miniature amphibianses

Another photo of work for my upcoming show. I don't want to give too much away, but I'm excited with how these are coming along and wanted to post it.

works in progress

I'm back! I apologize for the long absence in posting. Planning a wedding is time-consuming, especially when it's your own.

I have a few photos of new pieces I'm working on for a small works show coming up in December at Fe Gallery. They are all detail shots, which is why they look a little funny and rough around the edges - a 1/4" x 1/4" drawing looks very different blown up for all the internet to see.

the bubble bursts

I'm back from Chautauqua, and because my wedding is 15 days away, I have not found a lot of time to post anything art-related. Until the craziness has passed and the dust settles, I'll leave you with some images from my last week at the Institute. Things got very quiet after the students left and we spent most the remaining days battening down the hatches for the winter.

One last glimpse of the cleaned and locked-up print studio through the antique warped glass . . .

Kilnmaster Kyle, kiln tech Dan, and I visit Lake Erie.

pictures from Erie

Here are some pictures from my trip to the Erie Art Museum with the ceramics department. The building is this neat old repurposed bank built in the 1830s.

We were there to see the work of ceramicist Kurt Weiser, who paints these incredibly intricate narrative scenes on his slipcast vessels.

I also spied some Kiki Smith in their bronze collection . . .

And a shelf of Krishnas.

infestation

I'm trying to squeeze work days in between trips to Syracuse and visits from family and friends, so posts will be less frequent for a few weeks. I'll be posting some pictures of my trip to Erie with the ceramics department, but until then, here's a photo of the beginnings of a new project. Big things coming to the Chautauqua print studio . . . or a lot of little things . . .

Whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Today I stuffed myself into the very packed Amphitheater to attend a lecture by Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, humanitarian, journalist, professor, and author of Night, his memoir about surviving Auschwitz and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

His talk explored what makes humans moral. It was a complex subject - and a complex talk - that I won't try to write much about, except to reiterate the most important of his points that I took away from the talk (one of those is the title of this post); those being, that morality stems from respecting the Otherness of the Other. Also, he spoke about how morality, and right/wrong, is above all governments, all societies, and maybe even our human perception of God and the way his/her good/evil is represented through religion to us. He spoke about how everyone, athiests, agnostics, and people of all faiths, have an ability to be moral, and that morality isn't something that is learned or exists only in a religious context.

c-town as usual

Not too much exciting news to post. Been busy with class, so no new pieces to post. WNED, the Buffalo public radio/tv station, was hanging around Chautauqua shooting a documentary for PBS that will air next fall. I shot some pictures of the Ceramic department's raku firing that you can check out over at Kyle's blog.

We're officially half done with the season; our print instructor, Craig Taylor, is leaving today, so I'm on my own as far as maintaining the studio and helping the students for the rest of the summer.

I'm out for the weekend - Sara Gibson, my roommate from when I was up here last summer, is visiting.

I'll leave you with some shots of Diana, our work study, and Tom Raneses, our instructor for weeks 1 and 2, hard at work . . .