Visiting Artists
Minnesota State University-Mankato
March 19,20,21

10 People, 3 Days, 1200 Sheets of Paper
July 16,17,18, Old Art Building, Leland, Michigan
A summer drawing workshop with Richard Kooyman exploring the process of generating visual ideas through drawing. Email richardkooyman@yahoo.com Richard for more information



"The paradox of this approach to the problem of the artist is not difficult to perceive: on one hand, the artist enjoys the honor of being in the forefront of the movement toward social prosperity; on the other, he is no longer free but, on the contrary, given- by the same political philosopher who so generously proclaimed him a leader- a whole program to fulfill, and a completely didactic one, at that"
* Matei Calinescu, The Five Faces of Modernity*


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“The idea is, in short, art and a work of art. As a work of art it directly liberates subsequent action and makes it more fruitful in creation of more meaning and more perception.” John Dewey

La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes was a literary and artistic debate that rocked the Acedemie Francaise in the late 1600's. It was a series of books and debates that attacked progress and authority and predicted the idea of Modernity.