Drawing in the margins at the Swarm Gallery 560 Second Street, hospital Oakland, CA May 1 – 6, 2007 Reception Wed May 2, 6-9pm Gallery hours: Tues-Sunday 12-6pm Artists: Kristina Alcini, Miranda Bergman, Marilee Bogaart, Cynthia Butler, Lauren Cohen, Faye Dennin. Foron Fishman, Eddie Gesso, Sean Monahagn, Justin Olerud, JR Potler, Ben Seevers, Samson Snowden,…

â?¢ Tsunami â?¢ Earthquake â?¢ Famine â?¢ Drought â?¢ Religeouus fanatiscism â?¢ Vanishing Bees â?¢ Genocide â?¢ War â?¢ Aids â?¢ Tornados â?¢ Hurricanes â?¢ Flood â?¢ Receeding Polar Ice Caps â?¢ Expanding Polar Ice Caps â?¢ Depleation of the Ozone Layer â?¢ Acid Rain â?¢ Topsoil Errosion â?¢ Pandemic (Plaque)

Tomorrow in Narrative drawing, we start organizing all our drawings for the book we’re having made. I like this DYI book stuff. I was telling Tom tonight that maybe I’ll keep making drawings this size over the summer and try to get enough together for a nice big book. That along with two classes, a…

Alanna Spence Minimalism Seminar CCA April 2007 Places (Earth and Land) Sharp, advice Smithson, Heizer, Oppenheim This week’s readings address Earthworks art from the mid 1960s. This art form follows in the wake of Minimalism, and some artists admit to having been influenced by some aspects of Minimalism, but they feel their work has moved…

Letter sent to customer service at Rocket Postcards in San Francisco. I’ll let you know if it gets resolved. Hi Rocket, I have been using Rocket Postcards for a few years now and have never had a problem. So I recommended you to my teacher when he needed to have postcards done for a show.…

One of the UFO paintings I’ve been working on in class. There are just two weeks of class left after this week. Two of my classes finish all work next week, so the last week will just be three finals and two parties. Lots to do! My show at Live Worms Gallery is coming up…

My ability to deal with stress has reached new lows this semester. I have been having a real hard time staying sane. The physical incarnation of my stress is a hungry monster. It wants to eat up every aspect of my life and turn it into more stuff to stress about. For the past week,…

Donkey Kong scene using 6400 post-it notes http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/ Vanishing bees might be from cellphones http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece

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From Beret Alanna, Hope the paper is going well. Just came from a &*#$(@ critique which reminded me that my WRITING is certainly better than most 18 year olds, but ART is a whole different story. More experience does not equal better art. Now why is that? From me Well, if you think about all…

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From Beret: My current prof has a philosophy that we shouldn’t try to be a good student, because once we graduate, what do we have then? Instead, we should find our way as artists.