President Obama signs education reform bill into law today Dec 10 2015!

Earlier today, President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act, which will transform our education system. Affecting instructional practice in 100,000 American K-12 schools, it will impact 50 million students and 3 million teachers.

This authorization spans from FY2017 through FY2020, ushering in a new era of education in America with increased local control and state-level accountability, and also new opportunities for arts education, including:

• Dedicated funding for arts education through the “Assistance for Arts Education” grant program;
• Inclusion of the arts in the “Well-Rounded Education” definition with over a dozen references in the bill ensuring among other things that the arts continue to be eligible for Title I funds – the largest federal funding source to local educational agencies and schools;
• Integration of the arts in STEM programs – recognized in the field as “STEM to STEAM

– See more at:

http://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/legislative-news/essa-enacted?campaignID=163348&patronID=402907976&linkNum=28&memberID=9fc0fdd79f6183b019bceaedb420fc81

Attended Coffee with the CuratorArt Like Poetry and Poetry Like Art: A Conversation Between Two Curators

art like poetry and poetry like art

what is great art? 

great art possesses aesthetic splendor: 

great art portrays self change through subjects inwardness

great art exudes cognitive power

great art large than an any social program

great art employs metaphor 

great strangeness and originality

great art manifest conflict ambivalent and irony

great art creativity misreads its precursors

great art lends itself to achieved anxieties ( dig inward 

great art demand re experiencing

Inner Reflection

the quality of life

The Three Life Lessons From Steve Jobs For Artists and Designers

How to live before you die by Steve Jobs

At his Stanford University, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself.

“How to Live before you die”, Steve Jobs

The 3 Life lessons from Steve Jobs:

1– Connecting the dots: Listen to your Guts + Follow your heart => The Destiny

“you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

2- Love: Love what you do, you got to find what you like. Great work comes from what you love to do.

“Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

3- Don’t be trapped by dogma: Follow your dream and don’t get distract from others’s opinions. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

 

Ted Talks: Shawn Achor: the Happy Secret To Better Work

Key Note: Creating positive change:
1. 3 gratitudes/ day
2. Journaling the gratitudes
3. Exercise daily
4. Meditation daily
5. Random Acts of Kindness

“Male Torso Fragment” by Thuy Le oil on canvas

Copy Old Master key points:
Learn something , form concept, the three dimensional nature if human body , a sense of compositional principles, training memory in Art.

How to wrap a painting for shipping : guide for artists and galleries

Tools

• T-square ruler
• Packing Tape
• Tape Measure
• Knife
• Sharpie Pen
• Boxes : box for the painting and the outer box to protect + “Fragile Stickers”28” x 4” x 24”37” x 4 3/8” x 30”36” x 6” x 42”
• Scale
• plastic wrap
• bubble wrap (never use styrofoam peanuts when shipping paintings)
• “Fragile” Stickers

Where to buy boxes and supplies: Jdm Packing Supplies.

More details how to wrap the painting layer by layer, step by step:

http://www.reddotblog.com/wordpress/index.php/how-to-ship-paintings-a-step-by-step-guide-for-artists-and-galleries/

Stay happy, healthy and successful artist.

balance

The majority of artists work obsessive hours without taking the proper time to eat, hydrate or exercise. Sitting six -plus hours per day associated with many diseases.

Here are some solutions:

1. Set a timer around every 20 – 30 minutes and move around.

2. Stretch every 1 hour

3. Keep a water bottle of water near by.

4. Raw veggies during break

5. Take a real break during lunch time.