Tuesday, August 28, 2007

i love it here



i feel like such a dork to keep saying how much i love mica. if ben ever reads this he'll make fun of me. but i really do love it here. the love is currently gushing... but ask me again a few weeks/projects/crits later and the love could be considerably less. (and in such an instance i have my keri smith artist's survival kit on standby. http://www.kerismith.com/ask.html.)

so far i've had two classes- drawing I & the cap elective. yesterday was odd... before the class my mom said that the class wouldn't take the whole time, that the professor would probably just go over a syllabus and basic introductions. i laughed at such a high school expectation and figured that i would be doing some crazy hard still life right off the bat. but, momsie was right. the class didn't even make it to the dinner break. but i love the teacher, fabienne. she's super cute, originally from montreal (right up my ally), and new to mica. i'm kinda glad she's new to the class too... and i liked everything she had to say about class expectations. my first homework assignment is to bring in images of pieces by 2+ artists i like, bring in something i've done (not necessarily an art project, could be an essay, etc.), & write a short paragraph on what drawing is to me. i was excited about the assignment. but then i started wondering if i should be upset that it's not harder. (on top of that, i won't have the class again for two weeks because of labor day.) i guess part of me is still scared to formally get started, especially with something like drawing. i didn't really "draw" at all this summer. i really just need to jump in.



today's class was finding baltimore, part of the community arts partnership program. and i am so glad i chose to take that class. it is exactly what i had hoped it would be. this class actually took every minute (& then some) that was given to us. and i got an email last night telling me that the class moved from the fox building to brown center. so our class room was a super cool , all glass (there actually was a bullet hole in the glass- but that just lent itself to a discussion on the baltimore community), corner room on the third floor overlooking campus. and to get to it i got to walk by the graphic design bulletin boards and see some work. it was seeing that sort of stuff at the open house that inspired me so much. i can't wait until that building and the graphic design department becomes my home. sorry, off on a tangent... we got started right away, creating a self map. i still want to work on mine more (i have some ideas i want to experiment with.) the concept of self mapping is intimidating but really intriguing. sometimes you forget how intricate you are... until someone asks you to put it all down on a sheet of paper.



after class i went on a wild goose chase from building to building, office to office, trying to fill out forms for my work study (which i should have done the first day i was here, and somehow missed taking care of. wonder what else i had on my mind...) i found out that i'm going to be working with student activities. so perfect! and the girl i have as a contact is the one who basically planned orientation, so i've at least seen her around. i also got my first mica sketchbook at the school store. this one is just for cap, so i'm planning on deconstructing the cover & putting some of the many baltimore maps i have to use.

right now: i'm hungry. so i'm going to meyerhoff to eat before it closes...

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