TOWSON!!!

I just wanted to say thanks to all of my new friends at Towson for inviting me to come and lecture about my work. I especially want to thank Jan Baum and the grad students (Liz Steiner,JP to name a few) for making me feel so welcomed. I made it back home around 2:45 AM! but it was totally worth it! Thanks again you guys!

Check out all of the metals students blogs here!!!!

FYI

So just to let you guys know. I am doing lecture at Towson tomorrow on my work.

ALTERNATIVE/METHODS, MATERIALS ARTHUR HASH


Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education Lectures

Center for the Arts, Lecture Hall Room 2032

Thursday, September 11, 6:30 p.

Ganson on TED !!!!

just for fun

just thought folks would enjoy this. Amazing.

my ETSY store is open! again.....

So I was waiting to get settled before I announce that I was re-opening my ETSY store. I couldn't wait anymore! I think my caffeine intake has quadrupled since I moved here! Check it out, I added bunch of new stuff. -arthur

new pieces

Here a few pieces I have been working on. A series of rings and brooches cut from ping pong paddles and these "ribbons" made from safety cones. Now that the studio is set up I finally have a little time to make a few things. Let me know what you think.

Sooooooo......I have been really really busy (it seems like I start every blog entry like this. I am busy... blah blah blah). Anyhoo, I have a lecture coming up at Towson University in Maryland (Sept 25th). See more info here
I have a few shows coming up. I will have to blog about that stuff later. I am kind of in a whirlwind of paperwork and boxes so yeah. I am trying to keep up with it all.

In no particular order, here is what I have been doing......

I moved to New Paltz NY and started my new job as a Metals Lecturer with Jamie Bennet, Myra Mimlitsch Gray and John Cogswell We got REALLY lucky and a faculty member had a house she had on the market that wasn't selling (sound familiar?) so she needed to rent it. We were in the right place at the right time. Here is the view from my back porch.



and the side yard...




With Liz's help I unpacked our pods (no help from the dog. Little jerk.)



I found a place in town that sells my favorite beer. Thats a Belgian triple in 12 oz bottles! Yeah I have never seen it in small bottles either. Man it was good.



I went to work and moved into my new office. Great view of the mountain. Lots of great folks here. No photos of folks yet.





We unpacked some more crap.



Liz planted some stuff. YELLOW!!!



I built a new dry-erase/drawing/layout work table. Got a nice sun burn cutting wood on the back porch.



I almost set up all of my studio



and I made a bunch of handouts for my new classes using Rhino and illustrator.



whew, yeah man I am tired. Thank goodness its the weekend. I can hear Liz downstairs clanging pots and pans around, which means she found the box with all of the cookware. Think I will go help... talk soon.

Jantze Brogard Asshoff =trashcan

It is now day two in New Paltz. Right before I left Richmond Liz's transmission went out on her Mazda Tribute (cha-ching!). Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I got here in my Jeep my transmission went out(CHA-CHING!!). I may have a fund raiser where I have folks beat my car with a baseball bat. With the money I am going to buy a scooter.
I am getting REALLY busy with the semester about to start but I will try and keep up with postings.

Somehow this trashcan [via] Jantze Brogard Asshoff symbolized all of my feelings about my house before we left Richmond. Its such great idea

more helvetica

Helvetica made from multiple type fonts with a little Nirvana thrown in. [via] NOTCOT

Anat Grozovski at Quirk

So I happened to swing by the Quirk gallery in the middle of our whirlwind move and caught the Vault show on First Friday (Anat Grozovski). Something about this work seemed so interesting to me. Each piece formed these little vignettes. I found myself staring at them making up my own story of why this little red string was attached at the top or why each pearl was on an individual gold hinge. There were these really nice fanned doilies and sheets of mica that protruded from the tops of rings. It is such a cliche thing to say but this work "exists on so many levels" for me. Oh man.....

Moving on. It was hung along the wall in almost a scientific manner, which was perfect. I love when things work. Go see it for yourself. The show will be up from August 1 - August 30. Quirk is open Monday-Friday 10-5.


