SyndicateMizzou Video Podcast

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - Design Philosophy 1

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:51:17 GMT

Huelsbergen discusses her service philosophy as a graphic designer.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - Design Philosophy 2

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:51:55 GMT

Continued from above.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - On Fostering Trust in the Classroom

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:52:19 GMT

Huelsbergen talks about fostering trust in the classroom.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - On Graphic Design

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:52:48 GMT

Huelsbergen talks about graphic design versus the manual arts.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - Illustration Examples I

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:53:27 GMT

Huelsbergen shows examples of her recent artwork.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - Illustration Examples II

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:01:59 GMT

Continued from above.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - Illustration Examples III

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:54:59 GMT

Continued from above.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - More Examples

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:55:39 GMT

Continued from above.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Deborah Huelsbergen - On Teaching the Creative Process

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:57:02 GMT

Huelsbergen discusses how she encourages students to take risks with their designs.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Beginnings

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:00:25 GMT

Miller discusses his journey through New York, commercial advertising, and art school—ulimately leading to his position in the Department of Theatre here at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - A passion for all the arts

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:12:36 GMT

Miller discusses some of his original works in costume design, painting and music composition.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Costume design

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:14:32 GMT

Miller shows some of his original costume renderings.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carmen Chicone - Math: A Symposium of Art

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:14:06 GMT

Chicone believes math is an artistic expression like music, painting, and theatre. Not everyone can identify with this art, he admits, but those who can are able to develop a strong appreciation for problem-solving.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carmen Chicone - From Numbers to Woodworking

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:16:37 GMT

Beyond his passion for mathematics, Chicone’s favorite pastime is building furniture. He finds it amusing that people try to find a connection between his interests, and insists that woodworking is a love completely outside of math.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - The Museum of Art and Archaeology

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:58:07 GMT

Barker has worked in several kinds of museums—natural history museums and anthropology museums. “No one feels uncomfortable going into a natural history museum without knowing about bird taxonomy or going into an anthropology museum without knowing the latest details about the origins of humans,” he says. “But a lot of people are uncomfortable coming to an art museum if they don’t know a lot about art, and that is not a good thing.” Fortunately, the Museum of Art and Archaeology combines art with classical archaeology, offering a view of the changes of art over a very long period of time. Barker has been trying to make people more comfortable with the idea of coming into the museum and having their own experience with art—engaging authentic objects, whether from antiquity or from more recent periods, on their own terms.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - More than the Object’s Label

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:02:56 GMT

Barker refers to a certain tension between curators, who have all this 'stuff' they want to communicate, and exhibit designers, who want to keep the exhibit as clean and simple as possible. “Ultimately, we want people looking at the art, not at the labels,” he indicates; but the Museum still wants to educate. In that spirit, the museum is experimenting with technology to showcase the art and the significance of art to everyone by creating MP3-based audio tours of the museum that can then be played on any personal audio device, including iPods, notebook computers, and even cell phones. Barker hopes this will allow greater flexibility for visitors, whom he imagines selecting a tour and walking through the galleries at their leisure while looking at the art and listening to the audio information, “instead of looking back and forth between the label and the art.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - Romanian Surrealist Artist, Victor Brauner

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:16:06 GMT

One of the paintings Barker was pleasantly surprised to find in the museum’s collection is a self-portrait by the Romanian surrealist Victor Brauner. Dating from 1923, the painting reflects the period immediately before the artist moved fully into surrealism as a means of representation. “It is a remarkable portrait,” explains Barker, “because it is the last time he paints himself with both eyes.” In his subsequent work, that is, the artist always paints himself with one eye missing—whether there is a gaping wound, an automaton of some kind, or his eyes placed on his hands. In 1938, Brauner was in a bar fight, during which his eye was poked out—the very eye he had been painting himself without for a decade and a half. Barker says, “Surrealism holds it up as an example of sort of a premonitory knowledge that this was going to happen, proof that time is not linear to the unconscious mind.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - Teaching Ceramics

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:31:24 GMT

Bede Clarke has been teaching in MU’s Art Department since 1992, with classes ranging from beginning to graduate ceramics. Beginning ceramics classes are very design-oriented, Clarke explains, “geared toward instilling good design principles and decision-making in students.” Besides sitting behind the potter’s wheel, his students do background research on some aspects of ceramic history—“about 20,000 years of human beings making things out of clay”—a learning process that may involve a trip to the Museum of Art and Archeology as well as to Ellis Library.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - “Never set out to do mediocre work”

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:33:49 GMT

In all his years of making ceramics, Clarke declares, he never set out to do mediocre work. Creative work, he believes, “is what drives the artist to despair and to exhilaration.” Clarke recalls that while apprenticing with Karl Christiansen, the master instilled in him the idea that one never really arrives as an artist: “you’ll never get to the point where you do everything correctly and there is no more to learn, no more to grow.” Learning to make good pots requires nothing short of a lifetime of practice. “There is always more you don’t know,” Clarke adds. “There is always, hopefully, better work to come.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - From Inspiration to Evaluation

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:35:37 GMT

Although their medium is visual, ceramics students are encouraged to articulate their experiences verbally, as well as to write about them. A fundamental part of these classes involves critique, where students present their finished products to the class, talk about their inspiration and ideas, and critically evaluate the work in terms of where it has succeeded and where it has failed. Beyond creation and evaluation, students research a topic (e.g., a culture’s ceramics or a contemporary ceramic artist) and present their findings to the class. “It’s probably my favorite part of the class,” Clarke remarks, “because they become the teachers."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - “Throwing” on the Potter’s Wheel

