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Feed the Beast! @meow__wolf at #pennystamps tonight. So much inspiration. Fascinating parallels of art & commerce. 💜💗🖤💛💚 (at The Michigan Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvkmu9WgNet/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n4s1tltcbcpn

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The inimitable Christo sharing his thoughts on art and life at U-M Penny Stamps lecture. @umstamps #michigantheater #christo #pennystamps #universityofmichigan #ummuseumofart #annarbor #michigan (at The Michigan Theater)

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[Artist Lecture] Kashink, of Wynwood Walls Fame

Jenna Barlage attends the Penny Stamps Lecture featuring street artist/activist Kashink.

I’ve been lacking inspiration lately. Admittedly, I have not been seeking it out. Tonight I made my first attempt in weeks to be inspired. I guess what you seek, you shall find.

I had never been to a Penny Stamps lecture before tonight. I walked to the Michigan Theatre in the rain, taking an aisle seat in the back of the auditorium upon arrival.

The subject was The Wynwood Walls, a collection of graffiti art composed upon once forgotten buildings in a district of Miami. The concept behind Wynwood is influential. What I found even more influential was one of the many faces behind Wynwood.

Kashink came onstage sporting her signature pencil moustache. She’s been wearing it for three years. It started as a persona for her openings. Now she wears it everyday to embrace the eccentric. She likes to cross gender boundaries, to question the status quo.

Maybe that’s why her work is so revolutionary. Kashink paints on walls, legally or illegally, paid or unpaid. She began tagging in her native Paris as a teenager, but today her works can be viewed across the world. Her pieces are political and provocative, advocating for gay marriage and women’s rights.

50 Cakes of Gay Series

“Everybody loves cake.” - Kashink

A mural for the 50 Cakes of Gay series in Kongsvinger, Norway (above)

50 Cakes of Gay in Paris, France (below)

Kashink’s work for Amnesty International

“Mon Cops, Mes Broits” – “My Body, My Rights”

Paris, France

Challenging Stereotypes of Masculinity

Kashink’s works challenge stereotypes, sensitive, eccentric men being her primary subject matter. Her four-eyed characters appear race-less and gender-less, promoting equality and expression.

Kashink’s Signature Four-Eyed Man

Wynwood Walls, Miami

Kashink is a woman in a field dominated by men, addressing social issues through eccentric and unique art, persuading people to progress through bringing them happiness rather than aggression.

Kashink employs balance in her work in a way that I’ve not seen before. She is powerful and revolutionary, with but with a big heart a sense of humor that radiates through her work. Long story short, Kashink is really awesome.

Thank you, Kashink, for giving me the inspiration that I was looking for.

All photos from kashink.tumblr.com.

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First long exposure. 2011. ⏲ . . . . . . . #manualmotives #canonrebelxsi #longexposure #blur #pennystamps #artschool #photography #conceptual #conceptualphotography #annarbor #umich (at Stamps School of Art & Design)

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Dec 1: Photo documentation of the pattern and sewing of a body sculpture piece that will eventually be stuffed. This is how I spent my thanksgiving break! :)

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[Exhibition Catalogue] Tactility

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[Studio Visit] Matt Rosner & ‘The Object’

Natalie Grove visits artist and friend Matt Rosner. Matt, in his senior year at The Stamps School for Art and Design, will culminate his undergraduate work at the University with an intensive Integrative Project (IP).

I always find myself creatively inspired around Matt Rosner.  The most recent time we talked was in his IP studio.  If you follow him on Instagram you know him as “objects2objects” and have learned to appreciate day2day objects as sources of uncomplicated, subtle beauty.

Similarly, Matt’s IP explores the ways that we as people tend to “objectify” (a term normally used in the context of women and minorities) objects themselves. Unlearning this habit through the personification of objects, in this case lightbulbs, can unveil an alternative type of companion that provides us with sympathy and recognition. For his IP, the artist will curate cylinder lightbulbs in a dark room and allot each visitor 2 minutes alone to discover a new way to relate to inanimate objects.

When I enter Matt’s studio, I find a Mighty Good coffee and pour over apparatus, a couple of bookshelves full of philosophy and design reads, and a colorful array of tools hung in rows above his desk.  I settle on a stool nestled in the corner among boxes full of supplies, chords and lamps of all kinds.  

He shows me sketches of some of the installations and their titles. One of the bulbs he plans to use is illuminated beside us. It makes sense. The lightbulbs serve a reflexive function in the way they remind you that we are, like them, sources of illumination.

I feel it and you will too.

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