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The world is warped

Posted on Dec 29th, 2008 by lagniappe : looking for a man lagniappe
Maybe it's not the world but the people in it. I have been distressed over a news item I saw of a man hit by a car in Connecticut earlier this year. No one stopped to help him for what seemed to be a long time.

Is it that he didn't have a "Not-for profit" sign attached to him? Did he need a tagline on him so that the person helping him could write it off as a tax-free donation to a charitable cause?

It seems people do not give of themselves. 



Even this site ~ all this 'show' and 'glitz' and promotion of 'spirituality' is just a new form of consumerism and commercialisation.

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The Marble

Posted on Jun 30th, 2007 by lagniappe : looking for a man lagniappe
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I first heard the word lagniappe when my mother came back from a visit to New Orleans. She had scrawled the word on a small piece of paper and had pulled it out of her pocketbook. It was the mid-1970's and we were living in Northern Virginia and mom had brought back an old ceramic jug full of antique marbles for my younger sister who collected marbles. The ceramic jug didn't fit in mom’s suitcase so she put it in a separate carry-on piece of luggage. Despite her care carrying the antique marbles and the beautiful ceramic jug that was full of them - it broke in transport. When Bonnie saw the broken jug and the luggage full of agates, catseyes, and ceramic marbles she was so excited. Bonnie - my younger sister - could rattle off the names of all the different kinds.

Mom told the story of how the jug broke and then later got her pocket book and the piece of paper with the word ˜lagniappe on it. Within the piece of paper was another marble, much larger than the others scattered about amongst framents of ceramic chips in the suitcase. Mom said to us ˜this is a (lag - nee - op - ee)™. She was so excited to be able to tell Bonnie that she, too, knew the name of a type of marble. Bonnie said she had never heard of a ˜lagniappe before. Mom continued to tell the story of her visit to her friends in New Orleans and how they went from various shop to shop on a quest to find various gifts to take back home. Mom then told how she went into one shop and eventually spotted this old ceramic jar filled with marbles.

She told the shops owner how her youngest daughter was fascinated by antique marbles. Mom decided to purchase the jug of marbles and after she did the shop owner later got out another marble and handed it to mom. The lady told mom she could have this marble. Mom was amazed. Mom asked what it was and the lady said a lagniappe - you can have it since you are buying this old jug of marbles. Being a bit forgetful mom scrawled the name down - believing it to be the type of marble it was. She forgot the pronunciation by the time she had returned to Northern Virginia.

So, here our family was looking at these marbles and stumped on the fact we had never heard Bonnie mention lagniappe marbles before. We thought it to be the most beautiful marble we had ever seen - about the diameter of a 50 cent piece, clear, with beautiful spirals swirling inside.

Months later Bonnie had purchased a book on antique marbles and discovered that the marble she knew as a lagniappe  to be a swirl or a German Spiral  or  alatticinio  and this of course started Bonnie on a new twist with her marble collection.

Some months later Rene - one of the New Orleans friends - was back in Northern Virginia and Bonnie showed her the collection. I had made a display case with black lining and holes drilled in the bottom for each marble to rest. A light hidden underneith the display case lit the marbles up from below. To Bonnie these marbles were precious gems - and in some ways - even more beautiful! Bonnie told Rene the story of the marbles and showed her the various lag - nee - op -ee that she had since added to her collection after the original one from New Orleans. After hearing mom tell her version of story Rene said "I think you mean lagniappe - (pronounced lan-yop)". Mom chuckled  ˜yes, that is how the lady said it". Rene said that this was a custom among people in New Orleans - especially shopkeepers - to 'give a little something extra for nothing'.

It was a very special marble. It was a 'lagniappe'.

