New Content in "Recent Work"

I am happy to say that today I found out that all of my materials have been accepted and approved for graduation. In celebration of that, I decided to flood the internet with images of my MFA Thesis show, Memories to Objects.

All of the photos were taken by Aaron Paden, who is a wonderful photographer in Lawrence, Kansas.  His information can be found on his website and on Facebook.

Please keep an eye out for what comes next as I will try to be posting more especially with some traveling this summer.

Article about the KU/KSU Exhibition in the University Daily Kansan

Here is a short article about the KU/KSU Show that is currently at SeedCo. Studios in Lawrence, Kansas.  The opening was last Friday and I will say that the work came together quite well.  Like I have said before, I think this relationship and dialog needs to continue.

I really enjoyed working with graduate students from other schools and hope that I can do something like this again.

Ending of a Great Project

One thing that I did this year with the help of Ellie Weber was the bringing together of the graduate ceramics students from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.  Ellie and I met last year (2016) at the KU NCECA Pre-conference, and while I was running around that event like a chicken with my head cut off (that event was amazing and being a part of its success was crazy but really good.  I'll have to write about it soon.) we started talking about making more connections between the universities in Kansas.  While we were both at a different Kansas university, her at KSU and me at KU, we thought starting there would be easiest.  This thought fell away a little bit but then in the summer, I ran into Ellie at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, Washington and we started talking again, promising each other that we would make this happen.  At first, we were just sharing dates of visiting artists and then, in October, we really started trying to plan a traveling exhibition.  In February 2017, we had all of the ceramic graduate students from KSU and KU organized and putting up a show at the KSU Student Union Gallery.  Just putting the work together in the same space was amazing.  In addition to the exhibition, the grad students from KU gave artist talks to an audience in Manhattan, Kansas.  

NCECA 2017 happened shortly after so we decided to plan a show for the end of April.  This Friday, April 28th, 2017 for the Final Friday in Lawrence, Kansas, we will be having the follow-up exhibition where work from the ceramic graduate students will be shown at SeedCo. Studios.  Two of the KSU students, Ellie Weber and Thea Meussling will be giving artist talks on Thursday, April 27th at 4 pm in the forum at Marvin Hall on the KU campus.  I am so excited to see this project get some Lawrence love and I hope that the graduate students can keep and build on the hard work and time the Ellie and myself put into this.  Below are the posters and I cannot wait.