5 semesters down, 1 to go!

One semester left of grad school!  What a crazy and exciting time for me and my fellow grads  We have been busy meeting and planning out our show which will be entitled Underlined Action.  This semester has included a lot of studio time, making work that will go into our thesis show and writing our supporting papers for our work.  It's been a challenging but completely eye opening and rewarding experience so far for me.  Although many changes still need to be worked out in my paper, I feel that I have been able to articulate what I desire my work to emulate and the atmosphere I try to create.  I am so excited to be working with the other talented grads towards this show that we have been thinking about and working towards for the past three years!

In addition to all this excitement, we are putting together a catalog of our show.  It's exciting that we will have this wonderful document to introduce each of us as artists and the work we create to go along with it.  We have the talented Andy Sturdevant, a local arts writer, writing short essays about each of us and our work.  We are so lucky to be working with him on this project.  We could really use any help with this process though that you can give!  We are trying to raise money on IndeGoGo for the costs of making and printing this catalog.  It goes to help all of our artistic careers and gain the opportunity to showcase each of us and our work for our Thesis Show before we graduate from the program.  Please consider donating anything that you can.  It goes much appreciated!  You could even receive a piece of art with your donation so check it out!  Click any of the IndeGoGo links in the post.  And thanks in advance if you are able to help!!

This fall, a group of grads from the U of M had a show in one of our galleries called For a limited time only.  It was really great timing in our semester to install some work when much of us need the space to set up our pieces in a new, specific situation other than our studios.  The show's main idea was centralized around the idea that our work could only be seen for the duration of the show and would never exist the same way again once the show was complete.  Will Lakey, Jess LaRotanda,  Chris Groth, Nicholas Wells, and myself had work ranging from drawing and painting, to ground metal on a wall surface, to ceramic installations.  Click on the other participants' names to check out their work!  It was an exciting show for all of us.  Here are some images of mine from the show entitled Really. Just look with me on the other side.

I hope to be creating an actual website in the near future with more information and a better gallery of my images soon!  But for now, keep checking back here for updates.  And again, if you can help out with the IndeGoGo fundraiser, thank you!!!  Happy holidays everyone!