Do It Together projects

today! Saturday June 6th!

2009-06-05T18:09:00.001-07:00

Here is the map for the picnic today, sorry i forgot

love,
elizabeth

PERFECT DAY

2009-05-27T08:19:00.001-07:00

Upcoming performance in London:

MORE PHOTOS FROM DIT AT GRASSHUT

2009-01-14T21:04:00.000-08:00

The rest of the photos from DIT at GRASS HUT
This was truly a really great experience for me to participate in. I hope everyone had a wonderful time.

James working hard on his beautiful photoprint postcards

Used teacups. :-)

Marina Mitchel's beautiful cards

Elizabeth's pop-up card

Alex's card.

This is what he looks like. :)

Kelly Kay's spooky Christmas card!

More amazing Kelly cards.

A very personal Kelly card.

She really went all out that Kelly

And there she is! Kelly Kay wins most productive card maker, by far. Thank you!

photos from DIT at GRASSHUT

2008-12-24T15:26:00.000-08:00

DIT at GRASSHUT went really wonderfully. Thank you to everybody who participated. Many wonderful cards were created that totally broke the bounds of traditional card making, whatever that means.
Tea was served, either green or english breakfast from an electric hot water heater. We sat on green blankets that were hopefully like sitting on a beautiful lawn and talked about the crazy snowy weather.
Justin Scrappers was so nice to let us have the event here. The grass hut is a really wonderful place, definately one of my favorite in Portland. their website is:
www.grasshutcorp.com

Here are some photos below to show what happened:::

Zoe Clark working on her card

Elizabeth Jaeger passing out tea.

A bunch of people working with Justin Scrappers' crazy wheel you can run inside behind.

Sam Korman's crazy card.
You open the mouth which is a zipper and inside on the teeth like a grill it says Happy Holidays!

Thank you to Nicole Lavelle for these wonderful photos.
More photos to come as soon as i find my camera cord, sorry.

Come to the GRASS HUT SUNDAY DECEMBER 14th from 5-7

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come make crafts at the GRASS HUT! Bring materials to share! Ignore your imminent exam just for two hours and relax!
Get your holiday cards done!
love each other!
hold hands!
make stuff!

811 E Burnside st. portland oregon!

Book Making! November!

2008-11-28T23:44:00.000-08:00

above: Asher Katz flies a kite.

BOOK MAKING WE'VE KICKED OFF WOO!

We started altering books and it has gone really well. Marina and Andrew have started some amazing projects with their books. Some of us others just started getting them together. Caroline took apart Tiger Woods yearbook and is making a full fledged game! Next week we're going to meet and have a sending off party to the books and talk about somethings we want to do for the last few weeks of fall. Upcoming there will be an event at the Grass Hut Gallery in December! I think its going to be super sick dope!

PHOTOS:

Jake Mendelson hard at work.

James Beyer reading some of the zines that were brought in for sharing.

Jake Mendelson hard at work.

Andrew working on his awesome book!

We've also had some really nice craft nights. Anna Scott came by and worked on a really cool book project for a friend of hers, while Charlie Macquarie, Nicole Lavelle, and Emma Barnett worked on their homework. :(
Emma did in fact make some art later in the night, and let me tell you, it was incredible. I start taking photos.

Also, Zoe Clark's ceramics seminar, that is associated with DIT is underway and I think going very well. It is at 3.30 on Wednesday's in the ceramics studio at Lewis and Clark.

love,
DIT

More masks!

2008-11-20T23:26:00.000-08:00

Marina's mask! Made a great sparkle costume for Halloweeen!

Mask making!!! October 29th

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Sunny day! Although the morning started out cold, by 2pm craft time the sun was shinning bright and happy faces made great appearances. Many masks were finished, and everybody's work looked awesome. Katlin's sheep bahed deep, Andrew's was holy cow terrifying, Marina's shined like the stars, and Elizabeth's look like a very sad polar bear. There were guest guitar appearances by Michael Rae, Mr. Bowerman and Travis, as well as some great conversationalist including Patrick, Marty, James, and friends. Andrew really saved the day on this one, he provided an awesome blanket, paint and glue that helped out enormously. woohoo! Glitter was also a highlight of the day, and lets just say that things got a little craAaAaAazy! We also learned that wheat paste molds, which was pretty gross. Apparently you have to boil it after you use it. Ok, images speak more then words, so here's what was photographed:

Marty and Andrew having a profound conversation on the nature of Craft and Masks.

