#uarts

[yeahiwasintheshit]

What is going on where 3 art schools have all closed so far just this year. My old school university of the arts, the phila academy of fine arts and the Delaware college of art and design. Which is crazy that it’s all happening at once.

[cinno2]

Hello I am alive.

Time and socials move different in the wake of one’s university suddenly closing down. Now I’m on a completely different life path in a completely different place. Still making art

Hoping to start making more fanart like i used to but life has a way of throwing me curveballs

Here’s a sketch dump in the meantime

[anamelessfool]

I'm going back to my art school days because one of the biggest art schools in the region is straight up shuttering. There's been no notification other than a tiny announcement on their webpage. Students got tuition bills for the next semester, the school gave diplomas to their graduates and 24 hours later in a single sentence on their website half-announced it's closing. President and all her cronies are resigning like rats fleeing a sinking ship. Class Action shit is sharpening the knives.

My school had a friendly competition, a good relationship with UArts. It was an amazing school and any student or grad from there was guaranteed to be a reliable worker and amazing artist. Now it's just fucking gone and my colleagues I've known for 15 years (and are now faculty of UArts themselves!) are just sort of walking around stunned.

With the rise of AI and management running these prestigious spaces like they're CEOs of a Silicon Valley startup it's depressing. Fuck lenders and fuck CEOs and fuck all this.

Arts Education is a public good and a requirement for a healthy society. It doesn't have to be this way.

[ethan-grav]

response to some upsetting event

If I could change it,

I would

But I can’t.

And life moves…

I won’t say that it moves on though.

Its motion is more like a winding, snaked path

Each bend becoming more drastic than the last

Till all you leave behind is a tangled mess.

And you take that mess.

That mess is what you show others

We all parade around with our tied up garden snakes,

Holding them up to one another

Proclaiming:

Here

This is me

This is who I am

There are many snakes like my snake

But this snake

And its knots

Are uniquely mine.

Uniquely mine-

Sometimes we hate that individualism;

We want to untangle our snakes and retie them

Into some other more fashionable cordage,

But each time we try

And untangle

Our little snake screams out:

No,

This is you

And you are me

Unraveling our bonds will only unfurl the banners

That you hold

So close to your heart.

So we keep our snakes tangled

Even though our friendly contortionist may hurt

We keep our snake wiggling in pain

Because eventually

The pain will go away-

We will learn to accept our shape

And develop even more

Magnificence

Even more

Cacophony

Even more

Bloodthirst

Even more

Conviviality.

Knots.

And each knot adds to that

wondrous weave that we call

“me”

For we are not just a snake tangled into a mess

But a creature cursed

To crawl onto its belly

And make the best of it

So make the best of it

We shall

Hiss towards the sun

Curse your Zeus and seek lightning

And feel the warmth of their embrace.

[epilogueafterepilogue]

I'm seeing Comet at Philly's UArts on the 17th!

[uartslibraries]

Luchita Hurtado / Hans Ulrich Obrist

edited by Karen Marta

ND237.H948 A35 2020

[themetree-chrysanthopoulos]

Found this enormous poster sized photograph I’m in, of The University of the Arts @uarts Photography Class of 1998 shot by the great Gabe Martinez @gabejmartinez. Shot, I think, on the roof of the Anderson building, which used to house the photography dept. I tagged some of the people i could find. #RIPMelissaForgione #wheresjosh #univesityofthearts #photographydepartment #classof1998 #uarts #uartsphoto #iminthebackinthedarksweater (at The University of the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaVEtVdlGmu/?utm_medium=tumblr

[zinzabee]

This month is the 4 year anniversary of my graduation from college and the completion of my senior thesis, “Bhogavati: Kingdom of the Naga”. For those of you who remember, the first image was a doodle I made shortly after it premiered. I decided to celebrate by doing a redraw of the kids and update their designs a bit. 

If you haven’t seen it yet, you can view my thesis here on vimeo