Friday, July 31, 2009
Name Drop in the Citypaper...wee!
There's an article in the Citypaper for tomorrow's art and music party at Pterodactyl in North Philly...includes a KVV name drop. Famous! Just kidding.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I etsy'd.
Finally have a populated Etsy shop. If you check the side bar on the right, you'll see lots of new fancy wearables. If you made it to Memphis Taproom's Handmade Market this past Saturday, you'll recognize that these were there in mass!
Fancy things like lockets:
Sculptural necklaces:
And fabulous prints!
The jewelry is all one of a kind, but I have 8 or 9 left of this print! Snatch it up and show your pro-contraceptive pride!
Fancy things like lockets:
Sculptural necklaces:
And fabulous prints!The jewelry is all one of a kind, but I have 8 or 9 left of this print! Snatch it up and show your pro-contraceptive pride!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Impromptu art show and birthday bonanza
I'll be creating an installation in space #6, weee! If you've been following, you'll know that I've been working on all kinds of new things this summer, so come see them!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Weekend Adventures
Took the day off with Sammy Friday to execute a 'Sam and Kate Adventure 1.0' There will be more of these to come. I suppose the first official 'Sam and Kate Adventure' (let's say version 0.5) was with our friend Mark, as we scoured the neighborhood thrift stores for children's toys for Sam to circuit bend. Mark documented this for his blog, thepovertyjetset.com, as one of his missions of the Ford Fiesta Movement.
That said, Sam and I rented the MasterP from zipcar (He's trying out the zip while I nostalgically hold on to PhillyCarShare...), ran some errands in the neighborhood, then hit 76 to say goodbye to Philly for the afternoon. First, we visited the parentals for lunch, a tasty veggie wrap with tahini and plums. It's easy to see where he inherits his love for providing others with great food.
Next, over the hill and through the woods to St. Peter's Village, a quaint little village in Chester County that boasts glacial boulders and a cute little inn. We climbed along the river on the boulders, enjoyed the sound of the river until the sound of the impending thunderstorm brought us back to civilization. This little place reminded me immediately of the town surrounding the Mystery Spot, in Santa Cruz, California, and the drive into Big Sur. If you think that all of America is the same, then you're right. Luckily, I could site this as an example rather than the blooming strip malls and suburban sprawl that usually bring about that notion.
Even with a stark difference of vegetation, I felt like I was right at home, all tricks of the eye that defy gravity and physics aside. Granted, it did seem like some of the most stationary boulders were a little precarious. We grabbed some ridiculously good whole wheat bread at the village bakery and were on our way.
Also on our itinerary: a trip to Zern's, a huge indoor farmer's and flea market in Gilbertville, PA. We went specifically for some fresh Italian sausage from a very specific butcher. Kudos! It was delicious!
Back to Philly for dinner: sausage, onions, veggies, and a going-away party for our friends Jim and Margie, who are moving to D.C. soon.
~~~
P.S. Saturday's Handmade Market at the Memphis Taproom was a great success! Thanks to all who came out and supported the hardworking artists and crafters! We had a great time, despite the assaults from walnut-chucking squirrels!
Studio-mate, Lauren Fischer, and I grabbed a nice cup of tea and played checkers at The Random Tea Room (best chai ever) after the Handmade Market on Saturday. Even checkers can be fiercely competitive between two Leos.
That said, Sam and I rented the MasterP from zipcar (He's trying out the zip while I nostalgically hold on to PhillyCarShare...), ran some errands in the neighborhood, then hit 76 to say goodbye to Philly for the afternoon. First, we visited the parentals for lunch, a tasty veggie wrap with tahini and plums. It's easy to see where he inherits his love for providing others with great food.
Next, over the hill and through the woods to St. Peter's Village, a quaint little village in Chester County that boasts glacial boulders and a cute little inn. We climbed along the river on the boulders, enjoyed the sound of the river until the sound of the impending thunderstorm brought us back to civilization. This little place reminded me immediately of the town surrounding the Mystery Spot, in Santa Cruz, California, and the drive into Big Sur. If you think that all of America is the same, then you're right. Luckily, I could site this as an example rather than the blooming strip malls and suburban sprawl that usually bring about that notion.
