Joe Fig interviews 24 contemporary artists (from the usual to the young) and askes them each the same questions. From "what kinds of paints do you use and special devices"…
Author
Chris Jagers
Chris Jagers
Chris Jagers is the Founder and Director of Slideroom.com. The company provides an online applicant management system to museums, universities and other institutions nationwide. He received his BFA from SMU and his MFA from University of Washington.
-
-
Many artists today rely on their computers as part of their studio practice. Whether this be Photoshop, video-editing or some other practice, there is a heavy reliance (and trust) of…
-
Every Semester, Meadows School of the Arts hosts a series of talks by artists which are free to attend. These world class visitors are organized by Noah Simblist, who works…
-
Tonight was the opening of the Arthouse charity auction at Dunn and Brown Gallery . The walls were peppered with hundreds of tiny 5×7 artworks, all lined up in three…
-
When I finished my undergraduate degree in art, I was flying high with excitement. After Graduate school, I was torn apart, dejected … but still highly motivated. There has been…
-
Jerry Saltz has been using Facebook for a while now, and gaining some well-deserved press. His posts range from simple comments/questions to more recently his major commentary on the…
-
Part 2 of 2: Chris Jagers interviews Dean Terry in regard to new mobile technologies. Art making is usually thought of as Intimate. Mobile devices are usually thought of…
-
Mobile devices are opening the gates for a flood of location-based products and real-time communication tools. At the forefront of exploring this technology is Artist/Teacher/Technologist Dean Terry. He is currently…
-
The winner, for the much talked about Xero Project, has been announced. The block behind City Hall has been designated for an experimental building that will "connect the city…
-
KickStarter is a new site to "fund ideas and endeavors." The site seems particularly geared to artistic communities that only need a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for…
-
It is so easy to criticize art education … and certainly there are problems. But I would like to highlight some great attributes of art education which are sometimes missing…
-
“In my work, I am deconstructing the idea of …”“This artist deconstructs popular conceptions about …” I have to vent about the misuse of the verb: “Deconstruct.” I hear people…
-
As artists, we are constantly using the Web to share/promote artwork. We email galleries, publish websites, enter contests, etc… everything is online. However, very few artists understand the medium of…
-
The SMU faculty exhibition at the MAC just closed, but I wanted to report my experience of Jay Sullivan’s new work. From a distance, the installation looks like a geology…
-
The New York Times just posted an editorial titled “The End of the University as We Know It, ” by Mark Taylor. It is a proposal & reexamination of the…
-
It is so common for artists to work from photographs today… I believe dangerously common. It’s flatness, stopped-time look and palette permeate so much artwork with the consequence of looking…
-
The Division of Art @ Meadows just finished the last of 4 presentations by candidates for the position of Chair (soon to be vacated by Jay Sullivan). I was somewhat…
-
Last week, the Ceramics Department @ SMU brought in 3 former students (from 10 years ago) to make a presentation about their current development. I have given an intro to…
Older Posts