         
side notes3/22 BeckyI posted this little note on my page as well, but this page seems more public: I am interested in being involved in any curratorial duties that will come up in the future for this project.
3/21 paul I came by on Saturday and was nosing around the studio. I ended up unrolling the prints that Chris Gray dropped off on Friday. (I had emailed him and requested some additional prints - specifically of the Kent Hills deadend road (that separates the middle class part from the upper class part), and the Robert Morris X. While looking at the Kent Hills Image I noticed an amazing thing on one of the roofs. In huge white letters by love serve one another is written out. This struck me in many ways. First, what a beautiful statement; I love it's politics and completeness. Secondly, who is it there for? Low flying planes and the occational person who looks at an aerial photograph of that particular block? God? It got me thinking about the possibility of putting towne club or some other texts on roofs. Chris emailed me later that night to tell that he'd seen it and thought it was very interesting. I told him i'd let him know anything else we find out about it.
one was with a middle aged guy outside the door as we were leaving to go to the store. he asked what we were doing and when we (badly) tried to explain, his first response was "oh so you're here to show off yourselves and GV." we tried to re-explain how we were trying to define our role within a community, and invited him to come and check out what we were doing. he told us he'd be of no use to us because he had no money to spend on art. again we tried to tell him we weren't selling things and that we weren't creating a gallery at all. it later transpired that he'd been something of a child marvel at drawing full figures at the age of 5 and his teacher had taken his drawings to show people, who hadnt believed them to be the work of a 5 year old. he hasnt continued with art as he had no mentor to encourage him and came from a back ground that didnt support him. (he was however quite interested in talks by visiting artists. maybe that could be something we advertise) anyways im not sure where im going with this. it was just a really interesting exchange, and one that made me sad as it confirmed all the outsider views of the artist and the institution that we have been learning about and trying to counter. i guess it brought home to me that whatever we are doing is not enough/not working towards our being accepted here. time is running out and any change of opinion takes time. especially one that is so universally held. kate 2/16
ok so i thought this was interesting in the last two weeks i have met two different men outside the rock shop both in their 50's both divorced, one with 10 kids the other with 8 kids....both lived above the rock shop for a short time one of them told me that the church use to be a restraunt called the creston restraunt....owned by a greek couple. both these men had a negative attitude about the neighborhood and both of them asked if there was going to be a laundry mat in the rock shop apparently that was in the newspaper and there is some community expectation that a laundry go in. jenn
paul posted that making organizations is making culture wrap your brain around this everything you do from the day you are born (most likely in a hospital which is an organization) until the day you die (coroner or morgue pick up your body both parts of organizations) you are so firmly embedded in organizational culture that most of the time you don’t even notice it. institutional organizations are easy to identify… the church or education… however the family is also an organization, an organization whose paradigm is shifting. how else are the paradigms of how organizations are oriented changing?? jenn s
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4472935
theory rests on a set of assumptions that form a foundation for a series of logically interrelated claims objective (out there) subjective (in here) concepts are built based on familirarites contrasts and personal experiences concepts provide catagories for
abstractions are "the formation of an idea by mental separation from particular instances the process of removing unique detail so that the essential qualities remain the same" concepts based on abstractions make it possible to
humans have the ability to think about 7 peices of interrelated information. Taken from Organization Theory, Hatch 1997
change the definition perviously the unemployment rate was measured by comparing those who were employed with those who weren't people who were not included in this statistical analysis were children, elderly, retired, disabled, house wives and house husbands, psych patients, pertty much anyone who was not interested or able to pursue work. also not included was the military. It was a civilian statistic. the government got a lot of slack for the increasing unemployment rate. something had to be done, and so there was a revaluation of how the unempolyment rate was statistically structured. the draft had been dropped and military service was volunteer, and it also handed out a paycheck every week. It could in essence be thought of as a job, therefore it could then be structured into the employment statistics. that year unemployment dropped substanitally. i don't use this example to say, oh look at how devious our government is. i use it as an example of evaluating our terms of understanding. jenn
After I graduate, people are expecting me (and I am just relating it to myself but probably other students have the same experience) to leave Grand Rapids and go out into the world and "do" something. I started to wonder if having so many students "flinging" in grand rapids and allendale is beneficial or harmful to each respective communtiy. Sure, we as students bring in new ideas and learn from our mentors and hopefully graduate a bit wiser...but if none of us stay, then we take from the community, just as it could be very easy to "take" from the Creston neighborhood during our four month residency. Just a thought... What would it take to make Grand Rapids a more appealing place for recently graduated students to stay? I know that we (I find it interesting that I said "we" since we is "grand rapids" and after I graduate I keep trying to find a place to go, something to do, yet I call this place home and define myself within it's limits) have a cool city's grant that is trying to anwser this question but maybe we could relate what it takes to make a place appealing and bring it into the studio. ~j. pope
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