Here's the rundown from the last 2 years:
August 2012- Went to Chicago, lived in the ghetto (Pilsen), took train to school (5 miles) 45 minute train ride.Had one great winter ....
and one freezing winter (I know I can survive -50˚ windchill).
Worked really hard, TAed for woodshop all 4 semesters and made some cool and weird things for the shop. As well as, of course helping students with their projects..
My first semester I mixed glazes as a tech and learned a lot. I'm glad for that experience, because I can now teach according to what I learned.
Made some really big work:
Unfortunately, I had to remake this sculpture twice. The first time it cracked during the firing. With better, stronger clay it survived, so, then I had to make a huge crate to ship it to a show in the Indianapolis Art Center. I drove down with a U-Haul and 2 hired undergrads and brought the work 5 hours to it's destination. It was too far away to go down again to attend the opening.
Of course, during my time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (not to be confused with the Art Institutes) I experimented a lot and spent a ton of time working in my studio. |
My studio in the mezzanine at SAIC |
You can see this object being performed at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tV1aqNyRc&feature=youtu.be
But they got me back:
So, next time someone says get on that jackalope, you know what to do.
Anyway, I got back and within a few months I was working at Biola University teaching Digital tools.
Here's what I put in the faculty show. I made a conglomeration of all my past work. It has been gnawing on me to try this for a few years now. Sorry about the bad lighting.
Biola like me so much they hired me to teach ceramics!
This was a project the first day in my ceramics class this semester, kinda interesting! Every student made a production line of 13 pieces for the other students to use in a sculpture.
I tortured a cookie during Christmas and then....
I ate him.