09.20.12 //
It is about time I start blogging about my Rosendale experience and beyond. My bosses will be pleased!
Fall arrived this past week in Rosendale, NY and tea is the current drink of choice, all flavors at all hours of the day. Besides tea consumption, highlights of this past week at the studio include teaching private letterpress lessons to a few resident artists on our favorite Chandler & Price from 1899 - Earl - and printing letterpress with current book artist Rose Smith. I mowed almost all of Binnewater Lane, since Women's Studio has so much property! Finally, I spent the beginning of the week trouble shooting how to emboss fresh sheets of cotton paper and the results were fabulous. I have abaca paper I am going to pull in a few weeks that I cannot wait to experiment with and an 8-hour flax that is dye-ing to be pulp paint.
In other news, I travel to my Alma Mater HOUGHTON COLLEGE this upcoming week to TEACH my good friend and professor Jillian Sokso's classes. I will teach her relief, silkscreen, and junior seminar classes. I cannot wait to bring a few secrets I have picked up at the workshop back to my favorite stomping grounds. I will also be giving the artist lecture that week for the Fine Arts Seminar course. A sweet treat if you do ask me. Look for me if you are in the area next week!
From September 25 to October 1st I will be on FAB.com as a model, showing off the gorgeous Post Industrial Folk Wear by NYC turned upstate NY artist MAU. She is one of five current artist's in residence, working in the paper studio with collaborative partner Kate Hamilton.
On the horizon...should I go to Sierra Leone in February to teach paper making to the women there? I think YES! Look out to see if the timing/funding works out in my future News.
J
