Lovely Lettuces in the Garden

Cooking

Pavel, McKeever and Betsy in the kitchen cooking dinner for all of us- it was delicious, thank you!!

Summer at Franconia Sculpture Park

Its summer in rural Minnesota and its so perfect today.  Kate is sitting outside working on a costume, its cool and everyone has worked and played hard.

LOGO: Thanks Terri!

This is my project logo adapted from my previous project.  Terri Wada designed this logo and refashioned it.  Poster and handbills coming soon via Woody McBride.  Interior painting is finished, next its time to deal with the big exterior sign with the help of Jamie and McKeever.  I am going to order chocolate cupcakes from the St. Croix Cafe for the July 17th project panel discussion/town hall meeting, I think.  Cupcakes, coffee, lemonade, speakers, discussion, a little history of community-based rural arts initiatives in Wisconsin, etc.  More on that shortly.

Going from Freelance to 9-5 (actually more like 7-9?)

I just accepted a position at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH; its a part of OSU and I will be moving there at the end of August.  I am very excited! 

How to Make Do/Repurpose

Here are Betsy and Nung Hsin, superstar interns from Franconia Sculpture Park.  Nung Hsin continues to work on signs (and replicas of signs!) and Betsy can solve any problem large or small from changing smoke detector batteries to creatively making window screens with whatever she could find like scrap cloth and old wire fake christmas greenery.  We talked about how interesting it is to be able to "make do" with any materials you have instead of needing to go buy new.  Also, how this keeps clutter down, incorporates recycling, saves gas and money!  Sometimes its great to have strict material limitations as a structure for showcasing one's creativity.  I found a hand made 1940's child's shirt in a thrift store today and the inside plackets and shoulder linings were made from old sugar sack cloth as interfacing.  I thought it was such a beautiful and loving use of recycled materials.

SIGNS