Judging Covers: Plato’s Altered State

9th December 2016Altered Book, Art 4004/5004, Minus Plato Today, Plato, Plato RepublicAltered Book, Art 4004/5004, Plato, RepublicMinus Plato

As part of the Art 4004/5005 Drawing Ideas course that I taught this semester with Suzanne Silver the students had a project in which they had to use copies of Plato’s Republic either as their sketchbooks throughout the course or as singular work of art (an altered book project). I will explore the tension between […]

What a difference a Myth makes

6th December 2016Art 4004/5004, Minus Plato Today, Myth, Plato, Teaching OSUMyth, PlatoMinus Plato

I am still not really up to discussing my confrontation with the gun-wielding ‘educators’ on campus yesterday. Sure there have been a few reports of the interaction in local media and friends have told me that I was on the news last night, but for the purposes of this post I am still processing the […]