I took 41 high school students to Newfield's Indianapolis Museum of Art on Thursday this week.  My favorite thing is making them pick a piece of artwork and imitate it, take a picture of both and turn it in to me.  It is always gold!  

In other news, the school that I teach at had active shooter training this past Wednesday.  This has nothing to do with art, it was just moderately traumatizing so I thought I'd mention it.  We ran different exercises like fight, barricade and evacuate.  I "died" in the evacuation.  I also found that my character is lacking when under pressure.   How, you might ask? Well, after I realized that I had been "shot" from above (local pd were firing blanks at us) I freaked out and bolted through the door in front of me.  Not so bad, but there was an older lady in my path and I kind of launched her through it...

Back to painting!

I have been working on my most recent installation the past few weeks.  I want to try to get it on display at the Indianapolis International Airport is 2019 or 2020.  My proposal is almost finished and it is developing quite nicely.  One thing I learned while writing the artist's statement:  it can take 450 -1000 years for a plastic cup to break down.  Damn. 

And as usual, I continue working on Nike.  I am working on the radial design around the sculpture now, and I am going to have a lot of touching up to do around it.

  Well, I am embarking on a new adventure with representation from Design Art Concepts.  It could get my work onto Artsy, which is exciting, and might connect me to new galleries to display my work.  
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Any who, I will obviously blog about the ups and downs of being represented by them so stay tuned for my art life drama.

Back to painting Nike.  I am really enjoying how her colors are popping at the bottom.  The floating squares are part of a radial design that I am waiting to paint until I've got the base coat done.

I enjoy peeking at who is looking at my website occasionally.  I can't tell very much (I am a novice) but I can find out what city or country someone is from using google analytics.  Well usually there isn't a crazy quantity of countries but when I logged in yesterday I had a sweet surprise.  I am honored to have visitors from so many places, even if some of them are bots...  

In other news, I was approached by a company that represents artists and gets their work onto Artsy.  I am really tempted, but in order to avoid ANOTHER scam I am waiting to hear back from some of the artists that are listed on their site...  Fingers crossed it is a real thing.  Having my art in Artsy would make me feel like I was in a gallery along side Tara Donavon,  Joan Miro, and about 100,000 other amazing artist's work.  

Also, Nike is progressing.