Albright-Knox Gallery Tour

Today, a bunch of my Sheridan professors and classmates and I crossed the border for a gallery tour. We went to Buffalo, NY to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. It was a surprisingly short drive, even with the hassle of being stopped at border security. We saw a lot of amazing pieces of art, and many famous works I remember studying in my art history classes.

One of my favourite pieces by far would have to be the scribble wall drawing by Sol Lewitt, shown in the picture below. Yes, it's a drawing. Taking 5,026 hours and 1,717 pencils, this amazing piece is completely mind-blowing! There was also a room on this one photographer who travelled the world based on suggestions of people she had met. The entire wall was filled with mini-photographs.

It was a great day filled with friends, laughter and lots of art!

Art and Art History Awards

This post is looong overdue! On November the 15th, I attended the annual Art and Art History awards at Sheridan. I was informed before that a bunch of my friends and I were all going to receive awards. I was very surprised to see that I had won two awards - Excellence in Sculpture 1 and Excellence in Photography 2. For all of the sculpture award recipients, the sculpture professors had created these fun little sculpture-trophies. Mine is shown below - unfortunately, I dropped it while hugging a friend, but I was able to fix everything except for the plexiglass bird (which was my favourite part). I just love how the one detail says "cut this out." I also won a gift certificate to the Sheridan bookstore as part of the sculpture award, which will definitely come in handy! For the photography award, I won a year membership and a bunch of publications from Gallery 44 in Toronto, which is a centre for contemporary photography. I can't wait to get there and sign up!

Now I am pretty much done my classes - I just have two left on Monday, and then two exams mid-December. I can't believe how fast this term has gone by, but I am also very excited to go home for the holidays after my exams!

Christmas Decorating

When I was home, I was able to take a short break from printing to help my parents decorate the outside of our house for Christmas. It was a lot of fun to put the colourful lights and glass balls on the trees, and we definitely lucked out with the great weather. You may recognize the red ornaments from last Christmas and my iStock portfolio. I'm looking forward to taking more pictures of them when we get some snow! :)

Ready for the Show!

It's November 13th and a while since I've blogged, so here is what has been going on in my life. I have been busy working on my final projects for classes before the holidays. Only 2 more weeks of class to go! I've also been working on the items I will be showing at the "Christmas in the Gallery" art show at the Southampton Art School and Gallery.

I went home last Thursday night so I would have the entire weekend to finish things up for the show. It was an extremely busy, but successful time! A huge thank you goes out to my parents who let me use their ink and printer, for all their great ideas and for helping in all my creative production-lines. Each night I went to sleep with the sounds of our printer working away in my head. 17 calendars, 156 note cards, and 12 framed photos later, all the work is finally done! I am back in Mississauga for the time being, but I can't wait to go home again in December to see my cards and stuff on display!

Here are some pictures of a selection of things I will have in the show:

Hallowe'en

Happy Halloween, everyone!

On Thursday, I completed my part of our class's collaborative mosaic we are making for a kindergarten class in Toronto. It is a large work of Ontario birds and fish. I was lucky enough to get a segment with almost a whole bird! I had so much fun working on it and can't wait to see how the final mosaic will look! Here is a picture of my piece:

Paul was able to visit me this past weekend and we went to a Halloween Party at my friend's house downtown. It was good to see her and we had a lot of fun! On Saturday, we both did some school work, went on a photo adventure at a gorgeous park, and went out for a delicious sushi dinner. On Sunday, we went to a local church, and then we parted and finished up our school work for the week! It was a fast, but very fun weekend!

Photo Blog

I started this blog as a way to share my art with the world, but it very quickly turned into more of a personal blog. I have been toying with the idea of creating a second blog, dedicated to sharing my photography.

On October first, I launched this wordpress blog that will do just that. I kept it "secret" for a while to see if I would be able to keep it up. So far, so good!

I have it linked in the sidebar with my iStock portfolio link, and I have it in my "Favourite Blogs" section as well, so you can easily see when there is a new post. I encourage you all to check it out! Feedback and comments are always welcome :)

Surprise Weekend

On my first post in October, I commented that I couldn't wait to see what surprises October had in store for me. I made sure I specifically used this word, because of an even that Emma and I started planning in August— a Surprise Party to celebrate our parents' 25th Anniversary. We had it planned so that our parents had no idea we would even be home that weekend, so seeing us, and everyone else (including our family from Ignace!) was a complete surprise. I will never forget the look on their faces when they saw us!

Planning an event 3 hours from where Emma and I live entailed a lot of hard work and stress, but with the help of friends and family, we were able to pull everything together to create an almost seamless event. We had such a great time celebrating with our closest family and friends. I wish the visiting never had to end!

I wasn't able to take my camera home, so I will share some pictures my dad's friend took.