I think the word lagniappe is a beautiful word. for more information on this word visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe


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Dinner Time

Posted on Aug 24th, 2006 by lagniappe : looking for a man lagniappe

The kitchen pantry was quite orderly because my father loved things in their place. He wasn't strict or military about the obsession with neatness it was more an unresolved issue from his childhood. He didn't work after a major heart attack in 1965 so mom had to go off and earn the bread. Dad became quite a good baker and I can remember the delicious sweet, lightly flavoured orange buns he would make with an orange confectioners sugar glaze icing. Actually I can't compare that to his chocolate eclairs which to this day I've never had anything similar. He loved cooking. Anyway he's the one who was the 'housewife' in the family home and cooked the meals for mom, himself, my three sisters and me. The family room table was oval shaped and was part of the kitchen only separated by a kitchen counter. Through the kitchen was a more formal dining room that was usually the place we did our homework and had special Sunday meals or Thanksgiving dinners. The door to the basement was in the family room and often we would have to put the four cats down there as dad - while adhoring the kitties - didn't like them begging for food. So, the cats paws would often be seen clawing under the basement door during dinner. They must have been so hungry for the delicious food as they meandered around the house smelling Dad's cooking all day.

 

Mom enjoyed her cooking too. She would destroy the pantry and take nearly every spice,  boxes, and a variety of ingredients off the shelves or from the fridge and put them on the kitchen counter. She'd take out as many pans and mixing bowls imaginable despite not needing them all and the sight of this disaster was like seeing some tragic episode of Lucille Ball in the black and white television show "I Love Lucy". Dad would come downstairs from a nap to find mom pretending to be Julia Childs. She would swing the spatula in the air and do a little dance spinning around on one foot while she skipped to the refrigerator and gleefully opened it up to find a new ingredient to add to the evolving recipe. I'm sure Dad's poor heart skipped a few beats when he saw mom prancing about the kitchen with her fake Julia Child accent. Little wafts of flour smoke she would throw up into the air mingled with the smoke from a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. He didn't get angry. It was more of a 'gasp' of disbelief.  "Oh Barbara! What are you doing?" in his soft spoken North Carolina accent. She more than likely didn't reply and continued in this baking fantasy land. He'd wander back into the living room and take solace in his Lazy Boy chair until mom called us all for dinner.

 

My sisters and I would either be in the back yard or down in the basement watching television or using our little toy printing press to create a local newspaper that we went around and sold to the  neighbours for ten cents. If it wasn't that we'd be making 'perfume' out of marigolds and mint leaves mixed with garden hose water that always smelled of summer. The perfume didn't sell very well I might add.

 

"Children!" "Children!" "Dinner's ready". If mom was calling us to dinner we knew we were in for a surprise. It meant dad hadn't done the cooking that night. Like I said mom enjoyed her cooking too. But, we didn't! We would sit there in amusement and we would eat whatever it was. She would tell us how she developed a recipe and how it was inspired from the 1950s Betty Crocker Cookbook that I loved. I was usually so perplexed how mom could make delicious snickerdoodles or crunchy old-fashioned chocolate fudge or Toll House Cookies with perfection and then go so terribly wrong with a main meal. Mom's cooking notoriously became known as 'guess the mess'. And instead of quivering at the fear of what it was we were consuming. We just gobbled it up knowing that mom really was having fun in the kitchen and being the cool mom she was.

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CV

Posted on Jan 27th, 2006 by lagniappe : looking for a man lagniappe


 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Qualifications, Education, Training

 

2005

 

ESOL Home Tutor Certificate

School of Language

Otago Polytechnic

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

 

2001-2003

 

Master of Consumer and

Applied Science (Design Studies)

University of Otago

Dunedin, New Zealand

  

 

1993

 

Certificate of Adult Teaching

Wanganui Polytechnic

Wanganui, New Zealand

 

 

1983-1985

 

Graduate studies in design

The George Washington University

Washington, DC

 

 

1979-1983

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

Communication Arts and Design (major)

Photography and Film (minor)

member and secretary: Communication Artist Association, student group

 

 

Employment Highlights

 

 

2006-07

Freelance Graphic Designer

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

2006-07

Literacy Aotearoa

Volunteer Adult Literacy Tutor

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

2005

Volunteer Home Tutor, ESOL Home Tutors (Dunedin)

