and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/25/2018 11:30:29 PM PDT by llevrok
Whether they cut into arts programs or into their social justice programs makes little difference to me.
Just cut and feel pain. Let the arts people whose programs got cut have it out with the social justice people whose programs didn’t get cut.
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Excellent points and ideas al around!!
an oldie but goodie..... true story
Well, ok, I can’t resist telling the tale.
About 12 years ago I attended a week long workshop in metals held at a fine arts enclave located several miles from the main campus of a university. I have learned to work in silver.
We were given a tour. The head of the glass studio asked at the first words he uttered...... “What’s the difference between a large Domino’s pepperoni pizza and a glass artist?”
“The pizza can feed a family of four.”
But I digress.
Each evening the various work shop heads made presentations and had extensive presentations of their work
The wood work shop was hosted by the out going resident artist in the wood work studio. She showed the pictures and some showed beautiful work in furniture and boxes I think. Most was devoted to her calling however. Her calling and reason for being was to express the dialogue between lines and dots.
She would make door frames and window facing and all sorts of architectural fenestration from wood that received a wash of tempera paint onto which she took an HB pencil and made a dot from which a line extended. The dots were more or less uniform but the lines mostly at right angles were of various lengths. This meticulously applied pencil work was a dialogue between lines and dots.
She was very upset and complained through the whole presentation. She had to leave the security of the wood studio where she had dwelled for about 8 years. She came as a freshman Fine Arts Major, spent 2 more years getting a Masters of Fine arts and then was granted 2 more years as Artist in Residence, Wood Working Studio. At 26 she was kicked out into the hard cold world. She was wonderfully talented and made beautiful stuff. She was hung up as an artist however.....lines and dots.
It was realized that she had to make a living and the solution proposed was a production item. That is artist code for something you make over and over rather than just one at a time. The buzz is “do you have a production item”.
Well she developed one. Mirror Frames that were about 3 “ wide painted in the yellow milk tempera and containing the wonderful hand applied dialogue with lines and dots. So all was well. She had the production item and sold one.
OOps.....there was a problem. It had to be shipped. She could find no box the right size to ship the frame in. Turns out to get a box or boxes, the frames had to be dimensionally fabricated to a size determined by the box manufacturer. Time for crying...... literally. Her whole artistic world came crashing down.
The box maker destroyed her artistic freedom and thus her integrity and thus her being.
The story had no end. Her final days at the school including the summer workshop gig granted in total pity was at an end. She had no job. She had no prospects. The wonderful production item was distasteful because of the loss of artistic freedom and integrity.
I don’t know what happened but know that she at 26 thought the world was nearing an end
Could not happen to a more deserviong bunch of liberal commies. We need to see more of this!!!
Free “artistic” expression, not free rational expression.
Wonder if she was a ‘friend’ of Barry’s bio daddy Frank, or Stanley, etc.. Hmmmmmm....Ties to Chicago perhaps? Well, now I have a new mini hobby....
I wouldn’t feel I had much power if my kid chose a pathetic school like this. I would of course give my opinion, but make it very clear there would be no financial support from me. Adults make choices.
Fund raising at Rachel Corrie’s alma mater is..... flat?!
For all the laid off employees, dont forget to send a thank you note to the SJWs.
If the laid off employee is an SJW, well, schadenfreude!
Time to cut your losses and transfer. Any school degree would be better.
Very excellently stated! No sane person wants to feel threatened & tormented at a place they are paying for!
Or anywhere for that matter.
‘There should an entire class offered at the school to explain capitalism and how things work in the real world.’
reminds me of the girl in a local college who complained bitterly that her archery program was being cut, but the ‘spineless bastards’ would never cut the ‘holy’ men’s football and basketball...uh, dearie, does women’s archery generate even one cent of income...?
‘Woke thee watching lefties stroke their goatees and say ”Yeesss...yeeesss...I get it!”’
thou hast made an interesting post...
“A friend of mine is an administrator at a local college and she said for one opening for a sh*t teaching job, she had to cull almost 400 applications down to 10 finalists, just for one opening.”
Looking at 400 Fakebook and Twit accounts would be a tiresome job.
“Have some stand-up comic nights.”
And risk the students burning down the theater because they were offended by a politically incorrect joke? :-)
‘...they were offended by a politically incorrect joke?’
something like ‘my daughter, her high school yearbook picture was horizontal’...
Thank you for the link. I read it last night and I'm still thinking it over. It's good to learn that somewhere these people have acknowledged, to a small extent, this amazing problem.
These intellectuals should have been reading FR since 1998, maybe then they wouldn't be so afraid of us, lol.
Instead of learning some humility from their experiences, they now think of themselves as the elite-of-the-eltie.
Everything would fall into place for them if they would just meet Jesus. That's what is missing from their studies.
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