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| Late Summer, 2008 After a spring and summer full of studio work and teaching, I'm looking forward to two upcoming excursions. I'll be doing some mountain hiking and sketching -- gathering material for some new work -- in August. In September, my brother Dan and his wife, Susan, will join me in revisiting some of the areas Dan and I remember fondly from family camping trips in the Southwest when we were kids, and I'l enjoy introducing them to some other beautiful places in the desert canyon country. At home, I've been enjoying the presence of my critter neighbors, from mule deer to insects, here among the red rock foothills. |
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Coming Up Enameling Workshop I'll be teaching a basic introductory workshop to enameling on copper and steel. All materials will be provided. Full information and details at www.fsartglass.com.
Invitational Show and Sale to benefit the Palmer Land Trust I've been invited once again to participate in this benefit show and sale. Each artist contributes up to three works, at least one of which is inspired by lands protected by conservation easements or other open-space tools managed by the Palmer Land Trust. For more information, please contact Gary Conover, 719-635-2505, or see their website, www.palmerlandtrust.org.
Any Time: Please contact me if you'd like to inquire about custom commissioned art
work, presentations, or workshops. Thanks.
September 10, noon Additional presentations: for the Pikes Peak chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society, September 16, and in conjunction with the Pikes Peak Library District/All Pikes Peak Reads--the book our community is reading this fall is Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Please check back here for more information, or see the library district's website: www.ppld.org. Some funny, some poignant, these actual letters show the very human side of the artists' lives during the Depression, and give some insights into the times and the issues that only their voices can give. This presentation includes music of the time and projected images of the artists and their works. This is the first scheduled presentation of this program; there will be more during the course of the year. This is part of the observation of the 75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and is presented by the local organization A New Deal for the New Deal, the Southern Colorado chapter of the National New Deal Preservation Association, www.newdeallegacy.org. |
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Website Changes Some folks have found it hard to find my demonstration of basic enameling
processes (it's on my About The Artist page). Now there are links to it from
various pages on my site. So, if you'd like to see a step-by-step demonstration
of some of the basic techniques used in enameling (and how they were used to
produce the name plate that's on my home page) please click the links on the
Enameling, Murals/Public Art, or Commissioned Awards pages. Or go straight to
About The Artist and click on The Enameling Process.
I'm planning to add pages about my artist parents, Archie Musick and Irene Kolodziej Musick, in the near future. Archie was a painter; he developed his own personal egg tempera technique, as well as having painted three murals funded by New Deal programs. He studied at the Art Students Leagues (in New York with Thomas Hart Benton; Los Angeles with S. MacDonald-Wright), and at the Broadmoor Art Academy/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson and others. Irene was a prize-winning ceramist who developed her own glaze recipes for stoneware pottery. She studied at the Cleveland Art Insitute (including enameling with Kenneth Bates) and later at Cranbrook Art Academy with sculptor Carl Milles and ceramist Maija Grotell. Please check back to see more information about themand photos of them and their work. |
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Recent Exploits I was commissioned to design the logo and create custom-made enameled
copper work for a hotel that's opening in Monument, Colorado: Sundance Mountain
Lodge (www.sundancemountainlodge.com). I'm relishing the challenges and joys (every site-specific project has its
own); it's great to be part of creating a sense of place.
In June, I attended my first-ever college reunion at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Having lost contact with everyone I knew when I was there, I wasn't sure what to expect. It was a wonderful connection with old and new friends, and with the quirky humor and spirit that unites Reedies of all generations. One of the highlights of the weekend was a tour of the ecological restoration of "the Canyon" that runs through the Reed campus, from which springs the only free-flowing (unchanneled/unimpeded) stream left in Portland. It's hoped that, eventually, salmon will once more swim from the Pacific Ocean, up the Columbia River, to the Willamette River, up the lower restored reaches of Johnson Creek to the Reed creek and into the Canyon to spawn. Any gesture toward life's richness and the lives of creatures with whom we share this world is good for all of us, humans and non-humans alike. Great blue herons and beavers are among the current denizens of the Canyon. |
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