Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Finally Prince Georges County Artists Network

I attended an interesting meeting today at the Gateway Arts Center located at 3901 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood, MD. The Network, organized by the Prince George’s County Arts Council. Organizing around supporting art and arts orgs, art education and community outreach.

Interested in getting involved? Contact the arts council. 

http://princegeorgesartscouncil.org/

Friday, March 26, 2010

Dick Blick's green packaging

I suppose this Dick Blick packaging is a bit better than last year's showing. 
Actually the only difference is that the bubble stuff is made from recycled plastic.
I can't help but think that there has to be a better way. I am continuously working to develop new projects that are made entirely from recycled materials. I really miss my East Bay Depot!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

YOU ARE INVITED!

This is your opportunity to support a great art education non profit. I'll be there, come make a fabulous TOP HAT with me!

yamd.orgsavethedate

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Collaboration

Within each residency, students achieve success as individual artists as well as in collaboration with fellow students.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The goal is to glaze and fire what makes it through the first fire.

The mask making project in Baltimore has been challenging on several levels. The flu has made the attendance of the students spotty and the teacher was out for a week. The clay over dried in that time and most of the pieces cracked. The ones that did not crack, broke on the way from the shelf to the kiln.
We fired what survived on Wednesday......haven't heard from the teacher yet! The goal is to glaze and fire what makes it through the first fire.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Baltimore Ceramic Mask Making Residency











This is definately an exciting opportunity. I am working with an awesome art teacher and students to create "self portrait" masks. I have 4 days with the students, day 1 we worked with clay to cast faces, day two we shared a cool presentation on mask history and current uses from all over the world. We then created unique surface designs for our masks. Here are some pics from the first two of four workshops.