Organizing an art show

I volunteered for the second time to help out with the organizing of an art show with over 20 people. It has been a challenge to try to get people who’ve agreed to show their work to turn in their biography, statements, and headshots and images for the show in…

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Arduino class #2

I am taking an arduino class at the Crucible in Oakland. I often feel really stupid in these classes because I am such a slow learner.  Everyone in that class are just really young and they get the concepts much faster than me. I feel like I slow down the class, and sometimes I worry that I am an imposition. Still… whatever! I paid for the high class fees, I get to be in the class, and there was no prerequisite to the class. Anyway, here are two short videos of my experiments.

Speaking of experiments, I’m going to be in art show! Exciting, no?

And I re-worked my biography and my artist statement for the diorama collection, Experiment D09-D15 from 2009-2015 (oh how clever am I?). It only took me 3 years from the last time I looked at this statement, but whatever! Better late than never! Now in rawer, honest form. I’m happy about it. Check it out!

Shadow box project update 3/24/2018

Ok, I totally screwed up. Sometimes you just gotta keep making the same mistakes over and over until you’re reat to learn the lesson. In my case, the lesson is to make the mortise first before cutting the pieces to the final size. Because it is too close to the…

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Shadow box project 3/17/2018 part 1

I received a long piece of Douglas Fir used lumber. It might have been a part of house siding that got discarded. My scavenging coworker harvested it and gave it to me. I want to make a shadow box because the stash of shadow boxes that I have that were…

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thank you cards 2/28/2018

Our dance group finished another series for our flash mob that took place on Saturday March 3, 2018. It was a J Lo flash mob. Our teachers were Saville Gambol and Rachel Eckberg. Here are the cards and the happy recipients! Someday I will buy a better printer, I promise.

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Electromechanics for everything 01/29/2018

I signed up for this class. I’ve been wanting to take it since 2011, so here I am! I confess that I got furloughed on 1/22 and I totally forgot to come to class. (Stupid Congress decided to shut down the government for one day! Obama did everything better. Even…

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Joinery class 02/04/2018

I’m back in Jay’s wood class! I’m so excited to be messing up every week and risking my life due to the sharpness of my chisels and the saw. Still, my brain will be functioning at some level on Saturday. I also found out that last semester, I did get…

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work in progress painting project 3

Awww shiieeet. She is one pissed off MF. I have to fix that. My friend on Instagram said I should let my intuition lead the way. If I force it, it’s my ego talking, not my intuition. I tell her, you make it sound bad. I did paint this upside…

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work in progress painting project 2

The painting is progressing slowly. The face and the hands will be the toughest part, and I’m hoping painting them upside down will help me become less discouraged and keep at it. I’ve had to draw more grids to the face to make it easier. Otherwise, it will be even…

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