Where Rocking Horse People Eat Marshmallow Pies

Christan Ciulus and I have been working very hard on a collaborative installational show featuring mixed media sculpture, ceramics, and wall pieces for the First Friday of November 2009.

Here are the show details:

November 6-8, 2009

Gallery 1010, downtown Knoxville, TN on Gay Street

Gallery Opening: November 6th 6-9pm

The gallery will also be open Saturday Nov. 7 from 12-5pm and Sunday Nov. 8 from 12-4pm.

Here's a link to the gallery website if you desire more information.

There will be music, food, and a lot of fun!

Hope to see you there!

Changing things up: PRINTMAKING

So last Spring I took a printmaking course with Koichi Yamamoto at the University of Tennessee. Previous to the class, I had very little experience with printmaking. A good friend of mine, Maria, is a printmaker and she inspired me to try out the medium. Like ceramics, it is very process-oriented and there is always an element of surprise in the end.

I had so much fun during the course, that I asked Koichi if I could be his assistant at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts at the beginning of August for a workshop. He consented and we worked together with about 8 students furiously all week learning intaglio and relief processes. It was a wonderful experience.

Here are a few of my prints

Intaglio Spores on gampi paper chine cole on BFK, 2009

Redbud Monoprint and Intaglio, 2009

Redbud Etching on gampi paper chine cole on BFK, 2009

Pieces, Etching, 2009

Honeycomb in Deterioration, collagraph, 2009

Drypoint VI, 2009

Hexagon Monoprint, 2009

Hexagon Monoprints, 2009