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| Summer, 2009 The trees are all leafed out for summer, green against the red sandstone rocks, indigo foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and the white-dome summit of Pikes Peak. The early spring wildflowers -- pasque flowers, sand lilies, wild plum -- have come and gone; now it's wild roses, chokecherries, bluebells. My enameling kiln and the writing files on my computer are busy. Trails beckon -- both nearby, just out the door, and far mountain ridges...and desert canyons... |
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Website Changes My immediate, up-to-date announcements can now be reached by clicking on the
Announcements icon at the top of this News page. This takes you to a site that (unlike
most of this website) I can add to at any time. (I'm grateful that my
webmaster, Tom Bishop, promptly posts anything I send him, but this makes it
possible for me to save annoying him for special occasions.)
I've added a section showing my liturgical art pieces. Enameling has a very long history of use in liturgical art, ranging from Byzantine icons and medieval reliquaries to contemporary liturgical art of many faiths. To see some of these pieces, go to Liturgical Art. |
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Infinite Nature, my mural at Mesa State College, is included in
500 Enameled Objects (Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, 2009). As the
back cover states: "From jewelry to vessels to installations, the five hundred
works in this fully illustrated collection reveal enamel's expressive potential
in a variety of forms and applications."
These works embody an enormous range of techniques, technical virtuosity, and approaches to the qualities of glass fused to metal. Most of the objects shown are exquisite jewelry-scale or small sculptures or vessels; there are several larger pieces as well. (Infinite Nature may have the distinction of being the largest single enameled object shown in this collection.) |
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I'm honored to be represented alongside leading enamelists from all over the world. Here are a couple of websites where you can purchase this book: |
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In Spring 2009, I taught enameling daily, for one month, to middle school
students at The Colorado Springs School (www.css.org). In addition to individual projects,
the two classes together produced a group mural. Each student made an image of
some aspect of nature or outdoor activities associated with their school; these
were mounted together into a patchwork design. |
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I continue to experiment with photoetching copper, then enameling the entire piece -- both etched and non-etched surfaces -- using transparent enamels (basse-taille enameling technique). I'm teaching Visual Dynamics through Colorado State University-Pueblo (www.colostate-pueblo.edu) as an independent study/distance-learning/online course. I get to introduce art appreciation to a wide range of students, many of whom have no background in the arts. Many are transitioning out of the military. A few of my (highly motivated) students are incarcerated. Some of the students are taking the course from as far away as Indonesia. Visual Dynamics provides a Humanities credit required by their Criminology, Sociology, or Education degree studies. I was delighted that photographer-geologist-astronomer Gary Ladd (http://garyladd.blogspot.com) asked me to provide some diagrams for his forthcoming book, a small, concise guide to the geology of the Grand Canyon. |
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| In August, 2008, I backpacked up some high windswept ridges in northwest Montana, and met up with Walkin' Jim Stoltz (www.walkinjim.com). | ||||
| Jim is an extraordinary advocate of wilderness preservation who has hiked over 27,000 miles in the course of three decades -- Mexico to Canada multiple times, Yellowstone to Yukon, Maine to Washington state, and wild lands (mostly, as yet, unprotected as designated wilderness) throughout the Rockies and the Southwest. A singer-songwriter who's a troubadour for wilderness, Jim tours the country with his multimedia show, "Forever Wild," as well as programs for school children, when he's not on the trail. This past February, I helped facilitate a fundraiser concert by Walkin' Jim for the Trails and Open Space Coalition (www.trailsandopenspaces.org) in Colorado Springs. | ||||
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| In September of 2008, my brother Dan and sister-in-law Susan joined me on a Great Southwest Road Trip, visiting many beautiful natural places and ancient sites in the Four Corners states, particularly those that held family/childhood associations for us. December 2008 brought me to southern Utah just when the whole area was blanketed in snow and ice. |
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