Things came to a close for us at the The Glass Factory this past week. Students finished their glass relief sculptures, glass blowing, and prints. We had an exhibition/reception for the students on the last day of class and we also enjoyed the exhibitions in the museum.
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A lot was going on this past week at The Glass Factory for us. We ended up teaching to a group of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia - what an incredible experience. Students worked with constructing their glass seed molds, glass blowing, and printing.
We started working with our group of students today at The Glass Factory in Boda Glasbruk, Sweden. Pic below of the hot shop with Bjørn Friborg, the hot shop coordinator.
Artist Shandra McLane and I made it to Sweden after two days of long travel!
We/Squam River Studios will be at the Glass Factory Museum in Boda Glasburk teaching an Art and Science based curriculum for the next two weeks and working in the hot shop on our own glass relief sculptures and prints. The Glass Factory museum is one of Scandinavia's largest contemporary glass museums. We are excited to be here and had a great first day working! Squam River Studios The Glass Factory Work completed at The Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Arts this summer is up in Faculty Exhibition in the Karl Drerup Art Gallery until September 26th.
https://www.plymouth.edu/gallery/3320/2015-faculty-exhibit-objects-that-inspire/ The Butterfly Effect Folio has been on exhibit at Lamson Library since July 1st,
the exhibit is coming down tomorrow, Friday, September 11th. Much thanks to Jen Green for planning, installing, and advertising the exhibition, and for all the exhibitions at the library that she has coordinated! http://library.plymouth.edu/butterfly_effect As part of the artist residency we were asked to create a collaborative art piece amongst the three artists. The writer of the group wrote to us on the first day of the collaboration and asked the following question. Dialogue 1: "That tree with its hideous strength will out live you and me, so what is it that you want to contribute? Gray water, dead lakes, silt in the stream that once flowed with memory? You can do better because I have heard you hum." I have dwelled on this comment and see a direct correlation between the question posed and my work with environmental issues. Collaborative piece, "Four Dialogues between a Writer and Artists", with Professor Maria Tuttle and Professor Charla Puryear. (http://charlapuryear.com) For the month of July I have the opportunity to work at Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts in Miramonte, CA. I have had much needed time for daily reflection and creation of new work. There are three artists attending the residency and we spend much of our day exploring the natural environment on the 170+ acre ranch in the high Sierra mountains. When we are not in the studio or walking the land, we spend our days in Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Park. These experiences have opened the door to new work, new friendships, and an awareness of a new spiritual path. With that, almost every day I have created a "mediation mark making drawing". I use local soils and minerals as pigments, which I collect on my walks through the big sequoia trees, canyon valleys, road side cliffs, and the rolling hills on the ranch. The mediation drawings will eventually become a larger installation. I have also been inspired by another painter here to dabble into my lost roots in plein-air painting. I felt the strong urge to paint this realistic painting my first day in the canyon after forgetting my drawing paper at the ranch. In order to amuse myself for 3 hours while sitting in this location watching Maria paint, she loaned me a canvas. I don't think I am a realistic painter but it has been so aspiring and refreshing that I have been plein-air painting and drawing everyday that Maria and I venture into the park.
My colleague, Pam Anneser, and I attended the F.A.T.E conference in Indy this past weekend. We presented on the structure of our new Foundations Program at Plymouth State University titled "Staying Current in Foundations".
We were also able to see some great art at the IMA like this piece by Do-Ho Suh. Consequences: Sea Ice was accepted into the Southern Graphics Council International Traveling Exhibition! The juror was Ruth Weisberg, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the USC Roski School and currently the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities.
The exhibit will travel nationally between 2015-2018 and internationally between 2018-2020. The exhibition opening was at the recent SGCI conference in Knoxville in March. |
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