Even with a stark difference of vegetation, I felt like I was right at home, all tricks of the eye that defy gravity and physics aside. Granted, it did seem like some of the most stationary boulders were a little precarious. We grabbed some ridiculously good whole wheat bread at the village bakery and were on our way.Also on our itinerary: a trip to Zern's, a huge indoor farmer's and flea market in Gilbertville, PA. We went specifically for some fresh Italian sausage from a very specific butcher. Kudos! It was delicious!
Back to Philly for dinner: sausage, onions, veggies, and a going-away party for our friends Jim and Margie, who are moving to D.C. soon.
~~~
P.S. Saturday's Handmade Market at the Memphis Taproom was a great success! Thanks to all who came out and supported the hardworking artists and crafters! We had a great time, despite the assaults from walnut-chucking squirrels!
Studio-mate, Lauren Fischer, and I grabbed a nice cup of tea and played checkers at The Random Tea Room (best chai ever) after the Handmade Market on Saturday. Even checkers can be fiercely competitive between two Leos.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Samantha Ernst- Mondays @ Moore-July 09
Because my camera was finally found (hiding in a bag of goodies that I moved to my studio from The Art Shop), I can share with you the invitation to Samantha Ernst's closing tomorrow.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Some Catching Up...Part 4.
Yes, part 4.
As some of you may know, I plan to apply this fall for the career development program through CFEVA. I've been working on sculptures and installation components for a body of work called mini/maxi (pad). The tea quilt project is part of this (and is going quite well as several friends, old and new, have been bringing me their used teabags!), and I've made a few small sculptures. The carving project interrupted me for a while, but I am eager to get back on track. I'd love to apply to this program with all new work.
So, as a reminder, bring me your used teabags!
A second huge distraction has been this:
Memphis Taproom's Handmade Market will be held this Saturday in their lovely little side lot and will definitely spill out onto the sidewalk. They are located at Memphis & Cumberland, on the border of Fishtown and Port Richmond. The event runs from 10-3, and I'll be there with a Bloody Mary in hand (they make the best ones in town, now that my bff and favorite bloody mary-maker, miss Mandy Harrington, has returned to her home state)
I've been working on wearable alternative etching projects, namely, a collection of earrings and necklaces of etched vintage brass and copper stock parts. Brass silhouettes and large lockets are the core of this series of jewelry, with one-of-a-kind combinations of vintage parts, pearls, and other oddities. Keep your eyes peeled for the dollhouse size shaker chair earrings. They're a hoot.
Not to dismiss my art practice, I will have plenty of etchings, block prints, and other works on paper from my ongoing 11x15 series. This is a great series, because it's bound by a dimension, not a style, and changes in the work over the past several years has been tracked through this series. You can see the series of prints that started the 11x15, Mutabor, on Etsy (link-love on the sidebar).
To read about it in their own words, and for a list of the participants this Saturday at Memphis, you can check their events page.
I hope to see you Saturday!
As some of you may know, I plan to apply this fall for the career development program through CFEVA. I've been working on sculptures and installation components for a body of work called mini/maxi (pad). The tea quilt project is part of this (and is going quite well as several friends, old and new, have been bringing me their used teabags!), and I've made a few small sculptures. The carving project interrupted me for a while, but I am eager to get back on track. I'd love to apply to this program with all new work.
So, as a reminder, bring me your used teabags!
A second huge distraction has been this:
Memphis Taproom's Handmade Market will be held this Saturday in their lovely little side lot and will definitely spill out onto the sidewalk. They are located at Memphis & Cumberland, on the border of Fishtown and Port Richmond. The event runs from 10-3, and I'll be there with a Bloody Mary in hand (they make the best ones in town, now that my bff and favorite bloody mary-maker, miss Mandy Harrington, has returned to her home state)
I've been working on wearable alternative etching projects, namely, a collection of earrings and necklaces of etched vintage brass and copper stock parts. Brass silhouettes and large lockets are the core of this series of jewelry, with one-of-a-kind combinations of vintage parts, pearls, and other oddities. Keep your eyes peeled for the dollhouse size shaker chair earrings. They're a hoot.
