On October 18, 2007 Clark University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) program will be hosting “The World is Yours” an annual event organized for students to learn more about the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. This year the event will focus on entrepreneurship and the arts.
I’ve been asked to participate as a representative due to my work in poetry, visual arts, and as an entrepreneur.
“The World is Yours” will be hosted by George Gendron, founder of the I&E program, along with students from the Innovation & Entrepreneurship program. This year’s keynote will be delivered by Matt Goldman, co-founder of Blue Man Group. Following his keynote, small teams of students will have the opportunity to network with a number of professionals, about their commitment to the arts, entrepreneurial and organizational challenges and creative outlets.
Should be a great event— I am looking forward to it. I can’t help but be interested in how students are being introduced more and more to art and how the cultures of the business world are being combined with those of the art world.
The only problem is the fact that it is the night before this year’s Fort Point Open Studios. I will be in a mad scramble to get 617 Midway cleaned and prepped for the 500+ visitors that are bound to come walking through that weekend.
But “The World is Yours” does kind of sound like a James Bond movie— no?
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Above, see a painting from artist Dan Rupe. He is one of my favorite painters on the Cape and I love his use of an original style to give the all-over feeling of light to his street scenes.
I have included this one here, as I have been experimenting with a style that Rupe uses in his work. He oftentimes spreads a rich red on top of the canvas before he begins working— and then allows the color to peek through and glow around the various objects in the work.
The image is from the Ernden Gallery site: www.erndengallery.com/danrupe.html
In the paintings I have in progress, “Spring Training,” and some of the other collage material I am working on, I have experimented with this style— in “Spring Training,” by spreading pinks and yellows across the page before beginning work, and then allowing lost of color to show around the figures and shapes.
It led me back to oil painting class where we were told to tone down the white with a muted yellow before starting. Rupe’s colors are anything but muted, but do well to convey the energy of light off the ocean in a seaside town. It seems almost liquid and as if it holds a personality. Rupe does a great job in his paintings, which are always a favorite of Provincetown gallery visitors in the summer.
I am using the effect for different ends, I think— to bind the disparate images on a page, give them some different energy, and play off each other (the pink and yellows here). Plus, the idea of “Spring Training” and all the pastels seemed to need something other tha a muted yellow or white behind it.
Busy Labor Day here— lots of paintings in the works, and lots of prep for upcoming shows.
Above, see a painting from artist Dan Rupe. He is one of my favorite painters on the Cape and I love his use of an original style to give the all-over feeling of light to his street scenes.
I have included this one here, as I have been experimenting with a style that Rupe uses in his work. He oftentimes spreads a rich red on top of the canvas before he begins working— and then allows the color to peek through and glow around the various objects in the work.
The image is from the Ernden Gallery site: www.erndengallery.com/danrupe.html
In the paintings I have in progress, “Spring Training,” and some of the other collage material I am working on, I have experimented with this style— in “Spring Training,” by spreading pinks and yellows across the page before beginning work, and then allowing lost of color to show around the figures and shapes.
It led me back to oil painting class where we were told to tone down the white with a muted yellow before starting. Rupe’s colors are anything but muted, but do well to convey the energy of light off the ocean in a seaside town. It seems almost liquid and as if it holds a personality. Rupe does a great job in his paintings, which are always a favorite of Provincetown gallery visitors in the summer.
I am using the effect for different ends, I think— to bind the disparate images on a page, give them some different energy, and play off each other (the pink and yellows here). Plus, the idea of “Spring Training” and all the pastels seemed to need something other tha a muted yellow or white behind it.
Busy Labor Day here— lots of paintings in the works, and lots of prep for upcoming shows.
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