What we did together – semester one
By and large everyone who enrolled in Rad School this first semester made good progress towards the goals they had initially established for themselves, though some found themselves rolling towards a different point on the landscape than they had imagined at the start of their journey.
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Charlie began working on developing a vision for his role in the newly formed KC Free Skool program, then worked on fundraising and organizing the Free Skool Fest at Garrison Community Center. He ended the semester on a residency in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Kriss worked on staying sane and healthy during the crazy days of her homeschooling community’s “Unprom”, and then began a huge project building a website and documenting the 12 years over which this amazing event has occurred. Here is a link to her site: http://unpromdaze.wordpress.com/
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Jori led Rad School through a series of philosophical discussions about the secular equivalents of religious social structures, including the impetus towards developing ethical structures and moralreasoning.
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Sarabeth assembled footage from various travel adventures and written texts into a final performance and video, weaving together spoken word, narrative typeset fragments, sound, and poetic visual imagery.
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Rachel synthesized many of her initial goals into the full-scale development of a new practice making and selling an amazing selection of beer breads. She dyed and sewed textiles to make Black Dog Bread cloth bags and shirts, and initiated a membership drive to enroll subscriptions to her weekly home delivery service of fresh bread and bagels.
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Ashley worked with mentors and technical research & development facilities (at the Fab Lab among others) to resolve the production prototype for his third-eye sunglasses.
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Leigh developed playful designs, cardboard models and final full-scale prototypes of curving furniture, exploring some of the unique characteristics and aesthetics of HDPE and other semi-industrial materials.
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Julia wrote and revised essays on the topics of: the role of criticism in a community; affective and imaginative labor; and an article on the relationship between ideals of perfection and social structures, illustrated with a parallel photographic narrative. She also completed several poems and performed them in two public venues.
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DeAnna focused on aligning her art practice with her young family, and making connections between her home environment and her vision as an artist. She made a series of photographs and short videos in response..
Jessica worked on transforming hand drawings, watercolor samples, and collage work into a digital portfolio of textile designs, and explored digitally printing yardage of these designs. She then used the resulting fabric swatches to make prototypes of garments. A great deal of her time and energy went into growing her mobile pop-up shop CartWheel, and into developing a series of community workshops.
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Tim spent the semester developing a series of photographs, creating a website, crafting a booklet including writing about the work, and researching local galleries who might be interested in showing this new body of work – Liminal Fissures. He then joined Charlie on the TLC residency in Oklahoma.
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Jeni focused on her performance work in the first half of the semester, and on readings that related to it. She then shifted her energies to a new series of storybooks that combine her photography and written narratives.
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