Not to dismiss my art practice, I will have plenty of etchings, block prints, and other works on paper from my ongoing 11x15 series. This is a great series, because it's bound by a dimension, not a style, and changes in the work over the past several years has been tracked through this series. You can see the series of prints that started the 11x15, Mutabor, on Etsy (link-love on the sidebar).
To read about it in their own words, and for a list of the participants this Saturday at Memphis, you can check their events page.
I hope to see you Saturday!
Some catching up...part 3.
I am anxiously awaiting August!
First, the month starts off with my birthday...turning 24 on the 2nd. Sometimes I am surprised to have come this far, which sounds horribly pessimistic but that's not what I mean. The decision to make Philadelphia my home (which, quite frankly, happened almost as soon as I left the Poconos for good and moved into an apartment here in Philly sophomore year) changed me and propelled me into a confident social creature, proud of her womanhood, her craft & ideas, while in high school I still felt shy, confused by my desire to make art and wanted desperately to revert back to my roots and move back to the West Coast, where I thought I belonged. Now, I know that Philadelphia is destined to be the home to great VanVliet's, while making my roots on the east side, Fletcher, my only brother and a great love of my life, makes change, music, and movements in West Philly. (You can catch him on Sundays at The Marvelous record store, playing greats and blowing minds.)
I'll be meeting an Art Shop sculptor, Christina Barbachano, for the first time on the first. Christina lives in Sante Fe, but to coincide with an East Coast visit, she will be installing about 50 sculptures in the Art Shop's window space for the month.
Specimen will open Monday, August 3rd at The Art Shop @ Moore, and we will host Christina for an artists' reception and meet-n-greet that day from 5-7 pm. I really want to make her visit back to Philadelphia and to Moore a great one, so I hope everyone will come out!
Christina builds ceramic (with other media) scarabs and shield, and sometimes scarab shield. Some sculptures become humanoids with little heads, and others seem to be protective charms; shields watching over the space they occupy.
I'm really excited to see a whole field of these pieces in our window space. I know we'll be safe all month long.
First Mondays @ Moore
Specimen
-Christina Barbachano '98
August 3-31, 2009
Opening reception with the artist; Monday, August 3rd, 5-7 pm.
First, the month starts off with my birthday...turning 24 on the 2nd. Sometimes I am surprised to have come this far, which sounds horribly pessimistic but that's not what I mean. The decision to make Philadelphia my home (which, quite frankly, happened almost as soon as I left the Poconos for good and moved into an apartment here in Philly sophomore year) changed me and propelled me into a confident social creature, proud of her womanhood, her craft & ideas, while in high school I still felt shy, confused by my desire to make art and wanted desperately to revert back to my roots and move back to the West Coast, where I thought I belonged. Now, I know that Philadelphia is destined to be the home to great VanVliet's, while making my roots on the east side, Fletcher, my only brother and a great love of my life, makes change, music, and movements in West Philly. (You can catch him on Sundays at The Marvelous record store, playing greats and blowing minds.)
I'll be meeting an Art Shop sculptor, Christina Barbachano, for the first time on the first. Christina lives in Sante Fe, but to coincide with an East Coast visit, she will be installing about 50 sculptures in the Art Shop's window space for the month.
Specimen will open Monday, August 3rd at The Art Shop @ Moore, and we will host Christina for an artists' reception and meet-n-greet that day from 5-7 pm. I really want to make her visit back to Philadelphia and to Moore a great one, so I hope everyone will come out!
Christina builds ceramic (with other media) scarabs and shield, and sometimes scarab shield. Some sculptures become humanoids with little heads, and others seem to be protective charms; shields watching over the space they occupy.
I'm really excited to see a whole field of these pieces in our window space. I know we'll be safe all month long.
First Mondays @ Moore
Specimen
-Christina Barbachano '98
August 3-31, 2009
Opening reception with the artist; Monday, August 3rd, 5-7 pm.
Some catching up...part 2.
Second, I recently (finally) was able to complete the freelance carving project that's been looming sine sometime this spring. It turns out, that I am excellent at carving Garamond inset beveled lettering, creating sharp shadows that show off the carving even in subtle light. Yay!
