New artwork 2012-2013

Posted on May 11, 2013 by robynhendrixart

I finally have a full series of new works photographed to share. I have been working on these over the past year, some at a quicker pace than others. The second to last one is on transparent Denril paper; the rest are watercolor on Yupo.

 

 

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New artwork. It’s purple!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by robynhendrixart

We interrupt this regularly scheduled programming of CCLI lab logic model development, CDA child observation & behavior homework, and craigslist apartment hunting, to bring you…new artwork!

I had my scanner plugged in anyway, so hey! How about something for your eyeballs to look at that isn’t snow. Here’s a new little painting:

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper. 2013. 8" x 10"

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper. 2013. 8″ x 10″

Title suggestions welcome since “Purple Untitled #1″ is…well…not very exciting.

The color palette is partly inspired by a clearance color discovery – “Purple Madder” at the Art Cellar.

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What I’m reading this week.

Posted on April 7, 2013 by robynhendrixart

Although my main task for today is to review Kellog Foundations Logic Model Development guide for my CCLI lab group project, here’s what else has been piling up in my browser tabs this week.

New from Richard Florida: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/did-i-abandon-my-creative-class-theory-not-so-fast-joel-kotkin.html

New Createquity post: http://createquity.com/2013/04/artists-and-gentrification-sticky-myths-slippery-realities.html

Neighborday, Saturday, April 27th: http://www.good.is/posts/your-neighborday-toolkit-is-here?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tumblr&utm_campaign=post

http://creativetimereports.org/2013/04/01/change-the-culture-change-the-world/

A beautiful video featuring Mankwe Ndosi by Works Progress folks (other CCLI alums) Shanai & Colin: http://www.stateoftheartist.org/2013/04/04/works-progress-everyday-ways/

Laura Zabel’s blog post for the Knight Foundation: http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/4/3/connecting-artists-communities/

An Art World Based on Social Practice: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sunday/2013-04/07/content_16379056.htm

And this article in The Line which features CCLI, Juxtaposition, All My Relations, Irrigate, etc. http://www.thelinemedia.com/features/buildingsustainable040313.aspx

I’ve been cleaning up the blog look a bit as I try to wean myself off of the no longer functional web design program I was using for the rest of my site, and noticed it’s been really word-heavy lately over here. I had a photo session a couple of weeks ago and hope to have images of spiffy, colorful new artwork to share very, very soon!

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CCLI Reading: Lily Yeh

Posted on March 29, 2013 by robynhendrixart

“So, I think at the end, I am at odds with the whole system. I am more like an artist; I have the feeling where you need to go. It’s like water. You don’t have a plan, but you have this energy. You have this sensitivity and urge to do something. So, you’ve got to flow from a high place. The willingness is there. The dynamics are there. The energy’s there. Then when you go, you have hindrance, but you just turn the corner and you go somewhere else and then you float right back to where you need to go, but you always go to the low places, where people need water, where people need nourishment. But, then, suddenly, you have to build that dyke just the way they specify. So, I am feeling that the system is changing me rather than support the vision and the sensibility that I have to make a successful organization continue to emerge as the organic village emerges.” From Grace and Fear, Chapter 2: Lily Yeh, Cleveland and Shifferd.

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Setting the Table and Love Mischief

Posted on February 10, 2013 by robynhendrixart

Quotes from the first weekend of CCLI.

Drinking out of a fire hose.
What if we were living our art in the service of skillful lives? – Wendy
The resources given might not be ideal, and might actually be constraining.
Show up in places where you have a values connection.
The hardest questions require the longest pauses, the greatest sense of gentleness, because it’s the place we’re most vulnerable.
Define terms in your own way.
Skepticism means you really care. – Bill
Clarity emerges in the context of process.
Individual inner wayfinding.
I need a floodplain where everything can overflow and percolate back to me. – Anna
How many different communities can one human being be grounded in?
All attention on the obstacle = conflict. Conflict is seductive.

‘God, what love-mischief can ‘We’ do
For the world today?’”
~Hafiz

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