There are those points in time where you need a little push.  Sometimes it comes in a deadline, sometimes an epiphany, and sometimes in a shifted perspective.  I think I may be at one of those points where I hope and need a little push. I’m going to be frank with you.  In the studio, [...]

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I ran into my “chair” (chairperson for my department at Kutztown, not a literal piece of furniture) at a coffee shop last week and we got to talking about drawing. He’s writing a paper about when drawing becomes less about observation and something that could be considered elevated from a technician’s approach to documentation. By [...]

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What I have going on in the studio right now is a cycle of ripping vellum and taping it to an image of Merissa that I photographed……. only to take off and tear up vellum again.  It’s somewhat frustrating only because I seem to like the “effects” it all creates however I don’t have a [...]

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One thing that can keep me up at night(aside from coughing) is taking a bus load of students to New York for the day.  It’s different if it’s just me on no time frame at all, but to make sure 60 of my peeps adhere to a time schedule and don’t leave any behind completely [...]

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I can easily find things to distract me from grading.  Now is one of those times… I have already been thinking about what my new blog post could be about.  I have a confession to make.  My studio has been a series of stop-starts and my weekly life populated with being a drill sergeant of [...]

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Last night was First Friday at the BF and quite frankly I was not really in the mood to the be there. I feel bad starting off my post this way because I always swore to myself that I was not going to allow my blog to be a big downer to my readers but [...]

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Last spring I wrote a grant entitled “Realizing Sophia.”  I didn’t get the grant but I did win the attention of some Lehigh campus organizations and they encouraged me to organize a series of visual art events while coordinating with the Women’s Studies department and Women’s Center programming.  Needless to say, it’s exciting and daunting [...]

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So I have been absent on the blog for so long it seems and not for the reason that I don’t love you, sweet readers; it seems I am a slave to grading student work.  Furthermore, in being  slave to grading, my students are feeling a bit like I’m a task master- maybe I am [...]

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