Calendar
So apparently, we can’t have a calendar on the blog through wordpress, super dumb. But I’ve uploaded the one Nikki put together, and that will have to do for now. If any of you a have any brilliant wordpress skillz, please let me know.
-Kimmy
February 2009
|
March 2009
|
Student Voice
Hey Everyone,
This afternoon, Student Voice had a meeting focused on community at SMFA. For those of you that don’t know, Student Voice is a student run forum to discuss what is and is not going well here at school. It meets every 3 weeks right after the Sbinc meeting in the same room. This weeks meeting centered around student individuals and groups that are contributing to a community. Ben Smart was there representing BARF, Chris Dombeck with Recycling Club, and I talked about what’s going on in all things NOLA. There were some common themes to what people said, a lot of people talked about similar struggles to what I’ve faced over the last few months, about how difficult it can be to reach students here at school. Sometimes it seems like nobody is seeing all the fliers, checking their email, it can feel sometimes like nobody is listening. We are all very busy and maybe due to the fact that we’re artists or something, it can be hard to come out of the studio and be active in the school. And everyone said pretty much the same thing in response to that, that you have to come at it from every angle. You have to send the emails, post fabulous fliers, send those mass emails, but most of all, it is important to talk to people. Talk to people at lunch in the atrium, talk in your classes. What was so great about this meeting was that that there were so many people there! Not just those of us talking about our own projects, but just students interested in community here at school. There is so much potential for change at the Museum School, what is so great about this place is that we decide what kind of school this has to be. I think conversations about community at school are crucial and we need to have more! By talking about it, we can see how many people are on the same page. Maybe we should start thinking about some sort of collaboration with these other groups, there is so much overlap in our missions. Anyway, something to think about. So this week, let’s all try to talk to students, faculty, staff. Talk about your excitement about the trip, about how great it was to see so much involvement in the bake sale, whatever. Just keep communicating with the people around you, it really is how changes happen.
Kim Fox
Bake Sale, Pt. 2+3!!
Bake Sale, Parts 2 + 3 !!
TUESDAY + WEDNESDAY (FEB 10 + 11)
12 NOON- 2 PM
that’s right; it was so lucrative the first time that now we can hit them up two days in a row!
i’ve spoken with Nikki and she’s reserving the same space in the atrium for us to fill with wonderful baked goodies. i’m drafting an LCD screen ‘ad’ so that we can the word out even earlier.
it would be great to have everyone there for at least part of the bake sale, even just to generate more ENTHUSIASM and get the word out that there is still a lot of moneyto be raised. bring in any DECORATIONS you might have for the table, too (Kirsten’s PINK BOA was a huge hit! let’s play up the Mardi Gras theme!).
*** we are also approaching VALENTINE’S DAY, which could make for bigger, better sales and fancy decorating opportunity.
i am baking vegan brownies again. we had great variety last time with baked goods + the ‘real food’, and the tableside frosting was a huge success as well.
this is going to be a really great sale!! GO NOLA!!!
-Meredythe
check it out- The Green Project
The Green Project operates a WAREHOUSE STORE that resells high-quality, salvaged building materials at low cost to the community. The store is dedicated to helping the environment by reducing the amount of usable materials placed in landfills or disposed of improperly.
The webpage:
The Green Project!
The Green Project operates a WAREHOUSE STORE that resells high-quality, salvaged building materials at low cost to the community. The store is dedicated to helping the environment by reducing the amount of usable materials placed in landfills or disposed of improperly.
The Green Project also supports others who SALVAGE OR DECONSTRUCT damaged or collapsed buildings by hand, in a way that saves between 45 and 70 percent of the materials. This preserves New Orleans’ unique architectural history and benefits New Orleans’ residents by returning their ruined building materials to use elsewhere in the city.
check out the website: http://www.thegreenproject.org/what_we_do.php
Artists living & inspired by NOLA
Here are some artists that are currently living in NOLA… th
http://grhoades.deviantart.com/ A friend of mine that is a photographer for various NOLA events (Jazzfest which is coming up in May).
Frenchy is a regular on the music scene. He usually works on stage with the musicians as they play.
Here is his official site:
Jaime Hayes is usually the official artist for Mardi Gras. He has a gallery in the French Quarter.
Michalopolous is an artist (also in the French quarter) who concentrates on Nola landscapes & architecture: http://www.michalopoulos.com/
Blue Dog is a local icon in NOLA (gallery also in the french quarter) http://www.georgerodrigue.com/
More to come… these were just ones off the top of my head.
Bake Sale Success!!
(sorry this is so late; i needed some intense hand-holding to get this far in the technology game!)
congratulations to everyone on a fab-o bake sale!! we raised some serious cash in terms of the ‘effort compared to results’ equation. i think that we should definitely crank out another one of these, considering that it went so well and that it is a great way to talk to people about NOLA.
a lot of people mentioned having a two sale sale covering a back-to-back Tuesday and Wednesday (perhaps before Valentine’s Day, when people are apt to want to spend more money on cute frosted cupcakes??). if people are down, i would be psyched to do a sale on the 10th/11th.
also: i work at REI down at the Landmark Center, and am in the process of trying to work out a deal with my managers that would involve bringing in baked goods to the Staff room and encouraging donations in a jar. i will try to push for this and will keep people posted if there is any progress.
Thinking of…
Story telling. Story sharing. BE EASY Tye says. In a different project that is supposedly unrelated, I am having conversations. That’s not unrelated. Listening. Speaking. Voice. Telling someone else(‘s) story(s). Repeating what you’ve heard. seen. witnessed. thought of. connected. ideas. hope.
Conversations are gifts, given and received at the same time. Reciprocal. Together. Lend a hand and feed your own soul. Symbolic action is not concrete but it can accomplish tangible things. Let’s keep talking to each other.
