This week: Haggerty Internship and the Humanity of the Moment by Aryn Kresol

Today I began my summer internship at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee. I most definitely have a fun, interesting, engaging, challenging, and educational few months ahead of me and I am quite excited. There was no time wasted as I was pulled into an exhibition meeting just moments after my arrival. I have a long list of artist names to explore. After the meeting my time was spent attempting to learn staff names, reading, writing, and learning a little bit about the museum computer cataloging system (which every one is learning since it is new).

I was ecstatic upon seeing a piece in the current exhibition, one by photographer Ruth Bernhard (featured in my Collect.Select.Reflect collection on my personal blog: .enigmatic.intent.photography.). The piece was a lot larger than I anticipated and I later found out that it was a reprint of the original, printed thirty years later. Bernhard is among my favored photographers.


In the Box - Horizontal 1962 © Ruth Bernhard


In other news, the class that I was T.A.'d for during the spring semester is having a show of work produced over the duration of the course. The class was run in conjunction with Milwaukee Art Museum's Street Seen photography exhibition, which closed at the end of April. The Humanity of the Moment opens this Wednesday, May 26th at the Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda at 4:45pm - 7:30pm. I will be there! If you are in Milwaukee and interested in seeing some photos, come out for sure. The show runs through June 4th. Visit the MIAD site for all the info that I just gave here and more.

Surprise visit,

I saw Larry today!  I was at my internship framing some photos he walked in with a friend, apparently he's visiting Boston on business.  It was so lovely!  Definitely unexpected, I kinda freaked out.

Do you guys want to keep this blog up or are you feeling done with it?  Let me know what you think.

I'm finally done with school, ready to come back to Milwaukee!

Rose

Germany and an Installation,

So I found out the other day that I got into this Art Festival in Germany that I applied to!  Atomino is an experimental festival in south eastern Germany that has accepted artists from all over the world.  I'm so pumped! My roommate Rachel King and our friend Brett Woodward, a senior at MassArt, also got in.  So it looks like I'm going to have an exhibition in Germany in August! Here's a link to the festival's tumblr where they showcase artists that have submitted work (FYI the deadline hasn't been announced yet so there's still time for you to submit if you want to!).

Other thoughts today:
So far I haven't heard news of audio from the "Is Photography Over" talk at SFMoMA but on their blog they have some notes from the symposium.  I haven't had a chance to read much of it but I'm sure it's worth a look.  I also talked to Walead Beshty the other day after his lecture at MassArt but he wouldn't divulge much about the discussion.  All he said was roughly 'it was cool' and 'hilarious' because of the discussion on photographer vs. artist.  I tried to squeeze an answer out of him but to no avail. Disappointing.


I finished my extremely ambitious collaboration final with my friend Erika Duran (who looks like Deb) and I'm so excited about it! I think it's awesome, and we've gotten some really good responses.  It was a backlit projection onto two 24X30" thick frosted plexiglass sheets suspended from the ceiling.  We blacked out the light in the room and created audio that we played loud within the space to echo and overwhelm.  The audio was a compilation of poems we wrote and read aloud and a quiet clip of waves on a shore.  It could stand to be a bit more successful, perhaps we'll revisit it and make a better recording.  Here's a couple shots of the installation from the front and side, and a link to the audio:

suspension.mp3

Oh yeah and guess what...we're seniors!  Ohhh man!


Rose