Andrew working on his tower of terrific mask on a super blanket.

Project completed! TERRIFYING!

Michael's sweet sweet serenade.

Kaitlin and Zoe sharing inportant paper mache secrets while Marina lets loose on her creation.

BOo! Elizabeth had to leave early, shitty for her man.

Many more finished masks up soon!

love,
DIT

Mask Making! October 17th

2008-10-27T18:56:00.000-07:00

Mask making! what great do it together fun! Come this Wednesday, October 24th, and start or finish a mask while hanging out and making art by just being there! We meet outside of the library at 2pm and decide together where to have our meeting. (Either on the lawn outside of the library or in the coop.)

Here are some pictures from last week's performance, mask making! Katlin worked on a really cool sheep snout, Marina made an amazing pig-like mask with a headdress, Andrew made something that started as a square bottom cone,
James made an amazing empty egg, Asher made a yellow balloon out of a yellow balloon, and Emily started a perfect paper maché balloon shape with exciting news to come! The event seemed like a huge success even in the middle of exam week and everyone seemed to have a really wonderful time. Hopefully you can join us on Wednesday too!

Text for school group proposal:

2008-10-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

D.I.T. Do It Together projects

Do It Together, or DIT is a student arts group that focuses on creative acts as a group activity, rather than focusing on the objects created thereafter. The intention of this group is to bring people together in interesting ways to make and create things. The physical objects that materialize from our events and meetings will be positively funneled back into the community. DIT would also function to increase awareness of the many resources available at Lewis and Clark and share the knowledge and use of these resources with as many students as possible.

Activities would in include: regular Craft Nights, student-run seminars about creative endeavors (like how to make a poster, how to embroider, how to think about performance in everyday life), group art shows that focus on community participation, performances, baked art sales, zine-making workshops and much more.

DIT is also to intended to function as somewhat of a satellite group, focusing on and collaborating with other student groups at Lewis and Clark. An example of such collaboration would be holding a poster-making seminar with DIT in conjunction with KLC in order to teach interested students good ways to design posters while at the same time helping KLC publicize an event. By participating, the students would have a chance to be part of DIT and KLC as well as show their work around the school.

In addition our intention would be to operate on as low a budget as possible, focusing on available, sustainable and cheap resources. For example, DIT would reuse available material or use materials found at thrift stores. An example of such a project would be to hold a series of open seminars that focus on “appropriation," “collaboration," “reuse,” and “thrift." The group of interested students would take a field trip to the Goodwill Bins in Sellwood and work together to find as much salvageable material for the lowest available cost. We would then work together in altering our found treasures in different ways to create works of art. We would work to engage the rest of the community in joining us to alter the found material and as a conclusion we would have a show displaying these objects somewhere on school campus. The intention would be to sell the works of art at affordable prices in order to fund the next DIT project. The group would then be moving toward having a number of self-sustaining collaborative art series that in turn would fund successive projects. Students who participated would learn skills about salvaged materials, including what is safe and what is not, a method of encouraging people to participate, how to hang a gallery show, as well as the process of selling work.

Another project idea would be to have a Baked Art Sale. This would include having a seminar discussing different ways to decorate cakes or making edible works of art. The food would then be photographed and sold to the highest hungry bidder on campus. The photos could be later displayed as a show, while the food could be deliciously consumed. Students would learn how to bake delicious treats, different methods and opinions on edible art, and about alternative art shows, namely outside of the gallery.

Most importantly, students would learn to work together sharing skills and knowledge to learn from and teach one another. The collaborative process is a rewarding one and DIT aims to help create settings in which this process can unfold successfully for the students involved while at the same time having positive, far-reaching effects on the whole campus population of Lewis and Clark.

This group will also operate with the intention of working outside of but with the art department, and every other department, focusing on being an inclusive as possible to the entire community in hopes to demonstrate that everyone is an artist, and creativity is cool.