The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Brooklyn artist takes (metaphorical) shot at Palin

Now on display in New York City, "A Photo Op with Sarah Palin" by Brooklyn artist Dawn Robyn Petrlik. Visitors to the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, according to The New York Daily News, can "don a fake-fur vest and hold a cardboard rifle to pose for a photo with Sarah Barracuda and daughter Piper." The Palins are photos backed with cardboard, the caribou is plush and visitors are delighted, according to Petrlik.

"Humor is the best way sometimes to deal with very serious issues," said Petrlik.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.