Decorative Arts class had their final presentations today! I have only three images to share but they are pretty fantastic.

Also, i'd like to congratulate two of them on some awards/honors.

Undergraduate senior Lydia Hanchett received an acceptance of an abstract for presentation at the USITT national conference in Forth Worth, TX this spring. ( Read more... )

I have to say, one of the great boons of having established the North Carolina piedmont as my artistic "home base," is the truly diverse range of other artists to be found here, and the ways and means in which we all overlap and interact and collaborate.

A couple weeks ago, i attended a stilt-making and -walking workshop co-hosted by the ( Read more... )

Because we are eventually going to be talking about macropuppet mechanisms in Decorative Arts this semester, I've been scoping around online for cool links and images and such to show my students. I came across the work of NC master puppeteer Hobey Ford, who specializes in rod puppets. He's just finished a week-long residency here in the Triangle ( Read more... )

I'm super-busy right now (two shows starting tech concurrently this week), so i apologize for the present lack of content. I promise that a full write-up of the event i costumed last weekend will pop up as soon as i can go through the photos from all the various photographers who were in-residence. There's a rumor that two of my costumes will be on ( Read more... )