Hi there!
Welcome to our Official First Post To The Blog—and (true confessions) my first blog post ever in all the world. I guess I had to join the 21st century at some point...
I wanted to start our conversation by raising the question of how we will document our low-fi publishing projects for ourselves and the larger Goddard community. Please respond to this post, even if it’s to say that you have no opinion about documentation—I want to use this as an experiment to make sure the blog is working and we all know how to work within it. Ok? Ok.
As for documentation: we are the first group doing these low-fi publishing projects through the BFA Writing Program, but there will be others—hopefully many others—and I think it would be a great idea for us to set some parameters for documenting and archiving our activities, so future BFA students can have access to the projects of those who have come before them.
Here are some ideas—please feel free to add to this list, or expand or revise these suggestions:
+ One or more of you might set up a webpage with archiving potential so future incarnations of this group study can consult our projects.
++ Images and text from the projects could be scanned onto the website.
++ We could potentially include some sentences or paragraphs from the texts we write about the process of doing these projects.
++ One or more of you might do this as part of your course of study—this work could be part of your packet work for the semester, as it certainly counts as “thoughtful action” and engages both critical and creative skills.
++ If no one in this group wants to create a web presence for the publishing group study and we think it’s a good idea to have one, we might come up with a proposal to share with everyone at the next residency and see if someone wants to take on the project of documenting the publishing group study.
+ A related idea: we might create a space for archiving on this blog (though a website may provide more flexibility—I’m not web-savvy enough to know which would be better).
+ We might set up an exhibition of our books/projects for the next residency, either as part of the student art show or separate from it.
+ We might propose to the editors of Guideword that they include images and/or texts from our projects in the magazine.
Obviously, these ideas are not mutually exclusive. We could decide we want to implement all of them! Or, on the other hand, we could do none of them: we could choose to consider other alternatives and do something completely different than what I’ve outlined above. What other ideas do you have about documenting our work for the larger Goddard community and for future BFA students? Please weigh in with your opinions, comments and suggestions.
I’ll post again soon with some guidelines for how to begin our activities for this group study. If any of you has already begun to work on your project, please post so we can all learn from your experiences!
Excitedly,
Jen
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Hi everyone - It is Nancy here. Just checking in, per Jen's request. Not too swift with the blogging thing so please bear with me. At this time, I'll just say that I like the idea Jen had of possibly sharing our publishing projects from this workshop at the art show during the spring 2009 residency.
Beyond that, I have no comment as to Jen's other possible proposals. So far, I've started painting the little watercolor covers for my small chapbooks I'm making for my workshop project.
I wish everyone good luck with your projects! I've already spilled Miskit (liquid rubber) all over my down comforter and favorite pants while preparing my watercolor paintings. What a joke trying to get that out! Let the low-fi publishing project adventures begin!
Nancy
Hello all,
I have a silly question. For some reason, I can't figure out how to "post." On past blogs I have been a part of, the "new post" option is in the top right-hand corner, and in this case it says "new blog" and when I click it, it seems to allow me to create a whole new blog, but not just post to THIS blog! I know there is probably a very simple solution to this. I am notoriously bad at looking for things, so I'm clearly missing something obvious. Still... could someone direct me to the "new post" button?
Anways, onto other things. I agree with Nancy and Jen that an exhibit at the next residency could be really lovely. If the blog has capacity, it'd be nice to see postings (scanned, photographed, etc) of people's works as they develop. Especially for works of a performance or publicly displayed nature. A website would be great, but it would also be less complicated (just my opinion) to have just one blog, rather than a blog AND a website.
I have sent out an initial call for works to friends and artists to submit to the little compilation I will make. People have been receptive and excited about the project. I asked them to submit their work to me by the first week of November, so pretty soon I'll start nagging everyone.
Lookin forward to hearing from everyone,
Monica.
Hi there --
Monica, just wanted to respond to your post, briefly. I hope you've figured out how to post? I imagine you have, since you did successfully send your post. Please email me if you're continuing to have blog woes.
I imagine you're starting to receive work from the folks you invited to participate in your project -- exciting! It will be interesting to see how you choose to order the work and thread it all together (figuratively and literally). I'm glad, also, for the chance to get to experience writing by some of the people you are reading, as your most immediate contemporaries.
Keep us posted!
Peace, Jen.
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