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For our final catch-up, we have our new Sculpture Studio Support technician Haley Huebner!

She chose these books to share with everyone, and what a treat:

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins

The Myth of Normal by Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté 

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry and aia Szalavitz

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Wow! We had an amazing visiting artist at the Dodd last month— Rahim Fortune joined us to give a lecture and do some studio visits. His work is currently featured at the High Museum.

For this instance of The Artist is Reading, Rahim selected the following books to share with everyone:

Imani Perry - South to America 

Isabel Wilkerson - Warmth of other suns 

Mitch Jackson - Survival Math 

Roger Reeves - Dark Days

Emmanuel Iduma - A stranger's pose

Nicole Fleetwood - Troubling Vision

Jean Toomer - Cane 

Rebecca Bengal - Strange Hours

Alice Walker - In Search of our mothers garden

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa - Dark Mirrors

Nella Larsen - Quicksand

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Next up is our new faculty member in Interior Design, Catherine Trugman! Professor Trugman joins us from Georgia State University and has a thriving career as an interior designer, to boot!

She chose the following items to share:

The chair : rethinking culture, body, and design by Galen Cranz

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax building by Jonathan Lipman

The death and life of great American cities by Jane Jacobs

A new life : stories and photographs from the suburban South

Biography of a tenement house in New York City : an architectural history of 97 Orchard Street by Andrew Dolkart

Eileen Gray : Her Work and Her World by Jennifer Goff

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We're catching up some on our Artist is Reading posts, forgive us for the forthcoming deluge—

Elizabeth Browne is a new faculty member in the Art History Department.

Elizabeth Saari Browne completed her PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture + Art at MIT. A specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French sculpture and decorative arts, her research interests include rococo aesthetics, the gendering of artistic media and practices, global contact in the age of Enlightenment, and questions of materiality and art historiography. Her current book project, tentatively titled Modeling Sculpture: Clodion and the Aesthetics of Terracotta in the Eighteenth Century, examines the vases, satyrs and bacchantes, and women and children made in terracotta by the French sculptor Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814). The first English-language monograph on Clodion's clay compositions, the book situates their qualities of plasticity, mutability, and ambiguity within eighteenth-century theories of cognitive processes and burgeoning aesthetics, and challenges the idea of sculpture in the era of the Enlightenment as of a physically or conceptually stable form. Browne is also developing a second project on caricature and cruelty in eighteenth-century ornament. Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, Browne worked in the curatorial departments of several museums, including Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida. Her work has been published in Art History, the Burlington Magazine, the American Ceramic Circle Journal, the French Porcelain Society Journal, as well as in several exhibition catalogues. 

Dr. Browne chose the following items to share with everyone:

Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760 - 1830 by Paris A. Spies-Gans

Sculpture at the ends of Slavery by Caitlin Meehye Beach

Portrait of a woman in silk: hidden histories of the British Atlantic World by Zara Anishanslin

History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV by Susanna Caviglia

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We're welcoming our new Dodd faculty members by setting up book displays with readings curated BY our new faculty :D

First up is a new addition to our awesome Sculpture faculty — Kimberly Lyle!

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Zeros + Ones by Sadie Plant

Participation by Claire Bishop

Translation by Sophie J. Williamson 

Information by Sarah Cook

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines... by James Bridle

Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

To quote from her artist website:

Kimberly's research explores the implications of technology on our relationships with each other and the more than human world. Many of her projects challenge the social values historically embedded within these tools by misusing or subverting their conventional systems of language and logic. Moving fluidly between tangible and digital processes, her work aims to re-imagine what technology can be and who it is for. She has participated in exhibitions and symposiums at ISEA (Gwangju, Korea); Flux Factory (NYC); International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art (Berlin, Germany); Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference (Tempe, AZ); the Symposium for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Irvine, CA); Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Toluca, Mexico); Tucson Museum of Art; and the Phoenix Art Museum. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies at Sculpture Space, Mildred’s Lane, Elsewhere Museum, Signal Culture, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University, a BA in Psychology from Stetson University, and completed post-baccalaureate studies in Sculpture and Expanded Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Technology at the University of Georgia.

