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Serving up Resoponsibility

What is the place of art and what is the responsibility of the artist? F News editors interview SAIC faculty on the role of the artist both within and outside culture.

Speaking out from the inside

When you take the inside with you. Amber Smock interviews Salome Chasnoff, Executive Director of Beyondmedia Education, on women’s incarceration, highlighted this month at Las Manos Gallery.


 

Is it time to change your media diet?

 




First things first...again

Despite the field’s lack of historic grandeur, graphic designers are in the business of creating a large and very influential part of the visual world that we all live in. Sharon Anne Coon investigates the visual responsibilities of the people who create the images we consume on a daily basis.

 

Snow White and the trouble of interpretation

When the Israeli ambassador to Sweden began to dismantle Dror and Gunilla Sköld Feiler’s installation “Snow White and the Madness of Truth,” N. A. Hayes wondered who ought to decide how to read a work of art.

Resistance and Dissent in Tragedy

Dimitry Tetin reports on the “Visual Artists Responding to War” discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, held in conjunction with the exhibit “Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection.”

Empowerment or Punishment?

Art Teachers and No Child Left Behind: Mariya Strauss investigates the impact of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act on art education.

 

Students and Responsibility

At a time when the art world seems to be shying away from so-called “political art,” (perhaps in favor of art with a capital “A”), some students at SAIC have answered by saying that life itself is art. Stephanie Amada interviews students making politically challenging art.