Madison Munro 2020 March 31

I got through another half hour of audio today and have about a half hour left so I'm hoping to finish up this interview tomorrow. I like being able to work with my cat on my lap but I definitely miss the scanners and the library! I went on Rick's wikipedia page to see if I could find the spelling of a name he mentioned, and the page is sorely lacking in good detail and a full range of information. Maybe Rick would prefer it that way, but I think there could be more about his life and the amazing work he did.

Madison Munro 2020 March 30

Coming back from spring break I was excited to get back into transcribing Rick Bartow's interview with Rebecca Dobkins. I got through about a half hours worth of audio. He spoke about his friend and mentor William who died due to complications with AIDS. Rick speaks of him very well, he seemed like a wonderfully intelligent and artistic thinker.  

Madison Munro 2020 March 19

Continuing on with the Rick Bartow interview, finally reached the two hour mark! This chunk of the interview was quite somber as he talked about his good friend that died of AIDS.

Madison Munro 2020 March 17

This morning I made more progress in transcribing the Rick Bartow interview. He spoke more about what he learned in his travels and more about why he loves paper so much. So interesting!

Madison Munro 2020 March 16

Under new social distancing rules and regulations I transcribed from my dorm today. Rick spoke a lot about the artists that he admires and the ways they have helped him in his own practice. He spoke a lot of all the art books he enjoys reading and his deep love of paper and all the different varieties. It reminded me a lot of the themes I've explored in my intro drawing class last semester.

Madison Munro 2020 March 12

I continued to work on transcribing the Rick Bartow interview. I had to do a lot of google searches today because Rick mentioned a lot of Native American artists and their tribes which the otter did not want to translate. However I learned more this way so it was worth the extra time.

Madison Munro 2020 March 11

I continued to transcribe the Rick Bartow interview and it is so interesting to listen to him talk about his work and process especially his views on other artists. The otter transcriber has made it super helpful although it missed a lot of names of people and places so I go in and correct those. I'm not making as much progress as I'd like, as this is a bit tedious and requires a lot more focus on my part but it's still quite enjoyable. I'm looking forward to hearing more about Rick's process and inspiration for his work.

Madison Munro 2020 March 10

I spent all day transcribing an interview of Rick Bartow and it is so interesting! So far he has talked about growing up in the Washington Oregon area and about his family. I've just begun to get into his career as an artist. Can't wait to keep going!

Madison Munro 2020 March 9

I was able to finish processed the Jason PDF's and there was a ton of fascinating photography to look through. While processing I scanned a page from a program for Roger Hull. The program had a painting on the last page done by Clifford Gleason who I don't know much about but now feel compelled to do a google search. I'm getting to move on to transcribing an interview of Rick Bartow which should be very interesting to hear about his life in his own words instead of on Wikipedia. 

Madison Munro 2020 March 5

I was able to scan all of the slides from the Rick Bartow series which were so fascinating and now I need to google him and find out more! I couldn't believe I had never heard of him before and I'm looking forward to seeing more of his work and doing my own investigation. After doing the slides I was able to start to process the Jason PDFs although I only got through one I should be able to finish next week.

Madison Munro 2020 March 4

Today I was able to finish fixing the two bulletins so in theory I should be done with those woo! The two just needed the front covers scanned and processed. There was another row in the spreadsheet that was highlighted that had a a note saying it couldn't be found. When I was up in the archives yesterday Stephanie and I couldn't find it either. Another mystery! I also finished processing the Chrysalis PDFs. I'm not entirely sure what all needs to go in that spreadsheet so that's my first task to figure out tomorrow. I'm much looking forward to scanning the slides! I started to look through them and they all appear to be artwork so I'm very excited to start scanning those.

Madison Munro 2020 March 3

I continued to process the PDFs of the Chrysalis I made it all the way to 2008 so I made good progress! In the processing down time I also began to look at the Willamette bulletins. 

Madison Munro - 2020 March 2

I finished updating/fixing the commencement programs, though there's a single program that still needs to be measured which I will do tomorrow. I started to process the PDFs of Chrysalis's which have been super interesting to read and look through as I process the images. They seem to be similar to the Jason books but I found these a bit more interesting to read than the Jason books.