School of Language, Otago Polytechnic

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

2004 - 2005

Volunteer English Conversation Assistant

School of Language, Otago Polytechnic

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

1999-2004 

Senior Teaching Fellow Otago University

Department of Design Studies, Dunedin, New Zealand 

 

1998-1999 

Graphic Design Head Lecturer    

Design & Arts College

Christchurch, New Zealand 

 

1993-1997 

Graphic Design Lecturer    

Wanganui Polytechnic, School of Design

Wanganui, New Zealand 

 

1988-1993 

Graphic Designer/Art Director    

National Zoological Park

Department of Exhibit Interpretation

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 

 

1986-1993 

Freelance Graphic Designer    

Larry Matthews Graphic Design

Washington, DC 

 

1984-1985    

Senior Designer    

The Kamber Group

Public Relations Firm, Washington, DC

 

1983-1984    

Graphic Designer

Photocomp, Inc.

Lorton, Virginia

 

 

Employment Details

 

1999-2004

Senior Teaching Fellow

Otago Universty

Department of Design Studies

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

• Course coordination of Design and Communication papers taught at 200 and 300 level.

 

• Teaching, lecturing, and course development. Developed course materials for Desi 202 and 302 Design and Communication 1 and 2 papers to establish a professional foundation for graphic design education within Design Studies introducing new concepts and theories applicable to graphic design.

 

• Emphasis on visual communications, creativity, visual thinking, design methodology and the design process.

 

• Supervision of tutors.

 

• Maintained on-line learning through CourseInfo/Blackboard as a new teaching method in graphic design to supplement tutorials and lectures.

 

• Overseeing assessment process with tutors to establish consistent marking of assignments.

 

• Assessment of student work.

 

• Design consultation.

 

• Created the ‘Happy as Larry guide to typography’ a typography primer for Design Studies students.

 

• Aided in the development of the new Digital Design 207 Paper by introducing projects incorporating theory/practice/skills.

 

• Aided in the development of assessment forms and pre-submission critique guidelines.

 

• Graphics Stream Coordinator.

 

• Course Advisor for 200-300 level.

 

• Desi 305 Special Topics stream tutor/lecturer for the following special modules: Book Arts, The Professional Graphic Designer, Environmental Graphic Design, Portfolio Development.

 

• Desi 490/495 Supervision of post-graduate Design Studies Research Projects.

 

• Research, design, and writing of thesis for masters’ degree on the design of a new coffee product "Lattétude" for Café Society.

 

• Implementing student feedback on courses and teaching.

 

• Teaching evaluations conducted as required.

 

• Oversaw the design of a one colour poster (designed by Tim Dove, a student of mine) for the United Nations Association of New Zealand. His design was selected, printed, and distributed to schools throughout New Zealand.

 

• BJBall Paper 2nd - 4th Year Design Student Calendar Competition was won by Tim Dove, he won a computer and his design was selected to represent one of the months in the calendar, and also as the 'grand prize winner, got to design the cover for this national competition.

 

 

1998-1999 

Graphic Design Head Lecturer

Design & Arts College

Christchurch, New Zealand

 

• Teaching and directing a developing graphic design programme.

 

• Emphasis on computer graphic design for a one-year Certificate of Computer Graphic Design course.

 

• Development of teaching materials, programme philosophy, and assessment criteria.

 

• Interviewing prospective students.

 

• Emphasis on development of creative portfolio.

 

• Coordinate displays of student work and coordinate end of year show.

 

 

1993-1997 

Graphic Design Lecturer

Wanganui Polytechnic, School of Design

Wanganui, New Zealand

 

• Teaching a variety of courses: Basic Design, Three-Dimensional Design, Graphic Design, Book Arts, Environmental Graphic Design, Design Methodology, and Computer Graphics.

 

• Advising students on intern projects and thesis research.

 

• Interviewed prospective students.

