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L. Stone Ox-Bow Syllabus Better Homes & Gardens Ox-Bow 2020 syllabus Subject to minor changes Note on readings: PDFs of all readings will be provided on a flash drive and will be accessible in advance of the class if you want to read ahead. Additional supportive readings (not mandatory) will be provided. Stone will bring boxes of books to peruse, read, refer to. Before traveling to Ox-Bow: Each student to select a photograph that you took (or take one) that addresses one of the following prompts: This is where am I when I daydream or I LOVE THIS PLACE! Ø Size the image to 72 dpi, 1024 pixels on the long side Ø Label the file with your name (first, last) Ø Email to Stone by WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Ø The images will be incorporated into the class orientation on Sunday, June 28 Sunday, June 28 8:00 p.m. first class meeting Ø Class introductions with students’ slides; class overview, slide lectures and class responses Ø Homes fully transformed into places of work, play, ceremony, and healing: Carol Hainstock (Ironton, WI), Malda Reda Larsen (Kewanee, IL), Mrs. Nies (Mineral Point, WI). Readings for the day Gregg Blasdel, “Grassroots Art,” Art in America, September/October 1968 Jill Nokes, “Places Full of Memory and Meaning,” chapter 1, Yard Art and Handmade Places Extraordinary Expressions of Home, pp. 1 – 10 Monday, June 29 Performing the farm 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Ø Introduction to Walker Evans’ documentation of place, time, and the signed landscape. Free thought and Free Speech (and parts of speech): Jesse Howard’s Sorehead Hill 1 (Fulton, Missouri). Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. William Shakespeare, Hamlet Ø Frank Oebser’s Little Program (Menomonie, Wisconsin). 2:00 – 1 hour studio project, the Frank Oebser Challenge or Perform a Jesse Howard sign 3:00 – presentation of studio projects 4:00 – slide/lecture: Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine (Stapleton, Nebraska); Evening optional: Screening of Possum Trot Readings for the day Essays by Codrescu and Stone, Jesse Howard & Roger Brown: Now Read On Optional: Richard Rhodes, “Signs and Wonders,” A Inland Ground Tuesday, June 30 Gardens of Heavenly and Earthly Delight 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Monumental personal garden landscapes and arbor sculpture: Harvey Fite’s Opus 40 (Saugerties, New York), Jack Ellsworth’s Ellsworth Rock Garden (Lake Kabetogama, Minnesota), Pearl Fryar’s topiary (Bishopville, South Carolina). 2:00 – 3:30 slide/lectures The Paul and Matilda Wegner Grotto (Cataract, Wisconsin), Nick Engelbert’s Grandview (Hollandale, Wisconsin), Hartman Rock Garden (Springfield, Ohio). Derek Jarman’s Garden (Dungeness, UK). 3:30 – 5:00 – screening, A Man Called Pearl and discussion Readings for the day Stone & Zanzi, “Grotto Follies in the Heartland” Lisa Stone, “Granite Folly,” Landscape Architecture Optional: Sacred Spaces and Other Places, Part I, “Grottos,” “Embellishing Home.” Sacred Spaces and Other Places, chapters 6 & 7 2 Wednesday, July 1 Expressions of Survival, Artist-Built Terrains of Conscience 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Kea Tawana’s Ark (Newark, New Jersey), Dr. Charles Smith’s African American Heritage Museum and Black Veteran’s Archive (Aurora, Illinois and Hammond, Louisiana); Joe Minter’s African Village in America (Birmingham, Alabama), 2:00 – 4:00 Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project (Detroit, Michigan), Jim Bowsher's Temple of Tolerance (Wapakoneta, Ohio). 4:00 - Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village (Simi Valley, CA), slides and video Readings for the day Holly Metz “Where I Am Going: Kea’s Ark, Newark, New Jersey” The Southern Quarterly 197- 215 Linda Hamalian, “Or Who would Build a Better Ark than Noah?” Black American Literature Forum, 97- 112 Optional: Grandma Prisbrey booklet (by Prisbrey) Thursday, July 2 Fraternally yours: the architecture of mystery 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Ritual initiation history, symbols, and spaces; the panorama, the grand, spatial narrative. Ernest Hüpeden’s masterpiece, the Painted Forest, (Valton, Wisconsin). The preservation of the Painted Forest. 2:00 – 4:00 The home landscape as historical, spatial narrative: S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden (Lucas, Kansas), Davis Memorial, Woolridge Monuments. Kansas Grassroots Art Association and preservation of art environments. Response Project assigned/described. 4:00 – 5:00 Reading Hour Readings for the day (to read after class) Lisa Stone, Ernest Hüpeden’s Atlas S.P. Dinsmoor, Cabin Home David Rhodes, Individuals in Community 3 Friday, July 3 The vernacular to the spectacular 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Introduction to the genre of grassroots art environments in the United States. Beneath the Ice: the range of original expressions within the specific vernacular architectural form of ice fishing (and sturgeon fishing) shanties in the Upper Midwest. Jim Schneider “homeboat” (Sheboygan, Wisconsin). Cano Esposito’s tower (Antonito, New Mexico) 2:00 – 3:00 Clarence Schmidt, My Mirrored Hope (Woodstock, New York). 