Association of Clay and Glass Art Exhibition

Yesterday I helped Carol move a bunch of her pieces to the Palo Alto Art Center where the show was set to take place. While I was there I got to meet a bunch of really cool artists and see a ton of incredible art. Today Carol and I started setting up at around nine then about an hour later the show commenced. Although Carol didn't sell any work today, there is still another day to sell and literally hoards of people were commenting on how incredible the work was (which I completely agree with). Not to mention Carol was offered two jobs for workshops at separate community centers and we had a lot of fun just chillin. Posted below are a lot of pictures from today and I'll briefly describe the artists that I covered. First I'll do Carol. Carol Wedemyer, my master is a ceramic artist who work in San Francisco and here is her art. Then Beth. Next is Patrick Storms an artist who studied at CCAC and now sells work at shows like this one. Lastly is Chfris Efstratis who I noticed to be one the more wild artist at the show.

















































































































This is a picture of Carol next to Beth Ozarow Who Ill do next.




Beth Ozarow is a ceramic artist who studied briefly at Rhode Island School of Design. Now she works as a technician for the SF Opera and does her on the side. Here is her art and a link to her site. www.bethozarow.com

Collabasaurus Rex!

Today, me and two of my multi-talented friends jammed then did a huge graffiti piece together. The jam although throughly satisfying will not be photographically documented. The piece however will. It all started yesterday when my friend Jarad told me had started on a huge piece that Jd had presented canvas for. They christened the piece without me but the rest we worked on together. Jarad and I started the piece earlier today and James came by later to throw some finishing touches. Then Jarad came back with last little detail of orange. Now for the fun part. Here are the photos of our collab extravaganza! (below is a picture of Jd, then me, then Jd, then Jarad and finally Cassy with my business card.) (Me, Cassy, Jd, and Jarad jammed yesternight.)

Carol's Website

This Friday I'll be meeting with Master Carol (wow I sound like the karate kid). Last week she had me post up fliers for the Palo Alto Clay and Glass festival which she'll be exhibiting work in July 10th an 11t at the Palo Alto Art Center. For more information go to www.acga.net the show is going to be incredible. So, if you're in town or just yearning to see some art check it out. Also I'm posting Carol's art site below http://bit.ly/carolwed If you see anything you want to purchase contact me @ lotus2020@gmail.com or click on the contact button on her site. On Friday I'm helping Carol physically move her art to the show and I'll be taking some sneak peek pictures to post here. I look forward to my next meeting and I'll be giving you the update later on Friday. Have a fun week!

Carol is Great

Two days ago I drove into the city to meet my master for the apprenticeship I've been enrolled in. At first I was really excited and a little nervous to meet Carol. "Is she gonna be a cool person?" "What kind of worker will she be?" "Is she gonna be uptight?" All these questions raced through my head. But the reality pushed through the assumption and I was left with Carol. A world champion footbagger, who's super humble about her art and her achievements. While I was there we discussed our schedule (which is really exciting) and our art. Carol is a flight attendant, so she's allowed to do some of her work on the plane, which I though was really cool, but for a period of time clay was considered a plastic explosive and there was no sky high sculpting. Also because of the latter stated she has weird sleeping hours and is rarely home. Fortunately for me, I will be seeing her when she is home, and working with her. My first task was to post fliers for an art show Carol will be exhibiting in. After that I will meet her at her apartment next Friday to load and set up for the show I'm posting for. I feel so blessed to be doing this and at the same time getting paid! See you next post.

Todays The Day!

Alright, so today's the day I finally get to meet my art mentor for the next five weeks, Carol. I'm really excited to start doing some ceramic art because I haven't done any in a while, i.e. lack of studio. But now its time to get my art gears in motion so I can do and learn as much sculpture and sculpture technique as is humanly possible. I'll be posting pictures of all my sculptures and studio space starting tomorrow.

5 More Days!!

Today when I checked the date I realized that in five days I would be meeting with Carol, my art mentor, to lay out work hours for the next five weeks of my apprenticeship. Not only that but I did some art yesterday, which I haven't done for a while. In fact I don't think Ive sat down to do a 2-D piece in weeks. So this new work was refreshing for me. I combined two of my previous skill sets that I've developed previously, cut-paper, and water soluble crayons. Here's a picture of that work I was talking about. Click on the picture below to enlarge.















Oh and also, about a week and a half ago I went to go check out DJ's studio at the crucible which was really cool here are some pictures from that trip as well.

This is a gas tank












This is an artist working
















These are cool
















DJ with a bookshelf he recently completed. Check his blog for more info @ www.fourprototypechairs.blogspot.com















Artists just wanna have fun! (another pic of DJ in the Crucible's Metal Workshop)























Last picture, The Crucible!

Apprenticeship

I got a payed apprenticeship with a SF ceramic artist named Carol Wedemeyer! Her work is incredible, and she's a world champion footbagger, which is boss. I look forward to our first meeting (the 30th) and will be posting pictures of her work and my work in the next couple weeks.

Etsy!

I posted some art for sale on etsy, check it out. http://www.etsy.com/listing/48979631/dreamspeaker

The Crucible

DJ is going to be working in the metal department at the Crucible in Oakland this summer. I think I'm going to rent some studio space as well because then we could do collabs like erry day.

PAINTS art auction, selling art with DJ!

PAINTS is an acronym for Piedmont Arts In The Schools. Basically it's a huge group of wealthy patrons wining and noshing at some house in Piedmont. It was great fun, DJ and I got to noshing immediately and saw the guy from the Men's Warehouse commercial. Snacking aside we entered in a silent auction for this charity, the theme was supposed to be birdhouses, so we were the only people with a huge red cat bursting out of a sign, which ended up being a good thing. Ten minutes before we arrived DJ received a text message from one of the staff that our piece had been broken and was being fixed. I wouldn't have care if they fixed the piece in time for the auction but they fixed it with only 20 minutes to spare. Our piece went from $75 to $120 in 20 minutes which was really cool. Here's a picture of me and Deej chilin in front of our piece.

D and D collab numero dos

This is the prototype sculpture for the next collab piece.

Oven Collab

Heres a pic of a collab I did with my friend Teddy Reed.

NEW D-D COLLAB

DJ and I are going to make another sculpture together this time I'm getting a sign with a hole in it and then I get to sculpt something out of it. Let's see what happens.

Picked up

The D-D Collab is done! The sculpture was picked up by one of the people working for PAINTS on Friday.

PAINTS

So this sculpture that I made with DJ, will be entered in an art charity auction for art education in piedmont schools. The show is supposed to be comprised of birdhouses which usually fetch anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 dollars. Now I know this may seem high for birdhouses, but remember all of the proceeds are going to a good cause so inflation in this case is a good thing. Here's a url with all the information necessary about the gala.www.piedmontpaints.org/birdhouse/BH.html

FINAL CAT

The only difference between this cat and the last picture are the ears and the glossy enamel which I sprayed on it a couple minutes ago.

Complete!

So, the cat is finished I'm going to spray it with a glossy enamel to protect the paint and make it a bit shinier but all and all its' done!