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Artiwu connects Illinois Wesleyan University's
art alumni and art students
It is a casual forum for discussing anything with art or design. The people on artiwu are IWU art students and alumni. Artiwu is an open list everyone is invited and encouraged to participate.
Artiwu is an invaluable resource where people can share
thoughts on art
updates on what friends are doing
advice and help
events
Sign up now!
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People can talk by
email (view the current digest)
internet
snail mail (postal)
Main Communication
The main mode of communication will be by an weekly e-mail discussion group.
Archiving
Everything on the listserv will be posted on this website at the art discussion area.
Snail Mail
For those less digitally enhanced folks, there will be a monthly or bi-monthly mailing of all the messages. They can even respond via snail mail and those snail mail messages will be distributed on the email discussion group.
What to talk about
People can talk about their artsy-phartsy stuff, or about future events like Homecoming or a big art festival. People can e-mail any news about what they are up to. Basically, just enhancing the communication amoung art people.
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History
The origins of Artiwu started in the spring 1996 with the idea of creating discussion amoung the IWU art students about various matters of art. The idea came started to come into reality in the spring of 1998 when the artiwu website first went on-line with the basic structure you see today (minus the graphics). The real heart of artiwu started in the fall of 1998 when the email discussion group started. Since then, the artiwu site has grown and become more in-depth.
Your moderator (and founder)
Matt Maldre (class of 1997)
I orginally pictured my role as just a moderator that provides the structure for people to contribute their ideas, experiences and knowledge. Through the years, I have found that it is vital for a there to be a dicussion leader who can provide thought provoking questions and discussion starters. I have also tried to give out information for students that will be of help.
I greatly enjoy searching for ang gathering information together. Every week, putting together the digest is a great joy. There's just something awesome everytime when I hit the "send" button to ship out the weekly digest. I absolutely love doing this, and if I could I would be doing this sort of thing for a living. I thank everyone for being a part of artiwu.
For more info about me, either check out my profile page or visit my website at: www.spudart.org |
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