Greetings from the living room couch! Slept here last night as my parents took my bed. Now that I'm awake, now starts a new week that I consider my finals week, as all final studio
projects and a workshop reflection are due. No exams to study for here.
I look forward to finishing up work and showing some photos of it all.
Whether I sleep on the couch back at home, at my Grandma's, or here at my own place, I always seem to take on a fresh appreciation of a house I already know so well. I'll wake up and look around at the architecture and placement of objects, seeing things I'd hardly ever noticed before. I'll get to know the room better in the quiet of the morning hours as I lay there and then wonder when the sleeping others will be saying "good morning".
Today we'll go get breakfast, shop at my dad's favorite IC second-hand store, and then it's studio and wood fire kiln babysitting time for me!
This Thursday, 4/26, the UAY junior high and high school students we have been teaching in a weekly workshop will show their work from the past few months! Located at 355 Iowa Ave and going on from 4:00-5:30 PM, stop on over and check out their incredible work that includes ceramics, clothing and mural design, sculpture, puppetry, bookmaking, comics, and more. Pictured above, a small preview of what you will see. See you there!
The photos above show the progress of the mural my Art Ed. Studio class made last fall for a great local adult day center, Pathways. My dad collaborated with us by engraving the plaque to the right of the mural and laser cutting the 'Pathways' title letters above the mural. Thanks dad! Nice work everybody!
The closing track from the best mix I was given for my birthday!
Currently cozied in my cloud of a bed with coffee. I have a slightly foggy mind from last night but I'm feeling completely content right now. Birds are soothing me from out my window, and to listen to this song on top of it all, I float.
For Thursday's workshop, my student finished her shadow puppets and script for the movie she's making. Next week, I'll teach her to use iMovie so she can edit it and put it together herself. Below are some photos of her work:
Above is my latest Metals assignment, a necklace I've titled Renewal. The idea came from the first photo above, one that I took last year in Denmark on a rainy spring afternoon. The assignment required the use of found materials, and I used a leather band, copper for the jump rings and clasp, black anodized aluminum for the branch pieces, fake moss, plastic zip-ties, and yellow and copper-colored nail polishes.
The work of Cain Baum, a sculpture student here at Iowa, is now up on the second floor of the ABW on campus until next week! I highly recommend checking it out in person, you persons. Over a few years of seeing his work, I admire his use of color and line, as well as his attention to fine detail. Craftsmanship, indeed.
