arts
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A colleague of mine commented today on facebook that it is better to give than receive, and this is particularly true during exams. But I often find myself nervous to see how my students perform. Did my intentions for their learning get realized? This semester I taught a new course on Community Arts that had…
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As a follow up to last year’s Audio January, I worked with fellow local artists to curate a month of sound at the Bridge. See Hz Collective for media from the event.
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Charlottesville, VA The Bridge PAI’s month of sound began as a way to fill a slow art month in January. Co-curating with the Pinko Communioids and other local artists, we made Audio January into an experimental music institution. Opening with local legends Grand Banks of late 1990s Pudhouse renown, the month featured installations, performances and…
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Taipei, Taiwan; Taizhong, Taiwan; Kaohsiung, Taiwan July 15-23, 2007 This project began as a self-arranged and self-funded tour for the Pinko Communoids in Taiwan. As a trio of ABDs, we also found ways to integrate this performance tour with meaningful comparative research. Gaining financial and in kind support from our own University, as well as…
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This past summer, I taught a course in the Sociology of Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). In this class we discussed issues of urban space, development and consumption from the perspective of cultural sociology. After reading Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class and Sharon Zukin’s chapter on North Adams in the Cultures of…
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Richmond may be full of alienation and frustration, but it makes for damn good art. With events like I Dream of Richmond and Repressed III, Gallery 5 shows us the best of what community arts can be, providing not just a space, but a communal and aesthetic context for critically engaged art. Gallery 5 asks…
jacob alden sargent 