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		<title>The Form of Tradition: Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Open Studio at MAD is a workspace on the 6th floor of the museum devoted to artists carrying-on with their work, interfacing with the public. So it was inevitable one fine day when I was wedging clay that a woman walked in with her young daughter who blurted out “Mommy! Look at that man,… [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malleable Extract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hardly believe a month of Open Studio's has already passed! My exchanges with the visitors have been wonderful and among the many notable characters I have met, I recently spoke with two opera singers, a student of electrical engineering and travelers from Qatar, Israel and France.  I regularly speak with visitors about my works relationship to the natural world. It often functions as an access point, allowing viewers to relate to the abstract forms. My hope is that this current work extends beyond the 'subjectification' of nature and I would like to expand briefly on some additional facets in my thought process.]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Opening: Jessica Stoller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be exhibiting new work in an exhibition in  Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Please join me for the upcoming opening of : The World We Live In, The Worlds We Create @ Like the Spice Gallery

<strong>Opening Reception</strong>: Friday, March 12th, 6:30pm - 10:00pm ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/03/upcoming-opening-jessica-stoller/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Stephen Burks</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Design Activist" would be the most appropriate way to describe American industrial designer Stephen Burks. This young multi-talented visionary, who has worked with some of the world’s most recognizable names in fashion and furniture industry, is changing the we way think about design - one idea at a time. By simultaneously using a top-down and a bottom-up approach he brings together the industrialized world’s gatekeepers of culture with traditional people in remote locales to create sustainable objects and symbiotic relationships. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/03/interview-with-stephen-burks/</link>
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		<title>Working between the Lines of a Subject: Art or Design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it art or design?  In graduate school we read extensively within this topic.  People like to categorize things into one or the other, black or white.  For me, working within the theme of shoes, intention and process help define what it is and hopefully my form conveys it.  Before graduate school at Cranbrook I would have said definitely yes I am an artist, not a designer.  Studying design and design issues for 2 years definitely changed how I view my work, and I position myself as working within both art and design fields. Fashion allows this fluidity.  Just look at some of the work of the late Alexander McQueen or Jean Charles de Castelbajac.  Some of the current footwear design is so out there and creative amazing.  I try to not compare myself to these big fish.
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		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/03/working-between-the-lines-of-a-subject-art-or-design/</link>
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		<title>Who you calling doll?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge a trend that has been occurring when individuals refer to my work. People often use the term  &#8221;doll&#8221; when addressing it.  I find the doll comments revealing as they enable me to reflect on my intent and how the work is functioning to the viewer.
Although this might be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/03/who-you-calling-doll/</link>
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		<title>The Form of Tradition: Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ My topic you will notice has a slight change. Instead of <em>Form &#38; Tradition</em>, I believe it is <em>The Form of Tradition.</em> This change allows a blending of two categories as one, instead of treating them as separate entities. My appeal is for “pluralism” in the study of Tradition and to allow for a diversity of inclusion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/03/the-form-of-tradition-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Wearable Sculptures called Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed my second Saturday as an Open Studio Artist, and am invigorated and ready for next week!

My favorite question so far was a man asking me, "Why shoes?"  To which I replied, "why not?"  It's difficult to describe a passion and compulsion to create.  Shoes are familiar, common, objects, but for me they are my art.    I aim to transform the shoes identity, so art becomes part of the function of the shoe.  Shoes are structural objects which stand alone, unlike garments, though they are transformed by the addition of the body and movement.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/02/wearable-sculptures-called-shoes/</link>
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		<title>The Content of Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday February 1, 2010 I ventured into the Javits Center here in New York City in the midst of the International Gift Fair. I was on a mission. I was meeting with<a href="http://www.farafina-tigne.com/home.html"> Oumar Cisse (AKA Peace Corps Baba)</a> from Mopti, Mali.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madblog.org/2010/02/the-content-of-design/</link>
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		<title>Form &amp; Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been very enamored by the ceramics coming out of England built on the Leach and Cardew tradition. Some of the top potters there are doing some great work. But what I see there (as opposed to here in the States) is an unparalleled pride or charge of excitement for functional work, which I think is a very compelling aspect of their tradition.]]></description>
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