Thought for the day

Heard on HGTV's Simply Quilts
"Technique is the servant of intent." Sue Reno, Fiber Artist

Artsmobile opening a big success

The grand opening of Fine Arts new Native American Artsmobile was held this afternoon and was a big success. The Artsmobile represents the two major Native American cultures in the this area, Tohono O'odham and Yaqui (also spelled Hiaki). The Artsmobile was blessed by Ron Felix of the Tohono O'odham and Narciso Bule of the Pascua Yaqui. There were dance performances and wonderful exhibits and calabacitas and tortillas. The only cloud on the opening was that the Artsmobile generator wasn't working so the Artsmobile will down for servicing next week instead starting scheduled visits to schools.

Blogs, what are they good for?

Blogs are continuously running commentary. Some blogs are personal journals. Some are true journalism. This is an experiment to see what we can do with a blog. At it's most basic level, it's like e-mail but less demanding. In combination with this blog, we'll have a wiki. A wiki is a collaborative web space that is easy for anyone to modify. Web publishing is relatively easy but it still is pretty much in the internet arcana category. A wiki takes the web publishing out of the arcana category. Wikipedia is the best know example of a wiki. The TUSD Fine Arts wiki is a Peanut Butter (PB) wiki. The address is http://wikiarts.pbwiki.com It can be used to work on group projects and to provide a central location for shared information. How will this be different from the Fine and Performing Arts official webpage? The official page is like the glossy magazine going to the outside world. The wiki can function like an in-house newletter, not so polished, information can be posted very quickly. The wiki will always be a rough draft, whereas every new version of the official page will be the final product.