May-Dec 2015by/for Maritza Ruiz-KimSubjects:

• A. Artists and Object-Making in the Art Market
• B. Social Practice and Art as Activism: Ways Artists Bring About Change
• C. The Artist as Writer

Notes for Subjects/Books:Here is the list of entries for notes I make specifically about these subjects. These notes are where I will synthesize the reading with my art practice, answering the questions that dog me in my work. *Note: I'm starting to realize that sometimes my blog posts on doing the Studio MFA will also contain notes on what I'm learning. Also I'm still trying to figure out how to format this blog so all this info makes sense to anyone who stumbles across it! Hard to do when I'm simultaneously working at this MFA. But I'm making an effort.☺- mrk. Oct 1, 2015.Books:

• Living and Sustaining a Creative Life edited by Sharon Louden
• 9.5 Theses on Art and Class by Ben Davis
• Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fionna Raby
• Evocative Objects: Things We Think With edited and introduced by Sherry Turkle
• Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life published by Phaidon
• Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity & Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
• Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius by Leonard Shlain
• A Decade of Negative Thinking by Mira Schor
• Daybook by Anne Truitt
• The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate