Hope Hilton has a lovely cooperative project she's just placed online. Look a lot, think a little, look a little and think a lot. She comes up with some dang good ideas and I'm too sleepy to share more but I do share this link to salvation.

If I get saved while I'm sleeping, will I have to go to work tomorrow? Can I get a longer lunch break? Will my salvation center my pots if my fingers can't?

Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Goodnight!

Rachael

We worked all day, we sniffed out a house that wasn't right, and while I want to call old friends I simply don't have the energy.When it rains I will pull out my paints and paint the spilling water from the sky in the true colors I see. Deep blues and cold greys and greens. everything is moving slightly; branches, bunches of green, and shadows.

There is a part of making art which is (and this was sung like a mantra when I was in art school, mind you) trusting the process. Simply accepting that the end result is sometimes unknowable, that there is a reason for every set back and a point at which sometimes the motion of making is more meaningful that the carefully planned result. It's a lesson I am still learning and getting wet is not a bad thing to help teach.

Damn cat is eating my zinnia though so time to teach her a lesson...

Deb's lead to Kumi Korf's lovely book is a true treat.

take good care kids,
Rachael

See what the art school kids are doing and support support support! Go ACA100 !

Rachael

Three simple joys on a day off.

My catalog found me. It's sexy but I can't afford much right now. Not a problem really, clay is cheap. I've got my pinching and my slabbing and my wobbly wheeling to keep me busy.

And Zinnias potted and pretty were $1 each at the public market. Color, resilience

Tommorrow it'll be reading, drawing and hunting houses.

Take care,
Rachael

According to the Atlanta Journal ACA and SCAD are close to merging...

Full disclosure first: I used to work for the Atlanta College of Art , I hung around that school for many a day over many years, and I think they're about to make a big stupid mistake.

I don't live in the neighborhood anymore but I still listen in on the Atlanta ARTNEWS listserve and that's where I learned that smarmy SCAD is gonna smerge with ACA. Even though ACA has a great faculty, a nice reputation, some high falutin alum, and a primo little spot next door to the new Renzo Piano building, it looks like the little art school will be joining up with an unaccreditated, slicker than oil, scam of an art school.

I'm far away from that drama but I have a real hope that art schools exist for more than just money from gullible 18 year olds who want to be hip. Art schools can be places where real education happens, where connections can be formed between young artists and those who know, make and show, and where the emphasis is on creativity, hard work and content.

Not $.

Ick. And you know, any school that secretly makes major decisions is a school that doesn't give a crap about its students and teachers. Disappointing.

take care,
Rachael

Here's what SCAD says .