However, this was a multi-faceted project, which included some gold leafing. This was my second time ever using gold leaf, the first being the (ahem) GoldenRod collaboration with Mandy Carmichael at Little Berlin.
Tim, the woodworker who hired me for the carving, just sent some photos from his end, after the plaque received a nice coat of varnish and is being assembled with the trim and book-ends I carved up for him. Shimmers and shines!
I am glad that this project is finally complete (for me), and really look forward to seeing the final product. A bit more trim and color is to come (the white is just primer).
I was so grateful to have the opportunity to do this project; it reminded me how very much I love to carve wood. I have so many curious pieces of scrap wood in my studio, just waiting to become something wonderful, that I will have to revisit woodcarving again soon. Very soon.
However, this was a multi-faceted project, which included some gold leafing. This was my second time ever using gold leaf, the first being the (ahem) GoldenRod collaboration with Mandy Carmichael at Little Berlin.
Tim, the woodworker who hired me for the carving, just sent some photos from his end, after the plaque received a nice coat of varnish and is being assembled with the trim and book-ends I carved up for him. Shimmers and shines!
I am glad that this project is finally complete (for me), and really look forward to seeing the final product. A bit more trim and color is to come (the white is just primer).I was so grateful to have the opportunity to do this project; it reminded me how very much I love to carve wood. I have so many curious pieces of scrap wood in my studio, just waiting to become something wonderful, that I will have to revisit woodcarving again soon. Very soon.
Some catching up...part 1
I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now, but I seem to have misplaced (lost...) my camera, and that has put a serious damper on my desire to share what's been going on at the Art Shop and in the studio.
First, Samantha Ernst, a 2009 graduate at Moore has some spunky new mixed media collages up in the window space at Moore, and we're hosting a closing party and meet-n-greet for her this Monday (July 27) from 5-7pm. If you haven't heard of Sam or seen her work before, she was recently part of a multi-sensory exhibition at the Painted Bride. Here is a photo of her installing her work there:
Some of the frames that are suspended there reappear in the work that's at the Art Shop now, or at least hearken to the same thing. Sam uses almost exclusively recycled, found, donated materials, so her work is never boring and always changing! My personal fave creations of Sam's are beautiful pen and ink drawings on torn pieces of cardboard and other papers, attaching pieces together to get to the scale she wants.
She was also an amazing student employee at The Art Shop @ Moore, and I will miss her now that she has graduated! Come by Monday night to say hello, check out the art, and munch of some tasty delights with us!
Mondays @ The Art Shop @ Moore: July 2009
Samantha Ernst installs a new series of mixed media collages that are composed of entire recycled/found/donated materials in the Art Shop's window space.
Closing reception with the artist:
Monday, July 27th, 5-7 pm
The Art Shop @ Moore College of Art & Design
20th & The Parkway (between 19th and 20th, on the south side of Race St)
215.965.8586 for more information
First, Samantha Ernst, a 2009 graduate at Moore has some spunky new mixed media collages up in the window space at Moore, and we're hosting a closing party and meet-n-greet for her this Monday (July 27) from 5-7pm. If you haven't heard of Sam or seen her work before, she was recently part of a multi-sensory exhibition at the Painted Bride. Here is a photo of her installing her work there:
Some of the frames that are suspended there reappear in the work that's at the Art Shop now, or at least hearken to the same thing. Sam uses almost exclusively recycled, found, donated materials, so her work is never boring and always changing! My personal fave creations of Sam's are beautiful pen and ink drawings on torn pieces of cardboard and other papers, attaching pieces together to get to the scale she wants.She was also an amazing student employee at The Art Shop @ Moore, and I will miss her now that she has graduated! Come by Monday night to say hello, check out the art, and munch of some tasty delights with us!Mondays @ The Art Shop @ Moore: July 2009
Samantha Ernst installs a new series of mixed media collages that are composed of entire recycled/found/donated materials in the Art Shop's window space.
Closing reception with the artist:
Monday, July 27th, 5-7 pm
The Art Shop @ Moore College of Art & Design
20th & The Parkway (between 19th and 20th, on the south side of Race St)
215.965.8586 for more information
(~These are both borrowed photos, and they belong to their creator, not VanStudio or myself~)
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