Visit to the Osage Arts Community

During Memorial Day Weekend of 2017 I made the trek to Belle, Missouri.  I was not sure what to expect especially with the recent flooding of the Gasconade River.

HOLY COW.  This place has so much going on.  The main focus is artist residencies and building a huge artist community in the little town of Belle, Missouri.  There are poets, writers, painters, musicians and a ceramic artist there right now and in the near future, more theater, performance, and ceramic artists.  

My interest was sparked due to a conversation with Aaron Fine, a past professor of mine.  He told me of this place and that they were working on a ceramics studio.  He said he would connect me and that is how I ended up kind of consulting and dreaming of a residency at OAC.  

Ceramic people, keep an eye out for this residency as they are building a great little teaching studio, kilns of all types including soda and an anagama.  It is really a fantastic vision.

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.