MICA: Art Market

As I’ve mentioned, MICA’s Holiday Art Market is right around the corner. If you’re around Baltimore, come to MICA’s Campus, Leidy Atrium in the Brown Center, this week to explore the ultimate holiday shopping ground. There will be 250 vendors consisting of students, staff, and alumni selling everything from jewelry  and pottery to handmade books [...]

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Leaves! New! & News

Or…I’m turning over a new leaf?
In honor of my new and beautiful website launching sometime soon (within the next week!), which in itself is in honor of art market, I’m going to start posting again. It’s exactly the kick in the butt I need to make some time for my internet self.
In news this week:
I [...]

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Woven Bookmarks

This year I decided to actually get off my butt and participate in MICA’s annual Art Market doing what I do best- weaving! These little hand woven bookmarkets make for a perfect and unique Christmas gift, so if you’re around Baltimore Dec. 9-12 (I’ll remind everyone again as the date gets closer) you should stop [...]

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First Semester, Junior Year, MICA

I know there has been a serious lack of updates lately, but this artist is busy busy.  After being a TA and an RA for MICAs pre-college program, an experience that had me working with amazing artists (Valeska Populoh and Margaret Hluch for two) teaching fiber (garment, sculpture, shibori), I took a few weeks off [...]

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Teacher in the House!

Some of you remember way back an exciting post sharing my offer of employment for MICA’s summer Pre-College program, and some of you may be wondering why the heck there is an ostrich at the top of the post and not new beautiful embroideries or that dang rag rug I keep promising. Never fear! Those [...]

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Can Someone Just Pay Me To Weave Beautiful Cloth? (Please)

Otherwise titled: “What am I supposed to do with a degree in fiber arts, and do I really need to keep going to an expensive, though prestigious, art school in order to pursue my dreams? Thanks biased American culture, thanks.”
Ok guys, I don’t know what to do. I am not a designer. More specifically, I’m [...]

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Good News!

This is totally how I feel today.
Dear Rachel,
It is with great pleasure that I offer you summer employment as a Teaching Assistant/Resident Counselor (TARC) for the 2009 Pre-College Studio Residency Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
I just got this lovely e-mail today, after months of brow wrinkling from worries, so now I have [...]

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Sourcing Coordinates- Part 1

Suddenly being a college student and an artist seems like a whole lot of work.  Between 18 credits squeezed over the span of three days plus my workstudy assignment I have a lot on my plate. And I’m starting real life too! Yesterday was my first day interning for the wonderful and talented weaver Carly [...]

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Lana and the Spool of Thread- Experiments in Installation and Storytelling

Our final crit for the pickup project was on Monday, and I meant to update then when the comments from critique were fresh in my mind, but I was so exhausted I just went to bed instead.  Luckily I take extensive notes, not only on my own critique (which lasted a full forty-five minutes this [...]

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Busy busy busy. The holiday season, and finals, are upon us, and everyone here at MICA is running around with half finished scarves attachted to their knitting needles to sell at the Art Market and barely dry paintings on their way to final crit. Lucky for me, I opted out of Art Market this year (lack [...]

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