out more than usual. I wonder if it would be cool to send someone a postcard from the city you live in. no?

Other highlights of this journey to the, normally crowed, market where:

-The neon coloured , sheer, headdresses (which i tried to coax the girls in to wearing)
-The Dried Fruit Stand
-The Fish guy that hit on Amiee
-The Prime Rib Sandwich I ate for lunch
-Watching Sean ride the pig
-Going in the very first Starbucks (my first time)
-Finding out there still might be culture left to find for someone who grew up in Seattle.

We did our little scavenger hunt assignment and then walked aimlessly for an hour. I don't know...

Pike Place Market... a little over rated? Maybe... It might just be I am older. I remember this summer I went on a trip to the ocean and as we drove in the back country we came across a deer. Everyone in the whole car was SOOO fucking amazed, like they've never seen a fucking deer before. Or like it fucking came down from a spaceship and was here to eat our brains out and implant us with cyborg deer brains so we'll do their bidding. I sat there and thought, "oh a dear". Needless to say everyone got mad at me because I didn't see what the big fucking deal was about a dumb ass dear standing in the middle of the road. Maybe that's the problem with with me...

Some of our trips I've already experienced. I believe the next one will gather more emotion...

Team 3 Findings

Team 3 (Kim, Sean, and Jessie)

What is the significance of the pig--
After asking everyone we came across at the different shops, the best answer we got was "I don't know...it's just there." Well, we later realized that right above the pig was a plaque that explained everything about it. We felt pretty stupid. So...yeah, I guess it's a piggy bank. A really big piggy bank.

Why do the workers at City fish toss yellow tennis balls around--
They do this to pass money and credit cards back and forth.

Fish Seller--
Ryan
worked there for 1 year and 8 months (2nd newest employee)
the source of the fish is the puget sound
recommended the fresh black cod steaks

Fruit/Vegetable Seller--
Leslie
worked there for 16 years
produce comes from local farmers outside CA and Chile
she said her favorite thing to do at the market was take advantage of all the free samples

Crafts Person--
*She was selling pepperjelly, but we considered that a craft and she was such a nice lady, we had to include her
Ligaya
worked there for 10 years
Micks Peppourri comes from Yakima Valley
she would recommend the new cheescake place accross the speech

Optional--
*Honey stand
Kelsey
worked there August
comes from Northbend
recommends the craft line

SHOCK FACTOR!

Just for fun.... HAHA!

CELEBRITY SIGHTING!

...I got bored. Jeezzz.

Pigs and Crumpets

Pike Place was a fun lil' trip. I enjoyed spending time with my team and getting to know them a little bit more on a personal level. Kim and Jessie are 2 awesome people! We all walked around and talked about our own experiences here in Seattle, and then ate Crumpets at the Crumpet Shop. We did our assignments (Talking to strangers) and found that most of the people there were really nice and willing to offer up as much info as possible. We found out that the people that work at Pike Place Fish Co. have to work from 6:30am to 6:30pm... NUTS! Imagine spending that much of your life with dead fish... Oh, and Abbey likes to Rodeo on Rachel the pig!

Critical perspective on the Olympic Sculpture Park

Check this out. What do you think?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003529633_sculpturereview18.html

Olympic Sculpture Park - featured in Seattle Times article

Click on this link to read the latest about Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003524511&slug=sculpturepark140&date=20070114

Welcome!

Welcome to the Spring semester of "Seattle Arts Ecology." Please make use of this space to share your thoughts, questions, discoveries, and realizations.