SCAD Museum of Art Opening

Tonight was the opening of the SCAD Museum of Art! A very exciting moment in the history of SCAD as well as the city of Savannah. I'm looking forward to being able to enjoy it for my last academic year as well as during future visits. I also know the architect of the museum, Christian Sottile, and have had the pleasure of visiting his office/studio and discussing the ideas behind the museum. It has been very nice to be able to get a behind the scenes look at the design of the museum. This has also been a lot of help in the research for my thesis project. Christian agreed to be a topic consultant for my thesis and discussions I have had with him have proved very helpful and I am very excited to continue working on my thesis. As for the museum, if you are in Savannah you should stop on by! You will enjoy it for sure.

Art Show Opening

The show that Kimberly David and I have been working on for the last couple of months is finally up and running. We had the reception tonight and the turn out was much better than expected. The space was very packed at points and everyone liked the work very much. I got to meet some new people and reconnect with some familiar faces who I had not seen for many years. Overall I would count it as a huge success and I am proud to say that the show will be up for several more weeks. Also Kimberly and I have already gotten an invitation to show our work at Episcopal again someday. Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening, I hope you come back to see it again, and those who have not seen it I hope you can make time to drop by. Both Kimberly and I put a lot of hard work into this show and we would love to share it with you. Peace! - (example piece - Urban Theater - Venice, Italy - 2010)

Perspectives

Hello all! So, October is going to be an exciting month for me because I have a gallery going up at my high school. The gallery is called 'Perspectives' and it is a joint effort with my fellow alumni Kimberly David. You can follow the Link to her site and check out all her cool art. Kimberly will be showing several of her paintings and prints and I will be showing a few different collections of photographs. The opening reception is on October 19th at 6pm in the Berg Gallery in the lobby of the Munnerlyn Center, Jacksonville FL. The show will be up until December!

Townscape

This is another post about Springfield GA and it depicts just how much of a time capsule city it is. This sweet sign still marks the downtown pharmacy and it looks like it is straight out of the 50's or 60's. We were not there during the night so I don't know if it still lights up or not but the store was still open and is probably run by the same family who opened it all those years ago. Talk about a blast from the past. Its interesting to note all the different lighting features on this sign. You have a mixture of custom bent neon tube lights and colored back lit signs, and just in case that was not enough for you they also have a temperature reader that looks like it spun around at one point. I really hope they decide to salvage this sign because it would look very cool spruced up to its former glory.

Urban Design Studio

The studio I'm taking right now is an urban design studio and the project for the quarter is the urban renewal / new master plan for Springfield GA. We went to Springfield as a class about a week ago to get a feel for the city / town and start to get ideas about what our vision for the future of Springfield will look like. The thing that jumped out at all of us right from the start is that the city has not been consistent with its architecture. Take for example the photo on the left of the old run down barn with the old red car that has clearly not been touched in many years and contrast that with the almost pristine renovated courthouse on the right (1908). Then think for a moment about how these two buildings are in about 5 min. walking distance from each other. Springfield is in dire need of change and I only hope that whatever our class produces will be able to help them develop a new vision for their city.

Off to Grad School

This past week was my first week of grad school! I had only one week between the end of summer quarter and the start of fall to relax and pack up for school again and this is what my car looked like on the way up last weekend. If you think it looks like a lot just know that another 2/3 of my stuff was already in Savannah in various locations. I think I may have too much stuff and it will certainly be an effort to sift through it all this year and determine if I really need it in the future. In the mean time I need to focus on my graduate work and my thesis. But don't worry, that does not mean I will be gone for good. I will still post photos from time to time so keep checking back. See ya later!

Back to the Details

Here are two more details that I really enjoy that were also from my photo project. These two were taken on Jekyll Island Georgia and are both of the Jekyll Island Inn and Club. The one on the left is of the tower and the one on the right is of the lattice work on the outside walls. I was fortunate enough to stay as a guest at this Inn when I was a kid and when I took these photos it was the only time I had been on the island since then. It was great to be back and walk around because when you go to a place that you remember from your childhood you get all these nostalgic feelings flooding back to you.