With more and more human beings trying to purchase property in Dubai, especially apartments, it is essential to comprehend how the apartment in Dubai actual prices work. Dubai has a market that is continually altering and is very competitive. People who prefer to purchase a rental or make investments in actual property have a lot…
Outdoor learning spaces are popular in education settings. How do they enhance student learning and well-being? Many schools are adopting them for various reasons. The benefits of outdoor learning are many and impactful. Students engage better and show improved behavior. Being outside boosts their mood and reduces stress levels. Learning in fresh air makes lessons…
Sofie Ramos is an installation artist currently pursuing her MFA at UC Berkeley. Below is a reflection on my visit to her studio space at the Richmond Field Station. Bright, dry, and dead silent. The Richmond Field Station, home of the UC Berkeley MFA studios, seems all but deserted in the middle of a Tuesday,…
Peru-born, New York-based artist Diego Montoya gives us a glimpse into his life as a costume designer, installation, performance, interactive, artist extraordinaire. We found Diego through instagram while searching out #wearableart. His work, while diverse seems to build upon itself, creating a unique and in-depth world. Where in Florida did you grow up and what…
We got to know Shannon at Venison’s first session of Art Camp last spring. She was a last minute attendee who filled an open spot just in the nick of time, and we are sure glad she did! Shannon Taylor is a professional watercolorist based out of Oakland, California. With exception to the summer she…
I came across your work on Instagram and quickly became obsessed, not only by the quality of your work but also by what you actually say about your work. You’re very candid about your experience and show all the nitty-gritty truths about being a human who makes art. For us #artistsoninstagram who might be a…
There is enigmatic simplicity, from the design of your website to your artwork. Tell me a bit about yourself – did you grow up with a lot of exposure to contemporary art? Oh not at all. Truthfully, I didn’t learn a lot about contemporary art until I was in graduate school. I grew up in…
I spoke with Channing Morgan over the phone from my Pittsburgh, PA desk to her Oakland, CA Studio. This August was Channing’s third month post-graduation from her MFA program, and our conversation focused on her insights and experiences around this significant transitional phase in her career as an artist. As she put it: “I’m in…
After five years of intense engagement with water-based media, painter Maja Ruznic turns again to oil painting in an ongoing exploration of trauma and its untold traces in the series Soil as Witness. Examining trauma’s traces through the photographic medium in “Spectral Evidence”, author Ulrich Baer argues that traumatic events and the memories they produce cannot, by the…
Millais 1851 painting Mariana exploring a woman’s dependence on marriage. scene is from a Tennyson poem which relates back to Shakespeare’s play measure for measure. He describes a woman Mariana who’s dowry has been lost at sea and abandoned by her fiancé Angelo. She is stranded lamenting her existence. Image of boredom and latitude and…
