For the past few weeks my department has hosted a pair of visiting artists from Nigeria.. We had Matt Ehizele (photo to the left) who works in welded steel and Mike Omoighe who is a painter. We were lucky enough to not only have them visiting classes and doing multiple artist talks for the University and the surrounding community, but they also worked on their own art while they were here. In the end, we had a wonderful time of exchanging ideas, learning about each other's culture and work and getting to experience their process and final work.

If you would like to see images of their process and final works check out my facebook album here. 
Check back later to find out where we ended up putting the artwork that was given to WSU after the visit!


In addition to the Artist's the past few weeks have been very busy. Classes are going well as we go into mid semester. I am sure that I will be putting up images of students and their work soon. This semester is moving a bit to fast though. It seems like we just started and now we are already half way through! I know I feel this way almost every semester but it still seems to catch me off guard every time. 

In my own work things are moving at a snails pace as per usual during the semester but I am keeping my hands in it a bit. I am still refining the wood sculpture I started a few months ago. I am in the sanding stage which always take a while. I am also finishing up a woven form that I started a month or so ago. Picture of that will be coming soon! If I get both done by Christmas I will be pretty pleased with myself:) 

My youtube project hasn't really moved so much. I haven't done a new video in a while. Maybe once mid-semester is over I can get back to that. There just isn't enough time in the day to do everything that I wish I could do! 

So that's the update for now. I hope you are all well, healthy, happy and enjoying life to the fullest!

Stacey

Well, it's been a while. I always feel like I need to start my posts with that sentence as it always seems to be true. In any case, it HAS been a while so here's a quick update. I have gone through and renovated the website as you probably already know. A few new pictures have gone up in the luminary gallery. I added a link from the Events page to the 2014 Faculty Exhibition opening night images page. Fun was had by all! I also put back the Insta-awesome page. I missed it so I put it back. I will update those images every once in a while. 
On non-website news. My department is hosting a visiting artist from Nigeria next week. It should prove to be interesting as we are setting up a whole new scenario at the studio so that he can do welding. We've never done it as part of our curriculum since we don't have the proper facilities but for this week as long as the weather holds, he will be welding in the parking lot! My students are excited (at least some of them are) I am sure that there will be pictures galore! So stay tuned for that. I might even put together a video of some sort.
Also, I will be doing my infamous Pumpkin Carving Party the Saturday before Halloween. Bring a pumpkin and have a blast with us. Costumes are cool too! We will be in the sculpture studio. Email me with any questions.
In my own art news... I am working on some weaving/woven form/soft sculpture stuff, wood carving, more luminaries, a figurative series that I have been trying to get off the ground for a couple of years and some small, wearable stone carving. Of course, now that classes are in full swing, I don't get much time to do my own work but I fit it in where I can. Pictures will be coming soon!
It looks like I will be taking on some hefty responsibilities in the administration type arena in the next coming semester. Should be an interesting experiment. I historically don't like the admin side of being a university professor but it seems that if you do your job well, you get "volunteered" for these types of things. Darnit! Sometimes I wonder if they are punishing me for trying to be a good teacher. It's like, "Hey! You are really good at what you do so here's some more work, huge responsibility, little power, no extra money really, oh and by the way, you still have to do everything else you were already doing! Isn't this great! What a reward!" That was of course sarcasm run rampant, but it still feels that way from time to time. I love working in academia. (that was heavily weighted with sarcasm as well of course)
So... that's as much of an update as my brain can remember for now. As I always say, I will try to do these more often but for those who know me, that's a load of bull. I will get to it when I get to it and hopefully be funny, interesting and.... wait... that's totally not me. So... 

Hoping you are all well and wonderful!

Stacey