Here is an excerpt from Quirk's website about the "Vault" Project:

"On January 3, 2008 Quirk will launch the Vault Project 2008

The Vault Project 2008 is a yearlong series of exhibitions at Quirk Gallery. Curated by C. James Meyer, Emeritus Professor, Craft & Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University and Robert Ebendorf, Distinguished Professor of Metalwork and Jewelry at East Carolina University.

The curatorial intent for the Vault Project 2008 was to present a group of exhibitions which will challenge the audience. Meyer and Ebendorf agreed on twelve artists without regard to media utilized, point in artistic career or gender of the artist. They did, however, look for a unique artistic vision. Because of the small, intimate nature of the Vault the curators have opened the door for invited artists to experiment with new ideas."

anyway here are some shots of the show (sorry the new iphone just didn't do it justice):

MOVING!!!

Still moving. The dog and I are taking a quick break near an AC vent

PODS have landed

Our PODs have arrived. Thank god I ordered two.

eye jewelry

You probably seen this but I thought it was cool. It makes my eyes water.




via: Erick Larenbeek

new webpage

Just updated my webpage. Check it out and help me make sure it all works.

new stuff

just some quick photos of work I am trying to get done before we leave for NY.

dentist

So I thought I would mention one more thing. I had to go to the dentist yesterday. It turned out that a few of my fillings had failed and needed to be replaced. So they had to grind out 3 fillings and refill them. It took three hours..... yeah. Anyhoo it didn't hurt at all while they were doing it but today I am feeling it. The crazy part is, and I am sure this is old news, they used this new Ultraviolet curing ceramic/resin. Last time I had a filling it was a metal alloy type thing. So you can imagine when they brought this crazy light wand doo-dad up to my mouth I was kind of freaked out. Well you can guess where this is going. I am going to find some of this stuff and try it for myself. I know a few folks have already messed with this stuff (Phil Carrizzi: see photo below). Also the new 3D printer that we ordered at New Paltz works on the same principal where resin is cured using a UV light as it is being pulled out of a pool or reservoir. Cool stuff.

Sooooooooo. I haven't written anything in a while. I feel like my life has become a whirlwind of paperwork, carpentry, computers and house hunting. In anticipation of getting ready for the big move Liz and I are trying to sell her house, rent mine, buy a new house, find a place to rent in New Paltz and finish up my job at VCU. So you can imagine how hard it has been to find time to sit down and write a few things on ye-old blog. I think we have successfully found a place to rent while Liz's place is on the market. When her place sells we will be able to buy a place up yonder. Until then we have been packing packing packing. I didn't realize how much crap we have until we started to box everything up.
Anyhoo, after dealing with my flooded basement Liz and I visited New Paltz one more time to find a place to live. I think we did it. There is a place we love that we are going to try and get. We pulled out of that other house. It was just way too expensive and WAY too small. We realized that we have too much stuff, hence the WAY too small. It seems like a perfect time to reduce the amount of crap that we own. So I have been recycling all of my old magazines, consolidating my DVD collection, getting rid of that old coffee table that was always a eyesore and just generally throwing away a lot of crap. We ordered our PODs which I am excited about. They come at the end of the month which will be nice. Once they show up we will be sending off the majority of our stuff into storage for a month or so until we can get settled. I will try and post some more when I can. Until then I will leave you with this photo of the "farmers stand" that is down the street from the house we are looking at. I put it in quotes because really its an open air grocery store.

oh man

So I was going to write about a metals show I saw by the senior metals students at VCU but my freaking basement flooded last night!!(no worries. I will write about it later).

So far there is no structural damage (cross your fingers) the bad news is that Liz and I were packing our studios to go to New Paltz and all of the boxes were on the floor down there!! I was told by the city that "someone" forgot to turn off my service before they purged the main line. They have been working on the water in Jackson Ward for about two months now and it has been a complete mess. I was told that in the course of one day all of the water from the main line followed my service line and emptied into my basement. So I am spending most of the day today cataloging tools and such that got ruined so I can make a claim. I am also kind of posting this as a time line just in case for insurance purposes. I have some great shots on my other camera. Liz kept yelling at me to stop taking photos and start saving my stuff (check the bottom of the stump for a water lever reference). Here are the ones I got off while she wasn't looking:

hmmm

you have to skip through the first 60 some seconds to get to the good stuff but if you like radiohead's new album you will like this.

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