 

• Curriculum development, course planning, and team planning for degree documentation.

 

• Teaching in a multi-cultural atmosphere with students from New Zealand, Australia, South Pacific Islands, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and the United States.

 

• Developed Book Arts and Environmental Graphic Design electives.

 

• Team member, developing and coordinating bi-annual Student Design Camp Conference.

 

• Exhibition coordinator for national student design competition "Chaos", Juror: David Carson

• Endeavored to maintain relationship of art and design by teaching across disciplines: Foundation Arts, Fine Art, Design; and guest lecturing within Fine Arts and Fashion core modules.

 

• Consultancy in design.

 

• Exhibition coordination. Coordinate displays of student work and coordinate end of year shows.

 

 

1988-1993 

Graphic Designer/Art Director

(Visual Information Specialist)

National Zoological Park

Department of Exhibit Interpretation

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC

 

• Designed and developed new visitor orientation-wayfinding system for 200 acre public park within a tight budget and demanding time frame.

 

• Oversaw the in-house fabrication and implementation of this large-scale system.

 

• Research on the needs of both zoo staff and visitors by designing a survey and making design proposals for various systems that met both the needs of zoo staff and zoo visitors.

 

• The wayfinding system was in use from 1988 to 2003.

 

• Concept development, writing, research and design of print and three-dimensional work including: zoo graphics, educational signage, exhibits, scientific labels, maps, brochures, food packaging, posters, fundraising materials, and collateral.

 

• Work with curators, scientists, zoologists, Zoo Director, Friends of the National Zoo associates, metal workers, signmakers, horticulture/grounds people, fellow designers, photographer, staff illustrator, and educational staffs.

 

• Trained and supervised summer interns.

 

• Solicit bids from printing companies and other vendors and subcontractors.

 

• Press checks and follow-up on projects handled by subcontractors

 

• Team member for the design and concept development for major exhibits: Amazonia, Large Mammal House Interpretive Graphics, The Panda House Exhibit, The Golden Lion Tamarin Project, ZooFari Identity, FONZ Educational Events Identity, Science in the Park Series.

 

1986-1993 

Freelance Graphic Designer

Larry Matthews Graphic Design

Washington, DC

 

• Consultancy in design.

 

• Freelance design and production

 

• Working as a subcontractor and within design studios, advertising and public relations firms and corporations. Trish Crowe Studios; District Curators; Eddins, Madison and Spitz; St. James Systems, Mnemosoyne Foundation, AoK-Architect's Overload, and more.

 

• Projects included media kits, ads, business stationery, newsletters, magazine layout, and other print work.

 

• Clients included: National Trust for Historic Preservation, IBM, American Association of Museums, MCI, Inter-Continental Hotels, American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums.

 

• Press checks. Liase with vendors and sub-contractors for printing and typesetting.

 

 

1984-1985    

Senior Designer

promoted from Graphic Designer

The Kamber Group

Public Relations Firm

Washington, DC

 

• Design and production on a variety of print and three-dimensional work for second largest public relation firms in Washington, DC.

 

• Trained and supervised interns.

 

• Implemented an efficient system for design and production of a range of client publications.

 

• Press checks. Liase with vendors and sub-contractors for printing and typesetting.

 

• Projects included: advertisements, campaign materials, posters, annual reports, magazine layout, three dimensional illustrations, exhibit concepts and stage design.

 

• My talents and skills led to travel on convention assignments where I was responsible for the coordination and design of daily conference proceedings in Chicago and Phoenix. 

 

 

1983-1984    

Graphic Designer

Photocomp, Inc.

Lorton, Virginia

 

• Design and production for print and exhibitions in a typesetting studio.

 

• Type specification and proofreading.

 

• Meeting with clients to assess needs.

 

Other Relevant Teaching Experience

 

1997

Adjunct Design and Fine Arts Lecturer

Manawatu Polytechnic

Palmerston North, New Zealand

 

Wanganui Polytechnic

Wanganui, New Zealand

 

• Teaching part-time between design and fine arts.

