D(D).DDDD simultaneously is the leading research university and the most outstanding college in the Visual Art Avant-Garde in the Asia-Pacific region. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of undergraduate and graduate students in the Avant-Garde. At the same time, D(D). DDDD. is distinctive among research universities in its sole commitment to undergraduate and graduate Avant-Garde Visual Art teaching.

The University provides its students the artistic resources in a community committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff to help them achieve at the highest scholarly levels and prepare them for positions of leadership and lives of service in advancing contemporary art.

Through the scholarship and teaching of its faculty, and the many contributions to society of its future alumni, D(D).DDDD seeks to fulfill its informal motto: “Promote, Protect, Serve and Destroy the Avant-Garde."

There is nothing that D(D).DDD can hand over to its prospective students, especially in regards to teaching the next generation of the Avant-Garde: no class lectures, notes, syllabi or anything else related to what D(D).DDD teaches or the D(D).DDD pedadagogy. D(D).DDD has never kept any records or notes.

Rather, D(D).DDD has always just been there, gone in and did it.

D(D).DDD ideas on art institutions and teaching tend to sway as D(D).DDD avant-garde interests change. Frankly, at this moment in time D(D).DDD tends to believe that pretty much all of what art institutions are teaching to students is worthless. This worthlessness simply suggests that art teachers know what they are talking about and the good little students should just sit there and listen - without ever forming a question.

All in all, D(D).DDD now suspects that the worst place to learn how to be an avant-garde artist is in a fucking art school. An artist doesn't need to be taught the bullshit which tends to be taught in these schools. Any artist in time will learn the shit they need to know on their own. As a result, D(D).DDD believes that the only art shools that should exist, and which the preiement students should attend, are schools based solely on providing an unrivaled, transformative community which assists students in developing their ability to ask the questions "they" need to ask.

This semester at D(D).DDD will indeed be very interesting for those who come under our tutelage.

Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History LG Williams, has served as a University faculty member for over 15 years and is founding director of D(D).DDDD's multidisciplinary Swinger Institute for Integrative Integration (Mirror and Matching) before being named D(D).DDDD Distinguished Professor in 2009.

LG WILLIAMS received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at San Francisco International Art Fair.

His latest book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through The Ages -- A Consise History was just published by Wadsworth-Cengage Learning.

The D(D).DDDD Visiting Artist, Art Critic and Art History Program brings established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to its students. The program enriches its academic program by providing a diverse mix of culture, style, focus and expertise from artists of national and international status.

Each semester, four to five contemporary artists, critics or histoians from around the world are brought to the campus to teach a seminar class and present a lecture that outlines art works, installations or multi-media performances. The lectures are free and open to the public.

D(D).DDDD is located in Waikiki, a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is the shoreline fronting Waikīkī.

The D(D).DDD penthouse complex sits atop the Ala Wai Canal and convienently across from the Ala Moana Shopping Center.

Summer 2010 Tutiton: $2,500
Estimated Miscellaneous Summer '10 Expenses: $1,200

Courses: D(D).DDD has only one course taught by LG Williams, ART 1000: Advance Avant-Garde Practice For The Visual Artist.

Time: Friday 6:00pm - 10:00pm; Room 101, Hedrick Penthouse,
4th Floor, Room 101, Waikiki, Hawaii. January 15 - June 15, 2009.

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Financial Aid: Full and Partial Scholarships Are Available

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