Hey everyone! Looking for an interesting way to end the weekend and kick off the week? Well, you’re in luck! Sunday (June 9th) from 5-7 Seed Space is having a tour of the art studios and galleries starting at 427 Chestnut. A guided tour is available from 5-6 but you can wing it on your own between 5-7 if you’d rather. Check out the details: http://seedspace.org/studio-tour.
Tag: art
The (not so) glamorous side of art…
I’ve spent the better part of the day working on my website appearance and online presence; trying to make a perfect circle of all my web locations. I’ve updated the sidebar to include my “Gravatar” info to make linking to other sites a breeze. And there’s a new slideshow on my homepage. Things are improving but it seems the simpler I make them the more complicated the tracking: so many accounts, usernames, passwords, and expiration dates. There’s just no escaping good record keeping. Can anyone say spreadsheet-arghh!!! Ah, well…I’m beginning to pine away for the actual crafting. So here’s a past shot of me in the garage workshop, priming kiln shelves:
From this perspective even this looks like fun! The kilns have been cold for much too long and I hear the thrumming of tools impatient from lying dormant…
And now for something completely different….
Howdy! I’ve titled this post for fellow Monty Python fans out there. Let’s not underestimate the FUN factor, right?! Time indeed does fly when you’re crazy busy. And in my case the crazy busy is a complete life changer: my experiences interning with artist/social practitioner Adrienne Outlaw combined with my experimental day job of seasonal plant merchandiser. I’ve been wondering how the two seemingly different activities might relate and how they compare to the ways in which I’ve spent, basically, my entire adult career. Which, lets face it, tends to define a good portion of one’s time. I’ve gone from desk and carpet and solitary crafts-person to outdoors and dirt and cooperative creative efforts. On reflecting I find a particularly striking similarity that addresses both curiosities. My day job is literally around the corner so I’m working in my neighborhood, which means anonymity is virtually impossible. Likewise, the internship in the art of social practice is necessarily community based: from interacting with artists in the same building to assisting exhibitors at Seed Space (Adrienne’s site for installation art located in her studio (http://seedspace.org/), to accessing a global community of artists and other professionals via the web. Nothing of value in either milieu can occur without the confluence of individual and collaborative efforts. Remember that degree in Sociology? I’m letting it out to play 🙂 And speaking of play and FUN…it’s time to go have some. Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!
ALICE E. SHEPHERD 
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