Downtown dialogs in the Humanities: Monday April 19th, 2010

Last Monday was the last downtown dialogs in the Humanities for the Spring Semester.

Thanks to Puri, Anoush, Jennifer, Kate and Katie Ford for making it such a sucess!

Kallitype Workshop by Bruce Melkowits

A wonderful Kallitype workshop was given by Bruce Melkowits from Raleigh/Durham two weeks ago.

Large format negatives were exposed using the Kallitype solution which was hand applied to Arches smooth 140bl hot press paper. Some good results.

Thank you to the Gray Gallery and Tom Braswell for bringing Bruce to ECU Photography department!

Thanks you Bruce Melkowitz! Scroll down to the second story on Bruce.

“Women Artists” Professors of the Studio, Joyner Library

Dr. Larry Boyer,

Dean of Academic Library and Learning Resources

would like to invite you to an exhibition

celebrating the vision and energy of the current

Women Studio Faculty Artists of the

School of Art and Design.

 Double Vision, 2009, 40 x 50"

Artists who are also professors of the School of Art and Design include:

Linda Darty, Chrtistine Zoller, Lisa Beth Robinson, Kelly Adams, Amy McIntyre, Robin Haller, Patricia Monnett Hayes and myself.

There will be an opening for this Spring exhibition at the Joyner Library, ECU in April. 

Update on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 8:24AM by Annie

A posting in the ECU newspaper:

Rotation: Greenville City Hall

My works "Complicity" based on a Lynching in Beaufort NC in 1899 will be on display at the Greenville City Hall, Greenville, North Carolina throughout April - July.

Beaufort Jail

NYTimes article from 1899. Cyanotype, 2008

Holding Cell, Van Dyke print, 2008

A Transman's passing.

My friend Flo McGarrell died in the Haiti tragedy on January 12. He was a gifted artist, loved friend, an activist leader, and a believer in the power of  change. I will miss his piercing eyes and vision and its realization through his work and art and way of life. He was loved by many both here in the US and in Haiti.

He had a short time, but he had a full time. Flo was funny, incredibly smart, sweet and had gorgeous eyes. His vision for Jacmel will live on though the artists in Haiti, Sue Frame, The Peace of Mind hotel, and his friends in the US. And Flo was a filmaker ( his movie Maggots and Men was shown around the country his 'Instructables' on creating a garden and sculptures. We have a few things to learn from Agrisculpture. Thanks Flo. We will miss you.

I will plant a plum tree in the yard of my new house in Highland Park, NJ for Flo. One is in NY and another in VT that Flo planted last time she was home.  

Big thanks to Sue Frame for her care of Flo during a very hard time. 

Update on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:24AM by Annie

For those that knew Flo, here is a blog for followup. It is called We Are Going With Flo.

Flores McGarrell
August 31, 1974-January 12 2010

Many pictures of Flo's life can be viewed here. Thank you for compiling them Kiku. I hope we get to meet some day. Flo was a visionary artist. He made beautiful inflatable sculptures and invented the medium of agri-sculpture. He was loved and will be sadly missed.