"If we had a keen vision and feeling
of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow
and the squirrels' heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies
on the other side of silence." - George Eliot
"Every material has its own art. In
its kind, a work executed in it is better or worse according as it brings
out to greater or less advantage the special qualities that the particular
instrument is fitted to bring out, and that another instrument cannot
bring out as well." - Walter Sickert from A Free House, or The
Artist as Craftsman
"It is a function of all art to give
us some perception of an order in life, by imposing an order upon it."
- T.S. Eliot
"Painting is easy when you don't know
how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas
"If you can't find your inspiration
by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks -- but never
three." - Robert Motherwell
"Those who cannot begin do not finish."
- Robert Henri
"Art tends toward balance, order, judgment
of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living - very
good things for anyone to be interested in." - Robert Henri
"I draw the secrets of my heart."
-Albrecht Durer
"A room hung with pictures is a room
hung with thoughts." - Sir Joshua Reynolds
"Every child is an artist, the problem
is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Picasso
"Truly free is the man who can decline
an invitation without excuse." - unknown
"Unless I call my attention to what
passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it. It is, as Ruskin says,
'not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.'"
- from The Tinker at Pilgrim Creek by Annie Dillard
"The first outlines through which an
able master indicates his thought contain the germ of everything significant
that the work will offer." -Eugene Delacroix
www.cadastral.com
This site provides information of interest to those involved in the
preservation and retracement of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
in the United States. The PLSS is also known as the "rectangular
system", and was a key factor in the orderly expansion west in
the early history of the country. Cadastral Surveying is surveying having
to do with determining and defining land ownership and boundaries. Cadastral
Survey is an operational program within the Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior, which is a leader in developing spatial
data as a basis for National Land Information System. This includes
a large data collection effort, known as the GCDB or Geographic Coordinate
Data Base Project. This is the largest project in the world for development
of records-based geographic spatial framework.
www.sagis.org
This Web site is a public resource of general information that provides
property analysis tools for Chatham County, Georgia.
vsav.scad.edu
From the Web site: "The Virtual Historic Savannah Project documents
the evolution of urban form by combining architectural and social history
research with 3D computer and database technology. The project focuses
on historic downtown Savannah, Georgia, which is celebrated both for
the large number of historic structures and its unique urban plan. Currently,
information is provided on over 2,200 existing buildings and the people,
businesses and institutions that have occupied them between 1940 and
2000, as well as preliminary information on approximately 300 buildings
demolished or lost after 1970."
www.scad.edu/painting/index.cfm
Reed teaches in the painting department at the Savannah College of Art
and Design. '
www.theothersavannah.com
Kirt Witte's photographic website, of which he says, "In other words,
here are some photographs and 360-degree panoramas of things in Savannah
that most visitors will never see or notice. However, it is these kinds
of things that really make Savannah a very unique place tovisit and
to live."
www.secollegeart.org
Mission: "The Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) is a
non-profit organization that seeks to promote the visual arts in higher
education. SECAC facilitates cooperation and fosters on-going dialog
about pertinent creative, scholarly and educational issues among teachers
and administrators in universities, colleges, community colleges, professional
art schools, and museums."
www.artpapers.org
Here's what Art Papers says about itself. "ART PAPERS is about
contemporary art. That's all we've been about for thirty years, stubbornly,
unpredictably, and reliably. We understand contemporary art as a constellation
of practices variably wielding ideas, images, space, sound, materials,
encounters discourse, and text. We also define it as a permeable realm
subjected to the multiple, changing, and incessant pressures of contemporary
life. That explains our fierce and unruly curiosity. Looking simultaneously
at art communities across the USA and around the world, ART PAPERS scans
the event horizon to challenge accepted notions, and articulate debates.
We engage artists, critics, curators, scholars, collectors, and readers
to provoke discussions. Recognized as the independent critical voice
that best covers all regions of the USA, we undauntedly assert a unique
global perspective on what shapes art now. Blame it on our non-profit
status, and our worldly, southern accents. They just afford us a unique
perspective, and a great deal of intellectual freedom. Informed, assertive,
authoritative, and accessible, ART PAPERS is the essential, independent
guide to contemporary art."
www.artsjournal.com/man
Free weekly online Arts Journal. Hosts Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes
(MAN) about which Green says, "This is my chronicle of my thoughts
of and passions for modern and contemporary art. It's updated pretty
much every weekday, and occasionally on weekends when something particularly
irks or emboldens me. I started MAN in September, 2001. It's been hosted
since January 2003 by ArtsJournal.com. The Wall Street Journal recently
called MAN "the most influential of all visual-arts blogs."
Forbes magazine named MAN a "Best of the Web" site. Publications
such as Slate, Contemporary, Art & Auction, Black Book, The New
Criterion, and Art in America have all featured MAN. The Boston Globe
said that Green "digs for news, does his research and has a 'tude."
(Yes, the name of the blog is a lie. For over three years I've written
about both modern art and contemporary art. When I originally started
the blog,"contemporaryartnotes.blogspot.com" was too long
for the (previous) software to handle. So the site became MAN. And really,
CAN sounds a bit much like a neo-socialist co-op.)"
www.telfair.org
The Telfair Museum of Art opened the Jepson Center for the Arts in 2006.
Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie, this 64,000-sq.
ft. state-of-the-art museum facility for 20th and 21st century art is
located in the heart of Savannah's historic district. Reed’s etching,
Azalea Terrace, was accepted into the Telfair’s permanent collection
in 2009 as a gift from the estate of Ron Strahan.
www.idratherbeinthestudio.com
This is the website for Alyson Stanfield's 2008 publication of the same
name. It's a great self-promotion book for artists.
www.gammatech.com
Gamma Tech is a great resource for artists needing to maintain documentation
in both digital and slide formats. From the Web site, "Gamma Tech
specializes in converting Digital images to film or film to digital
files. We provide quick high quality 35mm slides, negatives and large
format film at a price everyone can afford."
dcimages.com/ahs/about.html
Arthur Hall Smith was a mentor to many painters who studied at The George
Washington University. He retired in 1997 and lives and works in Paris.
www.joebiel.com
Amazing drawings, and monkey paintings filled with pathos, Joe channels
early Renaissance art through the compression chamber of 21st century
psychology.
www.pendantportraits.wordpress.com
Sandra Reed’s blog
www.heathritch.com/salitmagazine
SALiT magazine is Savannah Literature. The publication also includes
images. Check out Volume 2 Issue 1 for my work on pages 6-9. Don't miss
the work of John Spurlock in the same issue on pages 28-31.