Last Weeks of Enrichment - Books and Prints

More Enrichment Projects - Week 2? - Memory Maps and Collage

At some point we also made frottage drawings ... and maybe something else ...

Better Late than Never?

As promised months ago, here are some images from my awesome (hindsight is a little rosy) enrichment kids. We finished the month with a bang, making collograph prints. Now I'm about to do the same project with my college students!

Week 1: Name Tags and Jasper Johns Flags

Teaching Summer Enrichment in NE Philly

This July, not only did I work at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, but I also took on a teaching artist position with Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership. Three days a week I'd drive up 76 to H.R. Edmunds Elementary in northeast Philadelphia to work with 45-125 students grades k-9 ... it was an experience. I think the kids made some great work though (when they weren't running around screaming and choking each other), and I'll have a few posts of the different projects soonish. (My iPhone blog app keeps crashing with the multitude of photos ... oh well.) One thing I learned: you definitely have to roll with the punches when you're dealing with the school district (and there are a lot of punches).

Mosquito Week

It's the height of summer ... You don't see the swarm swimming through the humid air ... All of a sudden ... mosquito attack!







-- Post From My iPhone

Work

-- Post From My iPhone

Balancing work and artwork

I've been carrying around a little sketchbook my cousin gave to me (thanks, Alyce!) ... When all else fails, doodle.




















Next up, animation!

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Organization is a thing of Beauty

Working as an IT Coordinator, making spreadsheets, filing, copying ... it's got me rethinking charts. The correlations between my paying job and my artwork were never so clear, and I think I need to make more spreadsheets. What should I document? What manual should I write next? This deserves more exploration. In the meantime, I'll be writing a tech manual for a small non-profit museum.

Propsal

http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp09/popups_sp09/npsp09_abshire.html

Next Up

A new work "Proposal" will be in the New Prints/2009 Spring exhibition at IPCNY, curated by Polly Apfelbaum.

Image coming soon ...

Long Time No See

I'm going to make a more concentrated effort here ... A few new shows have come and gone since last I posted (especially since I haven't posted about shows since 2007). Here's a list since Sense of Place and American Print!

2008
“GROUP SHOW” 222gallery with otto design group, Philadelphia, PA

(Projected Drawing Series, 2007)

(visitor interaction with "Telescope" 2008)

“New Prints 2007/08: A Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction” IPCNY, New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/fundraising/edit_auction2008page.html
*featuring "Map" 2006

“New Prints 2008/Autumn” International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_au08/Pop-up_AU08/npau08_abshire.html
*featuring "Spyglass" 2008

“The Green Exhibit” Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Blob City" 2007

“Tyler School of Art 1988 - 2008: 20 Years Fast Forward” Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Shift 1" and "Property 2" both 2007

“New Prints 2008/Spring” New York School of Interior Design with IPCNY, New York, NY Juror: Jane Hammond
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp08/np_exhib_sp08.html
*featuring "Borders" 2007

“You Are Here” Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.laurenabshire.com/cartography2008.html

“National Print Competition” Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
*featuring Untitled #3, 2007

“Irving Sandler Selects” Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
*featuring "Walking Path" 2007

“Salt City Dozen” Portfolio Exchange, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY
*featuring "Ode to Magellan" 2008

2007
“AMPsterdam” Fantasio, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jurors: Terri Anderson, AMP Executive Director, and Paul van Dijk
*featuring "Sprawl" 2006

“In the Mix” Visions Gallery Group Exhibition, Lafayette, LA

“Tyler School of Art: Works on Paper” University of Lincoln Group Exhibition, Lincoln, UK
*featuring "Phalanges" aka "Finger Islands" 2007