My Day Off

So, last me and a buddy of mine went to this restaurant/bar called the Brewery...this is were I go for all of my world cup viewing, karaoke, and general good times...well on Monday night they have live trivia. Of course I had to go, but not a whole lot of people were interested so it was just me and my friend. First mistake. You always need 3-5 people for trivia, that's my belief anyways, it also never hurts to have a doctor on your team. It turned out to be a lot of fun, but that extra person would definitely have helped. Oh well lesson learned. I was surprised at the variety of questions. There was an Africa question I got right. Answer: Liberia. Also, there was a question about a fragrance/perfume that a country singer wears, and we had to name that country singer. We did not get that right.

Moving on...

Today was my day off so I decided to take in some of the natural beauty as opposed to the unnatural beauty of Gatlinburg. I went in to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and decided I would hike the Chimney Tops. This is a pretty popular trail, but one I had not climbed before. It was only 2 miles long, 4 round trip, but they failed to mention that it's 2 miles straight up and 2 miles straight down. Dang, I did not realize how out of shape I was. It's all that fried southern food. Mmmmmm. Anyways, it was quite a work out and also very beautiful. When I got to the top I was greeted by a group of Tennessee locals and also a group of Hasidic Jews. True story, here are some photos from my fun-venture!

Also, I went to the Cherokee reservation and took in the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. It was pretty nice.

Good Eats

One of the best parts about working in the kitchen are the people you work with. I'm talking about both the work study students as well as the permanent kitchen staff. The Ladies that work in the kitchen are all very sweet, southern...in a Tennessee hills kind of way, and some of the most interesting people I've met. Shout out to them!!! and if you get on their good side, it's not hard to do they make you lots of good southern food. The other day I walked in to the kitchen for lunch and waiting there for the work studies was a feast of fried green tomatoes, fried corn bread, corn of some delicious variety, and I think some other stuff. And just this last Friday the Ladies were making and canning their own jelly...no reason, just because they felt like it. This is way better than the food network.

My Work

And here are some images of my work!!

Calvin admiring my work...these are the masks I did in my first class.

These are some "investigations" I did using cold connections and bone. I got a whole bag of rattlesnake bones from my friend and I've been having a lot of fun playing with them. On the far left is a piece that incorporates a South African coin. I sawed out the image of the kudu. I did these in my second class.Another photo of my masks.I'm really excited about this piece. It's an altoids tin and snapple top that I burned and manipulated into this little hand held shrine. Note the cold connected bone and also a bronze cast mask that I made here last summer. Full circle. On the front is a Namibian coin that I sawed out and riveted on.

PS

Please save your altoids boxes, I will use them

Work-Study/Studio Assistant Art Show

Here are some images of the work study/studio assistant art show that we put together last Thursday. It was pretty awesome full of great art work and was very professional.

Some of the students at Arrowmont admiring the artwork. We had a great turnout and a wide variety of work on display from ceramic sculpture to pastel drawings.This is what you first see when you walk in the painting studio turned gallery.

This is a picture of me and Becky. Becky works in the kitchen and also happens to be the sister of my preschool teacher!At the end of the night everyone had gone. This is my friend Jenni who's idea it was to have a work-study/studio assistant show in the first place celebrating the night's success.

Update from A-mont

First of all, happy Fourth of July!!! I hope everybody had a good Independence Day full of hot dogs, parades, fireworks, coordinated outfits, and FREEDOM!!! I know I did.
Second-of-ly, this is week two of my metals class. I've been working a lot with snake bones that I recently got as gift. The class is geared towards incorporating found objects into your metal pieces. My found objects are obviously the bones and some other random things here and there. Mostly I've been experimenting but I did make a pair of pretty sweet earrings and I also started working on a project that I'm pretty excited about today. More on that later. Also, my activity today was to document the color orange!! There's a lot of orange going on in the metals studio. Examples of that later too...internet connection is being super slow and I have things to do.

For a fun activity for you all out there you can google Bob Ebendorf...he's the metals instructor and his stuff is pretty sweet. Enjoy

Back in Business

So, I couldn't really get the internets working for a while but now I have it again. Hurray!!! Lots has happened. Work..Art..Work..Art..Gatlinburgneonfriedfood..World Cup..Work..but more on that later. Stay tuned for updates.