[image_with_animation image_url=”9675″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.
Today is the first of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this one based on the Salish Sea.
In 2009, the Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia got a name change to the Salish Sea, recognized by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The expanse and boundaries of the Salish Sea can be seen on these maps here.
Today’s challenge is to make a map that defines the Salish Sea. I realize this project is large as it is, but the map needs only to illustrate an aspect of the sea, and if you have time and are enjoying the work, feel free to add thoughts, memories, flora and fauna. Artists’ choice to collage, trace, draw, cut, or integrate multimedia. See below for inspirations. Note the inspirations below are not of the Salish Sea, but various artist’s topophilia of their own places. For maps of the Salish Sea, click here.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
Special thanks to League instructor Claire Putney of Topophilia Studios for her help with this post.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7935″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In January we did a series of creative challenges. January 15 was “Strange Mail” an invitation to “let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange.” And you did! Here is our postman, posing with one of Strange Mail pieces (he had previously shoved it under the door …
Hope Gangloff is an American painter living and working in New York City. Born 1974, she is one year older than me. The picture of her painting in her studio, black overalls and climbing on a ladder, my mother mistook for me in my studio, black overalls, climbing on a ladder. The patterns in these …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
Washing a brush seems simple enough: Step 1. Get the paint out Step 2. Congratulate yourself on your success. Obvious, no? I was years out of art school, and I had ruined several hundreds of dollars of brushes before I learned how to properly care for my tools. Below are two simple videos on brush care. …
SAL Challenge: Salish Sea Map
[image_with_animation image_url=”9675″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.
Today is the first of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this one based on the Salish Sea.
In 2009, the Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia got a name change to the Salish Sea, recognized by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The expanse and boundaries of the Salish Sea can be seen on these maps here.
Today’s challenge is to make a map that defines the Salish Sea. I realize this project is large as it is, but the map needs only to illustrate an aspect of the sea, and if you have time and are enjoying the work, feel free to add thoughts, memories, flora and fauna. Artists’ choice to collage, trace, draw, cut, or integrate multimedia. See below for inspirations. Note the inspirations below are not of the Salish Sea, but various artist’s topophilia of their own places. For maps of the Salish Sea, click here.
There is a great Salish Sea Art & Activism lecture and workshop coming up at the League – the talk is June 10th, the class starts June 12th.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
Special thanks to League instructor Claire Putney of Topophilia Studios for her help with this post.
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