Common Debris

Here are pixels from some current and recent projects from The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts programs in Omaha, Nebraska. Please, make more art :)!

A collaborative mural by Urban Arts mentors and students for non-profit Together Inc.

The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts, a non-profit arts organization based in Omaha, encourages young artists to reach their full potential through creative expression in a professional artist mentoring context. We service anywhere from 30-40 youth artists every spring, summer and fall and house 8-10 local professional artist mentors.

Commonpath is looking for some Chicoan volunteers to document the local arts scenes and post them here! Must be tech savy(digital camera and button clicking skills). If you are this amazing chunk of goodness please contact us. The local arts need you!

This escaping student caught my eye at Chico High. Looks like another work for our Who Dunnit? folder. Reminds me of Mark Jenkins.

Found this photo while digging through some old files. Ah, the good ol' days.

Some mysterious eggs have been spotted with strange messages in them. Who dunnit?

Do you ever get lonely? Well....keep yourself company with a limited edition wood burned totem! Painstakingly designed and masterfully engraved, these totems are powerful contemporary relics thriving with goodness and multidimensional powers. Get your hands on any one of six different totems for $75! Hungry for more? Well....chow down on any one of ten wood burned faces! Mmmm.

Every semester I ask all my students to draw a spoon on an index card. Why a spoon you say? Well, I had a theory a while back that advances in digital image making tools like 3d modeling and motion graphics could change the way we visualize images in our minds. If you ask a person to draw a cow they would likely draw a simple profile shot similar to the animal cards we see as kids. Profile shots can be the quickest way to identify something, and they seem to be the most common. Two dimensional image making has ruled the world for ages, but recently computer software has changed the way we create imagery. We are forced to think about objects in three dimensions, that is x,y,& z. Could this change the way we imagine? Spoons are pretty sterile and basic, and generally everyone has seen one. I have posted a bunch for you to look at. You will notice that one, my theory is rubbish, and two that a spoon is not just a spoon. Some are mysterious, some technical, some conceptual, some strong, some soft, some humorous, some ridiculous, some quiet, some loud, some sexy, and some everywhere in between.

Just got this Sketch Theatre email from Munk One, a professional artist and illustrator that graced the streets of Chico at one time. This video shows a timelapse sketchbook drawing by the man himself. Check out his website also, good stuff.

This just in:

One of our local artist favorites Christine Fulton aka Seamonster just released her new website so check it out.