GOOD LUCK TONIGHT!!!!!

Hello everyone,
I'm thinking of you on this early Friday morning, wishing I was in Florence so I could come to your show tonight!
You have all worked very hard this semester and the work demonstrates your engagement and dedication.
I am very proud of you and I know the show must be beautiful! Please please please take pictures and post them!
Know that if I was there, I would cheers you (and maybe shed a tear or two), so raise your glasses and have a blast!!!!
love,
Jana

Allison Shellito

Link to my final project!

Catherine Hite

these last few weeks i have been working my butt off to make a dress that describes my idea of the heavy/burden and the transition to lightness/freedom. i chose to use tulle for the material and i have been sewing in rocks along the bottom. for the top i made a bodice and i filled the breast parts with lighter fabric and a variety of lace and flowers. i will continue to work on the kinks such as providing a better fit for my lovely model windnie
-catherine

Emily Gordon

I worked on printing the pictures of the hands on watercolor paper, and made some tests to see how it works. With Julia, we decided that the middle image was not necessary, and that I should print the pictures larger (A3 size) and make the last one vertical. I printed a few different versions, some darker and some lighter to see what would work the best with the watercolor and I've been working on a few different ones at a time so that in the end, I can pick the ones I like the best. On the larger version, the toner does not come up off the page as easily, which I think I am happy about. I'm not sure if you get the same feeling from these images as your do from the original photographs, but hopefully in the end they will work out. I am soo excited for the show on Friday!

Windnie Pan

i can't believe things are already winding down. everyone is frantically getting things ready for the show, but it has been fun to see everyone together in the studio. as for my project... i decided to run with the idea of napkins. after facing some problems with materials, i finally decided to do photocopy transfers of online news articles onto paper and cloth napkins. Some are more graphic and decorative while others are more ambiguous and cluttered. every one is different but i've enjoyed seeing what kinds of designs i can come up with and how i can manipulate the medium. i'm liking the idea that the paper napkins will be there for people to use, read if they want to, and then throw away. all i have to do now is print as many as i possibly can in the time we have left before the show!

lee graf

now that the video has been finalized for the most part, ive been working with the wax spheres. it took me quite a while to actually figure out how to make them, but i think i have the system down now so now i just have to put the halves together and see how the displaying of them will actually work.

here are some fotografias of the hemispheres

Allison Shellito

Wow this week has been intense!! But I think I am more or less finished with my video. I plan on uploading it as soon as it gets the final "ok" from Julia (sorry to keep you waiting Jana!). I can't believe final crits are already here. I am sooo sleepy. I think I am going to go to bed really early tonight and catch up on sleep. Show this Friday- good luck everyone!! Allison

ring around the eye

Barnacles!!!!! I decided that this was going to be the answer to my 2-dimensional art piece. This week I began with a quest to find single colored ballons. I went to the balloons because they have lip/eyelid like forms that one puts their mouth on to inflate. I wanted to affect this mouth piece in some way. Light them on fire? Grease them up? Put pins along the surface? Fingernails? In the end, I just started sewing. I used some of the long locks I'd chopped off at the beginning of the semester and added some clear acrylic easter grass and the brown shiny stuff found in tapes and cassettes and then I brought in rotting foliage. Yet after all this play with materials and abuse of my digital camera, I realized that all I had were pretty pictures. Soooo.... thinking about how sculpture invites the viewer to experience a piece at a certain proximity, versus photo which orders the experience for the viewer, I came up with barnacles. As of now my plan is to make barnacle-like plaster molds and situate my photographs behind them, so that in order for the viewer to see the photos they have to come up real close and look through the orifice. I was thinking of incorporating smell into this somehow: maybe the smell of rubber, which reminds me of going to the dentist. Ick. At a rummage sale today I bought some plastic mushroomns which I am using to form the plaster, but I'm also thinking about branching into the arena of "other materials". Latex anyone? Still playing around, but working on pulling things together. Should be a fun night/week.
~Nicole

Daniel Lubniewski Final Project

It has finally come! This week I have been devoting my time to adding colors and tones to my drawing for my final project. Laying layer after layer of inkwashes and watercolor pencil was methodical and took more time than I had expected, but I am for the most part satisfied with what how my project turned out. I also spent a considerable ammount of time at Officina, the cafe we will be displaying at, to get a feeling of the place. It is amazing how quickly everything this simester is wrapping up. This will most likely be the last time I will ever post on this blog, and while there is time I would like to say that it was an honor to be accepted into this program, to be taught by such good teachers, and to learn about myself and about art in the grand city of Florence.

Sam

Sorry about the delay in this post- but there hasn't been alot of overall change in th eproject at this point.Toyed around for a while with changing th ending, and if there is time I plan to make an alternate, but the final for the show is pretty much done, except fo rsome continuity and transition errors that need ot be adressed. So...sorry for the lack of photos- I'll try and get some good ones at the show.

Ciao!

I eat happy hippos yum yum I stuff them down my tum...

No new news for the work so no photos. will hang square with string, two dimensional. The semester is whisking away and so i plan on getting out of the school. right now.
much love mags