The show went really well! Sorry it’s taken me so long to post. Micheline has uploaded a montage of clips from the approximately 25 minute piece onto her website, available here. I took close-up shots of all of the “Pandora’s boxes” I created (used as a metaphor for each dancer’s personal discovery and growth), and …
Micheline Heal, my friend and fellow Oberlin alumna, is choreographing a beautiful modern dance piece called “The Garden for Wayward Girls”. I am flattered that she has asked me to help her with the “static” visual elements of the show- mainly some props (a Pandora’s box for each dancer) and set pieces/ installation. It has …
Sometime shortly after Halloween last year, I decided that I HAD TO go as a deep sea diver this year. I have always thought old diving masks and diving presses (the hard-exterior type, which can go deeper underwater) are really cool-looking. There are many many different types of mask designs and breathing methods, all created …
(Hope is in white… Photo by Terry Brown)I have begun working as an artist’s assistant/ Sponge HQ Coordinator for Hope Ginsburg. She’s a social practice artist who gave a talk and studio visits during my post-bacc program at VCU. I was really intrigued by her work (it’s interest in community and non-traditional approaches to art-making, …
I’m learning so much in my Photoshop class at the Visual Arts Center, including new ways to tease my sister! heh, heh.
Recently I felt the need to come up with a term for something that occurs when one has some free time (or something to procrastinate on) and is on the internet. I was sitting on the couch with my mom, and after asking her to look up a simple embroidery stitch for me (I was …
20X200 is a website that sells limited edition runs of artist’s prints- mostly photography but some painting, etc, too. The smallest print, usually 8X10″, only costs $20 and comes in a run of 200 (hence the name). The larger prints get exponentially more expensive. www.20×200.com Resting on a Bush Yijun (Pixy) Liao Midwife/ Middle School …
The Summer Studio Program which I have been a part of the past two months is having it’s final exhibition at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Fine Arts building. The show opened Saturday the 24th, and will stay up until Tuesday the 27th. I am exhibiting a new video work, and will post it …