3:00 – 5:00 – Good Garden Lookin’ Saugatuck and Douglas Readings for the day Blasdel + Lipke, “Clarence Schmidt: Toward Journey’s End,” Naives + Visionaries Jim Schneider articles Saturday, July 4 "I Build the Tower" 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: The opera incarnate: Sam Rodia’s Towers at Watts, Los Angeles (slides, opera, film). Saving & Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments: Seymour Rosen and SPACES. Post- Rodia creative activities and preservation of the Watts Towers. 2:00 – 3:30 Good Garden Lookin’ presentations 3:30 – 5:00 - Reading / project time Readings: peruse/read from Stone’s library Sunday, July 5 Preparing Spaces for the Lord 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: James Hampton’s mystical “Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Milennium (sic) General Assembly” (Washington, DC). Spreading the word, vernacular expressions of evangelism and devotion: H.H. Mayes’ crosses for earth and the planets (American South); the bathtub shrine, Salvatore Verdirome’s Sanctuary of Love (Norwich, Connecticut), 4 2:00 – 3:30 Prophet Isaiah Robertson (Niagara Falls, New York); Reverend Harmon D. Dennis’s Margaret’s Grocery (Vicksburg, Mississippi). 4:00 - 5:00 Reading / project time Readings for the day Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson and “Salesmen of Salvation,” v – xxi, Joe York, With Signs Following Photographs From The Southern Religious Roadside. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. (canvas and Flaxman, reserve) Bruce West, The True Gospel Preached Here, excellent book, replete with photos, on Margaret’s Grocery, spend some time with this book. Sills, Vaughan and Als, Hilton. Places for the Spirit Traditional African American Gardens, spend some time with this book. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, “James Hampton’s Throne,” Naives and Visionaries Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, “Trials by Tinfoil" Monday, July 6 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Environments as expressions of loneliness and/or loss: Joseph Furey (Brooklyn, New York); Loy Bowlin’s Beautiful Holy Jewel Home (McComb, Mississippi); Paul Hefti, La Crosse, Wisconsin; Maud Lewis, Nova Scotia; Sanford Darling, Santa Barbara. 2:00 – 3:00 Reading / project time 3:00 – 5:00 From failure to salvation: Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain (Niland, California). St. Eom’s Pasaquan, Buena Vista, Georgia. [Maybe: Single artist museums in Houston: The Orange Show Foundation for Visionary Art and John Milkovish’s Beer Can House, creation and preservation.] Readings for the day We’ll read together from Tom Patterson, Eom’s Pasaquan Provided: Leslie Umberger, “Loy Bowlin The Road to My Horizon,” Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds, pp. 225-244 Tuesday, July 7 Radiating Influences: the Midwestern Catholic Devotional Grotto 10:00 – 12:00 slide/lectures: Three major devotional Catholic grottos and their influence on builders in the Midwest: The Grotto of the Redemption (West Bend, Iowa), The Dickeyville Grotto 5 (Dickeyville, Wisconsin), The Rudolph Grotto (Rudolph, Wisconsin). Regional responses: Jacob Baker, Madeline Buol Grotto, Schultz Houses, Zimmerman Garage. 12:00 – 1:00 Reading / project time 2:00 – 5:00 History lessons, the spatial narrative Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park (Phillips, Wisconsin). Gardens in this historical sphere: Herman Rusch’s Prairie Moon Museum (Cochrane, Wisconsin), Little Bit ‘O Heaven (Davenport, Iowa), House on the Rock (Dodgeville, Wisconsin), James Tellen’s Woodland Sculpture Garden (Black River, Wisconsin), Mollie Jensen’s Art Exhibit (River Falls, Wisconsin). Readings for the day Stone & Zanzi, “Grotto Follies in the Heartland” Sacred Spaces and Other Places, Part I, “Grottos,” “Embellishing Home.” Sacred Spaces and Other Places, chapters 6 & 7 Wednesday, July 8 Other main streams 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Mary Nohl’s Beach Drive home and garden (Fox Point, Wisconsin). Noah Purifoy's Desert Sculpture Garden (Joshua Tree, California). Noah Purifoy’s constructed world (Joshua Tree, California). The present and future of homes, studios, and gardens of lifelong artists. What do museums have to do with it? Considering the playing fields between museums and art environments from Naives + Visionaries (1974) to LACMA (2015); Roger Brown’s Aldo Piacenza exhibition, 1971 Hyde Park Art Center; The Road Less Traveled (2017) to Outliers and American Vanguard Art (2018-19). 2:00 – 5:00 project time. Books on Purifoy and Nohl will be available to peruse, read. Thursday, July 9 10:00 – 1:00 slide/lectures: Classically informed original inventions: Fred Francis’ Woodland Palace (Kewanee, Illinois); Karl Junker’s Junkerhaus (Lemgo, Germany); Other palaces in progress: Cano Castle in Colorado; Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal (Hauterives,
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