CRYSTAL BRIDGES

File under "Summer Travels": A trip to Bentonville, AR

and the

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The very first artwork to inhale is

a stunning Roxy Paine sculpture, front and center:

After that, the architecture and the painting collection dominate:

Architect: Moshe Safdie

Best painting ever:

SCULPTURE OLYMPICS

Sculpture Survey students voted on first, second, and third places

in each of the 8 Quick Projects:

Lathed Top

Band Saw Box

Drawer Box

Brazed Nonobjective Form

Welded Representational Form

Plastic Cast

Machine Sewn Bean Bag

Felted Bowls

There were some beauties in the mix:

More:

Student Work

Fiber and Paper Arts Club hosted an embroidery workshop. Molly put her hard-earned grant from the Entrepreneurial Center Advisory Board to work in the purchase of advanced embroidery software.

The club graciously agreed to test drive.

  

Roman Signer

Printable Masks

Ira Glass on the

Creative Process

Dorota Buczkowska

Courtesy of Aysen Orhon

Field to Garment:

Alabama Chanin and Billy Reid "grow" garments from their own cotton fields.

This is a great audio file on the revival of primitive processes

in the farming of cotton and the effort to bring 

organic Alabama cotton to high end market.

Links to

Alabama Chanin

and

Billy Reid

Oh, beauty!

3D Printed Clay

I miss Patrice.

She moved to Alabama.

We rode our bikes on the riverfront:

We went to Proffitt's Porch:

We ate semi-bad things:

Our boys had fun.

And my bike needed to lie down:

:

I miss Patrice.