research

so as I was doing research for a paper I found two new artists that I really like, or I at least like the way in which they explain their work and process.  I might not be a fan of all of their work buuuuut they are 

        Maria Phillips                and                    Giovanni Corvaja

This summer!

I am going to be an apprentice drawing teacher at the Putney School Summer Programs.  I will also be teaching my own night class, most likely life drawing.  I still have to fully discuss this with the director to make sure everything will work out.  I will be at Putney for 8 weeks.  I CAN NOT WAIT!!  I so love putney, it was the first summer camp I actually could not wait to return to when I was a camper.  In the summers of 2002, and 2003 I attended both sessions.  In 2005 I returned as a SIT, which was awesome!.  I was not able to attend in the summer of 2004 becuase I took a trip to Chile.  NOW finally this summer I will be returning again as a dormhead.  Last summer I was going to as well, but instead took a summer class.

Putney is a wonderful place to go, it is where I began metalwork.  It is amazing for artists and the creativity that takes place there is unbelievable.  This is the first summer I have looked forward to in a long time.  I wish I could talk to my dad.

BFA Thesis shows

This week was the second half of the BFA thesis shows.  No graphic designers were in this show since they all went last week.  I do think it is horrible for that one program to try and take over a whole show since it is not only about them.  There are many programs invovled within these shows and one should not think more of itself than others.  Maybe in the furture there should be three weeks of shows for BFA's.  This should happen next year because there will be an overflow of graduates due to how many students entered a program at once.  I know that at least within the metal department there will be 6 next semester and 7 the semester following.  Who knows what the other programs look like. 

As far as the shows go, I wasn't too impressed with some of the graphic design from last week.  This could be a bias based on the program mentioned above.  With most of the work I could tell that a lot of work was included but some seemed as though they could have been thrown together over a weekend.  I almost feel that the graphic design department could be more of a product design department.  

The two ceramicists in the show stood out the most.  I loved their work and I could tell how much time had been put into the project.  Each had very nice coesive work.  The painter had very interesting work.  I was drawn strongly to her pieces because of the inclusion of other materials that made the canvas 3D.  Texture can work very well if done right and I believe that she was able to pull this off.  Amazing was the use of egg shells becuase of how delicate they can be, but the piece looked strong and solid.  

Anyway, the show this week had a lot going on for it.  In each direction I looked I was intrigued and wanted to move around the whole space.  The opening was hectic and I did not have the time to really take in all of the work.  I do know that I saw some amazing paintings, with interesting use of canvas and frames.  There was video in use, though I wasn't sure what I was looking at and just walked away.  

Alex Hibbs had his show tonight and I completly loved his set up.  It was a nice and freshing way to see the work displayed.  He had his shoes standing ontop of rods of steel rather then sitting on pedastools.  I feel that this allowed for the work to be seen more fully.

Misato I. had her show as well and I also liked her display.  Putting the alphabet in gave her work the context I felt it needed.  Some of the connections she used were funny and each worked well.  Her work was clear and a lot of fun to see.

Ashley B.  Her work seemed to deal with some sort of skin mutation or diesease.  I am curious about how she decided to use round grid like shapes as a base.  I also wonder how these pieces stuck to her skin like on her card.  I do like the idea of playing with the skin of the body and trying to imitate or use it.  

All I have stated a quick memories I had of the shows and do not go into very deep detail.

End of the Semester

...has come FAST, like whoa.  I seriously blinked and it was all of a sudden here.  I have a lot of work to do, I just finished a 6 page paper this morning and got like no sleep.  I have a 5 page still to do and a 2 page.  I just procrastinate papers too well.. it really is something that I should work on.  This will be one of the worst weekends of school time.  Instead of having a reading period and study time that happens next week, all my classes have due dates this coming week.  During the actual finals week I think that I only have one final exam.  That obviously has its good points, but bad ones too.  Taking 6 classes was hard for how I work and how stressed I've been.  Stress.. thats a whole other story that I should probably discuss somewhere else.

Anyway!  I can't wait to move, yes I'm moving farther away from campus, but I'm also moving away from a messy house that casues stress.  Also I wont worry all the time about if Bogey got outside or not becuase my housemates dont close the door, or have screens.  

I make objects.

Ponoko

I ordered laser cut out people of acrylic from a company called Ponoko based in New Zealand a few weeks ago.  I finally got my order and these are just two pictures of my order I took quickly.  I will take more pictures later that are of a better detail and clearer image.

The top image is the actual objects/people that I will turn into pins.  

The bottom image is the sheet material which they were cut out of, the brown is a sticker type material covering the black and white acrylic.

Taking away the trash on a rainy day

This morning the trash men came to take away the mountain of trash in our front lawn.  The first truck they had was too full for all of our junk, then a second truck came and still nothing happened.  finally a third truck came and they got to work.  After they took most of our stuff I noticed that a metal futon frame, metal chair frames, a barbeque, and a table metal frame were still left outside.  Maybe they will come back for those large metal objects separately so they can recycle them, or I hope so.  They even had gone through the trouble to separate wood from the metal table frame.  I couldn't stay to see what would happen next because I had to go to class.. but we'll see later today!