The snafu around President Lariviere’s ‘firing’ has given rise to an emergency meeting of UO statutory faculty on Wednesday, and I will attend that meeting—so we’ll not have class on 11/30. I encourage all of you to follow the story… Continue Reading
Check out this post on the the Americans for the Arts ARTSblog, as it highlights a cultural asset mapping project in Los Angeles County that seeks to demonstrate solid connections between community, health, and the arts. While certainly of… Continue Reading
Art and (Sustainable) Society Re-Mix: An exercise in building a course using transmedia pedagogy John Fenn, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Doug Blandy, Professor, University of Oregon AAD 450/550: Art and Society is a required course for the Masters Degree… Continue Reading
Length: 1500 words Due: End of the day Monday May 24 (one group member should email essay to Doug at dblandy@uoregon.edu Our investigation of Art and (Sustainable) Society has focused on four questions this term. Imagine the syllabus for this… Continue Reading
For the second half of class tomorrow, we’ll be taking a short fieldtrip to an event being held in Lawrence Hall: a workshop run by Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah. We want this to be more of an experience than… Continue Reading
Today I got an email about this Kickstarter-like microfunding initiative: Microfundo. The effort is connected to Mondomix (formerly known as Calabash), an iTunes-ish site dedicated to “world music” that bills itself as distributing “fair trade” mp3s. I’m not sure that… Continue Reading