Linnis Blanton.

Hey everyone.
I just wanted everyone to know that my ceramics professor is having an art show in Galveston next weekend. The opening is Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 6-9.
His work is exquisite; he will be showing about 14 large pieces and there will be wall pieces as well (platters and such).
Check out the flier and get your booties out there. Bring a friend.

(Mythical Petroglyphs, Stonewear, 2008)

Place. Time. Who.

See some more of his work at Blantonspottery.com.


That's all for now.
Pictures of my work in progress, soon.
Best of wishes, Linnis!

Jodi Hebert.

Over the Brain Fart.

It's taken me quite a bit of time this semester to get my head straight and to edit certain parts of my schedule to make things workable. I started out this semester with 4 studio classes (technically 3-- because I'm trying to complete Computers in Art; I took an incomplete after my surgery in the fall), plus Seminar and Art Survey IV. That's absolutely absurd. Just the thought of all of that work was enough to put me into a head spin and I accomplished zilch up until recently.
I've since dropped Drawing IV and Printmaking.
I have my Tuesdays and Thursdays free to work and I coach pitching lessons on the side during the weekend.
I'm feeling a lot better about my course load and have given myself a sense of freedom to finally start working again.

So far in Ceramics I've made 11 hand-warmer tea bowls, 2 regular bowls, a vase, and I've just finished a sculpture. We had critique yesterday, and I'm happy with the direction I'm headed in, which is about the same mixture as I was working with last semester: about equal time handbuilding and building sculptures (mixtures of figurative, conceptual and allegorical work) with the rest of the time devoted to the wheel and often times altering wheel- thrown items.
That's usually how I start a sculpture, I throw a cylinder and alter it and keep adding on until something starts speaking to me. The rest is editing and fine tuning the "image."
Today when I went up to studio:
1. I made a list of what still needs to be glazed from last semester.
2. Made a running "To-Do" list, which I find to be extremely ambitious, including the projected idea to make 7 (including the one I've already made) regular sized sculptures of the same basic size as last semester's work, 7-10 very small sculptures, and 5-7 raku pieces; mainly sculptures.
3. I had a bucket full of hard clay so I spent most of my time re hydrating and kneading that clay back to life. I spread everything out on the table and flooded the table and let it sit, and sandwiched the clay and smacked it to hell and gone and repeated that about 2 times until it was back to workable consistency. It took forever-- and I didn't weigh it so I'm not sure how much there was, but it ended up being about 6 chunks of at least 2 1/2 to 3 lbs of clay. Needless to say, I'm a bit out of shape and I sweated quite a bit.
4. I also made a list of things that need to be made for friends and family and whoever else. There's only three people that I can think of right now; but if you want something specific made, just let me know: (What, how many, general color schemes [you can reference my other work and I can look up the color combinations] and I guess we can talk about price.) I'm a full time student, so these things take a while.

I had everything boxed up from the Fire and Ice Show just sitting in the classroom since the show came down-- but I finally brought everything home tonight which makes me feel much better.
This list making helped me do some "house cleaning" of thoughts and plans, and I also reorganized my locker area in studio. You'd be surprised how that just makes you feel much more excited about getting work done.

Other than Ceramics, Artist Common, a student based group at Lamar University (I'm the Treasurer), recently held a show-- which is still up until this Saturday-- at the Art Studio, Inc. in downtown Beaumont on Franklin. The show was called Recycled Art, the basis of which was the art that was made from the trash we cleaned up there from damage done from previous storms, hurricanes, etc. I need to take pictures and post them here. I think the show was highly successful and there was a huge turn out for one of our shows. My piece was entitled Enuendos and it was a collage on newsprint with newspaper bits, black and white paint, coffee painted, magazine images and india inked words-- SEXUALLY DEPRIVED/ DEPRAVED/ FRUSTRATED
There is a piece off to the left bottom side of the work of (how do I describe it?) some sort of cardboard thing that served as a shelf for the "shoes/ boots" on the shelf, that are basically wadded up newspaper stuffed into a mold and taken out and painted white.
The back story is this sort of recollection I had of middle school where if someone looked down at your shoes and slowly back up at you and said, "Hey, I really like your shoes" it meant they liked you or wanted to get with you. It sort of ties everything back into the text.
Pictures soon.

I also want to start video taping me while working, and posting short little clips on here. We'll see, don't hold your breath.

Other than that, I'm feeling great and starting to work out again and everything's sort of working itself out.

Oh, and I'm going to be an aunt soon! :]

Another oh. Chelsy Broussard, Jessi Hebert, and myself will be having our own art show this summer at the Barking Dog Coffee House in downtown Beaumont on Pearl Ave. The projected date as of right now is June 6th which is a Saturday. We will be graced with the musical stylings, hopefully, of The Amorist, Ashlynn Ivy and Tim Apshire. This is all tentative, and of course I will post the final decisions when we hammer them out. The show will be up for a month and I'm actually going to put prices on things this time. Lesson learned. I can't have all of this stuff in my house. :]
Jessi is my twin, and is a professional photographer. Visit her site @ www.jessihebert.com also, www.jessihebert.blogspot.com. She's cool as hell.
Chelsy is one of my best friends. She works in ceramics as well (see previous post) and is a photography major.
The show will be pretty diverse and plentiful.
Be there.

And keep checking in.
See you soon.
Jodi Hebert.