The Writing Studio

This Tumblr began for my students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design to initiate more connections between their artmaking and their writing; it was our writing studio. But then I fell in love with this platform and have kept it for collecting words and images I want to share with any visitors.

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Can't wait to get my hands on this edition.

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Sometimes Tumblr gets motley and lonely

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A Page from the Drawing Papers Archive

This page from Drawing Papers 48 features Escritura deformada 2, an ink on paper drawing created by León Ferrari in 1965.

The 2004 exhibition León Ferrari: Politiscripts was the first U.S. solo museum exhibition of the Argentinean artist León Ferrari (b. 1920). The exhibition, curated by Luis Camnitzer, focused on Ferrari’s calligraphic drawings from the 1960s as they relate to his influential role in exploring art as a political agent. By accentuating the calligraphic aspect of his works, Ferrari seeks to erase the distinction between writing and drawing, and his works ultimately oscillate between understanding and incomprehension.

The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing. For more information on Drawing Papers 48 please click here.

-Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager 

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I get a shock of love looking at this.

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[At the] National Press Club Luncheon in 1986, Baldwin was asked, “How would you assess the state of race relations today, how much change have you seen since The Fire Next Time?“ After giving the audience a slightly helpless smile that almost hid his frustration, Baldwin responded with what he called a “modest proposal”: "What I would really like to do,” he began, “I want to establish…White History Week. (Audience laughs and claps.) Because the answers to these questions is not to be found in me, but in that history that produces these questions. It’s late in the day to be talking about race relations. What are you talking about? As long as we have ‘race relations’, how can they deteriorate or improve? I am not a race and neither are you. “No, we are talking about the life and the death of this country…I’m not joking when I talk about white history week. One of the things which most afflicts this country is that white people don’t know who they are or where they come from. And that’s why you think I’m a problem. But I am not the problem, your history is. And as long as you pretend that you don’t know your history, you are going to be a prisoner of it. And there is no question of you liberating me, because you can’t liberate yourselves. We are in this together. "And finally: when “white people” talk about progress in relation to black people, all they are saying and all they can possibly mean by the word progress is how quickly and how thoroughly I become white. I don’t want to become white, I want to grow up. And so should you.”

(via jacobwren)

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Glass Head Pendant

Lebanon, Syro-Phoenicia, 6th - 5th centuries B.C.

Dimensions: 3.5 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm (1 3/8 x 13/16 x 11/16 in).

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

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© (c ) copyright 1990-2011 Rebecca Sinclair

See the original HERE

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Reblogging for RPG purposes.

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Do I even know this about myself, LOL Jk

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If forms do not send you running...

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THE OUTSIDERS

"Asked if she identified as a greaser in high school, Hinton responded, “I was born without the need-to-belong gene, the gene that says you have to be in a little group to feel secure.” Which is maybe just another way of saying that she was a natural born writer — human enough to feel for others, yet sufficiently comfortable with solitude to get the pages down. Her characters, by contrast, embody and implicitly understand the contradictory wages of group identity, its sorrowful stain and addictive comforts."

Ponyboy!https://timeline.com/outsiders-fifty-years-teenager-9a06e2dc91ba#.nmv4dgvgz

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This is what you shall do:  Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .

From Whitman’s Introduction to Leaves of Grass

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The marches drew 3.3 million people to protests on all seven continents. For the women shooting it, it was a chance to make history, but also record it.

Read More: 14 Powerful Images From Female Photographers at the Women’s March

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Fatten your animal for sacrifice, poet, but keep your muse slender.

Callimachus / epigraph to Harryette Mullen’s Muse and Drudge (via llo-ro-na)

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Abstract Comics: The Anthology Hardcover

Beautiful book. Favorites came from my usual suspects: R. Crumb, James @kochalka, Warren @craghead…

Filed under: my reading year 2017

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Something I'd like to check out

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How to call your reps when you have social anxiety

When you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis, it can be hard to take action on the things that matter most to you. The mental barriers anxiety creates often appear insurmountable. But sometimes, when you really need to, you can break those barriers down. This week, with encouragement from some great people on the internet, I pushed against my anxiety and made some calls to members of our government. Here’s a comic about how you can do that, too. (Resources and transcript below.)

Motivational resources: There are a lot! Here are a few I really like:

Emily Ellsworth explains why calling is the most effective way to reach your congressperson.

Sharon Wong posted a great series of tweets that helped me manage my phone anxiety and make some calls.

Kelsey is tweeting pretty much daily with advice and reminders about calling representatives. I found this tweet an especially great reminder that calls aren’t nearly as big a deal as anxiety makes them out to be.

Informational resources: There are a lot of these, as well! These three are good places to start:

Find your representative at house.gov

Find your senators at senate.gov

Use the “We’re His Problem Now” scripts when calling (or write your own!)

Keep reading

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Caught by a line of light

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Happy MLK Day from Code.org.

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PLEASE SHARE: Drunken Boat, the venerable online literary journal for experimental writing (15+ years running), recently launched a dedicated comics section, and our first issue features the work of these amazing artists: Amanda Baeza: http://amanda-baeza.tumblr.com Ann Pajuväli: http://annpajuvali.tumblr.com Bianca Stone:  http://www.poetrycomics.org Bishakh K. Som: http://www.bishakh.com Disa Wallander: http://disawallander.tumblr.com Johnny Damm: http://johnnydamm.com Kara Sievewright: http://makerofnets.tumblr.com Laurence Musgrove: http://www.laurencemusgrove.com Mary Toscano: http://www.toscanomk.com Ryan Perkins: http://ryanperkins.net Thales Lira: http://www.enui.tumblr.com/ Valentine Gallardo: http://goodnight-sleepwell.tumblr.com Warren Craghead: http://craghead.tumblr.com

SEE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS HERE: http://www.drunkenboat.com/db24/comics **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** Also: Drunken Boat is open again for submissions! We are seeking both form-melting and traditional comics from a diverse range of artists, so whatever comics or comics-like things you’re making, send us your best.

Submitted work should be previously unpublished (though feel free to contact us if this distinction is hazy), between one and twenty-five pages, and comprising either one or multiple pieces. Works will be displayed online, which offers some leeway with regards to size specifications. We simply ask that you familiarize yourself with the journal and use common sense when submitting. We’re open to figuring out a way to present your comics in the best possible fashion.

The submissions deadline for our spring issue is 2/15/2017, so get to work! You’ll find our submissions page here.

If you have any questions, feel free to email at [email protected].

-Nick Francis Potter, Drunken Boat comics editor

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See exhibit at the Boston public library. So many goodies.