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This site is a place to post work but also to write and explore research. I consider the posts to be like a research journal. Often times there can be a sense of pressure that we place on ourselves to only post things that are deemed perfect. What we put online has to be polished,…
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Last weekend Chappell and I went to not one, but TWO awesome art shows, and the artwork I saw deserves a moment of written reflection. Seven amazing Towson University MFA artists (in the same program I am starting next week!) showed their work in a group show, “Feedback Loop” and had its closing reception on…
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Just down the street from where Chappell and I live, and over the Howard Street Bridge, we went to see MICA’s Grad Show III, specifically this amazing exhibition of graduating Masters Students at the LeRoy Hoffberger School of Painting titled, “Twelve, or Some Final Hour.” The show is up until April 28 so you still…
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This past Friday Chappell and I got the opportunity to check out a local artist and their work in Hampden at the Zo Gallery. Zachary Diaz is an MFA candidate at Towson University and is currently exploring abstract oil painting and processes in combination with themes like human connection and cloud gazing. His artwork uses…
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During this Life Drawing class, the assignments have become more open-ended and creative. For this last assignment, we were asked to select a well-known narrative from childhood nursery rhymes, fairy tales, mythical stories (ie: Greco-Roman tradition, Native American mythology, etc.), the bible, the long history of art and literature, and more. My job was to…
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This past weekend my boyfriend Chappell and I went to NYC to hear music, visit friends, eat tasty food, and of course see art! Let’s explore some of the art I saw – much of it is inspiring to me and my current body of work. The theme that kept coming up was water: immersion…
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One of the first artists that I want to explore in depth as part of a revival of a visual research journal is Wangechi Mutu. She is a Kenyan-born, New York based artist, and what I appreciate about her work is the way she combines a beautiful, signature and experimental techniques with an activist stance.…
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First year of teaching in a physical classroom – done! If you read my blog or look back on a few of the more recent posts, you can tell that I lost steam when it came to writing and reflecting on my website. It was a really tough year. My previous posts alluded to that…
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Through November and December students were working on a variety of different projects: surrealist linear perspective drawings, portraits, watercolor painting, and printmaking! The watercolor project was a lot of fun – I taught middle schoolers how to use different techniques like wet-on-wet, flat wash, graded wash, etc. and they created art around the theme of…
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