 

• Basic Design and Colour Theory for Certificate in Photography course.

 

• Environmental Graphic Design.

 

• Image-making (both hands-on and computer) for Certificate in Design course.

 

• Basic Design, Creative Thinking, and Introduction to Graphic Design for Foundation Certificate in Visual Arts course.

 

1993 

Lecturer in Environmental Graphic Design

Corcoran School of Art

Washington, DC

 

• A one semester course for fourth year students on issues and concepts of wayfinding and environmental graphic design.

 

• Collaborative student project with The National Zoo on development of new interpretive signs/exhibit labels.

 

1992 

Lecturer in Typography

Northern Virginia Community College

Alexandria, Virginia

 

• A one semester course for second year design students on traditional and digital typography using Freehand software.

 

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Design process, book arts, creativity, creative thinking, visual thinking, symbolism, intuition, design, art and design direction, design fundamentals, 2-d design, typography, graphic design, new product development, consumer/user surveys, English as a second language.

 

Research Activities

Development of a new beverage product for café society. Thesis: "The Design and Consumer Response of Lattetude® - A New Café Society Product" submitted for the degree of Master of Consumer and Applied Science (Design Studies).

 

  

Experience in Applied R&D, Contract Research, Consultancies, Patents


"A Drinking Vessel". New Zealand Patent Number 299997 (1998) © Larry Matthews

"Lattétude (Latté + Attitude + Latitude)". New Zealand Registered Trademark (1998, 2005) © Larry Matthews

New Zealand Design Registration 28136 (1998) © Larry Matthews

New Zealand Design Registration 28137 (1998) © Larry Matthews

Research Grants

1996

Wanganui Business Development Board. 

Received a $6,000 grant to secure Intellectual Property protection and prototype development for "Lattétude". The result of this grant led to: NZ Patent Application Number 299997; NZ Design Registrations 28136, 28137; and a NZ Trademark.

 

Conference Paper Presentation

Anderson, Myrdene and Matthews, Larry, "Exploring Semantic Differentials Behind the Design of a Coffee Cup", Semiotic Socity of America Conference, Pensacola, Florida (October 2005)

 

Matthews, L. "Lattétude". The 5th European Academy of Design Conference TECHNÈ: Design Wisdom. Paper and design presentation within the session entitled ‘Design Management Case Studies’, chaired by Jordi Montaña. Conference held in Barcelona, Spain (April, 28-30, 2003)

 

Matthews, L. "Lattétude" Presentation at NZ’s first New Zealand Coffee Expo. Wellington (July 2001)

AudioVisual Recordings

Matthews, L. Invited participant for a multi-CD anthology set of Contemporary New Zealand Poets reading their own work in English. Audio-recording of a selection of poems for "Sounds of SCAPA". Archive of New Zealand Poetry. School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Auckland (2004)

Technical Drawing/Architectural and Industrial Design/Working Models

Matthews, L. "National Zoological Park Wayfinding System". Chapter of design work published in Noah’s Art. Wei Yew, editor. Quan Editions. Edmonton, Alberta. 

ISBN 0-9694432-6-9 (1991)

 

Publications + Design

 

Matthews, L. "National Zoological Park Wayfinding System". In "SEGD Double Vision". Identity Magazine. (1990)

 

Matthews, L. "Trish Crowe Studio Stationery System". In American Corporate Identity 4. David E. Carter, editor. Art Direction Book Company. New York. (1989)

 

Matthews, L., untitled black and white photograph. The Best of College Photography. (1983)

 

Publications + Poetry

Matthews, L. "Blue Moon". Otago Daily Times 'Monday's Poem'. Editor: Brian Turner. (November 26, 2007)

Matthews, L. "Happy as Buddha". Critic. Issue 24. Poppy Haynes and Rhys Brookbanks, poetry editors. (October 2007)

