Archive • Claudine Arts • Buttondown

If I don’t write for a while, it’s because I’m in the middle of something and I don’t really know what’s going on. And then, before I know it, the deadline...

And now we begin

we’ve entered a new stage in our program, where we individually bring our own themes and our own choices. I can see they are trying to create safe spaces for...

We had an intense interlude with photography, giving classmates who hadn’t given much time to the medium in the past to test it out. I’ve had moments with...

Third time is not the charm

We’d been working on videos with the cadence of one per week, where the brief would get incrementally harder each time. The third and final video was to be a...

February 17, 2025

My next module in video started out easy enough, with a survey of different video artists. I really gravitated to works that told a story, especially a...

In between days

February 12, 2025

In the haze of finishing the painting module, I went to see some art, a Brian McGuire exhibition. After the exercise of identifying what my taste in painting...

January 13, 2025

Mom soaking her feet (acrylics, paper) The feeling that you’re done, that you don’t want to do anymore, that you’re happy to submit as is. I’d hoped the...

Facing my nemesis

January 6, 2025

The one art medium that has remained mysterious is painting. Colors add a totally new dimension and scarily infinite possibilities to the form, shading and...

Kelp me, I'm falling

January 3, 2025

Author’s note: Happy new year! … and apologies, a combination of colds and a school essay kept me from finishing this in a timely manner. Yep, I have to...

November 18, 2024

Our next module has been sculpture, and the theme to spark our inspiration is “hidden worlds and imaginary landscapes.” I love this theme. I immediately...

Playing without thinking

October 20, 2024

Weeks have gone by, and I’m already at the end of our first module. Presentations were last Tuesday, and it was inspiring and humbling. An intermediate...

September 30, 2024

Last week I showed the result of our day 1 warm-up exercise. Part two was to make a second sculpture with a different prompt, and this time, I had...

Starting on even ground

September 19, 2024

School’s started! First module is a general catch all, using found objects to create sculptural interventions, inspired by a prompt. As mentioned by the...