Cork Marcheschi - Fine Art Registry™ Columnist
Artist and Teacher
Cork Marcheschi is a San Francisco native who has been involved in the Fine Arts and Music scene for over 40 years. He has taught sculpture, critical studies and art history at the University of California at Berkley, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Minneapolis College of Art. He has had over 130 solo art exhibitions throughout the world. He has 50 public sculptures littered about the American landscape. He has collected and studied Art Deco and Art American and European Art pottery for 35 years. His artwork is visible at his web site
www.CorkMarcheschi.com.
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February 12, 2008:
The Upside of Dyslexia
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Cork Marcheschi
This is a personal account of my experience with dyslexia. My hope is to offer a view that is not part of the common body of dyslexic wisdom. I believe there are many individual paths that can lead to rewarding alternate...
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August 24, 2007:
The Dyna Jet: Fire Art
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Cork Marcheschi
A couple of months ago I went to an open studio of FIRE ARTS at the Crucible in Oakland. The vibe was "aren't we cool?" Cool they weren't, but lukewarm they were. The event had the quality of a
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March 27, 2007:
Beauty Police
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Cork Marcheschi
My daughter’s school had a fundraiser of sorts at a North Beach clothiers. It was Friday night and early winter darkness was sharp and clear. I love seeing the darkness on the eastern edge of
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February 2, 2007:
High Cholestrol Sculpture
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Cork Marcheschi
June of 1970 I received my MFA degree in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts. (That is a story in itself). I had applied for 110 college level teaching positions and I got one.
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December 30, 2006:
Drown in My Own Tears
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Cork Marcheschi
David and I left San Francisco about 7 a.m. and headed east with Minnesota as our destination. We were driving my 1970 Volkswagen van, a veteran vehicle of many cross-country trips. We
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November 14, 2006:
Underground - Part 1
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Cork Marcheschi
I have a routine that is sacred to me. I get up an hour before the rest of my family, turn on the water for tea, slowly walk out to get the newspaper, and sit for one hour with a cup of tea and the
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October 12, 2006:
Three Artists - Westerman, Cornell and Rodia
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Cork Marcheschi
In December of 1978 there was an H.C. Westerman show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Westerman had been one of my favorite artists since I first saw his work in the early
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October 2, 2006:
Something About Collectors of Fine Art
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Cork Marcheschi
The relationship of the art collector to the artist is long-lived and very interesting. Until 1973 the collector and the artist were tied in an intimate, symbiotic relationship. We needed them
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September 20, 2006:
Guilty Pleasures
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Cork Marcheschi
A number of years ago a group of my friends had gathered at my home for a dinner. These dinners happened frequently and the best part of all of them was the conversation that followed
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