Matthews, L. "Changing Room", "Aunt Betty, Aunt Betty", "Heart". Deep South. Cy Mathews, editor. Dunedin, NZ. <http://www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth/> (Summer 2006)

Matthews, L. and Powell-Chalmers, Jenny. One chapter of collaborative poetry in Double Jointed a collaborative poetry book by Jenny Powell-Chalmers writing with other Dunedin poets (Rob Allan, Martha Morseth, John Allison, Larry Matthews, Emma Neale, John Dolan, Peter Olds, Claire Beynon, Trevor Reeves, James Norcliffe) (2003)

Matthews, L. "Blow". Deep South. Richard Reeve, editor. Dunedin, NZ. <http://www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth/> Volume 7, Number 1 (Summer 2002)

Matthews, L. "Percolator". JAAM. Issue 15. Mark Pirie, editor. JAAM Publishing Collective. Wellington, NZ. p 140. ISSN: 1173-633x (May 2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Q’s". Glottis: New Writing. Issue 5. Richard Reeve, Nick Ascroft, editors. Dunedin. NZ. p 97. ISSN: 1174-5711 (May 2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Comic Strip Mom". In Apples and Oranges. Tom Fallon, editor. Maine. USA. <http://www.aopoetry.com> (May 2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Karma". Southern Ocean Review. Issue 19. Trevor Reeves, editor. Dunedin. ISSN: 1174-6173 (April 2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Mazagran". "Twang Town". Takahe. Issue 41. Victoria Broome, editor. The Takahe Collective Trust. Christchurch, NZ. p 13, p 26. ISSN: 0114-4138 (January 2001)

Matthews, L. "Haiku Lady". JAAM. Issue 14. Anna Jackson, editor, JAAM Publishing Collective. Wellington, NZ. p 40. ISSN: 1173-633X (October 2000)

Matthews, L. "Automatic self-burying coffins". Glottis: New Writing. Issue 4. Nick Ascroft, editor. Dunedin, NZ. p 56. ISSN: 1174-5711 (October 2000

 

Solo Exhibits

Matthews, L. "South Pacific Paintings and Three Mid-Atlantic Kapa Cloths". The Strictly Coffee Company. Dunedin. (2006)

 

Matthews, L. "I am not a television character", conceptual art piece, painting, photography, web. The Red Eye. Wanganui, New Zealand (2000)

 

Matthews, L. untitled pastel drawings. Roxanne - The Restaurant. Washington, DC (1992-1993)

 

Matthews, L. untitled pastel drawings and monotype prints. Homeworks. Washington, DC (1987-1990)

 

Matthews, L. untitled pastel drawings. Ancient Mars & Classical Greece, decorative arts gallery. Washington, DC (1987-1988)

 

 

Juried Exhibits + Competitions

Matthews, L. "Prana" in The Dunedin City Council and Otago Art Society Award show. Dunedin (2007)

 

Matthews, L. "International Sunrise" in The Otago Art Society - The Edinburgh Realty Premier Art Award show. Dunedin (2007)

 

Matthews, L. "My Urbane Life: Ashburn Hall to Barcelona" -photographic, narrative, self-portrait in Urban Life - a celebration in art national competition in Wellington, NZ, Ministry of the Environment 'Urban Life - a celebration in art' for the Year of the Built Environment (2005)

 

Matthews, L. "Microwaveable". The Cleveland Art Award Exhibit. Dunedin (2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Que". The Cleveland Art Award Exhibit. Dunedin (2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Nga Whetu a te Rangi/Two lights in the sky". Visions of Aoteaora. Te Papa/National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. One of ten finalists in juried photographic competition (2001)

 

Matthews, L. "Dunedin Your Way". Dunedin District Council. Design/poetry. Prize for St. Clair redevelopment proposal. Dunedin (2001)

 

Matthews, L. "The Telephone Line". Telecom Art Award Finalist Show, one of twenty finalists. Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Dunedin (2000)

 

Matthews, L. "A Wonderful Life", sculpture; "When the moon hits your eye", photograph and works on paper. The Cleveland Art Award Exhibit. Dunedin (2000)

Matthews, L. "The one that got away", mixed media, photography, ice, found objects. James Wallace Arts Award Finalist. Wallace Trust Gallery. Auckland (1997)

 

Matthews, L. "The one that got away", mixed media, photography, ice, found objects. Wanganui Arts Review. Sarjeant Gallery. Award of Merit. Wanganui (1997)

 

Matthews, L. "Happy as Larry", book art installation. Wanganui Arts Review. Sarjeant Gallery. Wanganui (1996) 

 

Matthews, L. "A few weeks worth of happiness", Award of Merit, handmade book of medicine packaging found objects and string. Wanganui Arts Review. Sarjeant Gallery. Wanganui (1995)

 

Matthews, L. "The white paint usually always matches", a series of handmade books, installation. Wanganui Arts Review. Sarjeant Gallery. Wanganui (1995)

 

Matthews, L. "National Zoological Park Wayfinding System". Double Vision competition. Society of Environmental Graphic Designers. Bronze Award (1990)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, mixed media piece, photography, film positives, film negatives, and wood. DCAC(District of Columbia Art Center), Washington, DC (1989)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, pastel drawings. Adams Morgan Day Art Show, Washington, DC (1988)

 

Matthews, L. untitled pastel drawings. The Collector Gallery. Washington, DC (1988)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, monotype. The Annual Awards Show. The Dimock Gallery. Washington, DC (1985)

 

Matthews, L. "a film by larry matthews", experimental film. Potomac Pageant. Channel 56 Public Television. Washington, DC (1984)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, colour photograph. The Greater Reston Arts Center. Reston, Virginia (1983)

 

Matthews, L. untitled student design work. The Senior Design Show. Anderson Gallery. Richmond, Virginia (1983)

 

Matthews, L. untitled student design work. The Student Design Show. Anderson Gallery. Richmond, Virginia (1983)

 

Matthews, L. "a film by larry matthews", experimental film. The Student Film Festival. Richmond, Virginia (1983)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, xerography. Color Xerox Show. Anderson Gallery. Richmond, Virginia (1980)

 

Matthews, L. untitled, jewellery. Scholastic Arts Award, honorable mention. Hecht Company. Washington, DC (1979)

 

Matthews, L. "Pollution in Fairfax County", super-8 film. Third place award. Fairfax County, Virginia (1976)

Permanent Collections

Matthews, L. book arts and conceptual work. Sarjeant Gallery. Wanganui, New Zealand (1998)

Matthews, L. "a book by larry matthews", book art. Special Collections/Book Art: James Branch Cabell Library. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia (1982) 

 

 

Reviews + Mentions

Cuisine Magazine. Good Living Section. "Lattétude". Auckland. NZ. March. Issue 91. 

pg 210-211. (2002)

 

Smith, Charmian. "A Yin-Yang coffee experience". Otago Daily Times. Dunedin. NZ. Wednesday. December 5, pg 25. (2001)

 

TV3. Auckland. NZ. Interview, report. "Lattétude" Wednesday. December 5 (2001)

Matthews, Larry played "Philiadis" an Extra Role in "Xena - Warrior Princes" Episode: The Quill Is Mightier... (56/310) Director: Andrew Merrifield. Writer: Hilary J Bader. Starring: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Auckland, NZ  (1998)
 

 

Collaborations + Group Shows

 

Matthews, L. "Over(K)night Bag". Assemblage. In 'The Luggage Project', a group show at the Cleveland Living Arts  Centre. Dunedin (April, 2006)

 

Matthews, L. "My Prayer Book" (different than the one below) Handbound book with monoprints, desk, chair, "magic carpet", "turban", found objects and ephemera. In Bound to Please Thee - The Art of the Book. Coordinated by Liz Knowles. Dunedin Public Library, Moray Place, Dunedin (2005) 

 

Matthews, L. "Mouth of the River", "My Prayer Book". Book art. In ‘100 up’ exhibition and art auction. Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui (2004)

