You Can Change the World: Paso a Paso
Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Art, Society | No Comments »A friend of mine and his family spent six months in Guatemala finalizing the adoption of their second child. That experience inspired them both artistically and practically: "It is a land of great beauty, but marred by devastating poverty and instability. ...
Support Start Seeing Art
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Art | 1 Comment »My local public art side project, Start Seeing Art, is now accepting sponsorship. It's basically advertising—rotating banners in the sidebar—but I hate to use the word "advertising" because the site doesn't justify the eyeballs to use that word. We get ...
Start Seeing Art’s Downtown St. Paul Art Map
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | 2 Comments »On Saturday I posted the Downtown St. Paul Art Map on Start Seeing Art. It's a free, printable, 7-page PDF map that features outdoor sculptures and murals in the downtown area. I'm intentionally putting it out just before the Republican ...
Why Public Art is Cool
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Art | 1 Comment »The night before my trip to Chicago I started looking up public art. I found a handy guide to public art in Chicago (all it's missing is a map) and during a few free hours I wandered around downtown, specifically ...
Start Seeing Art Passes 300 Works
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | 1 Comment »This week my little side project/hobby, Start Seeing Art, posted its 300th work of public art. No wonder I can't write a book, I'm too busy with art. The project's been a lot of fun. I get to check out ...
St. Paul Sculptural Complex is Torn Down
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »A sculpture by George Sugarman that has graced a downtown St. Paul corner since 1971 is being torn down. A potential million-dollar masterpiece, "St. Paul Sculptural Complex" was left out when the building was sold and is being removed and ...
Discovering Art in West Bend, Wisconsin
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »Art keeps following me. Apparently it's not enough to be mapping public art in the Twin Cities. Last weekend we were in West Bend, Wisconsin (about an hour north of Milwaukee), helping my brother and his family move. While getting ...
Twitter, Moving, History & Art
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Art, Blogging, Domicile, Family, History | No Comments »Blogging has definitely slowed lately. I blame Twitter—I've been enjoying its strength as a place to make temporary, pithy comments that don't require much time or thought investment. Maybe that says something about how valuable/worthless my Twitter posts are, though ...
Caponi Art Park
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last weekend I went to Caponi Art Park in Eagan, Minn., to check out the art. If you're not familiar with it (I wasn't), artist Anthony Caponi bought a chunk of land in the 1950s and build his home and ...
Simple Living: Artwork for Darfur
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Art, Society | 2 Comments »I love this painfully poignant Darfur poster from Nadia Plesner: "My illustration Simple Living is an idea inspired by the media's constant cover of completely meaningless things. My thought was: Since doing nothing but wearing designer bags and small ugly dogs ...
Celebrating my 30th birthday with clean water and a clean shave.
