New York, New York

Joey Arias in Arias with a Twist

Always fun, exciting for the senses...

Theater and also one of our favorite places, the Museum of Art and Design in Columbus Circle. Not only it is a beautiful building, but you can find some artists at work and stimulating shows.

Museum of Art and Design

This time we found sculptor Carolyn Ard working at the open studios. She was working on a sculpture made with what she described as "paper clay", but made with a somewhat  paper mache formula made of paper pulp, cellulose paste, and sawdust mixed to the consistency of soft clay.

The city through the glass window

By using different wood species for the sawdust, she could tint the paste and achieve different integral hues on her work.

Carolyn Ard working on a sculpture

Kari Russell Pool
Marc Petrovic
Chalice Series

Alan was fascinated with the process, since he's been experimenting with peat moss, joint compound and other additives for his sculptures.

Lydia Gerbig-Fast
Birds of a Feather

We caught the last day of Flora and Fauna with fantastic pieces
on all kinds of media.

Robert Arneson
Box House

Gwen Murphy
tree of Knowledge

Crafting Modernism, Midcentury American Art and Design...wow

Stan Dann
Fantasia

Marilyn R. Pappas
Opera Coat

Arieto (Harry) Bertoia
High Back Lounge Chair with Ottoman

Jim Blashfield
Bill Graham Presents...

Wendell Castle
Music Rack

A few days later...New Canaan Connecticut and a visit to Phillip Johnson's Glass House and it's site through decades of work and the ever evolving and changing view of an incredible architect.

Phillip Johnson's Glass House

Da Monsta

Came back to Madison just in time to for some raku and pit firing

and to enjoy the opening of the new wing of the Chazen Museum of Art designed by Machado & Silvetti

View from the Chazen