"all you have to do is call"

This is my latest and greatest creation to come out of my photobook class this semester.  It's an accordian style pop-up book.  Each of the four scenes below is made up of 4 separate layers that I cut by hand.  There's also a stick figure couple that goes along with the book that you can play with in each season.  I took this pic while I was still working on it last night at about 3am in the studio; I won't have finished pictures of it with the figures and cover for a while.  Laurie chose it to be in the printmaking show next week!  I think for my final I'm going to continue this idea but I'm going to make more scenes and probably have them back to back.  The title of the piece is "all you have to do is call."  Get it? :P

AMY STEIN at MICA TOMORROW

For any of who that know me just a little bit, you know I'm a huge fan of Amy Stein and have been ever since I originally saw her work.  Well, tomorrow she's coming to MICA to give a talk!!!  Justin (you lucky asshole :P) is picking her up from the train station and then she's talking at 12:15 in the Brown Center.  Can't wait to meet her!!

Old

These are a few of the first digital images I ever took.  I was cleaning out my memory cards and stumbled across them.  Even though they're all very different, I feel like they belong together.  The colors a little off on them; they're usually much more saturated.  I dunno what that's all about but I hope you like them anyway :)

New

Changed my computer's background image today.  It was an image from Stephen Althouse's tool series which I've blogged about a few times before but I needed to mix it up so I chose one of Kim Manfredi's older paintings.  I feel this one makes sense for me lately; it just seems to represent my mood really well.  

CREEEEEEPY

The cell phones pop the popcorn..... I'm not kidding.  

Téléphone Portable + Maïs = Pop-corn - Vidéo buzz

so excited!

yay :D

Professional Practices; Residency Assignment

The Hambridge Artist Residency Program is located in Rabun Gap, Georgia. The facility sits on 600 secluded acres in the North Georgia Mountains. Located in these 600 acres are an over abundance of mammals, reptiles, fungi, fish, plants, and trees including over 400 species of these that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Residencies last for between 2 to 8 weeks, depending on what's been awarded, and take place from May to August, September to November, or February to April. The program has 9 artists max at any one time, including all fine art forms but also writers, musicians, and performers.

Each artist is provided with their own private cottage studio space which includes a bathroom and kitchen. The only provided meal is a vegetarian dinner served Tuesday through Friday.

Residents pay

$150 for every wee

k that they're there out of the $1250 a week cost. Scholarships are available but they are limited.

The application process includes completing the application form, a one page proposal, a one page summary of professional arts, a 300 word bio, and names and contacts for three references.

Also, 10 examples of word needs to be presented in CD or DVD form and 3 copies need to be provided. There is also a $30 application fee. The work is juried by a peer review panel and the applicant usually receives notification within 6 to 8 weeks.

What draws me most to this program is the strong connection and influence I would have from the surrounding nature but also the seclusion from the outside world. You are forced to have good, solid alone time with yourself and your work in this residency. That intimidates me to think about, however that intimidation also excites me because I know it's what I need and what will help me grow the most as an artist.

Yea so I've pretty much fallen in love with this residency.  Definitely going to be the first one I apply to as soon as Im ready.

I'm a sucker for cute jewelry

Oh Deer

Oreo

Organic Beads

Fork Bracelet

Birds Nest

Freshwater Pearls

Birds

The fork bracelet and pearl necklace are my favorites :)  This site is pretty spectacular- Etsy.com.  They have a ton of different products but the jewelry part was my fav.  

Rene Trevino

Rene Trevino is a MICA grad that currently has a residency at the Creative Alliance (amazing place btw).  In my last Professional Practices class, we went to the Creative Alliance and spent some time with him in his studio.  He has to be one of the most technically accomplished artists I've ever seen.  The details he gets in graphite and acrylic is ridiculous- check out his stuff below.

Saguaro Warriors, 2007

These are all life sized, full-detail portraits done in graphite on paper.  Only graphite on paper.  I've seen these things in person; they're insane.  He literally showed us the lead pencil he always uses- I cannot even fathom the dedication it took to get even one done and he did a whole series.  

Sitting Bull, 2007

Steve McNair, 2009

Now he's moved on to doing the same type of characters but he paints them with acrylic on mylar and they are about two feet high as opposed to life size.  Because of this, he's making many more than were in the last series.  They are just as equally detailed though.  

Stag Party, 2006

Acrylic on Mylar

Love this work- the humor in it just makes me happy.  Go to Rene's site to check out more of his stuff.  

Robert Frank in Person

ELSON LECTURE

The Elson Lecture Series features distinguished contemporary artists whose work is represented in the Gallery's permanent collection. The Honorable and Mrs. Edward E. Elson generously endowed this series in 1992.

A Conversation with Robert Frank

March 26 at 3:30

East Building Concourse, Auditorium

Robert Frank, photographer, in conversation with Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art.

For more than fifty years Robert Frank has exerted a profound influence on contemporary photography, film, and art. His seminal book The Americans, first published in 1958 and 1959, changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, he looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal not only social, economic, and political tensions, but also new areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. His subject matter—cars, jukeboxes, even the road itself—was as innovative as his seemingly intuitive, off-kilter, and brilliantly incisive style. Yet the book’s soaring reputation never sat comfortably on Frank’s shoulders. Since the late 1950s he has restlessly continued to push his art in new ways, making both films and photographs that question the relationship between art and life and between the obvious symbolic meaning of a photograph and its personal significance to him

In anticipation of high attendance, this program will be simulcast in the East Building Small Auditorium and the West Building Lecture Hall. The program will also be recorded and a screening of the recording will be shown on Tuesday, March 31, at noon in the East Building Auditorium.

.....And I'm going.  With Justin.  Hopefully.  You should be a little jealous :P