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:37:20 GMT

While he also works with drawing and painting, ceramics is Clarke’s major creative area. “Ceramics is a very demanding discipline,” he says. “After 35 years, I still find it challenging, so I tend to focus on it – maybe because I find that I need to, to do something that’s any good at all. It still takes a lot out of me to do good work.” His creative activity tends to focus on two areas. One involves drawing and painting on clay with abstract and figurative imagery, and the other is wheel-thrown pottery fired in a wood kiln to achieve the desired glaze effects. Clarke moves behind the potter’s wheel to offer a demonstration on the art of throwing a pot.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - Where to Get Good Clay

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:39:17 GMT

“There is great clay right here in Missouri,” says Clarke. In fact, some of the richest deposits are within forty miles of Columbia. But to prepare clay like this, “it is kind of like baking,” he explains, in that you must add a variety of different ingredients—in this case, clays, colorants, and fluxes—to create a clay body. Depending on the ingredients, the clay can be given desired characteristics, for instance filler material like sand or grog can be added to give the clay “tooth and strength.” These materials are combined in different ratios, depending upon how the artist wants the clay to behave: “If you are building a large-scale, thick sculpture, you would choose a very different clay from that used to make very delicate translucent porcelain. An understanding of clay is pretty fundamental."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - Adding Embellishments

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:42:44 GMT

Once the pot has been thrown, the potter must make decisions while the clay is still wet about handles, trim, texture, or other decorations—details that can add a lot to a piece. If it is kept wrapped in plastic, the artist might have a week or two to finish it. Clarke takes a moment to consider the pot he has just finished throwing and decides that—were he to continue working on it—he would want to alter or embellish it in some way. Clarke has observed that it takes students about 12 weeks of concentrated work to get these basics. “It’s a skill, but it’s more,” Clarke explains. When he asks students how they feel when they are really “getting it,” they report that they feel "connected" to the clay.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - “Pottery keeps me honest”

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:44:25 GMT

Clarke describes how the creative work of making pots necessarily involves research. He has observed that visual artists have a close relationship to the raw materials with which they work. As an artist, Clarke explains that “pottery keeps me honest. Pottery is a very simple art form. It is very demanding in terms of detail, line, shape, and form. Maybe because it’s so simple and unassuming, it makes me focus on what I’m trying to communicate, rather than chasing the latest fad that’s going on.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bede Clarke - “Good pots bolster the spirit”

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:46:24 GMT

The important thing, suggests Clarke, is not the particular artistic genre in which one works -- whether still-life painting, landscape painting, making pots, or figurative sculpture -- but what the artist has to say. As he explains, “I’m interested in reaching out, as the maker of these things, to other people. The things I create are made to live their lives in people’s homes. I envision them being things people would have in their homes, the way they have their favorite radio station on, or books on their shelves that they like to pull down. I’m aware that I have the potential to contribute something to their daily life. I aspire for it to be something deeply human and compassionate and worthwhile.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Combination of Visual Art and Performance Art

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:56:07 GMT

Lampo Leong describes the creative process of cursive Chinese calligraphy as “very similar to a dance or a musical performance.” He explains that “the success of marking on paper is, to a certain extent, a direct reflection of the quality of the performance while creating the piece.” Wild Cursive Calligraphy

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - History behind the Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:56:29 GMT

“Wild cursive calligraphy” is a millennia-old Chinese art form. “It is not a written language for the general public to write every day,” Leong notes, “but rather an expressive art form used by the artist.” Brief History

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Classical Chinese Tools

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:56:59 GMT

As the brush glides across the rice-paper, it seems to “actually dance on paper,” according to Leong. The artist is allowed greater manipulation with the Chinese brush because of its pointed and soft bristles, as opposed to the flat, stiff bristles of the Western brush. Energetic black strokes and the strong contrast provided by the black ink are some of the characteristics that distinguish Chinese calligraphy. Chinese Brush Making

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Through the Eyes of the Viewer

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:57:41 GMT

Leong has noticed a heightened interest in Chinese calligraphy in the Western world, and his work is now sought out for exhibitions and commissions as well as collected by many museums. He believes that this increased attention derives from the unique visual experience that calligraphy provides: “The viewer becomes involved while looking at the piece as if he/she is watching the brush dance across the stage—its movements, its rhythm… [like] viewing a dance performance and a painting at the same time.” Reviews of Leong’s Work

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Mixed-Media Painting

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:58:35 GMT

Inspired by the post-modern art movement, Leong combines different art forms and concepts from Chinese and Western art with digital technology in order to create his mixed-media paintings. He sees this multifaceted process as expressing the spirit of “the sublime and grandeur at a time of globalization.” Visual Samples

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Mixed-Media Installation: Suspended Marks

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:59:08 GMT

Not only does Leong create mixed-media paintings; he also assembles multimedia installations, such as calligraphy on translucent silk scrolls suspended in a space. He illuminates these suspended artworks with colored lights and video projections in order to create a three-dimensional illusion for viewers to walk through and experience on multiple levels. Images of Installation

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - Multimedia Art

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:59:45 GMT

Another way that Leong has dealt with mixed media is through his work Spiritual Transformations, a collaborative art form that combines animated video of his painted images with contemporary music. He creates the artwork, while MU professor Thomas McKenney composes the music by using software that generates sounds from images. Public Art in San Francisco Digital Film

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lampo Leong - “Lampo Leong Day”

Tue, 19 May 2009 02:01:06 GMT

While teaching in San Francisco, Lampo Leong received a commission to create a huge granite inset medallion (26 feet in diameter) for a public park. During the opening celebrations, “Lampo Leong Day” was declared by the Mayor, a day in November commemorating the work the artist has done for the city. “I am really grateful and honored to have had a day dedicated to me,” says Leong.