Since we are having some technical difficulties on this site Im going to post photos of my work and the show on another website specifically for the show.  However until I get that together you can take a look at some of the photos that I posted on facebook here as well as photos from the opening here.

If you are interested in finding out the prices of anything please let me know!

Curio

April 14-18

SoFA Gallery (in the Fine Arts Building at Indiana University)

Fine Arts 123

Bloomington, Indiana 47405

There will be an opeing for the show on Friday, April 17th from 7-9 pm

for more info please visit www.indiana.edu/~sofa/

I hope to see you there!

But to make up for my lack of posting I have lots of things to talk about, unfortunately I have a ton I have to get done in the next two weeks include move so it will be short!

First, as I mentioned before, this semester all the metals students made a piece of jewelry to represent a faculty member in the school of fine arts. I chose the wonderful Yara Culver as my faculty member and made a pair of earrings about her work and life.

Every semester a Canvas magazine is published with art work and is distributed around the state and I have two pieces of my work in the current issue. My Leaves of Brown County and Grandmas Virgina Bluebells were selected so check that out!

Bill Clinton visited IU a few weeks ago and I was able to hear his speech about improving the economy. I had amazing seats and even though He was three hours late I enjoyed every minute of Bill’s speech. It was actually quite amazing I was totally exosted from standing in line and then waiting for hours and didnt expect to get much out of the speech, but as soon as he started talking I was hanging on his every word. To see some video clips of his speech click here or here.

I was in a women’s art show in Bloomington in the end of March that was alot of fun. I also had the luck of having my aunts in town at the time. My Aunt M’lou is a silversmith who first encuraged me to become a silversmith after seeing some of the jewelry I made out of my father’s copper scraps. My aunt Genny also makes beaded art and jewelry, which is mostly what I had in my booth.

Also I dont know if I have talked about this much here yet, but I have decided to take a semester off and am heading back to Cairo in the fall. I am in the process of trying to find a job so let me know if you have any ideas! My dream would be to work for Azza Fahmy but only time will tell what happens!

Thats all for now, I have to go try to get a paper done!

First of all I wanted to share this link that was just sent to me with photos from the Field of Vision show we had here last fall.  Its fun to see the exhibit again as well as the opening.  I’m even in one of the pictures talking to Robert Banes!

One of the few things I have felt up to doing to making earrings!  I think I have made about 40 pair of earrings in the last few days, so that has been a lot of fun.  I’m going to be in a craft show at the Showers Building to benefit the women’s shelter here in Bloomington at the end of March.  (Ill post more details about that later.)  I’m going to be selling mostly earrings as well as (hopefully) some prints of my watercolors and maybe a few more things if I can think of them to try to raise money for my Venice trip.

Well thats all for now, as I said I have not done much in the last week or so and my life has not been very interesting.  Hope that if your here on campus you can avoid this nasty virus!

The first event was a lecture and then the opening of the Marjorie Schick exhibit at the IU art museum (this exhibit will be up until December so I highly recommend going to see it!). Marjorie Schick is and alumni of Indiana University and was a student of the much revered Alma Eikerma and has gone on to create quite a name for herself. Her lecture showed the evolution of her work from her time here at IU until now. She has explored such a variety of mediums as papermache and wood to metal and glass, usually done in beautiful and bold colors.

There were other lectures from visiting artists from Australia. Robert Baines is a professor at RMIT in Melbourne which happens to be where one of my professors met him while studying there. Baines is an amazing fountain of knowledge and has specialized in ancient Etruscan gold work. Another Aussie in town for the symposium was the talented Julie Blyfield who creates vessels and jewelry that resemble plants through chasing and repouse. I had the great pleasure of being in her workshop to learn this process. I enjoyed it so much and hope to use the knowledge I gained in some of my new pieces.

The main event of the symposium was the exhibition in the SoFA Gallery which was dedicated to Alma Eikerman and featured many of her former student’s work as well as other graduates of IU and the guests from Australia. There was a gallery talk on the last day of the symposium where Helen Shirk (who’s work I adore and who I had a wonderful time getting to know), Tom Muir, and Billie Jean Theide talked about their work and their time at IU. Many of the pieces in the exhibit I have seen in books and it was wonderful to see them in the round and in person.

After all of these wonderful events I can say that my creative batteries are fully charged and I am excited to get working on some new ideas!