1.17.2010

Departures and Arrivals...


The Good Ship Agnes is out of mothballs, loaded with stores and getting underway at sunup. I don't imagine Mr. Ford had this in mind when he built these big land boats, but they are fine circus-worthy vessels when effectively re-purposed. Sundown will find us secure in your berth and ready for an action packed week of exploring Other Possibilities.

1.15.2010

Reminder to soon-to-be Shoestringers

Oh yeah, that's right, guilt by association... proximity to Shoestringers makes the condition contagious!

Don't forget every student and every workshop participant needs to bring a box full o' stuff to contribute to the community pile. A shoe box size collection would be perfect and appropo...

What to bring? Well, you could take a look at my friend Jim's workplace and probably find some things...



Shoestring Artists: we make almost anything out of next to nothing...

We'll be in town Monday night, and see the first of you Tuesday morning, boxes in hand...

HUZZAH!!!

1.13.2010

Packing our trunks...






and trying to pick the perfect vehicle...

Coming soon to St. Andrews-Sewanee School: the Shoestring Artists Collective Traveling Road Show and Workshop of Other Possibilities

The excitement builds, let the countdown begin!

1.06.2010

Welcome to SAS, Shoestringers











Welcome Shoestringer Artists Collective to St. Andrew's-Sewanee School. We are a small boarding and day school in Southeastern Tennessee. Mark, Margaret, and Beth will meet us in person. We wish that all of you could see the wild exhibition created with your work in the SAS Gallery. We'll try to make it come to life for you through this blog. Meanwhile, here is a VIDEO to help you get to know the St. Andrew's-Sewanee community from afar.

1.04.2010

SAC/SAS Day 2

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Day two of the SAS show install

Installing the show: Sunday

It went better than my wildest dreams, so good in fact that i don't have any process pictures (wha????) because me and my awesome co-pilot, navigator and most excellent co-conspirator MC came in, put our heads down and WORKED all day and when we looked up we had a SHOW! (as well as a long cold dark drive back across the mountains ahead of us.) We loaded the Green Machine, grabbed some coffee and rolled on down the road getting home a little after midnight. (Travelers note: if you have occasion to be around Cleveland TN you might want to take a pass on the Subway...it's a LONG ways off the interstate and they make a S-L-O-W sandwich...)

I have a 4 minute or so walk-around silent video that I'm trying to get up tonight. In the meantime, some info regarding the Big Event(s) can be found right here

It looks SO GOOD and I'm really proud to being playing a part in the adventure. All the contributing artists were very generous, excited and easy to work with, thank you guys! And the St. Andrews-Sewanee folks have been treating us right! Thank you Christi Teasley for all your support, and for the opportunity to show Other Possibilities to the world at large.

Finally (for this post) I especially want to thank MC for everything she did to make this install go so well. Her energy, talent, humor, commitment, encouragement, smarts and plain old hard work is what made this as good as it is and I could not have done it without her help and support. I am generally NOT an easy person to take a car trip with but there wasn't a mile or an hour that I didn't thoroughly enjoy. THANK YOU doesn't begin to say how grateful I am...

Ok, it's COLD out, the wind is howling and I think the video might be done percolating so I want to get that up before lights out. Thanks to all the Shoestringers and stay tuned for more reports!