Toilet Paper, Utilitarian Product or Artistic Medium?

Another sketchbook entry from the year past. Just going through and reliving the good times! Proof positive that:

1. A good artist can make the magic happen using anything available

2. Creativity is not bound by budget

Grad Crits, Revisited

At semester's end, students and faculty gather together to reflect, ponder, critique, kick some serious ass and, apparently, sometimes confuse the graduate students. It's an entirely useful process, but also difficult and a rite of passage. If they survive they get to come back in the spring for more!

For my current UConn colleagues, and our students... can you find yourselves here?

Grad Crits, Midterm, Fall 2013

A subjective record of the conversations/interactions/trajectories of our MFA in Art crits. It's true:
1. There was no heat (brrrr)
2. There was coffee
3. There was art
4. Artists (faculty and students) really do work hard (crits are an all-day Saturday event)

Dr. Richard Shiff- Modernist

I enjoyed his lecture at the recent National Council of Arts Administrators conference in Richmond, VA (VCU, host). 9/24-9/28/13. So, he ended up in my sketchbook.

That's some serious art nerd awesomesauce, right there!

From the UT Austin website: "Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art."

http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/about/people/richard-shiff

Back To School

It's that time of year. The time when we put aside childish things, like sleep and eating sitting down, and return to the halls of academe. I know you don't want to go, but go you must. Take this with you- the perfect tattoo! It's all the fun of a tattoo with none of the pain or expense. Don't worry, December will be here before you know it. You can find this in my Zazzle shop or at CafePress, or, you can just think about it as you weep on your way to campus.

Eternal E-Mail

Another in a series of reality-based tattoos. Though intended for academics, this image can be adopted by anyone seeking to express frustration with the overflowing "in-box."

A Little Something for the Teachers Out There

Did you ever want that custom, bad-ass tattoo that really (REALLY) reflects how you feel about your job? You've come to the right place.

Class-Prep Checklist for Teachers. Handy!

Ivory Tower Fun!

I love my job. No, really. But there are aspects that set my teeth on edge after a while. The upside? Good cartoon fodder.

Academic (Retreat) Poetry

How many of us have been subject to the institutional "retreat?" Upon the occasion of our last retreat at UConn I offer you these poetic words:


Bylaws
Bylaws overlap
My brain becomes fuzz
Paying attention?
Not me.


Goals
"Deliverables" and "goals"
Many feign seriousness
Sleep comes
Where is the coffee?


Mission Statement
Mission statement
Everyone adds 2¢
A collective $2.46
Improvement?


Impossibly... More
Overhead projector shines
Certain headache begins
My life passes by
As air conditioners blast

Tru-Life Tales From Academe

Academics! Heal Thyselves!

When I'm not busy being an artist or an academic, I dabble in medicine.

Just like any other middle-aged woman.

This image is available (cards, posters, etc.) at RedBubble.com

The Helping Hand

Let Me Help You...

A game for all ages! All races! All creeds! Put THIS one on your holiday wish list! I'm going to have another shot of scotch.

I think you could really play this. Get some dice, some poker chips,
Parcheesi pieces, and a fistful of valium. You're all set!