* stART on the Street
Sunday September 20th, 11am-5pm
Outdoor Festival on Park Avenue in Worcester, MA
* Rivercity Festival 2009
Saturday, October 3, 12pm-5:30pm
Penn Treaty Park on Deleware Avenue, Fishtown, Philadelphia, PA
Monday, August 31, 2009
Craft Shows 2009
I am busy getting ready for the season's craft shows. Here's the line up so far. I'll be adding more as they are confirmed.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Bathroom Project, 2009
While I was attending RISD in 2008-09, I had the opportunity to take one studio art class. That's it. It was unfortunate to be at one of the best art schools in the country, and not be making much art, or learning much from the other artists there. But anyway, I took one class during the 5 week winter semester, called Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Printmaking. It was great. I learned a lot that I didn't know about the basics of printmaking, and I produced one main project after experimenting with a bunch of techniques.
Thanks to all of you who responded to my emails and gave me wonderful words to work with. You will recognize some of them here.
Artist Statement:
I make work that has to do with intimacy: intimacy with self, with space, with others and with memory. I find that what interests me the most about the idea of intimacy is our often silent, varied reactions to common experiences or locations. In the everyday there is so much space for reflection and personality, and there is so much that we don’t say. In an image of the common, there is so much room for new ideas, understandings and sympathies. In most of my work, there is a blatant absence of a human image. I find that if human presence is implied but not specifically stated, the viewer can relate more directly to the image. It is important to me that I leave some narrative space open for the viewer’s interpretation, but the images and text I choose are not void of intention or viewpoint.
These prints include text from 10 different people including myself. I asked for reactions and memories to the series of pictures. The responses vary but immediately get at the strange and strong relationships we have with the spaces shown. I normally work in clay, and this piece does include porcelain tiles, but the images and text are clearly reproduced and printed. I think that printing takes the photos one step awayfrom a specific and defined place, and takes the text a step away from a specific, individual author. And hopefully it also takes them toward a more general, common, applicable and transferable understanding.
Links to find me and my work.
RISD Digication
This site contains my entire portfolio of work from Graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design, 2009. It includes every paper I wrote, every lesson I designed, and every image I took throughout a year long Master of Arts in Education Program. At the end, I gained an MAT degree and am certified to teach Art, PreK - 12th grade in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.
http://risd.digication.com/hthompson01RISD Digication
This site contains my personal portfolio, meaning artwork, artist statement, resume.
ETSY
This site is where I sell my work on line. It lists available work, prices and shipping options. Lots of other people sell handmade and vintage stuff here too. It's an amazing resource for gifts and generally cool artsy stuff.
The Steelyard
This is the site of the place I have a studio right now. It is a wonderful craft center, housing metals, ceramics, glass, jewelry studios, and educational programs too.
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
This links you to a curriculum development job I did this summer, 2009. The curriculum was centered around the National Initiative, Picturing America, and I was responsible for creating a supplemental document for RI educators to use in arts and humanities classrooms.
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