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A Brief History of Journalism

By shelley | Published: 12 Apr 07
“Journalism is storytelling with a purpose. That purpose is to provide people with information they need to understand the world. The first challenge is finding the information that people need to live their lives. The second is to make it meaningful, relevant, and engaging.” The journalistic principle of engagement and relevance means exactly that – […]
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On Tea & Japan

By shelley | Published: 8 Jun 06
“Tea is the ultimate mental and medical remedy and has the ability to make one’s life more full and complete.” ~Rinzai Zen Priest Eisai (1141-1215)7 Originally brought to Japan from China in the early ninth century by Buddhist priests, tea – specifically green tea – was first used as a form of medicine and as […]
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On Photography and Graphic Design

By shelley | Published: 29 Nov 05
The art world, for all its open-minded and revolutionary rhetoric, has not always been accepting of new media. Court painters during the medieval period were considered craftsmen instead of artists. Performance art met with hesitation and distrust. Photography, until fairly recently, was considered more of a craft than an art. The same has been true […]
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On the Outskirts: Marginalized Artists in the 1970s and 1980s

By shelley | Published: 10 May 05
At the start of the 1970s two major groups were setting in motion the beginnings of their respective grand entrances to the art scene, both beginning in Southern California. Women artists and Chicano artists alike had been marginalized by the mainstream art world – but that was about to change. The 1970s brought about social […]
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Performance Art, Pop Art, and Minimalism

By shelley | Published: 7 Apr 05
The period spanning the late 1950s to the end of the 1970s gave rise to many an art movement, most of which were either a direct response to or a continuation of the work of the Abstract Expressionists. Some of these movements included Pop, Assemblage, “Happenings” and other forms of Performance Art, Minimalism, and Process […]
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