My installation is finished! This Friday, April 27th, from 8-10pm will be the opening reception for the SAIC MFA exhibition. The address is 33 S. State Street, floor 7.

This summer I have been invited for a month-long residency at Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. I look forward to getting to know more about a great organization in my home state and meeting new people. I will also be preparing for my new position as woodworking/sculpture/photography teacher at Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, NJ (just outside of Philadephia).

I have looked at Elsewhere the past two years, just waiting until I could get the chance to participate. Hopefully that time has come, this summer I will be going to work at the living museum! Elsewhere Website

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is holding a series of 8 short lectures from educators sharing projects and I was selected to present ProtoStudio! The lecture will be on February 7th from 4:30-6:30 at the MCA.

I am documenting the first full year of ProtoStudio advanced art program for high school students at Lane Tech at the ProtoStudio blog. In the program I have been able to experiment with a challenging curriculum for an interdisciplinary group of students. Please take a look if you haven't already!

August 31st begins my final year of school at SAIC. I am working on finishing projects related to my time in Chile and I will be starting the next year of Proto Studio at Lane Tech High School and working at the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP) on occasion. In addition to what is up in Chicago, we will be debuting a new website for the Sycamore Hill Bell Tower Project in the coming months!

The Com(m)a GFRY studio summer trip was fantastic. Chile is an incredible country, and the student movement happening there now is an example people everywhere can follow. Thank you to everyone in Talca and Santiago for your hospitality.

I am assisting John Preus and Jessica Cochran in their design of a reading room at Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper Arts. We are using a bunch of old desks to transform the gallery space and create displays for the artists' books in the exhibition The World As Text

view the process at the blog below
http://theworldastext.tumblr.com/

In about three weeks I will be heading to Talca, Chile as part of the com(m)a GFRY studio. I will be working with residents to repair and build small projects in wood, all the while sharing woodworking techniques with the people there, and finally leaving tools behind in a neighborhood center. Any donations of tools is excellent and I will be posting paintings for sale as a fundraiser in the next few days.

A documentary filmmaker will be joining our COM(M)A studio in Talca, Chile. Please go to the link below and watch the trailer video, and donate if you feel so inclined!

Talca Interrupted Film on Kickstarter

Watch a Video of the model

The Outterbridges and myself will be displaying our research and proposal for the Town Commons park in Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On in Chapel Hill. Curated by Elin O'Hara Slavick and Carol Magee. It will be up from late January until April. More details to come.

I have been accepted into the GFRY architecture studio that will be investigating disaster relief design in Chile next semester. I look forward to seeing what its like working outside of my cultural safety zone.

The Final Master Plan for Town Commons Park in Greenville, NC recommends building our bell tower proposal, in addition to including historical information through design elements across the park.

You can see the information here

Open Studio Night is Friday, November 5. The Columbus building is open from 4:30 until 5:30 and my studio will be in the basement. I have a site-specific piece in the space that I will post on the site soon.

Countertransference, a group exhibiton at UNC Wilmington will have an opening reception May 28 from 5-7pm.

Please come out if you are in the Wilmington area, the show will definitely be an unusual one for Wilmington's art scene. The exhibiton will run from May 28 until August 6 at UNCW's Cultural Arts Building.
Gallery hours are 12 - 4 Monday - Thursday.

Featuring Lauren Frances Adams, Dan Brawley, Anne Brennan, Mei Ling Cann, Jonathan Cobbs, Adam Jacono, Abby Spangel Perry, Dixon Stetler, Jim Tisnado and Jan-Ru Wan.

I will be attending the School of the Art Institute Chicago for an MFA in sculpture starting this fall. I am very excited about a new environment, although it was difficult to make the decision to leave NC.

Countertransference is an exhibition at UNCW opening on May 28th and running until August 6th. The reception will be from 5-7 on May 28th, and during the summer it will be open m-th 12-4. This is my first larger curatorial adventure, and it includes many friends from NC.

The design firm hired to redesign the Town Commons in Greenville has released their first stage in the design process. On the Southwest corner of the park, they are planning to have a memorial to the history of the location (keyword for our project). Later this year, the final masterplan will be decided.

In September 2009 I participated in Sparkcon 2009 as a site-specific installation artist in downtown Raleigh. With less than a month to work within the location and finish a project, it was a difficult task. My installation, as well as 4 others were placed on Fayetteville Street just in front of the State Capitol building in PODS containers.

Also, if you are within the southeast NC region next summer, be sure to drop by UNCW for "Countertransference: Approaches in Social Art Practice." It is an exhibition I will be curating with approximately 10 artists working with regional issues in installation and conceptual derived formats. It includes a mixed bag of artists, from those just beginning graduate school to some well known faculty members who have won national arts awards.

Currently I am working with Sycamore Hill Church Members on a project to get the bell tower of their old church rebuilt as a historical monument. If you are interested in being a part of this project please send me an email.