Obama Sign's Art Bill

I found this article on Thursday morning, March 19, 2009. This article is about Obama signing a bill for the arts. He signed a Recovery and Reinvestment Act with reinstated support for the arts. This bill is about making improvements to art places like the Smithsonian or other art museums to make repairs. The senate and the house are trying to treat the people who work as an artist or for art the same way as people who would loose there mortgage or health insurance. The Smithsonian's spending was cut from 150 million to 25 million. That is a big cut and from the 125 million, that can be used to make many improvements.


http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16946

Art on the Street

I found this site on a chilly morning on Thursday March 19, 2009. A guy by the name of Andre, a big person might I add, paints the streets of Providence Rhode Island. Most people call it graffiti and some professional artist call it street art. Andre does many types of art from 3-d effect art to a simple 2-d. He does not stop doing street art on the walls of Providence, his other canvas includes various types of signs like stop signs or bathroom stall signs. Any type of sign that is posted up, it can be done in an artistic way by Andre. Museums are very attracted to street art and are starting to pick it up. His types of style are Art Nouveau, Constructivisim and punk art. What I am learning about this is the various types of art that can be done. Even graffiti is considered art, both illegally and legally. These various art styles, art nouveau and constructivism offer smooth lines that does not dissapoint the eye and makes it good too look at.


http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2570

Body of Art (Media Maker Series)

I went to this art event on Tuesday March 16, 2009 at Arts 240. It started at 6. Body of Art is about a 25 year old army veteran that has been disabled when he was stationed in Iraq. The producers of the movie were Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro. Tomas was only there for five days when he was shot below the collar bone and hit his spine leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. He talks about how he lives his life and the struggles of living it. He goes to anti war events to speak out and voice his opinions about the war. The war has made a huge impact to him he still supports his brother in going but at the same time wants to stop the war and opposes President Bush in his decision making. This documentary film gave people the chance to see what the injured veterans had to say about the war and they needed to voice out there problems on it.