#sculpture #art #feminism #glitch feminism #translation #uga

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Troy Chew is reading:

watching:

and listening:

Kenny Mason: Angelic Hoodrat

Kid cudi: intergalactic

Timberland & Magoo: indecent Proposal

Kendrick LAmarr: Mr Morale and the big steppers

BoilerRoom: Bambii in London Oct 16, 2021

Soul sold separately : Freddie Gibbs

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Pete Schulte is reading:

Alice Notley: In the Pines

Anne Truitt: Yield, Daybook, Prospect, Turn

Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red

Ben Estes: ABC Moonlight

Ben Lerner: 10;04; Leaving the Atocha Station; The Topeka School; Angle of Yaw, The Hatred of Poetry

Cole Swensen: The Glass Age

David Markson: The Last Novel; Vanishing Point; This is Not a Novel; Reader’s Block, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

Jack Whitten: Notes from The Woodshed

James Galvin: As Is; The Meadow

John O’Donahue: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Kiki Petrosino: Fort Red Border; The Dark is Here

Félix Fénéon: Novels in Three Lines, trans. Luc(y) Sante

Maggie Nelson: The Bluets

Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting is Part of Intense Living

Matisse: The Red Studio: Anne Temkin, Dorthe Aegesen

Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings

Ocean Vuong: Time Is a Mother; Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Organic Music Societies (Don and Moki Cherry) ed. Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren

Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba; The Mars Room; The Mayor of Leipzig

Rene Daumal: Mount Analogue

Robert Bresson: Notes on The Cinematographer

Robert Hass: Time and Materials

Rudolf Wurlitzer: The Drop Edge of Yonder

Steven Parrino: The No Texts. (1979-2003)

Tantra Song: Franck André Jamme, Michael Tweed, et al.

The Autobiography of Hans-Joachim Roedelius

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa Ed. Robert Hass

The Bhagavad Gita

The Dhammapada

The Upanishads

Tich Nhat Hahn: The Miracle of Mindfulness

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed is reading:

Atlas of Anomalous AI by Ben Vickers & Kenric McDowell

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis 

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas 

Dear Science, and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick 

Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant

Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art by Steve Tomasula 

Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation. The collected Poetry and Prose by Hartmut Geerken

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren F. Motte Jr.

Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed 

Crises of the Sentence by Jan Mieszkowski

Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan

Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics by Selah Saterstrom

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH OPERATOR opens at the Athenaeum on Sept. 1, 2022. Kameelah will deliver a lecture that night at 5:30pm!

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FLUCT is reading:

Experimental Music ( Cage and beyond) by Michael Nyman

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

BREATH by James Nestor

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

Leave Society by Tao Lin

The Second Ring of Power by Carlos Castenada

'Movement Matters, essays on movement science, movement ecology and the nature of movement' by Katy Bown

'Authentic Movement' Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow, Edited by Patrizia Pallaro

and listening:

Podcasts:

This is Love with Phoebe Judge

DharmaPunx NYC

Spooked with Glynn Washingston

Audio books:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Die Wise by Stephen Jenkins

Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

FlucT is the collaborative work of Sigrid Lauren and Monica Mirabile. Creating original soundscapes linking a manipulated pop music psychosis with violently intimate dance, their compositions become projections aimed at exposing authorities of control in the United States capital culture.

They will be performing at the Athenaeum on November 12, 2021 at 7:00PM!

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Grace Jun is reading:

Universal Materiality by Tan and Jun

Color of Nature: Monochrome Art in Korea by Soon Chun Cho

Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction edited by Yeon Shim Chung, Sunjung Kim, and Kimberly Chung

The Monocle Guide To Good Business

Black Mat Oriole by Suki Seokyeong Kang

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type by Kimberly Elam

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Dot, Shape, Line

Information Design edited by Robert Jacobson

Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture Paperback edited by Robert Klanten, Adeline Mollard and Matthias Hubner

Experience Design Paperback by Patrick Newbe

The Geometry of Pasta by Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy

Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users Paperback by Michael Rock, Rick Poynor and Mark Wigley

Pierre Cardin by Jean – Pascal Hesse

Healthy Design Thinking: Creative Products and Services for Better Health by Bon Ku & Ellen Lupton

Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Spacesuits by Lucy Dunne and Susan Margaret Watkins

Fashion & the Beauty in the Time of Asia by Christina H. Moon and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Grace Jun is a designer and educator. She has previously held positions as a UX Designer at Samsung Electronics and as an Assistant Professor at The New School, Parsons School of Design. Grace's commitment to designing with disability groups and health organizations is reflected in her latest publication, Universal Materiality. She has been featured in Vogue, Forbes, New York Times, and recently the Washington Post. Grace is a proud alumnus of both Parsons and RISD majoring in Design & Technology (MFA) and Graphic Design (BFA) respectively. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Grace also serves on jury committees and organizations that advance the arts & design.

