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A Crispy 100 Dollar Bill
For Justin Hoover’s project Radical Practices: The Seduction of Duchamp, Pete Ippel auctioned off a crispy 100 dollar bill with opening bids starting at $5.00. Ippel’s project brings into question context, gift, value, and the art market. The unaltered bill sold for $115.00. Video documentation to follow.
Artist Pete Ippel Featured in Living Bond Society Newsletter
The international social fraternity, Phi Delta Theta recently interviewed Artist/Athlete Pete Ippel in regards to his unique philanthropic gift. Feel free to download and read the Living Bond Society Newsletter – Fall Winter 2009. Pete’s gift to the Fraternity is quite unique. In addition to naming Phi Delta Theta as a beneficiary of an IRA, …
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The “Office” Side of Art
Here are some lecture notes from “All You Wanted to Know About Art” Summer 2003. Keep regular business hours. Size counts. Make mailing list to send stuff to galleries. Create a history of applications. Write thank you notes. Stay in touch with folks who know your work. Layer idea of community and patronage. It’s bigger …
Letter of Interest for Tournesol Award
So the Headlands Center For The Arts has a new online application program called “SlideRoom” it’s super easy to use, and it works great. I really hope more organizations start to use it. I imagine it would really work well in the art school application process…it makes a slide list receipt/confirmation of upload that you …
Rhizome 2010 Commission Proposal “Preblog” by Pete Ippel
Preblog: Time capsule to Midwestern Teenage Life Before the World Wide Web – Blogging as a 15-Year-Old and 30-Year-Old at the Same Time San Francisco based artist Pete Ippel travels to rural Illinois to unlock the fire-proof safe that’s been buried in the closet of his childhood home since 1997. Ippel investigates and interprets nearly …
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Hans Hofmann on Subject Matter
Each artist has a way of working…here’s Hans Hofmann’s Every subject matter depends on how to use meaning. You can use it in a lyrical or dramatic manner. It depends on the personality of the artist. Everyone is clear about himself, as to where he belongs, and in which way he can give aesthetic enjoyment. …