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Gold Star and Smiley Face Award

24 December 2007 5 Comments

I know Art Basel was a while ago now but while there I was blown away by the Ara Peterson installation at Art Positions. And I was trying to think of some sort of award that JaxCAL could give to best in show, etc. The Ara Peterson installation would definitely win the award from me if I had a good name for an award. Any ideas for a name, I’m all ears. Saw a shout out to the installation at Jameswagner.com too HERE. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who approved.

Ara Peterson at James Wagner

5 Comments »

  • Kelly said:

    It’s hard to think of one that can hold water. Do we draw on an aspect of Jacksonville, like “The Cowford Something,” or do we create a name that is completely separate from our location? We’re artists in Jacksonville, but not necessarily artists about Jacksonville. If we go with the first option, it negates this “new direction” JaxCAL is going. But then something in the direction of the second is hard to choose. We don’t really have a community figure enthroned, like Memphis Wood or Augusta Savage are close to being, to name the award after…

    I don’t know. I’m thinking too much. It’s the price I pay for knitting all day. Too much thinking.

  • contributor (author) said:

    great ideas on naming an award Kelly.

    As far as the award name idea I like doing something like the Seesaws system here:
    http://salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com/bout-page/
    it’s simple and when we speak of something we’ll know how much we like it. like two thumbs up.

    did you guys know you can put images in your comments. I didn’t. example below. all you have to do
    is get the url from whatever image and use this code:
    < img src="http://www.example.com/example.jpg"/> minus the space before < and img.....example image below.

  • jerrycornwell said:

    wow, really awesome and inspiring work

  • morrison said:

    we filmed inside this pod a couple different times during basel might show it one day, i liked the one from l.a. the most the black dragon society. it was full of the world today…

  • Drawdown not a Letdown at JaxCAL said:

    [...] I enjoyed it thoroughly and will attend again if there is another one. Thanks MOCA Jax. You get The JaxCAL Gold Star and Smiley Face Award. It’s a rare and treasured award. Below is some video footage where I sound like a complete [...]

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