 

Matthews, L. "Giftwrap for Poets". Typographic study of poetry as giftwrap. In "Ado" University of Otago Design Studies Department Staff Exhibition. Cleveland Living Arts Centre. Dunedin (2003)

 

Matthews, L. "Mid-Year Christmas Celebration at Mazagran" In 'Mazagran Blackboard Art Project" conceived by Nick Duvall-Smith <http://www.sculpture.co.nz/Pages/mazagran2002.html> (2002)

 

Matthews, L.  "I will only drink coffee at Mazagran" In 'Mazagran Blackboard Art Project" conceived by Nick Duvall-Smith <http://www.sculpture.co.nz/Pages/mazagran2001.html> (2001)

Matthews, L. "Picnic Palette", installation/interactive/book arts within "The Picnic" a collaborative event created, conceptualized and organized by Caroline McCaw. Dunedin (2000)

Matthews, L. and Powell-Chalmers, J. "The Picnic" collaborative poetry and poetry performance within "The Picnic" a collaborative event created, conceptualized and organized by Caroline McCaw. Dunedin (2000)

Matthews, L. "pre-conceived ideas", "the shape of things to come", conceptual photographs. In The Faculty Art Show. Manawatu Polytechnic. The Manawatu Art Gallery. Palmerston North, New Zealand (1997)

 

Cole, K. and Matthews, L. "Three Millennial Vignettes". Web-page including two animated movies and poetry for an internet competition (1996-1997)

 

Matthews, L. untitled graphic design and book arts. In Faculty Art Show. Wanganui Polytechnic Library. Wanganui, New Zealand (1993)

 

"Burn Time" fax art show and interactive collaboration between artists in the U.S. and New Zealand. Washington Project for the Arts.  Washington, DC (1991)

 

Heartworks group show and benefit auction for New Art Examiner magazine's Washington, DC office. Book arts. Washington, DC (1991)

 

"Works by Seven", group show. Untitled pastel drawings. The Art Barn Gallery. Washington, DC (1990)

Community Service + Volunteer Work + Part-time Employment

2001-2008

Literacy Aotearoa

Dunedin, NZ

Volunteer Tutor

 

2006

Street Performing 

"Happy as Larry" Urban Shaman & Magician

Dunedin, NZ

 

2005

Meridian Mall

Dunedin, NZ

Father Christmas aka 'Santa Claus'

 

2005   

ESOL Home Service of New Zealand

Dunedin, NZ

Volunteer English language and social support for adult refugees and migrants coming to live in Aotearoa/New Zealand

 

2004-2005    

Otago Polytechnic School of Language

Dunedin, NZ

Volunteer Conversational English Assistant 

 

1996-2005    

Operation Peace Through Unity

Design and internet support 

 

2005    

English Language Matters

Dunedin, NZ

Volunteer Conversational English Assistant

 

2003 

Society of Friends/Aotearoa

Consultant and book designer

‘Quaker Faith and Practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand’

 

2003  

Society of Friends

Logo design, Friends World Committee for

Consultation 21st Triennial, Auckland

 

2001 Society of Friends

Dunedin, NZ

Dunedin Meeting Librarian2001 

 

Songbong Public Performances

Dunedin, NZ

Drumming with "Cuica"

 

1996-1997 

United Nations Association

Wanganui, NZ Secretary, aided in establishing a local branch in 

Wanganui, NZ Design and promotional assistance.

 

1995-1997

Society of Friends

Wanganui, NZ 

Whanganui Meeting

Ministry and Oversight Committee

 

1993    

Whakatane District Council

Design consultant for the corporate identification signs for the

Whakatane District Council Public Parks.

 

1991-1992   

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Washington, DC, Ballet Season Subscriptions, telephone sales consultant.

 

1973-1984   

Larry Matthews - Magician, Northern Virginia and Washington, DC

Performer of magic for children’s birthday parties, churches and hospitals.

Former member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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