Springville Museum of Art: Educators of Utah Show

Hey, just wanted to let you know about some of my work that is up in a show right now at the Springville Museum of Art.  The show is a juried collection of works done by Utah educators.  This is what I have in:

   

I have had a thing for pandas lately...

Featuring Some of My MOST Favorite Artists:

For those of you wondering how student teaching is going, I thought i would give you a little fill-in.  I am having a great time, and have just started working at my second school this week - and it's JR HIGH...!  I will miss the elementary students, but I think that jr. high is going to be a lot of fun.  Here are some of the masterpieces that my first graders created:  self-portraits :)

Afternoon Activity

Some of you may have seen the shoes I painted a few weeks ago for Dane.  I have been trying to figure out a design for me.  This idea was inspired by Joanne and her boys.  (Although she doesn't know that.)  I am just going to try and build up a portfolio for now and think I will paint myself another, less batman-y pair.  Oh yeah, and I am no where near charging the price Dane listed before.  Anyway, these were kinda fun.  

p.s. these shoes were a much cheaper alternative to Vans:  $5.99 at Rite-Aid.

Figure Sculpture

Hey, so these are a few of the pieces that I made this last term in my figure sculpture class.  They both came from molds that I made after sculpting a model in clay.  I then filled the molds with french fries, a tape measure (as you can see above) and resin, a kind of plastic.  They are both dealing with issues of self image, (they are two separate pieces) and all that fun stuff, and I am entering them into a show here in provo.

Stained Glass

Here are some of the finished products from my stained-glass class. To be honest it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. The piece below was my final window project. I just finished the frame yesterday, and it is going up in a show on campus tomorrow. So if anyone is in town, or wants to be in town, there will be a show of my class's work in the HFAC (5th floor, I think) for the next month or so. (Everything in the show will be glass work, so that should make it pretty easy to find, if anyone is looking:) . )

Paper-case Binding and Clamb-shell Box

Spring term is over, summer is well underway and I have a little catching up to do as far as posting my books... Above is my "paper-case" bound book. On this project, I learned to make a rounded spine, and a few other pretty old school techniques. Each of the signatures were folded from single pieces of paper (some of the edges have yet to be torn, and are still folded.) I don't know if that makes any of sense...hmmm. Have any of you ever been to the press building in Palmyra where the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed? There you learn that 16 pages were printed at a time on one sheet, then that sheet was folded, the folded sections were sewn together, and then the edged were cut or trimmed. That is the same process here, just pre-trimming.
This book also has a hand sewn endband, but is a different style than my last book. It is secured by a leather strap that has been fed through the cover, and is covered with handmade paper (instead of a covered board) giving it a soft feeling.

The fore-edges of the cover come well over the end and bend around the text-block for protection. (I forget what it is called....grrr...that is driving me crazy!) I went pretty traditional with this book, and wanted to make it just like it would have been made hundreds of years ago. I am pretty happy with it.:)

Our next project was to make a clam-shell box. This is a box made for to hold books, portfolios, or anything that needs a special place to keep it safe. It is most often used as a conservation item in libraries and special collections for books with old bindings. Here is my box; I made it to fit my paper-case book: