NCSW 4 of 4

OK this is the last post on North Country Studio Workshops. Here are some pictures from the campus of Bennington College where the workshop was held.





The classes were held in a building called VAPA (Visual Arts Performing Arts) The building was made of wood that has weathered and looks great.

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If I could have taken a class there are 2 that were at the top of my list. One was a stitching and markmarking class taught by Ilze Aviks - www.ilzeaviks.com but there might have been a little too much hand sewing for my liking (actually I am lucky to do machine sewing these days) and the other that I think I really would have enjoyed was a felting class taught by Lisa Klakulak. They did some amazing things. If you ever have a chance to take her class you will not regret it. Sorry I don't have any pictures of either class but go to their web sites and you can get an idea of what they did. I did spend time in Ilze's class bringing messages from the office. I volunteered to help out in the office when they needed to take a break or needed someone to run to the classes to deliver messages. It was truly a great week.

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There were 2 clay workshops. One was using the wheel taught by Julia Galloway and the other was slab work with Marc Leuthold. The pictures are from the slab workshop since it was also below Bob's class room and I could get some pictures without disturbing the class. Julia's web site is www.juliagalloway.com and Marc's is www.marcleuthold.com

NCSW - 1 of 4

As promised here are some pictures from North Country Studio Workshops (NCSW) These pictures are from Patrick Dougherty's class and since it was right below Bob's class I spent alot of time looking out of the windows down to the class. They made giant sculptures out of branches. You may want to check out his web page Patrick Dougherty! Wow.

Ramblings

Well we are back from Vermont where Bob taught a stitch class at North Country Studio Workshops. It was an amazing experience. I will post pictures soon. Since I recently lost my job (about one month ago) I find that I will have plenty of time to tend to the blog. So here we go.

Have you ever been to a Chiropractor? I have not since my brother, whom I loved dearly, was an MD and really didn't think much of them. Well Bob has had a pain in his neck (not me...really!) for years. Old football injury and he mentioned it to our MD and he took xrays and said Bob had arthritis in his neck. Well duh! End of discussion. So for Valentines day I gave him 4 sessions of acupuncture at The Spine Worx which is near our house to help with the pain. Well Dr. Jim Pucka said sure he was licensed to do acupuncture but why not fix the problem not just the pain. So that is what is going to happen. I certainly will keep you posted.

Bob has a student coming here to the studio from Kentucky next week for a 3 day class. That should be fun.

Well that is all for now. I will post pictures in the next few days of Vermont.

QSDS

For those taking Bob's class at QSDS who are having trouble visualizing what he is asking for, I will post some pictures of the fat quarter sandwich. You can make the sandwich white on one side and black on the other. Then take one sandwich in white and attach 3 inch strips of solid colors and on another sandwich use printed or textured. Then do the same in black. OK I know you are confused. Just look at the pictures and you will see what he wants.

January 2008

So what have I been doing all this time? Working I guess. What has Bob been doing? He has a new series going. I would love to show you pictures but I am not sure what the rules are for some shows. Maybe I can post some works in progress? I will check that out. We did go down to New Albany, Indiana to the Form Not Function show at the Carnegie Art Center. Again a great show. We met up with our friend Carol Pollard from Ohio who also had a piece in the show.

Bob's new series is called "Infrastructure." It is of course mostly discharged pieces. Mostly Thiox and all about grates and manhole covers. He started doing this after years of collecting pictures on our trips of grates of various sizes and shapes. He was asked to be in a three man show at the Visions Art Gallery in San Diego this June and he wanted all new pieces so this series came about. Of course he will end up with much more than he can hang in San Diego.

OK best laid plans. I just went to download a picture and I am at the wrong computer. So that is it for tonight. I will try again in a few days. Sorry