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Currently reading:

• Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

• GOOD: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design by Lucienne Roberts

• True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chögyam Trungpa

• Tidying Up Art and More Tidying Up Art by Ursus Wehrli (I’m reading the original edition in German: Kunst Aufräumen)

• Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious — article by Tam Hunt on Nautilus

• The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport — article by by Tom Standage in The Guardian

Recently read (or re-read):

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

• Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti

• Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

• Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Turner Schofield

• She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

• The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

Always Reading (most trusted guides and reference):

• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

• The Bhagavad Gita — translations by Eknath Easwaran and Stephen Mitchell

• Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy by Eknath Easwaran

• The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön

Watching & Reading:

• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

• The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)

Blogs:

• Wait but Why by Tim Urban

• George Monbiot

• Seasonal Depression by Maritsa Patrinos

• Tobias Frere-Jones

Listening:

• Radio Garden (a different kind of dial)

• Practice Makes Practice

• 99% Invisible

• The Sygnyl

Annika Kappenstein is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Annika is a designer, thinker, tinkerer, and teacher with over 20 years of experience in the graphic design industry. Her specialties include brand strategy, visual identity systems and logo design, website and mobile app design, typography, print collateral and information graphics. Her research focuses on the role of visual communication and user experience design in human-computer interaction and electronic learning systems. Annika is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor at the 500-hour level. She currently offers classes and workshops at Kashi Atlanta.

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Alex McClay is reading:

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Shifting the Silence by Etal Adnan Float by Anne Carson The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation by Natalie Loveless Architecture after Revolution by Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal

Watching: Self Obliteration by Yayoi Kusama Lorna Simpson Spaghetti Blockchain by Mika Rottenberg Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Listening: Throughline podcast The Experiment podcast The Heart podcast

Alex McClay is a third-year graduate student at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Studio Art and makes prints, books, textiles, videos, and installations. She received her BFA in Photography and Sculpture from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio in 2014. She was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina from 2016-2018, where she studied printmaking, book arts and paper making. In her studio practice, she uses text, material, and the body to question and disrupt the power dynamics present in our most intimate and vulnerable spaces by creating and breaking down boundaries.You can find her work here!

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Ronika McClain is reading:

The Right to Maim by Jasbir Puar The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner Cruising Utopia by Jose Esteban Muñoz

(just finished that i recommend): Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett How to Be A Good Girl by Jamie Hood

Watching: Gossip Girl Anything by Paul Thomas Anderson

Listening: SOPHIE LIVESTREAM HEAV3N SUSPENDED

Ronika McClain is an artist currently residing in Athens, GA. She has a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design, and is seeking an MFA in Studio Art from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. She works to point out the connections between art, culture, the political climate, the internet, and sexuality. You can find her work here!

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Mahera Khaleque is reading:

My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Wandering Star by Le Clezio

and watching:

What Makes Art Valuable by Alastair Sooke (58:46 minutes)

Updating Tradition (27:59 minutes)

Inside Italy's COVID War: Frontline (53:15 minutes) One of Mahera's summer projects is to learn Italian. She has been learning the language in order to be able to communicate with the locals, while teaching at the Cortona Summer Program in Italy. This summer would have been her third time in Cortona had there been no pandemic. Italian subtitled videos/movies have been helpful in her learning process. This is a subtitled documentary that she has watched recently as a part of her interest in current news.

and relaxing to:

The Secrets of Wodung Wushu (30:47 minutes)

Astana Piano Passion: Elisey Mysin, a 6-year-old Russian pianist (5:23 minutes)

Mahera is a Drawing and Painting instructor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Her research addresses the issues of her cultural displacement alongside her integration process in the American culture as well as the concepts of erasing and the re-writing of history.

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Erin Moore is reading:

Mind:

Podcast: The Daily “Alone at Sea”

Li Edelkoort: How Covid is Ushering in the age of the amateur

The Paris Review: Fuck the Bread. The Bread is Over.

Talking Politics American Histories Series

Mrs. America

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Moonlight

Body:

#IRunwithMaud

Sweatfest w Ryan Heffington

Quick 11 min Chakra Tune Up

Erin Moore is a Graphic Design and Fabric Design lecturer at Lamar Dodd School of Art. She's been spending this time at home with her greyhound (named Poppy) and working on a small collection of braided and hand-dyed rugs.

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Introducing the Reading (in their) Residency Series The new ‘Reading (in their) Residency’ series will feature faculty, grad students and local artists' watching, reading, and listening lists; all of which can be accessed from the comfort of readers' homes. While past 'The Artist is Reading' compilations consisted of physical books that would be displayed on a roaming board throughout the Dodd building, these new lists will solely contain items that can either be found online or experienced outside of the library. Items can include, podcasts, youtube videos, online articles, as well as walking trail recommendations, craft projects and bird watching tips. This series is informed by the idea that patrons can “check out” materials/experiences without having to go to a specific physical space. If libraries are all about the sharing and access of knowledge, the Art Library hopes this series will uphold this doctrine by keeping folks engaged in their community through shared experiences, even if we can't be physically together.

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Rebecca Wood is reading:

My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard

The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka

Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda

Mutant Message Downunder, Marlo Morgan

Artists on Art,, compiled and edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves

Poems from the Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann

Letters on Cezanne, Rainer Maria Rilke

Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Beauty Everyday, Rinne Allen, Kristen Bach and Rebecca Wood