I Put Up Inside The Head Of Jeremy Sorese (on December 18th At Kawaura Jr. High School, One Of My Schools

I put up Inside the Head of Jeremy Sorese (ジェレミ・ソリスの頭の中）on December 18th at Kawaura Jr. High School, one of my schools . It features pages of his sketchbook drawn while he was living in Europe last year. I'm excited to be sharing his outstanding work with the students for the remainder of the month.

Apartments built for fishermen in 1994 in Ushibuka, Japan. Taken with a 1980's Minolta.

To engage the students with 75 Voices, the exhibition of work by Mark Addison Smith that just finished its run at my middle school, I had them respond to Mark's pieces. Each illustration by Mark comes from a snippet of conversation he hears in his everyday life. So, as an optional English assignment, I asked students to choose one piece and imagine either the proceeding or following sentence in that conversation.

Twelve students participated, including some who usually show no interest in English. I especially liked the abstract interpretation by M. Shimasaki who imaged Mark's piece "Yes yes yes. No no no." as the silent conversations we have with ourselves.

I displayed their pieces side by side with Mark's for the remaining two weeks of the exhibition. 

...anti-hipster discourse must be recognized for what it is: an urbane, and socially acceptable, form of ideologically inflected shaming on the part of American elites who must delegitimize those segments of a largely white, college educated population who didn’t do the 'acceptable thing'.

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/05/the-fucking-hipster-show/

Hey, artists living in Chicago, take this short survey!

Your responses could probably will end up in an article I'm writing for Sixty.

"I had been ready to give up the word [hipster] in search of a new one to unite today’s bohemians, but now I want to take it back. After all, there’s no reason we should sit back and remain the victims of journalists. People have been redefining themselves for centuries to gain power and solidarity. In the nineties, LGBT people reclaimed “queer” and launched a political offensive. More recently “nerd” and “slut” have emerged as sources of pride and group identity for other maligned groups of people. I’m tired of sitting by and watching others control the narrative around me..."

http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=20497