Cork Marcheschi - Fine Art Registry® Columnist
Artist & 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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August 20, 2008:
The Magic Mailbox
In 1986 I left Minneapolis to return home to San Francisco. I had been teaching in Minneapolis since 1970. Even though I never felt comfortable in that very white city, it was extremely good to...
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July 29, 2008:
Collecting With Passion: Mustang
I had left my studio in Pacifica to grab a couple of sandwiches at Sam’s Deli but when I got there, Sam’s Deli had been spirited away and the sign read that a NEW deli would replace it. I liked...
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February 12, 2008:
The Upside of Dyslexia
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...
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November 21, 2007:
When High School Art Class Goes Bad
Burlingame is 18 miles south of San Francisco. It is a sweet bedroom community populated by homes from the ’20s through the ’50s. Going to Burlingame High School was a unique experience...
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August 24, 2007:
The Dyna Jet: Fire Art
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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April 27, 2007:
Underground, Part II: Hippy to Punk
Within the story of contemporary pop and popular music is a great example of why the counter-culture has been reduced to skid marks on the undies of America. In the early days...
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March 27, 2007:
Beauty Police
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
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 on...
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December 30, 2006:
Drown in My Own Tears
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
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 t...
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October 2, 2006:
Something About Collectors of Fine Art
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
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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